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Mathias Schubert

Mathias Schubert is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Mathias Schubert rather than just read about it. In short: Mathias Michael Schubert (born 19 October 1966) is a German physicist, J. A.

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Reference excerpt

Mathias Michael Schubert (born 19 October 1966) is a German physicist, J. A. Woollam Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and member of the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience. He is a specialist in spectroscopic ellipsometry and has contributed to the development of blue and white LED, fast processors and efficient biological and chemical sensors. He is also visiting professor at Linkoping University and Associate Editor of the journal Applied Physics Letters.

Early life and education Schubert was born in Jena, Bezirk Gera, East Germany. He graduated high school in 1986 with vocational education as tool and die maker from the Keramische Werke in Hermsdorf. After military service he studied physics at the University of Leipzig until 1994. He received a fellowship from the German Merit Foundation in 1995 for his doctoral research. In 1997 after earning his PhD he moved to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he worked on infrared ellipsometry developments for characterization of semiconductors. After return to the University of Leipzig he obtained his habilitation in 2003 in experimental physics.

Research and career In 2000, Schubert was appointed Assistant Professor (Habilitant, C1) at University of Leipzig, where he founded the Ellipsometry group. In 2005 Schubert was founding member of the German Association of Ellipsometry (Paul Drude e.V.). In 2005 Schubert was appointed associate professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he founded the Complex Materials Optics Network. In 2012 he became Full professor. Schubert's research focuses on broad spectral range optical characterization of organic and inorganic materials. He invented and developed spectroscopic generalized ellipsometry broadly for characterization of arbitrarily anisotropic materials. His research team invented the optical Hall effect for noncontact measurement of the charge carrier mass in semiconductor materials and thin film heterojunctions. The generalized ellipsometry concept permits analysis of optical properties of materials with all crystal classes, particularly with low symmetry such as orthorhombic, monoclininc, and triclinic. Schubert developed a general concept for modeling the optical properties of low-symmetry materials, the eigendielectric polarization model. In 2022, he demonstrated measurement of the magnetic susceptibility tensor in electron paramagnetic resonance using terahertz ellipsometry and was part of a team describing a new form of coupled phonon photon states in low-symmetry materials.

Awards and honors 1995 Fellowship of the German Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) 2002 Fellowship of the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) 2006 Ludwig-Genzel Prize 2011 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society 2014 Named Fellow of the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden 2015 Honorary Doctor of Technology, Linköping University 2016 Visiting professor Linkoping University 2017 J. A. Woollam Distinguished Professorship of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in honor of John Woollam

Publications Schubert has published 338 articles, book chapters, and books, gathering more than 11,400 citations, according to Google Scholar.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Mathias Schubert

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Mathias Schubert ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Mathias Schubert

In research: Mathias Schubert appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Mathias Schubert in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Mathias Schubert is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1966 births, 20th-century German engineers, 21st-century German engineers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Mathias Schubert in simple terms?

Mathias Michael Schubert (born 19 October 1966) is a German physicist, J. A.

Why does Mathias Schubert matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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