Rate My Professor Chad Sosolik

An experimental condensed matter physicist, Sosolik leads research probing gas-solid and solid-solid interactions at atomic and nanometer length scales using scanning tunneling microscopy, hyperthermal energy beamlines, and the Clemson University Electron Beam Ion Trap (CUEBIT) facility, which he established through an NSF Major Research Instrumentation grant. His investigations cover surface vibrational and electronic excitations, charge exchange processes, ion irradiation effects on electronic devices, biomaterials, and metal-oxide-semiconductor structures, with applications to laboratory astrophysics and radiation effects testing. Funding includes an NSF CAREER Award in 2006, NASA grants, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Air Force, and DARPA projects. Key publications include "Charge State Dependent Energy Deposition by Ion Impact" in Physical Review Letters (2011), "Thermally Enhanced Neutralization in Hyperthermal Energy Ion Scattering" in Physical Review Letters (2003), and "Symmetric charge exchange for intermediate velocity noble gas projectiles" in Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (2019). Sosolik has earned the American Physical Society George B. Pegram Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Physics in the Southeast (2019), PhysTEC Fellowship (2019-2021), Clemson University Research, Scholarship and Artistic Achievement Award (2018), and Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (2004). He has served as President of the Southern Atlantic Coast Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers and on the international scientific committee for the International Workshop on Inelastic Ion Surface Collisions.