1 Biography of Ionel Solomon

Ionel Solomon (b. 1929, in Greater Romania) is a French-Romanian physicist, Member of the French Academy of Sciences, CNRS Research Director, and Professor at the École Polytechnique in Paris.

1.1 Scientific Career

• 1949–1951: PhD, École Polytechnique in Paris.
• 1951–1952: Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, UK.
• 1955–1956: Research Fellow at Harvard University, USA.
• 1953–1962: Researcher in the resonance Group of the Atomic energy Commission (Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique, Saclay).
• 1962: Director of the Laboratory for Condensed Matter (Solid-State) Physics (Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée), at the École Polytechnique in Paris.
• 1962: Head of Research at C.N.R.S.
• 1962: Head of Conferences.
• 1968: CNRS Research Director.
• 1973–1976: Head of the Physics Department at the École Polytechnique in Paris.
• 1973–1974: President of the Société Française de Physique (the French Physics Society).
• 1975–1979: Professor at the École Polytechnique in Paris.
• 1976: Invited Visiting Professor at the Xerox Research Center, Palo Alto, USA.
• 1980: Invited Visiting Professor at Tokyo University.
• 1981–1985: Founder and Scientific Director of SOLEMS Company.
• 1987: President of the Scientific Council of PHOTOTRONICS (a French-German company for photovoltaic products).
• 1988, June 22: Elected Member of the Physics Institute of the French Academy of Sciences.
• Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics.

1.2 Major Scientific Contributions

Ionel Solomon made major contributions to the fields of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), solid-state physics, semiconductors, and photovoltaics. In Nuclear Magnetic Resonance he derived fundamental equations that bear his name and specify the nuclear spin-echo response and dipole-dipole interactions in solids (the Solomon equations).

1.3 Awards and Prizes

• 1958: Grand Prix for Research (with Anatole Abragam and J. Combrisson).
• 1963: CNRS Silver Medal.
• 1969: Robin Prize of the French Physics Society (Société Française de Physique).
• 1972: Holweck Prize of the Institute of Physics and S.F.P. (French Physics Society).
• 1981: Y. Peyches Prize of the Academy of Sciences.

1.4 Publications

I. Solomon. “Amorphous Semiconductors,” in Topics in applied physics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (1979).

I. Solomon. “Relaxation Processes in a System of Two Spins.” Phys. Rev. 99, 559 (1955).

I. Solomon, M. P. Schmidt, and H. Tran Quoc. “Selective low-power plasma decomposition of silane-methane mixtures for the preparation of methylated amorphous silicon.” Phys. Rev. B 38, 9895 (1988).

I. Solomon, B. Drevillon, H. Shirai, and N. Layadi. “Plasma deposition of microcrystalline silicon: the selective etching model.” J. Non-Crystalline Solids 164–166, 989 (1993).

K. Rerbal, F. Jomard, J. N. Chazalviel, F. Ozanam, and I. Solomon. “Visible luminescence of porous amorphous Si(1–x)Cx:H due to selective dissolution of silicon.” Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 45 (2003).

K. Kerbral, J. N. Chazalviel, F. Ozanam, and I. Solomon. “Temperature dependence of photoluminescence in amorphous Si1-xCx:H films.” Eur. Phys. J. B 51, 61 (2006).