Ethics, Fraud and the Structure of the Scientific Research: the Jan Hendrik Schön Case Stefano Ossicini INFM- S3 - Physics and DISMI Departments
PhD School in Nano and Physical Sciences
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia Italy
Ethics, Fraud and the Structure of the Scientific Research: the Jan Hendrik Schön Case Stefano Ossicini INFM- S3 - Physics and DISMI Departments
PhD School in Nano and Physical Sciences
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia Italy
“This is the biggest fraud in the history of modern physics” D. Ralph (Cornell Un.) Top Journals “Nature, Science, PRL...”
New Fields “Nanostructures, organic materials,optoelectronics,superconductivity”
Elite Institutions “Bell Labs”
“Groundbreaking results and devices on at least 10 new inorganic and organic materials and nanomaterials (1999-2002)”
Continous tunability of charge carrier concentration in FET
QHE and FQHE in unconventional semiconductors
Single organic molecule transistor
Hydrocarbon superconductors(anthracene,tetracene,pentacene)
Non cuprate superconductivity 117 K!
Organic polymeric superconductors
Electrically driven organic laser
Light emitting organic FET
Ambipolar FET
Fully tunable Josephson junction
APS David Adler Prize 2000
B. Batlogg
For his contributions to superconductivity,heavy fermions and organic semiconductors
AAAS Fellow Prize 2000
B. Batlogg
For distinguished contributions in the fields of superconductivity, magnetic oxides and organic semiconductors
First Industrial Award at ICSM 2000
B. Batlogg and his collaborators J. H. Schön and C. Kloc
Field Effect Transistor
10.000 US Dollar
Braunschweig Preis 2001
B. Batlogg and his collaborators J. H. Schön and C. Kloc
C60 superconductivity
100.000 D-Mark
Otto Klung Preis 2001 (50.000 D-Mark)
(Organic Semiconductor and Superconductivity)
J. H. Schön Jury: G. Kaindl, I. Hertel, P. Heyn, E. Matthias, W. Von Aertzen
1979 T. Haensch 1983 G. Binnig, 1985 H. L. Störmer, 1986 H. Michel, 1987 J. G. Bednorz
2002 Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator $ 3000 – J. H. Schön
“for innovative and creative experimental investigations of organic and molecular materials, which have led both to fundamental insights in charge transport in these systems and to a demonstration of new electronic and optoelectronic devices” Zhenan Bao
Rising Star
With 31 (the youngest in the history) the Max Planck Institut für Festkörperphysik in Stuttgart offers him a Direction.
“Reports” Excellent! “He has magic hands”
>100 Labs worked on Schön results
Thents of Ph.D. thesis
Schön streaking results not reproduced!
“Almost too good to be true” 2001 October
(Schön answers)
April 2002 anonymous researchers at Bell contact
Lydia Sohn (Scully) at Princeton. Identical curves.
Sohn contacts Paul McEuen (Mulder)
at Cornell University. Figure’s duplications.
They take contact with Schön, Batlogg, Bell Labs.
Schön admits some confusion with figures
May 2002 Bell set up an Investigation Committee
M. R. Beasley,S. Datta,H. Kogelnik,H. Kroemer,D. Monroe www.lucent.com/news_events/researchreview.html (?) SCIENCE 8 NATURE 5
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 2 APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 4
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 1 THIN SOLID FILMS 1
PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI B 1 SYNTETHIC METALS 1
PREPRINT 1
Space-Charge Limited I-V Measurements PRB 58, 12952 (1998) (50) JHS,CK,RL,BB PRB 63, 245201 (2001) (15) JHS,CK Same data for two different materials,
α-6T and HolePentacene
Transistor Characteristics Nature 413, 713 (2001) (47) JHS,HM,ZB Exactly the same data, divided by a factor 2!
Ambipolar Transistor Triode Characteristics APL 77, 3766(2000) (17) JHS,CK,BB Perylene
Science 290, 963 (2000) (37) JHS,CK,BB
α-6T Synt. Mt.122, 195 (2001) JHS,CK,BB pentacene Same data, different materials, different potentials and polarities!
Inverter Characteristics Science 294, 2138 (2001) (31) JHS,HM,ZB
Nature 413, 713 (2001) (47) JHS,HM,ZB
SAMFET 4-4’-biphenyldithiol Science 287, 1022 (2000) (165) JHS,SB,CK,BB
pentacene
Same data, for different materials, temperatures and circuits with scala changes! Noise!
Single molecule alkanedithiol T = 300 K
Resistivity of Polythiophene Nature 410, 189 (2001) (65) JHS,AD,ZB,CK,OS,BB
Same data for different charge densities, except superconductivity transition!
Superconductivity Transition In C60 Nature 408, 549 (2000) (132) JHS,CK,BB
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