Member Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences David Brant Haviland (born July 22, 1961, in Bar Harbor, Maine), is a Swedish-American physicist, professor in nanostructure physics and mesoscopic physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.
[1] Haviland grew up in Ames, Iowa, and studied physics at Union College 1979–83, New York.
His research is focused on superconducting insulator quantum phase transition in thin films and related phenomena in single Josephson junctions and SQUIDs.
He is also developing experimental and theoretical methods to investigate nonlinear dynamical systems by measuring and analyzing the intermodulation (frequency mixing, frequency mixing), this method was patented [2] and was developed for use in atomic force microscopy.
[4] Haviland was awarded the Wallmark Prize in 2008 "for his discoveries concerning the development of mesoscopic physics".