COBDEN GROUP

Department of Physics
University of Washington

Seattle,
WA 98195-1560

Lab: Phys/Astr B308
Tel: (206) 543 0435
Fax: (206) 616 2774

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Greetings!  We like to go boldy in search of new physical phenomena in nanowires and nanotubes.  We are particularly interested in many-body effects and in the consequences of small size or low dimensionality for phase transitions.

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Here we see a VO2 nanobeam undergoing a first-order metal-insulator phase transition.  The greyer domain is metallic and the pinker one is insulating.  They coexist because the nanobeam is under tension.