Department of Physics
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-1560

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

Greetings! We like to go in search of new physical phenomena in nanoscale systems such as nanowires and nanotubes. We are particularly interested in many-body effects, electron-electron correlations, and in questions surrounding phase transitions in small or low-dimensional systems. Our motivation is primarily to understand, but the physics is potentially relevant to a huge range of applications, including sensing and storage and generation of energy and charge, via an improved understanding of the processes underlying them and hopefully the discovery of new principles and possibilities.  Our home base is B308 in the UW Physics/Astronomy building.

Lab news

	2 RAs available - more here
	Phase transitions in monolayers on a nanotube yoctobalance paper resubmitted (November 09)
	Paper on "Nano-optical investigations of the metal-insulator phase behavior of individual VO2 microcrystals" submitted (November 09)

DoE BES SISGR grant awarded: "Intrinsic properties of correlated materials derived from combined nanoscale transport and ultrafast spatio-temporal imaging experiments", co-PI Markus Raschke (July 09)

Our VO2 nanobeams make the cover of Nature Nanotechnology (July 09). Paper

Jae Park awarded a Nanotech UIF fellowship (June 09)