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

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

"Nano-optical investigations of the metal-insulator phase behavior of individual VO₂ microcrystals", Andrew C. Jones, Samuel Berweger, Jiang Wei, David Cobden, and Markus B. Raschke, manuscript available on request.

"Phase transitions on the surface of a carbon nanotube", Zenghui Wang, Peter Morse, Jiang Wei, Oscar E. Vilches and David H. Cobden, manuscript available on request.

"New aspects of the metal–insulator transition in single-domain vanadium dioxide nanobeams", J. Wei, Z. Wang, W. Chen, and D.H. Cobden, Nature Nanotechnology 4, 420 (2009) and http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0596.  See also a News and Views article by Doug Natelson, and Physics Today Update.

"Vanadium dioxide nanobeams: probing sub-domain properties of strongly correlated materials using nanostructures" - early version of paper submitted in June '08.

"Charge pumping in carbon nanotube quantum dots," M.R. Buitelaar, V. Kashcheyevs, P.J. Leek, V.I. Talyanskii, C.G. Smith, D. Anderson, G.A.C. Jones, J. Wei, and D.H. Cobden, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 126803 (2008).

"Tip-modulation scanned gate microscopy", N.R. Wilson and D.H. Cobden, Nano Letters 8, 2161 (2008).

"Synthesis and electrical characterization of Silver Nanobeams", B.J. Wiley, Z. Wang, J. Wei, Y. Yin, D.H. Cobden, and Y. Xia, Nano Letters 6, 2273 (2006).

"Charge pumping and current quantization in surface acoustic-wave-driven carbon nanotube devices", M.R. Buitelaar, P.J. Leek, V.I. Talyanskii, C.G. Smith, D. Anderson, G.A.C. Jones, J. Wei, and D.H. Cobden, Semiconductor Science and Technology 21, S69 (2006).

“Charge pumping in carbon nanotubes”, V.I. Talyanskii, P. Leek, M. Buitelaar, C.G. Smith, D. Anderson, G. Jones, J. Wei, and D.H. Cobden, Proc. EP2DS-16, Physica E 34, 662-665 (2006).

"Magnetic field asymmetry of nonlinear transport in carbon nanotubes", J. Wei, M. Shimogawa, Z. Wang, I. Radu, R. Dormaier, and D.H. Cobden, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256601 (2005).

"Charge pumping in carbon nanotubes", P. Leek, M. Buitelaar, V. Talyanskii, C. Smith, D. Anderson, G.A.C. Jones, J. Wei, and D.H. Cobden, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256802 (2005).

"Mesoscopic oscillations of the conductance of disordered metallic samples as a function of temperature", B. Spivak, A. Zyuzin and D.H. Cobden, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226804 (2005).

"Stable and erasable patterning of vanadium pentoxide thin films by atomic force microscope nanolithography", S. Iwanaga, R.B. Darling and D.H. Cobden, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 133113 (2005).

"Oriented growth of single-wall carbon nanotubes using alumina patterns",  I. Radu, Y. Hanein, and D.H. Cobden, Nanotechnology 15, 473 (2004).

"Single-wall carbon nanotube conducting probe tips”, Neil R. Wilson, D.H. Cobden, and Julie V. Macpherson, J. Phys. Chem. B. 106, 13102 (2002).

"Shell filling in closed single-wall carbon nanotube quantum dots”, D.H. Cobden and J. Nygard, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 046803 (2002).

"Quantum dots in free-standing single-wall carbon nanotubes”, J. Nygard and D. H. Cobden, Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 4216 (2001).

"Magnetic field-induced Kondo effect in Coulomb blockade systems”, L. Glazman, M. Pustilnik, D. H. Cobden, and L. P. Kouwenhoven, Lecture Notes in Physics, 579, 3 (2001), cond-mat/0010336.

"Luttinger liquid behavior in metallic carbon nanotubes”, R. Egger, A. Bachtold, M. Fuhrer, M. Bockrath, D.H. Cobden, and P.L. McEuen, in Interacting Electrons in Nanostructures, edited by R. Haug and H. Schoeller (Springer 2001); cond-mat/0008008.

"Nanowires begin to shine”, D.H. Cobden, Nature (News and Views), 409, 32 (2001).

"Kondo physics in carbon nanotubes", J. Nygard, D.H. Cobden, and P. E. Lindelof, Nature 408, 342 (2000).

"Single-wall carbon nanotubes prepared by chemical vapor deposition”, P.R. Poulsen, J. Borggreen, J. Nygard, D.H. Cobden, M.M. Andreasen, and P.E. Lindelof, AIP Conference Proceedings 544 (2000) 504.

"Disorder, pseudospins and backscattering in carbon nanotubes", P.L. McEuen, M. Bockrath, D.H. Cobden, Y.-G. Yoon, and S.G. Louie, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5098 (1999).

"Electrical transport measurements on single-walled carbon nanotubes", J. Nygard, D.H. Cobden, M. Bockrath, P.L. McEuen, and P.E. Lindelof, Appl. Phys. A 69, 297-304 (1999).

"One dimensional transport in carbon nanotubes" P.L. McEuen, M. Bockrath, D.H. Cobden and J.G. Lu, Microelectronic Engineering 47, 417 (1999).

"Fluctuations and evidence for charging in the quantum Hall effect", D.H. Cobden, C.H.W. Barnes, and C. J. B. Ford, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4695 (1999).

"Luttinger-liquid behavior in carbon nanotubes", M. Bockrath, D.H. Cobden, J.G. Lu, A. G. Rinzler, R.E. Smalley, L. Balents, and P.L. McEuen, Nature 397, 598 (1999) .

"Condensed matter physics: A nanotube laboratory", David H. Cobden, Nature (News and Views), vol. 397 (1999).

"Spin splitting and even-odd effects in carbon nanotubes", D.H. Cobden, Marc Bockrath, P.L. McEuen, A.G. Rinzler and R.E. Smalley, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 681 (1998)

"Single-Electron Transport in Ropes of Carbon Nanotubes", M. Bockrath, D.H. Cobden, P.L. McEuen, N.G. Chopra, A. Zettl, A. Thess, and R.E. Smalley, Science 275, 1922 (1997).

"Current flow past an etched barrier: field emission from a two-dimensional electron gas", D.H. Cobden, G. Pilling, R. Parthasarathy, P.L. McEuen, I.M. Castleton, E.H. Linfield, D.A. Ritchie, and G A.C. Jones, Europhys. Lett, 41, 327 (1998).

"Measurement of the conductance distribution function at a quantum Hall transition", D.H. Cobden and E. Kogan, Phys. Rev. B 54, R17316 (1996).

"Finite-temperature Fermi-edge singularity in tunneling studied using random telegraph signals", D.H. Cobden and B. Muzykantskii, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 4274 (1995).

"Resistance fluctuations in diffusive transport at high magnetic fields in narrow Si transistors", A. Morgan, D.H. Cobden, M. Pepper, G. Jin, Y.S. Tang, and C.D.W. Wilkinson, Phys. Rev. B 50, 12187 (1994).

"Transport by single and few electrons in GaAs mesoscopic structures", D.H. Cobden, A.S. Dzurak, M. Field, C.G. Smith, A.K. Savchenko, M. Pepper, D.A. Ritchie, J.E.F. Frost, G.A.C. Jones and D.G. Hasko, Physica A 200, 56 (1993).

"Dissipative tunneling in two-state systems at the Si/SiO₂ interface", D.H. Cobden, M.J. Uren, and M. Pepper, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 4230 (1993).

"Random telegraph signals from liquid helium to room temperature", D.H. Cobden and M.J. Uren, Microelectronic Engineering 22, 163 (1993).

"Time-irreversible random telegraph signal due to current along a single hopping chain", D.H. Cobden, A.K. Savchenko, M. Pepper, N.K. Patel, D. Ritchie, and G.A.C. Jones, Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 502 (1992).

"Noise and reproducible structure in a GaAs/Al_x/Ga_1-x/As one-dimensional channel", D.H. Cobden, N.K. Patel, M. Pepper, D.A. Ritchie, J.E.F. Frost, and G.A.C. Jones, Phys. Rev. B 44, 1938 (1991).

"Entropy measurements on slow Si/SiO₂ interface states", D.H. Cobden, M.J. Uren and M.J. Kirton, Appl. Phys. Lett. 56, 1245 (1990).