COBDEN GROUP

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

RESEARCH PROJECTS

 Poor Man's Lithography

Nanowires and nanotubes, made of various materials, offer wonderful opportunities to explore physics in new regimes and discover new phenomena.  We are particularly interested in many-body effects and in the consequences of small size or low dimensionality for phase transitions.  In the recent past we have often worked with single-walled carbon nanotubes, doing transport measurements at low temperatures, to study one-dimensional (1D) quantum dots, metallic and semiconducting quantum wires, Kondo resonances, and excitations of the correlated 1D electron system (the Luttinger liquid).  We are now focusing on nanowires of strongly correlated materials and on the many-atom system of an adsorbed monolayer on the cylinderical surface of a single-walled carbon nanotube.

    Quantum transport in 1D and 2D electron systems

    Nanowires of strongly correlated materials

    Quasi-one dimensional adsorbed monolayers on carbon nanotubes

    Scanned probe experiments