Past Projects

• Fabrication and characterization of graphene electrodes for electrochemistry experiments
• X-ray imaging of current-induced spin torque effects in antiferromagnet/ferromagnet multilayers
• Linewidths of spin-transfer-driven precession in magnetic nanopillars
• Polarizability of quantum-dot states within a suspended carbon nanotube
• Single electron transistors made using chemically synthesized metal nanoparticles
• Temperature dependence of anisotropic magnetoresistance and atomic motion in ferromagnetic break junctions
• Live imaging of electromigration
• The Kondo effect in mechanically controllable break junctions
• Simulations of Coulomb blockade in single-molecule magnets
• Spin-torque excitations in magnetic nanopillars with an exchange-biased fixed layer
• Optical studies of single molecule transistors
• Manipulating Nanomagnets with a Spin-Polarized Current
• Effects of Non-Equilibrium Electron Excitations on Tunneling via Electron-in-a-Box States in Metal Nanoparticles
• Solving rate equations in single electron transistors. Simulation code available.
• Mechanically-Adjustable and Electrically-Gated Molecular Transistors
• Spin-orbit scattering in noble-metal nanoparticles
• Metal-nanoparticle single-electron transistors fabricated using electromigration
• Tunneling spectroscopy in devices fabricated using organic tunnel barriers
• Molecular transistors
• Acid-Gated Nanoscale Transistors
• Nanofabrication using a stencil mask
• Nanometer-scale Scanning Sensors Fabricated Using Stencil Lithography