Research Interests

Experimental Condensed Matter

Research focuses on electrons in reduced dimensions: 2-dimensional electron gases, quantum wires and point contacts, and quantum dots, especially the role of interactions, quantum coherence, many-body states, and spin in these systems. Many materials are used, including conventional semiconductor heterostructures, nanowires, carbon (nanotubes and graphene sheets), and organic molecules. Major tools include nanolithography, precision low-temperature electrical transport, and several novel scanning probe techniques.

Related research groups:

• Experimental Condensed Matter
• Mesoscopic Physics
• Microscopy and Imaging.
  

Career History

• AB Physics, Harvard University 1994 
• AM History of Science, Harvard University 1994
• PhD Physics, MIT 1999
• K.T. Compton Fellow, MIT 1994-1996
• Hertz Fellow, 1994-1999
• Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, 1999-2001
• Member of Technical Staff, The MITRE Corporation, 1999
• Assistant Professor of Physics, Stanford University, 2001-present
• ONR Young Investigator Award, 2001-2003
• 2002 George E. Valley Prize, American Physical Society
• 2002 McMillan Award
• 2003 Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering
  
• 2004-2009 Packard Fellow
  
• 2004-present, Co-founder and Deputy Director, Center for Probing the Nanoscale (NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center)
• Award for Initiatives in Research, National Academy of Sciences, 2006.