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Physical Society Colloquium

Interview for Faculty Position

Contacts in nano-electronics

Xiaodong Cui

Columbia University

As the dimension shrinks to nanometer-scale, contacts between metal electrodes and molecules play a much more important role than these in bulk. Effects of `surface states' could spread through the whole nano-electronics system. Here we discuss (i) How to form electric contacts to single molecules, and (ii) How contacts between single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and metal electrodes control the properties of carbon nanotube field effect transistors (NT-FETs).

Wednesday, February 11th 2004, 10:30
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)