PABLO JARILLO-HERRERO, Assistant Professor of Physics
E-mail: pjarillo@mit.edu
Phone: 617.253.3653
Address:
MIT Department of Physics
77 Mass. Ave., Bldg. 13-2017
Cambridge, MA 02139
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Research Interests
Professor Jarillo's research interests lie in the area of experimental
condensed matter physics, in particular quantum electronic transport
in novel low dimensional nanomaterials, such as graphene and carbon
nanotubes. Graphene and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are the 2- and
1-dimensional forms of graphite, respectively, and constitute ideal 2D
and 1D systems to study the behavior of electrons in low dimensions.
Since their discovery (~1993 for single wall CNTs and ~2004 for
graphene), these materials have fascinated physicists, chemists,
engineers and even biologists because of their amazing properties.
Jarillo's group focuses on understanding the novel electronic
properties of these materials stemming from their unique electronic
structure. On the fundamental side, electrons in graphene, for
example, behave in many ways similar to "charged neutrinos". On a more "technological" side, the spin dynamics of confined electrons in CNTs
and graphene is expected to be very rich, and enables many basic
experiments in the area of spintronics and quantum information
processing.
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Biographical Sketch
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero joined MIT as an assistant professor of physics in January
2008. He received his M.Sc. in physics from the University of Valencia,
Spain, in 1999. Then he spent two years at the University of California
in San Diego, where he received a second M.Sc. degree before going to the
Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, where he earned his Ph.D.
in 2005. After a one-year postdoc in Delft, he moved to Columbia
University, where he most recently worked as a NanoResearch Initiative Fellow.
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Selected Publications
H.B. Heersche, P. Jarillo-Herrero, J.B. Oostinga, L.M.K.
Vandersypen and A.F. Morpurgo, "Bipolar supercurrent in graphene", Nature, 446 , 56 (2007).
P. Jarillo-Herrero, J.A. van Dam and L.P. Kouwenhoven, "Quantum
supercurrent transistors in carbon nanotubes", Nature, 439, 953 (2006).
P. Jarillo-Herrero, J. Kong, H.S.J. van der Zant, C. Dekker, L.P.
Kouwenhoven and S. De Franceschi, "Electronic transport spectroscopy
of carbon nanotubes in a magnetic field",
Phys. Rev. Lett., 94, 156802 (2005).
P. Jarillo-Herrero, J. Kong, H.S.J. van der Zant, C. Dekker, L.P.
Kouwenhoven and S. De Franceschi, "Orbital Kondo effect in carbon
nanotubes", Nature, 434, 484 (2005).
P. Jarillo-Herrero, S. Sapmaz, C. Dekker, L.P. Kouwenhoven and
H.S.J. van der Zant, "Electron-hole symmetry in a semiconducting
carbon nanotube quantum dot", Nature, 429, 389 (2004).
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