Co-sponsored by The Nanostructures Lab, The Tiny Tech Club and Techlink. 

Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications

Professor Robert M. Westervelt

Harvard - Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics; Professor of Physics

Director, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center

Westervelt Research Group

Background Papers for Talk:

Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications- NSF NSEC Grant 0117795. PI: R.M. Westervelt, Co-PI: B.I. Halperin

 Our Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) combines 'top down' and 'bottom up' techniques to fabricate, characterize, and understand electronic and magnetic devices with sizes that range from large molecules to small parts of a VLSI chip.  The Center includes faculty from Harvard, MIT and UC Santa Barbara with collaborations at Sandia, Oak Ridge and Brookhaven National Laboratories, and at Delft University of Technology and the University of Tokyo. The Museum of Science, Boston works with the Center to develop exhibits and workshops for the public. Through a close integration of research, education, and public outreach, the Center is preparing a diverse group of people to be leaders in this new multidisciplinary field.

*The NSEC is supported by the National Science Foundation.

Robert M. Westervelt (Ph.D. 1977, UC-Berkeley) Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Physics, Harvard University. Westervelt's group investigates the physics of nanoscale structures with new electronic and magnetic properties.  The research areas include: imaging coherent electron flow using scanning probe microscopy, manipulation of electrons inside tunnel-coupled quantum dots for quantum information processing, and control of nanoparticles using micro-electromagnets.  Westervelt is Director of the NSF-funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center - Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications - based at Harvard.

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