Nanoscale Physics

我的研究项目旨在对纳米结构的物理学有一个基本的了解，纳米结构是指尺寸从一纳米到几百纳米不等的系统。纳米结构具有不同于单个原子和宏观日常物体的特性。它们在从信息处理到医学等应用中的重要性已得到广泛认可。我们将在先前成功的基础上阐明石墨烯纳米结构的传输特性，包括几纳米宽的碳原子纳米带和单原子层厚的纳米带。我们将把这项研究推向一个新的方向，最近令人惊讶的实验发现，一些长16微米的石墨烯纳米带在SiC衬底上的电导率接近

My research program is directed at obtaining a fundamental understanding of the physics of nanostructures, systems with dimensions ranging from about a nanometer to a few hundred nanometers. Nanostructures have properties that differ from those of both individual atoms and macroscopic everyday objects. Their importance for applications ranging from information processing to medicine is widely recognized. The proposed research will have a number of foci within this general theme: We will build on our previous successes elucidating the transport properties of graphene nanostructures, including nanoribbons of carbon atoms several nanometers wide and a single atomic layer thick. We will take this research in a new direction, prompted by the recent surprising experimental discovery that some graphene nanoribbons as long as 16 micrometers on SiC substrates exhibit conductances near