Wednesday
September 10 |
- SPECIAL Solid State & Optics Seminar - NOTE: Date/Time/Location
Andreev current induced dissipation in a superconductor - normal metal -superconductor tunnel junction - "Sponsored by the Flind Fund Series on Quantum Devices and Nanostructures"
On 09/10/2008 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Becton Center, 4th Floor Alcove
Presented by Sukumar Rajauria, N¨¦el Institute, CNRS and Universit¨¦ Joseph Fourier
Hosted by Daniel E. Prober
Contact Giselle DeVito Email giselle.devito@yale.edu
ABSTRACT:
Sukumar Rajauria1, P. Gandit1, T. Fournier1, F. W. J Hekking2,3, H. Courtois1,3 and B. Pannetier1ˇˇˇˇ
1 : N¨¦el Institute, CNRS and Universit¨¦ Joseph Fourier, 25 avenue d... More>>
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Friday
September 12 |
- SPECIAL Solid State & Optics Seminar: NOTE: Date/Time/Location
Sponsored by the Flint Fund Series on Quantum Devices and Nanostructures - "The intreplay between Anderson localization and itinerant ferromagnetism"
On 09/12/2008 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Becton Center - 4th Floor Alcove
Presented by Aviad Frydman, Bar Ilan University
Hosted by Daniel E. Prober
Contact Giselle DeVito Email giselle.devito@yale.edu
ABSTRACT:
In transition metals (Ni, Fe, and Co) ferromagnetism is associated with conduction electrons which carry the spin information. It is not clear what happens to the ferromagn... More>>
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Wednesday
September 17 |
- Physics of Graphene Nanodevices
Sponsored by the Flint Fund Series on Quantum Devices and Nanostructures
On 09/17/2008 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM at Mason Lab 107
Presented by Professor Michael Fogler, University of CA at San Diego, Department of Physics
Hosted by Leonid Glazman
Contact Giselle DeVito Email giselle.devito@yale.edu
ABSTRACT:
Unique properties of graphene promise a variety of novel applications
and raise new fundamental questions concerning the physics that governs
interacting Dirac fermions i... More>>
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Wednesday
September 24 |
AVAILABLE - contact Giselle DeVito to schedule this date
On 09/24/2008 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM at Mason Lab 107
Hosted by Sohrab Ismail-Beigi
Contact Giselle DeVito Email giselle.devito@yale.edu
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Wednesday
October 1 |
AVAILABLE - contact Giselle DeVito to schedule this date
On 10/01/2008 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM at Mason Lab 107
Hosted by Sohrab Ismail-Beigi
Contact Giselle DeVito Email giselle.devito@yale.edu
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Wednesday
October 8 |
AVAILABLE - contact Giselle DeVito to schedule this date
On 10/08/2008 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM at Mason Lab 107
Hosted by Sohrab Ismail-Beigi
Contact Giselle DeVito Email giselle.devito@yale.edu
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Wednesday
October 15 |
- The Effect of p-n Junctions on Quantum Transport in Graphene
Sponsored by the Flint Fund Series on Quantum DeVices and Nanostructures
On 10/15/2008 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM at Mason Lab 107
Presented by James Williams, Harvard University
Hosted by Robert J. Schoelkopf
Contact Giselle DeVito Email giselle.devito@yale.edu
ABSTRACT:
Recently, the ability to locally control the carrier density and type using the electric field effect in graphene has been reported. In order to realize clean bipolar graphen... More>>
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Tuesday
October 21 |
- SPECIAL Solid State & Optics Seminar - NOTE: Date/Time/Location
Atomic-Scale Inertial Mass Sensing with Carbon Nanotube Electromechanical Resonators
On 10/21/2008 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Becton Center, 4th Floor Alcove
Presented by Hsin-Ying Chiu, California Institute of Technology Department of Applied Physics
Hosted by Michel H. Devoret
Contact Giselle DeVito Email giselle.devito@yale.edu
ABSTRACT:
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are arguably the lightest and smallest robust wires in the world, and have recently been shown to act as nanomechanical resonators 1, 2... More>>
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Wednesday
October 22 |
Decoherence in electronic interferometers
Sponsored by the Flint Fund Series on Quantum Devices and Nanostructures
On 10/22/2008 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM at Mason Lab 107
Presented by Florian Marquardt, Center for NanoScience, Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, and Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians - University Munich, Germany
Hosted by Jack Harris
Contact Giselle DeVito Email giselle.devito@yale.edu
ABSTRACT:
This talk will start with a basic introduction to the field of decoherence. I will then describe the electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer, where one can probe electronic de... More>>
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Wednesday
October 29 |
- Measurements of persistent currents in normal metal rings using a micromechanical magnetometer
Sponsored by the Flint Fund Series on Quantum Devices and Nanostructures
On 10/29/2008 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM at Mason Lab 107
Presented by Ania Bleszynski-Jayich, Yale University
Hosted by Jack Harris
Contact Giselle DeVito Email giselle.devito@yale.edu
ABSTRACT:
A striking manifestation of quantum mechanics is the existence of a dissipationless current in a non-superconducting metal ring threaded by a magnetic mesoscopic physics such... More>>
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Wednesday
November 5 |
- Using Quantum Mechanics to Detect Anthrax
Sponsored by the Flint Fund Series on Quantum Devices and Nanostructures
On 11/05/2008 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM at Mason Lab 107
Presented by Professor Marlan Scully, Texas A&M University and Princeton University
Hosted by Hui Cao
Contact Giselle DeVito Email giselle.devito@yale.edu
ABSTRACT:
Counterintuitive effects such as amplification without noise and lasing without inversion are examples of quantum coherence. More recently, the study of quantum coherence eff... More>>
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Wednesday
November 12 |
- Nonlinear SQUID microwave cavities as quantum limited amplifiers and event horizon analogues
"Sponsored by the Flind Fund Series on Quantum Devices and Nanostructures"
On 11/12/2008 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM at Mason Lab 107
Presented by Professor Miles Blencowe, Dartmouth College
Hosted by Jack Harris
Contact Giselle DeVito Email giselle.devito@yale.edu
ABSTRACT:
Embedding DC SQUIDS within planar microwave cavities can give rise to strong effective nonlinearities in the cavity field equations. We shall describe two possible applicat... More>>
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Wednesday
November 19 |
- Towards a Casimir force microscope : quantitative measurement of weak forces and absolute nanopositioning
"Sponsored by the Flind Fund Series on Quantum Devices and Nanostructures"
On 11/19/2008 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM at Mason Lab 107
Presented by Professor Joel Chevrier, CNRS and Grenoble University
Hosted by Eric Akkermans
Contact Giselle DeVito Email giselle.devito@yale.edu
ABSTRACT:
We show that the Casimir force gradient can be quantitatively
measured with
no direct contact involved. Results of the Casimir force measurement with
systematic uncertaint... More>>
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Thursday
November 20 |
- SPECIAL Solid State & Optics Seminar - NOTE: Date/Time/Location
High-Q Optical Resonance in Disordered Photonic Crystal Waveguides - "Sponsored by the Flint Fund Series on Quantum Devices and Nanostructures"
On 11/20/2008 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Becton 3rd Floor Alcove
Presented by Frank Vollmer, Biofunctional Photonics Group, The Rowland Institute, Harvard University
Hosted by Hui Cao
Contact Giselle DeVito Email giselle.devito@yale.edu
ABSTRACT:
A photonic crystal can confine light by Bragg-scattering in an ideal lattice where disorder is considered a source for scattering loss. Counter-intuitively, however, multiple... More>>
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Wednesday
November 26 |
Fall Recess - AVAILABLE - contact Giselle DeVito to schedule this date
On 11/26/2008 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM at Mason Lab 107
Hosted by Sohrab Ismail-Beigi
Contact Giselle DeVito Email giselle.devito@yale.edu
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Wednesday
December 3 |
- Ultrafast optical processing on a Silicon chip
Sponsored by the Flint Fund Series on Quantum Devices and Nanostructures
On 12/03/2008 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM at Mason Lab 107
Presented by Professor Alexander Gaeta, Cornell University, School of Applied and Engineering Physics
Hosted by Hui Cao
Contact Giselle DeVito Email giselle.devito@yale.edu
ABSTRACT:
The concept of time-space duality offers a powerful approach to
ultrafast optical processing in the time domain. We demonstrate that
such processing can be performed u... More>>
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Wednesday
December 10 |
AVAILABLE - contact Giselle DeVito to schedule this date
On 12/10/2008 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM at Mason Lab 107
Hosted by Sohrab Ismail-Beigi
Contact Giselle DeVito Email giselle.devito@yale.edu
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Wednesday
December 17 |
- Light in Aperiodic Deterministic Structures
Sponsored by the Flint Fund Series on Quantum Devices and Nanostructures
On 12/17/2008 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM at Mason Lab 107
Presented by Luca Dal Negro, Boston University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hosted by Hui Cao
Contact Giselle DeVito Email giselle.devito@yale.edu
ABSTRACT:
Engineering light-matter interaction in non-periodic nanophotonic structures has enormous unexplored potential for the creation and manipulation of highly localized field sta... More>>
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