Applied Physics Department
Yale University
P.O. Box 208284
New Haven CT 06520-8284
PHONE: (203) 432-2499
FAX: (203) 432-4283
EMAIL: konrad.lehnert@yale.edu
Education
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
B.S., with honors, Physics [May 1993]
Experience
University of California at Santa Barbara
, Santa Barbara, CA
Graduate Student Researcher, [1995-1999]
Dissertation:
"Nonequilibrium dynamics in mesoscopic superconductor-semiconductor-superconductor
junctions"
Advisor: Prof. S. James Allen,
Teaching Assistant[1994-1995]
TA for Prof. Carl Gwinn and Prof. Jeffery Richmond
Pacific Communication Sciences Inc., San Diego, CA
Member of Technical Staff (Analog/RF designer), [1993-1994]
supervisor: John O’Connor
Orbisphere Laboratories,
Geneva, Switzerland
Summer Researcher, [summer 1993]
supervisor: John Hale
Harvey Mudd Engineering Clinic
, Claremont, CA
Team Leader [1992-1993]
Engineering Clinic Dissertation
"Characterization of the RF-multipath between transmitting and receiving antennae on a C131 aircraft"
advisor: Prof. Jeevan Hoole
National Nanofabrication Facility at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
National Science Foundation REU, [summer 1992]
advisor: Prof. Michael Isaacson;
Phillips Petroleum Co., Plastics Technical Center, Bartlesville, OK
Engineering Assistant, [summer 1990]
supervisor: Pierre Muri
Publications
Mid-infrared Studies of the Contact Region at Superconductor-Semiconductor Interfaces, T. A. Eckhause, S. Tsujino, K. W. Lehnert, E. G. Gwinn, S. J. Allen, M. Thomas, and H. Kroemer, Appl. Phys. Lett. 76, 215 (2000).
Nonequilibrium AC Josephson Effect in Mesoscopic Nb-InAs-Nb Junctions, K. W. Lehnert, N. Argaman, H. R. Blank, K. C. Wong, S. J. Allen, E. L. Hu, and H. Kroemer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1265 (1999).
Nonequilibrium Superconductivity in Mesoscopic Nb/InAs/Nb Junctions, (invited article) K. W. Lehnert, J. G. E. Harris, S. J. Allen, N. Argaman, Superlatt. Microstr. 25, 839 (1999).
Spectroscopic study of Kondo insulator YbB12 using a free electron laser, H. Ohta, T. Nanba, K. Lehnert, S.J. Allen, M. Motokawa, F. Iga, M. Kasaya, J. of magnetism and Mag. Mat. 177-181 341 (1998).
Conferences Papers and Invited talks
2002 APS March meeting, Invited presentation, Decoherence time and Excited-state lifetime of a Cooper-pair Box.
Observing single-electron tunneling events in a superconducting single electron transistor
K. W. Lehnert, P. Wahlgren, Per Delsing, R. J. Schoelkopf,
to appear in the proceedings of the 36th Recontres de Moriond conference (2001).
36th Recontres de Moriond Electronic Correlations: From meso- to nano- physics,
January 2001.
24th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS 24), August 1998, contributed oral presentation and paper.
Nonequilibrium Supercurrents in Mesoscopic Nb-InAs-Nb Junctions,
K. W. Lehnert, N. Argaman, H. R. Blank, K. C. Wong, S. J. Allen, E. L. Hu, H. Kroemer,
Microelectronic Engineering 47, 377 (1999).
4th International Symposium on New Phenomena in Mesoscopic Structures
(NPMS 4), December 1998.
Personal Information
References
Prof. Michel Devoret
Applied Physics Department (starting January 2002)
Yale University
P.O. Box 208284
New Haven CT 06520-8284
EMAIL: devoret@drecam.saclay.cea.fr
Prof. S. James Allen (Dissertation committee chair)
Quantum Institute
University of California
Santa Barbara CA 93106
EMAIL: allen@qi.ucsb.edu
Phone: (805) 893-7134
FAX: (805) 893-4170.
Prof. Herbert Kroemer
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California
Santa Barbara CA 93106
EMAIL: kroemer@ece.ucsb.edu
Phone: (805) 893-3078
FAX: (805) 893-7990.