Georgetown Superconductivity and Nanotechnology Lab

Right: Schematic of a carbon nanotube field effect transistor (CNFET). The nanotube is semiconducting and the substrate is used as a gate electrode. The voltage applied to the gate electrode controls the conductance of the nanotube.

Left: Image of a CNFET. The carbon nanotube is the white line connecting the two electrodes. We fabricate CNFETs with superconducting and normal electrodes and study their basic physical properties (superconducting proximity effect, intrinsic superconductivity in nanotubes) and applications (chemical sensors, detectors for electromagnetic radiation).

People

• Mohamed Rinzan, postdoctoral fellow.
• Eric Jobiliong, postdoctoral fellow.
• Yanfei Yang, graduate research assistant.
• Anthony Boyd, graduate research assistant.

Former group members

• Jian Zhang, postdoctoral fellow – current position: research assistant professor at the University of South Florida (Physics Department)
• Alexander Tselev, postdoctoral fellow - current position: postdoctoral fellow at Duke University (Chemistry Department)
• Kyle Hatton, undergraduate research assistant – currently a researcher on international development at the Service Group.

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Funding

• Research Corporation (Research Innovation Award)
• NSF Career Award (PECASE) 
• American Chemical Society (Petroleum Research Fund)
• Air Force Office for Scientific Research