Recent Publications

43. “Spin blockade and lifetime-enhanced transport in a few-electron Si/SiGe double quantum dot,” Nakul Shaji, C. B. Simmons, Madhu Thalakulam, Levente J. Klein, Hua Qin, H. Luo, D. E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, A. J. Rimberg, R. Joynt, M. Friesen, R. H. Blick, S. N. Coppersmith, M. A. Eriksson, Nature Physics 4, 540 (2008).

42. “Electronically Driven Structure Changes of Si Captured by Femtosecond Electron Diffraction,” Maher Harb, Ralph Ernstorfer, Christoph T. Hebeisen, German Sciaini, Weina Peng, Thibault Dartigalongue, Mark A. Eriksson, Max G. Lagally, Sergei G. Kruglik, and R. J. Dwayne Miller, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155504 (2008).
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41. “Single-electron quantum dot in Si/SiGe with integrated charge sensing,” C.B. Simmons, Madhu Thalakulam, Nakul Shaji, Levente J. Klein, Hua Qin, R.H. Blick, D.E. Savage, M.G. Lagally, S.N. Coppersmith, and M.A. Eriksson, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 213103 (2007).
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40. “Dielectrophoretic manipulation and real-time electrical detection of single-nanowire bridges in aqueous saline solutions,” M.S. Marcus, L. Shang, B. Li, J.A. Streifer, J.D. Beck, E. Perkins, M.A. Eriksson, and R. J. Hamers, Small 3, 1610 (2007).
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39. “Single-Crystal/Amorphous-Multilayer Heterostructures Based on Nanomembrane Transfer,” Weina Peng , Michelle M. Roberts, Eric P. Nordberg, Frank S. Flack, Paula E. Colavita, Robert J. Hamers, Donald E. Savage, Max G. Lagally, and Mark A. Eriksson, Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 183107 (2007).
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38. “Anisotropic fluorocarbon plasma etching of Si/SiGe heterostructures,” R. Ding, L.J. Klein, M.A. Eriksson, and A.E. Wendt, J. Vac. Sci. Tech. B 25, 404 (2007).
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37. “Optically modulated conduction in chromophore-functionalized single-wall carbon nanotubes,” J. M. Simmons, I. In, V. E. Campbell, T.J. Mark, F. Leonard, P. Gopalan, and M.A. Eriksson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 086802 (2007).
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36. “Coulomb blockade and Kondo effect in a few-electron silicon/silicon-germanium quantum dot,” L.J. Klein, D.E. Savage, and M.A. Eriksson, Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 033103 (2007).
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35.“Controllable Valley Splitting in Si/SiGe Quantum Devices,” Srijit Goswami, K. A. Slinker, Mark Friesen, L. M. McGuire, J. L. Truitt, Charles Tahan, L. J. Klein, J. O. Chu, P. M. Mooney, D. W. van der Weide, Robert Joynt, S. N. Coppersmith, and M.A. Eriksson, Nature Physics 3, 41 (2007).
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34. “Magnetic Field Dependence of Valley Splitting in Realistic Si/SiGe Quantum Wells,” M. Friesen, M.A. Eriksson, S.N. Coppersmith, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 202106 (2006).
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33. “Photo-gating Carbon Nanotube Transistors,” Matthew S. Marcus, J. M. Simmons, O. M. Castellini, R. J. Hamers, and M. A. Eriksson, Journ. Appl. Phys. 100, 084306 (2006).
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32. “Electrical Conductivity in Silicon Nanomembranes,” P. P. Zhang, E. P. Nordberg, B.-N. Park, I. Knezevic, P. G. Evans, M. A. Eriksson, M. G. Lagally, N. Journ. Phys. 8, 200 (2006).
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31. Enabling Efficient Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Growth on Silicon using Thin SiO2 Diffusion Barriers, J.M. Simmons, B.M. Nichols, Matthew S. Marcus, O.M. Castellini, R.J. Hamers, M.A. Eriksson, Small 2, 902 (2006).
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30. Electrically Directed Assembly and Detection of Nanowire Bridges in Aqueous Media, Robert J. Hamers, Joseph D. Beck, Mark Eriksson, Bo Li,  Matthew S. Marcus, Lu Shang, Jason Simmons, and Jeremy Streifer, Nanotechnology 17, S280 (2006) .
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29. Elastically Relaxed Free-standing Strained-Si Nanomembranes, Michelle M. Roberts, Levente J. Klein, Don E. Savage, Keith A. Slinker, Mark Friesen, George Celler, Mark A. Eriksson, Max G. Lagally, Nature Materials 5, 388 (2006).
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28. The Effect of Ozone Oxidation on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, J.M. Simmons, B.M. Nichols, S.E. Baker, Matthew S. Marcus, O.M. Castellini, C.-S. Lee, R.J. Hamers, M.A. Eriksson, J. Phys. Chem. B 110, 7113 (2006).

27. Microparticle Manipulation Using Inertial Forces, Michael Eglin, Mark A. Eriksson, and Robert W. Carpick, Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 091913 (2006).
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26. Surface Electronic Transport in Nanometer-Scale Silicon-on-Insulator, Pengpeng Zhang, Emma Tevaarwerk, Byoung-Nam Park, Donald E. Savage, George Celler, Irena Knezevic, Paul G. Evans, Mark A. Eriksson, and Max G. Lagally, Nature 439, 703 (2006).
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25. Quantum Dots and Etch-Induced Depletion of a Silicon 2DEG, L. J. Klein, K. L. M. Lewis, K. A. Slinker, Srijit Goswami, D. W. van der Weide, R. H. Blick, P. M. Mooney, J. O. Chu, S. N. Coppersmith, Mark Friesen, and Mark A. Eriksson, J. Appl. Phys. 99, 23509 (2006).
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24. Directed Assembly and Electrical Characterization of Nanowire Bridges using Biomolecular Recognition Elements, Lu Shang, Tami Lasseter Clare, Mark A. Eriksson, Matthew S. Marcus, Kevin M. Metz, and Robert J. Hamers, Nanotechnology 16, 2846-2851 (2005).

23. Quantum dots in Si/SiGe 2DEGs with Schottky top-gated leads, K.A. Slinker, K.L.M. Lewis, C.C. Haselby, S. Goswami, L.J. Klein, J.O. Chu, S.N. Coppersmith, Robert Joynt, R.H. Blick, Mark Friesen, and M.A. Eriksson, N. Journ. Phys. 7, 246 (2005).

22. Template-directed carbon nanotube network using self-ordered Si nanocrystals, B. Yang, M. S. Marcus, D. G. Keppel, P. P. Zhang, Z. W. Li, B. J. Larson, D. E. Savage, J. M. Simmons, O. M. Castellini, M. A. Eriksson, and M. G. Lagally, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 263107 (2005).

21. Quantitative analysis of electric force microscopy: the role of sample geometry, Emma Tevaarwerk, D.G. Keppel, P. Rugheimer, M.G. Lagally and M.A. Eriksson, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 76, 053707 (2005).

20. Invited review, Spin Based Quantum Dot Quantum Computing in Silicon, M.A. Eriksson, M. Friesen, S.N. Coppersmith, R. Joynt, L.J. Klein, K. Slinker, C. Tahan, P.M. Mooney,  J.O. Chu, and S.J. Koester, Quantum Information Processing 3, 133 (2004).
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19. Phase imaging and the lever-sample tilt angle in dynamic atomic force microscopy, Matthew J. D’Amato, Matthew S. Marcus, M.A. Eriksson, Robert W. Carpick, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 4738 (2004).

18. Electrically-addressable Biomolecular Functionalization of Carbon Nanotube and Carbon Nanofiber Sensor Elements, Chang-Soo Lee, Sarah Baker, Matthew Marcus, Wensha Yang, Mark Eriksson, and Robert J. Hamers, Nano Lett. 4(9) 1713 (2004).

17. Invited review, “Measurements of In-Plane Material Properties with Scanning Probe Microscopy, R.W. Carpick and M.A. Eriksson, Bulletin of the Materials Research Society, 472 (2004).

16. Coulomb Blockade in a Si:SiGe Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Quantum Dot, L.J. Klein, K. Slinker, J.L. Truitt, S Goswami, K.L.M. Lewis, S.N. Coppersmith, D.W. van der Weide, Mark Friesen, R. Blick, D.E. Savage, M.G. Lagally, Charlie Tahan, Robert Joynt, M.A. Eriksson (University of Wisconsin Madison), J.O. Chu, J.A. Ott, P.M. Mooney (IBM Research Division, T. J. Watson Research Center), Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 4047-4049 (2004).

15. Invited review, Polydiacetylene Surface Films: A Review of Recent Investigations into Chromogenic Transitions and Nanomechanical Properties, Robert W. Carpick, Darryl Y. Sasaki, Matthew S. Marcus, M. A. Eriksson, and Alan R. Burns, J. Phys.: Cond. Matt., 16 R679 -R697 (2004).

14. Valley splitting in strained silicon quantum wells, Timothy B. Boykin, Gerhard Klimeck, M.A. Eriksson, Mark Friesen, S. N. Coppersmith, Paul von Allmen, Fabiano Oyafuso, and Seungwon Lee, Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 115 (2004).

13. Spin readout and initialization in a semiconductor quantum dot,Mark Friesen, Charles Tahan, Robert Joynt, M.A. Eriksson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 037901 (2004).

12. Thermal decomposition of surfactant coatings on Co and Ni  nanocrystals, V. Pérez-Dieste, O. M. Castellini, J. N. Crain, M. A. Eriksson, A. Kirakosian, J.-L. Lin, J. L. McChesney, F. J. Himpsel, C. T. Black, and C. B. Murray, Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 5053 (2003).

11. Practical design and simulation of silicon-based quantum-dot qubits,Mark Friesen, Paul Rugheimer, Donald E. Savage, Max G. Lagally, Daniel W. van der Weide, Robert Joynt , and Mark A. Eriksson, Phys. Rev. B 67, 121301 (2003).

10. Pseudo-Digital Quantum Bits,Mark Friesen, Robert Joynt, and M. A. Eriksson, Appl. Phys. Lett. 81, 4619 (2002).

9.   Electrically Isolated SiGe Quantum Dots,Emma Tevaarwerk, P. Rugheimer, O.M. Castellini, D.G. Keppel, S.T. Utley, D.E. Savage, M.G. Lagally, and M.A. Eriksson, Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 4626 (2002).

8.   Material anisotropy revealed by phase contrast in intermittent contact atomic force microscopy, Matthew S. Marcus, Robert W. Carpick, Darryl Y. Sasaki, M .A. Eriksson, Phys. Rev. Lett 88, 226103 (2002).

7.   Comparison of Wear Characteristics of Etched-Silicon and Carbon Nanotube Atomic-Force Microscopy Probes, T. Larsen, K. Moloni, F. Flack, M.A. Eriksson, M. G. Lagally, C.T. Black, Appl. Phys. Lett 80, 1996 (2002).

6.   Moonsoo Kang, A. Pinczuk, B.S. Dennis, M.A. Eriksson, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West, Inelastic Light Scattering by Gap Excitations of Fractional Quantum Hall States at 1/3 < n < 2/3, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 546 (2000).

5.   M.A. Eriksson, A. Pinczuk, B.S. Dennis, S.H. Simon L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West, Observation of Collective Excitations of the Dilute 2D Electron System,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2163 (1999).

4.   R.G. Beck, M.A. Eriksson, M.A. Topinka, R.M. Westervelt, K.D. Maranowski, and A.C. Gossard, GaAs/AlGaAs Self-Sensing Cantilever for Low Temperature Scanning Probe Microscopy, Appl. Phys. Lett. 73, 1149 (1998).

3.   J.A. Katine, M.A. Eriksson, A.S. Adourian, R.M. Westervelt, J.D. Edwards, A. Lupu-Sax, E.J. Heller, K.L. Campman, and A.C. Gossard, Point Contact Conductance of an Open Resonator,Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4806 (1997).

2.   M.A. Eriksson, R.G. Beck, M. Topinka, J.A. Katine, R.M. Westervelt, K.L. Campman, and A.C. Gossard, Cryogenic Scanning Probe Characterization of Semiconductor Nanostructures,Appl. Phys. Lett. 69, 671 (1996).

1.   R.G. Beck, M.A. Eriksson, R.M. Westervelt, K.L. Campman, and A.C. Gossard, Strain-Sensing Cryogenic Field-Effect Transistor for Integrated Strain Detection in GaAs/AlGaAs Micro-Electromechanical Systems, Appl. Phys. Lett  68, 3763 (1996).