Nov. 19, 2015
Transport and heating in nanoscale junctions: the Landauer picture and its limits
Space Science Room 106
Space Science and Technology Bldg - Rice University
Houston, Texas 77005
United States
Description
FCMP Lecture (LIVE from Rice!)
Date: Thursday, November 19
Time: 3:10 pm
Place: SST 106
Speaker: Doug Natelson
Title: Transport and heating in nanoscale junctions: the Landauer picture and its limits
Abstract: I will introduce the Landauer formalism, a way of thinking about electronic transport in very small systems first introduced in 1959 (!) that has proven extremely useful over the last two decades. The Landauer approach does make certain idealized assumptions, however. In the context of atomic- and molecular-scale junctions that our group has studied, I will discuss deviations from the simple Landauer expectations, as inferred from a combination of noise measurements (looking at fluctuations in the current rather than just the average current as a function of voltage) and (time permitting) optical scattering methods (looking at Raman scattering from the junction region, detectable thanks to surface plasmon effects).
Date and Time
Thu, Nov. 19, 2015
3:10 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.
(GMT-0500) US/Central
Location
Space Science Room 106
Space Science and Technology Bldg - Rice University
Houston, Texas 77005
United States