Alexander J. Rimberg Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth since 2004

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Education

• Ph. D., Harvard University, 1992
• B. A. summa cum laude, Harvard College, 1986

Experience

• 2004-present Associate Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Dartmouth College
• 2000-2004 Assistant Professor (Joint), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
• 1997-2004 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University
• 1992-1996 Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Department of Physics, U. C. Berkeley
• 1986-1992 Research Associate, Harvard University

Honors and Awards

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 1998-2002
• Director-Funded Postdoctoral Fellowship, Lawrence Berkely Laboratory, 1992-1995
• Robbins Prize, Harvard University, 1990
• National Science Foundation Fellowship, 1986-1989
• Phi Beta Kappa, Junior Twelve, Harvard College 1985

Memberships

• American Physical Society

Contact Information

• Email: Alexander.J.Rimberg@Dartmouth.edu

Research Interests

(Ph. D., Harvard, 1992) Electrical transport measurements of nanostructures: quantum information science and quantum measurements; controlled physical realizations of open quantum systems; quantum noise and non-equilibrium effects.

For more information, visit the Rimberg Group's reseach web site.

Selected Recent Publications

"The Quantum Limit for Electrical Amplifiers: Can We Reach It?" A. J. Rimberg, W. W. Xue, Z. Ji, F. Pan, J. Stettenheim, and T. J. Gilheart, to appear in the Proceedings of the SPIE (invited paper).

"Shot-Noise-Limited Operation of a Fast Quantum-Point-Contact Charge Sensor," M. Thalakulam, W. W. Xue, F. Pan, Z. Ji, J. Stettenheim, L. Pfeiffer, K. W. West and A. J. Rimberg, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.; arXiv:0708.0861.

"Spin Blockade and Coherence-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 and M. A. Eriksson , under review at Nature; arXiv:0708.0794.

"On-Chip Matching Networks for Radio-Frequency Single-Electron Transistors," B. Davis, Feng Pan, J. Stettenheim, T. J. Gilheart, A. J. Rimberg and Z. Ji, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 093511 (2007).

"Real-Time Electron Counting in Semiconductor Nanostructures," A. J. Rimberg, M. Thalakulam, W. Lu, Z. Ji, L. N. Pfeiffer and K. W. West, Proceedings of the SPIE 5790, 254 (2005).

"Sensitivity and Linearity of Superconducting Radio-Frequency Single-Electron Transistors: Effects of Quantum Charge Fluctuations," M. Thalakulam, Z. Ji, and A. J. Rimberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 066804 (2004)

"Real-time detection of electron tunneling in a quantum dot,'' W. Lu, Z. Ji, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West and A. J. Rimberg, Nature 423, 422 (2003).

"Soft lithographic directed growth of wire grating arrays with optical resonances," C. E. Moran, J. M. Steele, A. Lee, C. Aguirre, C. Radloff, A. Rimberg, and N. J. Halas, Proceedings of the SPIE, in press.

"Superconducting single-electron transistor coupled to a locally tunable electromagnetic environment," W. Lu, K. D. Maranowski and A. J. Rimberg, Appl. Phys. Lett. 81, 4976 (2002).

"Charge transport processes in a superconducting single-electron transistor coupled to a microstrip transmission line," W. Lu, K. D. Maranowski and A. J. Rimberg, Phys. Rev. B 65, 0606501 (Rapid Commmunications) (2002).

"A single-electron transistor strongly coupled to an electrostatically defined quantum dot," W. Lu, A. J. Rimberg, K. D. Maranowski and A. C. Gossard, Appl. Phys. Lett. 77, 2746 (2000).

"Controlling the charging energy of arrays of tunnel junctions," C. Kurdak, A. J. Rimberg, T. R. Ho and J. Clarke and J. D. Walker, Physica E 5, 274 (2000).

"Controlled deposition of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes on chemically functionalized templates," J. Liu, M. J. Casavant, M. Cox, D. A. Walters, P. Boul, W. Lu, A. J. Rimberg, K. A. Smith, D. T. Colbert and R. E. Smalley, Chem. Phys. Lett. 303, 125 (1999).

"Activated transport and scaling behavior in the current-voltage characteristic and Coulomb blockade oscillations of two-dimensional arrays of metallic islands," C. Kurdak, A. J. Rimberg, T. R. Ho, and J. Clarke, Phys. Rev. B 57, R6842 (1998).

"Dissipation-driven superconductor-insulator transition in a two-dimensional array of Josephson junctions," A. J. Rimberg, T. R. Ho, C. Kurdak, J. Clarke, K. L. Campman and A. C. Gossard, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2632 (1997).

"Scaling behavior in the current-voltage characteristics of one- and two-dimensional arrays of metallic islands," A. J. Rimberg, T. R. Ho and J. Clarke, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 4714 (1995).

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