Department of Physics and Astronomy

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

Office: 101 Wilder
Telephone: (603) 646-6569
Email: Alexander.J.Rimberg@Dartmouth.edu

Research Interests

Electrical transport measurements of nanostructures: quantum information science and quantum measurements; controlled physical realizations of open quantum systems; quantum noise and non-equilibrium effects. (See research group web page.)

Selected Recent Publications

"Analogue Hawking Radiation in a dc-SQUID Array Transmission Line," P. D. Nation, M. P. Blencowe, A. J. Rimberg and E. Buks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087004 (2009).

"Measurement of Quantum Noise in a Single Electron Transistor Near the Quantum Limit," W. W. Xue, Z. Ji, F. Pan, J. Stettenheim, M. P. Blencowe and A. J. Rimberg, Nature Phys. 5, 660 (2009).

"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 and M. A. Eriksson , Nature Phys. 4, 540 (2008).

"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, Proceedings of the SPIE, 6885, 688505 (2008).

"On-Chip Matching Networks for Radio-Frequency Single-Electron Transistors," Wei Wei Xue, 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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