"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. Pfeier, 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. Radlo, 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). (Selected for the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology, www.vjnano.org, Jan. 6 2003, and for the Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity, www.vjsuper.org, Jan. 1 2003.)

"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). (Selected for the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology, www.vjnano.org, Feb. 4 2002, and for the Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity, www.vjsuper.org, Feb. 1 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).

"Capacitive detection of subband structure in the electron gas in a wide parabolic quantum well," A. J. Rimberg, Scott Yang, Jed Dempsey, J. H. Baskey, R. M. Westervelt, P. F. Hopkins and A. C. Gossard, Appl. Phys. Lett. 62, 390 (1993).

"Remotely-doped superlattices in wide parabolic GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs quantum wells," J. H. Baskey, A. J. Rimberg, Scott Yang, R. M. Westervelt, P. F. Hopkins and A. C. Gossard, Appl. Phys. Lett. 61, 1573 (1992).

"Conductance fluctuations and chaotic scattering in ballistic microstructures," C. M. Marcus, A. J. Rimberg, R. M . Westervelt, P. F. Hopkins and A. C. Gossard, Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 506 (1992).

"Magnetotransport characterization of remotely-doped superlattices in wide parabolic GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs quantum wells," A. J. Rimberg, J. H. Baskey, R. M. Westervelt, P. F. Hopkins, M. Sundaram and A. C. Gossard, Proc. Conf. on Nanostructures and Mesoscopic Systems, Santa Fe, 1991, Superlatt. and Microstruct. 11, 317 (1992).

"Photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy of remotely doped wide parabolic GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs quantum wells," J. H. Burnett, H. M. Cheong, W. Paul, P. F. Hopkins, A. J. Rimberg, R. M. Westervelt, M. Sundaram and A. C. Gossard, Phys. Rev. B 43, 12 033 (1991).

"Quantum Hall e ect in InAs/AlSb quantum wells," P. F. Hopkins, A. J. Rimberg, G. Tuttle and H. Kroemer, Appl. Phys. Lett. 58 1428 (1991).

"Photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy of wide parabolic GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs quantum wells," J. H. Burnett, H. M. Cheong, W. Paul, P. F. Hopkins, A. J. Rimberg, R. M. Westervelt, M. Sundaram and A. C. Gossard, Proc. Fifth Int. Conf. on Superlattices and Microstructures, Berlin, 1990, Superlatt. and Microstruct. 10, 167 (1991).

"Optical study of wide parabolic GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs quantum wells", J. H. Burnett, H. M. Cheong, W. Paul, P. F. Hopkins, A. J. Rimberg, R. M. Westervelt, M. Sundaram and A. C. Gossard, in Proc. 20th Int. Conf. on the Physics of Semiconductors, Thessaloniki, 1990, vol. 2, E. Anastassakis and J. D. Joannopoulos, eds., (World Scientific Press, Singapore, 1990) p. 1085.

"Electron transport in wide parabolic GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs quantum wells," R. M. Westervelt, A. J. Rimberg, P. F. Hopkins, E. G. Gwinn, M. Sundaram and A. C. Gossard, in Proc. 20th Int. Conf. on the Physics of Semiconductors, Thessaloniki, 1990, vol. 2, E. Anastassakis and J. D. Joannopoulos, eds., (World Scientific Press, Singapore, 1990) p. 1669.

"Mobility and uniformity of the electron gas in wide parabolic GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs wells" P. F. Hopkins, A. J. Rimberg, E. G. Gwinn, R. M. Westervelt, M. Sundaram and A. C. Gossard, ", in Proc. 5th Int. Conf. on Superlattices and Microstructures, Berlin , 1990, Superlatt. and Microstruct. 9, 127 (1991).

"Low-density high-mobility electron gas in wide parabolic GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs wells," P. F. Hopkins, A. J. Rimberg, E. G. Gwinn, R. M. Westervelt, M. Sundaram and A. C. Gossard, Appl. Phys. Lett. 57, 2823 (1990).

"Characterization of the electron gas in wide parabolic GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs quantum wells," E. G. Gwinn, P. F. Hopkins, A. J. Rimberg, R. M. Westervelt, M. Sundaram and A. C. Gossard, Phys. Rev. B 41, 10 700 (1990).

"Electron energy levels for a dense electron gas in parabolic GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs wells," A. J. Rimberg and R. M. Westervelt, Phys. Rev. B 40, 3970 (1989).

"Quantum Hall e ect in wide parabolic GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs wells," E. G. Gwinn, R. M. Westervelt, P. F. Hopkins, A. J. Rimberg, M. Sundaram and A. C. Gossard, Phys. Rev. B 39, 6260 (1989). (Rapid Communication)

"Quantum Hall e ect in wide parabolic GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs wells," E. G. Gwinn, R. M. Westervelt, P. F. Hopkins, A. J. Rimberg, M. Sundaram and A. C. Gossard, Superlatt. and Microstruct. 6, 95 (1989).

"Quantum Hall e ect in wide parabolic GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs wells," E. G. Gwinn, P. F. Hopkins, A. J. Rimberg, R. M. Westervelt, M. Sundaram and A. C. Gossard, in High Magnetic Fields in Semiconductor Physics II, G. Landwehr, ed., Springer Series in Solid State Physics (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989), p. 58.

"Magnetic-field-induced localization in degenerately doped n-type Ge," P. F. Hopkins, M. J. Burns, A. J. Rimberg and R. M. Westervelt, Phys. Rev. B 39, 12 708, (1989).

"Temporal fluctuations of multiply scattered light in a random medium," A. J. Rimberg and R. M. Westervelt, Phys. Rev. B 38, 5073 (1988). (Rapid Communication)

"Magnetic-field-induced metal-insulator transition in degenerately doped n-type Ge," R. M. Westervelt, M. J. Burns, P. F. Hopkins, A. J. Rimberg and G. A. Thomas, in Proceedings of the University of Tokyo International Symposium on Anderson Localization, 1987, (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1988) p.33.

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