We investigate how electronic, magnetic, and optical properties vary from the bulk to the nanoscale. We strive to understand how quantum effects and thermodynamic fluctuations will affect future electronic devices. Using self-assembly to fabricate organic/inorganic nanostructures allows us to fabricate large arrays and gather statistics on how these nanostructures behave at the components level of devices. We primarily focus on understanding this phenomena at atomic and molecular length scales. The primary tool in our lab is an ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling / atomic force microscope which enables us to correlate electronic properties with molecular and atomic arrangement.


More information on our work can be found in the research section.