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(New!) Tunable symmetry breaking and helical edge transport in a graphene quantum spin Hall state 22 Jul 2013 | 08:34 pm
Our new paper on the quantum spin Hall effect in graphene is on the arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5104 Low-dimensional electronic systems have traditionally been obtained by electrostatically con...
Welcome to the Ashoori Group! 22 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
Our mission is to create and exploit specialized methods of sensing electron charges to reveal and demystify the subtle quantum mechanical behavior of correlated electrons in materials. To learn more...
We received a $1.7 Million grant from the Moore Foundation to further our Time Domain Capacitance Spectroscopy work! 13 Mar 2012 | 09:13 am
This MIT News article describes it in detail.
Observations of plasmarons in a two-dimensional system: Tunneling measurements using time-domain capacitance spectroscopy 13 Mar 2012 | 07:23 am
"Observations of plasmarons in a two-dimensional system: Tunneling measurements using time-domain capacitance spectroscopy", Phys. Rev. B 85, 081306(R) (2012) Calculations of the single-particle dens...
We received a $1.7 Million grant from the Moore Foundation to further our Time Domain Capacitance Spectroscopy work! 13 Mar 2012 | 01:13 am
This MIT News article describes it in detail.
(New!) Massive Dirac fermions and Hofstadter butterfly in a van der Waals heterostructure 12 Mar 2012 | 11:23 pm
Published May 16th in Science Express: our new paper on the behavior of Dirac electrons in the presence of a moire superlattice potential http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/05/15/science.12...
Observations of plasmarons in a two-dimensional system: Tunneling measurements using time-domain capacitance spectroscopy 12 Mar 2012 | 11:23 pm
"Observations of plasmarons in a two-dimensional system: Tunneling measurements using time-domain capacitance spectroscopy", Phys. Rev. B 85, 081306(R) (2012) Calculations of the single-particle dens...
Anomalous structure in the single particle spectrum of the fractional quantum Hall effect 14 Apr 2010 | 06:20 am
"Anomalous structure in the single particle spectrum of the fractional quantum Hall effect", Nature 464, 566-570 (25 March 2010). The single particle spectrum of a system reveals the energies of its ...
Very Large Capacitance Enhancement in a Two-Dimensional Electron System 14 Apr 2010 | 06:20 am
"Very Large Capacitance Enhancement in a Two-Dimensional Electron System", Science 323, 825-828 (13 May 2011) Increases in the gate capacitance of field-effect transistor structures allow the product...
Coexistence of magnetic order and two-dimensional superconductivity at LAO/STO interfaces 14 Apr 2010 | 06:20 am
"Coexistence of magnetic order and two-dimensional superconductivity at LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces", Nature Physics 7, 762–766 (04 September 2011). Combining high-resolution magnetic torque magnetometr...
