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Kim M. Lewis
Assistant Professor of Physics
Education:
University of Michigan, Ph.D. (Applied Physics).
University of Michigan, M.S. (Electrical Engineering).
Dillard University, B.S. (Physics)
Career Highlights:
UNCF/Mellon Scholar, 1996-1998
David and Lucile Packard Scholar, 1998-2004
University of Michigan Rackham Merit Fellowship, 1998-2000
Social Science Research Council Predoctoral Research Grants, 2000-2004
University of Michigan Rackham Travel Grants, 2001- 2002
Georgia Institute of Technology Focus Fellow, 2003
Patent : K. M. Lewis, and Ç. Kurdak, Charge Transformer and Method of Implementation, U.S. Patent No. 6,777,911 (August 17, 2004).
Research Interests:
Characterization and fabrication of hybrid nanostructures and single electron devices for high performance imaging and chemical sensor applications. Techniques include conductive atomic force microscopy, electron beam and scanning probe lithography, and spectroscopy. Materials systems of interests are GaAs, Si, SiO2, GaN, self-assembled nanostructures and quantum dots.
Selected Publications:
L. A. Farina, K. M. Lewis, Ç. Kurdak, S. Ghosh, S. Krishna, and P. Bhattacharya, Anomalous Drag Coupling between a Thin Superconducting Film and a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Caused by Radio Frequency Interference, Physical Review B, Vol. 70, 153302 (2004).
L. A. Farina, K. M. Lewis, Ç. Kurdak, S. Ghosh, S. Krishna, and P. Bhattacharya, Drag Coupling Between Al Thin Films and Two-dimensional Electron Gases Near the Superconducting Transition, Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 22, 341 (2004).
Ç. Kurdak, J. Kim, L. A. Farina, K. M. Lewis, X. Bai, M. P. Rowe, and A. J. Matzger, Au Nanoparticle Clusters: A New System to Model Hopping Conduction, Turkish Journal of Physics 27, 419 (2003).
J. Kim, L. A. Farina, K. M. Lewis, X. Bai, Ç. Kurdak, M. Reason, and R. S. Goldman, Controlled Fabrication of Electrodes with a Few Nanometer Spacing by Selective Etching of GaAs/AlGaAs Heterostructure, Proceedings of 2003 Third IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, Vol 2, 599, (2003).
Ç. Kurdak, K. M. Lewis, Noise Analysis and Optimization of a Charge Transformer, a Noise-Matching Device for Single Electron Transistors, Journal of Applied Physics 93, 3364 (2003).
K. M. Lewis, Ç. Kurdak, S. Krishna, and P. Bhattacharya, Charge Transformer to Enhance Noise Performance of Single Electron Transistor Amplifiers in High Capacitance Applications, Applied Physics Letters 80, 142 (2002).
Ç. Kurdak, L. Farina, and K. M. Lewis, A Quantum Point Contact with High Gain and Charge Sensitivity, Journal of Applied Physics 89, 3453 (2001).
Contact:
(518) 276-3978
lewisk2@rpi.edu
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