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Robert Westervelt
Director, Nanoscale
Science and Engineering Center
Gordon McKay Professor
of Applied Physics & Professor of
Physics
Harvard University
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Robert Westervelt received his Ph.D. from the University
of California, Berkeley in 1977. Following a postdoctoral
appointment at Berkeley, he moved to Harvard University,
where he is currently a Professor jointly in the Division
of Engineering and Applied Sciences and in the Department
of Physics. Westervelt's group investigates the physics
of electrons moving inside nanoscale semiconductor
structures comparable in size to the electron wavelength.
At low temperatures electrons move through these structures
as waves, opening opportunities to discover and study
new quantum phenomena and to develop new types of
electronics and sensors. Experiments conducted in
Westervelt's group include imaging the coherent flow
of electrons inside semiconductors using a scanned
probe microscope, the use of micro-electromagnets
to guide and trap particles, and the formation of
artificial molecules by tunnel-coupled quantum dots.
Westervelt is Director of the Nanoscale Science and
Engineering Center funded by the National Science
Foundation at Harvard University, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, the University of California,
Santa Barbara, and the Museum of Science at Boston.
Previously he was Director of the Materials Research
Science and Engineering Center at Harvard funded by
the National Science Foundation, and Co-Director of
the Joint Services Electronics Program at Harvard
funded by the Office of Naval Research. Harvard University
recently created the Center for Imaging and Mesoscale
Structures. This Center will promote and assist research
in nanoscale science and engineering by providing
shared facilities to fabricate and image nanoscale
structures and to synthesize advanced materials.
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