Our scientific research involves two main activities. The first is
transport in one dimensional electron systems created by the cleaved
edge overgrowth method. We study the special nature of electron-electron
interactions that give rise to a variety of exciting phenomena described
by the Luttinger liquid model. The second activity is local
thermodynamic probing of two dimensional electron and hole gases. A
single electron transistor embedded on the tip of a scan probe
microscope is being used to study the local chemical potential of the 2D
gas with sub-micron resolution.
