Faculty/Researcher List

Michael Fuhrer

Professor, NanoCenter Associate Director
UMD - Faculty

Research

Processing, Materials, Devices

Carbon nanotube electronics; field effect transistors and memory; spintronics; junction devices; single electron transistors; nanopatches

Dr. Fuhrer earned his BS in physics from the University of Texas at Autstin, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He held a postdoctoral research position at Berkeley for two years before crossing the country to become an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland. Fuhrer's research focuses on several aspects of nanoscale electronics. With the use of "pre-assembled" nanoscale components, structures are built which are useful for studying the fundamental physics of electrons or phonons in small structures. "Pre-assembled" refers to materials that are made using macroscopic techniques but are naturally structured at the nanoscale in one or more dimensions. These "pre-assembled" components are likely to lead the way to new technological devices. Research within Fuhrer's group combines these pre-assembled nanoscale materials with lithography and ananlysis tools to build and study new nanoscale electronic and electromechanical devices. Current research includes carbon nanotube and single-molecule electronics, as well as single layer nanopatches.