Probing Electrons in Solids with Transport Measurements

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Abstract

Nanoelectronic devices enabling resistance measurements under very controlled conditions provide a unique –and extremely versatile– experimental tool to probe fundamental aspects of electronic processes in all types of electronic materials. The reason is that nanoelectronic devices can be engineered to be particularly sensitive to the specific electronic process of interest. In my talk, I will illustrate this concept with examples taken from very different types of materials systems –including superconductors, semiconductors, and metals– and of electronic processes –such as normal electron to Cooper pair conversion, phase coherent electron propagation, and magnetic state dependent electron tunneling.