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Alexandre Champagne
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Assistant Professor
Co-op Director
Concordia University Research Chair (Tier II) in
Nanoelectronics and Quantum Materials
Education:
Post-doctoral Scholar,California Institute of Technology (2005-08)
Ph.D. Physics,Cornell University (2005)
B.Sc. Physics,McGill University (1999)
Office:
SP 367.05, tel.(514)848-2424 ext.3264
Laboratory:
SP S185.08, tel.(514)848-2424 ext.4102
Email: A.Champagne@concordia.ca
Research
- Experimental nano-scale and mesoscopic physics
- Electron transport, heat transport and mechanics in graphene, carbon nanotubes and topological insulators
- Quantum mechanics of strongly correlated electron systems
Research Group website
Selected Publications
- S. Yigen, V. Tayari, J. O. Island, J. M. Porter, and A. R. Champagne, Electronic Thermal Conductivity Measurements in Intrinsic Graphene , pre-print (2013)
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Supplemental Online Material
- J. O. Island, V. Tayari, A. C. McRae, and A. R. Champagne, Few-hundred GHz Carbon Nanotube NEMS, Nano Letters, 12; 4564 (2012)
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Supporting Online Material
- J. O. Island, V. Tayari, S. Yigen, A. C. McRae, and A. R. Champagne, Ultra-short suspended single-wall carbon nanotube transistors, , Applied Physics Letters, 99; 243106 (2011)
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Press coverage: featured in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscience and Technology
- J. J. Parks, A. R. Champagne, T. A. Costi, W. W. Shum, A. N. Pasupathy, E. Neuscamman, S. Flores-Torres, P. S. Cornaglia, A. A. Aligia, C. A. Balseiro, G. K.-L. Chan, H. D. Abru?a, and D. C. Ralph, "Mechanical control of spin states in spin-1 molecules and the underscreened Kondo effect", Science, 328; 1370 (2010).
Supporting Online Material
Press coverage: featured in Science and Nature Nanotechnology and many other press releases.
- A.R. Champagne, A.D.K. Finck, J.P. Eisenstein, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West, "Charge imbalance and bilayer
2D electron systems at &nuT=1" , Phys. Rev. B 78, 205310 (2008).
Press coverage: Featured in Physics
- A.D.K. Finck, A.R. Champagne, J.P. Eisenstein, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West, "Area
dependence of interlayer tunneling in strongly correlated bilayer 2D electron"
systems at &nuT=1, Phys. Rev. B 78, 075302 (2008).
Press coverage: Featured in Physics
- A.R. Champagne, J.P. Eisenstein, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West, "Evidence for a
finite-temperature phase transition in a bilayer quantum Hall system", Phys. Rev.
Lett. 100, 096801 (2008).
- J.J Parks, A.R. Champagne, G.R. Hutchison, S. Flores-Torres, H.D. Abrua, and D.C. Ralph, "Tuning the Kondo effect with
a mechanically controllable break
junction",Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 026601 (2007).
Press coverage: featured in Nature Nanotechnology
- A.R. Champagne, A.N. Pasupathy, and D.C. Ralph, "Mechanically adjustable and electrically
gated single-molecule transistors", Nano Lett. 5, 305 (2005).
- A.R. Champagne, A.J. Couture, F. Kuemmeth, and D.C. Ralph, "Nanometer-scale scanning sensors
fabricated using stencil lithography",Appl. Phys. Lett. 82, 1111
(2003).