Çagliyan Kurdak
Associate Professor of Physics

Address: Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120
Office: 245 West Hall
Laboratory: SB206 Randall Laboratory
Phone: (734) 647-4650 (office) and (734) 615-0195 (lab)
Fax: (734) 763-9694
E-mail: kurdak@umich.edu

Research (Experimental Condensed Matter Physics)

Physics of Low-Dimensional Electron Systems
Transport in Mesoscopic Superconductor-Semicondcutor Hybrid Sytems
Single Electron Transistors
Search for Fractional Charge and Fractional Statistics Using Noise Measurements
Phonon Enhancement of Electronic Device Performance and Development of Thz Phonon Emitters and Detectors
Au Nanopartcile Chemosensors

Courses

Physics 619 (Applied Physics 619) "Physics of Semiconductor Heterostructures" (Winter 2003)
Physics 240

Outreach Program for High School Students

Measurement of the Magnetic North Pole Project

Graduate Students

Kim Michelle Lewis
Lee A. Farina
Xiaogang Bai

Recent Publications

M. P. Rowe, K. E. Plass, K. Kim, Ç. Kurdak. E. T. Zellers, and A. J. Matzger, "Single-Phase Synthesis of Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles", will appear in Chem. Mater. (2004).
L.A. Farina, K.M. Lewis, Ç Kurdak, S. Ghosh, S. Krishna, and P. Bhattacharya, "Anomalous Drag Coupling Between a Thin Superconducting Film and a Two-dimensional Electron Gas Caused by Radio-Frequency Interference", will appear in Physical Review B (2004).
J. Kim, A. Kuo, Ç. Kurdak, M. P. Rowe, A. J. Matzger, W. H. Steinecker, and E. T. Zellers, "Observation of Intrinsic 1/f Noise in Au Nanoparticle Chemosensors", will appear in Microelectronics Journal (2004).
L.A. Farina, K.M. Lewis, Ç Kurdak, S. Ghosh, S. Krishna, and P. Bhattacharya, Drag Coupling Between Al Thin Films and Two-dimensional Electron Gases Near the Superconducting Transition, Physica E (2004).
E. T. Zellers, W. H. Steinecker, G. R. Lambertus, M. Agah, C.-J. Lu, H. K. L. Chan, J. A. Potkay, M. C. Oborny, J. M. Nichols, A. Astle, H. S. Kim, M. P. Rowe, J. Kim, L. W. da Silva, J. Zheng, J. J. Whiting, R. D. Sacks, S. W. Pang, M. Kaviany, P. Bergstrom, A. J. Matzger, Ç. Kurdak, L. P. Bernal, K. Najafi, K. D. Wise, "A MEMS Gas Chromotograph-Sorption Spectrometer (mGC-SS) for Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the Solid State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop, Transducers Research Foundation Inc.; Hilton Head, SC, pp 61-66 (2004).
Ç. Kurdak, J. Kim, L. A. Farina, K. M. Lewis, X. Bai, M. P. Rowe, and A. J. Matzger, "Au Nanoparticle Clusters: A New System to Model Hopping Conduction", Turkish Journal of Physics 27, 419 (2003).
J. Kim, L. A. Farina, K. M. Lewis, X. Bai, Ç. Kurdak, M. Reason, and R. S. Goldman, "Controlled Fabrication of Electrodes with a Few Nanometer Spacing by Selective Etching of GaAs/AlGaAs Heterostructure", Proceedings of 2003 Third IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, Vol 2, 599, (2003).
T. A. Eckhause, Ö. Süzer, Ç. Kurdak, F. Yun and H. Morkoç, "Electric Field Induced Heating and Energy Relaxation in GaN", Applied Physics Letters 82, 3035 (2003).
Ç. Kurdak and K. M. Lewis, "Noise Analysis and Optimization of a Charge Transformer, a Noise-Matching Device for Single Electron Transistors", Journal of Applied Physics 93, 3364 (2003). .
T. A. Eckhause, Ö. Süzer, Ç. Kurdak, F. Yun and H. Morkoç, "Electric Field Induced Heating and Energy Relaxation in GaN". Mat. Res. Soc. Proc. 693, I11.25.1 (2002).
K. M. Lewis, Ç. Kurdak, S. Krishna, and P. Bhattacharya, "Charge Transformer to Enhance Noise Performance of Single Electron Transistor Amplifiers in High Capacitance Applications", Applied Physics Letters 80, 142 (2002).
X. Bai, Ç. Kurdak,, S. Krishna, and P. Bhattacharya, 'Quantum Well Based Phonon Detectors; Performance Analysis", Physica B 316, 362 (2002).
J. B. Kycia, J. Chen, R. Therrien, Ç. Kurdak, J. Clarke, K. L. Campman, and A. C. Gossard, "Effects of Dissipation on a Superconducting Single Electron Transistor", Physical Review Letters 87, 017002 (2001).
F. Yun, H. Morkoç, D. L. Rode, K. T. Tsen, L. Farina, Ç. Kurdak, S. S. Park, and K. Y. Lee, "Analysis of Electron Transport in a High Mobility Free-Standing GaN Substrate Grown by Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy", Materials Research Society Proceedings 680, E2.1 (2001).
D. Huang, F. Yun, M. A. Reshchikov, D. Wang, H. Morkoç, D. L. Rode, L. A. Farina, Ç. Kurdak, K. T. Tsen, S. S. Park, and K. Y. Lee, "Hall Mobility and Carrier Concentration in Free-Standing High Quality GaN Templates Grown by Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy", Solid State Electronics, 45, 711 (2001).
Ç. Kurdak, L. Farina, and K. M. Lewis, "A Quantum Point Contact with High Gain and Charge Sensitivity", Journal of Applied Physics 89, 3453 (2001).
Ç. Kurdak, A. J. Rimberg, T. R. Ho, J. Clarke, and J. D. Walker, "Controlling the Charging Energy of Arrays of Tunnel Junctions, Physica E 5, 274 (2000).
Ç. Kurdak, R. Therrien, J. B. Kycia, J. Clarke, K. L. Campman, and A. C. Gossard, Observation of Large Conductance Oscillations in a Superconducting Single-Electron Transistor Coupled to a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas", Physica E 5, 852 (2000).

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