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About the Lab

Please see our scientific interests and manuscripts pages to learn more about the science we do.

Contents

  • 1 Lab culture
  • 2 Skills and commonly used tools
  • 3 Friends and current & former collaborators
  • 4 Internal links

Lab culture

Mentorship and training are top priorities in the Fatemi Lab. Students undergoing a Ph.D. should expect to graduate as world experts in their research area with scientific research skills that are transferable to a broad range of future careers. I emphasize creativity and prioritize discussion of ideas generated by members of the team.

We are committed to fostering an environment of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as we strive for excellence in research, teaching, and mentoring. We want people from all backgrounds to make physics (applied or not) a satisfying career. Resources at Cornell that we draw upon are compiled here.

Skills and commonly used tools

Our experimental skillsets and tools include those in the list below. Although helpful, prior experience in these is not required.
* Indicates open-source or free, where relevant

  • Quantum coherent measurement and control – couple useful papers: one and two
  • Microwave circuit design, fabrication, and packaging – a couple useful papers: one and two
  • Low-frequency quantum electronic transport measurements
  • Cryogenics, including operation of dilution refrigerators
    • This document (pdf warning) is a guide to the basic principles of dilution refrigerators.
    • This visualization is also helpful, albeit specific to ‘wet’ dilution refrigerators.
    • This paper discusses aspects specific to microwave quantum devices.
  • Nanofabrication and metrology: lithography, thin film deposition, reactive ion etching, SEM, AFM, etc.
  • van der Waals materials-specific fabrication: exfoliation, optical microscopy identification, heterostructuring, handling of air-sensitive materials. This review article gives an overview.
  • * Python-based experimental control and data analysis

Other lab utilities that we use for communication, writing, and measurements include:

  • * Color Oracle || Tool to make sure our usage of colors in representing data is accessible
  • * Inkscape || Vector graphics editor
  • * LyX || WYSIWYM-based LaTeX document writing
  • * OpenDACs || Open-hardware platform for digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital conversion at low frequencies
  • Overleaf || Collaborative cloud-based LaTeX document writing
  • * Zotero || Tool to collect, organize, cite, and share references

Friends and current & former collaborators

Anton AkhmerovDelft University of Technology
Landry BretheauÉcole Polytechnique
Michel DevoretYale University
Attila GeresdiChalmers University of Technology
Ben HuntCarnegie Mellon University
Pablo Jarillo-HerreroMIT
Morten KjaergaardUniversity of Copenhagen
Qiong MaBoston College
Charles MarcusUniversity of Copenhagen
Britton PlourdeSyracuse University
Baptiste RoyerUniversité de Sherbrooke
Jonathan RuhmanBar-Ilan University
Javier Sanchez-YamagishiUC Irvine
Justin SongNanyang Technological University
Hadar SteinbergHebrew University of Jerusalem
Steven TouzardNational University of Singapore
Latha VenkataramanColumbia University
Sanfeng WuPrinceton University

Internal links

Fatemi Lab Wiki



Fatemi Lab
Quantum Circuits and Materials

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