Nikolai Zhitenev

Nikolai Zhitenev is the Group Leader of the CNST Energy Research Group. He received a M.S. degree in Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia, and a Ph.D. degree in Condensed Matter Physics from the Institute of Solid State Physics, Russia. After receiving his Ph.D., he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Physics, Stuttgart, Germany, and then a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then became a staff member at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, where his research focused on electronic transport in different physical systems, ranging from two-dimensional electron gas in Si, Ge and GaAs, to semiconductor and metal quantum dots, to nanoscale molecular and polymer devices. Nikolai has over 50 publications in high-profile journals including Science, Nature and Physical Review Letters. As a staff member in the CNST, Nikolai leads multiple projects related to the measurement of electronic properties of novel materials patterned into nanoscale devices, and to the development of local electrical measurements using quantum and classical on-probe circuitry.

Selected Programs/Projects

• Electron Transport in Graphene
• Electronic Transport in Nanoscale Organic/Inorganic Devices
• Nanoscale Optoelectrical Characterization of Photovoltaic Materials and Devices

Selected Publications

• Chemical modifications of the electronic conducting states in polymer nanodevices, N. B. Zhitenev, A.Sidorenko, D. M Tennant. and R. A Cirelli, Nature Nanotechnology 2, 237-242 (2007).
• Control of topography, stress and diffusion at molecule-metal interface N. B. Zhitenev, W. Jiang, A. Erbe, Z. Bao, E. Garfunkel, D. M. Tennant and R. A. Cirelli, Nanotechnology 17, 1272-1277 (2006).
• Conductance of Small Molecular Junctions N.B. Zhitenev, H. Meng and Z. Bao, Physical Review Letters 88, 226801 (2002).
• Imaging Of Localized Electronic States In The Quantum Hall Regime N.B. Zhitenev, T.A. Fulton, A. Yacoby, H. Hess, L.N. Pfeiffer and K.W. West, Nature 404, 473 (2000).
• Localization-delocalization transition in quantum dots N.B. Zhitenev, M. Brodsky, R.C. Ashoori, L.N. Pfeiffer and K.W. West, Science 285, 715-718 (1999).
• Dynamic Excitations of Fractional Edge Channels G. Ernst, N.B. Zhitenev, R.G. Haug and K. von Klitzing, Physical Review Letters 79, 3748-3751 (1997).