Welcome to Advanced Nanoelectronics & Nanostructures Group Website!

We are a research group led by Prof. Zafer Mutlu in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at the University of Arizona. Located in the Mines and Metallurgy Building, our two labs are equipped with cutting-edge electrical probe station measurements for assessing electrical quantum transport properties and classical semiconductor measurements, as well as UHV-MBE material synthesis tools for creating low-dimensional materials with atomic precision. We also work at the Arizona Nano Fabrication Center (NPC) and Optical Sciences (OSC) Micro/Nano Fabrication Cleanroom for nanodevice production and chip integration, and the W.M. Keck Center for Nano-Scale Imaging and Kuiper Materials Imaging Facility (KMICF) for material and device imaging purposes.

Our research group mainly focuses on exploring the potential of emerging low-dimensional electronic and quantum materials, particularly 1D graphene nanoribbons, for nanoelectronics, as well as other emerging technologies, such as quantum information processing. By using our deep knowledge and skills in semiconductors and microelectronics, specifically in nano- and micro-scale device fabrication and characterization, our team is also involved in other existing projects in different research areas. For more details, see the Research section of our website.

We collaborate with several research groups in Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Space Science, and Mining and Geological Engineering at the University of Arizona. Furthermore, we collaborate with off-campus entities, including universities, government labs, and industries including UC Berkeley, Stanford, UC San Diego, Colorado School of Mines, University of Rochester, University of Minnesota, Texas A&M, UT Dallas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Berkeley Lab (LBNL), EMPA in Switzerland, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, TSMC, Intel, and Freeport-McMoRan.