NOTE: last updated March 2008, up-to-date CV and references available upon request.

Charis QUAY Huei Li

SPEC bâtiment 772, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

charis[dot]quay[at]cea[dot]fr ++ 33(0)1-69-08-55-29 (tel) ++ 33(0)1-69-08-74-42 (fax)

EDUCATION

Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude, May 2001.
Major: Physics, Minor: Mathematics

Stanford University, Stanford, California
Masters of Science in Physics, January 2004.
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, January 2008.

HONOURS AND AWARDS

Harvey Fellow, Mustard Seed Foundation, 2004-2007
Gabilan Stanford Graduate Fellow, 2001-2004
Apker Award Finalist American Physical Society, 2001
Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Sigma Pi Sigma, 2000-2001
Society of Physics Students Leadership Scholarship, academics and SPS activity, 2001
Rusk Prize Mt. Holyoke College, for outstanding junior or senior physics majors, 2001
Bennett Prize Mt. Holyoke College, for excellence in undergraduate physics, 1999.
Joanne V. Creighton Summer Research Fellowship, Mt. Holyoke College, 2000
Sarah Williston Scholar Mt. Holyoke College, top 15% of junior class, 2000

RESEARCH AND TEACHING

Post-doctoral Researcher, Quantronics Group, CEA Saclay, February 2008 - Present

Performing atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopy on mesoscopic systems with Philippe Joyez.

Research Assistant, Goldhaber-Gordon Group, Stanford Physics Department, Fall 2001 - Fall 2007

Studied electron transport through one-dimensional mesoscopic systems: carbon nanotubes, carbon nanotube peapods and AlGaAs/GaAs hole wires.

Visiting Researcher, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, January-September 2005

Collaborated with Rafael de Picciotto et al. on cleaved edge overgrowth AlGaAs/GaAs hole wires.

Teaching Assistant, Stanford Physics Department, Winter 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2006

Physics for Engineers - Mechanics

Low Temperature Lab (twice)

Research Assistant, Hudgings Lab, MHC Physics Department, Fall 1999 - Spring 2001

Investigated the behaviour of VCSELs under optical feedback.

Intern, National High Magnetic Field Lab, Summer 2000

Studied the de Haas - van Alphen Effect in 115s.

Intern, SVX, CDF, Fermilab, Summer 1999

Debugged DAQ, played with hardware, wrote perl scripts and documentation.

Tutor and Grader, Mount Holyoke Physics Department, AY 1999-2001

Graded homework for introductory classes and quantum mechanics, and staffed physics clinic.

LANGUAGES

English – mother tongue
Malay – medium of instruction in school
Kutien/Gutian – moderately fluent, lingua franca of hometown
Mandarin – moderately fluent, nine years of instruction
French – fluent, living and working in France.

PUBLICATIONS

Charis Quay Huei Li, "Electronic Transport in One-Dimensional Mesoscopic Systems", PhD Dissertation, Physics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2007.

C.H.L. Quay, John Cumings, S. J. Gamble, R. de Picciotto, H. Kataura, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon, "Magnetic Field Dependence of the Spin-1/2 and Spin-1 Kondo Effects in a Quantum Dot," Physical Review B, 76, 245311 (2007).

C.H.L. Quay, John Cumings, S. J. Gamble, A. Yazdani, H. Kataura, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon, "Transport Properties of Carbon Nanotube C60 Peapods," Physical Review B, 76, 073404 (2007).

L.N. Pfeiffer, R. de Picciotto, C.H.L. Quay, K.W. West, and K.W. Baldwin, "Ballistic Hole Transport in a Quantum Wire," Applied Physics Letters, 87, 073111 (2005).

P.A. Judge, C.H.L. Quay and J. A. Hudgings, "Stability of Single-Mode Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers Exposed to Optical Feedback," Applied Physics Letters, 81 (21), (2002), pp. 3933-3935.

C.H.L. Quay, I.P. Zaharieva and J.A. Hudgings, "Coherence Collapse and Redshifting in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers Exposed to Strong Optical Feedback," Journal of Applied Physics, 90 (12), (2001), pp. 5856-5858.

Charis Quay Huei Li, "The Effect of Optical Feedback on Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers", BA Thesis, Physics Department, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, 2001.

Donavan Hall et.al., "Electronic structure of CeRhIn5: de Haas-van Alphen and energy band calculations," Physical Review B 64, 064506 (2001).

INVITED TALKS

'Electronic Transport in One-Dimensional Mesoscopic Systems'
Kastner Group seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
Physics Department seminar, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2007
Ensslin Group seminar, ETH Zurich, 2007
Quantronics Group seminar, CEA Saclay, 2007
Semiconductor Physics Group seminar, Cambridge University, 2007
Electrical Engineering Department seminar, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, 2008
Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé (SPEC) seminar, CEA Saclay, 2008

'Carbon Nanotube Peapods: Observations of Kondo Physics'
International Workshop on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Shah Alam, 2006

'Mesoscopic Transport or Electrons in Small Structures'
Advanced Technology Colloquium, Lockheed Martin, 2005

NOTE: last updated March 2008, up-to-date CV and references available upon request.