Benjamin Hunt
Associate Professor, Physics, Mellon College of Science
Benjamin Hunt's research centers on condensed-matter physics, particularly the way electrons behave when subjected to extreme conditions.
Expertise
Topics: Physics, Sustainability, Nanofabrication
Industries: Education/Learning, Nanotechnology
Benjamin Hunt's research centers around condensed-matter physics, particularly in the way electrons behave when subjected to extreme conditions such as ultra-low temperatures and high magnetic fields. He is currently investigating the physics of low-dimensional structures, especially "van der Waals heterostructures" of two-dimensional crystals (the most familiar of which is graphene), which are built in the lab and then fashioned into mesoscopic devices using nanofabrication techniques, as well as a variety of methods for probing these mesoscopic devices, such as electronic transport, capacitance, tunneling spectroscopy and shot noise.
Education
B.S., Physics, McGill University
Physics, M.S., Cornell University
Ph.D., Physics, Cornell University
