Professor Chris Ford
- Professor of Quantum Electronics
- Professorial Fellow of Girton College
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About
I completed my MA and PhD at the University of Cambridge, before working for a year at the IBM T J Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, USA, with Alan Fowler. I returned to Cambridge to a Research Fellowship at Girton College, and then became a lecturer at the Cavendish Laboratory. I am currently Professor of Quantum Electronics in the Semiconductor Physics Group. My expertise includes device fabrication, electron-beam lithography, low-temperature measurement, surface acoustic waves, and the physics of electron transport in low-dimensional systems, particularly related to electron-electron interactions.
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Research
I am an experimentalist, working on the following topics, among others:
- generating and detecting single photons with Surface Acoustic Waves (SAWs)
- moving single-electron quantum dots carried by Surface Acoustic Waves (SAWs)
- the non-linear Luttinger liquid and other interaction effects in 1D wires
- thermoelectric transport through self-assembled monolayers of nanocrystals and molecules
In the past, I have also worked on, for example,
- spin-related interactions in single quantum antidots
- mesoscopic effects in hole gases
- fractional quantum Hall effect, particularly edge states in the fractional quantum Hall regime
- 1D wires in undoped electron and hole gases
- the Aharonov-Bohm effect
- Coulomb Blockade
- the quenching of the Hall effect
Current PhD students:
- Yiqing Jin
- Wooi Kiat Tan
- Joel Fruhman
- Pedro Vianez
- Shak Fernandez
- Shanglong Ning
Teaching and supervision
I currently lecture the Part II Quantum Condensed Matter course.