Zettl Research Group

Condensed Matter Physics
Department of Physics
University of California at Berkeley

We are an experimental solid state physics group led by Prof. Alex Zettl in the Department of Physics at U.C. Berkeley and in the Materials Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 

We are currently investigating electronic, magnetic and mechanical properties of nanoscale materials such as fullerenes, carbon and non-carbon nanotubes.  We are also interested in unusual electronic ground state in high temperature superconductors and charge density wave materials.  In our laboratory, we synthesize these materials and investigate their properties using a variety of techniques including transmission and scanning electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, high magnetic field and high pressure transport measurement.

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