Daniel E. Prober
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Director of Undergraduate Studies
Graduate Admissions Committee
Energy Studies Program Advisory Committee
Yale-Weizmann Institute Research Collaboration, Yale Director
Experimental solid state physics and superconductivity; coherent quantum transport and noise studies; superconducting quantum detectors: microwave UV and x-ray detectors; nanostructure fabrication techniques.
IBM Faculty Award (2013)
IBM Faculty Award (2010)
IBM Faculty Award (2006)
IBM Faculty Award (2005)
Technical Excellence Award from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1997)
NASA Technical Innovator Award (1996)
Fellow, American Physical Society
THz Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubes, Joel D. Chudow, Daniel F. Santavicca, and Daniel E. Prober, NanoLett (2016). [PDF]
Electron-phonon cooling in large monolayer graphene devices, C.B. McKitterick, M.J. Rooks, and D.E. Prober, Phys. Rev. B93, 075410 (2016). [PDF]
Ultrasensitive graphene far-infrared power detectors, C.B. McKitterick, D.E. Prober, H. Vora, and X. Du, J. Phys. Condens. Matter 27 164203 (2015). [PDF]
Nanobolometers for THz Photon Detection, B.S. Karasik, A.V. Sergeev and D.E. Prober, IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology 1, 97 (2011). [PDF]
Performance of Graphene Thermal Photon Detectors, C.B. McKitterick, D.E. Prober, and B.S. Karasik, Journal of Applied Physics 044512 (2013). [PDF]
Terahertz detection mechanism and contact capacitance of individual metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes, J.D. Chudow, D.F. Santavicca, C.B. McKitterick, D.E. Prober and P. Kim, Appl. Phys. Lett. 100 163503 (2012). [PDF]
Energy loss of the electron system in individual single-walled carbon nanotubes, D.F. Santavicca, J.D. Chudow, D.E. Prober, M.S. Purewal and P. Kim, Nano Lett. 10, 4538 (2010). [PDF]
Tunable superconducting nanoinductors, A.J. Annunziata, D.F. Santavicca, L. Frunzio, G. Catelani, M.J. Rooks, A. Frydman and D.E. Prober, Nanotechnology 21, 445202 (2010). [PDF]
Electron coherence and dephasing in metal films, wires and rings, D.E. Prober, 2010, Invited Chapter in Perspectives on Mesoscopic Physics, eds. A. Aharony and O. Entin-Wohlman, World Scientific Publishing.
Astronomers look to nanotechnology, D.E. Prober, 2008, Nature Nanotech. 3, 459-460. [PDF]
Noise Thermal Impedance of a Diffusive Wire, B. Reulet and D.E. Prober, 2005, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 066602. [PDF]
Quasiparticle number fluctuations in superconductors, C.M. Wilson and D.E. Prober, 2004, Phys. Rev. B 69, 094524. [PDF]
Nb-Au Bilayer Hot-electron Bolometers for Low-noise THz Heterodyne Detection, Irfan Siddiqi, Daniel E Prober, 2004, Appl. Phys. Lett., 84, 1404. [PDF]
Environmental Effects in the Third Moment of Voltage Fluctuations in a Tunnel Junction, B. Reulet, J. Senzier, Daniel E Prober, 2003, Phys. Rev. Lett., 91, 196601. [PDF]
To Catch a Photon, Daniel E Prober, 2003, Nature, 425, 777. [PDF]
Quantum Partition Noise in a Superconducting Tunnel Junction, K. Segall, Daniel E. Prober, 2001, Phys. Rev. B, 64, 180508. [PDF]
- "High Efficiency Near-Field Electromagnetic Probe", 5696372, 1997: With R.D. Grober and R.J. Schoelkopf