Gregory Rutter, Graduate Student

Gregory Rutter is a guest researcher in the Electron Physics Group in the CNST. He received a B.S. in Physics from Bradley University, and is currently working towards his Ph.D. in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. For the past two years, Gregory has been performing his thesis research under the guidance of Joseph Stroscio using a custom built low temperature scanning tunneling microscope. As part of his thesis research Gregory has studied electronic characteristics of epitaxial graphene, an interesting material for potential applications in Post-CMOS electronics, the dynamics of atom manipulation and properties of dilute magnetic semiconductors. Gregory is planning on graduating this fall and continuing his research at CNST with a newly awarded NRC postdoctoral fellowship. In his postdoctoral work, Gregory plans on using low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy measurements to bridge the gap in understanding between macroscopic electronic transport of graphene and its properties on the nanoscale.