‘Laser drilling of nano-pores in sandwiched thin glass membranes’, M. Yu, H.-S. Kim, and R.H. Blick, Optics Express 17, 10044 (2009).

‘Top-gated few-electron double quantum dot in Si/SiGe,” N. Shaji, C.B. Simmons, L.J. Klein, H. Qin, D.E. Savage, M.G. Lagally, S.N. Coppersmith, R. Joynt, M. Friesen, R.H. Blick, M.A. Eriksson, Physica E 40, 520 (2008).

‘An Ultra-Wideband Cross-Correlation Radiometer for Mesoscopic Experiments’, R.C. Toonen, C.C. Haselby, and R.H. Blick, IEEE Trans. Inst. Meas. 57, 2874 (2008).

‘Spin Blockade and lifetime-enhanced transport in a Few Electron Si/SiGe Double Quantum Dot’, Nakul Shaji, C. B. Simmons, Madhu Thalakulam, Levente J. Klein, Hua Qin, H. Luo, D. E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, A. J. Rimberg, R. Joynt, M. Friesen, R. H. Blick, S. N. Coppersmith, M. A. Eriksson, Nature Physics 4, 540 (2008).

‘Nanopillar arrays on semiconductor membranes as electron amplifiers’, H. Qin, H.-S. Kim, and R.H. Blick,  Nanotechnology 19, 095504 (2008).

‘Singlet-Triplet Relaxation in Two-Electron Silicon Quantum Dots’, M. Prada, R.H. Blick, and R.J. Joynt, Physical Review B 77, 115438 (2008).

‘Shock Waves in Nanomechanical Resonators’, F.W. Beil, A. Wixforth, M. Bichler, W. Wegscheider, D. Schuh, R.H. Blick, Physical Review Letters 100, 026801 (2008); this article has been selected by the Editors of Physical Review Letters as a Suggested Article and by the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology for the January 28, 2008 issue; also see: News & Views article on this work by C.H. Mielke and A.V. Balatsky, ‘Nanomechanics:  Crossing a bridge into the unknown’, Nature Nanotechnology 3, 129 (2008); J. Thomas, ‘Nanoresonators: Shock Value’, Nature Nanotechnology, published online (2008) – doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.33.

‘Single Electron Quantum Dot in Si/SiGe with integrated charge sensing’, C. B. Simmons, Madhu Thalakulam, Nakul Shaji, Levente J. Klein, Hua Qin, R. H. Blick, D. E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, S. N. Coppersmith, M. A. Eriksson, Applied Physics Letters 91, 213103 (2007).

‘Subthreshold Field Emission from Thin Silicon Membranes’, H. Qin, H.S. Kim, L.M. Smith, M.S. Westphall, and R.H. Blick, Applied Physics Letters 91, 183506 October (2007).

‘Fabrication of Doped Nano-Electromechanical Systems’, D.V. Scheible, H. Qin, H.S. Kim, and R.H. Blick, Phys. Stat. Sol. (Rapid Research Letters) 5, 205 (2007); cover article.

‘Direct Mechanical Mixing in a Nanoelectromechanical Diode’, H.-S. Kim, H. Qin, R.H. Blick, Applied Physics Letters 91, 143101 (2007); cover article; has been selected for the October 15, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology;  also see Research Highlights of Nature Nanotechnology by Adarsh Sandhu, published online October-12 (2007).

‘A Nano-Mechanical Computer – Exploring New Avenues of Computing’, Robert H. Blick, Hua Qin, Hyun-Seok Kim, and Robert Marsland, New Journal of Physics 9, 241 (2007); also see BBC-press release: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6912023.stm.

‘High-field Magneto-transport in non-planar Si/SiGe-nanomembranes’, G.J. Meyer, N.L. Dias, R.H. Blick, and I. Knezevic, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 6, 446 (2007).

‘Field Emission from a Single Nanomechanical Pillar’, Hyun-Seok Kim, Hua Qin, Lloyd M. Smith, Michael Westphall, and Robert H. Blick, Nanotechnology 18, 065201 (2007).

‘Detection of Coherent Acoustical Oscillations in a Quantum Electromechanical Resonator’, F.W. Beil, R.H. Blick, A. Wixforth, W. Wegscheider, M. Bichler, Applied Physics Letters 90, 043101 (2007); has been selected for the February 5, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, for the February 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Quantum Information, and for the February 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science.

‘Magnetotransport through a two dimensional electron gas in a tubular geometry’, N. Shaji, H.Qin, L.J. Klein, C. Deneke, O.G. Schmidt, and R.H. Blick, Applied Physics Letters 90, 042101 (2007); has been selected for the February 5, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

‘Observation of single defect relaxation in a freely suspended nano-resonator’, F.W. Beil, R.H. Blick, A. Wixforth, W. Wegscheider, D. Schuh, M. Bichler, Europhysics Letters 76, 1207 (2006).

‘Quantum Dots and Etch-Induced Depletion of a Silicon Two-Dimensional Electron Gas’, L. J. Klein, K. L. M. Lewis, K. A. Slinker, Srijit Goswami, D. W. van der Weide, R. H. Blick, P. M. Mooney, J. O. Chu, S. N. Coppersmith, Mark Friesen, and Mark A. Eriksson, Journal of Applied Physics 99, 023509 (2006); has been selected for the January 30, 2006 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale, Science & Technology.

‘Focus on Nano-Electromechanical Systems’ – Editorial, Robert H. Blick and Milena Grifoni, New Journal of Physics 7, (2005).

‘Formation of Micro-Tubes from strained SiGe-heterostructures’, H. Qin, N.Shaji, N.E. Merrill, H.S. Kim, R.C. Toonen, R.H. Blick, D. Savage, M.G. Lagally, and G. Celler, New Journal of Physics 7, 241 (2005).

‘Quantum dots in Si/SiGe 2DEGs with Schottky top-gated leads’, K.A. Slinker, K.L.M. Lewis, C.C. Haselby, S. Goswami, L.J. Klein, J.O. Chu, S.N. Coppersmith, R. Joynt, R.H. Blick, M. Friesen, M.A. Eriksson, New Journal of Physics 7, 246 (2005).

‘Nanomechanical Architecture of Strained Bi-Layer Thin Films: From design principles to experimental fabrication’, M. Huang, C. Boone, M. Roberts, D.E. Savage, M.G. Lagally, N. Shaji, H. Qin, R.H. Blick, J.A. Nairn, and F. Liu, Advanced Materials 17, 2860 (2005).

‘Quantisiertes Schalten’, Robert H. Blick, Physik Journal 4, 20 (2005).

‘Electron-Nuclear Spin Transfer in Quantum-Dot Networks’, M. Prada, R.C. Toonen, R.H. Blick, and P. Harrison, Nanotechnology 16, S266 (2005).

‘Current bursts in lipid bilayers initiated by colloidal quantum dots’, S. Ramachandran, G.L. Kumar, R.H. Blick, and D.W. van der Weide, Applied Physics Letters 86, 083901 (2005), has been selected for the February 28, 2005 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology and for the March 1, 2005 issue of the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.

’Bed of Nails’ on Silicon’, Max G. Lagally and Robert H. Blick, Nature 432, 450 (2004).

‘Periodic Field Emission from an Isolated Nanoscale Electron Island’, D.V. Scheible, Ch. Weiss, J.P. Kotthaus, and R.H. Blick, Physical Review Letters 93, 186801 (2004); has been selected for the November 8, 2004 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

‘Bonding Silicon-On-Insulator to Glass Wafers for integrated bio-electronic circuits’, H.S. Kim, R.H. Blick, D.M. Kim, C.B. Eom, Applied Physics Letters 85, 2370 (2004); has been selected for the October 11, 2004 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

‘Effects of Low Attenuation in a Nanomechanical Electron Shuttle’, D.V. Scheible, Ch. Weiss, and R.H. Blick, Journal of Applied Physics 96, 1757 (2004).

‘Drastic Enhancement of nanoelectromechanical-system fabrication yield using electron beam deposition’, D.R. König, D.V. Scheible, and R.H. Blick, Applied Physics Letters 85, 157 (2004); this work has been selected for the July 14, 2004 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

‘Pseudospin Kondo correlations vs. hybridized molecular states in double quantum dots’, A.W. Holleitner, A. Chudnovskij, D. Pfannkuche, K. Eberl, and R.H. Blick, Physical Review B 70, 075204 (2004).

‘Probing coherent electronic states in double quantum dots’, H. Qin, A.W. Holleitner, A.K. Huettel, R.H. Blick, W. Wegscheider, M. Bichler, K. Eberl, and J.P. Kotthaus, Physica Status Solidi 1, 2094 (2004).

‘A Quantum Electro Mechanical Device: The Electro-Mechanical Single Electron Pillar’, Robert H. Blick and D.V. Scheible, Superlattices and Microstructures 33, 397 (2004).

‘Silicon Nano-Pillars for mechanical single electron transport’, D.V. Scheible and R.H. Blick, Applied Physics Letters 84, 4632 (2004).

‘Coulomb Blockade in a Si:SiGe Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Quantum Dot’, L.J. Klein, K. Slinker, J.L. Truitt, S. Goswami, K.L.M. Lewis, S.N. Coppersmith, D.W. van der Weide, M. Friesen, R.H. Blick, D.E. Savage, M.G. Lagally, C. Tahan, R. Joynt, M.A. Eriksson, J.O. Chu, J.A. Ott, P.M. Mooney, Applied Physics Letters 84, 4047 (2004).

‘On geometric potentials in quantum-electromechanical circuits’, A.V. Chaplik and R.H. Blick, invited submission to the New Journal of Physics 6, 33 (March 2004).

‘Fabrication and contacting of single Bi nanowires’, M.E. Toimil Molares, N. Chtanko, Th. Cornelius, D. Dobrev, I. Enculescu, R.H. Blick, and R. Neumann, Nanotechnology 15, S201 (2004).

‘Nuclear Spin Relaxation probed by a single Quantum Dot’, A.K. Hüttel, J. Weber, D. Weinmann, K. Eberl, and R.H. Blick, Physical Review B, 69, Brief Reports 073302 (2004); this work has been selected for the February 23, 2004 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

‘Single Electron-Phonon Interaction in a Suspended Quantum Dot Phonon Cavity’, E.M. Weig, R.H. Blick, T. Brandes, J. Kirschbaum, W. Wegscheider, M. Bichler, and J.P. Kotthaus, Physical Review Letters 92, 046804 (2004); as of October-2009 this article has been cited 42 times (source:  Physical Review Online – PROLA); has been selected for the February 16, 2004 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

‘Microstructured Apertures in Planar Glass Substrates for Ion Channel Research’, N. Fertig, M. George, M. Klau, C. Meyer, A. Tilke, C. Sobotta, R.H. Blick, and J.C. Behrends, Channels and Receptors 9, 29 (2003).

‘Quantum interference in a one-dimensional silicon nanowire’, A.Tilke, F.C. Simmel, H. Lorenz, R.H. Blick, J.P. Kotthaus, Physical Review B 68, 075311 (2003).

‘Mechanische Unschärfe – Lassen sich Nullpunktsschwingungen eines mechanischen Resonators nachweisen?’, Eva M. Hoehberger and Robert H. Blick, Physik Journal 9, 21 (2003).

‘Comparing schemes of displacement detection and subharmonic generation in nanomachined mechanical resonators’, F.W. Beil, L. Pescini, E.M. Höhberger, A. Kraus, A. Erbe, and R.H. Blick, Nanotechnology 14, 799 (2003).

‘In situ control of electron gas dimensionality in freely suspended semiconductor membranes’, E.M. Höhberger, T. Kraemer, R.H. Blick, D. Schuh, M. Bichler, W. Wegscheider, Applied Physics Letters 82, 4160 (2003); cover article.

‘Spin blockade in ground state resonance of a quantum dot‘, A.K. Hüttel, H. Qin, A.W. Holleitner, R.H. Blick, K. Neumaier, D. Weinmann, K. Eberl, J.P. Kotthaus, Europhysics Letters 62, 712 (2003).

‘Fabrication and Characterization of a primary thermometer formed by Coulomb islands in a suspended silicon nanowire’, A. Tilke, L. Pescini, H. Lorenz, and R. H. Blick, Applied Physics Letters 82, 3773 (2003); selected for the June 2, 2003 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

‘Dynamic control and modal analysis of coupled nano-mechanical resonators‘, D.V. Scheible, A. Erbe, R.H. Blick, Applied Physics Letters 82, 3333 (2003); selected for the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

‘Electrical Characterization of Electrochemically Grown Single Copper Nanowires’, E.M.E. Toimil Molares, E.M. Höhberger, Ch. Schaefflein, R.H. Blick, R. Neumann, Ch. Trautmann, Applied Physics Letters 82, 2139 (2003); cited 62 times by October-2009 (source:  scopus.com); selected for the April 7, 2003 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

‘Fabrication of coupled quantum dots for multiport access’, A.W. Holleitner, R.H. Blick, K. Eberl, Applied Physics Letters 82, 1887 (2003); selected for the March 31, 2003 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

‘Electron Dynamics of an Artificial Atom Probed by Pulsed Microwave Spectroscopy’, H. Qin, J. Truitt, D.W. van der Weide, K. Eberl, R.H. Blick, Nanotechnology 14, 60 (2003).

‘Mechanical gating of coupled nanoelectromechanical resonators operating at radio frequency’, L. Pescini, H. Lorenz, R.H. Blick, Applied Physics Letters 82, 352 (2003); selected for the January 27, 2003 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

‘Activity of single ion channel proteins detected with a planar microstructure’, N. Fertig, M. Klau, M. George, R.H. Blick, J.C. Behrends, Applied Physics Letters 81, 4865 (2002); cited 49 times by October-2009 (source:  scopus.com); the article has been selected for the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.

‘Tunable coupled nanomechanical resonators for single-electron transport’, D.V. Scheible, A. Erbe, and R.H. Blick, New Journal of Physics 4, 86 (2002).

‘Single-Electron Effects in highly doped poly-Silicon Nanowires‘, A. Tilke, R.H. Blick, H. Lorenz, and J.P. Kotthaus, Physica E 15, 60 (2002).

‘Nano-structured silicon for studying fundamental aspects of nanomechanics‘, R.H. Blick, A. Erbe, L. Pescini, A. Kraus, D.V. Scheible, F.W. Beil, E.M. Höhberger, A. Hoerner, J. Kirschbaum, H. Lorenz, and J.P. Kotthaus, invited review article, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 14, R905 (2002).

‘Evidence of a Nanomechanical Resonator being driven into chaotic response via the Ruelle-Takens route ‘, D.V. Scheible, G. Corso, A. Erbe, and R.H. Blick, Applied Physics Letters 81, 1884 (2002); this paper has been selected for the September 9, 2002, issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

‘Silicon-on-Insulator based nanoresonators for mechanical mixing at radio frequencies’, A. Erbe and R.H. Blick, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control 49, 1114 (2002).

‘Probing and Controlling the Bonds of an Artificial Molecule’, A.W. Holleitner, R.H. Blick, A.K. Hüttel, J.P. Kotthaus, K. Eberl, Science 297, 70 (2002).

‘Integrating suspended quantum dot circuits for applications in nanomechanics’, J. Kirschbaum, E.M. Höhberger, and R.H. Blick, W. Wegscheider, M. Bichler, Applied Physics Letters 81, 280 (2002); this paper has been selected for the July 8, 2002 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

‘Electron-phonon interaction in suspended highly doped silicon nanowires’, A. Tilke, L. Pescini, A. Erbe, H. Lorenz, and R.H. Blick, Nanotechnology 13, 491 (2002).

‘Whole Cell Patch Clamp Recording Performed on a Planar Glass Chip‘, N. Fertig, R.H. Blick, and J.C. Behrends, Biophysical Journal 82, 3056 (2002).

‘Coherent coupling of two Quantum Dots embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm Interferometer‘, A.W. Holleitner, H. Qin, C.R. Decker, K. Eberl, and R.H. Blick, Physical Review Letters 87, 256802 (2001); as of October-2009 this article has been cited 110 times (source:  Physical Review Online – PROLA).

‘Nanoscale Lateral Field-Emission Triode Operating at Atmospheric Pressure’, L. Pescini, A. Tilke,  R.H. Blick, H. Lorenz, J.P. Kotthaus, W. Eberhardt, D. Kern, Advanced Materials 13, 1780 (2001).

‘Coherent superposition of photon- and phonon-assisted tunneling in coupled quantum dots’, H. Qin, A.W. Holleitner, K. Eberl, and R.H. Blick, Physical Review B 64, Rapid Communication 241302 (2001); as of October-2009 this article has been cited 34 times (source:  Physical Review Online – PROLA).

‘Parametric frequency tuning of phase locked nano-electromechanical resonators’, A. Kraus, G. Corso, A. Erbe, K. Richter, and R.H. Blick, Applied Physics Letters 79, 3521 (2001).

‘Microstructured glass chip for ion-channel electrophysiology‘, N. Fertig, C. Meyer, R.H. Blick, C. Trautmann, and J.C. Behrends, Physical Review E 64, Rapid Communication 040901 (2001).

‘Nanomechanical Resonator Shuttling Single Electrons at Radio Frequencies’, A. Erbe, Ch. Weiss, W. Zwerger, and R.H. Blick, Physical Review Letters 87, 096106 (2001); marked as Physics News Update Number 553 #3 (2001) by P. Schewe, J. Riordon, and B. Stein; as of October-2009 this article has been cited 79 times (source:  Physical Review Online – PROLA).

‘Fabrication and integration possibilities of ultra small quantum dots in silicon-on-insulator material’, A. Tilke, R.H. Blick, and H. Lorenz, Journal of Applied Physics 90, 942 (2001).

‘Single-Electron Tunneling in highly doped silicon nanowires in a dual-gate configuration‘, A. Tilke, R.H. Blick, H. Lorenz, and J.P. Kotthaus, Journal of Applied Physics 89, 8159 (2001).

‘Adiabatic steering and determination of dephasing rates in double-dot qubits’, T. Brandes, F. Renzoni, and R.H. Blick, Physical Review B 64, 035319 (2001).

‘Coulomb blockade in Silicon nanostructures‘, A. Tilke, F. Simmel, R.H. Blick, H. Lorenz, and, J.P. Kotthaus, Progress in Quantum Electronics 25, 97 (2001).

‘Determination of the complex microwave photoconductance of a single quantum dot’, H. Qin, F. Simmel, R.H. Blick, J.P. Kotthaus, W. Wegscheider, M. Bichler, Physical Review B 63, 035320 (2001).

‘Magneto-transport measurements on freely suspended two-dimensional electron gases’, R.H. Blick, F.G. Monzon, W. Wegscheider, M. Bichler, F. Stern, and M.L. Roukes, Physical Review B 62, 17103 (2000).

‘Mechanical Mixing in Nonlinear Nanomechanical Resonators’, A. Erbe, G. Corso, H. Krömmer, A. Kraus, A. Tilke, K. Richter and R.H. Blick, Applied Physics Letters 77, 3102 (2000); cited 39 times by October-2009 (source:  scopus.com).

‘Single Electron Tunneling in Silicon Nanostructures’, A. Tilke, L. Pescini, R.H. Blick, H. Lorenz, J.P. Kotthaus, Applied Physics A 71, 357 (2000).

‘Stable integration of isolated cell membrane patches in a Nanomachined Aperture’, N. Fertig, A. Tilke, R.H. Blick, J.P. Kotthaus, J.C. Behrends, G. ten Bruggencate, Applied Physics Letters 77, 1218 (2000).

‘Nanomechanical vibrating wire resonator for phonon spectroscopy in liquid helium’, A. Kraus, A. Erbe, and R.H. Blick, Nanotechnology 11, 165 (2000).

‘Single crystalline silicon lift-off films for metal-oxide-semiconductor devices on arbitrary substrates’, A. Tilke, M. Rotter, R.H. Blick, H. Lorenz, and J. P. Kotthaus, Applied Physics Letters 77, 558 (2000).

‘Auf dem Weg zur ‘Quanten-Mechanik’’, R.H. Blick, A. Erbe, A. Tilke, A. Wixforth, Physikalische Blätter 1, 31 (2000).

‘Microwave spectroscopy on a double quantum dot with an on-chip Josephson oscillator’, A.W. Holleitner, F. Simmel, B. Irmer, R. H. Blick, J.P. Kotthaus, A. Ustinov, and K. Eberl, New Journal of Physics 2, 2 (2000).

‘Nanomechanical resonators operating as charge detectors in the nonlinear regime’, H. Krömmer, A. Erbe, A. Tilke, S. Manus, and R.H. Blick, Europhysics Letters 50, 101 (2000).

‘Suspending highly doped Silicon-on-Insulator wires for applications in nanomechanics’, L. Pescini, A. Tilke, R.H. Blick, H. Lorenz,  J.P. Kotthaus, W. Eberhardt, D. Kern, Nanotechnology 10, 418 (1999).

‘Nanomechanical Resonators operating in the Radio Frequency Regime as Single Charge Detectors’, R.H. Blick, A. Erbe, A. Tilke, H. Krömmer, L. Pescini, S. Manus, A. Kriele, and J.P. Kotthaus, Advances in Solid State Physics 39, 121 (1999).

‘Coulomb blockade in quasi-metallic Silicon-On-Insulator Nanowires’, A. Tilke, R.H. Blick, H. Lorenz, J.P. Kotthaus, D. Wharam, Applied Physics Letters 75, 3704 (1999).

‘Anomalous Kondo effect in a Quantum Dot at Nonzero Bias’, F. Simmel, R.H. Blick, J.P. Kotthaus, W. Wegscheider, and M. Bichler, Physical Review Letters 83, 804 (1999); as of October-2009 this article has been cited 120 times (source:  Physical Review Online – PROLA).

‘Nano-Plowed Josephson junctions as on-chip radiation sources’, B. Irmer, F. Simmel, R.H. Blick, H. Lorenz, J.P. Kotthaus, M. Bichler, W. Wegscheider, Superlattices and Microstructures, Special Issue on Mesoscopic Superconductivity 25, 785 (1999).

‘Low-energy electron-beam lithography using calixarene’, A. Tilke, M. Vogel, F. Simmel, A. Kriele, R.H. Blick, D.A. Wharam, and J.P. Kotthaus, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B 17, 1594 (1999).

‘A mechanically flexible tunneling contact operating at radio frequencies’, A. Erbe, R. H. Blick, A. Tilke, A. Kriele, and J.P. Kotthaus, Applied Physics Letters 73, 3751 (1998); cited 58 times by October-2009 (source:  scopus.com).

‘Josephson Junctions defined by a Nanoplough’, B. Irmer, R.H. Blick, F. Simmel, W. Goedel, H. Lorenz, and J.P. Kotthaus, Applied Physics Letters 73, 2051 (1998).

‘Complex Broadband Millimeter wave response of a Coupled Quantum Dot: Rabi Oscillations in an Artificial Molecule’, R.H. Blick, D.W. van der Weide, R.J. Haug, and K. Eberl, Physical Review Letters 81, 689 (1998); as of October-2009 this article has been cited 45 times (source:  Physical Review Online – PROLA) ; an short review of this work appeared online on the Physical Review Letters FOCUS entitled ‘Signals from an Artificial Molecule.

‘Formation of a Coherent Mode in a Double Quantum Dot’, R.H. Blick, D. Pfannkuche, R.J. Haug, K. von Klitzing, and K. Eberl, Physical Review Letters 80, 4032 (1998); as of October-2009 this article has been cited 150 times (source:  Physical Review Online – PROLA).

‘Electron-Spin Resonance in a Quantum Dot’, R.H. Blick, V. Gudmundsson, R.J. Haug, K. von Klitzing, K. Eberl, Physical Review 57, Rapid Communication 12685 (1998).

‘Magnetic Focusing of Composite Fermions through Arrays of Cavities’, J.H. Smet, D. Weiss,  R.H. Blick, G. Lutjering, K. von Klitzing, R. Fleischmann, R. Ketzmerick, T. Geisel, and G. Weimann, Physical Review Letters 77, 2272 (1996); as of October-2009 this article has been cited 47 times (source:  Physical Review Online – PROLA).

‘Single Electron Tunneling through a Double Quantum Dot System’, R.H. Blick, R.J. Haug, J. Weis, D. Pfannkuche, K. von Klitzing, and K. Eberl, Physical Review B 53, 7899 (1996); ); as of October-2009 this article has been cited 89 times (source:  Physical Review Online – PROLA).

‘Transport Spectroscopy in Single-Electron Tunneling Transistors’, R.J. Haug, J. Weis, R.H. Blick, K. von Klitzing, K. Eberl, and K. Ploog, Nanotechnology 7, 381 (1996).

‘Critical Current Phase Diagram of the heavy fermion superconductor UPt3’, R.H. Blick and G.J.C.L. Bruls, Journal of Low Temperature Physics 102, 349 (1996).

‘Photon-Assisted Tunneling through a Quantum Dot at high microwave frequencies’, R.H. Blick, D.W. van der Weide, R.J. Haug, K. von Klitzing, and K. Eberl, Applied Physics Letters 67, 3924 (1995); cited 85 times by October-2009 (source:  scopus.com).

‘Quantum-dot ground states in a magnetic field studied by single-electron tunneling spectroscopy on double-barrier heterostructures’, T. Schmidt, M. Tewordt, R.H. Blick, R.J. Haug, D. Pfannkuche, K. von Klitzing, A. Foerster, H. Lueth, Physical Review B 51, Rapid Communications 5570 (1995); ); as of October-2009 this article has been cited 61times (source:  Physical Review Online – PROLA).

‘Dispersive transition of transverse ultrasound in the paramagnetic phase of CeAl2’, Georg Hampel and Robert H. Blick, Journal of Low Temperature Physics 99-1/2, 71 (1995).

‘Novel technique of pulse-echo ultrasound detection in the radio frequency range’, Georg Hampel and Robert H. Blick, Acustica 82, 27 (1995).

Books & Book Chapters

‘Quantum Dot Circuits for Quantum Computation’, R.H. Blick, A.K. Hüttel, L. Pescini, A.W. Holleitner, and B. Lorenz, in ‘Quantum Information Processing’, Eds. G. Leuchs and Th. Beth, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2003; 2nd edition appearing in 2005.

‘Microwave spectroscopy on single and coupled quantum dots’, R.H. Blick, invited chapter, Quantum Electronic Devices, Ed. Jon P. Bird, Kluwer Academic Publishers, July 2003, [ISBN 1-4020-7459-X].

‘Microwave Spectroscopy on Quantum Dots’, R.H. Blick, Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology, H. Singh-Nalwa, Ed., American Scientific Publishers, Volume 2, Chapter 6, 307 (2000).

‘Millimeter Wave Spectroscopy on a Double Quantum Dot’, R.H. Blick, R.J. Haug, K. von Klitzing, and K. Eberl, Quantum Devices and Circuits, K. Ismail, S. Bandyopadhyay, and J.P. Leburton, Eds., Imperial College Press (1997), [ISBN 1-86094-032-3].

'Künstliche Atome und Moleküle: Gekoppelte Quantenpunkte und Mikrowellenspektroskopie an Quantenpunkten’, Robert H. Blick, Publishing Company Harri-Deutsch, Physics 57, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (1996), ISBN 3-8171-1507-5.

Conference Presentations, Refereed

‘Shock Waves in Suspended Low-Dimensional Electron Gases’, F.W. Beil, N. Shaji, F. Schoefer, A. Wixforth, W. Wegscheider, D. Schuh, M. Bichler, R.H. Blick, Proceedings of the International conference on Electronic Properties of Two-Dimensional Electron Systems, Genova, Italy 2007.

‘Top-gated Few-Electron Double Quantum Dots in Si/SiGe’, Nakul Shaji, Christine B. Simmons, Levente J. Klein, Hua Qin, Donald E. Savage, Susan N. Coppersmith, Robert Joynt, Mark Friesen, Robert H. Blick and Mark. A. Eriksson, Proceedings of the International conference on Electronic Properties of Two-Dimensional Electron Systems, Genova, Italy 2007.

‘Field Emission in Nano-Electromechanical Systems’, San Jose, SPIE, January 2007.

‘Measurements of Correlated Conductances and Noise Fluctuations from 3-Lead Quantum Dots’, R.C. Toonen, M. Prada, H. Qin, A.K. Huettel, S. Goswami, M.A. Eriksson, D.W. van der Weide, K. Eberl, and R.H. Blick, AIP Conference Proceedings 780, 472 (2005).

‘Electron Transport in Curved Low Dimensional Systems’, N. Shaji, R.H. Blick, Proceedings of the Hot Carrier Conference, Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol. 110, M. Saraniti, U. Ravaioli, eds., Chicago, Illinois (2005).

‘Curvature-dependent conductance resonances in Quantum Cavities’, G. Meyer, R.H. Blick, and I. Knezevic, Proceedings of the Hot Carrier Conference, Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol. 110, M. Saraniti, U. Ravaioli, eds., Chicago, Illinois (2005).

‘Nanoelectromechanical Transistors’, H.S. Kim, D.V. Scheible and R.H. Blick, Annual meeting of the American Electrostatic Society (2005).

‘Stochastic Resonance of Artificial Ion Channels inserted in Small Membrane Patches’, R.H. Blick, S.-Y. Choi, H.S. Kim, S. Ramachandra, and D.W. van der Weide, AIP Conference Proceedings 780, 567 (2005).

‘Nano-Electromechanical Transistor Operated as a Bi-Polar Current Switch’, R.H. Blick and D.V. Scheible, Nanotechnology, 4th IEEE Conference, 258 (2004); this contribution received the Best Paper Award.

’Colloidal Quantum Dots Initiating Current Bursts in Lipid Bilayers’, S. Ramachandran, N.E. Merrill, R.H. Blick, and D.W. van der Weide, Biosensors and Bioelectronics 20, 2173 (2004).

‘Standing acoustic waves imaged by nanomechanical resonators’, F.W. Beil, R.H. Blick,  A. Wixforth, Physica E 21, 1106 (2004).

‘Mechanically biased nano-resonators for signal transduction’, R.H. Blick, A. Hoerner, F.W. Beil, W. Wegscheider, Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference 5, 1801 (2003).

‘Acoustically driven NEMS resonators, F.W. Beil, R.H. Blick, and A. Wixforth, Proceedings of Ultrasonics 2003 Symposium 1, 290 (2003).

‘Electron-Phonon interaction in freely suspended quantum dots’, E.M. Hoehberger, J. Kirschbaum, R.H. Blick, W. Wegscheider, M. Bichler, J.P. Kotthaus, Physica E 18, 99 (2003).

‘Phase coherent transport in two coupled quantum dots‘, R.H. Blick, A.W. Holleitner, A.K. Hüttel, E.M. Höhberger, J. Kirschbaum, J.P. Kotthaus, W. Wegscheider, M. Bichler, K. Eberl, Proceedings of the international winter school Mauterndorf, Physica E 16, 76 (2003).

‘Broadband mixing of Radio Frequencies via Nanomechanical Resonators, R.H. Blick, F.W. Beil, and A. Wixforth, Proceedings of the 27th General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science (2002).

‘Broadband acoustical tuning of nano-electromechanical sensors’, F.W. Beil, A. Wixforth, R.H. Blick, Proceedings of IEEE Sensors 1, 1285 (2002).

‘Probing a single quantum dot by pulsed and continuous microwave radiation‘, H. Qin, J. Truitt, D.W. van der Weide, and R.H. Blick, Physica B 314, 444 (2002).

‘Magnetotransport in freely suspended two-dimensional electron gases for integrated nanomechanical resonators’, E.M. Hoehberger,  F.W. Beil, R.H. Blick, W. Wegscheider, M. Bichler, J.P. Kotthaus, Physica E 12, 487 (2002).

‘Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in charge transport through two parallel quantum dots’, A.W. Holleitner, H. Qin, R.H. Blick, K. Eberl, J.P. Kotthaus, Physica E 12, 774 (2002).

‘Investigation of nano-electromechanical systems using surface acoustic waves’, F.W. Beil, A. Wixforth, R.H. Blick, Physica E 13, 473 (2002).


‘Electron Dynamics of a single quantum dot probed with wideband millimeter-wave spectroscopy’, H. Qin, R.H. Blick, D.W. van der Weide, and K. Eberl, Physica E 13, 109 (2002).

‘Manipulation of electrons in nanostructured semiconductors‘, H. Lorenz, R.H. Blick, A. Tilke, and J.P. Kotthaus, 4th International Workshop on Quantum Functional Devices, QFD2000, Kanazawa, Japan, (2000).

‘Nano-Electromechanical systems’, R.H. Blick, F.W. Beil, E. Höhberger, A. Erbe, Ch. Weiss, Interacting electrons in nanostructures, Bad Honnef, Germany, Springer Lecture Notes, Haug, R.J., Schoeller, H., Eds. (2000).

‘Possible definition of quantum bits in coupled quantum dots’, R.H. Blick and H. Lorenz, Proceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, II-245, May –28-31 (2000).

‘Mechanical Properties of Suspended Structures at Radio Frequencies’, A. Erbe, H. Krömmer, A. Kraus, R.H. Blick, Physica B 280,  553 (2000).

‘Silicon based nanoelectronics and nanoelectromechanics’, A. Tilke, A. Erbe, L. Pescini, H. Krömmer, R.H. Blick, H. Lorenz, and J.P. Kotthaus, Superlattices and Microstructures 27, 597 (2000).

‘Charge detection with nanomechanical resonators’, R.H. Blick, A. Erbe, H. Krömmer, A. Kraus, J.P. Kotthaus, Physica E 6, 821 (2000).

‘Microwave Spectroscopy of a Single Quantum Dot in the Few Electron Limit’, H. Qin, A.W. Holleitner, F. Simmel, R.H. Blick, J.P. Kotthaus, W. Wegscheider, and M. Bichler, Electrochem. Soc. Proc. 99-22, 406 (1999).

‘Nanomechanical Resonators operating at Radio Frequencies’, A. Erbe and R.H. Blick, Physica B 272, 575 (1999).

‘Coulomb blockade in highly doped SOI-structures’, A. Tilke, R.H. Blick, H. Lorenz, J.P. Kotthaus, Silicon Nanoelectronics Workshop, Kyoto, Japan (1999).

‘A new tool for studying phase coherent phenomena’, R.H. Blick, A.W. Holleitner, H. Qin, K. Eberl, A.V. Ustinov, J.P. Kotthaus, in Statistical and Dynamical Aspects of Mesoscopic Systems, Sitges, Spain, Springer Lecture Notes, Reguera, D.; Platero, G.; Bonilla, L.L.; Rubi, M.; Eds. (2000).

‘Photon-induced transport through mesoscopic structures using nano-ploughed Josephson junctions’, A.W. Holleitner, F. Simmel, B. Irmer, R.H. Blick, J.P. Kotthaus, M. Bichler, and W. Wegscheider, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3828, p. 194-199, Terahertz Spectroscopy and Applications II, J. Martyn Chamberlain; Ed.

‘Nanomechanical resonators operating in the radio frequency regime as single charge detectors’, R.H. Blick, A. Erbe, A. Tilke, H. Krömmer, L. Pescini, S. Manus, A. Kriele, and J.P. Kotthaus, Advances in Solid State Physics 39, 121 (1999).

‘Freely suspended Two-dimensional Electron gases’, R.H. Blick, W. Wegscheider, M. Bichler, and M.L. Roukes, R. H. Blick, M.L. Roukes, W. Wegscheider, and M. Bichler, Physica B 249-251, 784 (1998).

‘Coupled quantum dots: manifestation of an artificial molecule’, D. Pfannkuche, R.H. Blick, R.J. Haug , K. von Klitzing and K. Eberl, Superlattices and Microstructures 23, 1255 (1998).

‘Probing the coherent transport through coupled quantum dots’, R. H. Blick, D. W. van der Weide, R. J. Haug, K. von Klitzing and K. Eberl, Superlattices and Microstructures 23, 1265 (1998).

‘Transport Spectroscopy on a Double Quantum Dot’, R.H. Blick, T. Schmidt, R.J. Haug, K. von Klitzing, Semiconductor Science & Technology 11, 1506 (1996).

‘Single Electron Transistors’, R.J. Haug, M. Dilger, T. Schmidt, R.H. Blick, K. von Klitzing, and K. Eberl, Physica B 227, 2 (1996).

‘Transport Spectroscopy in Single-Electron Tunneling Transistors’, R.J. Haug, J. Weis, R.H. Blick, K. von Klitzing, K. Eberl, and K. Ploog, Nanotechnology 7, 381 (1996).

‘Photon-Assisted Tunneling through a Double Quantum Dot’, R.H. Blick, R.J. Haug, K. von Klitzing, and K. Eberl, oral presentation at the XI. Conference on Electronic Properties of Two-Dimensional Systems (1995), Surface Science 361/362, 595 (1996).

‘Weak Localization in Ballistic Cavities Filled with Antidot-Arrays’, G. Lutjering, K. Richter, D. Weiss, J. Mao, R.H. Blick, K. von Klitzing, and C.T.Foxon, Surface Science 361/362, 709 (1996).

‘Electronic Picosecond pulse Interferometer Probing the Millimeter-wave Response of Coupled Quantum Dots’,  D.W. van der Weide, R.H. Blick, F. Keilmann, and R.J. Haug, IEEE Quantum Optoelectronics 14, 103 (1995).

‘Transport Spectroscopy on Coupled Quantum Dot Systems’, R.J. Haug, R.H. Blick, T. Schmidt, Physica B 212, 207 (1995).

‘Sound propagation in heavy fermion compounds’, P. Thalmeier, B. Wolf, D. Weber, R.H. Blick, G. Bruls, B. Lüthi, Journ. Mag. Mag. Mat. 108, 109 (1992).

‘Critical Current and vortex lattice in superconducting UPt3’, G.J.C.L. Bruls and R.H. Blick, Journ. Mag. Mag. Mat. 108, 111 (1992).

Invited presentations

‘NEMS’, NEMS workshop at Argonne, IL, October 2009.

‘Rectification in Single Ion Channels and Membrane Bound Pores’, Heraus workshop on Biosensors, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, June 2009.

‘The Physics of Nano-Membranes’, Colloquium at Konstanz University, Germany, November 2008.

‘Single electron shuttling’, CeNS workshop at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, September 2008.

’Self-Excitation in Nano-Electromechanical System’, FQMT08 conference in Prague, July/August 2008.


‘High-Frequency Transport in Single Ion Channels and Pores’, Workshop on Nanostructures in Biology and Physics, Vienna, Austria, July 2008.

‘Nano-electromechanical single electron circuits’, OMNT workshop, Grenoble, France, June 2008.

‘Self-excitation in NEMS’, Nanospain 2008, Braga, Portugal, April 2008.

‘Self-excitation in NEMS’, MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, March 2008.

‘NEMS as field emitters’, IEEE-NEMS conference in Hainan Island, Sanya, China, January 6-9, 2008.

‘Nanomechanical Single Charge Shuttling’, Dartmouth University, Colloquium, November 1 (2007).

‘Nanomechanical Single Electron Transistors’, to be given at the workshop on NEMS at Chungnam National University, Daejon, Korea, August 9 (2007).

‘Single Phonon Modes in Nano-Electromechanical Systems’, Plenary Talk, Phonons Conference, Paris, France, June 15 (2007).

‘Nanomechanical Single Electron Devices as Field Emitters’, IVNC conference 2007, Chicago, USA, July 12 (2007).

‘Quantum-Electromechanics with Nanomechanical Systems’, Tokyo University, Kashiwa, Japan, July 10 29 (2007).

‘Nanomechanical Single Electron Devices’, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 29 (2007).

‘Single Electron Tunneling in Nanomechanical Systems’, to be held in Santa Fe, March 12-13 (2007).

‘Nanomechanical Switches and Field Emitters’, SPIE conference on MEMS/MOEMS, San Jose, USA, January (2007).

‘Bio-Electronics: Interfacing Protein and Semiconductor Circuits‘, Symposium on Bio-Electronics, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany, November 24 (2006).

‘Nanomechanics’, Mesoscopic Physics Conference, Montpellier, France, October 10 (2006).

‘Nano-Pillars’, 2nd Symposium on Semiconductor Nano-Wires, Lund, Sweden, October 2 (2006).

‘The Foundations of Nanomechanics’, IPCMS-GEMME, Paris, France, May 15 (2006).

‘Quantum Electro Mechanical Systems’, University of Regensburg, Germany, May 10 (2006).

‘The Foundations of Nanomechanics’, IPCMS-GEMME, Strasbourg, France, May 9 (2006).

‘Curled Silicon for New Circuitry’, Silicon Nanoelectronics Workshop (SNW), Hawaii, June (2006).

‘Physic of Nano-Electromechanical Systems’, SUNY Buffalo, April (2006).

‘NEMS for bolometry’, International Workshop on "Nanosensors and Arrays of Quantum Dots and Josephson Junctions for space applications", Björkliden, Sweden, April 1-8 (2006).

‘Nanomechanical Structures Curl’, March meeting of the American Physical Society, Baltimore, March (2006).

’Nano-Scale Mechanics’, IPCMS-GEMME, Strasbourg, France, December 13 (2005).

‘Nanoscale Electromechanics’, presentation on the Engineer’s Day at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 21 (2005).

‘On-Chip Probing Single Ion Channels in Bilipid Membranes‘, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain, (2005).

‘The electromechanical single electron transistor’, Annual meeting of the Electrostatics Society of America, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, June 21-24 (2005).

‘Field Emission and Single Electron Tunneling in Nano-Electromechanical Systems’, SPIE Symposium, Microtechnologies for the new millennium, Salamanca, Spain, May 9-11, (2005).

‘From Classical Mechanics to Quantum-Electro-Mechanics’, Workshop on Nanoelectromechanical Structures and Devices of the Gesellschaft für Mikro- und Nanoelektronik, Vienna, Austria, March 17-18 (2005).


‘Nanomechanical Transistors’, International Workshop on Multifunctional Materials II, Huatulco, Mexico, October 17-21 (2004); [talk presented by Chang-Beom Eom].

‘The Electro-Mechanical Single Electron Transistor’, Workshop on Nanoelectromechanical Systems, Nobel Insitute of Physics, part of the Nobel organization at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 5-7 (2004).

‘Single Electrons interacting with discrete Phonon Modes in Quantum Dots ’, Cooperative Phenomena in Optics and Transport in Nanostructures, Max-Planck-Institute for Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany, June 10-16 (2004).

‘From Research to Business’, Bio-Nanotechnology Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, June 3 (2004).

‘Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems’, Materials Science Institute, Madrid, Spain, May 21 (2004).

‘Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems’, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, April 16 (2004).

‘Quantum Information Processing’, Colloquium talk at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, November (2003).

‘Nanostructures and control of electron population in freely standing membranes’, 6th Conference on New Phenomena in Mesoscopic Systems and 4th Conference on Surfaces and Interfaces in Mesoscopic Devices, Maui, Hawaii, November 30 to December 5 (2003).

‘Nanoscale Biology’, 50th symposium of the American Vacuum Society, Baltimore, MD, November  2-7 (2003).

‘Mechanically biased nano-resonators for signal transduction’, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Chicago, September 2-6 (2003).

‘Quantum dot spectroscopy’, workshop on Quantum Dots for Quantum Computing (IWQDQC), University of Notre Dame, August 7-9 (2003).

‘Spin blockade and nuclear magnetic relaxation in quantum dots, workshop on Coherent charge and spin transport on the nanoscale, Chernogolovka, Russia, June 8-14 (2003). - [talk was presented by graduate student F.W. Beil, since visa problems prohibited participation.]

‘Quantum Aspects of Nano-Electro-Mechancial Systems’, Colloquium talk at Ohio University, May (2003).

‘Quantum Aspects of Nano-Electro-Mechancial Systems’, Colloquium talk at Oregon University, May (2003).

‘Quantum dots in phonon cavities’, March meeting of the German Physical Society, Dresden, Germany (2003).

‘Nuclear spin relaxation probed by a single quantum dot’, CISN meeting at NTT Atsugi-shi, Japan, March 10-12 (2003).

Colloquium at the RWTH Aachen, Germany, January (2003).

Colloquium at the Technical University Berlin, Germany, December (2002).

‘Nanomechanics in III/V-heterostructures’, Semiconductor workshop in Hamburg, October (2002).

‘Spin blockade in quantum dots’, summer school on the Science and Technology of Spin Transport in Nanostructures, Trieste, August (2002).

‘Broadband mixing of Radio Frequencies via Nanomechanical Resonators, 27th General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science (2002), Maastricht, Netherlands – presentation given by graduate student F.W. Beil.

‘Entangled quantum dot circuits’, workshop on Macroscopic quantum coherence and computing, Naples, Italy, June (2002).

‘Nano-electromechanical circuits realized with integrated two-dimensional electron gases’, First International Conference and School on Nanoscale / Molecular Mechanics, Hawaii, USA, May (2002).

‘Four quantum dots for one quantum computer’, winterschool on Low-dimensional systems: From 2D to molecules,  Mauterndorf, Austria, February (2002).

‘Nanofabricated Electro-Mechanical Devices: Physics & Applications’, 48th International Symposium of the American Vacuum Society, San Francisco, USA, November (2001).

‘Nanoelectromechanical Systems: Physics & Applications’, workshop on Quantum Non-Planar Nanostructures & Nanoelectronics (QNN’01), AIST-Tsukuba, Japan, Tsukuba, July (2001).

Presentation on ‘Nanomechanical Resonators’, held at CAESAR, Bonn, June (2001).

Presentation at the Sino-German meeting by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, October (2000).

‘The mechanical single electron shuttle’, held at the Heraeus workshop on Driven quantum systems, Tutzing, Germany, September (2000) – [presented by graduate student A. Erbe.]

‘Electro Mechanical Nanoresonators’, held at the workshop on Quantum transport frequency and time domains, Hamburg, Germany, September (2000).

‘Single electron devices in silicon and nanomechanical systems’, International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials, Sendai International Center, Sendai, Japan, August (2000).

‘Nanomechanical tools and toys’, Workshop on Nanostructures at Interfaces and Surfaces, Universität Konstanz, Germany, July (2000).

‘Nanomechanical Devices’, Workshop of the Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Stiftung on Interacting Electrons in Nanostructures, Bad Honnef, Germany, June (2000).

‘Combining mechanics and electronics on the nanometer scale’, IEEE Silicon Nanoelectronics Workshop, Hawaii, USA, June (2000).

‘Single Electron Transistors in Silicon with sub-10 nm Lithography’, workshop on Technology and Application of Single Electron Devices at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt,   Braunschweig, Germany, June (2000).

‘3D Nanostructuring and applications in biology’, Graduiertenkolleg der Universität Bochum, Germany, April (2000).

‘3D Nanostructuring of Semiconductors’, March Meeting 2000 of the American Physical Society in Minneapolis, Symposium on "Nanocrystals: from Scaling Laws to Applications", Minneapolis, USA, March (2000).

‘Nanomechanical Resonators’, Colloquium, Universität Hamburg, Germany, October (1999).

‘Quantum Computation with laterally gated Quantum Dots’, Naval Research Laboratories, Conference on The Physics of Quantum Dots for Quantum Computing, Washington, USA, September (1999).

‘Mechanical Nano-Resonators’, Conference on Electronic Properties of two-dimensional Systems (EP2DS), Ottawa, Canada, August (1999).

‘A mesoscopic tool to study quantum coherent transport’, workshop on Statistical and dynamical aspects of mesoscopic systems, Sitges, Barcelona, June (1999).

‘Kicking electrons with nanomechanical resonators’, Center for NanoScience-workshop – Venice International University, Venice, Italy, April (1999).

‘Nanomechanical resonators operating in the radio frequency regime as single charge detectors’, March meeting of the German Physical Society, Münster, Germany, March (1999).

‘Electron Tunneling in Nanomechanical Resonators’, Max-Planck-Institut Dresden, workshop on From Mesoscopic to Mircroscopic Quantum Transport: New Trends in Theory and Experiment, Dresden, Germany, November (1998).


‘Formation of a Coherent Mode in a Double Quantum Dot’, March meeting of the American Physical Society, Kansas City, USA, March (1997).

‘Photon-Assisted Tunneling through Quantum Dots’, International Conference on Quantum Devices and Circuits, Alexandria, Egypt, May (1996).


Outreach presentations

‘Mechanics on the Nano-Scale’, Lecture for the public, Space-Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, May (2008).

‘Nanomechanics’, Lecture for students at the 2nd Symposium on Semiconductor Nano-Wires, Lund, Sweden, October (2006).

‘Nano-Technology at UW-Madison’, presentation for a delegation of the State of Hessen, Germany, including the Minister President of Hessen, Roland Koch, September (2006).

‘On-chip Ion Channel Spectroscopy’, at Promega, Madison, February (2006).

‘NEMS for Mass Spectrometry of the Proteom’, February (2006).

‘Physics of Nano-Electromechanical Systems’, NEMS group at UW-Madison, February (2006).

‘Physics of Nano-Electromechanical Systems’, Student Association at UW-Madison, January (2006).