Heiner Linke

Heiner Linke is an Associate Professor of physics at the University of Oregon. He holds an M.S. degree in technical physics from the Technical University in Munich (1992), and a Ph.D. degree in engineering physics from Lund University in Sweden (1997). Between 1998 and 2001, he was a research Fellow at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, before joining the Physics Department at the University of Oregon in 2001. His research in experimental physics is concerned with nonequilibrium transport mechanisms, spanning projects in nanothermoelectrics, fluid mechanics, and molecular motors. In particular, his group of about 10 postdoctors and students is interested in how thermal nonequilibrium can be harvested to produce useful work by the use of asymmetric ratchet structures, including the use of nanostructures for efficient energy conversion. In the past five years, he has published 30 papers in refereed international journals, including pieces in Science, Physical Review Letters, and Applied Physics Letters. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award (2003) and the University of Oregon Bray Award (2003). He has given more than 70 invited talks and seminars, and chaired the 2005 Nobel Symposium 131 on “Controlled nanoscale motion in artificial and biological systems,” and he is a Cochair of the 2008 MRS Symposium on “Molecular motors, nanomachines and active nanostructures.” He is a frequent Reviewer for many international journals and funding agencies, including the NIH, NSF, and ARC. He coedited volume 711 of Lecture Notes in Physics in 2007, and was a Coeditor of Applied Physics A during 2003–2005. Professor Linke is a Member of the APS, MRS, Biophysical Society, and German Physical Society.

Biography Updated on 9 April 2008

Personal Home Page

http://www.uoregon.edu/~linke/

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Quantum conductance fluctuations in semiconductor devices
    Current Applied Physics, vol. 8, no. 3-4, pp. 332–335, 2008
  2. Nonlinear characteristics in the magnetoconductance of electron billiards
    Current Applied Physics, vol. 8, no. 3-4, pp. 340–342, 2008
  3. Determining a temperature differential across a quantum dot
    Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 1605–1607, 2008
  4. Carrier density saturation in a Ga0.25In0.75As/InPGa0.25In0.75As/InP heterostructure
    Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 2007
  5. Quantum-dot thermometry
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 91, no. 25, p. 252114, 2007
  6. Effect of time delay on feedback control of a flashing ratchet
    Europhysics Letters (EPL), vol. 81, no. 1, p. 10002, 2007
  7. Concept study for a high-efficiency nanowire based thermoelectric
    Nanotechnology, vol. 17, no. 11, pp. S338–S343, 2006
  8. Single-polymer Brownian motor: A simulation study
    Physical Review E, vol. 73, no. 1, 2006
  9. Mechanical coupling in flashing ratchets
    Physical Review E, vol. 73, no. 5, 2006
  10. Self-Propelled Leidenfrost Droplets
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 96, no. 15, 2006
  11. Symmetry of magnetoconductance fluctuations of quantum dots in the nonlinear response regime
    Physical Review B, vol. 73, no. 23, 2006
  12. Unified model of fractal conductance fluctuations for diffusive and ballistic semiconductor devices
    Physical Review B, vol. 73, no. 19, 2006
  13. Experimental Investigation of the Breakdown of the Onsager-Casimir Relations
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 96, no. 11, 2006
  14. Series summation of fractal fluctuations in electron billiard arrays
    Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, vol. 34, no. 1-2, pp. 600–603, 2006
  15. A novel quantum interference probe of the energy spectrum of coupled nanodevices
    Current Applied Physics, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 541–544, 2006
  16. Quantum, cyclic, and particle-exchange heat engines
    Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, vol. 29, no. 1-2, pp. 390–398, 2005
  17. Power optimization in thermionic devices
    Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 38, no. 12, pp. 2051–2054, 2005
  18. Performance characteristics of Brownian motors
    Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, vol. 15, no. 2, p. 026111, 2005
  19. Reversible Thermoelectric Nanomaterials
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 94, no. 9, 2005
  20. Three key questions on fractal conductance fluctuations: Dynamics, quantization, and coherence
    Physical Review B, vol. 70, no. 8, 2004
  21. PHYSICS: Coherent Power Booster
    Science, vol. 299, no. 5608, pp. 841–842, 2003
  22. The influence of confining wall profile on quantum interference effects in etched Ga0.25In0.75As/InP billiards
    Superlattices and Microstructures, vol. 34, no. 3-6, pp. 179–184, 2003
  23. Surviving conduction symmetries in non-linear response
    Superlattices and Microstructures, vol. 34, no. 3-6, pp. 173–177, 2003
  24. Geometry-independence of fractal ballistic processes
    Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, vol. 19, no. 1-2, pp. 225–229, 2003
  25. The dependence of fractal conductance fluctuations on soft-wall profile in a double-2DEG billiard
    Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, vol. 12, no. 1-4, pp. 841–844, 2002
  26. The dependence of fractal conductance fluctuations on semiconductor billiard parameters
    Physica B: Condensed Matter, vol. 314, no. 1-4, pp. 477–480, 2002
  27. Quantum ratchets act as heat pumps
    Physica B: Condensed Matter, vol. 314, no. 1-4, pp. 464–468, 2002
  28. Quantum ratchets and quantum heat pumps
    Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 237–246, 2002
  29. Dependence of fractal conductance fluctuations on soft-wall profile in a double-layer semiconductor billiard
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 80, no. 23, p. 4381, 2002
  30. Discrete energy level spectrum dependence of fractal conductance fluctuations in semiconductor billiards
    Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, vol. 13, no. 2-4, pp. 683–686, 2002
  31. Diffusion in tilted periodic potentials: Enhancement, universality, and scaling
    Physical Review E, vol. 65, no. 3, 2002
  32. Reversible Quantum Brownian Heat Engines for Electrons
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 89, no. 11, 2002
  33. Evolution of Fractal Patterns during a Classical-Quantum Transition
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 87, no. 3, 2001
  34. Pumping heat with quantum ratchets
    Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, vol. 11, no. 2-3, pp. 281–286, 2001
  35. Asymmetric nonlinear conductance of quantum dots with broken inversion symmetry
    Physical Review B, vol. 61, no. 23, pp. 15914–15926, 2000
  36. Temperature and size dependence of fractal MCF in semiconductor billiards
    Microelectronic Engineering, vol. 51-52, no. 1-4, pp. 241–247, 2000
  37. Electron quantum ratchets
    Microelectronic Engineering, vol. 47, no. 1-4, pp. 265–267, 1999
  38. Voltage and temperature limits for the operation of a quantum dot ratchet
    Physica B: Condensed Matter, vol. 272, no. 1-4, pp. 61–63, 1999
  39. Experimental Tunneling Ratchets
    Science, vol. 286, no. 5448, pp. 2314–2317, 1999
  40. A quantum dot ratchet: Experiment and theory
    Europhysics Letters (EPL), vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 341–347, 1998
  41. Classical and quantum dynamics of electrons in open equilateral triangular billiards
    Physical Review B, vol. 57, no. 19, pp. 12306–12313, 1998
  42. Semiconductor Science and Technology, vol. 13, no. 8A, pp. A27–A29, 1998
  43. Semiconductor Science and Technology, vol. 13, no. 8A, pp. A24–A26, 1998
  44. Stability of classical electron orbits in triangular electron billiards
    Physical Review B, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 1440–1446, 1997
  45. Non-Equilibrium Electrons in a Ballistic Quantum Dot
    physica status solidi (b), vol. 204, no. 1, pp. 318–321, 1997
  46. Phase Breaking as a Probe of the Intrinsic Level Spectrum of Open Quantum Dots
    physica status solidi (b), vol. 204, no. 1, pp. 314–317, 1997
  47. Electron-electron interaction in a narrow, disordered electron gas in nonequilibrium
    Physical Review B, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 4061–4064, 1997
  48. Phase breaking of nonequilibrium electrons in a ballistic quantum dot
    Physical Review B, vol. 56, no. 23, pp. 14937–14940, 1997
  49. The voltage limitation for phase coherence experiments: non-equilibrium effects versus Joule heating
    Superlattices and Microstructures, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 441–446, 1996
  50. Spin-resonance determination of the electron effective g value of In_{0.53}Ga_{0.47}As
    Physical Review B, vol. 54, no. 12, pp. 8551–8555, 1996
  51. Damage induced by plasma etching: On the correlation of results from photoluminescence and transport characterization techniques
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 66, no. 11, p. 1403, 1995
  52. Randomly distributed ultrasmall metal particles on the surface of high mobility 2DEG samples
    Superlattices and Microstructures, vol. 15, no. 3, p. 367, 1994
  53. Determination of the iron acceptor level in CdTe
    Materials Science and Engineering B, vol. 16, no. 1-3, pp. 243–245, 1993
  54. Composition dependence of the in-plane effective mass in lattice-mismatched, strained Ga1-xInxAs/InP single quantum wells
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 63, no. 5, p. 657, 1993
  55. Application of microwave detection of the Shubnikov–de Haas effect in two-dimensional systems
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 73, no. 11, p. 7533, 1993
  56. Carrier-modulated, microwave-detected Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations in two-dimensional systems
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 62, no. 21, p. 2725, 1993
  57. Electron spin resonance investigations of oxidized porous silicon
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 63, no. 14, p. 1930, 1993
  58. Novel applications of contactless characterization techniques in epitaxial crystals and quantum well structures
    Journal of Crystal Growth, vol. 128, no. 1-4, pp. 567–570, 1993
  59. Iron acceptor level in ZnTe
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 61, no. 24, p. 2911, 1992