Nicolas Bruque
PhD Candidate
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Engineering Building
Unit II - Room 238
Riverside, CA 92521

nbruque_at_ee_dot_ucr_dot_edu

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Research Interest:
   
Quantum electron transport of nanoscale devices
    Linux Beowulf parallel programming/administration - See LATTE's clusters
    Advising Professor: Dr. Roger Lake
    Research group: LAboratory for Terascale & Terahertz Electronics (LATTE)

Education:
    Ph.D. (c) in Electrical Engineering 2009
    Dept. of Electrical Engineering
    University of California, Riverside

    M.S. in Electrical Engineering 2005
    Dept. of Electrical Engineering
    University of California, Riverside

    B.S. in Electrical Engineering 2002
    Dept. of Electrical & Computer Eng.
    University of California, Davis

Journal Publications:
1.      M. K. Ashraf, N. A. Bruque, R. R. Pandey, P. G. Collins and R. K. Lake, “Effect of Localized Oxygen Functionalization on the Conductance of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes,” (2008) (submitted to Phys. Rev. B & under review)

2.     
N. A. Bruque, M. K. Ashraf and R. K. Lake, “Conductance of a Conducting Molecule with Carbon Nanotube Contacts,” (2008) (submitted to Phys. Rev. B & under revision). http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2851

3.     
N. A. Bruque, R. R. Pandey and R. K. Lake, “Electron transport through a conjugated molecule with carbon nanotube leads,” Phys. Rev. B, 76 (20), 205322,  (2007), http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.76.205322

4.     
D. Shah, N. Bruque, K. Alam, R. Lake and R. Pandey, “Electronics Properties of Carbon Nanotubes Calculated from Density Functional Theory and the Empirical pi-Bond Model,” J. Computational Electronics, 6(4), 395 - 400 (2007), http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10825-007-0147-5..

5.     
X. Wang, F. Liu, S. Andavan, X. Jing, N. Bruque, R. Pandey, R. Lake, K. Singh, M. Ozkan, K. Wang and C. Ozkan, Carbon Nanotube-DNA Nanoarchitectures and Electronic Functionality, Small, 2(11), 1356-1365 (2006), http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.200600056.

6.     
N. Bruque, K. Alam, R. Pandey, R. K. Lake, X. Wang, F. Liu, C. S. Ozkan, M. Ozkan, and K. L. Wang, “Self-Assembled Carbon Nanotubes for Electronic Circuit and Device Applications,” J. Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics. 1(1), 74-81 (2006), http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jno.2006.007.

7.     
R. Pandey, N. Bruque, K. Alam and R. Lake, “Carbon Nanotube – Molecular Resonant Tunneling Diode,” Phys. Stat. Sol. (a) 203(2), R5-R7, (2006), http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pssa.200521467 (Featured on journal cover).

8.     
N. Bruque, R. Pandey, K. Alam, R. Lake, H. Wang and J. Lewis; “Electronic Transport Through a CNT-Pseudopeptide-CNT Hybrid Material, Molecular Simulation, 31(12), 859 - 864 (2005), http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pssa.200521467.

UCR Graduate Student Researcher/Teaching Assistant:
    
EE133 - Solid State Electronics Fall 2008
     GSR - LATTE, (support from NSF, MARCO-FENA) Spring 2005 - Present
     EE134 - Digital Integrated Circuit Layout and Design, WIN 2005
     GSR - Prof. Lake, (MARCO/FENA), SPR 2004, SUM2004, FALL2004
     EE110B - Signals & Systems II,  WIN 2004
     EE1B - Engineering Circuit Analysis II, FALL 2003

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