DVH Research Group, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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As an undergraduate, Micah Stoutimore attended the University of Florida where he graduated with a B.S. in Physics. Micah's undergraduate research involved simulations of events in the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at the Large Hadron Collider. In addition, Micah spent a summer in Houston, Texas as a research experience for undergraduates fellow working in Dr. Richard Smalley's lab performing measurements on carbon nanotube systems.

In 2001, Micah entered graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagin, and in the summer of 2002, began research with Professor Dale Van Harlingen. As per traditionin the DVH research group, Micah has worked on several research projects. The first of these projects was to take up the mantle of scanning SQUID microscopy using a system with temperature range of 1.4K-6.0K and a spatial resolution on the order of 5μm.

After successfully measuring the magnetic field signature from arrays of superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor Josephson π-junctions, Micah moved to measuring the the current-phase relation (CPR) of single junctions of this type. In particular, Micah has measured the CPR of a single niobium-copper/nickel-niobium junction at the temperature crossover between the π-junction and 0-junction state, and found a signature of sin(2φ) tunneling.

In a last hurrah before graduation, Micah has begun a project with the help of Daniel Bahr to measure the magnetic flux signature from mesoscopic crystals of Sr₂RuO₄ in search of chiral currents and/or half flux quantum vortices.

DVH Research Group, 1996-2005
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign