Rate My Professor Ethan Minot

Minot leads the Minot Lab, an experimental condensed matter physics group focused on quantum materials, including carbon nanotubes, graphene, and two-dimensional semiconductors. His research aims to understand quantum phenomena and develop next-generation semiconductor devices for logic, memory, and sensing applications. Expertise includes semiconductor processing, nanoscale metrology, electronic and optoelectronic measurements, scanning photocurrent microscopy, carbon-based photovoltaics, and interfacing nanoelectronics with biology. The lab has produced impactful work, such as a landmark Science publication in collaboration with Aalto University on an AI-powered spectrometer small enough to fit on a microchip. Minot's contributions have been recognized with several honors, including the 2018 College of Science Milton Harris Award in Basic Research, the 2011 NSF CAREER Award, the 2010 Human Frontier Science Program Young Investigator Award, the 2014 Kavli Fellowship at Cornell University, and the 2000 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. He is dedicated to teaching and mentorship, training students in cleanroom fabrication and advanced instrumentation, and facilitating their transitions to industry positions at companies like Intel.