This lecture will focus on the development of experiments that allow the first direct observation of anyonic braiding statistics in the fractional quantum Hall regime. The connection between development of new theoretical concepts and the behavior of a humble transistor will be emphasized.

Michael Manfra is the Bill and Dee O'Brien Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Professor of Material Science Engineering, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Mike received his A.B. degree from Harvard in 1992 followed by his M.S. in 1994 and PhD from Boston University in 1999. Mike spent 2 years as a Postdoctoral Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies and in 2001 became a member of the Technical Staff of Bell Laboratories where he carried out research in low dimensional electron systems. In 2009 Manfra moved to Purdue as the William F. and Patty J. Miller Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Materials Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering. Mike was a Keck Foundation awardee in 2013 and was promoted to Full Professor in the same year. He was named a University Faculty Scholar in 2013. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2015 and in 2016 became the Director of Microsoft Quantum Lab Purdue, one of a small handful of Microsoft Quantum Laboratories around the globe. Since 2018 he is a member of the Birck Faculty Leadership Council. In 2020 Mike became a Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Michael J. Manfra (2022), "Fractionalization of Charge and Statistics in Two Dimensions," https://nanohub.org/resources/36743.

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1. nanotransistors
2. NCN Transistor @ 75
3. quantum Hall effect
4. transistors