Nanofabrication Research Group

Manipulating the Position and Orientation of Nanoparticles using Feedback Control — To advance the development of miniaturized systems, there is a need to place nanostructured materials in very precise locations. Only then can practical applications move forward, such as bonding … Measuring Light-Matter Interactions in Chip-Based Optical Cavities — Measuring interactions between light and matter has both fundamental and practical importance. While devices such as lasers usually involve the collective interaction of thousands of photons and … Modeling and Simulation of Nanofabrication — Most manufacturing has historically been based on top-down fabrication and assembly. With rapid advances in nanotechnology, there is increasing interest in potential construction methods based on … Nanomanufacturing and Directed Self Assembly — One of the major obstacles to incorporating nanotechnology into everyday products is the difficulty of making nanoscale structures inexpensively over large areas. Advances in this area could affect … Nanoparticle Tracking for Fluidic Self Assembly — One challenge of nanomanufacturing is to establish methods to assemble solution-based nanoparticles into organized structures with nanometer precision, with an eye toward doing so on an industrial … Nanotribology for Nanomanufacturing — It is possible to mechanically construct devices from nanoscale building blocks by actively guiding specific atoms or nanoscale objects into targeted locations in a top-down fashion. Currently, … Super-resolution Optical Microscopy — As the electronics and data storage industries build devices on ever decreasing scales, they need advanced imaging techniques that allow them to examine structures less than 10 nanometers in size … Three-Dimensional Plasmonic Metamaterials — Metamaterials are tailor-made photonic composites--combinations of materials designed to achieve optical properties not seen in nature. The properties stem from the unique structure of the …

• Fiber-coupled semiconductor waveguides as an efficient optical interface to a single quantum dipole
• Efficient spectroscopy of single embedded emitters using optical fiber taper waveguides
• Single-photon Sources