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SRC, NIST Introduce Second Phase of Nanoelectronics Research Initiative with $5 Million in Annual Funding to Develop Post-CMOS Electronics
Release Date: 05/08/2013 Additional Media Contact: SRC: Dan Francisco 916-293-9030 NRI Second Phase Features Multi-University Network Focused on Research Centers at … more
New Temporal Filtering Technique Improves Solid-State Single Photon Sources
Release Date: 05/08/2013 Schematic showing a single photon source (SPS) that is created from a quantum dot (QD) by optically pumping it with a periodically pulsed … more
Nanoscale Edge Variations Observed with Record-breaking Resolution in Magnetic Nanodevices
Release Date: 03/27/2013 Ferromagnetic resonance force microscopy image of the precession of an edge mode in a 500 nm diameter permalloy disk. The disk appears … more
Calculating Quantum Vacuum Forces in Nanostructures
Release Date: 02/07/2013 One of the surprising predictions of quantum mechanics is that uncharged conductors can attract each other over small distances, even in empty … more
Photons Emitted by Quantum Dots Can be Made Indistinguishable Through Quantum Frequency Conversion
Release Date: 12/19/2012 The quantum frequency conversion system uses two pump lasers whose frequency difference is matched to the difference between the two input photon … more
New Platform Developed to Measure and Exploit Optomechanical Interactions
Release Date: 12/12/2012 A pair of nanobeams is held side-by-side and separated by a nanoscale gap, with more
Researchers Develop Versatile Optomechanical Sensors for Atomic Force Microscopy
Release Date: 10/24/2012 < more
A Fast and Sensitive Nanophotonic Motion Sensor Developed for Silicon Microdevices
Release Date: 09/19/2012 False-color scanning electron micrograph of a nanophotonic motion sensor. Vertical motion of the silicon nitride ring (pink) changes an evanescent … more
CNST Researchers Demonstrate Low-Noise, Chip-Based Optical Wavelength Converter
Release Date: 09/05/2012 Scanning electron micrograph of the cross-section of a silicon nitride waveguide designed for the low-noise frequency conversion with a simulation … more
CNST Releases the Summer 2012 Edition of The CNST News
Release Date: 08/08/2012 The NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) is pleased to announce the release of the summer 2012 edition of The CNST News. This … more
Researchers Demonstrate and Explain Surface Conduction in a Topological Insulator
Release Date: 07/11/2012 Researchers at the University of Maryland and the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology have for the first time experimentally … more
'Tuning' Graphene Drums Might Turn Conductors to Semiconductors
Release Date: 06/27/2012 Tightening or relaxing the tension on a drumhead will change the way the drum sounds. The same goes for drumheads made from graphene, only instead … more
Shaffique Adam Receives Singapore National Research Foundation Fellowship
Release Date: 06/27/2012 In July, Shaffique Adam will join the inaugural faculty of Yale-NUS College as an Assistant Professor of Science, with a joint appointment in the … more
Hark! Group Demonstrates First Heralded Single Photon Source Made from Silicon
Release Date: 06/27/2012 In an important step towards more practical quantum information processing, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology … more |
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