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Semiconductor Metrology for Energy Conversion
Last Updated Date: 08/21/2012 Optical Materials Metrology 21st century optoelectronics emphasizes energy technologies, and modern security issues have heightened needs for … more
Nanomagnetic Imaging
Last Updated Date: 08/20/2012 The microscopic arrangement of the magnetic structure within a thin metal film plays a fundamental role in many technological applications ranging … more
Theory of Spin Transfer Torque
Last Updated Date: 08/14/2012 The working of countless electronic devices involves electric and magnetic effects interacting within nanostructured materials. In the phenomenon … more
Micro- and Nano-Mechanical Systems
Last Updated Date: 07/25/2012 Micro- and nano-optomechanical systems are being investigated experimentally to bring these systems toward the quantum limit, study quantum … more
Single Electron Coherence
Last Updated Date: 07/25/2012 CMOS-compatible Si-based SET quantum dots systems are being fabricated and electrically characterized at low temperature to explore the possibility … more
Theory and Modeling of Materials for Renewable Energy
Last Updated Date: 07/12/2012 Renewable energy sources such as solar energy are attractive alternatives to fossil fuels because of their abundant supply and pollution-free power … more
Nanostructures for Energy Conversion
Last Updated Date: 07/10/2012 Electrochemical systems containing nanostructured materials are increasingly being incorporated into devices for efficiently harvesting, … more
Electron Transport in Graphene
Last Updated Date: 06/06/2012 Graphene, a one-atom thick sheet of carbon, shows great promise as a material for building nanometer-scale electronic devices that would help to … more
Light-matter Interactions in Semiconductor Nanostructures
Last Updated Date: 05/30/2012 The quantum optics of light interacting with semiconductor-based nanostructures is being studied to extend concepts of entanglement and coherence … more
Designing the Nanoworld: Nanostructures, Nanodevices, and Nanooptics
Last Updated Date: 05/30/2012 Nanoscale theory of the electronic, optical and mechanical properties of ultrasmall structures, devices and their dynamical operation and the … more
Modeling and Simulation of Nanofabrication
Last Updated Date: 03/09/2012 Most manufacturing has historically been based on top-down fabrication and assembly. With rapid advances in nanotechnology, there is … more
Nanostructure Fabrication and Metrology
Last Updated Date: 11/07/2011 Single photons are the fundamental particles for all optical measurements. Single photon detectors made from avalanche photodiodes or … more
In Situ Characterization of Nanoscale Gas-Solid Interactions by TEM
Last Updated Date: 10/11/2011 Observing and measuring the dynamic changes that take place at the nanometer scale during the synthesis and use of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), … more
Electronic Transport in Nanoscale Organic/Inorganic Devices
Last Updated Date: 07/25/2011 Organic materials (multi-carbon compounds) are amenable to almost Lego©-like tinkering with their structure and composition, and can exhibit … more |
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