Nanophysics Portal

Most manufacturing has historically been based on top-down fabrication and assembly.  With rapid advances in nanotechnology, there is … more

Tribology is the science and technology of interacting surfaces in relative motion and includes studies of friction, adhesion, lubrication, and … more

Since its discovery, graphene, a single atomic sheet of carbon atoms, has become a leading contender to be a key building-block material for … more

The interest in using graphene as an electronic material arises in large part from the high speed with which electrons move through the material … more

A scanning probe microscope (SPM) in its simplest form uses a fine probe tip in proximity to a sample surface to measure a particular physical … more

The electrons in graphene are confined to the two-dimensional atomic layer of carbon atoms that make up the material .  Since graphene … more