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The Better to See You With: Scientists Build Record-Setting Metamaterial Flat Lens
Release Date: 05/23/2013 For the first time, scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new type of lens that … 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
Nanowire Position and Orientation Precisely Controlled Using Fluid Flow
Release Date: 04/11/2013 Video showing a 10 µm × 1 µm fluorescently labeled rod being controlled using a combination of electric fields and fluid flow to … 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
NIST's 'Nanotubes on a Chip' May Simplify Optical Power Measurements
Release Date: 01/24/2013 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has demonstrated a novel chip-scale instrument made of carbon nanotubes that may … more
Controlling Particles for Directed Self-Assembly of Colloidal Crystals
Release Date: 01/17/2013 Optical micrographs showing the assembly of a 2D colloidal crystal composed of approximately 200 particles. Top: The initia 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
Key Property of Graphene Sustained Over Wide Ranges of Density and Energy
Release Date: 11/14/2012 A collaboration led by researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology has shown for the first time that charge … more
Researchers Develop Versatile Optomechanical Sensors for Atomic Force Microscopy
Release Date: 10/24/2012 < more
Researchers Introduce New Method for Imaging Defects in Magnetic Nanodevices
Release Date: 09/12/2012 Top: Scanning electron micrograph of an array of magnetic nanodisks with a oval-shaped “defect” structure at center. … more
Researchers Determine the Optimum Path for Tracking Fluorescent Nanoparticles Using a Laser
Release Date: 08/29/2012 NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology researchers Gregg Gallatin and Andrew Berglund (now at Quantifind in Palo Alto, CA) … 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 |
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