Condensed matter

News and Updates

Two vertical strings of electrons form magnons. Spin waves passing through the left magnon string are larger than those passing through the right, indicating the difference between an on and off state.

MIT, NIST Create First Room-Temp ‘Magnon Switch’ With Industrially Useful Properties

June 15, 2020

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have demonstrated a potentially new

Newfound Superconductor Material Could Be the ‘Silicon of Quantum Computers’

August 15, 2019

A potentially useful material for building quantum computers has been unearthed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), whose scientists

Building a Better Lithium Ion Source to Build a Better FIB

April 22, 2019

Eight years ago, NIST researchers developed a groundbreaking microscope that uses a narrow beam of low-energy lithium ions, rather than a beam of light or

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A Novel Graphene Quantum Dot Structure Takes the Cake

August 23, 2018

In a marriage of quantum science and solid-state physics, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used magnetic fields to

Projects and Programs

PTIR combines the spatial resolution of AFM with the specificity of absorption spectroscopy

Nano-Chemical Imaging and -Spectroscopy (IR, nIR, VIS)

Conventional techniques for analyzing chemical composition, such as infrared (IR) microscopy often miss critically important nanoscale details. To overcome this

Measurement Techniques for Membranes and Membrane Proteins

Synthetic cell membrane constructs allow the simplification and complete control of a more complicated cellular system, as well as the incorporation of selected

Nanotribology for Nanomanufacturing (Archived)

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

Light-matter interactions in Semiconductor Nanostructures

The quantum optics of light interacting with semiconductor-based nanostructures is being studied to extend concepts of entanglement and coherence in atomic

Publications

Staggered spin Hall conductivity

November 25, 2020

Author(s)

Fei Xue, Paul M. Haney

The intrinsic spin Hall effect plays an important role in spintronics applications, such as spin-orbit torque-based memory. The bulk space group symmetry

Faster Exact Exchange in Periodic Systems using Single-precision Arithmetic

November 24, 2020

Author(s)

John T. Vinson

We show that the use of single-precision arithmetic for calculating the exchange interaction in periodic systems results in nearly halving computation time with

Local negative permittivity and topological-phase transition in polar skyrmions

October 12, 2020

Author(s)

Sujit Das, Zijian Hong, Vladimir Stoica, Mauro A. Goncalves, Yu-Tsun Shao, Eric Parsonnet, Eric J. Marksz, Sahar Saremi, Margaret McCarter, A Reynoso, Christian J. Long, Aaron M. Hagerstrom, D Meyers, V Ravi, B Prasad, H Zhou, Z Zhang, H Wen, F Gomez-Ortiz, P Garcia-Fernandez, J Bokor, J Iniguez, J Freeland, Nathan D. Orloff, J Junquera, Long-Qing Chen, Sayeef Salahuddin, David A. Muller, L Martin, R. Ramesh

Topological solitons such as magnetic skyrmions have drawn enormous attention as stable quasi- particle-like objects. The recent discovery of polar vortices and

Imaging the valley and orbital Hall effect in monolayer MoS2

October 6, 2020

Author(s)

Fei Xue, Vivek P. Amin, Paul M. Haney

Software

HolograFREE

An electron hologram is a fringe modulated image containing the amplitude and phase information of an electron transparent object. The HolograFREE routines

Tools and Instruments

High Throughput (Combinatorial) Screening Tool for Characterization of Thin Film Thermoelectrics as a Function Temperature

High-throughput (combinatorial) metrologies have evolved as a useful approach to rapidly determine the composition-structure-property relationships for novel