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

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

A 3" wafer is seen concentric with the lower plasma electrode.

Precision Materials for Quantum Devices

Tunnel junctions, single electron transistors and superconducting resonators are fabricated using ultra-high vacuum metals’ deposition and in situ low energy

Advanced Materials: X-ray Science for Standards and Analysis

Advanced experimental and theoretical methods are developed to increase the accuracy and precision of X-ray line energies and information derived from X-ray

Spin Transport

The Spin Transport program performs basic and applied research, and develops new measurement capabilities, to enable the development of high-speed, nonvolatile

Publications

Operando Study of Thermal Oxidation of Monolayer MoS2

March 1, 2021

Author(s)

Sangwook Park, Angel Garcia-Esparza, Hadi Abroshan, Baxter Abraham, John T. Vinson, Allesandro Gallo, Dennis Nordlund, Joonsuk Park, Taeho R. Kim, Roberto Alonso-Mori, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Xiaolin Zheng

Monolayer MoS2 is a promising semiconductor to overcome the physical dimension limits of the microelectronic devices. Understanding the thermochemical stability

Topological surface states of MnBi2Te4 at finite temperatures and at domain walls

February 24, 2021

Author(s)

Kevin F. Garrity, Sugata Chowdhury, Francesca M. Tavazza

MnBi2Te4 has recently been the subject of intensive study, due to the prediction of axion insulator, Weyl semimetal, and quantum anomalous Hall insulator phases

Examining Experimental Raman Mode Behavior in Mono- and Bilayer 2H-TaSe2 via Density Functional Theory: Implications for Quantum Information Science

February 16, 2021

Author(s)

Sugata Chowdhury, Heather M. Hill, Albert Rigosi, Andrew Briggs, Helmuth Berger, David B. Newell, Angela Hight Walker, Francesca M. Tavazza

A Non-Topological Approach to Understanding Weyl Semimetals

February 1, 2021

Author(s)

Antonio L. Levy, Albert Rigosi, Francois Joint, Gregory Jenkins

Software

The measured and calculated RIXS maps at the oxygen K edge of lithium peroxide

OCEAN

OCEAN is a versatile package for calculating both optical/UV and core-edge spectroscopy. It is a first-principles code based on both ground-state density

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