Nanoelectronics

News and Updates

A Smart Use for Doping: Implanted Atoms Create Unique Electrical IDs That Distinguish Bona Fide Devices From Forgeries

September 16, 2021

If someone sells you a luxury handbag from Paris, France, but it turns out be a forgery from Paris, Texas, the counterfeit item might cost you a thousand bucks

Ultracold transistors serve as their own memory devices

July 29, 2021

Digital transistors – assembled by the billions in today’s computer chips – act as near-perfect electronic switches. In the “on” position, achieved when an

Race Logic: Novel Circuitry Solves a Myriad of Computationally Intensive Problems With a Minimum of Energy

May 11, 2021

From the branching pattern of leaf veins to the variety of interconnected pathways that spread the coronavirus, nature thrives on networks — grids that link the

Projects and Programs

Fig. 1. Time re-Envisioned: Not a biproduct of computation but the domain in which information is encoded. Leads to different mathematical functions becoming energy efficient primitives.

Temporal Computing

The human brain does some types of information processing, like speech recognition, image recognition, or video processing, much more efficiently than can be

Fig. 1. Die containing 285 superparamagnetic tunnel junctions.

Spintronics for Neuromorphic Computing

One of the most promising new approaches to next generation information processing is spintronics, where information is carried with electronic spin rather than

Chemical Functionalization and Manipulation of Nano Materials

This project focuses on understanding the potential for nanoscale engineered materials to advance state-of-the-art spectroscopic techniques and foster the

Neuromorphic Device Measurements

Neuromorphic computing is a radical new approach to information processing for artificial intelligence where, instead of using digital electronics, inspiration

Publications

Microwave characterization of graphene inks

October 11, 2021

Author(s)

Jan Obrzut, Ana C. M. Moraes

Systematic charge transport characterization of solution-processed graphene inks using ethyl cellulose polymer as a binder/stabilizer, showed graphene patterns

Mobility Extraction in 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Devices – Avoiding Contact Resistance Implicated Overestimation

June 10, 2021

Author(s)

Chin-Sheng Pang, Ruiping Zhou, Xiangkai Liu, Peng Wu, Terry Y. Hung, Shiqi Guo, Mona E. Zaghloul, Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov, Joerg Appenzeller, Zhihong Chen

Schottky barrier (SB) transistors operate distinctly different from conventional metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), in a unique way

Edge channels of broken-symmetry quantum Hall states in graphene visualized by atomic force microscopy

May 14, 2021

Author(s)

Joseph A. Stroscio, Sungmin Kim, Johannes Schwenk, Daniel T. Walkup, Yihang Zeng, Fereshte Ghahari, Son T. Le, Marlou R. Slot, Julian Berwanger, Steven R. Blankenship, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Franz Giessibl, Nikolai Zhitenev, Cory Dean

The quantum Hall (QH) effect, a topologically non-trivial quantum phase, expanded and brought into focus the concept of topological order in physics. The

Optimal Field-Effect Transistor Operation for High-Resolution Biochemical Measurements

March 23, 2021

Author(s)

Son T. Le, Seulki Cho, Curt A. Richter, Arvind Balijepalli

Field-effect transistors (FETs) are a powerful tool for sensitive measurements of numerous biomarkers (e.g., proteins, nucleic acids, antigen, etc.) and gaseous

Software

MOSAIC

MOSAIC is a modular single-molecule analysis toolbox to decode multi-state single-molecule and nanopore time-series data. Read the documentation for additional

Tools and Instruments

Precision Imaging Facility

The Precision Imaging Facility (PIF) is a cooperative research facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) dedicated to the