Nanoelectronics

News and Updates

Frances Lloyd poses next to a microscope.

Spotlight: Revisiting a Powerful Pioneer for the World’s Voltage Standards

March 30, 2022

Frances Lloyd was rejoining the workforce in 1977 after taking time off to raise her child. She had an impressive background. Frances worked on aircraft

Scientists Greatly Expand the Frequencies Generated by a Miniature Optical Ruler

February 23, 2022

Like a vocal coach who extends the octave range of an opera singer, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have expanded by

Hybrid Optical Device Captures Light for Longer Periods of Time in a Tiny Region

February 9, 2022

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have significantly improved the ability of a type of optical

Projects and Programs

Neuromorphic Device Measurements

Ongoing

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

Small array of transistors designed for single device integration.

Integrated CMOS Testbeds for Nanoelectronics and Machine Learning

Ongoing

With the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and its insatiable demand for low-energy, high performance computing, research is accelerating into novel

Chemical Functionalization and Manipulation of Nano Materials

Ongoing

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

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

Ongoing

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

Publications

Thickness-dependent transport properties and photoresponse in MoSe2 field-effect transistors

February 4, 2022

Author(s)

Shiqi Guo, Sergiy Krylyuk, Hsin Y. Lee, Ratan K. Debnath, Albert Davydov, Mona E. Zaghloul

Transition metal dichalcogenides have been studied extensively due to their unique properties in low-dimensional limits. In this work, we have examined the

Polarity-tunable anomalous Hall effect in magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4

February 4, 2022

Author(s)

Albert Davydov, Huairuo Zhang

The polarity-tunable anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is useful for electronic device applications. Here in a magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 grown by

Geometric interference in a high-mobility graphene annulus p-n junction device

January 10, 2022

Author(s)

Son Le, Albert Rigosi, Joseph Hagmann, Christopher Gutiérrez, Ji Ung Lee, Curt A. Richter

The emergence of interference is observed in the resistance of a graphene annulus pn junction device as a result of applying two separate gate voltages. The

Gradient Decomposition Methods for Training Neural Networks with Non-Ideal Synaptic Devices

November 22, 2021

Author(s)

Junyun Zhao, Siyuan Huang, Osama Yousuf, Yutong Gao, Brian Hoskins, Gina Adam

While promising for high capacity machine learning accelerators, memristor devices have non-idealities that prevent software-equivalent accuracies when used for

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