Nanofabrication / manufacturing

News and Updates

Licensing Opportunities for NIST Technologies

November 18, 2022

New technologies are always invented in the labs at NIST every year. The researchers dedicate their time to discovering these new solutions to problems and

No Fib: NIST Unmasks a Superfast Process for Nanoscale Machining

August 23, 2022

Cutting intricate patterns as small as several billionths of a meter deep and wide, the focused ion beam (FIB) is an essential tool for deconstructing and

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

Industry Impacts

Illustrative subset of parameterized shapes available for nanoscale photonic, electronic, mechanic, fluidic, and other applications.

Nanolithography Design Tools

Accurate production of nanoscale features on semiconductor chips is essential to their performance, but typical design tools cater to the dominance of straight

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

Optical and Optoelectronic Materials Characterization

Ongoing

This project aims to develop rigorous measurements and methodology needed for determining optical and electrical properties of advanced materials that might be

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

Platform for Realizing Integrated Molecule Experiments (PRIME)

Ongoing

PRIME (Platform for Realizing Integrated Molecule Experiments) aims to establish primary, quantum-based realizations for both the radiometric watt and kelvin

Publications

Ultra-low loss quantum photonic circuits integrated with single quantum emitters

December 12, 2022

Author(s)

Ashish Chanana, Hugo Larocque, Renan Moreira, Jacques Carolan, Biswarup Guha, Emerson Goncalves De Melo, Vikas Anant, Jin Dong Song, Dirk Englund, Daniel Blumenthal, Marcelo Davanco, Kartik Srinivasan

Photon-based photonic quantum information systems require both scalable ultra-low loss photonic circuits and high-flux sources of single-photons. Direct

Enhanced Atomic Precision Fabrication by Adsorption of Phosphine into Engineered Dangling Bonds on H–Si Using STM and DFT

November 1, 2022

Author(s)

Jonathan Wyrick, Xiqiao Wang, Pradeep Namboodiri, Ranjit Kashid, Fan Fei, Joseph Fox, Richard M. Silver

Doping of Si using the scanning probe technique of hydrogen depassivation lithography has been shown to enable placing and positioning small numbers of P atoms

Synthesizing ultrafast optical pulses with arbitrary spatiotemporal control

October 26, 2022

Author(s)

Lu Chen, Wenqi Zhu, Pengcheng Huo, Junyeob Song, Henri Lezec, Ting Xu, Amit Agrawal

The ability to control the instantaneous state of light – its phase, amplitude, polarization, or wavefront – of high-energy pulses down to the single-photon

Synthesizing the biochemical and semiconductor worlds: the future of nucleic acid nanotechnology

October 13, 2022

Author(s)

Jacob Majikes, James Alexander Liddle

There are few phrases truer for technological soothsaying than "fools rush in where angels fear to tread." Prediction is particularly difficult in the case of

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

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