Nanomechanics

News and Updates

Quantum Thermometer or Optical Refrigerator?

June 22, 2017

In an arranged marriage of optics and mechanics, physicists have created microscopic structural beams that have a variety of powerful uses when light strikes

schematic of laser light interacting with a plasmonic gap resonator

NIST Device for Detecting Subatomic-Scale Motion Has Potential Robotics, Homeland Security Applications

December 15, 2016

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new device that measures the motion of super-tiny particles traversing

NIST Unveils Forensic Technique to Measure Mechanical Properties of Evidence

November 1, 2016

You may have seen it on CSI: The star examines hair from a crime scene and concludes its color or texture looks like the defendant’s hair, or maybe his dog’s

Projects and Programs

Designing the Nanoworld: Nanostructure, Nanodevices, and Nano-optics

Ongoing

Nano and atomic scale theory of the electronic, optical and mechanical properties of ultrasmall structures, such as semiconductor quantum dots and dopants in Si

Video microscopic image - Rotation and translation.

Control of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Nanoscale Manipulation of Fluids and Materials (Archived)

Completed

Scientists and engineers currently have a growing library of synthetic microscale and nanoscale swimmers which affect the hydrodynamics of their surroundings in

The SPMforAMP project develops novel SPM methods

Scanning Probe Microscopy for Advanced Materials and Processes

Ongoing

Local material-property information is essential to evaluate emerging micro- and nanoscale materials, which many manufacturers would like to leverage for their

Scanning Probe Microscopy Measurement and Standards

Ongoing

This project is tasked with enabling accurate nanomechanical property measurements on materials. Our goal is to develop standard reference materials and

Publications

Certification of Standard Reference Material® 3461 Reference Cantilevers for AFM Spring Constant Calibration

August 15, 2022

Author(s)

Richard S. Gates, William Alexander Osborn, Mark McLean, Gordon A. Shaw, James J. Filliben

A batch of 94 silicon chips containing arrays of uniform rectangular cantilevers were microfabricated from a single silicon wafer and their stiffnesses and

Mode localization and tunable overlap in a closed-chain micromechanical resonator array

June 9, 2022

Author(s)

Joon Hyong Cho, Michael Cullinan, Jason J. Gorman

In this paper, we explore the dynamics of a closed chain of coupled micromechanical resonators, where each resonator is coupled to its two nearest neighbors

Anisotropic Acoustodynamics in Gigahertz Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Transducers

May 30, 2022

Author(s)

Jingjie Cheng, Zhaoliang Peng, Penghui Song, Bo Peng, Jason J. Gorman, Justin Kuo, Amit Lal, Wenming Zhang, Lei Shao

In this work, we employed our newly developed optical imaging method to probe detailed acoustodynamic physics in gigahertz (GHz) unreleased ultrasonic

Piezoelectric optomechanical approaches towards quantum microwave-to-optical signal transduction: the need for co-design

March 1, 2022

Author(s)

Krishna Coimbatore Balram, Kartik Srinivasan

Piezoelectric optomechanical platforms represent one of the most promising routes towards achieving quantum transduction of photons between the microwave and