Nanophysics

News and Updates

A new twist on measuring spin: NIST Develops Microresonator to Study Electron Spin in Small Volumes

November 17, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a device to detect a quantum property of electrons, known as spin, in

Painting With Light: Novel Nanopillars Precisely Control the Color and Intensity of Transmitted Light

September 4, 2020

By shining white light on a glass slide stippled with millions of tiny titanium dioxide pillars, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and

Atomic ‘Swiss Army Knife’ Precisely Measures Materials for Quantum Computers

July 6, 2020

It images single atoms. It maps atomic-scale hills and valleys on metal and insulating surfaces. And it records the flow of current across atom-thin materials

Getting a closer look at living cells and batteries: a little bit of graphene goes a long way

March 6, 2020

Researchers at NIST have devised a way to eliminate a long-standing problem affecting our understanding of both living cells and batteries. When a solid and an

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

Tracking Nanoparticles as Optical Indicators of Device Dynamics

Nanofabricated and microfabricated devices, ranging from nanomotors propelled by ultrasound to microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), can move in fascinating

Nanotribology for Nanomanufacturing (Archived)

Tribology is the science and technology of interacting surfaces in relative motion and includes studies of friction, adhesion, lubrication, and wear

Light-matter interactions in Semiconductor Nanostructures

The quantum optics of light interacting with semiconductor-based nanostructures is being studied to extend concepts of entanglement and coherence in atomic

Publications

Open-system tensor networks and Kramers' crossover for quantum transport

May 12, 2020

Author(s)

Gabriela Wojtowicz, Justin E. Elenewski, Marek Rams, Michael P. Zwolak

Tensor networks are a powerful tool for many-body ground-states with limited entanglement. These methods can nonetheless fail for certain time-dependent

Tuning single-electron charging and interactions between compressible Landau level islands in graphene

January 29, 2020

Author(s)

Daniel T. Walkup, Fereshte Ghahari Kermani, Christopher Guti?rrez, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Nikolai B. Zhitenev, Joseph A. Stroscio

Interacting quantum dots (QDs), small chunks of matter with well-separated energies of electronic levels, have been extensively exploited in condensed matter

Phononic Frequency Combs For Engineering MEMS/NEMS Devices With Tunable Sensitivity

January 13, 2020

Author(s)

Adarsh V. Ganesan, Ashwin Seshia, Jason J. Gorman

Over the past two decades, MEMS resonators have received considerable attention for physical, chemical and biological sensing applications. Typically, the

Microwave-to-optics conversion using a mechanical oscillator in its quantum ground state

October 7, 2019

Author(s)

Moritz Forsch, Robert Stockill, Andreas Wallucks, Igor Marinkovic, Claus Gartner, Richard Norte, Frank van der Otten, Andrea Fiore, Kartik A. Srinivasan, Simon Groeblacher

Tools and Instruments

Local Electrode Atom Probe Tomography (LEAP)

Field evaporates (with a voltage and laser pulse) a sharp tip-shaped specimen. Collects the ionization products in a position-sensitive, time-of-flight mass