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Neil M. Zimmerman (Ctr)

Neil M. Zimmerman works as an experimental physicist at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in the Nanoscale Processes and Measurements Group. Much of his past work has focused on research in silicon single electron devices to build a standard of the electrical current based on the elementary charge, and for use as qubits in the solid state. He is currently working on helping develop the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect as a resistance standard.  He has authored/co-authored about 87 peer-reviewed articles, has an h-index of 26, and has won several awards including the NIST Condon Award.

Projects

Publications

DC to GHz measurements of a near-ideal 2D material: P+ monolayers

Author(s)
Neil M. Zimmerman, Antonio Levy, Pradeep Namboodiri, Joshua M. Pomeroy, Xiqiao Wang, Joseph Fox, Richard M. Silver
P+ monolayers in Si are of great scientific and technological interest, both intrinsically as a material in the "ideal vacuum" of crystalline Si, and because...

Patents (2018-Present)

The device reprinted from Z. H. Levine et al., Sensors 25 (17) 5470 (2025).

Metrological Photon Counter and Metrologically Counting Photons at Room Temperature

NIST Inventors
Zachary H. Levine , Neil M. Zimmerman , Alan Migdall and Joshua Bienfang
A gated few-photon pulse enters the device and is converted to electron-hole pairs through photoabsorption. Electric fields lead to the separation of the electron-hole pairs. The electrons are taken to an electronically defined well near a field-effect transistor. (The holes are discarded through a
Created May 21, 2019, Updated January 30, 2026
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