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The interest in using graphene as an electronic material arises in large part from the high speed with which electrons move through the material … more

The Small Force Metrology project supports U.S. instrumentation vendors, academic researchers, government scientists, and a broad spectrum of … more

Providing critical measurements of mass, force, vibration, and acoustics for a broad range of industries and aspects of everyday life. Such … more

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

Nanoscale theory of the electronic, optical and mechanical properties of ultrasmall structures, devices and their dynamical operation and the … more

Single-particle tracking is a powerful tool for probing the transport behavior and local environmental properties of individual nanoparticles in … more

The behavior and properties of macroscale objects are stable and predictable because they are the result of the average behavior of very large … more

Most manufacturing has historically been based on top-down fabrication and assembly.  With rapid advances in nanotechnology, there is … more

Quantum coherent materials have become important in magnetic sensors as well as information processing technology. For magnetic sensors, … more

Single photons are the fundamental particles for all optical measurements. Single photon detectors made from avalanche photodiodes or … more

Observing and measuring the dynamic changes that take place at the nanometer scale during the synthesis and use of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), … more

The goal of the Quantum Conductance Project is to develop graphene metrology for intrinsic electrical standards, specifically … more

A scanning probe microscope (SPM) in its simplest form uses a fine probe tip in proximity to a sample surface to measure a particular physical … more

Organic materials (multi-carbon compounds) are amenable to almost Lego©-like tinkering with their structure and composition, and can exhibit … more

High precision linear and nonlinear optics of next-generation lithographic techniques is measured and characterized to enable these technologies. more