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Physical Measurement Laboratory /Nanoscale Device Characterization Division

Nanoscale Spectroscopy Group

Conducts basic research to advance the optical and electrical measurement science infrastructure necessary for innovation in future thin-film devices and their component materials for nanoelectronic, optoelectronic, and quantum information applications.

Individual quantum center creation, characterization, quantum control, efficient collection and readout.
Spectroscopy and Application of Solid-State Quantum Centers
Optomechanical probe PTIR setup
Nanoscale Spectroscopy for Advanced Electronics, Quantum Materials and Devices
Diagram showing multidimensional spectroscopy experiment and sample polarization-dependent multidimensional spectra.
Ultrafast Spectroscopy to Advance Microelectronics

The Nanoscale Spectroscopy Group harnesses light-matter interactions for nanoscale metrology of materials and devices in critical and emerging technologies. The group’s current expertise includes nanoscale scanned-probe spectroscopy, optical techniques for spectroscopy and dynamics, manipulation of matter on the nanoscale, electronic and photonic device physics, optoelectronic characterization of individual nano structures, and advancing metrology for defect-based devices. These capabilities are applied in research programs that support development in applications such as optoelectronics, future semiconductor electronics, quantum sensing, and quantum information science.

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Projects and Programs

Schematic of interface engineering 2D materials.

Chemical Functionalization and Manipulation of Nano Materials

Ongoing
This project focuses on manipulating nanomaterials, including weakly bonded van der Waals systems, and probing emergent phenomena in these nanoengineered systems to impact technologies such as nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, quantum sensing, and quantum computing. Developing processes to
Electron micrographs of representative as-synthesized MNPs for thermometry.

Engineering and Optical Characterization of Magnetic Nanoparticles (MNPs)

Ongoing
Nanomagnets by Design Nanoparticles are an important subclass of low-dimensional magnetic materials displaying size-dependent magnetic behavior. The controllable magnetocrystalline anisotropy introduced at nanoscale size regimes (as low as 3 nms in diameter) allows for MNPs of ferro/ferrimagnetic
tripeptides

Far-infrared Spectroscopy of Biomolecules (Archived)

Completed
We employ novel complimentary measurement and theoretical techniques to explore the low frequency intramolecular dynamics of model biological molecules including amino acids, short peptides with constrained structures, proteins with well-defined tertiary structures and DNAs. Our current efforts

Publications

Solution Synthesis of NdTe3 Magnetic Nanosheets

Author(s)
Joel Swanson, Salah El Jamal, Tyler Hartman, Orlando Stewart, Priscilla Glaser, Adam Biacchi, DaVonne Henry, Amy Liu, Sarah Stoll
Neodymium tritelluride is a layered van der Waals material, with correlated electronic properties including high electronic mobility, charge density waves, and

Tools and Instruments

Far-infrared Spectrometer

Nicolet Magna 550 FTIR for far- and mid-infrared spectral acquisition. This modified instrument contains a silicon-coated mylar beamsplitter and standard DTGS

Raman facility

Raman scattering is a powerful light scattering technique used to diagnose the internal structure of molecules and crystals. In a light scattering experiment

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