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Physics

Condensed matter

News and Updates

skyrmions

Imaging the Elusive Skyrmion

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with colleagues elsewhere have employed neutron imaging and a reconstruction algorithm

Events

Projects and Programs

Catalyst Testbed

X-ray Testbed for Breakthrough Catalyst Measurements

Ongoing
Interested in collaborating? See below What does this project do for industry? Current measurement techniques are unable to follow the reaction pathways during catalysis and are limited to observing only the end products or looking at catalysts outside of realistic reaction conditions. Our new
joint quantum institute

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

Ongoing
Developing and exploiting nanodevices for quantum and nanotechnologies requires nanoscale and atomic scale modeling of ultrasmall structures, devices, their operation, and their response to probes. Key challenges of understanding physics at the quantum/classical interface and measurement at the

Publications

Detection of fractional quantum Hall states by entropy-sensitive measurements

Author(s)
Nishat Sultana, Robert Rienstra, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi, Joseph Stroscio, Nikolai Zhitenev, D Feldman, Fereshte Ghahari Kermani
Measurements of the thermopower of a clean two-dimensional electron system is directly proportional to the entropy per charge carrier1 which can probe strongly

High-endurance bulk CMOS one-transistor cryo-memory

Author(s)
Alexander Zaslavsky, Pragya Shrestha, Valery Ortiz Jimenez, Jason Campbell, Curt Richter
Previously we reported a compact one-transistor (1T) 180 nm bulk CMOS cryo-memory with a high 10^7 I_1/I_0 memory window and long 800 s retention time based on

Software

The measured and calculated RIXS maps at the oxygen K edge of lithium peroxide

OCEAN

OCEAN is a versatile package for calculating both optical/UV and core-edge spectroscopy. It is a first-principles code based on both ground-state density

HolograFREE

An electron hologram is a fringe modulated image containing the amplitude and phase information of an electron transparent object. The HolograFREE routines

Tools and Instruments