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  • Researchers Find New Way to Manipulate Magnetism

    In a pioneering effort to control, measure and understand magnetism at the atomic level, researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered a new method for manipulating the nanoscale properties of magnetic materials. The ability to control these properties has potential applications in creating and improving the magnetic memory in consumer electronic devices and developing a sensitive detector for magnetic nanoparticles. The discovery focuses on a [...]

    Published On: September 16, 2017Categories: NANO Blog, Nano News4.3 min read

  • August 31, 2017 – Photon-triggered nanowire transistors are reported in Nature Nanotechnology

    Kim et al., recently reported on photon-triggered nanowire (NW) transistors, a new step toward optical computing. These devices consist of crystalline silicon (CSi) NWs that include (PSi) segments in the middle and electrical contacts at both ends of the NW. The PSi acts as a reservoir and supplies carriers to the CSi channel when is exposed to light. It allows for an on/off ratio as high as 8×106. Based on [...]

    Published On: September 5, 2017Categories: NANO Blog, Nano News0.6 min read

  • August 31, 2017 – Nanophotonic Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) transducers enable chemical composition and thermal conductivity measurements at the nanoscale

    A near-field cavity optomechanics readout concept has been integrated with picogram-scale probes to realize fully functional AFM detection. This allows achieving high temporal resolution (<10 ns) and picometer vertical displacement uncertainty simultaneously, breaking the trade-off between AFM measurement precision and ability to capture transient events. Adapted with permission from Nano Lett., Article ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b02404. Copyright © 2017 American Chemical Society. To read more: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b02404 (Contents prepared by Dr. Noelia Vico [...]

    Published On: September 5, 2017Categories: NANO Blog, Nano News0.5 min read

  • February 23, 2016 – Microtubules propelled by surface-adhered kinesin motors perform biocomputationAn international team of researchers has made a breakthrough in the field of biocomputation.

    By exploiting microtubules propelled by surface-adhered kinesin motors as motile nanoscale agents capable of performing basic computations, the subset sum problem was solved in a highly parallel approach. For more information, see Nicolau Jr. et al. in the Early Access Section of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: To read more: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/02/17/1510825113 (Contents prepared by H. Hess and posted by Y. Tzeng.)  

    Published On: February 20, 2016Categories: NANO Blog, Nano News0.4 min read

  • December 25, 2015 – 2-D dichalcogenide MoS2 with PL QY of more than 95% is reported in Science

    Amani et al. recently reported near-perfect two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide, MoS2 with photoluminescence quantum yield of more than 95% by chemical treatment in a nonoxidizing organic superacid: bis(trifluoromethane) sulfonimide (TFSI), which eliminates defect-mediated nonradiative recombination. To read more: Near-unity photoluminescence quantum yield in MoS2. Matin Amani, Der-Hsien Lien, Daisuke Kiriya, Jun Xiao, Angelica Azcatl, Jiyoung Noh, Surabhi R. Madhvapathy, Rafik Addou, Santosh KC, Madan Dubey, Kyeongjae Cho, Robert M. Wallace, [...]

    Published On: December 29, 2015Categories: NANO Blog, Nano News0.5 min read

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