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Tissue Engineering
Last Updated Date: 06/08/2016 Our goal is to develop reliable tools and standards for measuring the properties of cells, biomaterials, scaffolds and tissue-engineered … more
CMOS Device and Reliability
Last Updated Date: 05/27/2016 The CMOS Device and Reliability Project aims to develop new metrology tools for characterizing high-performance complementary … more
Metrology and Synthesis of 3D Nanostructures
Last Updated Date: 05/25/2016 We synthesize semiconductor nanostructures to serve both as test structures for measurement techniques and as building blocks for novel metrology … more
Probing Graphene Electronic Devices with Atomic Scale Measurements
Last Updated Date: 04/27/2016 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
Measuring Topological Insulator Surface State Properties
Last Updated Date: 04/27/2016 The transmission of information in today’s electronics requires the movement of electrical charge, which expends energy and generates heat, … more
Designing Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy Instruments
Last Updated Date: 04/27/2016 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
Atom Manipulation with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Last Updated Date: 04/27/2016 At the heart of nanotechnology is the need to create nanostructures, which are material structures whose dimensions are in the nanometer scale. … more
Optical Methods for 3-D Nanostructure Metrology
Last Updated Date: 04/22/2016 We develop new approaches to optical microscopy and electromagnetic modeling to enable improved metrology of nanoscale structures with dimensions … more
Nanomagnetic Imaging
Last Updated Date: 04/06/2016 The microscopic arrangement of the magnetic structure within a thin metal film plays a fundamental role in many technological applications ranging … more
Tracking Nanoparticles as Optical Indicators of Device Dynamics
Last Updated Date: 04/01/2016 Nanofabricated and microfabricated devices, ranging from nanomotors propelled by ultrasound to microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), can move in … more
Connecting Thermodynamic and Dynamic Properties of Bulk and Confined Fluids
Last Updated Date: 03/31/2016 It is well known that the physical properties of a fluid can change profoundly, and often non-trivially, when placed in a confined environment. … more
COMPLETED: Nanoscale Thermal Properties Project
Last Updated Date: 03/31/2016 Our goal is to develop measurement techniques to characterize the changes in thermal transport and thermal transition temperatures in polymeric … more
Dimensional Metrology for Nanofabrication
Last Updated Date: 03/29/2016 Our goal is to develop measurements that quantify the shape, size, orientation, and fidelity of nanoscale patterns as a platform to quantitatively … more
Advanced Microwave Photonics
Last Updated Date: 03/02/2016 Research on quantum information (QI) seeks to control and exploit exotic properties of quantum mechanics, and researchers are already generating … more
Forensic Topography and Surface Metrology
Last Updated Date: 02/17/2016 We seek to build the scientific infrastructure for objective forensic firearm and toolmark identification by developing rigorous procedures to … more |
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