Not exact matches
U.S. Naval
Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Manchester, U.K.; Imperial College, London; University of California San Diego; and the National Institute of Material Science (NIMS), Japan, have demonstrated that confined surface phonon polaritons within hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) exhibit unique metamaterial properties that enable novel
nanoscale optical
devices for use in optical communications, super-resolution imaging, and improved infrared cameras and detectors.
Cahill's
research group at Illinois studies the physical mechanisms governing the interplay of spin and heat at the
nanoscale, addressing the fundamental limits of ultrafast spintronic
devices for data storage and information processing.
New
research, led by the University of Southampton, has demonstrated that a
nanoscale device, called a memristor, could be used to power artificial systems that can mimic the human brain.
The
nanoscale refrigerator developed by the
research group at Aalto University solves a massive challenge: with its help, most electrical quantum
devices can be initialized quickly.
Parviz's
research involves embedding
nanoscale and microscale electronic
devices in materials like paper or plastic.
Concretely, based on basic
research on
nanoscale materials, such as atomic and molecular transport and chemical reaction processes, polarization and excitation of charge and spin and superconducting phenomena, we are conducting
research on atomic switches, artificial synapses, molecular
devices, new quantum bits, neural network - type network circuits, next - generation
devices, high sensitivity integrated molecular sensors and other new applied technologies.
«Optomechanics is an area of
research in which extremely minute forces exerted by light (for example: radiation pressure, gradient force, electrostriction) are used to generate and control high - frequency mechanical vibrations of microscale and
nanoscale devices,» explained Gaurav Bahl, an assistant professor of mechanical science and engineering at Illinois.
He is a member of the university's interdisciplinary
Nanoscale Materials and
Device Research Group, where his team engineers biomolecular tools made from DNA.