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Nature Nanotechnology by Perrin et al.
Check out this paper by Michael Perrin and coworkers published in Nature Nanotechnology, titled Large tunable image-charge effects in single-molecule junctions! Effect of image-charges on electron...
View Article4 NanoFront PhD’s for MED!
In the recent internal NanoFront PhD funding round, MED scientists succeeded in acquiring 4 positions. The winning projects are: Bionanoelectronics: unlocking the secrets of bacterial nanowires by...
View ArticleVENI and FET-Young grants for Enrique Burzuri
MED Postdoc Enrique Burzuri managed to acquire two prestigious grants: a VENI from NWO and an FET Young Explorers grant from the EU. Enrique will use the funding to investigate applications of magnetic...
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PRL by Bryant, Spinelli et al.
The first paper of the Otte Lab has appeared in Physical Review Letters: Local Control of Single Atom Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy When a magnetic atom is embedded in a material, magnetocrystalline...
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Cantilever NEMS switches in Nature Communications
The cantilever is a prototype of a highly compliant mechanical system and has an instrumental role in nanotechnology, enabling surface microscopy, and ultrasensitive force and mass measurements. Here...
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Nature Materials: Spin waves observed
Spin waves are the elementary excitations of any magnetic material and play an essential role in all magnetic dynamics, for example in the flipping of a bit on a hard disk. In Nature Materials,...
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Nature Nanotechnology: Graphene Optomechanics
Graphene is famous for the relativistic way that electrons in the material move, but more recently, researchers have started studying how the graphene sheet itself moves when you make it into a...
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Nature Communications: Electrons rolling “uphill”
In physics, we are used to thinking about the motion of electrons driven by electric fields: electrons are attracted to regions of lower electrostatic potential, like a ball rolling down a hill. When...
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Nature Communications: Nanotube Decoherence
Coherence is a widely used concept in quantum mechanics. When a quantum system interacts with its environment, the loss of information about the phase of quantum states is defined as decoherence....
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Counting of phonons
Simon Gröblacher co-authors a Hanbury Brown and Twiss type experiment with phonons performed at Caltech, which was recently published in the renowned journal Nature. Pioneering photon counting...
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Controlled closure of cotunneling paths
When electrons tunnel through an atom, they may lose energy in the process. Such inelastic cotunneling events render the atom in an excited state, either with a flipped spin or with an entirely...
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Nature Communications: 3D Optomechanics
In optomechanics, light is used to control and detect mechanical motion. In order to achieve quantum superposition states of motion, researchers are in search of an ideal platform which promises strong...
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Two-impurity Kondo paper in Nature Comms
The Kondo effect – an intricate quantum phenomenon involving the spins of many electrons surrounding a magnetic atom – is already quite intriguing by itself. But an even higher level of complexity is...
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Mechanical Quanta See the Light
Interconnecting different quantum systems is important for future quantum computing architectures, but has proven difficult to achieve. Researchers from the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft),...
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