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Reconfigurable Structured Surfaces for Enhanced Security Features (Bank Note)
This technology from the Aizenberg lab describes a surface that is capable of protecting physical biometric information, such as fingerprints, by stochastically reconfiguring deformable microscale and/or nanoscale surface structures through dynamic…
DBD
- Christopher Petty
Investigators
- Joanna Aizenberg
Band-gap tunable elastic optical multilayer fibers
Soft photonic fibers that reflect light in the visible spectrum via microscopic multilayer arrangements. The technology is inspired by photonic structures encountered in nature that reflect light to produce vivid and brilliant colors. Key aspects of…
DBD
- Christopher Petty
Investigators
- Joanna Aizenberg
Compact, tunable lens using compliant transparent electrodes
Conventional lenses have specific focal lengths and aberration characteristics due to their shape and comprising material. For adaptable systems, such as a camera that can focus at objects at different distances, often mechanical systems area used…
DBD
- Christopher Petty
Investigators
- David Clarke
- Samuel Shian
- Roger Diebold
High speed 3D magnetometry using NV centers in diamond
Many magnetic field sensing applications including orienting and stabilizing aircraft and down-hole drilling machines, as well as field imaging, require the determination of the magnetic field projection along all three spatial directions (X, Y, and…
Investigators
- Ronald Walsworth
- John Barry
- Jennifer Schloss
- Matthew Turner
- Mikael Backland
Measuring resistance at the scale of a single transistor
According to Moore’s law, electronic devices such as transistors have been shrinking in size to yield higher performance. Currently, feature sizes are on the order of 10 nm, and important parameters for the device operation, such as temperature and…
Investigators
- Mikhail Lukin
- Hongkun Park
Functionalized and coated carbon nanotubes via atomic layer deposition
Carbon nanotubes have remarkable electrical and optical properties that have not been extensively commercialized in part due to difficulties making robust and high quality devices containing them. One current difficulty is the lack of an effective…
DBD
- Christopher Petty
Investigators
- Roy Gordon
- Damon Farmer
- Charles Marcus
- James Williams
Stretchable ionics: Layered electrolytes and dielectrics as high-speed, transparent artificial muscles
A new class of soft, stretchable materials can be utilized as a sensor or high-speed actuator. This invention incorporates a simple and low-cost design that can be made fully transparent, highly stretchable, biocompatible and biodegradable. Thus it…
DBD
- Christopher Petty
Investigators
- Zhigang Suo
- Jeong-Yun Sun
- Christoph Keplinger
- George Whitesides
Long-range quantum communication based on solid-state photon emitters
Quantum communication holds promise for transmitting secure messages via quantum cryptography, as well as for distributing quantum information. However, attenuation in optical fibers fundamentally limits the range of direct quantum communication…
Investigators
- Mikhail Lukin
- Jacob Taylor
- Anders Sorensen
- Lilian Childress
Angstrom-scale resolution magnetic sensing and imaging using dark electronic spins
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are essential tools for both the physical and life sciences, but these techniques have been limited to the detection of large ensembles of spins. By manipulating and measuring the…
Investigators
- Mikhail Lukin
- Alexander Sushkov
- Igor Lovchinsky
- Nicholas Chisholm
- Ronald Walsworth
- Hongkun Park
Improving spin coherence lifetimes of nitrogen-vacancy ensembles using sequences of RF pulses
Diamond nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers are of great interest for scalable applications in quantum information and metrology, such as precise measurements of electric and magnetic fields. Although remarkably long electronic spin coherence times…
Investigators
- Ronald Walsworth
- My Linh Pham