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Compact, broadband meta-surface spectrometer
Meta-surfaces, planar arrays of subwavelength-spaced optical elements that modulate incident light, are poised to revolutionize the field of optics. Traditional optical elements are produced by labor-intensive glass molding techniques, and often…
Investigators
- Federico Capasso
- Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad
- Wei-Ting Chen
- Jaewon Oh
- Alexander Zhu
- Muhammad Zaidi
- Robert Devlin
Enhanced solid state spin magnetometer sensitivity using spin bath control and differential double quantum measurement
Nitrogen vacancy (NV) diamond solid-state spin systems are highly useful for quantum sensing, however, improving the sensitivity is essential to realizing their potential applications. DC magnetic field sensitivity is typically limited by dephasing…
Investigators
- Ronald Walsworth
- Connor Hart
- Erik Bauch
- Matthew Turner
- Jennifer Schloss
- John Barry
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…
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…
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
CMOS integrated NMR spectrometer
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometers have been in use for many years and are used to provide imaging or analysis of a sample being tested. In general, an NMR spectrometer is comprised of three main components: a pulse sequencer, an NMR…
Investigators
- Donhee Ham
- Dongwan Ha
- Jeffrey Paulsen
- Song Yi-Qiao
Multi-axis force sensing soft artificial skin
With rapid growth in key segments such as robotics and wearable computing. Sensors are one of the critical areas of need. The soft sensor IP developed in the Wood Lab consists of stretchable sensors that register deformation and surface pressure.…
Investigators
- Robert Wood
- Daniel Vogt
- Yong Park
Modular millimeter-scale distal force sensor, based on pop-up fabrication
The ability to measure force is a critical need in small-scale systems. This invention is a low-cost force sensor that operates over a force range of 0-200 mN, with a sensitivity of 5 V/N and a resolution of 0.8 mN. Key advantages over competing…
Investigators
- Conor Walsh
- Joshua Gafford
- Robert Wood
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