Jan 13, 2016 | News Articles
Hydrothermally synthesized ZnO nanowire arrays are critical components in a range of nanostructured semiconductor devices. The device performance is governed by relevant nanowire morphological parameters that cannot be fully controlled during bulk hydrothermal...
Nov 19, 2015 | News Articles
This paper describes the construction of a cryostat and an optical system with a free-space coupling efficiency of 56.5% +/- 3.4% to a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) for infrared quantum communication and spectrum analysis. A 1K pot decreases...
Jun 19, 2015 | News Articles
We built a transmissometer to determine the thickness of thin films of NbN that are deposited as the starting material for SNSPDs. The transmissometer measures the transmittance of light through NbN thin films, and the thickness of the NbN is found by fitting the...
Apr 29, 2015 | News Articles
Karl Berggren recently served as a member of MIT’s recent committee tasked with studying the nation’s “Innovation Deficit.” The outcome of the committee was a report in which a number of cases were studied, each of which illustrated...
Mar 26, 2013 | News Articles
Nanotechweb has released a Journal Highlight of some of our recently published work. The research involves using electron beam lithography to precisely place quantum dots on a sample surface. The work explores size and height of different templating holes in a PMMA...