Professors Hone and Wong publish papers in Nature
09/30/2009
Professor James Hone and co-authors were recently published
in the September 20 issue of Nature Nanotechnology.
The paper, “Performance of monolayer graphene nanomechanical resonators with
electrical readout” details the fabrication and electrical readout of
high-frequency mechanical resonators from single atomic sheets of carbon
(graphene), and testing of their response to changes in mass and temperature.
The paper establishes many of the basic attributes of graphene resonators, to
lay the groundwork for applications in signal processing and ultrasensitive
detection.
Professor Chee-Wei Wong’s co-authored paper, “Near-field focusing and magnification through self-assembled nanoscale spherical lenses”was published in the July 23 issue of Nature. The article reports near-field high resolution by said lenses by bottom-up integration of organic molecules. Such spherical nanolenses provide new pathways for lens-based near-field focusing and high-resolution optical imaging at very low intensities, which are useful for bio-imaging, near-field lithography, optical memory storage, light harvesting, spectral signal enhancing, and optical nano-sensing.
Professor Hone’s article can be found at: http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/nnano.2009.267.pdf
Professor Wong’s article can be found at: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v460/n7254/pdf/nature08173.pdf