Nanophotonics is a rapidly developing field of research with many suggestions for a design of nanoantennas, sensors and miniature metadevices. Despite many proposals for passive nanophotonic devices, the efficient coupling of light to nanoscale optical structures remains a major challenge. In this article, we propose a nanoscale laser based on a tightly confined anapole mode. By harnessing the ...

Measuring local temperature with a spatial resolution on the order of a few nanometers has a wide range of applications in the semiconductor industry and in material and life sciences. For example, probing temperature on the nanoscale with high precision can potentially be used to detect small, local temperature changes like those caused by chemical reactions or biochemical processes. However, ...

The well-defined geometry, exceptional mechanical properties, and extraordinary electrical characteristics of carbon nanotubes qualify them for structuring nanoelectronic circuits, nanoelectromechanical systems, and nanorobotic systems. Relative displacements between the atomically smooth, nested shells in multiwalled carbon nanotubes can be used as robust nanoscale motion enabling mechanisms f...

Physisorption on solid surfaces is important in both fundamental studies and technology. Adsorbates can also be critical for the performance of miniature electromechanical resonators and sensors. Advances in resonant nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), particularly mass sensitivity attaining the single-molecule level, make it possible to probe surface physics in a new regime, where a small nu...

A variety of nanoscale photonic, mechanical, electronic, and optoelectronic devices require scalable thin film fabrication. Typically, the device layer is defined by thin film deposition on a substrate of a different material, and optical or electrical isolation is provided by the material properties of the substrate or by removal of the substrate. For a number of materials this planar approach...

One-dimensional nanostructures have been intensively investigated due to their unique properties and widespread applications. In particular, multifunctional properties can be derived from complex nanoscale systems consisting of heterostructures. With a wide band gap of 3.37eV, semiconducting ZnO materials find wide applications in energy harvesting and storage, catalysis, and optoelectronics [1...

Submitted for the MAR09 Meeting of The American Physical Society Mechanics of nanoscale composite films from stress-electrical measurements: A nanoscale foam CHIEU NGUYEN, VIVEK MAHESHWARI, RAVI SARAF, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING-UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKALINCOLN TEAM — Nanometer thin (> 100nm) composite films consisting of polymers and organic-inorganic materials such as nanoparticles, quantum dots, nano...

A detailed analysis of the coherence decay a nanoscale sensor shows that ubiquitous spins on diamond surface are mobile and reveals potential local sensors to investigate dynamics complex systems.