Such alignment is critical for chip-scale devices that employ the radiation emitted by quantum dots to store and transmit quantum information. For the first time, the NIST researchers achieved this ...

Carbon nanotube architectures are used in numerous technologies because of their unique attributes. Raman spectroscopy can analyze a variety of carbon nanotube attributes, including tube diameter, ...

Accurate alignment of quantum dots with photonic components is critical for extracting the radiation emitted by the dots. In this illustration, a quantum dot centered in the optical "hotspot" of a ...