Research Highlights
Roller printing of graphene.
Foundry scientists Xiaogan Liang, Bruce Harteneck, Deirdre Olynick, Stefano Cabrini and colleagues have used a roller-style printing technique to create patterned graphene—a few-layer thick graphite sheet material with sought-after semiconducting, optical and mechanical properties. This high throughput technique could be used to manufacture graphene devices.
Foundry researchers Jim Schuck and Zhaoyu Zhang have engineered a new class of bowtie-shaped devices that capture, filter and steer light at the nanoscale, a useful technique for harvesting broadband light for color-sensitive filters and detectors. Learn more
Scanning electron image of nano colorsorter.
Model peptides on a real atomic force microscope image.
Foundry scientists Jim DeYoreo and Ray Friddle have imaged the growth of protein-studded mineral surfaces with unprecedented resolution, providing a glimpse into key structural materials engineered by living systems.
Example of a crystalline solid with a complex (26-atom) primitive cell.
Theory Facility staff scientist David Prendergast and Scientific Director Steven G. Louie have developed a new scheme to efficiently calculate accurate electronic structure for materials, with specific application to brass, graphene and copper. This scheme extends work from 1996 by Eric Shirley (NIST) using numerical methods to calculate electronic structure of crystalline systems.
