Nanotechnology Research - Universities

The research interests of nano-bio lab lie at the interface of physics, biology, and nanoscience. This lab aims to seamlessly integrate the principles of condensed matter physics, optical spectroscopy, and physiological chemistry to elucidate biophysics at the nanoscale.

The Nanoscale Electronics and Sensor Laboratory (NESL) is currently focused on five major research areas: Epitaxial Graphene based Sensors; MEMS sensors; Nanowire based MEMS sensors and electronics; Implantable sensors for biomedical application; Scanning probe characterization.

Research into interfaces, surfaces, and thin films is one of the most active areas of research.

The research of the Brus group is in the physical chemistry of materials, interfaces, nanocrystals, and nanotubes, especially in relation to optical and electronic properties.

The CNI Shared Facilities are open to student and faculty researchers, as well as those from government, start-ups, and industry. The Clean Room offers a comprehensive set of tools for microfabrication and nanofabrication. The Materials Characterization Laboratory and the Electron Microscopy Laboratory offer state-of-the-art instruments for chemical and structural characterization of materials.

The Lightwave Research Laboratory works on optical interconnection networks for advanced computing systems, data centers, optical packet-switched routers, and nanophotonic networks-on-chip for chip multiprocessors, developing nanoscale photonic interconnect technologies for energy-efficient data movement.

The group investigates the physics and applications of nanoscale photonic structures, including light-confining structures that slow, trap, enhance, and manipulate light for applications in communications, computation, sensing, on-chip modulation and detection, nonlinear phenomena, microfluidics, and multi-material device platforms.

Main research interests include Raman Scattering and other Optical Spectroscopy of Nanocrystals and Electric-field Assisted Assembly of Nanomaterial Films.

The Schuck Lab studies light-matter interactions at the nanoscale, focusing on sensing, engineering, and exploiting quantum and optoelectronic properties emerging from nanostructures and interfaces using nano-optical, scan-probe, and single-molecule imaging techniques.

An NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at Cornell whose unifying theme is materials structured at the nanoscale, uniting more than 100 faculty and operating shared facilities for materials analysis and processing.