Nanotechnology Research - Universities

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.

Subjects of research encompass physical sciences, life sciences, and engineering, particularly with inter-disciplinary emphasis

The Craighead research group at Cornell focuses on creating nanoscale devices using established and newly-developed techniques. A major motivation is to develop methods to pattern, sort, and analyze biological materials.

KIC creates new techniques to image and dynamically control nanoscale systems and uses these techniques to push the frontiers of nanoscale science. KIC's measurement-oriented mission complements existing strengths at Cornell in nanofabrication.

The McEuen Group runs the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell. Reaerch focus is on proberties of carbon nanotubes, SPM of nanostructures, single molecule electronics and applications of nanoelectronics in chemistry and biology