Tag: Lurie Nanofabrication Facility
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Quantum made practical: U-M-led team advances in NSF center competition
The project aims to develop plug‑and‑play photonic chips that bring quantum‑light measurements out of the lab into field‑ready commercial devices.
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Stem cell model of human embryo produces yolk sac without hypoblasts
The model demonstrates never-before-seen potential in human pluripotent stem cells.
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A hardware-software co-design to efficiently run AI on edge devices
Adjusting state space models to work with a compute-in-memory architecture demonstrated energy-efficient processing of continuous event sequences.
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Fine-tuning nanoscale heat flows in molecular materials
Researchers demonstrate how swapping out a single atom can cut the thermal conductance in half without changing electrical properties.
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Memristor demonstrates use in fully analog hardware-based neural network
The crossbar array memristor made of bismuth selenide (Bi2Se3) sandwiched between gold and titanium electrodes is analog tunable, retention stable and regulator-free in circuit
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A microfluidic chip monitors gases using integrated, motionless pumps
The integrated design achieves accurate micro gas chromatography and can help reduce the cost of monitoring chemical synthesis, natural gas pipelines or at-home air quality.
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Superconductor phase transitions manage radiative heat transfer
A first-of-its-kind experiment finds niobium suppresses nanoscale radiative heat transfer when in a superconducting state, with implications for quantum computing.
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Blood analysis shows whether brain cancer treatment is working
New diagnostic chip pulls packets released from tumor cells out of blood, showing whether cancer cells died during chemotherapy infusion.
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New process layers uniform ScAlN on 3D surfaces
Scandium aluminum nitride can now be integrated into high-voltage, high-frequency or piezoelectric devices with plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition.
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Nano-switch achieves first directed, gated flow of excitons
Moving excitons with light and a nano-ridge could help bridge optics and electronics, enabling new devices and faster, more efficient communication.
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At-home melanoma testing: Skin patch test works in mice
A microneedle patch captures cancer biomarkers in the top-most layer of skin to detect melanoma in animal tissue samples.
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Careful heating unlocks unprecedented sensitivity to pressure in semiconductor materials
A simple and scalable annealing method boosts the quality of materials used in cell phones, sensors and energy harvesting devices.