Memory for Molecular Computing (2008)
A. Yacoby, H. F. Hess, T. A. Fulton, L. N. Pfeiffer, G. Finkelstein, P. I. Glicofridis, ...
11. Single-electron features may also be observed in the SCA imaging if there exist localized “puddles ” of electrons formed within the quantum Hall liquid. In this case, a biased tip scanning...
Controlled synthesis of millimeter-long silicon nanowires with uniform electronic properties (2008)
Il Park, Won, Zheng, Gengfeng, Jiang, Xiaocheng, Tian, Bozhi, Lieber, Charles M.
We report the nanocluster-catalyzed growth of ultralong and highly uniform single-crystal line silicon nanowires (SiNWs) with millimeter-scale lengths and aspect ratios up to approximately 100 000....
Grant #: CCF-0403674 NIRT: Technologies, Architectures and Performance Analysis for (2008)
Pis André Dehon, Charles M Lieber, John E Savage
Forty years ago Gordon Moore predicted exponential growth in the density of electronic circuits, a forecast that has been realized. A concomitant of this remarkable achievement is that design and...
NANO HIGHLIGHT Radially Encoded Nanowires NSF NIRT Grant CCF-0403674 (2008)
Pis André Dehon, Charles M Lieber, John E Savage
The crossbar has emerged as an important architectural element in memories and logic devices made from nanometer-sized materials. (Nanowires (NWs) have been exhibited with diameters as small as a few...
Hu, Yongjie, Xiang, Jie, Liang, Gengchiau, Yan, Hao, Lieber, Charles M.
Ge/Si core/shell nanowires (NWs) are attractive and flexible building blocks for nanoelectronics ranging from field-effect transistors (FETs) to low-temperature quantum devices. Here we report the...
Si/a-Si core/shell nanowires as nonvolatile crossbar switches (2008)
Dong, Yajie, Yu, Guihua, McAlpine, Michael C., Lu, Wei, Lieber, Charles M.
Radial core/shell nanowires (NWs) represent an important class of nanoscale building blocks with substantial potential for exploring fundamental electronic properties and realizing novel device...
InAs/InP radial nanowire heterostructures as high electron mobility devices (2007)
Jiang, Xiaocheng, Xiong, Qihua, Nam, Sungwoo, Qian, Fang, Li, Yat, Lieber, Charles M.
Radial core/shell nanowires (NWs) represent an important class of one-dimensional (1D) systems with substantial potential for exploring fundamental materials electronic and photonic properties. Here,...
Performance Analysis of a Ge/Si Core/Shell Nanowire Field-Effect Transistor (2007)
Liang, Gengchiau, Xiang, Jie, Kharche, Neerav, Klimeck, Gerhard, Lieber, Charles M., Lundstrom, Mark
We ana/lyze the performance of a recently reported Ge/Si core/shell nanowire transistor using a semiclassical, ballistic transport model and an sp3d5s* tight-binding treatment of the electronic...
Double quantum dot with integrated charge sensor based on Ge/Si heterostructure nanowires (2007)
Hu, Yongjie, Churchill, Hugh H. O., Reilly, David J., Xiang, Jie, Lieber, Charles M., Marcus, Charles M.
Coupled electron spins in semiconductor double quantum dots hold promise as the basis for solid-state qubits. To date, most experiments have used III-V materials, in which coherence is limited by...
Large-area blown bubble films of aligned nanowires and carbon nanotubes (2007)
Yu, Guihua, Cao, Anyuan, Lieber, Charles M.
Many of the applications proposed for nanowires and carbon nanotubes require these components to be organized over large areas with controlled orientation and density. Although progress has been made...
Ge/Si nanowire mesoscopic Josephson junctions (2006)
Xiang, Jie, Vidan, A., Tinkham, M., Westervelt, R. M., Lieber, Charles M.
The controlled growth of nanowires (NWs) with dimensions comparable to the Fermi wavelengths of the charge carriers allows fundamental investigations of quantum confinement phenomena. Here, we...
Single p-type/intrinsic/n-type silicon nanowires as nanoscale avalanche photodetectors (2006)
Yang, Chen, Barrelet, Carl J., Capasso, Federico, Lieber, Charles M.
We report the controlled synthesis of axial modulation-doped p-type/intrinsic/n-type (p-i-n) silicon nanowires with uniform diameters and single-crystal structures. The p-i-n nanowires were grown in...
Performance Analysis of a Ge/Si Core/Shell Nanowire Field Effect Transistor (2006)
Liang, Gengchiau, Xiang, Jie, Kharche, Neerav, Klimeck, Gerhard, Lieber, Charles M., Lundstrom, Mark
We analyze the performance of a recently reported Ge/Si core/shell nanowire transistor using a semiclassical, ballistic transport model and an sp3s*d5 tight-binding treatment of the electronic...
TOPICAL REVIEW: Semiconductor nanowires (2006)
Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) represent a unique system for exploring phenomena at the nanoscale and are also expected to play a critical role in future electronic and optoelectronic devices. Here we...
Li, Yat, Xiang, Jie, Qian, Fang, Gradecak, Silvija, Wu, Yue, Yan, Hao, ...
We report the rational synthesis of dopant-free GaN/AlN/AlGaN radial nanowire heterostructures and their implementation as high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs). The radial nanowire...
Integrated Nanoscale Nanowire Correlated Electronic Nanosensing Technology (INNOCENT) (2006)
Development of highly-integrated, ultra-sensitive real-time electronic sensor arrays for detection of chemical and biological threats has been carried out by exploiting the unique electronic...
Assembly of Ultra-Dense Nanowire-Based Computing Systems (2006)
Effective ultra-dense integrated digital information processing strains the leading edge of current chemistry and materials science, and requires hybrid top-down and bottom-up assembly techniques,...
TOPICAL REVIEW Semiconductor nanowires (2006)
Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) represent a unique system for exploring phenomena at the nanoscale and are also expected to play a critical role in future electronic and optoelectronic devices. Here we...
Radial Addressing of Nanowires (2006)
John E. Savage, Eric Rachlin, André Dehon, Charles M. Lieber, Yue Wu
Recent research on molecular-scale wires and switches has established the possibility of assembling without lithography very high density crossbars composed of wires with nanometer-sized diameters....
Radial Addressing of Nanowires (2006)
John E. Savage, Eric Rachlin, André Dehon, Charles M. Lieber, Yue Wu
We introduce radial encoding of nanowires (NWs), a new method of differentiating and controlling NWs by a small set of meso-scale wires. Such NWs can be used in crossbars as memories or programmed...
Radial Addressing of Nanowires (2006)
John E. Savage, Eric Rachlin, Charles M. Lieber, Yue Wu
We introduce radial encoding of nanowires (NWs), a new method of differentiating and controlling NWs by a small set of mesoscale wires for use in crossbar memories. We describe methods of controlling...
Manipulation and assembly of nanowires with holographic optical traps (2005)
Agarwal, Ritesh, Ladavac, Kosta, Roichman, Yael, Yu, Guiha, Lieber, Charles M., Grier, David G.
We demonstrate that semiconductor nanowires measuring just a few nanometers in diameter can be translated, rotated, cut, fused and organized into nontrivial structures using holographic optical...
One-Dimensional Hole Gas in Germanium/Silicon Nanowire Heterostructures (2005)
Lu, Wei, Xiang, Jie, Timko, Brian P., Wu, Yue, Lieber, Charles M.
Two-dimensional electron and hole gas systems, enabled through band structure design and epitaxial growth on planar substrates, have served as key platforms for fundamental condensed matter research...
Coherent Single Charge Transport in Molecular-Scale Silicon Nanowires (2005)
Zhaohui Zhong, Ying Fang, Wei Lu, Charles M. Lieber
We report low-temperature electrical transport studies of chemically synthesized, molecular-scale silicon nanowires. Individual nanowires exhibit Coulomb blockade oscillations characteristic of...
Coherent Single Charge Transport in Molecular-Scale Silicon Nanowire Transistors (2004)
Zhong, Zhaohui, Fang, Ying, Lu, Wei, Lieber, Charles M.
We report low-temperature electrical transport studies of molecule-scale silicon nanowires. Individual nanowires exhibit well-defined Coulomb blockade oscillations characteristic of charge addition...
Lasing in Single Cadmium Sulfide Nanowire Optical Cavities (2004)
Agarwal, Ritesh, Barrelet, Carl J., Lieber, Charles M.
The mechanism of lasing in single cadmium sulfide (CdS) nanowire cavities was elucidated by temperature-dependent and time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) measurements. Temperature-dependent PL...
Plastic deformations in mechanically strained single-walled carbon nanotubes (2003)
Bozovic, Dolores, Bockrath, M., Hafner, Jason H., Lieber, Charles M., Park, Hongkun, Tinkham, M.
Antiferromagnetic manipulation was used to controllably stretch individual metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT's). We have found that SWNT's can sustain elongations as great as 30% without...
Direct haplotyping of kilobase-size DNA using carbon nanotube probes (2002)
Woolley, Adam T., Guillemette, Chantal, Cheung, Chin Li, Housman, David E., Lieber, Charles M.
We have implemented a method for multiplexed detection of polymorphic sites and direct determination of haplotypes in 10-kilobasesize DNA fragments using single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) atomic...
Schnitzler, Gavin R., Cheung, Chin Li, Hafner, Jason H., Saurin, Andrew J., Kingston, Robert E., Lieber, Charles M.
Chromatin-remodeling complexes alter chromatin structure to facilitate, or in some cases repress, gene expression. Recent studies have suggested two potential pathways by which such regulation might...
Ouyang, Min, Huang, Jin-Lin, Lieber, Charles M.
We characterized the energy band dispersion near the Fermi level in single-walled carbon nanotubes using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy. Analysis of energy dependent standing wave...
Electronic properties of mechanically induced kinks in single-walled carbon nanotubes (2001)
Bozovic, Dolores, Bockrath, M., Hafner, Jason H., Lieber, Charles M., Park, Hongkun, Tinkham, M.
We have used an atomic-force microscope tip to mechanically buckle single-walled carbon nanotubes. The resistance of the induced defects ranged from 10 to 100 k Omega and varied with the local Fermi...
Atomically Resolved Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Intramolecular Junctions (2001)
Ouyang, Min, Huang, Jin-Lin, Cheung, Chin Li, Lieber, Charles M.
Intramolecular junctions in single-walled carbon nanotubes are potentially ideal structures for building robust, molecular-scale electronics but have only been studied theoretically at the atomic...
Odom, Teri W., Huang, Jin-Lin, Cheung, Chin Li, Lieber, Charles M.
Single-walled carbon nanotubes are ideal systems for investigating fundamental properties and applications of one-dimensional electronic systems. The interaction of magnetic impurities with electrons...
Structural biology with carbon nanotube AFM probes (2000)
Woolley, Adam T., Cheung, Chin Li, Hafner, Jason H., Lieber, Charles M.
Carbon nanotubes represent ideal probes for high-resolution structural and chemical imaging of biomolecules with atomic force microscopy. Recent advances in fabrication of carbon nanotube probes with...
Carbon Nanotube-Based Nonvolatile Random Access Memory for Molecular Computing (2000)
Rueckes, Thomas, Kim, Kyoungha, Joselevich, Ernesto, Tseng, Greg Y., Cheung, Chin Li, Lieber, Charles M.
A concept for molecular electronics exploiting carbon nanotubes as both molecular device elements and molecular wires for reading and writing information was developed. Each device element is based...
Growth and fabrication with single-walled carbon nanotube probe microscopy tips (2000)
Cheung, Chin Li, Hafner, Jason H., Odom, Teri W., Kim, Kyoungha, Lieber, Charles M.
Single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) probe microscopy tips were grown by a surface growth chemical vapor deposition method. Tips consisting of individual SWNTs (1.5-4 nm in diameter) and SWNT bundles...
Cheung, Chin Li, Hafner, Jason H., Lieber, Charles M.
Carbon nanotubes are potentially ideal atomic force microscopy probes because they can have diameters as small as one nanometer, have robust mechanical properties, and can be specifically...
Structure of Flux Line Lattices with Weak Disorder at Large Length Scales (1999)
Kim, Philip, Yao, Zhen, Bolle, Cristian A., Lieber, Charles M.
Dislocation-free decoration images containing up to 80,000 vortices have been obtained on high quality Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+x}$ superconducting single crystals. The observed flux line...
Growth of nanotubes for probe microscopy tips (1999)
Hafner, Jason H., Cheung, Chin Li, Lieber, Charles M.
Carbon nanotubes, which have intrinsically small diameters and high aspect ratios and which buckle reversibly, make potentially ideal structures for use as tips in scanning probe microscopies, such...
Kim, Philip, Odom, Teri W., Huang, Jin-Lin, Lieber, Charles M.
The electronic density of states of atomically resolved single-walled carbon nanotubes have been investigated using scanning tunneling microscopy. Peaks in the density of states due to the...
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Investigations of Metal Dichalcogenide Materials. (1998)
Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) have been used to characterize the atomic level structure of electronic properties, reactivity and wear of metal dichalcogenide...
Organized Nanorod-Superconductor Composites. (1998)
The overall goal of this project is to develop rational approaches for controlling the nanostructure of high-temperature superconductors (HTSs) and other complex solids. Our emphasis on the nanometer...
Nanowire Thermoelectrics: An Approach for Enhancing ZT, (1998)
The overall objectives of the AASERT project are to develop an approach for the controlled synthesis of single crystal, one-dimensional (1D) nanowires of the Bi2Te3 family of thermoelectric...
Nanometric Studies of the Structure and Tribology of Carbon Nitride Materials (1998)
Significant effort has been placed on several areas. First, we have carried out systematic studies of the growth of carbon nitride materials as a function of carbon reactant energetics, nitrogen flux...
Nanotribology Investigations of Solid and Liquid Lubricants Using Scanned Probe Microscopies (1998)
To understand and control friction and wear in both macroscopic and microscopic technologies requires a detailed understanding of material properties, chemical reactivity and intermolecular...
Instrumentation was acquired from the DURIP grant to set up a system for the growth and characterization of metal nitride materials. This instrument system was installed in extensively renovated...
Development and Application of Molecular-Resolution Chemically-Sensitive Nanotube Probes (1998)
Carbon nanotubes have been developed as probes for molecular resolution atomic force microscopy imaging. Reproducible methods for the preparation of carbon nanotube probe tips by chemical vapor...
Nanostructured Functional and Multifunctional Materials (1998)
This project is focused on developing the underlying science and technology required to enable the rational design and synthesis of functional nanoscale assemblies and the hierarchical assembly of...
Acquisition of a Growth System to Enable Revolutionary Nanowire-Based Nanophotonics (1998)
A state-of-the-art, metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system was acquired and successfully installed. The instrumentation is capable of growth of group-III nitride alloys with control...
Development and Applications of Nanowire Nanophotonics (1998)
The controlled and predictable synthesis of nanowires and nanowire heterostructures that serve as the basic nanoscale building blocks for photonic devices has been carried out. Nanocluster catalyzed...
Covalently Functionalized Nanotubes as Nanometer-Sized Probes in Chemistry and Biology (1998)
Wong, Stanislaus S., Joselevich, Ernesto, Woolley, Adam T., Cheung, Chin Li, Lieber, Charles M.
Carbon nanotubes combine a range of properties that make them well suited for use as probe tips in applications such as atomic force microscopy (AFM)1, 2, 3. Their high aspect ratio, for example,...
The overall goal of this project is to develop rational approaches for controlling the structure and interfaces of high-temperature superconductors (HTSs) and other complex solids at the nanometer...
Scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopy studies of metal dichalcogenide materials demonstrate that wear proceeds via surface oxidation, and that wear rates are directly related to the...
Coulomb Gap and Correlated Vortex Pinning in Superconductors (1994)
Täuber, Uwe C., Dai, Hongjie, Nelson, David R., Lieber, Charles M.
The positions of columnar pins and magnetic flux lines determined from a decoration experiment on BSCCO were used to calculate the single--particle density of states at low temperatures in the Bose...
Kinetic and catalytic studies at chemically modified electrodes / (1985)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 1985.
630-mV open circuit voltage, 12% efficient n-Si liquid junction (1984)
Rosenbluth, Mary L., Lieber, Charles M., Lewis, Nathan S.
We report the first experimental observation of a semiconductor/liquid junction whose open circuit voltage Voc is controlled by bulk diffusion/recombination processes. Variation in temperature,...
Cheung, Chin Li, Hafner, Jason H., Lieber, Charles M.
Carbon nanotubes are potentially ideal atomic force microscopy probes because they can have diameters as small as one nanometer, have robust mechanical properties, and can be specifically...
Schnitzler, Gavin R., Cheung, Chin Li, Hafner, Jason H., Saurin, Andrew J., Kingston, Robert E., Lieber, Charles M.
Chromatin-remodeling complexes alter chromatin structure to facilitate, or in some cases repress, gene expression. Recent studies have suggested two potential pathways by which such regulation might...
Electrical detection of single viruses
Patolsky, Fernando, Zheng, Gengfeng, Hayden, Oliver, Lakadamyali, Melike, Zhuang, Xiaowei, Lieber, Charles M.
We report direct, real-time electrical detection of single virus particles with high selectivity by using nanowire field effect transistors. Measurements made with nanowire arrays modified with...
One-dimensional hole gas in germanium/silicon nanowire heterostructures
Lu, Wei, Xiang, Jie, Timko, Brian P., Wu, Yue, Lieber, Charles M.
Two-dimensional electron and hole gas systems, enabled through band structure design and epitaxial growth on planar substrates, have served as key platforms for fundamental condensed matter research...
Cheung, Chin Li, Hafner, Jason H., Lieber, Charles M.
Carbon nanotubes are potentially ideal atomic force microscopy probes because they can have diameters as small as one nanometer, have robust mechanical properties, and can be specifically...
Schnitzler, Gavin R., Cheung, Chin Li, Hafner, Jason H., Saurin, Andrew J., Kingston, Robert E., Lieber, Charles M.
Chromatin-remodeling complexes alter chromatin structure to facilitate, or in some cases repress, gene expression. Recent studies have suggested two potential pathways by which such regulation might...
Electrical detection of single viruses
Patolsky, Fernando, Zheng, Gengfeng, Hayden, Oliver, Lakadamyali, Melike, Zhuang, Xiaowei, Lieber, Charles M.
We report direct, real-time electrical detection of single virus particles with high selectivity by using nanowire field effect transistors. Measurements made with nanowire arrays modified with...
Label-free detection of small-molecule–protein interactions by using nanowire nanosensors
Wang, Wayne U., Chen, Chuo, Lin, Keng-hui, Fang, Ying, Lieber, Charles M.
Development of miniaturized devices that enable rapid and direct analysis of the specific binding of small molecules to proteins could be of substantial importance to the discovery of and screening...
One-dimensional hole gas in germanium/silicon nanowire heterostructures
Lu, Wei, Xiang, Jie, Timko, Brian P., Wu, Yue, Lieber, Charles M.
Two-dimensional electron and hole gas systems, enabled through band structure design and epitaxial growth on planar substrates, have served as key platforms for fundamental condensed matter research...
Flexible electrical recording from cells using nanowire transistor arrays
Cohen-Karni, Tzahi, Timko, Brian P., Weiss, Lucien E., Lieber, Charles M.
Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have unique electronic properties and sizes comparable with biological structures involved in cellular communication, thus making them promising nanostructures for...
Diameter-dependent dopant location in silicon and germanium nanowires
Xie, Ping, Hu, Yongjie, Fang, Ying, Huang, Jinlin, Lieber, Charles M.
We report studies defining the diameter-dependent location of electrically active dopants in silicon (Si) and germanium (Ge) nanowires (NWs) prepared by nanocluster catalyzed vapor-liquid-solid (VLS)...