The Center for Nanoscale Systems is a shared use core facility at Harvard University. Our scientific focus is the study, design, and fabrication of nanoscale structures and their integration into large and complex interacting systems.
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The Center for Nanoscale Systems is a shared use core facility at Harvard University. Our scientific focus is the study, design, and fabrication of nanoscale structures and their integration into large and complex interacting systems.
CNS Facilities
Two sites. Three exceptional research resources.

Events

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  • Jupiter XR Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) Training Part-1 (SPM-12) Inside the Cleanroom

    Oct 04 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

    Jason Tresback

    Inside Nanofabrication Cleanroom LISE G07

  • B15A Sample Prep Lab In-Person Training

    Oct 05 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Cathleen Hallinan

    Grey couches in LISE basement, outside B15A

  • SEC - AFM Training

    Oct 06 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

    Nicholas Colella

    SEC LL2.226

  • ALD-3 PdR ALD System Training

    Oct 10 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

    Mughees Khan

    PVD Bay (last bay in cleanroom); small red and white instrument on far wall

  • CVD-14 Oxford ICP-CVD - Low Temp

    Oct 11 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

    Mughees Khan

    CNS cleanroom - Dry processing bay at CVD-14

News

22 Sep, 2023

CNS Fall 2023 Open House & Poster Session

Thursday October 19th, 2023 2pm-4:30pm LISE Ground Floor

Refreshments, "gift" for best poster, lab swag

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15 Sep, 2023

Welcome back BBQ for CNS users

Thursday Sept 21st, 12noon

LISE Building, outside the cafe

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Recent Publications

  • Polarization Multi-Image Synthesis with Birefringent Metasurfaces

    Dean Hazineh, Soon Wei Daniel Lim, Qi Guo, Federico Capasso, Todd Zickler

    Dean Hazineh, Soon Wei Daniel Lim, Qi Guo, Federico Capasso, and Todd Zickler. 7/28/2023. “Polarization Multi-Image Synthesis with Birefringent Metasurfaces.” In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP)

  • Limits to the strain engineering of layered square-planar nickelate thin films

    Dan Ferenc Segedin, Berit H. Goodge, Grace A. Pan, Qi Song, Harrison LaBollita, Myung-Chul Jung, Hesham El-Sherif, Spencer Doyle, Ari Turkiewicz, Nicole K. Taylor, Jarad A. Mason, Alpha T. N'Diaye, Hanjong Paik, Ismail El Baggari, Antia S. Botana, Lena F. Kourkoutis, Charles M. Brooks, Julia A. Mundy

    Ferenc Segedin, Dan et al. Limits to the strain engineering of layered square-planar nickelate thin films. Nat. Commun. 14, 1468 (2023).

  • Topologically protected optical polarization singularities in four-dimensional space

    Christina M. Spaegele, Michele Tamagnone, Soon Wei Daniel Lim, Marcus Ossiander, Maryna L. Meretska, Federico Capasso

    C.M. Spaegele, M. Tamagnone, S.W.D. Lim, M. Ossiander, M.L. Meretska, F. Capasso, Topologically protected optical polarization singularities in four-dimensional space, Science Advances, 9, 24, 2023

  • Yap controls notochord formation and neural tube patterning by integrating mechanotransduction with FoxA2 and Shh expression

    Cheng, C., Cong, Q., Liu, Y., Hu, Y., Liang, G., Dioneda, K.M.M. and Yang, Y.

    Cheng, C., Cong, Q., Liu, Y., Hu, Y., Liang, G., Dioneda, K.M.M. and Yang, Y., 2023. Yap controls notochord formation and neural tube patterning by integrating mechanotransduction with FoxA2 and Shh expression. Science Advances, 9(24), p.eadf6927.

  • Point singularity array with metasurfaces

    Soon Wei Daniel Lim, Joon-Suh Park, Dmitry Kazakov, Christina M. Spägele, Ahmed H. Dorrah, Maryna L. Meretska, Federico Capasso

    Nature Communications, 14, 3237 (2023)

  • The bottom of the memory hierarchy: Semiconductor and DNA data storage

    Seok Joo Kim, Woo-Bin Jung, Han Sae Jung, Min-Hyun Lee, Jinseong Heo, Adrian Horgan, Xavier Godron, Donhee Ham

    MRS Bulletin 48, https://doi.org/10.1557/s43577-023-00510-x

  • Extreme ultraviolet metalens by vacuum guiding

    Marcus Ossiander, Maryna Leonidivna Meretska, Hana Kristin Hampel, Soon Wei Daniel Lim, Nico Knefz, Thomas Jauk, Federico Capasso, Martin Schultze

    Science 380, 59–63

  • Metasurface-Stabilized Optical Microcavities.2022

    Ossiander, M and Meretska, ML and Rourke, S and Spaegele, CM and Yin, X and Benea-Chelmus, IC and Capasso, F

    Nature Communications 14:1114

  • Aluminum Thin Film Nanostructure Traces in Pediatric EEG Net for MRI and CT Artifact Reduction

    Jeong, Hongbae, Georgios Ntolkeras, Tracy Warbrick, Manfred Jaschke, Rajiv Gupta, Michael H. Lev, Jurriaan M. Peters, Patricia Ellen Grant, and Giorgio Bonmassar

    Jeong H, Ntolkeras G, Warbrick T, Jaschke M, Gupta R, Lev MH, Peters JM, Grant PE, Bonmassar G. Aluminum Thin Film Nanostructure Traces in Pediatric EEG Net for MRI and CT Artifact Reduction. Sensors. 2023; 23(7):3633. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23073633

  • High-Temperature Thermal Magneto-Conductivity in Graphene Corbino

    Artem V Talanov, Jonah Waissman, Zhongying Yan, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Philip Kim

    APS March Meeting 2023, Abstract: Y20.00007

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WILLIAM WILSON
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Directors Welcome

The Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) at Harvard University was created with a very clear vision: To provide a collaborative multi-disciplinary research environment to support of the creation and evolution of world-class nanoscience and technical expertise, for the Harvard research community as well as the larger community of external researchers both from academia and industry.

Our Core Values:

Facilitating leading-edge, multi-disciplinary, research a

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ROBERT WESTERVELT
DIRECTOR

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