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Soft robot helps the heart beat

Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital researchers have developed a customizable soft robot that fits around the heart and helps it beat, potentially opening new treatment options for people...

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Advance in high-pressure physics

Nearly a century after it was theorized, Harvard scientists report they have succeeded in creating the rarest material on the planet, which could eventually develop into one of its most valuable....

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A thinner, flatter lens

Curved lenses like those in cameras or telescopes are stacked to reduce distortions and clarify images. That’s why high-powered microscopes are so big and telephoto lenses so long. While lens...

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Congratulations to Adam on his Teaching Award

Adam Graham was awarded a distinction in teaching from Harvard’s Derek Bok Center. Congratulations to Adam Graham on his excellent contributions to the teaching mission of CNS!

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CNS 2017 Open House Poster Winners

  Congratulations to the winners of the CNS Open House Poster Contest:      

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Single metalens focuses the entire visible spectrum of light to one point

Metalenses — flat surfaces that use nanostructures to focus light — have promised to revolutionize optics by replacing the bulky, curved lenses currently used in optical devices with a simple, flat...

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Researchers Combine Artificial Eye and Artificial Muscle

Inspired by the human eye, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed an adaptive metalens that is essentially a flat, electronically...

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CNS 2018 Open House Poster Contest Winner

Congratulations to the winner of the 2018 CNS Open House Poster Contest: 1st Place – Xiao Yang, “Bioinspired neuron-like electronics for noninvasive brain probes”

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Hybrid Nanolithography System combining Thermal SPM and direct laser...

Thermal scanning probe lithography (tSPL) uses heated ultrasharp tips to write nanometer-scale structures by evaporating the resist. Commercialized by SwissLitho in 2014 under the name NanoFrazor, this...

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Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) opportunities at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS): Spend your summer at Harvard University performing cutting-edge research in...

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New CNS Facilities at the Allston SEC

The Center for Nanoscale Systems recently opened three new facilities in the Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) at Harvard University’s Allston Campus. Our new materials characterization lab houses...

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Yacoby group demonstrates new quantum behavior at low magnetic fields in...

The Yacoby group has demonstrated an interesting quantum phenomena called Fractional Chern bands at low magnetic fields in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. Full article can be found in Nature here...

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Su-Yang Zu’s group demonstrate interesting spintronic behavior in a 2D...

Su-Yan Xu’s group have discovered interesting topological modes in antiferromagnetic axion insulators. This Hall layer effect allows the researchers to better understand the Berry phase in these...

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New RC2 spectroscopic ellipsometer

The RC2 spectroscopic ellipsometer provides innovative new technology: dual rotating compensators, achromatic compensator design, advanced light source, and next-generation spectrometer design. The...

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New maskless aligner at CNS

We are excited to announce the arrival of our new Maskless Aligner MLA-2 at CNS. This is an advanced direct-write photolithography tool for exposing photoresist on varieties of substrate materials...

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Silicon carbide modulator

New research, partly performed at the Center for Nanoscale Systems, in which the researchers design, fabricate, and demonstrate a Pockels modulator in silicon carbide can be found in a Nature...

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The 12th CNS-Nanofabrication Summer School

CNS Nanofabrication Team will continue offering a series of tutorials on nanofabrication technologies in this summer. Two tutorials every week will cover the fundamentals of each nanofabrication...

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Microelectronics/Semiconductor Research Community Virtual Workshop

September 8 and 9, 2022 / 12pm – 3:30pm EDT In response to the recent efforts of the federal government to bolster US semiconductor manufacturing under the auspices of the CHIPS Act, the NSF NNCI is...

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Correlative Surface Analysis Workshop at Harvard CNS (Oct 4th-5th, 2022)

Correlative Surface Analysis Workshop– Latest developments in XPS and related tools for materials analysis  Center for Nanoscale Systems Harvard UniversityOctober 4th from 9am – 3pm to October 5th...

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