Led by Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of
electrical engineering, Vanderbilt researchers are the first to
introduce an approach for trapping and moving a nanomaterial known
as a single colloidal nanodiamond with nitrogen-vacancy center
using low power laser beam. The width of a single human hair is
approximately 90,000 nanometers; nanodiamonds are less than 100
nanometers. These carbon-based materials are one of the few that
can release the basic unit of all light—a single photon—a building
block for future quantum photonics applications, Ndukaife
explains.
Vanderbilt engineer the first to introduce low-power dynamic
manipulation of single nanoscale quantum objects
