Archief 2004

The independent assessment of the physics research activities in Delft and Leiden was carried out by an international team of experts, focussing on four criteria: quality (international recognition and innovative potential), productivity (scientific output), relevance (scientific and socio-economic impact), vitality and feasibility (flexibility, management, and leadership).  The assessment was...
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Dr. Don Eigler is a renowned physicist who specializes in studying the physics of surfaces and nanometer-scale structures. In late 1989, using the liquid-helium-temperature scanning tunneling microscope that he had built, Dr. Eigler demonstrated for the first time the ability to build structures at the atomic level by spelling out I-B-M with individual xenon atoms.Since then, Dr. Eigler has led...
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 This week’s issue of Nature features an article by Kavli researchers who controlled and detected the vibrations of a single molecule, a carbon nanotube. An electrical current passing through the nanotube caused its diameter to change periodically, resulting in a breathing-like motion. This vibration in turn subtly altered the current, allowing the vibration to be detected. These experiments are...
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Up till now, III-V semiconductors could not be fabricated on silicon or other group IV materials by the conventional fabrication route of thin-film deposition and lithographic structuring. This is caused by fundamental issues such as lattice and thermal expansion mismatch, which prevent a growth mode in which the crystallographic structure of the substrate is copied in the layer grown on top...
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Professor H.W.M. (Huub) Salemink has accepted a professorial appointment at the Delft University of Technology, starting October 1st, 2004. Salemink has been professor of Semiconductor Nanophotonics at the Eindhoven University of Technology since 2001. He will retain his connections with Eindhoven, on a part-time basis. In Delft, professor Salemink succeeds professor Hans Mooij as Chairman of the...
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 Molecules are becoming increasingly important in nanoscience. They can be studied individually or used as building blocks to form crystals, thin films or fibers. The MED section will study the electrical and mechanical, optical and magnetic properties of these molecules and assemblies of molecules. Both the fundamental and the applied aspects of molecular electronics will be pursued. Current...
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 The Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Condensed Matter Physics is an annual award, funded by donations from the Agilent Technologies'' corporate contributions programs to the European Physical Society. Since 1975, the award has been given to leading scientists in nearly every internationally important area of condensed matter physics.The prize includes a...
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Blaauboer (section Theoretical Physics) and Postma (section Molecular Biophysics) were among 5 VIDI-grantees at Delft University of Technology.The VIDI grant aims at researchers who have worked several years as a post-doc following their PhD graduation,  who have contributed genuine innovative ideas and realized these ideas succesfully. According to NWO, the researchers are among the top 10 to...
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 The Casimir Research School (CRS) will be officially established on September 15th, 2004. Its name is in honour of Dutch physicist H.B.G. Casimir (1909-2000).The Casimir Research School aims to provide an intellectually stimulating environment to deepen and broaden the PhD training in physics and closely related disciplines at Leiden University and Delft University of Technology in the...
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On the 12th May 2004 the European Commission published the Communication entitled Towards a European Strategy for Nanotechnology (http://www.cordis.lu/nanotechnology/src/communication.htm ).The Commission is inviting the views of the research and business community on the proposed strategy and the aim of this survey, therefore, is to gather views from a wide range of stakeholders and to...
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 As the authors, led by Leo Kouwenhoven and Lieven Vandersypen, discuss in their paper, the electrical read-out of single spins has thus far been impossible. The new Delft results demonstrate electrical single-shot measurement of the state of an individual electron spin in a semiconductor quantum dot. This is achieved by using spin-to-charge conversion of a single electron confined in the dot,...
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In the May volume of Nature, researchers at our Institute reported the first observations of a near perfect electron-hole symmetry in semiconducting carbon nanotubes. The work was done in a collaboration between the research groups of Quantum Transport (Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Sami Sapmaz, Leo Kouwenhoven and Herre van der Zant) and Molecular Biophysics (Cees Dekker). For the first time,...
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 The Kavli Foundation and Delft University of Technology have agreed to establish the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft. The mission of the Institute is to advance research on nanoscience, aiming at fundamental breakthroughs and novel concepts. Delft University is extremely proud that the Kavli Foundation has elected Delft as the site of one of their Institutes, the first outside the United...
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 Nanophysics researchers Merlijn Hajenius and Jianrong Gao have made significant progress in their attempt to fabricate high-sensitivity terahertz radiation detectors. Their technology is based on superconducting elements of nanoscale dimensions The device quality is now such that it matches the state of the art as used by NASA in satellites for their space research programme. The researchers...
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