Researchers develop fast, sensitive nanophotonic motion sensor developed for silicon microdevices
Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 06:02
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—Using a microscopic optical sensor that can be batch-fabricated on a silicon chip at low cost, researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology have measured the mechanical motion between two nanofabricated structures with a precision close to the fundamental limit imposed by quantum mechanics.