Wednesday we went to see two exciting labs! In the morning, Hufflepuff Physics walked down to the Physics Department in the cold (brrrrr) weather to see something even colder. We went to Professor Mohanty’s Nanotechnology Lab to see an experiment where they examine vibrations at the milliKelvin scale.
You can read about this experiment at http://nano.bu.edu/
Fabrication, characterization and measurement of molecular-level nanostructures require facilities up to date with the current rate of progress of technology. They use a state-of-the-art ultra-sensitive laboratory with stealth capabilities, which allows a vibration-free, noise-free environment for measurements down to a low temperature of 0.006 Kelvin at GHz-range frequencies and picosecond timescales.
Dilution Fridge Used to Cool Liquid Helium to milliKelvin temperatures!
The facility was in a vibration damped giant Faraday cage!
The lab is inside a giant Faraday Cage with copper walls!
We also saw a scanning electron microscope which is used to fabricate nanostructures!
Scanning Electron Microscope
