3 papers
cond-mat.mes-hall2026
Carbon encapsulation of levitated Au nanoparticles
Joyce E. Coppock, Sunghyun Kim, B. E. Kane
We investigate the formation of a barrier to evaporation that develops when levitated nanoscale Au nanoparticles are exposed to pulses of 532 nm laser radiation in a high vacuum (p…
cond-mat.mes-hall2026
Microfabricated Au and Au/graphene bilayer platelets for levitation experiments
Sunghyun Kim, Joyce E. Coppock, B. E. Kane
We describe a fabrication process for preparing liquid suspensions of micron-scale Au and Au/graphene bilayer platelets using thin-film deposition, optical lithography, ion milling…
cond-mat.mes-hall2026
Collection, characterization, and precision measurement of levitated charged nanoparticles
B. E. Kane, Joyce Coppock, Sunghyun Kim +1
We describe apparatus and experimental procedures for high stability precision measurements of levitated nanoscale particles confined in an ion trap in high vacuum. We discuss meth…