Study of DNA origami plates on graphene nanopores

Combining DNA origami with solid-state nanopores has been gaining an increasing amount of attention due to its potential for biosensing applications. Accordingly, origami plate dockings onto conventional solid-state silicon nitride pores with membranes of ?20nm thick were previously studied. Here, we examine whether graphene, with its single...

Imaging the mode shapes of microdrum resonators

A setup was built to measure the local frequency response of (graphene) microdrums in order to image mode shapes. To this end, a laser interferometer that measures the local deflection of a microdrum was equipped with a very precisely movable sample stage. The setup was used to image the mode shapes of a single few layer graphene microdrum,...

Quantum dots on bilayer graphene made on a substrate of boron nitride using split gates

In this project a method has been developed to fabricate the device structure for a quantum dot on bilayer graphene made on a boron nitride substrate. Quantum dots in bilayer graphene give us the ability to study the special properties of electrons inside this material; including a gapless electron-hole crossover and a fourfold degeneracy of...