Highlights

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High-Sensitivity Accelerometry with a Feedback-Cooled Magnetically Levitated Microsphere

We demonstrate using a large particle trapped in a magneto-gravitational trap as a sensitive accelerometer. The results are comparable to those from a commercial seismometer but with a mass that is four billion times smaller.

Charles W. Lewandowski, Tyler D. Knowles, Zachariah B. Etienne, and Brian D’Urso

Physical Review Applied 15, 014050 (2021)


 

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A microsphere molecule: The interaction of two charged microspheres in a magneto-gravitational trap

Two microspheres in a magneto-gravitational trap interact with molecule-like behavior.

Bradley R Slezak and Brian D’Urso

Applied Physics Letters 114 (2019)


 

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Cooling the motion of a silica microsphere in a magneto-gravitational trap in ultra-high vacuum

We demonstrate feedback cooling of the center of mass motion of a silica microsphere in a magneto-gravitational trap to sub-milliKelvin temperatures.

Bradley R Slezak, Charles W Lewandowski, Jen-Feng Hsu, and Brian D’Urso

New Journal of Physics 20 (2018)

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Cooling the motion of diamond nanocrystals in a magneto-gravitational trap in high vacuum

The photoluminescence of trapped diamond nanocrystals is observed while the center of mass motion is cooled by feedback.

Jen-Feng Hsu, Peng Ji, Charles W. Lewandowski, and Brian D’Urso

Scientific Reports 6 (2016)

Select Publications

High-Sensitivity Accelerometry with a Feedback-Cooled Magnetically Levitated Microsphere
Charles W. Lewandowski, Tyler D. Knowles, Zachariah B. Etienne, and Brian D’Urso
Physical Review Applied 15, 014050 (2021)

Active optical table tilt stabilization
Charles W. Lewandowski, Tyler D. Knowles, Zachariah B. Etienne, and Brian D’Urso
Review of Scientific Instruments 91, 076102 (2020)

A microsphere molecule: The interaction of two charged microspheres in a magneto-gravitational trap
Bradley R Slezak and Brian D’Urso
Applied Physics Letters 114 (2019)

Cooling the motion of a silica microsphere in a magneto-gravitational trap in ultra-high vacuum
Bradley R Slezak, Charles W Lewandowski, Jen-Feng Hsu, and Brian D’Urso
New Journal of Physics 20 (2018)

Design and construction of a cost-efficient Arduino-based mirror galvanometer system for scanning optical microscopy
Jen-Feng Hsu, Shonali Dhingra, and Brian D’Urso
American Journal of Physics 85 (2017)

Nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond as angle-squared sensors
Shonali Dhingra and Brian D’Urso
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 29 (2017)

Cooling the motion of diamond nanocrystals in a magneto-gravitational trap in high vacuum
Jen-Feng Hsu, Peng Ji, Charles W. Lewandowski, and Brian D’Urso
Scientific Reports 6 (2016)

Chemical vapor deposition of graphene on large-domain ultra-flat copper
Shonali Dhingra, Jen-Feng Hsu, Ivan Vlassiouk, and Brian D’Urso
Carbon 69 (2014): 188-193

Quantum measurements between a single spin and a torsional nanomechanical resonator
Brian D’Urso, MV Gurudev Dutt, Shonali Dhingra and N. M. Nusran
New Journal of Physics 13, no. 4 (2011): 045002

New measurement of the electron magnetic moment using a one-electron quantum cyclotron
Brian Odom, David Hanneke, Brian D’Urso, and Gerald Gabrielse
Physical Review Letters 97, no. 3 (2006): 030801

Single-particle self-excited oscillator
Brian D’Urso, Ramon Van Handel, Brian Odom, and Gerald Gabrielse
Physical review letters 94, no. 11 (2005): 113002

Feedback cooling of a one-electron oscillator
Brian D’Urso, Brian Odom, and Gerald Gabrielse
Physical review letters 90, no. 4 (2003): 043001