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• Sept 3 2004 The first graduate student: Olubusola Koyi has joined the group.
• May 3 2004 The first group members: Devin Smith and Cory Dean have begun work to set up the laborator(ies).
• Apr. 26 2004 We've just been funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation for infrastructure. See the press release here.
• Nov. 13 2003 The website is up!

Press coverage of our work

SET's with nanomechanics:

• Uncertain future, by Miles Blencowe. Nature 424 p.262-263, July 2003. PDF
• Scientists’ tiny device a huge breakthrough, by Jennifer Pritchett, Kingston Whig Standard, July 17 2003 (page 1!!). HTML
• New Detector May Test Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle,by Henry Fountain. New York Times, July 22 2003. HTML
• UCSB professor's work on small devices leads to big opportunities by Leah Etling, Santa Barbara News Press, July 28 2003. HTML
• DEVICE MEASURES FEMTOMETERS by Jyllian Kemsley, Chemical and Engineering News, July 21 2003. HTML
• Nanoscale sensor approaches the quantum regime, by Belle Dumé PhysicsWEB, 16 July 2003. HTML

Quantum limits of nanomechanics:

• Researchers Race to Put the Quantum Into Mechanics, by Adrian Cho, Science 299, p. 36-37, January 3 2003. PDF

Semiconductor Spintronics

• ULTRAFAST LASERS: Lighting the Way to a Quantum Computer, by Robert F. Service, Science 292 p. 2412-2413, June 2001.
• Penn State Researchers Collaborate on Work Designed to Control Spin of Electrons , Pennsylvania State University Newswire, June 29 (2001).