Scientists discover new way to study nanostructures

July 25, 2007 | Source: physorg.com

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a phenomenon that allows measurement of the mechanical motion of nanostructures by using the AC Josephson effect.

The Josephson effect has numerous applications in physics, computing and sensing technologies. It can be used for ultra high sensitive detection of electromagnetic radiation, extremely weak magnetic fields and in superconducting quantum computing bits.