Infrastructure Upgrade for U.C. Berkeley Atomic, Nanoscale, and Quantum Characterization Facility

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该奖项的目的是升级和修复加州大学伯克利分校原子、纳米尺度和量子表征设施（ANQCF）内的基本实验基础设施，该设施位于加州大学伯克利分校校园伯奇大厅的两个地下室。这个空间完全用于研究，在过去的45年里一直是加州大学伯克利分校物理系的主要实验室设施。该设施的基础设施不再足够，因为它受到噪声电磁环境、声学和结构传播振动、温度控制不良、颗粒污染、冷却水系统故障以及缺乏适当的实验室间连接的困扰。这些实验限制将通过ANQCF基础设施系统的重大升级得到纠正。此次改造将使ANQCF内的新一代实验活动成为可能，这些活动将探测空间分辨率、电磁灵敏度、时间、频率和能量分辨率的最终极限。改进的实验环境将允许在单原子水平和新的物理制度下研究碳纳米结构。将探索由超流氦和简并原子气体组成的量子流体中的新现象。单个自旋的动力学将使用新的局部探针和磁强计技术进行探索，量子信息操作的极限将在原子和固态量子比特系统中进行测试。生物学复杂的机械系统将在单分子水平上进行探索和操作。拟议中的对ANQCF基础设施的改进还将通过一系列针对代表性不足的少数民族、各级学生和社区大学教师的项目，让更多人参与科学和工程。通过加强对科学人员的培训、新的科学技术突破、分布式能源研究网络的战略伙伴关系以及向充满活力的硅谷/湾区产业的技术转移，美国的科学和工程企业将受到影响。在计算、通信、化学和光敏、医学和能源等领域，涉及新材料、电子器件和纳米结构应用的关键技术将受到影响。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The purpose of this award is to upgrade and repair basic experimental infrastructure within the University of California Berkeley Atomic, Nanoscale, and Quantum Characterization Facility (ANQCF) housed in the two basement levels of Birge Hall, on the U.C. Berkeley campus. This space is devoted entirely to research and has been the primary laboratory facility for the U.C. Berkeley Physics Department for the last 45 years. The infrastructure in this facility is no longer adequate, as it is plagued by a noisy electromagnetic environment, acoustically and structurally propagated vibrations, poor temperature control, particulate contamination, a failing cooling water system, and lack of proper inter-laboratory connectivity. These experimental limitations will be rectified through a major upgrade of ANQCF infrastructure systems. The renovations will enable a new generation of experimental activities within the ANQCF that will probe the ultimate limits of spatial resolution, electromagnetic sensitivity, as well as time, frequency, and energy resolution. The improved experimental environment created by the proposed renovations will allow carbon nanostructures to be investigated at the single-atom level and in new physical regimes. New phenomena will be explored in quantum fluids composed of superfluid helium as well as degenerate atomic gases. The dynamics of individual spins will be explored using new local probe and magnetometry techniques, and the limits of quantum information manipulation will be tested in both atomic and solid state qubit systems. The intricate mechanical systems of biology will be explored and manipulated at the single molecule level. The proposed improvements in ANQCF infrastructure will also allow broader participation in science and engineering through a number of programs aimed at under-represented minorities, students at all levels, and community college instructors. The Nation's science and engineering enterprise will be impacted through enhanced training of scientific personnel, new science and technological breakthroughs, strategic partnerships in distributed energy research networks, and technology transfer to dynamic Silicon Valley / Bay Area industries. Critical technologies that involve new materials, electronic devices,and nanostructure applications in the areas of computation, communications, chemical and photosensing, medicine, and energy will be impacted.