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)提供资金的。该奖项的目的是升级和修复加州大学伯克利分校的原子、纳米和量子表征设施(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伯奇大厅的两层地下室。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，因为它受到嘈杂的电磁环境、声学和结构传播的振动、温度控制不善、颗粒污染、冷却水系统故障以及实验室之间缺乏适当连接的困扰。这些实验性的局限性将通过对ANQCF基础设施系统的重大升级来纠正。这些翻新将使ANQCF内的新一代实验活动能够探索空间分辨率、电磁灵敏度以及时间、频率和能量分辨率的极限。拟议的翻新创造了更好的实验环境，将使人们能够在单原子水平和新的物理制度下研究碳纳米结构。在由超流氦和简并原子气体组成的量子流体中，将探索新的现象。将使用新的局部探测器和磁测量技术来探索单个自旋的动力学，并将在原子和固态量子比特系统中测试量子信息操纵的极限。生物的复杂机械系统将在单分子水平上被探索和操纵。ANQCF基础设施的拟议改进还将通过一系列针对代表性不足的少数族裔、各级学生和社区大学教师的计划，允许更广泛地参与科学和工程领域。美国的科学和工程事业将通过加强对科学人员的培训、新的科学和技术突破、分布式能源研究网络的战略合作伙伴关系以及向充满活力的硅谷/湾区产业转让技术来受到影响。涉及计算、通信、化学和光敏、医药和能源等领域的新材料、电子设备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.