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So-called atom chips have enabled the practical development of cold and ultracold atom systems.  Atom chips are silicon stubstrates (or sometimes aluminum nitride or other material) that are patterned with electrical conductors using standard lithographic and plating techniques.  They can incorporate magnetic and optical elements as well.  The electrical conductors are usually used to produce magnetic fields for trapping, manipulating, and otherwise controlling cold and ultracold atoms.

We have spent a great deal of effort making ultracold atom systems small.  A typical ultrahigh vacuum system for producing Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) will occupy a large portion of a 8‘ x 4‘ optical table.   With the help of atom chips, we now routinely produce BEC systems that can be held in one hand!  Moreover, these miniature systems can produce ultracold (rubidium) atoms at a rate comparable to the very best of the conventional systems around.

Ultracold Atom Technology

PEOPLE

  1. Graduate Students

  2. •Kai Hudek

  3. Undergraduates

  4. •Jon Pfiffer

  5. •Christina Jones

  6. •Ryan Brown

  1. Collaborators

  2. •Victor Bright (Mech E)

  3. •Daniel Farkas (Postdoc)

  4. •Leslie Czaia (PRA)

  5. External Collaborators

  6. •Sarnoff Corporation

  7. •Teledyne Scientific & Imaging

  8. •Vescent Photonics

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