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Aaron Stein

Senior Scientific Staff, Nanofabrication Facility, Electronic Materials, Center for Functional Nanomaterials

Aaron Stein

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Bldg. 735, Room 1041
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-3527
stein@bnl.gov

Electron-beam lithography and associated nanofabrication techniques are the driver behind a large swath of study at the nanoscale. My work involves using these techniques - and developing new ones - to enable the study of new materials and structures for a variety of applications. These include directed self-assembly of block co-polymers, fabrication of x-ray optics, artificial spin ice arrays of nanomagnets and photonic and metamaterial structures. I am also interested in applying nanofabrication processes to new materials and systems for quantum information applications. Additionally, my research involves pushing the limits of lithographic techniques themselves: the tools, the lithographic materials, experimental design and fabrication processes.

Expertise | Education | Publications

Expertise

Electron beam lithography, nanofabrication, self-assembly, electron microscopy

Education

  • B.A.: Tufts University (1996)
    • Major: Physics, Philosophy
  • PhD: State University of New York – Stony Brook (2002)
    • Physics
    • Dissertation Title: Focusing Optics for Soft and Hard X-rays Fabrication, Replication and Simulations

Selected Publications

  • Tiwale N, Subramanian A, Kisslinger K, Lu M, Kim J, Stein A, Nam C-Y (2019) Advancing next generation nanolithography with infiltration synthesis of hybrid nanocomposite resists. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 7:8803–8812. doi: 10.1039/c9tc02974e
  • Manfrinato VR, Stein A, Zhang L, Nam C-Y, Yager KG, Stach EA, Black CT (2017) Aberration-Corrected Electron Beam Lithography at the One Nanometer Length Scale. Nano Letters 17:4562–4567. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00514
  • Li Z, Kim M-H, Wang C, Han Z, Shrestha S, Overvig AC, Lu M, Stein A, Agarwal AM, Loncar M, Yu N (2017) Controlling propagation and coupling of waveguide modes using phase-gradient metasurfaces. Nature Nanotechnology 12:675–683. doi: 10.1038/nnano.2017.50
  • Stein A, Wright G, Yager KG, Doerk GS, Black CT (2016) Selective directed self-assembly of coexisting morphologies using block copolymer blends. Nature Communications. doi: 10.1038/ncomms12366
  • Zhang M, Magagnosc DJ, Liberal I, Yu Y, Yun H, Yang H, Wu Y, Guo J, Chen W, Shin YJ, Stein A, Kikkawa JM, Engheta N, Gianola DS, Murray CB, Kagan CR (2016) High-strength magnetically switchable plasmonic nanorods assembled from a binary nanocrystal mixture. Nature Nanotechnology 12:228–232. doi: 10.1038/nnano.2016.235
  • Morgan JP, Stein A, Langridge S, Marrows CH (2010) Thermal ground-state ordering and elementary excitations in artificial magnetic square ice. Nature Physics 7:75–79. doi: 10.1038/nphys1853
  • Ocola LE, Stein A (2006) Effect of cold development on improvement in electron-beam nanopatterning resolution and line roughness. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures 24:3061. doi: 10.1116/1.2366698
  • Freitag M, Perebeinos V, Chen J, Stein A, Tsang JC, Misewich JA, Martel R, Avouris P (2004) Hot Carrier Electroluminescence from a Single Carbon Nanotube. Nano Letters 4:1063–1066. doi: 10.1021/nl049607u
Aaron Stein

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Bldg. 735, Room 1041
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-3527
stein@bnl.gov

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