Alfred Hero - Interests in Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy

The objective of MRFM is to form 3D images of atomic structures by detecting tiny forces on a cantilever probe induced by coupling of the cantilever to the spin moments of electrons or protons. This work has been supported by DARPA under the MOSAIC program. Some recent publications are included below.

Journal Articles

  • M. Ting, A. O. Hero, D. Rugar, C.-Y. Yip, and J. Fessler, "Electron spin detection in the frequency domain under the interrupted Oscillating Cantilever-driven Adiabatic Reversal (iOSCAR) protocol," arXiv mansucript quant-ph/0307042, (arXiv), Dec. 2003. submitted to IEEE Trans. on Signal Process., Nov. 2003.

  • C.-Y. Yip, A. O. Hero, and D. Rugar, "Detection of Bistatic Electron Spin Signals in Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (MRFM)," arXiv mansucript quant-ph/0307042, (arXiv) , June 2003.

    Conference Proceedings

    A. O. Hero, M. Ting, and J. A. Fessler, "Two-state Markov modeling and detection if single electron spin signals," in Proceedings of EUSIPCO (.pdf) , Vienna, 2004.

    C. Hory, M. Ting and A. O. Hero, "Frequency estimation derived from a dynamical system analysis," in Proceedings of IEEE Workshop Statistical Signal Processing (.pdf) , St. Louis, 2003.

    M. Ting and A. O. Hero, "Detection of electron spin in a MRFM cantilever experiment," in Proceedings of IEEE Workshop Statistical Signal Processing (.pdf) , St. Louis, 2003.


    Prof. Alfred O. Hero III ,
    Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    The University of Michigan
    1301 Beal Avenue
    Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122
    Tel. (313) 763-0564
    FAX: (313) 763-8041
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