News

Femtotesla magnetometry -  Jun 15, 2023

New paper is published! Led by graduate student (now postdoc) Yaser Silani, we demonstrate a diamond magnetometer with a sensitivity of 70 fT after 1 second for kHz-MHz fields and use it to remotely detect Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance spectroscopy of powders. This is a collaboration with scientists from Los Alamos, Sandia, NuevoMR, and ODMR Technologies.

Y. Silani, J. Smits, I. Fescenko, M. W. Malone, A. F. McDowell, A. Jarmola, P. Kehayias, B. Richards, N. Mosavian, N. Ristoff, V. M. Acosta, "Nuclear quadrupole resonance spectroscopy with a femtotesla diamond magnetometer",  

Science Advances 9 : eadh3189 (2023).


Dr. Forrest Hubert successfully defends his PhD dissertation -  Jun 1, 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Hubert for defending his dissertation titled "Super-resolution microscopy with color centers in diamond." Forrest is now moving on to a postdoc position at Sandia National Labs here in Albuquerque.


Welcome to two new lab members -  May 22, 2023

The lab is excited to welcome our two newest lab members: Amilcar Jeronimo Perez (OSE grad student) and Logan Lu (QU-REACH summer student).


Dr. Yaser Silani successfully defends his PhD dissertation -  March, 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Silani for defending his dissertation titled "Femtotesla Magnetometry and Nanoscale Imaging with color Centers in Diamond." Yaser was awarded the OSE 2023 Best Dissertation Award for his thesis. He wil continue as a postdoc working on NMR spectroscopy in our lab for now. 


Bryan, Yaser, and Janis give invited talks on diamond quantum sensing -  Jan, 2023

Bryan Richards gave an invited talk at CAARI -SNEAP conference in Denton Tx, Nov 2022. Yaser Silani gave an invited talk at the AVS Quantum Science Workshop in El Segundo, CA, Jan 2023. Janis Smits gave an invited talk at the virtual NIH Quantum Sensing symposium on Jan 2023.


Dr. Nathaniel Ristoff successfully defends his PhD dissertation -  Sep 22, 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Ristoff for defending his dissertation titled "Magnetic microscopy and search for exotic interactions with color centers in diamond." Nate is now moving on to a staff scientist position at Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, CA.


Welcome to four new lab members -  Jun 22, 2022

The lab is excited to welcome our four newest lab members: Andris Berzins (CHTM Research Assistant Prof), Maziar Saleh Ziabari (OSE grad student), Eric Swiler (Physics REU summer student), and Lily Wood (QU-REACH summer student).


Janis gives three invited talks on NMR with NV centers -  Mar 6, 2022

In the last six months postdoc Janis Smits has given 3 invited talks:  UNM OSE seminar (Sep 2021), NMR^2 conference (Oct 2021), and nano-MRI conference (March 2022).


Lab starts three new projects on NMR with NV centers (NSF, NIH, DOE) -  Mar 6, 2022

In the last six months the lab has started three new projects:  


Do electron spins couple to the velocity of moving masses? - Dec 30, 2021

Led by Los Alamos scientist Pinghan Chu, grad student Nate Ristoff, and postdoc Janis Smits, we wrote a proposal to probe such "exotic" interactions:

P.-H. Chu*, N. Ristoff*, J. Smits, N. Jackson, Y. J. Kim, I. Savukov, V. M. Acosta, "Proposal for the search for new spin interactions at the micrometer scale using diamond quantum sensors." arXiv:2112.14882 (2021). Update: now published, Physical Review Research 4, 023162 (2022).


Nano-NMR paper on arxiv - Dec 29, 2021

Led by Sandia postdoc Jacob Henshaw in the lab of Andy Mounce, along with collaborators from Brown U and NIMS Japan, we posted a new preprint: 

J. Henshaw, P. Kehayias, M. S. Ziabari, M. Titze, E. Morissette, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J. L. Li, V. M. Acosta, E. Bielejec, M. P. Lilly, A. M. Mounce, "Nanoscale Solid-State Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Spectroscopy using Depth-Optimized Nitrogen-Vacancy Ensembles in Diamond." arXiv:2112.14850 (2021). 

***Update, published version here: Applied Physics Letters 120, 174002 (2022).


Bryan advances to Candidacy -  Dec 17, 2021

Congratulations to Bryan Richards who passed his comprehensive exams for the Physics PhD program and advanced to candidacy!


Diamond gyroscope paper on arxiv - Jul 11, 2021

Victor is a co-author on a paper:

Andrey Jarmola, Sean Lourette, Victor M. Acosta, A. Glen Birdwell, Peter Blümler, Dmitry Budker, Tony Ivanov, Vladimir S. Malinovsky, "Demonstration of diamond nuclear spin gyroscope." arXiv:2107.04257 (2021).  (Oct 22: published Science Advances 7 : eabl3840 (2021).)

This work was a collaboration with colleagues at UC Berkeley, JGU-Mainz, and Army Research Lab.


Postdoc Dr. Zaili Peng joins the lab - Apr 15, 2021

Welcome! Dr. Peng joins us after recently completing her PhD in the USC Chemistry Dept. with Susumu Takahashi. Her bio is here.


Quantum Undergraduate Research Experience at CHTM (QU-REACH) - Mar 15, 2021

The Quantum Undergraduate Research Experience at the Center for High Technology Materials (QU-REACH) at UNM is inviting applications for undergraduate research experiences in Quantum Technologies for this summer. The program is face-to-face and will run from May 31 – August 13, 2021. Participants will receive a stipend of $6,000 for the summer. 

Projects are available in a broad range of disciplines (Physics, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering) related to the three cornerstones of Quantum Technologies (Quantum Sensing, Quantum Communications, Quantum Computing). 

The application deadline is Friday, April 2 (instructions). 

Applications are welcome from all undergraduate students currently attending any College or University in the state of New Mexico who are interested in Quantum Technologies research.  Students from historically-excluded groups in STEM (including women, Hispanic, American Indian, and Black students) and students who are the first generation in their families to attend College are strongly encouraged to apply. 

For more information, visit https://qureach.unm.edu/. 

Update: Read about it in the UNM Newsroom article. 


Nazanin, Forrest, and Maziar advance to Candidacy -  Dec 8, 2020

Congratulations to Nazanin Mosavian, Forrest Hubert, and Maziar Saleh Ziabari who in the last two weeks all passed their comprehensive exams for the Optical Sciences PhD program and advanced to candidacy!


Victor's colloquium on youtube - Nov 30, 2020

Victor delivered a lecture, "Diamond quantum sensors"  for UNM's Physics & Astronomy colloquium on Oct 16, 2020. 

Check it out on youtube: https://youtu.be/WvM9Xk1blqI


NIH Director's New Innovator Award - Oct 6, 2020

The lab receives an NIH Director's New Innovator Award for the project: "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Microscope Based on Diamond Quantum Sensors".

NIH press release. UNM press release.


Max Aiello and Forrest Hubert pass exams - May 7, 2020

Physics & Astronomy student Max Aiello passed his PhD candidacy exam in October 2019. 

Optical Sciences and Engineering graduate student Forrest Hubert passed his MS Thesis exam in April 2020. 

Congrats to both!


NSF CAREER award - Mar 13, 2020

Victor and lab receive an NSF CAREER award for the project: "CAREER: Picoliter Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy with Diamond Quantum Sensors." The award (#1945148) is jointly funded by NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CHE) and Engineering (CBET) divisions. 


Optical NMR gyroscope paper - Jan 7, 2020

The lab is involved in a recent paper:

A. Jarmola, I. Fescenko, V. M. Acosta, M. W. Doherty, F. K. Fatemi, T. Ivanov, D. Budker, V. S. Malinovsky, "Robust optical readout and characterization of nuclear spin transitions in nitrogen-vacancy ensembles in diamond." Phys. Rev. Research 2, 023094 (2020).

This work was led by Andrey Jarmola (ODMR Tech) with collaborators at Army Research Lab, Australia National University, and UC Berkeley.


Sub-picotesla diamond magnetometer paper - Nov 12, 2019

Postdoc Ilja Fescenko is the lead on our recent paper:

I. Fescenko, A. Jarmola, I. Savukov, P. Kehayias, J. Smits, J. Damron, N. Ristoff, N. Mosavian, V. M. Acosta,

"Diamond magnetometer enhanced by ferrite flux concentrators." Physical Review Research 2, 023394 (2020). 

This work is a collaboration with Igor Savukov (Los Alamos), Andrey Jarmola (ODMR Tech), & Pauli Kehayias (Sandia).


Yaser receives conference recognition - Jul 30, 2019

Graduate student Yaser Silani was selected as a finalist for the Corbett Prize for his SiV STED work at the International Conference on Defects in Semiconductors in Seattle, July 2019.


STED with SiV centers paper - Jul 22, 2019

Our paper on super resolution microscopy with SiV centers is now published: 

Y. Silani*, F. Hubert*, V. M. Acosta, "Stimulated emission depletion microscopy with diamond silicon vacancy centers."  arXiv

ACS Photonics, 6 2577 (2019).

This work was co-led by graduate students Yaser Silani and Forrest Hubert. Related UNM newsroom article here.


Josh receives SharedEPR travel grant - Jun 11, 2019

Postdoc Josh Damron is awarded a SharedEPR travel grant to present his microfluidic diamond NMR work at the 2019 Rocky Mountain EPR Conference in Denver, CO in July.


Nate Ristoff passes candidacy exam - May 15, 2019

Congratulations to Nate who delivered a superb candidacy exam talk and passed with flying colors!


Abdelghani accepts TT faculty position at U Nebraska - May 1, 2019

Congratulations to Abdelghani Laraoui who will be moving to a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Dept. of Mechanical & Materials Engineering in August 2019!


Janis wins two conference awards - Apr 9, 2019

Graduate student Janis Smits has been awarded the Open Readings 2019 award for his presentation on microfluidic diamond NMR at the International Conference for Students of Physics in Vilnius, Lithuania. He also won a best student talk award at the Diamond Photonics conference in Lausanne, Switzerland.


Varifocal achromatic metalens paper - Mar 11, 2019

Our new paper on metasurface optics is now published:

M. D. Aiello*, A. S. Backer*, A. J. Sapon, J. Smits, J. D. Perreault, P. Llull, V. M. Acosta, "Achromatic varifocal metalens for the visible spectrum." arXiv

ACS Photonics, 6, 2432 (2019).

This work was co-lead by our graduate student Max Aiello and research scientist Adam Backer (Sandia National Labs), in collaboration with UNM undergraduate Aryeh Sapon, U Latvia PhD student Janis Smits, and optical scientists John Perreault and Patrick Llull at Google Daydream.


2019 Cottrell Scholar - Feb 11, 2019

Victor is awarded a 2019 Cottrell Scholars award from the Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement for his project titled: "Hyperpolarization and Detection of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Using Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond." The award is for a combination of NV NMR research and an educational plan for developing a interdisciplinary program in computational optics. The latter is in collaboration with Keith Lidke and others at UNM.

Press release here and here. Advertisement in Science here.


2D microfluidic NMR paper - Jan 10, 2019

Our paper on microfluidic 2D NMR is now published:

J. Smits*, J. Damron*, P. Kehayias, A. F. McDowell, N. Mosavian, N. Ristoff, I. Fescenko. A. Laraoui, A. Jarmola, V. M. Acosta, "Two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy with a microfluidic diamond quantum sensor," Science Advances 5 eaaw7895 (2019).

-featured in phys.org

-UNM Newsroom article here (by Mary Beth King)

This work was led by graduate student Janis Smits and postdoc Josh Damron in collaboration with Andrey Jarmola (ODMR Tech) and Andrew McDowell (NuevoMR).


Yaser Silani advances to PhD candidacy - Dec 11, 2018

congrats Yaser on an excellent candidacy exam!


Quantum sensing article in ABQ Journal - Dec 11, 2018

The Albuquerque Journal published an article on quantum sensing and computing research efforts here in Albuquerque, including from our lab.


Infrared laser magnetometer paper - Oct 22, 2018

Victor is a co-author on a recent publication: "Infrared laser magnetometry with a NV doped diamond intracavity etalon," Optics Express 27, 1706-1717 (2019). This work was lead by Yannick Dumeige (U Rennes) and includes collaborators throughout Europe.


NIH (NIBIB) Trailblazer Award - Sep 25, 2018

The lab receives an NIBIB Trailblazer Early Career Investigator award for the project: " Single Cell magnetic microscopy with multicolor superparamagnetic probes." This project is lead by Abdelghani Laraoui, Nate Ristoff, and Nazanin Mosavian, in collaboration with Dale Huber (CINT) and Helen Hathaway (UNM Cell Biology).


NSF magnetic nanoparticle project begins - Sep 5, 2018

Led by PI Abdelghani Laraoui, the lab begins a new NSF (DMR) funded project: Objective-first sorting and time resolved diamond magnetic microscopy of superparamagnetic nanoparticles.


NIH diamond NMR project begins - Sep 5, 2018

The lab begins a new NIH (NIGMS) funded project Microfluidic Diamond NMR Sensor in collaboration with Andrey Jarmola (ODMR Technologies).


Several more patents published in 2018 - Aug 12, 2018

Victor is a co-inventor on the following patents published in 2018:

- J. S. Klein, V. S. Bajaj, V. M. Acosta, J. J. Schwartz, J. D. Thompson, "Biosensor for in vitro detection system and method of use." US Patent 9927442 (2018).

- V. M. Acosta, J. J. Schwartz, R. N. Mirov, "In vivo analyte detection system." US Patent 9936908 (2018).

- V. M. Acosta, A. Jarmola, L. Bougas, D. Budker, "Magnetic resonance spectrometer." US Patent 15743527 (2018).


Summer conference presentations - Aug 12, 2018

Victor presented the lab's research at the Rocky Mountain EPR conference (Snowbird, UT), the Beckman Symposium (Irvine, CA), the CINT users meeting (Santa Fe, NM) and APS 4-corners meeting (Salt Lake City) in September. Andrey Jarmola gave a talk on behalf of the group at the APES-IES EPR meeting (Brisbane, AU).


Superconductor magnetometry review - Aug 12, 2018

Victor is a co-author on a recent review article "Color centers in diamond as novel probes of superconductivity," Journal of Supercondunctivity and Novel Magnetism 32, 85 (2019). Also available on arxiv. This was a collaboration with numerous experts in the field.


Magnetic imaging of malarial hemozoin - Aug 12, 2018

Postdoc Ilja Fescenko is the lead on our new paper: 

 "Diamond Magnetic Microscopy of Malarial Hemozoin Nanocrystals," 

Ilja Fescenko, Abdelghani Laraoui, Janis Smits, Nazanin Mosavian, Pauli Kehayias, Jong Seto, Lykourgos Bougas, Andrey Jarmola, and Victor M. Acosta, Phys. Rev. Applied 11, 034029 (2019). 

This work was a collaboration with biocrystal expert Jong Seto (UCSF) as well as others at UNM and around the world.


Google Daydream University Research award - Jun 4, 2018

The lab receives a research award from Google's virtual/augmented reality division (Daydream) for a project titled "Tunable sub-micron-thick metasurfaces for VR/AR displays". In addition to lead student Max Aiello, this is a collaboration with co-PI Adam Backer (Sandia NL) and Google optical physicists John Perreault and Patrick Llull.


Nazanin wins ENC student travel award - Mar 1, 2018

Graduate student Nazanin Mosavian has won a student travel stipend to attend the 2018 Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference in Orlando, May 2018.


NIH retina neuronal imaging project begins - Sep 18, 2017

In collaboration with Igor Savukov, John George, and  other neuroscientists at Los Alamos, we begin a new project, funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, titled "CRCNS: MICROIMAGING/MODELING OF RETINAL RESPONSES MEASURED WITH LASER MAGNETOMETER".


Metasurface project highlighted on CARC webpage - Sep 5, 2017

Our metasurface work was featured in a press release by UNM's Center for Advanced Research Computing titled "UNM researchers tackle next generation of VR displays". Aside from lead graduate student Max Aiello, this is a collaboration with Adam Backer (Sandia), John Perreault (Google VR), and Patrick Llullo (Google VR).


NIH magnetic nanoparticle imaging project begins - Sep 5, 2017

The lab begins a new project funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, "Direct magnetic characterization of individual nanoparticles for optimized diagnostic imaging". Aside from lead scientist Abdelghani Laraoui, this is a collaboration with Andrey Jarmola from ODMR Technologies.


Lectures at Brazil Winter School, Beckman, & ISMAR - Aug 4, 2017

-Victor delivered a series of four lectures called Diamond Quantum Photonics on Jul 27-28 at the 1st Workshop on Topological Quantum Phenomena and Quantum Information Science at the Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC), University of São Paulo in São Carlos, Brazil. 

-Victor also presented a poster at the 2017 Beckman Symposium on Aug 4 in Irvine, CA,

-Abdelghani presented our NMR and nanoparticle work in a talk at the 2017 ISMAR conference in Quebec City.


Several patents from Google published - Jul 12, 2017

Several of Victor's patents from his time at Google Life Sciences (now Verily) have recently been published:

-Cheng-Hsun Wu, Victor Marcel Acosta, Ian Peikon, Paul Lebel, Jerrod Joseph Schwartz, "Spectrally And Spatially Multiplexed Fluorescent Probes For In Situ Cell Labeling". United States Patent 20170176338 (2017).

-V. M. Acosta, B. Zheng, “Optimized biophotonic sensors.” United States Patent 20179763607 (2017).

-V. M. Acosta, J. Schwartz, V. Demas, V. S. Bajaj, J. D. Thompson, M. W. Askew, “Nanodiamond counting.” United States Patent 20179759719 (2017).


Yaser wins student travel award - Jun 15, 2017

Yaser Silani has been awarded a graduate student travel grant by the organizers of the PRACQSYS conference in Seattle, WA, to present our SiV optical logic research.


Victor receives Beckman Young Investigator award - May 19, 2017

Victor is selected as a 2017 Beckman Young Investigator by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for a project, titled "Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy on a Diamond Chip". Abstract.

Beckman Foundation press release. CHTM press release. UNM Newsroom press release.


Talks at NMR^2, MRS, and Beckman Center - Apr 25, 2017

Abdelghani gave a talk at the NMR^2 conference in Albuquerque, and Victor gave talks at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in Phoenix and at the Beckman Center in Irvine, CA.


Multiphoton SiV paper published in Phys Rev Applied - Apr 6, 2017

Victor's paper Multiphoton-excited fluorescence of silicon-vacancy color centers in diamond from his time a Google is published in Phys Rev Applied. Also available on the arxiv. 


Solution NMR paper published in Nature Communications. - Feb 24, 2017

Our paper Solution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy on a nanostructured diamond chip by P. Kehayias*, A. Jarmola*, N. Mosavian, I. Fescenko, F. M. Benito, A. Laraoui, J. Smits, L. Bougas, D. Budker, A. Neumann, S. R. J. Brueck, V. M. Acosta, is now published. Nature Communications 8, 188 (2017).

See also: UNM press release.


Victor receives Google Faculty Research Award - Feb 19, 2017

Victor receives a Google Faculty Research Award to work on the project: "Next-generation virtual reality displays using nanophotonics" with Adam Backer (SNL) and John Perreault (Google).

2017

Feb 2: Victor gives a talk at Photonics West.

Feb 1: We begin a project "Diamond nuclear quadrupole resonance" sponsored by Los Alamos.

Jan 6: Janis is awarded a student travel award to attend the Experimental NMR Conference (ENC) in California!

Jan 5: Victor's patent from Google, Magnetic nanoparticle detection and separation by magnetic relaxation time, is published.

Jan 5: Our paper: Solution nuclear magnetic resonance on a nanostructured diamond chip is posted to arxiv.

Jan 3: Victor's patent from Google, Parallel programmable array microscope, is published. 

2016

Dec 1: Victor's patent from Google, Nanophotonic hyperspectral/light field superpixel imager, is published.

Nov 17: Victor attends the AAPT New Faculty Workshop to learn about physics education research and methods.

Nov 14: Victor gives a seminar at Texas A&M IQSE.

Nov 12: Victor gives a talk at the ACS-SW meeting.

Oct 13: Victor's patent from Google, Wearable diagnostic platform using direct magnetic detection of magnetic nanoparticles in vivo,  is published.

Oct 2: Janis Smits, PhD student in Florian Gahbauer's group at U Latvia, joins us for a one-year fellowship.

Sep 30: Our lab is featured in a CHTM research highlight.

Sep 18: Our paper: Optically Detected Magnetic Resonances of Nitrogen-Vacancy Ensembles in 13C Enriched Diamond is published in PRB.

Sep 17: Victor gives a talk at the NMR^2 conference.

Sep 6: Abdelghani Laraoui joins us as Research Assistant Professor.

Sep 1: We begin NIH grant "Nanoliter electron paramagnetic resonance sensor based on diamond nanophotonics..."

Aug 1: Our paper Microwave-free magnetometry with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond is published in APL.

July 19-20: Nazanin and Ilja give award talks at the Rocky Mountain Magnetic Resonance Conference

July 14: Victor's patent from Google Life Sciences: High-Throughput Hyperspectral Imaging With Superior Resolution And Optical Sectioning is published.

June 24: Michael Malone (Los Alamos National Lab) visits to discuss diamond NMR.

June 2: UNM undergraduate Aryeh Sapon and Cottonwood Prep HS student Patrick Armenta begin summer internships.

June 1: Ilja is awarded a generous travel grant to attend the EPR Symposium at the Rocky Mountain MR conference!

May 31: Research Assistant Professor candidate Abdelghani Laraoui (CCNY) visits.

May 26: Nazanin is awarded a Jack E. Crow Travel Grant to attend the Rocky Mountain SSNMR conference in July!

May 22: UNM OSE graduate students, Forrest Hubert and Yaser Silani, join the lab.

April 9: Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow Lykourgos Bougas visits for two weeks to work on the nanograting-NMR project.

April 1: Francisco Benito begins the next stage of his career as an engineer at Intel in Arizona.

Feb 19: Kai-Mei Fu (U Washington Physics/EE) visits us and gives a talk on her III-V defect spectroscopy work

Feb 18: Francisco presents a SQUINT poster: Diamond nanogratings for detecting external nuclear spins - fabrication and characterization.

Feb 17: Victor gives a talk at Photonics West

Feb 5: Chris Hovde from Southwest Sciences visits.

Feb 4: Igor Savukov from Los Alamos National Lab visits.

Feb 4: Our paper: High density NV sensing surface created via He+ ion implantation of 12C diamond is posted to arxiv. Later published in APL.

Jan 4: Ilja Fescenko joins the lab as a postdoc, welcome!

Jan 1: We begin NSF grant STTR Phase I: Nanophotonic magnetic-resonance spectrometer for chemical trace analysis.

2015

Dec 27: Four of Victor's inventions at Google Life Sciences (now Verily) are granted patents: 

Silicon-Vacancy-Doped Nanodiamonds for Molecular and Cellular Imaging, 

Engineered Particles with Polarization Contrast and Alignment Control for Enhanced Imaging, 

Methods for reducing noise in optical biological sensors, 

Method for using nanodiamonds to detect nearby magnetic nanoparticles. 

Dec 23: Our CINT user proposal has been awarded. 

Dec 6-13: Pauli Kehayias, postdoc at Harvard, visits for our nanophotonic magnetic resonance project.

Nov 19: Victor gives a talk at Sandia National Labs and visits the Atomic Physics division and CINT.

Nov 12: Our review article, Quantum memories: emerging applications and recent advances is posted to arxiv.

Oct 19-23: Andrey Jarmola, founder of ODMR Technologies, visits for our nanophotonic magnetic resonance project.

Sep 28-30: Victor gives a talk at the Quantum UK 2015 conference in Oxford.

Sep 25: Victor gives a seminar at Humboldt U. Physics department in Berlin.

Sep 17: Nazanin Mosavian joins the lab as a research assistant, welcome!

Sep 2: Francisco Benito joins the lab as a postdoc, welcome!

Aug 17: The Quantum nanophotonics and biosensing lab is now open for business.