List of works by Steven Chu

"It's almost science fiction". Interview by David Biello.

scientific article published in May 2012

6W, 1 kHz linewidth, tunable continuous-wave near-infrared laser

scientific article

A Magneto-Optical Nanoplatform for Multimodality Imaging of Tumors in Mice

scientific article published on 20 June 2019

A Scalable Method of Applying Heat and Humidity for Decontamination of N95 Respirators During the COVID-19 Crisis

scientific article published on 14 April 2020

A Single-Molecule Surface-Based Platform to Detect the Assembly and Function of the Human RNA Polymerase II Transcription Machinery

scientific article published on 04 August 2020

A functional dynein-microtubule network is required for NGF signaling through the Rap1/MAPK pathway

scientific journal article

A precision measurement of the gravitational redshift by the interference of matter waves

scientific article

A scalable method of applying heat and humidity for decontamination of N95 respirators during the COVID-19 crisis

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Accessory proteins stabilize the acceptor complex for synaptobrevin, the 1:1 syntaxin/SNAP-25 complex

scientific article

Active sub-Rayleigh alignment of parallel or antiparallel laser beams

scientific article

Address harassment now

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Applications of science and engineering to quantify and control the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

scientific article

Arthur Ashkin (1922-2020)

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Arthur Schawlow, 5 May 1921 · 28 April 1999

scientific article

Atom Interferometers with Scalable Enclosed Area

scientific article published on 18 June 2009

Atom Interferometry with up to 24-Photon-Momentum-Transfer Beam Splitters

scientific article published on 08 May 2008

Atom interferometry tests of local Lorentz invariance in gravity and electrodynamics

scholarly article

Atom-Interferometry Tests of the Isotropy of Post-Newtonian Gravity

scientific article published on 22 January 2008

Atom-wave diffraction between the Raman-Nath and the Bragg regime: Effective Rabi frequency, losses, and phase shifts

scientific article published on 6 February 2008

Atomic structure of sensitive battery materials and interfaces revealed by cryo-electron microscopy.

scientific article published in October 2017

Beyond Optical Molasses: 3D Raman Sideband Cooling of Atomic Cesium to High Phase-Space Density

scientific article (publication date: 17 January 2000)

Biology and polymer physics at the single-molecule level

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

Bright sub-20-nm cathodoluminescent nanoprobes for electron microscopy

scientific article published on 04 March 2019

Can N95 Respirators Be Reused after Disinfection? How Many Times?

scientific article published on 05 May 2020

Can N95 respirators be reused after disinfection? And for how many times?

scientific article published on 07 April 2020

Carbon capture and sequestration

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

Cavity-Enhanced Raman Emission from a Single Color Center in a Solid

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Characteristic periodic motion of polymers in shear flow

scientific article published in July 2005

Characterizing the initial encounter complex in cadherin adhesion

scientific article published on 30 July 2009

Cold atoms and quantum control

scientific article

Complete coherent control of silicon vacancies in diamond nanopillars containing single defect centers

article by Jingyuan Linda Zhang et al published 23 October 2017 in Optica

Correction: Synaptic proteins promote calcium-triggered fast transition from point contact to full fusion

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

Correlating structural dynamics and function in single ribozyme molecules

scientific article

DNA methylation increases nucleosome compaction and rigidity

scientific article published on February 2010

Decontamination of SARS-CoV-2 and Other RNA Viruses from N95 Level Meltblown Polypropylene Fabric Using Heat under Different Humidities

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Decontamination of SARS-CoV-2 and other RNA viruses from N95 level meltblown polypropylene fabric using heat under different humidities

scientific article published on 14 August 2020

Determination of Cs–Cs interaction parameters using Feshbach spectroscopy

Difference-frequency ultrasound imaging with non-linear contrast

scientific article published on 03 December 2019

Direct electrochemical generation of supercooled sulfur microdroplets well below their melting temperature

scientific article published on 02 January 2019

Direct measurement of tertiary contact cooperativity in RNA folding

scientific article

Dynamics and configurational fluctuations of single DNA molecules in linear mixed flows

scientific article published on 26 July 2002

Electrochemical generation of liquid and solid sulfur on two-dimensional layered materials with distinct areal capacities

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Electrotunable liquid sulfur microdroplets

scientific article published on 30 January 2020

Enhancing Quantum Yield via Local Symmetry Distortion in Lanthanide-Based Upconverting Nanoparticles

Equivalence principle and gravitational redshift

scientific article published on 11 April 2011

Erratum: Speckle-modulating optical coherence tomography in living mice and humans

scientific article published on 11 July 2017

Evaluation of a Silicon 90Sr Betavoltaic Power Source

scientific article published on December 2016

Experimental Observation of Optically Trapped Atoms

scientific article

Exploration of the transition state for tertiary structure formation between an RNA helix and a large structured RNA.

scientific article published in May 2003

Exploring the folding landscape of a structured RNA

scientific article

Extended-cavity diode lasers with tracked resonances

scientific article

Fluctuations of transfer RNAs between classical and hybrid states

scientific article

Gene targeting of GAN in mouse causes a toxic accumulation of microtubule-associated protein 8 and impaired retrograde axonal transport.

scientific article published on 24 March 2006

High Resolution Feshbach Spectroscopy of Cesium

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

High-brightness atom source for atomic fountains

Household materials selection for homemade cloth face coverings and their filtration efficiency enhancement with triboelectric charging

journal article published in 2020

In vitro system capable of differentiating fast Ca2+-triggered content mixing from lipid exchange for mechanistic studies of neurotransmitter release

scientific article

Initiation and re-initiation of DNA unwinding by the Escherichia coli Rep helicase

scientific article published in October 2002

Interconnected hollow carbon nanospheres for stable lithium metal anodes.

scientific article published on 27 July 2014

Ion atmosphere around nucleic acid.

scientific article published in November 2005

Ion atmosphere of three-way junction nucleic acid

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Is the fit of N95 facial masks effected by disinfection? A study of heat and UV disinfection methods using the OSHA protocol fit test.

scientific article published on 17 April 2020

Laser Cooling of Atoms, Ions, or Molecules by Coherent Scattering

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Laser cooling below a photon recoil with three-level atoms

scientific article

Measurement of gravitational acceleration by dropping atoms

scientific article published in Nature

Measurement of the Positronium1S13−2S13Interval by Doppler-Free Two-Photon Spectroscopy

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Measuring the fine structure constant using multiphoton atom interferometry

Measuring the folding transition time of single RNA molecules

scientific article published on 16 February 2007

Mg2+-dependent conformational change of RNA studied by fluorescence correlation and FRET on immobilized single molecules.

scientific article

Molecular architecture and assembly principles of Vibrio cholerae biofilms

scientific article

Molecular mechanism of the synaptotagmin–SNARE interaction in Ca2+-triggered vesicle fusion

scientific article

Multiphoton- and simultaneous conjugate Ramsey-Bordé atom interferometers

Multiple native states reveal persistent ruggedness of an RNA folding landscape

scientific article

Müller, Peters & Chu reply

scientific article published in Nature

Nanofiber Air Filters with High-Temperature Stability for Efficient PM2.5 Removal from the Pollution Sources

scientific article

Nanoparticle-mediated nonfluorescent bonding of microspheres to atomic force microscope cantilevers and imaging fluorescence from bonded cantilevers with single molecule sensitivity

scientific article

Nanosecond electro-optical switching with a repetition rate above 20 MHz.

scientific article published in December 2007

Nobel Lecture: The manipulation of neutral particles

scientific article

Noise-Immune Conjugate Large-Area Atom Interferometers

scientific article published on 28 July 2009

Observation of Low-Field Feshbach Resonances in Collisions of Cesium Atoms

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Observation of a single-beam gradient force optical trap for dielectric particles

scientific article published on 01 May 1986

Observation of polymer conformation hysteresis in extensional flow.

scientific article published in September 2003

One at a time, live tracking of NGF axonal transport using quantum dots

scientific article

Opportunities and challenges for a sustainable energy future

scientific article published on August 2012

Optical bonding using silica nanoparticle sol-gel chemistry.

scientific article published on 14 September 2007

Optimization of the Trade-Off Between Speckle Reduction and Axial Resolution in Frequency Compounding

scientific article published on 17 July 2018

Peptide bond formation destabilizes Shine-Dalgarno interaction on the ribosome

scientific article published in March 2007

Phase-locked, low-noise, frequency agile titanium:sapphire lasers for simultaneous atom interferometers

scientific article published in January 2006

Polymer nanofiber-guided uniform lithium deposition for battery electrodes

scientific article published on 9 April 2015

Post-translational modifications and lipid binding profile of insect cell-expressed full-length mammalian synaptotagmin 1

scientific article published on 26 October 2011

Präzisionsmessung der Feinstrukturkonstante

Ras-GTP dimers activate the Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase (MAPK) pathway

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Resolving cadherin interactions and binding cooperativity at the single-molecule level

scholarly article

Role of large thermal fluctuations and magnesium ions in t-RNA selectivity of the ribosome.

scientific article

Science in support of the Deepwater Horizon response

scientific article

Sensitive detection of cold cesium molecules formed on Feshbach resonances

scientific article published on 23 January 2003

Shelterin Protects Chromosome Ends by Compacting Telomeric Chromatin

scientific article published in February 2016

Single Particle Cathodoluminescence Spectroscopy with Sub-20 nm, Electron-Stable Phosphors

scientific article

Single molecule observation of liposome-bilayer fusion thermally induced by soluble N-ethyl maleimide sensitive-factor attachment protein receptors (SNAREs)

scientific article

Single upconversion nanoparticle imaging at sub-10 W cm-2 irradiance

scientific article published on 06 August 2018

Single-molecule FRET-derived model of the synaptotagmin 1-SNARE fusion complex

scientific article

Single-molecule studies of SNARE complex assembly reveal parallel and antiparallel configurations

scientific article

Single-molecule studies of synaptotagmin and complexin binding to the SNARE complex

scientific article

Single-molecule studies of the neuronal SNARE fusion machinery

scientific article

Single-molecule superresolution imaging allows quantitative analysis of RAF multimer formation and signaling

scientific article published on 24 October 2013

Single-particle spectroscopy for functional nanomaterials

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Site-specific labeling of the ribosome for single-molecule spectroscopy

scientific article

Speckle-modulating optical coherence tomography in living mice and humans

scientific article

Strongly Cavity-Enhanced Spontaneous Emission from Silicon-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

Studying calcium-triggered vesicle fusion in a single vesicle-vesicle content and lipid-mixing system

scientific article

Sub-20 nm Core-Shell-Shell Nanoparticles for Bright Upconversion and Enhanced Förster Resonant Energy Transfer

scientific article published on 14 October 2019

Subnanometre single-molecule localization, registration and distance measurements

scientific article

Synaptic proteins promote calcium-triggered fast transition from point contact to full fusion

scientific article

Synchrotron infrared measurements of protein phosphorylation in living single PC12 cells during neuronal differentiation.

scientific article published on 18 April 2012

Synergistic enhancement of electrocatalytic CO2 reduction to C2 oxygenates at nitrogen-doped nanodiamonds/Cu interface

scientific article published on 06 January 2020

The path towards sustainable energy

scientific article published on December 2016

The real climate debate

scientific article published in October 2017

The role of fluctuations in tRNA selection by the ribosome

scholarly article

Thiostrepton inhibition of tRNA delivery to the ribosome

scientific article

Three-Dimensional Analysis of Particle Distribution on Filter Layers inside N95 Respirators by Deep Learning

scientific article published on 07 December 2020

Three-dimensional molecular modeling with single molecule FRET.

scientific article

Three-dimensional viscous confinement and cooling of atoms by resonance radiation pressure

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Trapping of Neutral Sodium Atoms with Radiation Pressure

scientific article

Ultrahigh-resolution imaging reveals formation of neuronal SNARE/Munc18 complexes in situ

scientific article

Ultrathin two-dimensional atomic crystals as stable interfacial layer for improvement of lithium metal anode.

scientific article published on 5 September 2014

Upper limit for angular compounding speckle reduction

scientific article published on 28 May 2019

Vertical-Substrate MPCVD Epitaxial Nanodiamond Growth

scientific article published on 9 February 2017

tRNA dynamics on the ribosome during translation

scientific article

tRNA selection and kinetic proofreading in translation

scientific article published on 26 September 2004