About the Authors

Lucy D. Brennan

Contributed equally to this work with: Lucy D. Brennan, Thibault Roland

Affiliation Department of Physics - Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Thibault Roland

Contributed equally to this work with: Lucy D. Brennan, Thibault Roland

Affiliations Department of Physics - Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Diane G. Morton

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Shanna M. Fellman

Affiliations Department of Physics - Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

SueYeon Chung

Current address: Program in Applied Physics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Physics - Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Mohammad Soltani

Affiliations Department of Physics - Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Joshua W. Kevek

Current address: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Physics - Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Paul M. McEuen

Affiliation Department of Physics - Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Kenneth J. Kemphues

mdw17@cornell.edu (MDW); kjk1@cornell.edu (KJK)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Michelle D. Wang

mdw17@cornell.edu (MDW); kjk1@cornell.edu (KJK)

Affiliations Department of Physics - Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LDB TR DGM SMF KJK MDW. Performed the experiments: LDB TR DGM. Analyzed the data: LDB TR DGM SMF KJK MDW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LDB TR DGM SMF SYC MS JWK PMM KJK MDW. Wrote the manuscript: LDB TR DGM SMF KJK MDW.