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Professors involved in Nano and Micro-scale Engineering
Adela Ben-Yakar, Assistant Professor
Fundamentals of nonlinear interaction of femtosecond lasers with materials for ablation and imaging, fs-laser nanosurgery, nonlinear imaging (microscopy), miniaturized endoscopic probes for two-photon imaging and fs-laser surgery, fs-laser interaction with nano-materials, near field plasmonic effects for nanosurgery and imaging.
Shaochen Chen, Associate Professor
Nanophotonics (near-field and plasmonics), Nanomanufacturing, Biomaterials and BioMEMS, Microfluidics, Femtosecond Science and Engineering.
Paulo J. Ferreira, Assistant Professor
Study of the atomic structure and defect behavior of nanomaterials, through in-situ and high-resolution TEM techniques. Uunderstanding the relationships between the atomic/nano structure and the properties of nanomaterials, and the fundamental underlying mechanisms of structural and property changes induced by crystalline defects. Experimental work employs various TEM techniques, such as in-situ TEM heating, in-situ TEM nanoindentation, in-situ TEM straining, high-resolution TEM and aberration-free STEM Z-contrast. The focus of the research is in Nanoparticles for Fuel Cells, Nanocrystalline Metals and Metallic Nanoparticles, Copper Nano Interconnects and Carbon Nanostructures.
Mark F. Hamilton, Professor
Acoustic cavitation for kidney stone disintegration during shock wave lithotripsy. Bubble growth in marine mammals subjected to underwater sound. Biomechanical modeling of human lung to simulate the response to sonar operating near the lung resonance frequency. Nonlinear ultrasonic propagation effects for imaging in body tissue. MEMS-based parametric acoustic arrays.
Paul S. Ho, Professorr
Electronic Packaging. Materials and Processing. VLSI Interconnect Technology. Microelectronics Materials and Processing.
Desiderio Kovar, Associate Professor
Processing and characterization of thick films, coatings, and nanostructured materials, high volume quantities of nanoparticles by laser ablation from microparticles, supersonic impaction of nanoparticles onto substrates to direct write patterned, thick films. Nanoparticles and nanostructured films of WC, PZT, silver, CdSe, and Terfenol have been successfully produced using this technique.
Arumugam Manthiram, Professor
Basic solid state chemistry and physics concepts in designing and developing high performance materials for targeted engineering applications. New materials design and development, chemical synthesis including novel solution-based approaches, materials characterization, property measurements, fabrication of prototype devices and their evaluation, and a fundamental understanding of structure-property-performance relationships of materials.
Rodney S. Ruoff, Professor
Research related to energy and the environment, Novel carbon materials (graphene, nanotubes, others), Synthesis and properties of nanostructures, Fabrication and properties of nanocomposites, Nanomanipulation and nanorobotics, Particle electrokinetics and light scattering from particles, Instrument development and technology transition, New tools and methods for the biomedical sciences.
Li Shi, Associate Professor
Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials and Devices, Thermal Transport in Nanomaterials and Nanoelectronics, Nanofabrication of Physical, Chemical, and Biomolecular Sensors and Devices, Scanning Probe Microscopy.
SV Sreenivasan, Professor
High throughput nano-manufacturing processes for terabit density magnetic storage, nanoelectronics, and photonic devices. Precision mechanics and fluidics for sub-50nm nanoimprint lithography. Design/control of ultra-precision machines and real-time nano-scale process diagnostics. Metrology for characterizing long-range order in nanolithography.