There are critical needs for device technologies that not only operate with greater efficiency and less waste, but also for technologies that can more efficiently capture, transform and store energy and power from either natural sources (like the sun) or engineered sources like the electrical grid. The ability to control and construct new materials at the nanoscale allows us to construct a broad range of devices and systems with important benefits for improved efficiencies in lighting, catalysis, energy capture, generation and storage.
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ultra low-power and low-voltage devices and circuits (nanometer CMOS and beyond CMOS) including sub-kT/q devices, subthreshold circuits, NEMS and hybrid CMOS-NEMS circuits; power/thermal management: from atoms to heat sinks; nano-enhanced passives for ultra high-density and high-performance energy storage, novel energy conversion/scavenging applications of carbon nanotubes and graphene.
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Design of well-defined initiators for polymerization reactions, the study of photophysical processes in advanced organic photonic materials and the design of interconnects for bringing together molecular wires.
Mechanical Engineering
Ceramic composite design; solid mechanics applied to materials problems, such as the remediation of crystalline defects in gallium nitride and other optoelectronic films.
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Electronics and Photonics: fiber-optic networks, wavelength and subcarrier division multiplexing, photonic packet switching, signal processing in semiconductor optical devices, wavelength conversion, microwave photonics.
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Conjugated Oligomers, Porous Silicon, Polyelectrolyte Films, Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Ag/Au Clusters on TiO2.
Materials
Flexible electronic devices. Organic semiconductors for thin film transistor and photovoltaics. Materials for energy storage and conversion. Characterization of polymer films.
Chemical Engineering
Molecular Sieves (Zeolites), Polymer Structure and Dynamics, Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials, and NMR Spectroscopy.
Chemical Engineering
Polymers and Complex Fluids, Fluids and Transport Phenomena.
Chemical Engineering
Development and application of hybrid scanning probe microscopes for chemical, electrical, and optical interrogation of surfaces. Focus areas include nanomaterial synthesis, optical spectroscopies, plasmonics, and probing structure-function relationships in a variety of material venues (microelectronics, catalysis, organic PV, and bio).
Materials
Quantum Structure Growth, Science and Technology; High Performance Graded Quantum Structures; Quantum Wire and Quantum Dot Growth and Devices; MBE Technology for Ultrafast, Ultra-high-density Optoelectronic Devices; Smart Optoelectronic Pixel Technology; Cryogenic Lasers for Low-Temperature Electronics; Advanced Infrared Detectors Based on Strained Layer Superlattices.
Materials Department and Materials Research Lab
Current interests include design, synthesis and exploitation of nanoscopically defined materials in applications ranging from
next-generation microelectronic devices to diagnostic agents for detection and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Physics
Physics of conductive and light-emitting polymers, biosensors.
Chemical Engineering
Fluid mechanics, complex fluids, surfactant and nanoparticle effects on interfaces, vesicle formation and stability, polymer rheology.
Chemical Engineering
Catalysis, Surface Science, and Reaction Engineering, Electronic and Photonic Semiconductor Materials.
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Catalysis in zeolites and on metal nanoparticles supported on oxides; single-molecule quantum mechanics; electronic structure and transport in thermoelectric materials; theoretical chemical physics.
Mechanical Engineering
Applied mechanics, non-linear dynamics, fluid mechanics, applied mathematics, active (chaotic advection) methods in micromixing, nonlinear dynamics and control of dielectrophoretic separation of bioparticles, bioparticle control for biosensing, control of spin systems.
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Proteins, genes and molecular mechanisms controlling biological nanofabrication of high-performance mineral-organic composites, and innovative strategies to harness these mechanisms for new routes to nanofabrication of electronic, magnetic and optical materials.
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Photophysics and electronic properties of novel organic and metal-organic hybrid materials for applications in nanotechnology such as molecular electronics, transistors, photovoltaics, and sensors.
Electrical & Computer Engineering and Materials
Heteroepitaxial growth of novel materials and structures to form the basis for making new electronic, optoelectronic, magnetic and micromechanical devices.
Materials Department
First-principles calculations, optoelectronic materials, semiconductors and oxides, hydrogen generation and storage, metal/semiconductor nanocomposites.
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Currently interested in optical and electro-optical properties of conjugated polymers, organic chemistry of fullerenes, and design and preparation of self-mending polymers.
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