Micro/Nano Engineering
The micro/nano engineering research group works on a wide spectrum of technological and scientific problems related to small-scale materials, devices, biological systems. The major research areas of the group include (1) manufacturing, self-assembly, quantum mechanics simulation, and applications of nanomaterials, (2) development of novel microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for microfluidics, data storage, micro-optics, bio-sensory, medical diagnosis, atomic force microscopy (AFM), and energy harvesting, and (3) fundamental studies of the single molecular level mechanics of DNA and protein molecules. (View Affiliated Researchers)
Research Highlights
MEMS System Integrating polymer actuators, microoptics and microfluidics for lab-on-chip applications (Nikos Chronis)
New materials behavior model: from quantum mechanics to continuum mechanics (Vikram Gavini)
CVD synthesis of carbon nanotube structures (John Hart)
Self-assembled nanopillars in polymer film under electric field (Wei Lu)
Nano-photonic MEMS device for lab-on-a-chip ultra-sensitive, high-speed optical spectroscopy (Katsuo Kurabayashi)
Organic LED integrated with scanning probe cantilever for near-field optical microscopy used in biological imaging (Kevin Pipe)
Micro/Nano Engineering Researchers
Nikos Chronis (BioMEMS, Bio-Imaging and Neural Networks)
Vikram Gavini (Materials Modeling Using Electronic Structure (Quantum-Mechanically Informed) Theories)
Yogesh Gianchandani (MEMS, Wireless Sensors, Micro-machining)
John Hart (Nanostructured Materials, Micro/Nano Manufacturing)
Katsuo Kurabayashi (MEMS, Thermal Device Engineering, Biophotonics)
Wei Lu (Nanomechanics, Advanced Materials, Nanostructure Evolution)
Edgar Meyhöfer (Bionanotechnology, Cellular and Molecular Biomechanics)
Kenn Oldham (MEMS, Micro-Robotics, Optimal and Robust Control)
Kevin Pipe (Thermoelectric Devices, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Optoelectronics)
Pramod Reddy (Nanoscale Charge and Energy Transport, Thermoelectric Devices)