{"670977":{"#nid":"670977","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Cai Elected Optica Fellow for Pioneering Work in Plasmonics and Metamaterials","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/wenshan-cai\u0022\u003EWenshan Cai\u003C\/a\u003E has achieved a prestigious milestone by being elected to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.optica.org\/\u0022\u003EOptica (formerly OSA), Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide\u003C\/a\u003E, 2024 Fellow Class. A professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Cai earned the fellowship for his groundbreaking contributions in plasmonics and metamaterials, encompassing both original discoveries and knowledge dissemination.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESince becoming a part of the Georgia Tech faculty in 2012, where he holds a joint appointment in Materials Science and Engineering, Cai has played a pivotal role in advancing research on nanophotonic materials and devices. Notably, his authored work, \u0022Optical Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications,\u0022 serves as a globally recognized textbook and reference.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECai\u0027s accolades include the OSA\/SPIE Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award, the CooperVision Science \u0026amp; Technology Award, and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. He is also a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EOptica Fellows, a select group representing no more than 10 percent of the total membership, are individuals who have demonstrated exceptional dedication to advancing optics and photonics. The election process is highly competitive, with candidates recommended by the Fellow Members Committee and subsequently approved by the Awards Council and Board of Directors.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAlongside 128 other distinguished individuals, Cai will be honored at Optica conferences and events throughout 2024. The comprehensive list of the 2024 Optica Fellows is accessible \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.optica.org\/about\/newsroom\/news_releases\/2023\/october\/optica_announces_2024_fellows_class\/\u0022\u003Eonline.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EProfessor Wenshan Cai secures a spot in Optica\u0027s prestigious 2024 Fellow Class, recognizing his groundbreaking contributions that have advanced the field of optics and photonics.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Wenshan Cai secures a spot in Optica\u0027s prestigious 2024 Fellow Class, recognizing his groundbreaking contributions that have advanced the field of optics and photonics."}],"uid":"36172","created_gmt":"2023-11-09 18:23:17","changed_gmt":"2023-11-20 01:06:07","author":"dwatson71","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"672352":{"id":"672352","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Professor Wenshan Cai\u00a0","body":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Professor Wenshan Cai\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1699644046","gmt_created":"2023-11-10 19:20:46","changed":"1699644046","gmt_changed":"2023-11-10 19:20:46","alt":"Georgia Tech Professor Wenshan Cai\u00a0","file":{"fid":"255578","name":"Cai_5x7_B.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/11\/10\/Cai_5x7_B.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/11\/10\/Cai_5x7_B.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1704887,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/11\/10\/Cai_5x7_B.jpg?itok=jzvs4FTu"}}},"media_ids":["672352"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"91661","name":"Wenshan Cai"},{"id":"193251","name":"Optica"},{"id":"193252","name":"Optica Fellow"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"167535","name":"School of Materials Science and Engineering"},{"id":"2768","name":"optics"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"77481","name":"plasmonics"},{"id":"79971","name":"metamaterials"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDan Watson\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["dwatson@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"664423":{"#nid":"664423","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Fall 2022 IEN Seed Grant Winners Announced","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN) at Georgia Tech has announced the Fall 2022 Core Facility Seed Grant winners. The primary purpose of this program is to give first- and second-year graduate students in diverse disciplines working on original and unfunded research in micro- and nanoscale projects the opportunity to access the most advanced academic cleanroom space in the Southeast. In addition to accessing the labs\u0026#39; high-level fabrication, lithography, and characterization tools, the awardees will have the opportunity to gain proficiency in cleanroom and tool methodology and access the consultation services provided by research staff members in IEN. Seed Grant awardees are also provided travel support to present their research at a scientific conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to student research skill development, this biannual grant program gives faculty with novel research topics the ability to develop preliminary data to pursue follow-up funding sources. The Core Facility Seed Grant program is supported by the Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor (SENIC), a member of the National Science Foundation\u0026rsquo;s National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSince the start of the grant program in 2014, 82 projects from ten different schools in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Colleges of Engineering and Science, as well as the Georgia Tech Research Institute and three other universities, have been seeded.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe four winning projects in this round were awarded IEN cleanroom and lab access time to be used over the next year. In keeping with the interdisciplinary mission of IEN, the projects that will be enabled by the grants include research in microelectronics, optoelectronics, battery technology, and novel materials for energy harvesting.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Spring 2022 IEN Core Facility Seed Grant Award winners are:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAluminum Oxide\/Silver Microcavities for Trapping Light and Producing Polariton Coupling\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPI: Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nStudent: Martin Gomez\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSchool of Materials Science and Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFacile and Scalable Fabrication of 3D-Patterned Current Collectors for Li-metal Batteries\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPI: Hailong Chen\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nStudent: Jakub Pepas\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\/School of Materials Science and Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EElucidating Connections between the Piezoelectric and Auxetic Responses of Cellulose\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPI: Meisha Shofner\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nStudent: Fariha Rubaiya\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSchool of Materials Science and Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELow-Cost, Self-Propagating, Reactive Nanoporous Ni\/Al Interconnects for Low-Stress Die Assembly\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPI: Vanessa Smet and Antonia Antoniou\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nStudent: Ali Amirnasiri\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor, a member of the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, is funded by NSF Grant ECCS-2025462.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Four Interdisciplinary Projects to Receive IEN Technical Support and Facility Access"}],"uid":"34760","created_gmt":"2023-01-05 19:03:01","changed_gmt":"2023-01-05 19:03:01","author":"Laurie Haigh","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"655868":{"id":"655868","type":"image","title":"IEN Seed Grants","body":null,"created":"1646147525","gmt_created":"2022-03-01 15:12:05","changed":"1646147525","gmt_changed":"2022-03-01 15:12:05","alt":"IEN logo with sprouting plant","file":{"fid":"248650","name":"Square-image-seed-grant.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Square-image-seed-grant.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Square-image-seed-grant.png","mime":"image\/png","size":75492,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Square-image-seed-grant.png?itok=UUfGtdDo"}}},"media_ids":["655868"],"groups":[{"id":"197261","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187433","name":"go-ien"},{"id":"167679","name":"Seed Grant"},{"id":"2832","name":"microelectronics"},{"id":"1815","name":"optoelectronics"},{"id":"191827","name":"battery technology"},{"id":"191828","name":"novel materials for energy harvesting"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laurie.haigh@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELaurie Haigh\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nResearch Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"659478":{"#nid":"659478","#data":{"type":"news","title":" Graduate Student Victoria Quir\u00f3s-Cordero Wins Multiple Support Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EVictoria Quir\u0026oacute;s-Cordero has been awarded a 2022 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) for her potential contributions to the field photonics research. Quir\u0026oacute;s-Cordero is a Materials Science and Engineering PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology advised by Materials Science and Engineering Professor Natalie Stingelin and School of Chemistry Professor Carlos Silva. Her research focuses on the photophysics of strong light-matter coupling in fully solution-processed microcavities, and her project aims to provide guidelines for the utilization of strong light-matter coupling and solution-processed photonic structures in chemistry and the realization of quantum information technologies. \u0026ldquo;I am very grateful to SPIE for their support. I am proud of representing Latin American women in optics and photonics,\u0026rdquo; said Quir\u0026oacute;s-Cordero. Quir\u0026oacute;s-Cordero also wished to thank her advisors and the Georgia Tech Quantum Alliance for their support. In addition to her recent SPIE award, Ms. Quir\u0026oacute;s-Cordero was selected and funded by the American Physical Society to participate in the Advancing Graduate Leadership (AGL) Conference that will be held on August in Washington DC.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Leadership Skills \u0026 Research in Photonics Garners Awards for MSE Grad Student "}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Victoria Quir\u00f3s-Cordero has been awarded a 2022 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) for her potential contributions to the field photonics research."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2022-07-19 17:16:52","changed_gmt":"2022-07-20 12:52:55","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"659477":{"id":"659477","type":"image","title":" Victoria Quir\u00f3s-Cordero ","body":null,"created":"1658250485","gmt_created":"2022-07-19 17:08:05","changed":"1658250571","gmt_changed":"2022-07-19 17:09:31","alt":"MSE student Victoria Quir\u00f3s-Cordero","file":{"fid":"249963","name":"Victoria Quir\u00f3s-Cordero.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Victoria%20Quir%C3%B3s-Cordero.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Victoria%20Quir%C3%B3s-Cordero.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":11408,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Victoria%20Quir%C3%B3s-Cordero.jpg?itok=Nd6NJlH_"}}},"media_ids":["659477"],"groups":[{"id":"217141","name":"Georgia Tech Materials Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"186870","name":"go-imat"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"167535","name":"School of Materials Science and Engineering"},{"id":"167910","name":"SPIE"},{"id":"101","name":"Award"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChrista M. 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In the absolute simplest terms, he\u0026rsquo;s helping scientists, clinicians, and researchers take better pictures of the cells and tissues they\u0026rsquo;re studying.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENow Jia, an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, is taking the next big step in his work. He\u0026rsquo;s building a next-generation platform for fluorescence microscopes that could reshape how we see live cells, capturing ultrafast 3D images of single cells. His new system would vastly improve the resolution of conventional microscopes, and it would amp up a technique called microfluidics imaging to achieve detailed and clear 3D images of cells in flow in one snapshot.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You can bring any types of cells, any biological questions to this platform for imaging,\u0026rdquo; Jia said, \u0026ldquo;so it would have a broad impact.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe National Science Foundation (NSF) seems to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2145235\u0026amp;HistoricalAwards=false\u0022\u003Eagree with the potential for Jia\u0026rsquo;s work to make a real difference\u003C\/a\u003E in the search for answers to difficult questions in health and biology. He has received a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2145235\u0026amp;HistoricalAwards=false\u0022\u003EFaculty Early Career Development Award from the agency this year\u003C\/a\u003E, a five-year grant designed to help promising researchers establish a foundation for a lifetime of leadership in their field. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/beta.nsf.gov\/funding\/opportunities\/faculty-early-career-development-program-career\u0022\u003EKnown as CAREER awards, the grants are NSF\u0026rsquo;s most prestigious funding for untenured assistant professors.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This award is a very important step for our lab,\u0026rdquo; Jia said. \u0026ldquo;We work to build biophotonic tools at the systems level; that means we build hardware, software, algorithms, data science, and applications \u0026mdash; a whole pipeline. In the long term, we hope to establish and advance our leadership in this area, especially at the interface between imaging and the life sciences.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJia calls his advanced imaging platform \u0026ldquo;multiplexing light-field instrumentation and methods,\u0026rdquo; which speaks to his whole-pipeline approach to light-based biological imaging. The idea is to simplify and speed up how researchers and doctors study cells while limiting cell damage from extended exposure to light during the imaging process.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis platform includes three modules.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne module will use an array of tiny lenses to collect not just light reflected from a cell sample, but also the angle of that light. Angular information is ignored in conventional 2D microscopes, which means lots of information and context also is ignored \u0026mdash; after all, cells are three-dimensional structures.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is a new type of 3D cell imaging that can provide us with a snapshot capability,\u0026rdquo; Jia said. \u0026ldquo;Now we rely on scanning-based techniques \u0026mdash; we have to scan layer by layer or piece by piece to get 3D information. That becomes very slow, and if you scan for too long, it damages the cells. The advantage for this technique is that you can minimize your photo damage and greatly enhance the speed to capture full 3D information.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe second component of Jia\u0026rsquo;s proposed system would provide far great resolution than is currently possible, breaking what\u0026rsquo;s known as the diffraction limit of conventional microscopes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We want to achieve tens of nanometers of resolution, versus 200 or 300 nanometers of resolution for conventional microscopes,\u0026rdquo; Jia said. \u0026ldquo;This will allow us to resolve many finer structures in cells.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe third part of Jia\u0026rsquo;s system aims to advance a technique called microfluidics imaging, or optofluidics. That approach collects images of lots single cells as they pass through chips made of silicon or glass or polymers and that have very tiny channels. Jia\u0026rsquo;s platform would capture 3D images of cells in a single snapshot.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Usually in microfluidic imaging, the cells pass by through the flow and then are gone; you\u0026#39;re not able to recycle them to see them again. That means we can only take 2D images,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;With our approach, with one snapshot we have the 3D information. This will greatly enhance the information we can get.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPart of an NSF CAREER award is to integrate research and education, so along the way Jia will work to expand knowledge of biophotonics and advanced imaging beyond solely Emory and Georgia Tech. He hopes to bring in international experts to speak to researchers throughout metro Atlanta and involve high school students in hands-on experiences with optics and imaging concepts. He\u0026rsquo;s also proposing summer programs and training for undergraduate students, particularly veterans.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJia said building his next-gen system will benefit from the Coulter Department\u0026rsquo;s unique bridge between Georgia Tech and Emory, enabling engineers and end-users to work together to create innovations the improve human health and well-being. In particular, he\u0026rsquo;s thinking about the shared imaging resources on each campus \u0026mdash; what are known as \u0026ldquo;core\u0026rdquo; facilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Current imaging core facilities mostly use conventional microscopes. 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He and his team apply these technologies to\u0026nbsp;next-generation communications systems, ground and space-based radar and remote sensing systems, quantum science, and planetary exploration missions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA proud Georgia\u0026nbsp;Tech alumnus, Cressler graduated with his B.S. degree in physics in 1984. He spent eight-and-a-half years at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, received his Ph.D. from\u0026nbsp;Columbia University in 1990, and then worked for 10 years on the ECE faculty at Auburn\u0026nbsp;University. Cressler joined Georgia Tech in 2002 as a professor in ECE, and from 2004-2013, he held the title of Ken\u0026nbsp;Byers Professor. He was appointed as the Schlumberger Chair\u0026nbsp;Professor in Electronics in 2013 and as a Ken Byers Teaching Fellow in Science and Religion in 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECressler and his students have produced over 750 refereed journal and conference papers. He has written three textbooks, edited three others, and written 31 book chapters. He is also a part-time novelist and has published three historical novels set in medieval Muslim Spain, with a fourth nearing completion.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring his career at Georgia Tech, Cressler has received over 100\u0026nbsp;research grants and contracts, totaling more than $30 million. He has graduated 62 Ph.D. students during his career, 53 of whom received their degrees from Georgia Tech. Cressler also serves as the associate director of the Georgia Electronic\u0026nbsp;Design Center, a position that he has held since 2015. Throughout his career, he has\u0026nbsp;received numerous awards for his research accomplishments,\u0026nbsp;including\u0026nbsp;being named an IEEE Fellow and an IEEE Third\u0026nbsp;Millennium Medal recipient.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECressler is highly dedicated to his classroom teaching and student mentoring. He is a mainstay in the microelectronics\u0026nbsp;instructional program in ECE for both the undergraduate and graduate students. His book, \u003Cem\u003ESilicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors\u003C\/em\u003E, is the most widely referenced book in this area and is used as a textbook for graduate classes at a number of universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECressler also teaches two highly popular courses that are open to all Georgia Tech undergraduate students. CoE 3002 \u0026mdash;Introduction to the Microelectronics and Nanotechnology Revolution serves both the Technology and Management Program and the Honors Program, while IAC 2002\u0026mdash;Science, Engineering, and Religion: An Interfaith Dialogue serves the Georgia Tech-Emory Leadership and Multifaith Program Partnership.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECressler has received numerous local, national, and international teaching and mentoring honors throughout his career. Earlier this year, he received the 2021 IEEE James H. Mulligan Education Medal\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;for inspirational teaching and mentoring of\u0026nbsp;undergraduate and graduate students.\u0026rdquo; In 2020, Cressler received the Outstanding Educator\u0026nbsp;Award from the IEEE Atlanta Section, and in 2013, he received Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s highest\u0026nbsp;award for faculty, the Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECressler has been an active member and leader in his professional communities and at\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech. He has held leadership roles in four different IEEE\u0026nbsp;societies, including as editor-in-chief of the \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Electron Devices\u003C\/em\u003E. Cressler led an Institute-level task\u0026nbsp;force on the Georgia\u0026nbsp;Tech Honors Program that helped to strengthen the program\u0026rsquo;s mission and better\u0026nbsp;serve students\u0026rsquo; needs. Currently, he serves on a Georgia\u0026nbsp;Tech committee focused on supporting mental health, substance abuse, and suicide prevention efforts on campuses throughout the University System of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;John is exceptionally deserving of being named as a Regents Professor, and I am very happy that the University System Board of Regents and the Georgia\u0026nbsp;Tech administration have chosen John to hold this title,\u0026rdquo; said Douglas M. Blough, the Interim Steve W. Chaddick School Chair for ECE. \u0026ldquo;He is an outstanding research scholar and teacher, an\u0026nbsp;inspirational mentor to his students, and a dedicated member of his\u0026nbsp;professional and campus communities. 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Computer Engineering (ECE), have been chosen for Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Awards.\u0026nbsp;They will be honored for their achievements at Tech\u0026rsquo;s Sigma Xi Awards Banquet on April 15.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERazi Dehghannasiri\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;thesis is entitled \u0026quot;Hypersonic phononic crystal structures for integrated nano-electromechanical\/optomechanical devices.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Integrated phononic devices fabricated on silicon chips are of great interest for diverse scientific and industrial applications.\u0026nbsp;Dehghannasiri\u0026rsquo;sdissertation presents the study of such integrated phononic devices in new CMOS-compatible platforms in the form of phononic crystal (PnC) structures (i.e., periodic structures supporting phononic bandgaps). These phononic structures have a higher efficiency and lower phononic\/photonic losses.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn particular, this dissertation presents the experimental study of the developed hypersonic pillar-based PnC platform with wideband surface phononic bandgaps on AlN-on-Si substrates for wireless communications. In addition, this dissertation includes the study of membrane PnC structures in silicon nitride for efficient stimulated Brillouin scattering in structures compatible with integrated optics platforms for on-chip RF-photonics. Advised by ECE Joseph M. Pettit Professor Ali Adibi,\u0026nbsp;Dehghannasirigraduated last spring and is now a silicon photonics integration engineer with Intel Corporation in Albuquerque, New Mexico.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESean Rodrigues\u0026rsquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;thesis is entitled \u0026quot;Instigating chiral-selective nonlinear optical phenomena in metamaterials.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Photonic metamaterials, engineered materials composed of building blocks smaller than the wavelength of light, provide a unique approach to create optical elements that are only 10\u0026rsquo;s of nanometers thick.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn Rodrigues\u0026rsquo; thesis, the Cai Lab introduces handed asymmetry into these nanostructures, in order to achieve strong polarization and nonlinear optical effects. The resulting research has impacts within the nanophotonics community that may result in photonic equipment for polarization and light management systems in augmented reality, LiDAR technologies, tamper proofing, and chiral sensing. Advised by ECE Associate Professor Wenshan Cai, Rodrigues graduated last summer and is now a senior scientist with Toyota Research Institute in Ann Arbor, Michigan.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERecent ECE Ph.D. graduates\u0026nbsp;Razi Dehghannasiri and Sean Rodrigues have been chosen for Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Awards.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Recent ECE Ph.D. graduates\u00a0Razi Dehghannasiri and Sean Rodrigues have been chosen for Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Awards.\u00a0"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2019-04-04 13:45:13","changed_gmt":"2019-04-04 13:56:42","author":"Jackie 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1st Generation Student REU Experience","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/senic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E SENIC\u003C\/a\u003E Undergraduate Internship in Nanotechnology (SUIN) program is a major component of the Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor (SENIC), at the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology at Georgia Tech, that focuses on providing undergraduates in engineering the chance to spend a summer conducting research in a world-class collaborative lab with prominent Georgia Tech researchers. GT-IEN hosted 10 undergraduates from various U.S. colleges over the summer that engaged in hands-on research in a number of fields of nanotechnology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is our sixth installment of interviews with the students who spent their summer conducting research at Georgia Tech. Ronald Reliford Jr. is the first-generation college attendee from his family and hails from Campti, Louisiana. Ronald is attending Northwestern State University; Natchitoches, LA, majoring in Electronics Engineering and Technologies. Mr. Reliford worked with mentor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/chuan-wei-tsou\u0022\u003EChuan-Wei Tsou\u003C\/a\u003E in the laboratory of Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/shensc.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EShyh-Chiang Shen\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1. What sparked your interest in engineering and what problems are you hoping to help solve as an engineer?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI have always been a problem solver, so engineering naturally sparked my interest. The idea that I could possibly change the world for the better via engineering and electronics design is exciting and inspiring.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2. What research are you conducting at GT and what applications do you feel this research may have?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI am working in the lab of Professor Shen conducting research on bio-inspired optoelectronics devices. The work I am participating in is to further the understanding of why biological organisms, such as fire-flies, produce certain colors of light and how these biologically based light sources may be applied to optoelectronics for compact light sources. These low to no heat emitting light sources may be beneficially applied in healthcare diagnostics and other harsh environments where light with minimal thermal effect is necessary.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E3. What has been your favorite lab activity\/ tool training\/ etc. thus far and why?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs my career goal is centered on circuit board design and manufacture, my favorite activity has been the access to hands-on, industry grade tools for research. I loved training on the K \u0026amp; S Ball-Bonder, a circuit board wiring and fabrication tool.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E4. Do you feel this REU experience has helped prepare you for working in a collaborative laboratory environment and furthered your education goals? \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYes, I believe the REU program has tremendous benefits! The hands-on experience and wealth of knowledge available here have definitely pushed me to realize my educational goals. The resource availability, whether it be a lab, tool, PI or mentor, have allowed me to be able to take the electrical engineering concepts learned in the classroom and apply it to actual experimentation. This ability to go beyond theory to practice is invaluable for undergraduate students who often do not have the chance to work in a laboratory environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E5. What are your plans post-undergraduate? \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMy plans post-undergraduate include attending graduate school and pursuing a career in industry, targeting Apple or Samsung. As far as where I will attend for graduate studies, I would love to come back to Georgia Tech! Closer to home, I am considering application at the University of Texas at Dallas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;6. What is your favorite thing about\/impression of GA Tech and ATL? \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMy favorite thing about Georgia Tech is how the campus environment is so intellectually stimulating. Everyone I\u0026rsquo;ve interacted with has been incredibly friendly and helpful. Additionally, although the workload kept me busy, I did have a chance to see a bit of the city and it is truly quite beautiful, with great scenery and tons to do. Off campus, I truly enjoyed a trip to Stone Mountain to celebrate the 4\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E of July.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe SENIC REU program is funded by NSF award EEC-1757579.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ronald Reliford Jr. is the first-generation college attendee from his family and hails from Campti, Louisiana. Ronald is attending Northwestern State University; Natchitoches, LA, majoring in Electronics Engineering and Technologies."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2019-02-08 13:53:41","changed_gmt":"2019-02-08 15:24:13","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-02-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-02-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"617519":{"id":"617519","type":"image","title":". 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Now, next-generation semiconducting materials are on the horizon, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41563-018-0262-7\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ein a new study\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, researchers have uncovered eccentric physics behind their potential to transform lighting technology and photovoltaics yet again.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EComparing the quantum properties of these emerging so-called hybrid semiconductors with those of their established predecessors is about like comparing the Bolshoi Ballet to jumping jacks. Twirling troupes of quantum particles undulate through the emerging materials, creating, with ease, highly desirable optoelectronic (light-electronic) properties, according to a team of physical chemists led by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/Silva%20\/Carlos\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eresearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese same properties are impractical to achieve in established semiconductors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe particles moving through these new materials also engage the material itself in the quantum action, akin to dancers enticing the floor to dance with them. The researchers were able to measure patterns in the material caused by the dancing and relate them to the emerging material\u0026rsquo;s quantum properties and to energy introduced into the material.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese insights could help engineers work productively with the new class of semiconductors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUnusually flexible semiconductors\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe emerging material\u0026rsquo;s ability to house diverse, eccentric quantum particle movements, analogous to the dancers, is directly related to its unusual flexibility on a molecular level, analogous to the dancefloor that joins in the dances. By contrast, established semiconductors have rigid, straight-laced molecular structures that leave the dancing to quantum particles.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe class of hybrid semiconductors the researchers examined is called\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?biw=1532\u0026amp;bih=783\u0026amp;tbm=isch\u0026amp;sa=1\u0026amp;ei=9sI4XI-_LYGIggf-qbSACA\u0026amp;q=halide+organic-inorganic+perovskite+carlos+silva\u0026amp;oq=halide+organic-inorganic+perovskite+carlos+silva\u0026amp;gs_l=img.3...20279.21300..21580...0.0..0.52.338.7......1....1..gws-wiz-img.Yz18-ph1WLk#imgrc=r3vU05y-A4rlnM:\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehalide organic-inorganic perovskite\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(HOIP), which will be explained in more detail at bottom along with the \u0026ldquo;hybrid\u0026rdquo; semiconductor designation, which combines a crystal lattice -- common in semiconductors -- with a layer of innovatively flexing material.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond their promise of unique radiance and energy-efficiency, HOIPs are easy to produce and apply.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPaint them on\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;One compelling advantage is that HOIPs are made using low temperatures and processed in solution,\u0026rdquo; said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/Silva%20\/Carlos\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECarlos Silva, a professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;It takes much less energy to make them, and you can make big batches.\u0026rdquo; Silva co-led the study alongside\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iit.it\/index.php\/people\/srinivasa-srimath\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAjay Ram Srimath Kandada\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;from Georgia Tech and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt takes high temperatures to make most semiconductors in small quantities, and they are rigid to apply to surfaces, but HOIPs could be painted on to make LEDs, lasers or even window glass that could glow in any color from aquamarine to fuchsia. Lighting with HOIPs may require very little energy, and solar panel makers could boost photovoltaics\u0026rsquo; efficiency and slash production costs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team led by Georgia Tech included researchers from the Universit\u0026eacute; de Mons in Belgium and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. The results were published\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41563-018-0262-7\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eon January 14, 2019, in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature Materials\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E. The work was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, EU Horizon 2020, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Fond Qu\u0026eacute;b\u0026eacute;cois pour la Recherche, and the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch6\u003E[Thinking about grad school?\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gradadmiss.gatech.edu\/apply-now\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHere\u0026#39;s how to apply to Georgia Tech.\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/h6\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQuantum jumping jacks\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESemiconductors in optoelectronic devices can either convert light into electricity or electricity into light. The researchers concentrated on processes connected to the latter: light emission.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe trick to getting a material to emit light is, broadly speaking, to apply energy to electrons in the material, so that they take a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/quantum_leap\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Equantum leap\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;up from their orbits around atoms then emit that energy as light when they hop back down to the orbits they had vacated. Established semiconductors can\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/trap-solid-state-physics\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Etrap\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;electrons in areas of the material that strictly limit the electrons\u0026rsquo; range of motion then apply energy to those areas to make electrons do quantum leaps in unison to emit useful light when they hop back down in unison.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;These are\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.rp-photonics.com\/quantum_wells.html\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Equantum wells\u003C\/a\u003E, two-dimensional parts of the material that confine these quantum properties to create these particular light emission properties,\u0026rdquo; Silva said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EImaginary particle excitement\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere is a potentially more attractive way to produce the light, and it is a core strength of the new hybrid semiconductors.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn electron has a negative charge, and an orbit it vacates after having been excited by energy is a positive charge called an\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/whatis.techtarget.com\/definition\/hole\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eelectron hole\u003C\/a\u003E. The electron and the hole can gyrate around each other forming a kind of imaginary particle, or\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quasiparticle\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Equasiparticle\u003C\/a\u003E, called an\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/exciton\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eexciton\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The positive-negative attraction in an exciton is called\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.euronuclear.org\/info\/encyclopedia\/bindingenergy.htm\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ebinding energy\u003C\/a\u003E, and it\u0026rsquo;s a very high-energy phenomenon, which makes it great for light emitting,\u0026rdquo; Silva said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen the electron and the hole reunite, that releases the binding energy to make light. But usually, excitons are very hard to maintain in a semiconductor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The excitonic properties in conventional semiconductors are only stable at extremely cold temperatures,\u0026rdquo; Silva said. \u0026ldquo;But in HOIPs the excitonic properties are very stable at room temperature.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOrnate quasiparticle twirling\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcitons get freed up from their atoms and move around the material. In addition, excitons in an HOIP can whirl around other excitons, forming quasiparticles called biexcitons. And there\u0026rsquo;s more.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcitons also spin around atoms in the material lattice. Much the way an electron and an electron hole create an exciton, this twirl of the exciton around an atomic nucleus gives rise to yet another quasiparticle called a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/polaron\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Epolaron\u003C\/a\u003E. All that action can result in excitons transitioning to polarons back. One can even speak of some excitons taking on a \u0026ldquo;polaronic\u0026rdquo; nuance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECompounding all those dynamics is the fact that HOIPs are full of positively and negatively charged ions. The ornateness of these quantum dances has an overarching effect on the material itself.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWave patterns resonate\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe uncommon participation of atoms of the material in these dances with electrons, excitons, biexcitons and polarons creates repetitive nanoscale indentations in the material that are observable as wave patterns and that shift and flux with the amount of energy added to the material.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In a ground state, these wave patterns would look a certain way, but with added energy, the excitons do things differently. That changes the wave patterns, and that\u0026rsquo;s what we measure,\u0026rdquo; Silva said. \u0026ldquo;The key observation in the study is that the wave pattern varies with different types of excitons (exciton, biexciton, polaronic\/less polaronic).\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe indentations also grip the excitons, slowing their mobility through the material, and all these ornate dynamics may affect the quality of light emission.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERubber band sandwich\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe material, a halide organic-inorganic perovskite, is a sandwich of two inorganic crystal lattice layers with some organic material in between them \u0026ndash; making HOIPs an organic-inorganic hybrid material. The quantum action happens in the crystal lattices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe organic layer in between is like a sheet of rubber bands that makes the crystal lattices into a wobbly but stable dancefloor. Also, HOIPs are put together with many\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nwu_Dpizmsk\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Enon-covalent bonds\u003C\/a\u003E, making the material soft.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIndividual units of the crystal take a form called perovskite, which is a very even diamond shape, with a metal in the center and halogens such as chlorine or iodine at the points, thus \u0026ldquo;halide.\u0026rdquo; For this study, the researchers used a 2D prototype with the formula (PEA)\u003Csub\u003E2\u003C\/sub\u003EPbI\u003Csub\u003E4\u003C\/sub\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlso READ: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/news\/599811\/perking-and-crimping-bristles-polyelectrolyte-brushes\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EPerking up and Crimping the \u0026#39;Bristles\u0026#39; of Polyelectrolyte Brushes\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe study was co-authored by F\u0026eacute;lix Thouin (co-first author), David A. 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GT-IEN hosted 4 undergraduates from various U.S. colleges over the summer that engaged in hands-on research in a number of fields of nanotechnology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is our fourth installment of interviews with the students who spent their summer conducting research at Georgia Tech. Matthew Johnson, a student at the Freed-Hardman University during the program period, worked with mentor Srinivas Kumar in the laboratory of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/sulchek\u0022\u003EProfessor Todd Sulchek (ME)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1. What sparked your interest in engineering and what problems are you hoping to help solve as an engineer?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMy interest in engineering stems from a love for science, mathematics and creativity. The art of design is something that can go unnoticed by many people, but once you realize the engineered intricacies in the objects around you, it can\u0026rsquo;t be unseen. I hope to have a career in which I design mechanical devices with improved quality and efficiency.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2. What research are you conducting at GT and what applications do you feel this research may have?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMy research is focused on the fabrication and optimization of microfluidic devices. These devices assist in research across a wide range of disciplines. Some of the devices use microfluidic channels and ridges to induce the adsorption of macromolecules by cells, indicating the potential for new ways of delivering medicine. Another device in the lab\u0026rsquo;s research is designed to sort cells into reservoirs based on their stiffness. The elastic properties of the cells corresponds to drug-resistance in certain types of cancer cells. One of my target assignments involves the design of a \u0026lsquo;chip holder\u0026rsquo; to conduct more effective experimentation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E3. What has been your favorite lab activity\/ tool training\/ etc. thus far and why?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMy favorite tool on which I\u0026rsquo;ve been trained thus far is the Nanoscribe 3D Lithography machine. Comparing the lengthy and complicated process of photolithography, with spin-coater and mask-development stages, to the relative simple utility of the Nanoscribe machine makes me appreciate what research toolmakers are capable of. After one session with the tool, the potential for nanotechnology research was clear, and I fully expect other lithography and microfabrication tool manufacturers will also adopt the efficient processing flow that combines the deposition and etch functions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E4. Do you feel this REU experience has helped prepare you for working in a collaborative laboratory environment and furthered your education goals?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbsolutely. I appreciate the opportunities the REU has afforded me to learn advanced, useful information, and to be exposed to realistic and applicable in-lab experience. Although the program is not even at the halfway point, I already feel that my understanding and ability to perform in a laboratory setting has developed tremendously. Being able to involve myself in engineering practices and training beyond the classroom has equipped me to pursue undergraduate and graduate level engineering studies with increased direction.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E5. What are your plans post-undergraduate?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore I complete my undergraduate studies in engineering, I will need to transfer from Freed-Hardman University. My experience at FHU has been phenomenal and integral to my overall academic progress, especially in the fields of Biblical Studies and English. However, FHU does not offer the kind of intensive and complete engineering coursework to satisfy my final undergraduate needs. Part of my goal this summer has been to explore the possibility of Georgia Tech as my next home after my FHU coursework is complete. 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Cell-phones, automotive and aviation sensors, personal and super-computers, healthcare technologies, and even our home appliances\u0026mdash;many of which now have machine learning and artificial intelligent capabilities\u0026mdash;are becoming ever more connected and \u0026lsquo;smarter\u0026rdquo;. However, with this push to deploy our devices on a global scale, our progress is increasingly being hindered by our apparent inability to further miniaturize the building block of electronics\u0026mdash;the transistors. The transistors are already too small\u0026mdash;of the order of 10 nanometers or so, ten thousand times smaller than a single strand of hair. In essence, we have become prisoners of fundamental physical limits of the transistor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA potential strategy to overcome this barrier is to introduce new materials into the transistor structure to enhance their performance and functionalities. And that is the playground of Professor Asif Khan\u0026rsquo;s group of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u0026ldquo;One of the interesting classes of functional materials that we are working on is called antiferroelectric oxides, which could lead to efficient, nanoscale logic and memory devices and devices which can even mimic the functions of biological neurons and synapses,\u0026rdquo; says Khan. In their recent work published as an Editor\u0026rsquo;s Pick in the May issue of Applied Physics Letters, they show how these mystery materials\u0026mdash;antiferroelectrics\u0026mdash;can be fine-tuned by doping, and how their processing techniques can be simplified to ease their entry into conventional micro- and nano-electronic fabrication technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAntiferroelectric materials are electrical insulating in a way very similar to the dielectric materials used in regular capacitors. However, the significant difference is that when a certain voltage is applied across it, it undergoes a phase transition into another \u0026nbsp;insulating state which is structurally different than the parent one. With appropriate nano-scale engineering, this phenomenon can be the basis for high performance logic transistors and disruptive memory technologies. Interestingly, antiferroelectricity was discovered more than 60 years ago in perovskite materials\u0026mdash;yet it did not have a significant impact on the electronics industry despite the attractiveness because perovskites are not compatible with currently used CMOS fabrication processes. What makes the Khan group\u0026rsquo;s work particularly relevant for transistor applications is that they are studying this phenomenon in Zirconia--a very well-studied non-perovskite binary oxide which has already been in use for more than a decade in the semiconductor industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe major contribution of the recent work by Khan\u0026rsquo;s group is that they significantly simplified the complex process flow of stabilizing the antiferroelectric phase of zirconia. Typically, a metallic capping layer and a high temperature annealing step is required to convert dielectric zirconia into an antiferroelectric state. The group were able to eliminate these process steps through a thoughtful design process of the material stack. Khan is hopeful that this will reduce the barrier to entry of antiferroelectrics into the state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing processes for novel device applications. Furthermore, by introducing small amounts of lanthanum into zirconia, the researchers were able to tune the properties of antiferroelectric zirconia, namely critical field\/voltage for phase transition, dielectric constant and polarization. \u0026ldquo;Such tunability can not only enable a large design space for nanoelectronic antiferroelectric devices, but also be useful for their traditional applications of antiferroelectrics in electro-calories, pyroelectrics and micro-actuators,\u0026rdquo; says Khan. He also mentions that antiferroelectricity is a close cousin of a well-known phenomenon\u0026mdash;ferroelectricity, which being researched and adopted by major semiconductor manufacturers for potential memory applications. His previous work also focused on ferroelectric oxides for ultra-low power negative capacitance transistors. However, as he points out, antiferroelectric oxides can do all that ferroelectric oxides can but with much better endurance and reliability and reduced process complexity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKhan\u0026rsquo;s group actively collaborated with their industry partner, Eugenus, Inc. located in San Jose, CA. \u0026ldquo;Our industry-academia partnership is vital for bringing new ideas into the fore-fronts of technology,\u0026rdquo; says Dr. Mukherjee of Eugenus, Inc., also a co-author of the paper. \u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;We look forward to further collaboration to assess the applicability and the potential of new material and device concepts.\u0026rdquo; The Khan group also collaborated with the Charles University at Prague, Czech Republic, on structural characterization of the antiferroelectric zirconia films.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- Christa M. 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You can view the article here. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/aip.scitation.org\/doi\/10.1063\/1.5037185\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/aip.scitation.org\/doi\/10.1063\/1.5037185\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKhan\u0026rsquo;s work at Georgia Tech is supported in part by the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In their recent work published as an Editor\u2019s Pick in the May issue of Applied Physics Letters, they show how these mystery materials\u2014antiferroelectrics\u2014can be fine-tuned by doping..."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2018-06-11 13:52:17","changed_gmt":"2018-06-11 14:13:26","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"606864":{"id":"606864","type":"image","title":"Asif Khan in the Lab","body":null,"created":"1528725076","gmt_created":"2018-06-11 13:51:16","changed":"1528725076","gmt_changed":"2018-06-11 13:51:16","alt":"","file":{"fid":"231471","name":"Khan Research Phot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Khan%20Research%20Phot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Khan%20Research%20Phot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":507540,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Khan%20Research%20Phot.jpg?itok=GkT6dEK-"}},"606863":{"id":"606863","type":"image","title":"Zirconia Crystal Structure","body":null,"created":"1528724830","gmt_created":"2018-06-11 13:47:10","changed":"1532460645","gmt_changed":"2018-07-24 19:30:45","alt":"","file":{"fid":"231470","name":"Zirconimu Structure \u0027.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Zirconimu%20Structure%20%27.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Zirconimu%20Structure%20%27.png","mime":"image\/png","size":146743,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Zirconimu%20Structure%20%27.png?itok=8O_rxL1s"}}},"media_ids":["606864","606863"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/aip.scitation.org\/doi\/10.1063\/1.5037185","title":"\u201cAntiferroelectricity in lanthanum doped zirconia without metallic capping layers and post-deposition\/-metallization anneals\u201d"}],"groups":[{"id":"213791","name":"3D Systems Packaging Research Center"},{"id":"198081","name":"Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC)"},{"id":"197261","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"1271","name":"NanoTECH"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166968","name":"the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"168380","name":"the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"173625","name":"The School of Mechanical Engineering"},{"id":"107","name":"Nanotechnology"},{"id":"12373","name":"flexible electronics"},{"id":"5209","name":"carbon nanotubes"},{"id":"74491","name":"electro-optics"},{"id":"58001","name":"the institute for materials"},{"id":"172838","name":"the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering"},{"id":"166974","name":"the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering"},{"id":"1259","name":"electrical engineering"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"1692","name":"materials"},{"id":"1785","name":"nanomaterials"},{"id":"178244","name":"Asif Khan"},{"id":"175028","name":"ferroelectrics"},{"id":"178245","name":"antiferroelectrics"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChrista M. 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The primary purpose of the IEN Seed Grant is to give first or second year graduate students in various disciplines working on original and un-funded research in micro- and nano-scale projects the opportunity to access the most advanced academic cleanroom space in the Southeast. In addition to accessing the high-level fabrication, lithography, and characterization tools in the labs, the students will have the opportunity to gain proficiency in cleanroom and tool methodology and to use the consultation services provided by research staff members of the IEN Advanced Technology Team.\u0026nbsp; In addition, the Seed Grant program gives faculty with novel research topics the ability to develop preliminary data in order to pursue follow-up funding sources.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the course of five years, this grant program has seeded forty-five projects with forty-nine students working in ten different schools in COE and COS, as well as the Georgia Tech Research Institute and 2 external projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 4 winning projects, from a diverse group of engineering disciplines, were awarded a six-month block of IEN cleanroom and lab access time. In keeping with the interdisciplinary mission of IEN, the projects that will be enabled by the grants include research in materials, biomedicine, energy production, and microelectronics packaging applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Spring 2018 IEN Seed Grant Award winners are:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EJiang Chen (PI Ben Wang - MSE): \u003Cem\u003EValidation and Characterization of Living Cell Grafting on Polycaprolactone Fibers for Textile Tissue Engineering \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EFatima Chrit (PI Alexander Alexeev - ME): \u003Cem\u003EMicrofluidic Adhesion-based Sorting of Biological Cells \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EZifei Sun (PI Gleb Yushin - MSE): \u003Cem\u003EFeOx Coated FeF3-C Nanofibers as Free-standing Cathodes for Sodium- Ion Batteries \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ETing Wang (PI Xing Xie - Civil and Environmental Engineering): \u003Cem\u003EDevelopment of Lab-on-a-Chip Devices for the Mechanisms Study of Cell Transportation and Bacteria Inactivation in a Non-Uniform Electric Field \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAwardees will present the results of their research efforts at the annual IEN User Day in 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In keeping with the interdisciplinary mission of IEN, the projects that will be enabled by the grants include research in materials, biomedicine, energy production, and microelectronics packaging applications."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2018-06-04 14:05:23","changed_gmt":"2018-06-04 14:09:55","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"606724":{"id":"606724","type":"image","title":"Arith Rajapaks Poster ","body":null,"created":"1528121293","gmt_created":"2018-06-04 14:08:13","changed":"1528121293","gmt_changed":"2018-06-04 14:08:13","alt":"Fall 2017 Seed Grant Winner at the IEN User Poster Session on May 21, 2018 - 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An emergent class of semiconductors, which could affordably light up our future with nuanced colors emanating from lasers, lamps, and even window glass, could be the latest example.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese materials are very radiant, easy to process from solution, and energy-efficient. The nagging question of whether hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (HOIPs) could really work just received a very affirmative answer \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prmaterials\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevMaterials.2.034001\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ein a new international study\u003C\/a\u003E led by physical chemists at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith significant effort, researchers succeeded in testing an existing HOIP and observed a \u0026ldquo;richness\u0026rdquo; of semiconducting physics created by what could be described as electrons dancing on chemical underpinnings that wobble like a funhouse floor in an earthquake. That bucks conventional wisdom because established \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/whatis.techtarget.com\/definition\/semiconductor\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Esemiconductors\u003C\/a\u003E rely upon rigidly stable chemical foundations, that is to say, quieter molecular frameworks, to produce the desired quantum properties.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We don\u0026rsquo;t know yet how it works to have these stable quantum properties in this intense molecular motion,\u0026rdquo; said first author Felix Thouin, a graduate research assistant at Georgia Tech. \u0026ldquo;It defies physics models we have to try to explain it. It\u0026rsquo;s like we need some new physics.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQuantum properties surprise\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir gyrating jumbles have made HOIPs challenging to examine, but the team of researchers from a total of five research institutes in four countries succeeded in measuring a prototypical HOIP and found its quantum properties on par with those of established, molecularly rigid semiconductors, many of which are \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/news\/591366\/high-temperature-step-step-process-makes-graphene-ethene\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Egraphene\u003C\/a\u003E-based.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The properties were at least as good as in those materials and may be even better,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/Silva%20\/Carlos\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECarlos Silva, a professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E. Not all semiconductors also absorb and emit light well, but HOIPs do, making them \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/subjects\/optoelectronic-devices-and-components\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eoptoelectronic\u003C\/a\u003E and thus potentially useful in lasers, LEDs, other lighting applications, and also in photovoltaics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe lack of molecular-level rigidity in HOIPs also plays into them being more flexibly produced and applied.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESilva co-led the study with physicist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iit.it\/index.php\/people\/srinivasa-srimath\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAjay Ram Srimath Kandada\u003C\/a\u003E. Their team published the results of their study on two-dimensional HOIPs on March 8, 2018, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prmaterials\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevMaterials.2.034001\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ein the journal \u003Cem\u003EPhysical Review Materials\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. Their research was funded by EU Horizon 2020, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Fond Qu\u0026eacute;b\u0026eacute;cois pour la Recherche, the Research Council of Canada, and the National Research Foundation of Singapore.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe \u0026lsquo;solution solution\u0026rsquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommonly, semiconducting properties arise from static crystalline lattices of neatly interconnected atoms. In silicon, for example, which is used in most commercial solar cells, they are interconnected silicon atoms. The same principle applies to graphene-like semiconductors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;These lattices are structurally not very complex,\u0026rdquo; Silva said. \u0026ldquo;They\u0026rsquo;re only one atom thin, and they have strict two-dimensional properties, so they\u0026rsquo;re much more rigid.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You forcefully limit these systems to two dimensions,\u0026rdquo; said Srimath Kandada, who is a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/research\/mariecurieactions\/actions\/individual-fellowships_en\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMarie Curie International Fellow\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech and the Italian Institute of Technology. \u0026ldquo;The atoms are arranged in infinitely expansive, flat sheets, and then these very interesting and desirable optoelectronic properties emerge.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese proven materials impress. So, why pursue HOIPs, except to explore their baffling physics? Because they may be more practical in important ways.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;One of the compelling advantages is that they\u0026rsquo;re all made using low-temperature processing from solutions,\u0026rdquo; Silva said. \u0026ldquo;It takes much less energy to make them.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBy contrast, graphene-based materials are produced at high temperatures in small amounts that can be tedious to work with. \u0026ldquo;With this stuff (HOIPs), you can make big batches in solution and coat a whole window with it if you want to,\u0026rdquo; Silva said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFunhouse in an earthquake\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor all an HOIP\u0026rsquo;s wobbling, it\u0026rsquo;s also a very ordered lattice with its own kind of rigidity, though less limiting than in the customary two-dimensional materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s not just a single layer,\u0026rdquo; Srimath Kandada said. \u0026ldquo;There is a very specific perovskite-like geometry.\u0026rdquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perovskite_(structure)\u0022\u003EPerovskite\u003C\/a\u003E refers to the shape of an HOIPs crystal lattice, which is a layered scaffolding.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The lattice self-assembles,\u0026rdquo; Srimath Kandada said, \u0026ldquo;and it does so in a three-dimensional stack made of layers of two-dimensional sheets. But HOIPs still preserve those desirable 2D quantum properties.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThose sheets are held together by interspersed layers of another molecular structure that is a bit like a sheet of rubber bands. That makes the scaffolding wiggle like a funhouse floor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;At room temperature, the molecules wiggle all over the place. That disrupts the lattice, which is where the electrons live. It\u0026rsquo;s really intense,\u0026rdquo; Silva said. \u0026ldquo;But surprisingly, the quantum properties are still really stable.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHaving quantum properties work at room temperature without requiring ultra-cooling is important for practical use as a semiconductor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGoing back to what HOIP stands for -- hybrid organic-inorganic \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perovskite_(structure)\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eperovskites\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026ndash; this is how the experimental material fit into the HOIP chemical class: It was a hybrid of inorganic layers of a lead iodide (the rigid part) separated by organic layers (the rubber band-like parts) of phenylethylammonium (chemical formula (PEA)\u003Csub\u003E2\u003C\/sub\u003EPbI\u003Csub\u003E4\u003C\/sub\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe lead in this prototypical material could be swapped out for a metal safer for humans to handle before the development of an applicable material.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EElectron choreography\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHOIPs are great semiconductors because their electrons do an acrobatic square dance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsually, electrons live in an orbit around the nucleus of an atom or are shared by atoms in a chemical bond. But HOIP chemical lattices, like all semiconductors, are configured to share electrons more broadly.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEnergy levels in a system can free the electrons to run around and participate in things like the flow of electricity and heat. The orbits, which are then empty, are called electron holes, and they want the electrons back.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The hole is thought of as a positive charge, and of course, the electron has a negative charge,\u0026rdquo; Silva said. \u0026ldquo;So, hole and electron attract each other.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe electrons and holes race around each other like dance partners pairing up to what physicists call an \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exciton\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eexciton\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026rdquo; Excitons act and look a lot like particles themselves, though they\u0026rsquo;re not really particles.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHopping biexciton light\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn semiconductors, millions of excitons are correlated, or choreographed, with each other, which makes for desirable properties, when an energy source like electricity or laser light is applied. Additionally, excitons can pair up to form biexcitons, boosting the semiconductor\u0026rsquo;s energetic properties.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In this material, we found that the biexciton binding energies were high,\u0026rdquo; Silva said. \u0026ldquo;That\u0026rsquo;s why we want to put this into lasers because the energy you input ends up to 80 or 90 percent as biexcitons.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBiexcitons bump up energetically to absorb input energy. Then they contract energetically and pump out light. That would work not only in lasers but also in LEDs or other surfaces using the optoelectronic material.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You can adjust the chemistry (of HOIPs) to control the width between biexciton states, and that controls the wavelength of the light given off,\u0026rdquo; Silva said. \u0026ldquo;And the adjustment can be very fine to give you any wavelength of light.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat translates into any color of light the heart desires.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ELike this article?\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/subscribe\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGet our email newsletter here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/news\/603738\/turbocharging-fuel-cells-multifunctional-catalyst\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EALSO read this materials article:\u0026nbsp;Turbocharging Fuel Cells with a Multifunctional NanoCatalyst\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECoauthors of this paper were Stefanie Neutzner and Annamaria Petrozza from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT); Daniele Cortecchia from IIT and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore; Cesare Soci from the Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, Singapore; Teddy Salim and Yeng Ming Lam from NTU; and Vlad Dragomir and Richard Leonelli from the University of Montreal. 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The team of 13 industry members and three universities has expanded both the breadth and depth of its work. CAEML is funded in part by a National Science Foundation program. In the past, CAEML focused on signal integrity and power integrity, but this year, the team has diversified its portfolio with system analysis, chip layout and trusted platform design.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;One of the challenges we face is getting access to data from companies,\u0026rdquo; said Professor Madhavan Swaminathan, the John Pippin Chair in Microsystems Packaging \u0026amp; Electromagnetics and Director of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/c3ps.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Co-Design of Chip, Package, System (C3PS)\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a CAEML host. \u0026ldquo;Most of their data is proprietary, so we\u0026rsquo;ve come up with several mechanisms to handle it. The processes are working fairly well, but they are more lengthy than we\u0026rsquo;d like.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPreviously, the group had a sort of coming-out party. It started with backing from nine vendors including Analog Devices, Cadence, Cisco, IBM, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, and Xilinx. Its initial interest areas included high-speed interconnects, power delivery, system-level electrostatic discharge, IP core reuse, and design rule checking.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter this year, it is clear that the EDA industry is entering its second phase in its use of AI (moving past high-speed interconnects, power delivery etc. and into the realm of machine learning), which the next phase of product development in optimizations that speed turnaround time. Often hindered by current algorithmic limitations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers are exploring opportunities to replace today\u0026rsquo;s simulators with AI models (faster) after a reported 40 MHz increase in speed last year. \u0026quot;Relatively slow simulators can lead to timing errors, mistuned analog circuits, and insufficient modeling that results in chip re-spins, said Swaminathan. In addition, machine learning can replace IBIS for behavioral modeling in high-speed interconnects.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EChip researchers are currently combatting the issue with research in data mining, surrogate models, statistical learning, and neural networking models (used by Amazon, Google etc).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The amount of training data required is high,\u0026rdquo; said Christopher Cheng of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, another member of the CAEML team. \u0026ldquo;Classifiers are static, but we want to add the dimension of time using recurrent neural networks to enable time-to-failure labels. 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Raychowdhury (PI) and Swaminathan (co-PI) will work in the area of heterogeneous integration, with a focus on the design of high speed die-to-die networks, the incorporation of power, logic, memory and RF components on a common substrate that enables 2.5D and 3D integration.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our involvement in the ASCENT center provides us with unique opportunities to partner with the academic and industrial leaders to explore foundational technologies in computing. 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Recipients will each receive $35,000 to help cover tuition, fees, and living expenses while enrolled at St. Andrews and Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Bobby Jones Fellowship is more than an academic sojourn.\u0026nbsp;Above all it is an ambassadorship, rewarding its beneficiary for his\/her exemplary citizenship and requiring him\/her to exert him\/herself while abroad as an active and energetic representative of his\/her university and country.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis fellowship is open to Physics and ECE seniors that will be graduating in May or August 2018. 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The primary purpose of the IEN Seed Grant is to give first or second year graduate students in various disciplines working on original and un-funded research in micro- and nano-scale projects the opportunity to access the most advanced academic cleanroom space in the Southeast. In addition to accessing the high-level fabrication, lithography, and characterization tools in the labs, the students will have the opportunity to gain proficiency in cleanroom and tool methodology and to use the consultation services provided by the IEN processing staff.\u0026nbsp; In addition, the Seed Grant program gives faculty with novel research topics the ability to develop preliminary data in order to pursue follow-up funding sources.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the beginning of funding for SENIC, \u0026nbsp;the IEN seed grant program was extended to include non-Georgia Tech students and PI\u0026rsquo;s for award consideration. 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Applications of this research span all disciplines in science and engineering with particular emphasis on biomedicine, electronics, optoelectronics and photonics, and energy applications. As there can be a learning curve associated with initial proof-of-concept development and testing using cleanroom tools, this seed grant program was developed to expedite the initiation of new graduate students and new research projects into productive activity. Successful proposals to this program will identify a new, currently-unfunded research idea that requires cleanroom access to generate preliminary data necessary to pursue other funding avenues.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProgram Eligibility\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Applicants \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThis program is open to any current Georgia Tech or GTRI faculty member as project PI. The graduate student performing the research should be in the first 2 years of his\/her graduate studies, and preference will be given to students who are new users of the IEN facilities. The student\u0026rsquo;s research advisor (project PI) does not need to be a current user of the IEN cleanroom\/lab facilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EExternal (non-Georgia Tech) Applicants\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRecent funding from the NSF to create the Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor,SENIC (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/senic.gatech.edu\/)\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/senic.gatech.edu\/)\u003C\/a\u003E as part of the NNCI has allowed IEN to open this program to external (not affiliated with Georgia Tech) users currently at an academic institution in the southeastern US. The graduate student performing the proposed research cannot be a current user of the IEN facilities. The student\u0026rsquo;s research advisor (project PI) may have a current project in place for use of the IEN cleanroom\/lab facilities, but this is not a requirement. If awarded, a specialized service agreement will need to be arranged with the user\u0026rsquo;s home institution. Past awardees of a seed grant may submit additional proposals for different students\/projects, but not in consecutive funding cycles. It is the responsibility of the project PI and student to determine their ability to make use of the awarded time during the grant period. Extensions requested once the project has begun will not be granted.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAward Information\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nEach seed grant award will consist of free cleanroom access to the student identified in the proposal for 2 (consecutive) billing quarters. Based on current access rates and the academic cap on hourly charges (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\/rates\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\/rates\/\u003C\/a\u003E), this comprises a maximum award of $6000 for the 6 month period. This maximum award amount is still in effect even if IEN non-cleanroom (lab) equipment, electron beam lithography (EBL), or tools in the Materials Characterization Facility (MCF) are required. The designated student user is expected to only utilize the cleanroom\/tool access while working with the PI on the proposed project. Members of the IEN processing staff will be available to consult during the project period. The number of awards for each proposal submission date will depend on the number and quality of the proposals. A short report describing the research activities is required midway and at the completion of the award period.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESubmission Schedule\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThis Seed Grant program is offered in two competitions each year with due dates on April 1 and October 1. While it is expected that research activity will begin on June 1 and December respectively, there is flexibility in scheduling the 2 quarters of research work, as long as they conform to the IEN billing quarters.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProposal Requirements (2 pages max)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe proposal (submitted as a PDF file of no more than 2 pages) should do the following:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n1. Provide a project title.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n2. Identify the research problem and specify the proposed methods.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n3. Indicate the IEN research tools necessary to conduct the research. If assistance is needed with this component, staff members of the IEN are available for consultation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n4. Describe the relationship of this research to the PI\u0026rsquo;s other research activity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n5. Identify the PI and the graduate student involved (including year of graduate work), and if there will be a mentoring relationship with the PI\u0026rsquo;s other students. Note if there are collaborative relationships with Georgia Tech faculty that bear on this research project.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n6. 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The authors have used a chaotic optical signal\u0026nbsp;produced by an external-cavity semiconductor laser to generate\u0026nbsp;sufficiently random-like numbers at very high rate, based on the sub-100\u0026nbsp;picosecond timescale determining the dynamics of the laser.\u0026nbsp; The team\u0026nbsp;demonstrated efficient compression flowed by high-fidelity reconstruction\u0026nbsp;of images using this technique.\u0026nbsp;According to Citrin, \u0026quot;This work is\u0026nbsp;exciting as it opens the way to ultrahigh-speed compression of sparse\u0026nbsp;signals--and we hope soon in a way to be carried out in the physical\u0026nbsp;layer.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This paper demonstrates how chaotic light from a laser can be used to compress data at high bit-rates."}],"uid":"28490","created_gmt":"2017-01-18 14:53:54","changed_gmt":"2017-01-18 14:56:29","author":"Andrea Gappell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-01-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-01-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"586089":{"id":"586089","type":"image","title":"Chaotic patterns are used to generate random numbers ","body":null,"created":"1484748738","gmt_created":"2017-01-18 14:12:18","changed":"1484749253","gmt_changed":"2017-01-18 14:20:53","alt":"Chaotic patterns are used to generate random numbers","file":{"fid":"223381","name":"AL-Picture1.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/AL-Picture1.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/AL-Picture1.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":245964,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/AL-Picture1.jpeg?itok=GMtrU8Wc"}}},"media_ids":["586089"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/srep35206","title":"Compressive Sensing with Optical Chaos"}],"groups":[{"id":"54809","name":"Georgia Tech-Europe (GTE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"173231","name":"Dr. Alexandre Locquet"},{"id":"173232","name":"Dr. David Citrin"},{"id":"13161","name":"Georgia Tech-Lorraine"},{"id":"173235","name":"compressive sensing"},{"id":"10652","name":"lasers"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"29581","name":"chaos"},{"id":"173236","name":"random numbers"},{"id":"173245","name":"published paper"},{"id":"17181","name":"PhD Students"},{"id":"173237","name":"Daeyoung Choi\u00a0(ECE)"},{"id":"173238","name":"C.-Y. 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The primary purpose of the IEN Seed Grant is to give first or second year graduate students in various disciplines working on original and un-funded research in micro- and nano-scale projects the opportunity to access the most advanced academic cleanroom space in the Southeast. In addition to accessing the high-level fabrication, lithography, and characterization tools in the labs, the students will have the opportunity to gain proficiency in cleanroom and tool methodology and to use the consultation services provided by research staff members of the IEN Advanced Technology Team.\u0026nbsp; In addition, the Seed Grant program gives faculty with novel research topics the ability to develop preliminary data in order to pursue follow-up funding sources.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeginning in 2016, after several successful years of the program, the IEN seed grant application was extended include non-Georgia Tech students and PI\u0026rsquo;s for award consideration. This award session is the first in which an off-campus research project was chosen for inclusion.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 5 winning projects, from a diverse group of engineering disciplines, were awarded a six-month block of IEN cleanroom and lab access time. In keeping with the interdisciplinary mission of IEN, the projects that will be enabled by the grants include research in materials, biomedicine, energy production, and microelectronics packaging applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EFrancisco Quintero Cortes (PI Matthew McDowell, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering \u0026amp; Materials Science and Engineering), \u003Cem\u003EControlling Interfaces in Ceramic Ion Conductors for Next-Generation Lithium Batteries\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EBlaine Costello (PI Jeff Davis, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering), \u003Cem\u003EDielectric Interfacial Capacitive Energy Storage (DICES) Experiments\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EConnor Howe (PI W. 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It would brake here, boost there; rotate, translate and then, with a light jolt, lock into place.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn real time, large molecules interact in nanosecond speed, practically instantaneously, making them nearly impossible to watch. But scientists are a step closer to being able to observe their moves -- play-by-play -- thanks to novel fine-tuning of an atomic scale instrument by engineers at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe advancement could someday help researchers figure out why some drugs work well and others less so, and measure details about the workings of life at their root.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtomic forces seen clearly\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe improvement works by carefully adding electronic white noise to a sensing probe inside an \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nanoscience.gatech.edu\/zlwang\/research\/afm.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eatomic force microscope (AFM),\u003C\/a\u003E which is already sensitive enough to detect forces exerted by interacting molecules, such as protein receptors and vitamins. But even with those abilities at a nanometer scale, in a slight but significant way, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nanoscience.com\/technology\/afm-technology\/how-afm-works\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAFM\u003C\/a\u003E can be a blunt instrument.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s an inability of the probe to sample the deepest part of the interaction,\u0026rdquo; said researcher \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/sulchek\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETodd Sulchek, an associate professor at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;You either see how these molecules are bound together or unbound. It was either black or white, but now we\u0026rsquo;re succeeding at getting varying shades of gray.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESulchek and graduate researchers \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sulchek2.gatech.edu\/people\/lab-alumni\/ahmad-haider\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAhmad Haider\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sulchek2.gatech.edu\/people\/graduate\/daniel-potter\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDaniel Potter\u003C\/a\u003E published the results of their engineering solution in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2016\/11\/22\/1608792113.full?sid=048829c9-ad58-4500-940d-7454b1a1fa7b\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ethe journal the \u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E Early Edition\u003C\/a\u003E the week of\u0026nbsp;November 21, 2016.\u0026nbsp;Their research was funded by the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECone wiggling a cantilever\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMolecules have tractor beams, albeit weak ones. They tug at each other with an\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ww2.chemistry.gatech.edu\/~lw26\/structure\/molecular_interactions\/mol_int.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Earray\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;faint forces, such as van der Waals interactions\u003C\/a\u003E, mostly generated though negative\u0026nbsp;or\u0026nbsp;positive polarities spread around the molecules.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAtomic force microscopes measure those attracting energies by sticking a nanoscale cone-shaped probe close to the molecules to feel the forces out as they interact. The cone is attached to a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/emweb.unl.edu\/Mechanics-Pages\/Scott-Whitney\/325hweb\/Beams.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ecantilever\u003C\/a\u003E, a flexible tiny stick, and makes it wiggle, as the atomic forces tug the cone this way or that.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe cantilever transfers the quivering into the microscope, which turns it into a usable signal much the way the needle of a turntable transfers vibrations from a record to be converted into sound. The resulting signal illustrates what is called an energy well. The top of the well is the point where the adhesive forces are about to take hold, and the bottom is a point about where the molecules meet.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFalling into the energy well\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut as the forces pull the cone and the molecules it\u0026rsquo;s observing closer to each other, at some point, they basically jerk together, preventing a detailed measurement of the gradient of energy. As a result, as the cone approaches the interacting molecules, researchers see the top of the energy well and the end of the interaction, but the details of the well\u0026rsquo;s walls, particularly deep down where the molecules most closely interact, invariably elude them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The way we got around it was, we simply added some electronic noise in a well-defined manner, and that allowed the probe to feel the interaction when it was still relatively far away from the surface of the molecules,\u0026rdquo; Sulchek said. The electronic vibration, called enhanced \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/stochastic\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Estochastic\u003C\/a\u003E fluctuation, also diluted the effect of the adhesive forces that otherwise would have snatched the cantilever and molecules together.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;What I think is neat is that it\u0026rsquo;s counterintuitive, because you usually try to eliminate noise from your system to get more accurate measurements, but we\u0026rsquo;re adding noise,\u0026rdquo; Sulchek said. The improvement gets around potential bias produced by the addition of noise by allowing researchers to take more samples and longer ones, effectively cancelling the effects of the noise in the overall data.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdding some noise may sound simple, but it took Haider and Potter a good two years to figure out how it could work and to make tedious adjustments to the instrumentation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBacterial vise grip ballet\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers used interactions between the cantilever and a material called \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.andrew.cmu.edu\/course\/39-801\/data\/micinfo.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Emica\u003C\/a\u003E to finish developing the improvement. Mica has a predictable shape and charge, good for benchmarking \u0026ndash; it\u0026rsquo;s very smooth. \u0026ldquo;Mica is atomically flat,\u0026rdquo; Sulchek said. \u0026ldquo;That and graphite are about the two flattest surfaces that you can construct.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENow, Sulchek\u0026rsquo;s team is testing the improved cantilever in a biological scenario -- a protein from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bacdive.dsmz.de\/index.php?search=15040\u0026amp;submit=Search\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EStreptomyces avidinii\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E bacteria, which eats up the vitamin \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/vitamins-and-supplements\/supplement-guide-biotin\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ebiotin\u003C\/a\u003E with a vengeance. The protein, streptavidin, binds with biotin so tightly, that researchers commonly use it to study molecular adhesion.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s the strongest bio-interaction known to science,\u0026rdquo; Sulchek said. Streptavidin\u0026rsquo;s vise grip makes for a well standardized test case\u0026nbsp;for the newly fine-tuned device. \u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;A flap opens up and the biotin fits in it like a glove,\u0026rdquo; Sulchek said. \u0026ldquo;We want to see if we can watch how that happens and measure its energy well.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECancer, AIDS, autoimmune disease\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat puts Sulchek closer to his dream of an instrument to boost experimental biomolecular research, and potentially lead to insights useful to medicine. \u0026ldquo;I want to have a tool to visualize these intermediate steps,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;I want a tool to see those short-lived states.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers could use such an improved tool to better understand autoimmune disorders, immunotherapy to treat cancer or the ability of HIV to thwart an antibody defense.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Many \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antigen-antibody_interaction\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eantibodies have two binding\u003C\/a\u003E sites, and there\u0026rsquo;s a reason for that, but we don\u0026rsquo;t yet understand why,\u0026rdquo; Sulchek said. \u0026ldquo;We do know that you don\u0026rsquo;t want antibodies to interact too strongly.\u0026rdquo; When they do, it can result in autoimmune diseases.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s a lot of therapeutics involving antibodies, and some work well; others don\u0026rsquo;t work well,\u0026rdquo; Sulchek said. 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Electrical interconnects are limited for many reasons including device leakage, propagation delay, signal-to-signal crosstalk, reflection and others. Optical interconnects are immune to these and being photonic-based, are capable of meeting the above high bandwidth requirements. Unlike in long-distance telecommunications, short-distance bandwidth requires careful balance between performance, power and cost.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESilicon photonics and board-level optoelectronics are being intensely explored by the industry. Silicon photonics promises the highest potential by combining photonics and electronics onto a single die, using CMOS-compatible processes. Board-level optoelectronics, on the other hand, utilize low-cost board substrate process technologies to create Optical Printed Circuit Boards (O-PCB).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn contrast to these above approaches, Georgia Tech proposed and developed a very innovative 3D glass photonics (3DGP) technology, not at device or board-level, as with silicon and board-level photonics, but at package-level. It is a lower cost and low power alternative to silicon photonics and board-level optoelectronics. In addition, it is a 3D concept using glass with an ultra-short photonic\u0026nbsp;via interconnection. Glass offers a unique combination of optical, electrical, thermo-mechanical and dimensional-stability properties for precision alignments, and large-area panel processability for low cost, unmatched by other materials. Optically, the refractive index of glass can match that of glass optical fibers to enable low-loss light coupling. Electrically, the low-loss tangent of glass is far superior to that of silicon. Mechanically, the Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE) of glass matches silicon and other devices, thus improving the system-level reliability. The low surface roughness and high dimensional stability of glass is capable of 1\u0026micro;m and below features similar to back end of line (BEOL) silicon processes, for high interconnect density and precise coupling to optical fibers. Lastly, glass has the potential for low cost by virtue of large panel manufacturing\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERecently, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s 3DGP program demonstrated a 400 Gbps optical transceiver module. This test vehicle featured optimized electrical interconnects at \u0026lt; 0.1 dB\/mm insertion loss, thermal interconnects to keep laser temperature under 80\u0026ordm;C, and novel optical interconnections comprising of planar optical waveguides, 3D vertical optical vias, 45\u0026ordm; turning mirrors, and fiber alignment grooves in glass. These novel optical interconnections resulted in \u0026lt; 2 dB coupling loss with high-density out-of-plane turning, and alignment tolerance on par with fiber-to-fiber coupling.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech industry consortium is unique in the academic world. It involves partnership with end-user and supply chain companies, resulting in accelerated 3DGP technology development. The end-users include TE Connectivity and Ciena Corp.; and supply chain companies include Corning Glass, Asahi Glass, and Schott Glass for supplying the ultra-thin glass panels with vias or cavities; Dow-Chemical for polymers; Ushio for placing a lithographic tool at Georgia Tech to enable micro-mirror formation; Atotech for supplying the chemistry for advanced metallization processes; Microchem for supplying optical polymers; and DISCO for placing a dicing tool at Georgia Tech to enable fiber alignment groove formation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Authors\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBruce Chou, is graduating in Fall 2016 with his PhD under the advisement of Prof. Rao Tummala. 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Comprised of 16 sites, located in 15 states and involving 27 universities, NNCI provides researchers from academia, government and companies with access to university user facilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a member of the NNCI program, the Georgia Institute of Technology formed a collaboration with the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, an academic collaboration between North Carolina A\u0026amp;T State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, to\u0026nbsp; form the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/senic.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESoutheastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor (SENIC)\u003C\/a\u003E and provide SE region users with leading-edge fabrication and characterization tools, instrumentation and expertise within all disciplines of nanoscale science, engineering and technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESUIN (SENIC Undergraduate Internship in Nanotechnology) is a major component of the SENIC program and focuses on providing undergraduates in engineering the chance to spend a summer conducting research in a world-class collaborative lab with prominent Georgia Tech researchers. GT-IEN hosted 6 undergraduates from various U.S. colleges over the summer that engaged in hands-on research in a number of fields of nanotechnology. At the conclusion of the program, the students had the opportunity to present their findings at the SURE Research Symposium on July the 28th, 2016. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOver the months of the Fall Semester we will be highlighting each of the six REU participants, their research topics and experience in the labs, as well as what they gained from the program and their time at Georgia Tech, and in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUndergraduate: Michael VanderZwaag PI: Kim Kurtis, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mentors: Bill Jin \u0026amp; Behnaz Zaribaf, Topic: Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles in Concrete\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUndergraduate: Elizabeth Tom, PI: Michael Filler, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Mentor: Dmitriy Boyuk, Topic: Hybrid Nanowire Coating\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUndergraduate: John Nance, PI: Peter Hesketh, School of Mechanical Engineering, Mentor: Srinivas Gowranga Hanasoge, Topic: Fabrication of Artificial Cilia\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUndergraduate: Cooper Thome: PI: Elsa Reichmanis, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Mentor: Bailey Risteen, Topic: Cellulose Nanocrystals \u0026amp; Conductivity\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUndergraduate: Yaneira Gonzalez, PI: Yuanzhi Tang, School of Earth and Environmental Science, Mentors: Rixiang Huang \u0026amp; Shiliang Zhao, Topic: Effects of zinc metal on magnesium oxides\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUndergraduate: Thomas Metke, PI: Todd Sulchek, School of Mechanical Engineering, Mentor: Muhynmin Islam, Topic: Micofluidics for Cell Stiffness\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELook for our monthly news releases online at ien.gatech.edu, or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gatech.us3.list-manage1.com\/subscribe?u=5509a5293bfa99c4fe533c5e9\u0026amp;id=53ce5580bb\u0022\u003Esubscribe to our mailing list at this web address\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on the SENIC REU Program, contact Program Manager Leslie O\u2019Neill [\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:leslie.oneill@ien.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eleslie.oneill@ien.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E] for more information on SENIC Education and Outreach, contact Program Director Dr. Nancy [\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:nancy.healy@ien.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Enancy.healy@ien.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E].\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"GT-IEN hosted 6 undergraduates from various U.S. colleges over the summer that engaged in hands-on research in a number of fields of nanotechnology. Over the months of the Fall Semester we will be highlighting each of the six REU participants."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2016-08-05 09:19:14","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:16","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-08-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-08-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"559621":{"id":"559621","type":"image","title":"SUIN SENIC Undergraduates","body":null,"created":"1470402379","gmt_created":"2016-08-05 13:06:19","changed":"1475895364","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:04","alt":"SUIN SENIC Undergraduates","file":{"fid":"218269","name":"reu_group_2016.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/reu_group_2016.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/reu_group_2016.png","mime":"image\/png","size":3190223,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/reu_group_2016.png?itok=7ptCdFLr"}}},"media_ids":["559621"],"groups":[{"id":"1271","name":"NanoTECH"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"},{"id":"107","name":"Nanotechnology"},{"id":"146421","name":"National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure"},{"id":"98491","name":"Research Experience for Undergraduate Students"},{"id":"167445","name":"School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering"},{"id":"167864","name":"School of Civil and Environmental Engineering"},{"id":"170573","name":"Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor"},{"id":"14649","name":"The George W. 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The Center, co-led by researchers from Georgia Tech and North Carolina State University, is funded for five years through the National Science Foundation\u2019s Industry\/University Cooperative Research Centers (I\/UCRC) program.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E Integrated circuits, or chips, power everything from smart watches to supercomputers. The semiconductor industry \u2013 perennially one of America\u2019s top exporters - has begun searching for new ways to increase performance while reducing chip size and development cost.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E The Center for Advanced Electronics through Machine Learning (CAEML) seeks to accelerate advances by leveraging machine-learning techniques to develop new models for electronic design automation (EDA) tools, which semiconductor companies use to create and verify chip designs for mass-production.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u201cWhen products fail qualification testing, it is usually attributed to shortcomings in the models employed by the EDA tools,\u201d said Elyse Rosenbaum, principal investigator and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Illinois. \u201cMany products have to go through at least one re-spin before entering the marketplace, resulting in the loss of money and time.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E Currently, chip manufacturers struggle to optimize power, performance, reliability, and cost in their designs, because the analysis is too computationally intensive to execute in a timely manner. CAEML researchers aim to overcome current limitations by employing behavioral models, which look at the behavior, or output, of a chip instead of the internal processes described by physical models most commonly used in today\u2019s designs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E The CAEML team will create a systematic method for generating behavioral models, which the industry has had only limited success with in the past. The work will draw on deep networks, associative memories, and other research areas within the field of machine learning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E Researchers will take a comprehensive approach, developing a methodology that is applicable to large systems, with the understanding that most microelectronic systems are comprised of more than just a single chip. Even a \u201csystem on a chip\u201d consists of a package as well as the semiconductor chip, and the system performance is highly affected by the interactions between the two, according to Madhavan Swaminathan, a professor and CAEML site director at Georgia Tech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u201cWith the interface between the chip and the package disappearing through integration, e.g. System in Package technologies, systems need to designed, modeled, and optimized holistically,\u201d said Swaminathan. \u201cOur goal in CAEML is to address systems in such a way that intellectual property can be protected and re-spins minimized.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs an I\/UCRC, CAEML will collaborate closely with companies, who will help evaluate and select projects. The corporate connections will help researchers better understand the real-world problems faced by manufacturers and provide a pipeline of ideas between academia and industry. They also will help fund the center\u2019s work; currently, 11 companies have committed a total of $550,000 for the first year. NSF will contribute an additional $450,000 per year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E The collective goal is to create a system to make the design evaluation process much easier, says Paul Franzon, a professor of electrical engineering and CAEML site lead at NC State.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u201cI like to say that a silicon chip is the most complex artifact made by man,\u201d Franzon said. \u201cThere are billions of components in a chip-- it is mind-boggling. We\u2019re creating models that help deal with these complexities, so that when we design chips, we design them to work the first time.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/publish.illinois.edu\/advancedelectronics\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVisit the CAEML Program Website Here\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003EFor more information, contact Dr. Madhavan Swaminathan (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:madhavan.swaminathan@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emadhavan.swaminathan@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Center for Advanced Electronics through Machine Learning (CAEML) seeks to accelerate advances by leveraging machine-learning techniques to develop new models for electronic design automation (EDA) tools create and verify chip designs for market."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2016-08-02 14:22:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:12","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-08-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-08-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"558021":{"id":"558021","type":"image","title":"Madhavan Swaminathan","body":null,"created":"1470161828","gmt_created":"2016-08-02 18:17:08","changed":"1475895361","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:01","alt":"Madhavan Swaminathan","file":{"fid":"206714","name":"madhavanswaminathan_official_inst_photo.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/madhavanswaminathan_official_inst_photo.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/madhavanswaminathan_official_inst_photo.png","mime":"image\/png","size":267955,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/madhavanswaminathan_official_inst_photo.png?itok=Z4KZ1FXL"}}},"media_ids":["558021"],"groups":[{"id":"197261","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"39591","name":"computational modeling"},{"id":"94171","name":"Electronics Packaging"},{"id":"9167","name":"machine learning"},{"id":"24251","name":"Madhavan Swaminathan"},{"id":"167954","name":"semiconductor fabrication"},{"id":"166968","name":"the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"168380","name":"the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["madhavan.swaminathan@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"542501":{"#nid":"542501","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The IEN Welcomes the 2016 SENIC Undergraduate Interns","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe IEN will be hosting 6 undergraduate students as research interns this summer as part of the South Eastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor\u2019s (SENIC) 2016 Undergraduate Internship in Nanotechnology (SUIN) program. The visiting undergraduate scholars will be hosted by various IEN affiliated faculty across campus for a 9 week period, from May the 22\u003Csup\u003End\u003C\/sup\u003E until July the 29\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E, and will gain experience in laboratory research under the guidance of a faculty project director, as well a graduate student mentor. Additionally, the undergraduate researchers will have an opportunity to train on advanced fabrication and measurement equipment in the IEN cleanrooms and microscopy facilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe hosted students, their paired PIs, and research topics may be found below:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThomas Metke, Vanderbilt \u2013 Host PI: Todd Sulchek - Research Topic: \u003Cem\u003EHigh throughput cell separation with microfluidic devices\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECooper Thome, University of Tennessee \u2013 Host PI: Elsa Reichmanis - Research Topic: \u003Cem\u003ECellulose Nanocrystal Liquid Crystal Templating of Conductive PEDOT:PSS\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMichael Vander Zwaag, University of Michigan \u2013 Host PI: Kim Kurtis - Research Topic: \u003Cem\u003EMaking \u0022Greener\u0022 Concrete Using Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJohn Nance, University of North Carolina \u2013 Host PI: Peter Hesketh - Research Topic: \u003Cem\u003ECharacterization of NiFe Artificial Cilia\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EElizabeth Tom, University of Michigan \u2013 Host PI: Michael Filler - Research Topic: \u003Cem\u003EPlasmonic-Phononic Hybrid Nanowires: New Materials for Extreme Infrared Light Focusing\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYaneira Gonzalez, University of Puerto Rico \u2013 Host PI: Todd Sulchek - Research Topic: \u003Cem\u003EEffects of Metal Presence on the Structure, Reactivity and Transformation of Magnesium Oxides\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter the conclusion of the program, the students will present talks and posters on their research and attend a joint, one day convocation on July 28\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E, along with the College of Engineering\u2019s SURE REU program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPlease join us in welcoming the attendees to Georgia Tech as we host them over the 2016 summer session. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E- Christa M. 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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are using a similar principle to track cells being sorted on microfluidic chips.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe technique uses a simple circuit pattern with just three electrodes to assign a unique seven-bit digital identification number to each cell passing through the channels on the microfluidic chip. The new technique also captures information about the sizes of the cells, and how fast they are moving. That identification and information could allow automated counting and analysis of the cells being sorted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research, reported in the journal \u003Cem\u003ELab on a Chip\u003C\/em\u003E, could provide the electronic intelligence that might one day allow inexpensive labs on a chip to conduct sophisticated medical testing outside the confines of hospitals and clinics. The technology can track cells with better than 90 percent accuracy in a four-channel chip.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are digitizing information about the sorting done on a microfluidic chip,\u201d explained Fatih Sarioglu, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. \u201cBy combining microfluidics, electronics and telecommunications principles, we believe this will help address a significant challenge on the output side of lab-on-a-chip technology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMicrofluidic chips use the unique biophysical or biochemical properties of cells and viruses to separate them. For instance, antigens can be used to select bacteria or cancer cells and route them into separate channels. But to obtain information about the results of the sorting, those cells must now be counted using optical methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new technique, dubbed microfluidic CODES, adds a grid of micron-scale electrical circuitry beneath the microfluidic chip. Current flowing through the circuitry creates an electrical field in the microfluidic channels above the grid. When a cell passes through one of the microfluidic channels, it creates an impedance change in the circuitry that signals the cell\u2019s passage and provides information about the cell\u2019s location, size and the speed at which it is moving through the channel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis impedance change has been used for many years to detect the presence of cells in a fluid, and is the basis for the Coulter Counter which allowed blood counts to be done quickly and reliably. But the microfluidic CODES technique goes beyond counting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe positive and negative charges from the intermingled electrical circuits create a unique identifying digital signal as each cell passes by, and that sequence of ones and zeroes is attached to information about the impedance change. The unique identifying signals from multiple cells can be separated and read by a computer, allowing scientists to track not only the properties of the cells, but also how many cells have passed through each channel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy judiciously aligning the grid pattern, we can generate the codes at the locations we choose when the cells pass by,\u201d Sarioglu explained. \u201cBy measuring the current conduction in the whole system, we can identify when a cell passes by each location.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause the cells sorted into each channel of a microfluidic chip have certain characteristics in common, the technique would allow the automated detection of cancer cells, bacteria or even viruses in a fluid sample. Sarioglu and his students have demonstrated that they can track more than a thousand ovarian cancer cells with an accuracy rate of better than 90 percent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe underlying principle for the cell identification is called code division multiple access (CDMA), and it\u2019s essential for helping cellular networks separate the signals from each user. The microfluidic channels are fabricated from a plastic material using soft lithographic techniques. The electrical pattern is fabricated separately on a glass substrate, then aligned with the plastic chip\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have created an electronic sensor without any active components,\u201d Sarioglu said. \u201cIt\u2019s just a layer of metal, cleverly patterned. The cells and the metallic layer work together to generate digital signals in the same way that cellular telephone networks keep track of each caller\u2019s identity. We are creating the equivalent of a cellphone network on a microfluidic chip.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe next step in the research will be to combine the electronic sensor with a microfluidic chip able to actively sort cells. Beyond cancer cells, bacteria and viruses, such a system could also sort and analyze inorganic particles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe computing requirements of the system would be minimal, requiring no more than the processor power of smartphones that already handle decoding of CDMA signals. The proof-of-principle device contains just four channels, but Sarioglu believes the design could easily be scaled up to include many more channels.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is like putting a USB port on a microfluidic chip,\u201d he explained. \u201cOur technique could turn all of the microfluidic manipulations that are happening on the chip into quantitative data related to diagnostic measurements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, the researchers hope to create inexpensive chips that could be used for sophisticated diagnostic testing in physician offices or remote locations. 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The graduate student performing the research should be in the first 2 years of his\/her graduate studies, and preference will be given to students who are new users of the IEN facilities. The student\u2019s research advisor (project PI) does not need to be a current user of the IEN cleanroom\/lab facilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EExternal (non-Georgia Tech) Applicants\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERecent funding from the NSF to create the Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor (SENIC, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/senic.gatech.edu\/\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/senic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/senic.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E) as part of the NNCI has allowed IEN to open this program to external (not affiliated with Georgia Tech) users currently at an academic institution in the southeastern US. The graduate student performing the proposed research cannot be a current user of the IEN facilities. The student\u2019s research advisor (project PI) may have a current project in place for use of the IEN cleanroom\/lab facilities, but this is not a requirement. If awarded, a specialized service agreement will need to be arranged with the user\u2019s home institution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPast awardees of a seed grant may submit additional proposals for different students\/projects, but not in consecutive funding cycles. It is the responsibility of the project PI and student to determine their ability to make use of the awarded time during the grant period. Extensions requested once the project has begun will not be granted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAward Information\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEach seed grant award will consist of free cleanroom access to the student identified in the proposal for 2 (consecutive) billing quarters. Based on current access rates and the academic cap on hourly charges (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\/rates\/\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\/rates\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\/rates\/\u003C\/a\u003E), this comprises a maximum award of $6000 for the 6 month period. This maximum award amount is still in effect even if IEN non-cleanroom (lab) equipment or electron beam lithography (EBL) is required. The designated student user is expected to only utilize the cleanroom\/tool access while working with the PI on the proposed project. Members of the IEN Advanced Technology Team (ATT) will be available to consult during the project period. The number of awards for each proposal submission date will depend on the number and quality of the proposals. A short report describing the research activities is required midway and at the completion of the award period.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESubmission Schedule\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis Seed Grant program is offered in\u003Cstrong\u003E two competitions each year with due dates on April 1 and October 1\u003C\/strong\u003E. While it is expected that research activity will begin on June 1 and December 1, respectively, there is flexibility in scheduling the 2 quarters of research work, as long as they conform to the IEN billing quarters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProposal Requirements (2 pages max)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe proposal (submitted as a PDF file of no more than 2 pages) should do the following:\u003Cbr \/\u003E1. Provide a project title.\u003Cbr \/\u003E2. Identify the research problem and specify the proposed methods.\u003Cbr \/\u003E3. Indicate the IEN research tools necessary to conduct the research. If assistance is needed with this component, members of the IEN Advanced Technology Team are available for consultation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E4. Describe the relationship of this research to the PI\u2019s other research activity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E5. Identify the PI and the graduate student involved (including year of graduate work), and if there will be a mentoring relationship with the PI\u2019s other students. Note if there are collaborative relationships with Georgia Tech faculty that bear on this research project.\u003Cbr \/\u003E6. Specify the potential for follow-on funding based on the results of this initial work.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESubmit the PDF file by the specified due date to Ms. Amy Duke (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amy.duke@ien.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eamy.duke@ien.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReview Criteria\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EProposals will initially be reviewed by IEN staff for technical feasibility within the 6-month time frame. Rating of proposals will be done by a review committee of Georgia Tech faculty, with final selection of awardees by IEN staff.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, please contact Dr. David Gottfried, \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:dsgottfried@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edsgottfried@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E, (404) 894-0479.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech IEN is an Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRI) comprised of faculty and students interested in using the most advanced fabrication and characterization tools, and cleanroom infrastructure, to facilitate research in micro- and nano-scale materials, devices, and systems. Applications of this research span all disciplines in science and engineering with particular emphasis on biomedicine, electronics, optoelectronics and photonics, and energy applications. 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But until now there was no good way to study and simultaneously map these phenomena at the relevant length scales.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a new nondestructive technique for investigating these material changes by examining the acoustic response at the nanoscale. Information obtained from this technique \u2013 which uses electrically-conductive atomic force microscope (AFM) probes \u2013 could guide efforts to design materials with enhanced properties at small size scales.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe approach has been used in ferroelectric materials, but could also have applications in ferroelastics, solid protonic acids and materials known as relaxors. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy\u2019s Office of Science, the research was reported December 15 in the journal \u003Cem\u003EAdvanced Functional Materials\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have developed a new characterization technique that allows us to study changes in the crystalline structure and changes in materials behavior at substantially smaller length scales with a relatively simple approach,\u201d said Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb, an associate professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. \u201cKnowing where these phase transitions happen and at which length scales can help us design next-generation materials.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn ferroelectric materials such as PZT (lead zirconate titanate), phase transitions can occur at the boundaries between one crystal type and another, under external stimuli. Properties such as the piezoelectric and dielectric effects can be amplified at the boundaries, which are caused by the multi-element \u201cconfused chemistry\u201d of the materials. Determining when these transitions occur can be done in bulk materials using various techniques, and at the smallest scales using an electron microscope.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers realized they could detect these phase transitions using acoustic techniques in samples at size scales between the bulk and tens of atoms. Using band-excitation piezoresponse force microscopy (BE-PFM) techniques developed at ORNL, they analyzed the resulting changes in resonant frequencies to detect phase changes in sample sizes relevant to the material applications. To do that, they applied an electric field to the samples using an AFM tip that had been coated with platinum to make it conductive, and through generation and detection of a band of frequencies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019ve had very good techniques for characterizing these phase changes at the large scale, and we\u2019ve been able to use electron microscopy to figure out almost atomistically where the phase transition occurs, but until this technique was developed, we had nothing in between,\u201d said Bassiri-Gharb. \u201cTo influence the structure of these materials through chemical or other means, we really needed to know where the transition breaks down, and at what length scale that occurs. This technique fills a gap in our knowledge.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe changes the researchers detect acoustically are due to the elastic properties of the materials, so virtually any material with similar changes in elastic properties could be studied in this way. Bassiri-Gharb is interested in ferroelectrics such as PZT, but materials used in fuel cells, batteries, transducers and energy-harvesting devices could also be examined this way.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis new method will allow for much greater insight into energy-harvesting and energy transduction materials at the relevant length sales,\u201d noted Rama Vasudeven, the first author of the paper and a materials scientist at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, a U.S. Department of Energy user facility at ORNL.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers also modeled the relaxor-ferroelectric materials using thermodynamic methods, which supported the existence of a phase transition and the evolution of a complex domain pattern, in agreement with the experimental results.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUse of the AFM-based technique offers a number of attractive features. Laboratories already using AFM equipment can easily modify it to analyze these materials by adding electronic components and a conductive probe tip, Bassiri-Gharb noted. The AFM equipment can be operated under a range of temperature, electric field and other environmental conditions that are not easily implemented for electron microscope analysis, allowing scientists to study these materials under realistic operating conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis technique can probe a range of different materials at small scales and under difficult environmental conditions that would be inaccessible otherwise,\u201d said Bassiri-Gharb. \u201cMaterials used in energy applications experience these kinds of conditions, and our technique can provide the information we need to engineer materials with enhanced responses.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThough widely used, relaxor-ferroelectrics and PZT are still not well understood. In relaxor-ferroelectrics, for example, it\u2019s believed that there are pockets of material in phases that differ from the bulk, a distortion that may help confer the material\u2019s attractive properties. Using their technique, the researchers confirmed that the phase transitions can be extremely localized.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey also learned that high responses of the materials occurred at those same locations.\u003Cbr \/\u003ENext steps would include varying the chemical composition of the material to see if those transitions \u2013 and enhanced properties \u2013 can be controlled. The researchers also plan to examine other materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt turns out that many energy-related materials have electrical transitions, so we think this is going to be very important for studying functional materials in general,\u201d Bassiri-Gharb added. \u201cThe potential for gaining new understanding of these materials and their applications are huge.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through grant DMR-1255379. A portion of this research was conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility at ORNL. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NSF or DOE.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION\u003C\/strong\u003E: Rama K. 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As part of the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology\u2019s (IEN) mission to develop and cultivate the next generation workforce and introduce the IEN as an industry\/academic research partner, the IEN staff have developed a series of technology specific short courses open to Georgia Tech faculty, students and researchers, academics from external universities, and industry employees.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThree full to capacity short courses have been held on microfabrication and soft lithography for microfluidics in the spring and fall of 2015. The IEN\u2019s Dr. Hang Chen coordinated 2 sessions on Microfabrication, which were geared at introducing basic microfabrication techniques to students and professional attendees. The 3.5 day courses, which were held on June 1-4 and October 19-22, combined lecture and hands-on sessions in the Marcus Nanotechnology cleanrooms. The course began with basic cleanroom orientation and safety training, then proceeded on to more focused lecture topics such as photolithography, thin film deposition, wet and dry etching, packaging, and characterization. The afternoon hands-on sessions enabled attendees to use the techniques they learned during the lectures sessions to fabricate simple micro-electronic devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA post-course survey of the attendees elicited positive response and the drive to develop future courses. Comments from external attendees include, \u201cGreat course, great price, great organization on part of staff\u2026\u201d \u201cFacilities and staff are a pleasure to work with\u2026\u201d \u201cThe course was very well executed, the instructors and staff were very knowledgeable and friendly\u2026\u201d and, \u201cExcellent cleanroom experience, looking for near future collaborative project.\u201d Attendees also expressed a desire to be informed of upcoming courses and for greater access by offering online courses for overseas and external user registrants.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Paul Joseph, IEN\u2019s Principal Research Scientist \u0026amp; Coordinator for External User (Academia, Industry \u0026amp; Government) Programs, conducted a workshop on Soft Lithography for microfluidic applications, on October 8\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E and 9\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E. The workshop was evenly divided into laboratory hands-on training sessions including SU-8 master mold creation using photolithography and PDMS device fabrication in the IEN cleanroom, supporting lectures, and project consultations. Dr. Joseph\u2019s workshop also comprised lecture topics such as, bio-applications in microfluidics, soft lithography methods of fabrication, and microfluidic device flow demonstrations. This bio-related workshop is offered to connect and support non-traditional users from life sciences communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe response from Dr. Joseph\u2019s course was also positive, including these comments from non-GT attendees, \u201c\u2026I had brought up my interest in soft lithography at the microfabrication course and was very pleased that it is now offered. Thanks!\u201d\u0026nbsp; and, \u201c\u2026organization and presentation is outstanding!\u201d Other comments offered helpful suggestions such as increasing the length of the course to allow for more hands-on sessions and pre-preparing samples to speed up the lab sessions and alleviate sample prep wait times.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDue to the positive response from course attendees, and with the knowledge that fostering an attitude of appreciation for lifelong learning is the key to workplace success, the IEN technical staff have planned upcoming short course sessions for the 2016 calendar year. Dr. Chen plans to offer 2 sets of the microfabrication short course, one for the dates of March 21 \u2013 24, during the 2016 Spring Class Break, and a second series tentatively on August 22-25, over the 2016 Summer Break. Dr. Joseph has also planned 2 sessions for the Soft Lithography for Microfluidics for April 21st \u0026amp; 22nd and July 21st \u0026amp; 22nd, 2016.*\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor students and professionals alike, taking the time to participate in courses such as these show the student\u2019s PI or academic\/industry attendee\u2019s employer that the participants have a drive and commitment to develop their skill-set as well as allowing participants the opportunity to learn from experts in the field, interact with other class members, and grow their professional network.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E- Christa M. 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However, existing liquid cooling technology removes heat using cold plates externally attached to fully packaged silicon chips \u2013 adding thermal resistance and reducing the heat-rejection efficiency.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo make their liquid cooling system, Bakir and graduate student Thomas Sarvey removed the heat sink and heat-spreading materials from the backs of stock Altera FPGA chips. They then etched cooling passages into the silicon, incorporating silicon cylinders approximately 100 microns in diameter to improve heat transmission into the liquid. A silicon layer was then placed over the flow passages, and ports were attached for the connection of water tubes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn multiple tests \u2013 including a demonstration for DARPA officials in Arlington, Virginia \u2013 a liquid-cooled FPGA was operated using a custom processor architecture provided by Altera. With a water inlet temperature of approximately 20 degrees Celsius and an inlet flow rate of 147 milliliters per minute, the liquid-cooled FPGA operated at a temperature of less than 24 degrees Celsius, compared to an air-cooled device that operated at 60 degrees Celsius.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESudhakar Yalamanchili, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and one of the research group\u2019s collaborators, joined the team for the DARPA demonstration to discuss electrical-thermal co-design.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have created a real electronic platform to evaluate the benefits of liquid cooling versus air cooling,\u201d said Bakir. \u201cThis may open the door to stacking multiple chips, potentially multiple FPGA chips or FPGA chips with other chips that are high in power consumption. We are seeing a significant reduction in the temperature of these liquid-cooled chips.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research team chose FPGAs for their test because they provide a platform to test different circuit designs, and because FPGAs are common in many market segments, including defense. However, the same technology could also be used to cool CPUs, GPUs and other devices such as power amplifiers, Bakir said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to improving overall cooling, the system could reduce hotspots in circuits by applying cooling much closer to the power source. Eliminating the heat sink could allow more compact packaging of electronic devices \u2013 but only if electrical connection issues are also addressed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a separate research project, Bakir\u2019s group has demonstrated the fabrication of copper vias that would run through the silicon columns that are part of the cooling structure fabricated on the FPGAs. Graduate student Hanju Oh, co-advised with College of Engineering Dean Gary May, fabricated high aspect ratio copper vias through the silicon columns, reducing the capacitance of the connections that would carry signals between chips in an array.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe moment you start thinking about stacking the chips, you need to have copper vias to connect them,\u201d Bakir said. \u201cBy bringing system components closer together, we can reduce interconnect length and that will lead to improvements in bandwidth density and reductions in energy use.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe cooling research was funded by DARPA\u2019s Microsystems Technology Office, through the ICECOOL program. At Georgia Tech, DARPA funds two major cooling and system integration projects, one called STAECool directed by George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Professor Yogendra Joshi, and the other, called SuperCool, that is directed by Bakir. In collaboration with the STAECool effort, Bakir and Joshi, along with Professors Andrei Fedorov and Suresh Sitaraman from the School of Mechanical Engineering, developed a thermal design vehicle to emulate challenging power maps to test the benefits of microfluidic cooling.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have reached an important milestone that we hope to use as a stepping stone to reach other objectives,\u201d said Bakir. \u201cThere is still a big challenge ahead, but we expect this to allow much denser, higher-performance computing systems that will dissipate less power. We can think of many interesting applications for these cooling technologies.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAltera\u2019s principal investigator for the project, Arifur Rahman, said: \u201cFuture high-performance semiconductor electronics will be increasingly dominated by thermal budget and ability to remove heat. 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glass microtubes with a polymer hydrogel material dramatically alters the way capillary forces draw water into the tiny structures, researchers have found. The discovery could provide a new way to control microfluidic systems, including popular lab-on-a-chip devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECapillary action draws water and other liquids into confined spaces such as tubes, straws, wicks and paper towels, and the flow rate can be predicted using a simple hydrodynamic analysis. But a chance observation by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology will cause a recalculation of those predictions for conditions in which hydrogel films line the tubes carrying water-based liquids.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRather than moving according to conventional expectations, water-based liquids slip to a new location in the tube, get stuck, then slip again \u2013 and the process repeats over and over again,\u201d explained \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/fedorov\u0022\u003EAndrei Fedorov\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorge W. 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An ordinary borosilicate glass tube fills by capillary action at a gradually decreasing rate with the speed of meniscus propagation slowing as a square root of time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut when the inside of a tube is coated with a very thin layer of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), a so-called \u201csmart\u201d polymer (PNIPAM), everything changes. Water entering a tube coated on the inside with a dry hydrogel film must first wet the film and allow it to swell before it can proceed farther into the tube. The wetting and swelling take place not continuously, but with discrete steps in which the water meniscus first sticks and its motion remains arrested while the polymer layer locally deforms. The meniscus then rapidly slides for a short distance before the process repeats. This \u201cstick-slip\u201d process forces the water to move into the tube in a step-by-step motion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe flow rate measured by the researchers in the coated tube is three orders of magnitude less than the flow rate in an uncoated tube. A linear equation describes the time dependence of the filling process instead of a classical quadratic equation which describes filling of an uncoated tube.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cInstead of filling the capillary in a hundredth of a second, it might take tens of seconds to fill the same capillary,\u201d said Fedorov. \u201cThough there is some swelling of the hydrogel upon contact with water, the change in the tube diameter is negligible due to the small thickness of the hydrogel layer. This is why we were so surprised when we first observed such a dramatic slow-down of the filing process in our experiments.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers \u2013 who included graduate students James Silva, Drew Loney and Ren Geryak and senior research engineer Peter Kottke \u2013 tried the experiment again using glycerol, a liquid that is not absorbed by the hydrogel. With glycerol, the capillary action proceeded through the hydrogel-coated microtube as with an uncoated tube in agreement with conventional theory. After using high-resolution optical visualization to study the meniscus propagation while the polymer swelled, the researchers realized they could put this previously-unknown behavior to good use.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWater absorption by the hydrogels occurs only when the materials remain below a specific transition temperature. When heated above that temperature, the materials no longer absorb water, eliminating the \u201cstick-slip\u201d phenomenon in the microtubes and allowing them to behave like ordinary tubes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis ability to turn the stick-slip behavior on and off with temperature could provide a new way to control the flow of water-based liquid in microfluidic devices, including labs-on-a-chip. The transition temperature can be controlled by varying the chemical composition of the hydrogel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy locally heating or cooling the polymer inside a microfluidic chamber, you can either speed up the filling process or slow it down,\u201d Fedorov said. \u201cThe time it takes for the liquid to travel the same distance can be varied up to three orders of magnitude. That would allow precise control of fluid flow on demand using external stimuli to change polymer film behavior.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe heating or cooling could be done locally with lasers, tiny heaters, or thermoelectric devices placed at specific locations in the microfluidic devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat could allow precise timing of reactions in microfluidic devices by controlling the rate of reactant delivery and product removal, or allow a sequence of fast and slow reactions to occur. Another important application could be controlled drug release in which the desired rate of molecule delivery could be dynamically tuned over time to achieve the optimal therapeutic outcome.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn future work, Fedorov and his team hope to learn more about the physics of the hydrogel-modified capillaries and study capillary flow using partially-transparent microtubes. They also want to explore other \u201csmart\u201d polymers which change the flow rate in response to different stimuli, including the changing pH of the liquid, exposure to electromagnetic radiation, or the induction of mechanical stress \u2013 all of which can change the properties of a particular hydrogel designed to be responsive to those triggers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese experimental and theoretical results provide a new conceptual framework for liquid motion confined by soft, dynamically evolving polymer interfaces in which the system creates an energy barrier to further motion through elasto-capillary deformation, and then lowers the barrier through diffusive softening,\u201d the paper\u2019s authors wrote. \u201cThis insight has implications for optimal design of microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip devices based on stimuli-responsive smart polymers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to those already mentioned, the research team included Professor Vladimir Tsukruk from the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering and Rajesh Naik, Biotechnology Lead and Tech Advisor of the Nanostructured and Biological Materials Branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research BIONIC Center through awards FA9550-09-1-0162 and FA9550-14-1-0269, AFOSR award FA-9550-14-1-0015, and by Georgia Tech\u2019s Renewable Bioproducts Institute Fellowship. 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The award was presented at the conclusion of the 2014 World Technology Summit and Awards, by the World Technology Network (WTN) in association with Fortune and TIME on November 14 at the TIME Conference Center in New York City.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Wang has made original and innovative contributions to the synthesis, discovery, characterization, and understanding of fundamental physical properties of oxide nanobelts and nanowires, as well as applications of nanowires in energy sciences, electronics, optoelectronics, and biological science. He is a leading figure in ZnO nanostructure research. His discovery and breakthroughs in developing nanogenerators established the principle and technological road map for harvesting mechanical energy from environmental and biological systems for powering personal electronics. His research on self-powered nanosystems has inspired the worldwide effort in academia and industry for studying energy for micro-nano-systems, which is now a distinct discipline in energy research and future sensor networks. He coined and pioneered the field of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics by introducing piezoelectric potential gated charge transport process in fabricating new electronic and optoelectronic devices. This historical breakthrough by redesigning the CMOS transistor has important applications in smart MEMS\/NEMS, nanorobotics, human-electronics interface, and sensors.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has authored and co-authored 6\u0026nbsp;scientific reference and textbooks\u0026nbsp;and over\u0026nbsp;950 peer-reviewed\u0026nbsp;journal articles (16 in \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;8\u0026nbsp;in \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E sister journals),\u0026nbsp;45\u0026nbsp;review papers and book chapters, edited and co-edited 14\u0026nbsp;volumes of books on nanotechnology, and holds over\u0026nbsp;100\u0026nbsp;US and foreign patents. Professor Wang is among the world\u2019s top 5 most cites authors in nanotechnology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe WTN is a curated membership community comprised of the world\u2019s most innovative individuals and organizations in science, technology, and related fields. The WTN and its members \u2013 those\u0026nbsp;creating the 21st century \u2013 are focused on exploring what is imminent, possible, and important around emerging technologies.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe World Technology Awards are presented in 20 categories for \u201cinnovative work of the greatest likely long-term significance\u201d to humanity. Award winners are nominated and selected by a peer-reviewed process.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo learn more about Professor Wang\u2019s research visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nanoscience.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.nanoscience.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.nanoscience.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EZ.L.\u0026nbsp;Wang, Regents\u2019 Professor, Hightower Chair in Materials Science and Engineering, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Electric and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology is the winner of the\u0026nbsp;prestigious 2014 World Technology Award for Materials.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor selected from 5 finalists in NYC ceremony"}],"uid":"28159","created_gmt":"2014-12-02 16:02:43","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:37","author":"Kelly Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.wtn.net\/summit-2014\/2014-world-technology-awards-winners","title":"2014 World Technology Award winners"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.nanoscience.gatech.edu\/","title":"Professor Z.L. 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The electrically charged liquids ejected from the needles normally exhibit a chaotic \u201cwhipping\u201d structure as they enter a secondary liquid that surrounds the microscopic jets.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut the liquid jets sometimes form a helical wave. And that was intriguing to Alberto Fernandez-Nieves, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy controlling the viscosity and speed of the secondary liquid surrounding the jets, a research team led by Fernandez-Nieves has now figured out how to convert the standard chaotic waveform to the stable helical form. Based on theoretical modeling and experiments using a microfluidic device, the findings could help improve industrial processes that are used for fiber formation and electrospray.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research, conducted in collaboration with the University of Seville in Spain, was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). It was reported Sept. 8, 2014, in the early online edition of the journal \u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E (PNAS).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are developing an understanding of the basic coupling between hydrodynamic and electric fields in these systems,\u201d said Fernandez-Nieves. \u201cThe issue we examined is fundamental physics, but it could potentially lead to something more interesting in fiber generation through electro-spinning.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn conventional industrial processes, tiny metal needles apply an electric field as they eject the polymer-containing solution. In the laboratory, the researchers used a glass-based microfluidic device to create the jets so they could more closely examine what was happening. Using a conductive liquid, ethylene glycol, allowed them to apply an electrical field to produce electrified jets.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen you charge these polymer solutions, the jets themselves move out of axis, which creates a chaotic phenomenon known as whipping,\u201d Fernandez-Nieves explained. \u201cThis off-axis movement causes the jet to abruptly move in all directions, and in the industrial world, all that motion seems to be beneficial from the standpoint of making thinner fibers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers experimented with many variables as their liquid jets emerged into a co-flowing secondary liquid inside the microfluidic device. Those variables included the applied electrical field, the flow rate of the ejected liquid and the secondary liquid, the viscosities of the liquids, the needle diameters and the physical geometry of microfluidic device.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile producing a whipped jet in a viscous dielectric material \u2013 polydimethylsiloxane oil \u2013 the researchers were surprised to see the chaotic motion switch over to a steady-state helical structure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe were able to stabilize the structure associated with the whipping behavior and found that the stable structure is a helix with a conical shape,\u201d said Fernandez-Nieves. \u201cYou can picture it as a conical envelope, and inside the envelope you have a helix. Once the viscosity of the outer liquid is sufficient, you stabilize the structure and get this beautiful helix.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech postdoctoral fellow Josefa Guerrero used a high-speed, microscope-based video camera operating at 50,000 frames per second to study the waveforms emerging from the experimental jets, which were less than five microns in diameter. The video allowed precise examination of the waveforms produced when the liquid flowed out of the glass needle and into the second liquid flowing around it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWorking with collaborators Javier Rivero-Rodriguez and Miguel Perez-Saborid at the University of Seville, the Georgia Tech team \u2013 Fernandez-Nieves, Guerrero and former postdoctoral fellow Venkata R. Gundabala \u2013 used hydrodynamics theory to help understand what they were seeing experimentally.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy developing the model, we were able to balance the importance of the different forces in the experiment,\u201d explained Fernandez-Nieves. \u201cThe helix was part of the solutions in the model and it reproduced some aspects of the experimentally observed helices.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOnce the jets were stabilized by the viscous secondary liquid, the properties of the helix were controlled by the electrical charge. In the experiment, the researchers applied approximately 1,000 volts to generate the jets.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe learned that the outer fluid plays a major role in stabilizing the structure of the jets,\u201d Fernandez-Nieves added. \u201cOnce the structure is stable, the details of the properties of the helical structure depend on the charge.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, the stable jets break up into spherical droplets. The researchers have not yet formed fibers with their experimental setup.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn future work, Fernandez-Nieves hopes to study other waveforms that may be produced by the system, and evaluate how controlling the liquid jets could improve industrial techniques used in fiber production and electrospray processes that generate clouds of droplets.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are interested in trying to map out those different behaviors,\u201d he said. \u201cFor us as physicists, this is interesting because it allows us to explore, address and measure things that nobody could look at before in the way we can today. We are anxious to understand the applied impact.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION\u003C\/strong\u003E: Josefa Guerrero, et al., \u201cWhipping of electrified jets,\u201d \u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E, 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under award CBET-0967293. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the officials views of the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia\u0026nbsp; 30332-0181\u0026nbsp; USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Assistance\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) (404-894-6986) or Brett Israel (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brett.israel@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebrett.israel@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) (404-385-1933).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIndustrial wet spinning processes produce fibers from polymers and other materials by using tiny needles to eject continuous jets of liquid precursors. 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Institute Lafayette houses offices, laboratories, and a 5,000-square-foot clean room, equipped with state-of-the art nano fabrication tools to support the innovations it is discovering in optoelectronics and advanced semiconductor materials research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlso in attendance among the 350 guests were the U.S. consul general from Strasbourg, France, along with French officials from the Lorraine region and research and corporate partners.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.globalatlanta.com\/article\/26954\/lafayettes-legacy-creates-a-platform-for-georgia-tech-innovations\/\u0022\u003ETo read more about Georgia Tech\u0027s Lafayette Institute, follow this link\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"On May 26, a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Georgia-Tech Lorraine campus in Metz, France, was attended by University President G.P. 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Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, which deals with really small-sized stuff may be onto something really big, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/jdrf.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJuvenile Diabetes Research Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E (JDRF), who provided the funding for the groundbreaking study, is paying close attention.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/garcia\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAndr\u00e9s Garc\u00eda\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents\u2019 Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, spearheaded research that has the potential of improving the lives of millions of people, particularly people with diabetes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMuch of the Garc\u00eda lab\u2019s research is focused on engineering hydrogels for the delivery of protein and cell therapies. In April, Garc\u00eda and a team of researchers in his lab published a research paper with the bulky title, \u201cMicrofluidic-Based Generation of Size-Controlled, Biofunctionalized Synthetic Polymer Microgels for Cell Encapsulation,\u201d in the journal \u003Cem\u003EAdvanced Materials.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019ve made a material that is really a hybrid, elements that are pure synthetic chemistry components, and other elements that are biological,\u201d says Garc\u00eda, who co-authored the paper with graduate research assistant Deavon Headen from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Guillaume Aubry, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CHBE), and Hang Lu, CHBE professor and James R. 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The precise control of this material is what people are excited about.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn essence, they\u2019ve designed a better way to deliver and protect therapeutic, life-saving cells to people with diabetes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEvery day millions of Americans wake up with the sobering knowledge that they have type 1 diabetes (more than 200,000 of them under age 20), which means that their body\u2019s immune system has mistakenly declared open war on the pancreatic beta cells that make insulin, a hormone that is required in converting food to energy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWithout insulin, glucose builds up to deadly levels in the bloodstream. So, millions of people (mostly people with type 1 diabetes, but some with type 2) give themselves daily insulin injections, or hook themselves up to an insulin pump, in order to stay alive.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere are alternatives \u2013 potentially more effective and less grueling treatments \u2013 emerging. One of the more exciting, designed to restore natural insulin production, is pancreatic islet transplantation \u2013 taking healthy islets (which are actually clusters of about 3,000 cells, including beta cells) from a donor pancreas and transplanting them into diabetes patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis replacement therapeutic process has shown terrific promise with some research demonstrating that transplanted islets can function for more than 12 years. But if the body\u2019s immune system detects foreign invaders, it responds aggressively, and may react harshly to these transplanted cells, forcing the need for immune suppression drugs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECell encapsulation technologies are being developed to overcome this problem, called graft rejection (and to block the ongoing autoimmune attack of type 1 diabetes) in regenerative medicine. 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In addition to accessing the high-level fabrication, lithography, and characterization tools in the labs, the students will have the opportunity to gain proficiency in cleanroom and tool methodology and to use the consultation services provided by research staff members of the IEN Advanced Technology Team.\u0026nbsp; In addition, the Seed Grant program gives faculty with novel research topics the ability to develop preliminary data in order to pursue follow-up funding sources.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 5 winning projects, from a diverse group of engineering disciplines, were awarded a six month block of IEN cleanroom and lab access time. In keeping with the interdisciplinary mission of IEN, the projects that will be enabled by the grants include research in materials, biomedicine, optoelectronics, and packaging applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Spring 2014 IEN Seed Grant Award winners are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EJordan Ciciliano (PI Wilbur Lam, Biomedical Engineering), \u003Cem\u003EPoint-of-Care Microfluidic Neutrophil Count Diagnostic for Cancer Patients\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EJong Seok Park (PI Hua Wang, Electrical and Computer Engineering), \u003Cem\u003EDeveloping Post-Processing Techniques to Build High-Quality Optical Filters on Standard CMOS Sensor Chips\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMisha Rodin and Sampath Kommandur (PI Shannon Yee, Mechanical Engineering), \u003Cem\u003EMeasuring Thermal Conductivity of Amorphous Thin-Films\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBen Rainwater (PI Meilin Liu, Materials Science and Engineering), \u003Cem\u003EFabrication of Thin-film Li-ion Electrolyte Membranes with Vertically Aligned Interfaces Tailored for Dramatic Enhancement of Ionic Conductivity\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBopeng Zhang (PI Yongsheng Chen, Civil and Environmental Engineering), \u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESynthesis of Novel Nano-composite Reverse Electrodialysis (RED) Ion-exchange Membranes for Sustainable Energy Production using Salinity Gradient\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Awardees will present the results of their research efforts at the annual IEN User Day in 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about IEN cleanroom facilities, research capabilities, and collaboration opportunities please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ien.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.ien.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.ien.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology at Georgia Tech has announced the winners for the 2014 Spring Seed Grant Awards."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2014-05-20 14:07:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:26","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1271","name":"NanoTECH"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"6597","name":"biomedicine"},{"id":"12701","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"1692","name":"materials"},{"id":"1815","name":"optoelectronics"},{"id":"84231","name":"packaging technologies"},{"id":"171098","name":"Seed Grant Awardees"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"},{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"284971":{"#nid":"284971","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Microfluidic Device With Artificial Arteries Measures Drugs\u2019 Influence on Blood Clotting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new microfluidic method for evaluating drugs commonly used for preventing heart attacks has found that while aspirin can prevent dangerous blood clots in some at-risk patients, it may not be effective in all patients with narrowed arteries. The study, which involved 14 human subjects, used a device that simulated blood flowing through narrowed coronary arteries to assess effects of anti-clotting drugs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe study is the first to examine how aspirin and another heart attack prevention drug respond to a variety of mechanical blood flow forces in healthy and diseased arteries. Patients\u2019 blood was tested in a patent-pending microfluidic device with narrow passageways to simulate the coronary arteries. The data are consistent with clinical findings showing that physiology has a major influence on the effectiveness of drugs used for heart attack prevention.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers believe that a benchtop diagnostic device like the one used in this study could save lives by preventing heart attacks and help lower healthcare costs by giving physicians better guidance on how drugs may affect individual patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDoctors have many drug options and it is difficult for them to determine how well each of those options is going to work for a patient,\u201d said Melissa Li, who was a graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology at the time of the study. \u201cThis study is the first time that a prototype benchtop diagnostic device has tried to address this problem using varying shear rates and patient dosing and tried to make it more personalized.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe study was sponsored by the American Heart Association, a Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Translational Grant and by a fellowship from the Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER) program at Georgia Tech. The study was published in a recent edition of the journal \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0082493\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPLOS ONE\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbout 10 percent of the U.S. population takes drugs every day because they are at risk of a heart attack. When a patient comes to a hospital with heart disease, doctors have multiple treatment options, all with different routes of action, time scales and prices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor a patient being prescribed anti-thrombotic drugs who is at risk for a heart attack, we can draw a small amount of their blood and quickly push a little bit through this device, and based on that information, tell them to take a certain amount of a certain drug. That\u2019s where we\u2019re going with this project,\u201d said Craig Forest, an assistant professor of bioengineering in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. Forest\u2019s lab led the study in collaboration with David Ku, a medical doctor and mechanical engineering professor at Georgia Tech. Ku is the Lawrence P. Huang Chair Professor of Engineering Entrepreneurship and a Regents\u0027 Professor of Mechanical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the current study, researchers used the diagnostic device to examine two treatments for potential heart attacks: aspirin and a class of drugs called GPIIb\/IIIa-inhibitors. GPIIb\/IIIa-inhibitors are generally given to patients with a high risk for a heart attack, and these drugs can be expensive. The study found that the two drugs have very different effects on blood clotting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen arteries are constricted, such as in patients with atherosclerosis, blood must squeeze through narrow passages. That pressurized flow induces a mechanical force called shear. Under high shear rates in arteries\u2014 blood flowing through a narrow opening \u2014 blood is more likely to clot. When blood is forced to squeeze through a small opening, platelets hook together, forming a clot.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo show how these drugs affect clotting at high and normal shear rates, blood samples were drawn from patients over several days. The scientists added the two drugs at different doses to those blood samples and ran them through a microfluidic device. The microfluidic device has four channels that mimic the coronary arteries, allowing researchers to study clotting under a variety of conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat we found is that with lower shear rates, such as found in normal arteries, aspirin was fairly effective at stopping platelets from clumping up with each other,\u201d said Li, who is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington. \u201cAt higher shear rates, aspirin was not as effective at preventing these clots.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers found that under high shear rates, clots still formed in the presence of aspirin, but that the clots became unstable and broke off the simulated artery walls.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELi said that their evidence suggests that aspirin should be fairly effective for most people at preventing heart attacks, but not as effective at preventing heart attacks in patients with atherosclerosis. This study can help identify which individuals can be helped, and which cannot.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe current study would need to be replicated in a large, controlled study before this device can be moved to the clinic or hospital.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis finding is something that\u2019s been echoed in the literature by physicians who would find that a number of patients who would take aspirin were not receiving any clinical benefit,\u201d Li said. \u201cThis is an explanation mechanically of why that might occur.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat phenomenon has been called aspirin resistance, which is a catchall term for when patients don\u2019t respond to aspirin for unknown reasons.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat we showed is a good explanation for the conditions under which aspirin resistance occurs and one that matches up with what other people have found,\u201d Li said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGPIIb\/IIIa-inhibitors were effective at preventing blood clots across all shear rates tested, the study found, suggesting that these drugs would be effective for people whether they had atherosclerosis. Clinical evidence also supports this finding, Li said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers used a statistical method known as the Cox-Hazard analysis, performed by bioengineering graduate student Nathan Hotaling. The analysis is commonly used by doctors to determine if drugs are safe for a patient. Using this analysis in a prototype benchtop diagnostic device is a unique approach and showed that, statistically, the research findings were significant.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese microfluidic devices are so cheap and require so little blood that it could become possible for someone to use this in a disposable, rapid way,\u201d said Forest.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research is supported by the American Heart Association (10GRNT4430029), a Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Translational Grant and by a fellowship from the Technological Innovation Generating Economic Results (TI:GER) program at Georgia Tech. Any conclusions or opinions are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the sponsoring agencies.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION:\u003C\/strong\u003E Melissa Li, et al., \u201cMicrofluidic Thrombosis under Multiple Shear Rates and Antiplatelet Therapy Doses,\u201d (\u003Cem\u003EPLOS ONE\u003C\/em\u003E, January 2014). (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0082493\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0082493\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia 30332-0181 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/GTResearchNews\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E@GTResearchNews\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts:\u003C\/strong\u003E Brett Israel (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/btiatl\u0022\u003E@btiatl\u003C\/a\u003E) (404-385-1933) (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brett.israel@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebrett.israel@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986) (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E Brett Israel\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new microfluidic method for evaluating drugs commonly used for preventing heart attacks has found that while aspirin can prevent dangerous blood clots in some at-risk patients, it may not be effective in all patients with narrowed arteries. 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The team is awarded the grand prize for receiving the highest overall score. Congratulations Keith and Ehsan!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EScores in the categories of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eresearch content\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Epresentation\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;were so close that all teams in this year\u0027s contest will share equally in the remaining prizes. The other teams receiving prizes are:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/youtu.be\/_zWxaDtGTbQ\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003EOrdering of Semiconducting Polymers for Organic Electronics\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EChoi Dalsu, JiHwan Kang, Nabil Kleinhenz, Ashwin Ravisankar, Saujan Sivaram\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/youtu.be\/73cq440RFqs\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003EThermal Transport in Conjugated Polymer Nanotubes for Electronics Cooling\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EThomas Bougher and Matthew Smith\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Georgia Tech\u2013COPE Research Video Contest\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cope.gatech.edu\/education\/videocontest.php\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2013COPE Research Video Contest\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;gives students involved in the field of organic photonics and electronics at Georgia Tech an opportunity to present their research and compete with other students.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech-COPE Research Video Contest gives students involved in the field of organic photonics and electronics at Georgia Tech an opportunity to present their research and compete with other students."}],"uid":"27185","created_gmt":"2013-10-28 11:48:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:14","author":"Jason Martin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-10-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-10-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"249821":{"id":"249821","type":"image","title":"Georgia-Tech COPE video contest logo","body":null,"created":"1449243795","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:43:15","changed":"1475894929","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:49","alt":"Georgia-Tech COPE video contest logo","file":{"fid":"198071","name":"videocontestbanner.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/videocontestbanner_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/videocontestbanner_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":59749,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/videocontestbanner_0.png?itok=Lv_yQqZK"}}},"media_ids":["249821"],"groups":[{"id":"1273","name":"Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"78351","name":"cope research video contest"},{"id":"5917","name":"organic electronics"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"197","name":"video"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"246631":{"#nid":"246631","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Technology That Sorts Cells by Stiffness May Help Spot Disease","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe mechanical properties of cells are often an indicator of disease. Cancer cells are typically soft and squishy. When the malaria parasite is inside a red blood cell, for example, the cell is stiffer than normal. Sickle cells also vary in stiffness.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch into the stiffness of diseased cells is lacking, in part due to limits in technology. Researchers have developed a new technology to sort human cells according to their stiffness, which might one day help doctors identify certain diseases in patients, according to a new study.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research team, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, hopes that their technology might one day aid doctors in the field to rapidly and more accurately diagnose disease.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new technology is being tested in a small device, about 1 inch wide by 1.5 inches long. Cells are injected into a microfluidic channel on one side of the device. As the cells move through the channel, they are forced to squeeze over a series of ridges that are fabricated at an angle to the channel. If the cells are very flexible, they will easily squeeze over the ridges and follow the fluid stream. But if the cells are stiffer, when they hit a ridge, they will slide along the angled ridge before squeezing over, causing the cells to move to one side, separating them from the softer cells. These ridges eventually separate a single stream of cells into two streams depending on the cells\u2019 stiffness, which in some cases can be an indicator of a disease.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf you imagine a microfluidic channel that is focusing a stream of cells, you\u2019ll push the cells in different directions based on their mechanical properties,\u201d said study co-author Todd Sulchek, an assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. Sulchek specializes in studying the mechanical properties of cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new research was published Oct. 16 in the journal \u003Cem\u003EPLOS ONE.\u003C\/em\u003E The research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The researchers also have a patent on this technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere are no real techniques to sort cells by stiffness right now in large numbers,\u201d said Alexander Alexeev, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. Alexeev is an expert in fluid mechanics and a co-author on the study\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA few other research groups are working on microfluidic approaches to sorting cells by stiffness, but Sulchek and Alexeev believe their technology will be quite sensitive.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere are several microfluidic approaches, but there\u2019s not a real device yet,\u201d Alexeev said. \u201cThe main problem is how to sort cells very rapidly because if we are looking at cancer cells, there are very, very few of them. So we need to look at thousands of millions of cells to capture maybe a hundred cancer cells.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir technology can sort cells at speeds similar to other cell sorting devices, such as a fluorescently activated cell sorter machine, which is a commonly device used in research labs.\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo show that their device can successfully sort cells based on stiffness, the researchers made some cells artificially soft, then labeled them with a different color so they could find them later. After running the cells through their device and analyzing the separated cells by color, they found that the artificially soft cells were separated from the other cells. Then the researchers used atomic force microscopy to probe the cells\u2019 mechanical properties to make sure they were actually different.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe show that we separate by stiffness, not by other factors,\u201d Sulchek said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers tested four different commercially available cell lines. White blood cells sort by stiffness particularly well, the researchers reported.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research team will now work on using their device to separate cancer cells, malaria-infected cells, and sickle cells, and to sort stem cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re assured the device is very sensitive to say that the soft cells are all soft, but what we don\u2019t know is whether all the disease cells are soft,\u201d Sulchek said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAside from testing for disease, the cell stiffness sorter could also be used in as a method for purifying and enriching an undifferentiated stem cell population from the differentiated cells, which would be useful for laboratory scientists.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is also a useful tool for just basic research and understanding what the effect of specific disease is on cell mechanics,\u201d Alexeev said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGonghao Wang, a PhD student in Sulchek\u2019s lab, is the first author of the study.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research is supported by the National Science Foundation under award CBET-0932510. 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The parasitic worms that cause lymphatic filariasis are difficult to study because the most common species of the parasite can survive only in humans. While less common species can be maintained in felines or gerbils, they are challenging to culture long-term outside the host. The model that Dixon plans to develop would use human cells housed within fabricated microfluidic devices to closely simulate the environment where the adult worms live within their hosts, allowing the parasites to be studied longer term in vitro.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe would use this human lymphatic environment on a microfluidic chip to study the progression of the disease and the communication between the host and the parasite,\u201d explained Dixon, who is also a member of Georgia Tech\u2019s Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. \u201cWe could also scale this up to evaluate new pharmaceutical compounds that could potentially target the worm.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe microfluidic system will include human lymphatic endothelial cells, which are the primary cell type in contact with the worms in the body. Researchers will also include human dermal fibroblasts \u2013 an important cell type in the skin where the mosquito first delivers the parasitic infection \u2013 and the immune cells that fight infection long-term. Beyond creating the cellular environment needed to support the worms, the researchers will also design a matrix to house the living cells, determine which hormones and nutrients are needed, and establish appropriate fluid flow rates for the microfluidic devices to recreate the hydrodynamic forces the worms encounter in the body. The devices will be integrated into an optical platform that would allow researchers to quantify the activity of the worms over extended periods of time using automated image analysis algorithms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond studying lymphatic filariasis, Dixon believes a lymphatic system on a chip could ultimately support broader areas of research into disorders of this bodily system. 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Successful projects have the opportunity to receive a follow-on grant of up to $1 million.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia\u0026nbsp; 30332-0181\u0026nbsp; USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contact\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has won a Grand Challenges Explorations Grant from the Bill \u0026amp; Melinda Gates Foundation.\u0026nbsp; J. Brandon Dixon, assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s George W. 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A top U.S. exporter, the company supports airlines and U.S. and allied government customers in 150 countries. Boeing products and tailored services include commercial and military aircraft, satellites, weapons, electronic and defense systems, launch systems, advanced information and communications systems, and performance-based logistics and training.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoeing Research \u0026amp; Technology is the advanced, central research and development organization of Boeing. It provides innovative technologies that enable the development of future aerospace solutions while improving the cycle time, cost, quality and performance of current aerospace products and services.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBoeing is the world\u2019s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems. A top U.S. exporter, the company supports airlines and U.S. and allied government customers in 150 countries. Boeing products and tailored services include commercial and military aircraft, satellites, weapons, electronic and defense systems, launch systems, advanced information and communications systems, and performance-based logistics and training.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a member of the program, Boeing will connect to the faculty expertise and highly trained students and graduates of the center as well as an international network of partners in the field of organic photonics and electronics. 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As a member of the program, Cambridge NanoTech will connect to the faculty expertise and highly trained student and graduates of the Center as well as an international network of industrial partners in the field of organic photonics and electronics.\u0026nbsp; This includes access to the latest research and discoveries in this emerging field.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Cambridge NanoTech becomes new Industrial Affiliate"}],"uid":"27185","created_gmt":"2012-02-09 11:41:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:40","author":"Jason Martin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-04-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-04-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cambridgenanotech.com\/","title":"Cambridge NanoTech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cope.gatech.edu\/","title":"COPE"}],"groups":[{"id":"1273","name":"Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"23481","name":"cambridge nanotech"},{"id":"918","name":"COPE"},{"id":"609","name":"electronics"},{"id":"19411","name":"industrial affiliates program"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJason Martin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jmartin60\u0022\u003EContact Jason Martin\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"63030":{"#nid":"63030","#data":{"type":"news","title":"DARPA Awards $4.3M to Develop Biological, Chemical Threat Detector","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new class of sensors able to detect multiple biological and chemical threats simultaneously with unprecedented performance may soon be within reach thanks to the establishment of a multi-million dollar research center led by Georgia Institute of Technology engineers. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBiological and chemical sensing are active research areas because of their applications in clinical screening, drug discovery, food safety, environmental monitoring and homeland security. Using integrated photonics, the new class of sensors will be capable of detecting chemical agents -- such as toxins, pollutants and trace gases -- and biological agents -- such as proteins, viruses and antibodies -- simultaneously on the same chip.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The proposed sensors will detect multiple biological and chemical threats on a compact integrated platform faster, less expensively and more sensitively than the current state-of-the-art sensors,\u0022 said the center\u0027s leader Ali Adibi, a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding the two-year $4.3 million center as one of its Centers in Integrated Photonics Engineering Research (CIPhER), which investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices or systems. For its center, Georgia Tech is working with researchers from Emory University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of California, Santa Cruz; and Yale University. The team also includes industry collaborators Rockwell Collins, Kotura, Santur Corporation and NanoRods.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo create an integrated chip that will simultaneously detect multiple biological and chemical agents, the researchers need to achieve three major goals:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u2022 Design and fabricate photonic and optomechanical structures to sense differences in a sample\u0027s refractive index, Raman emission, fluorescence, absorption and mass;\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u2022 Functionalize the sensor surface with coatings that chemical and biological agents will attach to and create differences that can be detected; and\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u2022 Develop the sample preparation method and microfluidic sample delivery device, and connect the device to the coated photonic structure.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAdibi is leading the first thrust, which is primarily focused on fabricating the millimeter-square sensing structures and on-chip spectrometers that will enable multiplexing -- the detection of multiple agents using the same sensing modules. The sensors will detect changes in the refractive index, Raman emission, fluorescence, absorption spectra and optomechanical properties when a sample that includes specific biological or chemical particles interacts with the sensor coatings.  Combining information obtained from the five different sensing modalities will maximize the sensor specificity and minimize its false detection rate, the researchers say.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The goal is to achieve very high sensitivity for each modality and investigate the advantages of each modality for different classes of biological and chemical agents in order to develop a clear set of guidelines for combining different modalities to achieve the desired performance for a specific set of agents,\u0022 explained Adibi.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMassachusetts Institute of Technology chemistry professor Timothy Swager is leading the second part of this project, which aims to design surface coatings that will achieve maximum sensor specificity in detecting multiple biological and chemical agents. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We plan to develop glycan-based surface coatings to sense biological agents and polymer-based surface coatings to sense chemical agents,\u0022 noted Adibi.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the third thrust, which is being led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology electrical engineering associate professor Jongyoon Han, the researchers will develop optimal sample preparation and delivery techniques. Their goal is to maximize the biological or chemical particle concentration in the sample and limit detection time to minutes.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In two years, we hope to have a lab-on-a-chip system that includes all of the sensing modalities with appropriate coatings and microfluidic delivery,\u0022 said Adibi. \u0022To show the feasibility of the technology, we plan to demonstrate the high sensitivity and high selectivity of each sensor individually and be able to use at least two of the sensing modalities simultaneously to detect two or three different chemical or biological agents.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to those already mentioned, this center also includes Georgia Tech chemistry and biochemistry professor Mostafa El-Sayed, Georgia Tech materials science and engineering professor Kenneth Sandhage, Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Research Center senior research scientist David Gottfried,  Emory University biochemistry chair Richard Cummings, University of California Santa Cruz electrical engineering professor Holger Schmidt, and Yale University electrical engineering associate professor Hong Tang.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 314\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Vogel Robinson (abby@innovate.gatech.edu; 404-385-3364) or John Toon (jtoon@gatech.edu; 404-894-6986)\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Vogel Robinson\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDARPA has awarded Georgia Tech $4.3 million to develop a new class of sensors able to detect multiple biological and chemical threats simultaneously with unprecedented performance.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"DARPA grant enables biological \u0026 chemical threat detector development."}],"uid":"27206","created_gmt":"2010-11-30 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:50","author":"Abby Vogel Robinson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63031":{"id":"63031","type":"image","title":"Ali Adibi","body":null,"created":"1449176409","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:00:09","changed":"1475894549","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:29","alt":"Ali Adibi","file":{"fid":"191706","name":"tdg37932.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tdg37932_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tdg37932_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1061765,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tdg37932_0.jpg?itok=ZZniWRsr"}},"63032":{"id":"63032","type":"image","title":"Ali Adibi","body":null,"created":"1449176409","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:00:09","changed":"1475894549","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:29","alt":"Ali Adibi","file":{"fid":"191707","name":"trh37932.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/trh37932_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/trh37932_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1255740,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/trh37932_0.jpg?itok=uG8hFQqE"}}},"media_ids":["63031","63032"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=2","title":"Ali Adibi"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11388","name":"absorption"},{"id":"11385","name":"antibodies"},{"id":"11379","name":"biologic"},{"id":"1364","name":"chemical"},{"id":"6891","name":"fluorescence"},{"id":"5340","name":"mass"},{"id":"7341","name":"microfluidic"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"11381","name":"pollutants"},{"id":"11383","name":"proteins"},{"id":"11387","name":"Raman emission"},{"id":"11386","name":"refractive index"},{"id":"167318","name":"sensor"},{"id":"11380","name":"toxins"},{"id":"11382","name":"trace gases"},{"id":"11384","name":"viruses"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbby Vogel Robinson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News and Publications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=avogel6\u0022\u003EContact Abby Vogel Robinson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-3364\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["abby@innovate.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71128":{"#nid":"71128","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Study Reveals Principles Behind Gold Nanocluster Stability","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA report published in the July 8 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E (\u003Cem\u003EPNAS\u003C\/em\u003E) is the first to describe the principles behind the stability and electronic properties of tiny nanoclusters of metallic gold. The study, which confirms the \u0027divide and protect\u0027 bonding structure, resulted from the work of researchers at four universities on two continents.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022While gold nanoparticles are being used by so many researchers - chemists, materials scientists and biomedical engineers - no one understood their molecular and electronic structures until now,\u0022 said Robert Whetten, a professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s School of Physics and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. \u0022This research opens a new window for nanoparticle chemistry.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGold and sulfur atoms tend to aggregate in specific numbers and highly symmetrical geometries. Sometimes these clusters are called \u0027superatoms\u0027 because they can mimic the chemistry of single atoms of a completely different element.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers commonly use gold nanoparticles because they are stable and exhibit distinct optical, electronic, electrochemical and bio-labeling properties. However, understanding the physicochemical properties of such clusters is a challenge, according to Whetten, because that requires knowledge of their atomic structures. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA significant advance came in late 2007 though, when Stanford University researchers reported the first-ever total structure determination of a 102-atom gold cluster. The X-ray structure study revealed that pairs of organic sulfur (\u0027thiolate\u0027) groups extracted gold atoms from the gold layer to form a linear thiolate-gold-thiolate bridge while interacting weakly with the metal surface below. These gold-thiolate complexes formed a sort of protective crust around the nanoparticles.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This discovery contradicted what most chemists believed was going on - which was that the sulfur atom merely sat atop the uppermost gold layer, bound to three adjacent metal atoms,\u0022 said Whetten.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the experimentally determined structural coordinates, an international team of researchers from Georgia Tech, Stanford University, the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden set out to determine the electronic principles underlying the 102-atom gold compound and others like it. The team conducted large-scale electronic structure calculations in supercomputing centers in Espoo, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; and Juelich, Germany.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers found that the 102-atom gold cluster was a \u0027superatom\u0027 with a core of 79 gold atoms arranged into a truncated decahedron: two pyramids with pentagonal bases joined together into a faceted shape, but with the pyramids-tips chopped off. Around the core, 23 gold atoms formed an unusual pattern, joining the thiolates in shapes that resemble handles. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe results confirmed the \u0027divide and protect\u0027 structure first predicted by team member Hannu Hakkinen, a professor at the University of Jyvaskyla and former senior research scientist at Georgia Tech in the laboratory of Uzi Landman. Hakkinen and Henrik Gronbeck of the Chalmers University of Technology previously proposed that a cluster of 38-atom gold contained a central metallic core of 14 gold atoms and a protective layer of 24 gold atoms bound to sulfur. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In 2006, we predicted that gold atoms in this bonding motif were divided in two groups - those that made the metal core and those that helped to protected it,\u0022 explained Hakkinen. \u0022Now there was evidence that this was true.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the study reported in \u003Cem\u003EPNAS\u003C\/em\u003E, the researchers found that the clusters were stable because the surface gold atoms in the core each had at least one surface-chemical bond and the gold core exhibited a strong electron shell closing.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the 102-atom gold cluster, each gold atom in the cluster donated one valence electron. Forty-four of those electrons were immobilized in bonds between gold atoms and thiolates, leaving 58 electrons to fill a shell around the \u0027superatom.\u0027 In this configuration, the cluster wouldn\u0027t benefit from adding or shedding electrons, which would destabilize its structure.  This process is similar to what happens in noble gases, which are chemically inert because they have just the right number of electrons to fill a shell around each atom\u0027s nucleus.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAssociated with the filled electron shell, the gold-thiolate compound also had a major energy gap to unoccupied states. The calculated energy gap between the highest occupied molecular orbital and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital states for the 102-atom compound was significant - 0.5 electron volts. Metals typically have a gap of zero, so this gap indicates an atypical electronic stability of the compound, explained Whetten.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBesides the 102-atom compound, the researchers also determined the electronic structures for 11-, 13- and 39-atom gold cluster compounds. They found that the 11- and 13-gold atom clusters form closed electronic shells with 8 electrons and the 39-atom gold clusters with 34.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The theoretical concepts published in this paper provide a solid background for further understanding of the distinct electrical, optical and chemical properties of the stable mono-layer-protected gold nanoclusters,\u0022 said Whetten, whose funding for this research came from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy. Former Georgia Tech graduate student Ryan Price and current graduate student James Bradshaw also contributed to this work.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe study also shows that experimentally well-characterized, structure-resolved, thermodynamically stable species of thiolate-, phosphine-halide-, and phosphine-thiolate-protected gold nanoparticles share common factors underlying their stability. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce this initial work was completed, the researchers started predicting the structures of other stable gold cluster compositions that are still awaiting a precise structure determination.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn the March 26 issue of the \u003Cem\u003EJournal of the American Chemical Society\u003C\/em\u003E, the research team predicted the structure for a cluster containing 25 gold atoms. They determined that the structure was comprised of an icosahedron-like 13-atom gold core protected by six \u0027V-shaped\u0027 long units, creating a \u0027divide and protect\u0027 composition. The structural prediction was recently confirmed by another group\u0027s experimental work.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We now have a unified model that provides a solid background for nanoengineering ligand-protected gold clusters for applications in catalysis, sensing, photonics, bio-labeling and molecular electronics,\u0022 said Hakkinen.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAdditional authors on the \u003Cem\u003EPNAS\u003C\/em\u003E paper included Michael Walter, Jaakko Akola and Olga Lopez-Acevedo of the University of Jyvaskyla; and Pablo Jadzinsky, Guillermo Calero and Christopher Ackerson of Stanford University.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\n\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contacts: Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Vogel\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"International team confirms \u0027divide and protect\u0027 bonding structure"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"A report published in the July 8 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E (PNAS) is the first to describe the principles behind the stability and electronic properties of tiny nanoclusters of metallic gold.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers from four universities report on nanoclusters"}],"uid":"27206","created_gmt":"2008-07-11 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:19","author":"Abby Vogel Robinson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71129":{"id":"71129","type":"image","title":"102-atom gold nanocluster","body":null,"created":"1449177348","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:48","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"},"71130":{"id":"71130","type":"image","title":"25-atom gold nanocluster","body":null,"created":"1449177348","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:48","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"},"71131":{"id":"71131","type":"image","title":"39- and 11-atom gold nanoclusters","body":null,"created":"1449177348","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:48","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"}},"media_ids":["71129","71130","71131"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech School of Physics"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/Whetten\/","title":"Robert Whetten"},{"url":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.0801001105","title":"PNAS article"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7288","name":"bio-labeling"},{"id":"2507","name":"catalysis"},{"id":"89","name":"chemistry"},{"id":"2529","name":"cluster"},{"id":"7283","name":"divide"},{"id":"7287","name":"electrochemical"},{"id":"6884","name":"electron"},{"id":"4186","name":"electronic"},{"id":"213","name":"energy"},{"id":"7291","name":"gap"},{"id":"2185","name":"gold"},{"id":"7082","name":"metal"},{"id":"3030","name":"molecular"},{"id":"2286","name":"nano"},{"id":"2528","name":"nanocluster"},{"id":"1143","name":"optical"},{"id":"7282","name":"orbital"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"7284","name":"protect"},{"id":"170866","name":"stability"},{"id":"169761","name":"structure"},{"id":"170840","name":"sulfur"},{"id":"170867","name":"superatom"},{"id":"167325","name":"supercomputer"},{"id":"7289","name":"thiol"},{"id":"7290","name":"valence"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EAbby Robinson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News and Publications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=avogel6\u0022\u003EContact Abby Robinson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-3364\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["abby@innovate.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"53839":{"#nid":"53839","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Photonic Material May Facilitate All-Optical Switching and Computing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA class of molecules whose size, structure and chemical composition have been optimized for photonic use could provide the demanding combination of properties needed to serve as the foundation for low-power, high-speed all-optical signal processing. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll-optical switching could allow dramatic speed increases in telecommunications by eliminating the need to convert photonic signals to electronic signals \u2013 and back \u2013 for switching. All-optical processing could also facilitate photonic computers with similar speed advances. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDetails of these materials \u2013 and the design approach behind them \u2013 were reported February 18th in Science Express, the rapid online publication of the journal \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E. Conducted at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the research was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR). \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis work provides proof that at least from a molecular point of view, we can identify and produce materials that have the right properties for all-optical processing,\u201d said Seth Marder, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and co-author of the paper. \u201cThis opens the door for looking at this issue in an entirely different way.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe polymethine organic dye materials developed by the Georgia Tech team combine large nonlinear properties, low nonlinear optical losses, and low linear losses. Materials with these properties are essential if optical engineers are to develop a new generation of devices for low-power and high-contrast optical switching of signals at telecommunications wavelengths. Keeping data all-optical would greatly facilitate the rapid transmission of detailed medical images, development of new telepresence applications, high-speed image recognition \u2013 and even the fast download of high-definition movies. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut favorable optical properties these new materials developed at Georgia Tech have only been demonstrated in solution. For their materials to have practical value, the researchers will have to incorporate them in a solid phase for use in optical waveguides \u2013 and address a long list of other challenges. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have developed high-performing materials by starting with optimized molecules and getting the molecular properties right,\u201d said co-author Joseph Perry, also a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. \u201cNow we have to figure out how to pack them together so they have a high density and useful physical forms that would be stable under operation.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarder, Perry and collaborators in Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE) have been working on the molecules for several years, refining their properties and adding atoms to maximize their length without inducing symmetry breaking, a phenomenon in which unequal charges build up within molecules. This molecular design effort, which builds on earlier research with smaller molecules, included both experimental work \u2013 and theoretical studies done in collaboration with Jean-Luc Bredas, a also a professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe design strategies identified by the research team \u2013 which also included Joel Hales, Jonathan Matichak, Stephen Barlow, Shino Ohira, and Kada Yesudas \u2013 could be applied to development of even more active molecules, though Marder believes the existing materials could be modified to meet the needs of all-optical processing \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor this class of molecules, we can with a high-degree of reliability predict where the molecules will have both large optical nonlinearities and low two-photon absorption,\u201d said Marder. \u201cNot only can we predict that, but using well-established chemical principles, we can tune where that will occur such that if people want to work at telecommunications wavelengths, we can move to where the molecules absorb to optimize its properties.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESwitching of optical signals carried in telecommunications networks currently requires conversion to electrical signals, which must be switched and then converted back to optical format. Existing electro-optical technology may ultimately be able to provide transmission speeds of up to 100 gigabits-per-second. However, all-optical processing could theoretically transmit data at speeds as high as 2,000 gigabits-per-second, allowing download of high-definition movies in minutes rather than hours. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEven if the frequency of signals coming and going is high, there is a latency that causes a bottleneck for the signals until the modulation and switching are done,\u201d Perry explained. \u201cIf we can do that all optically, then that delay can be reduced. We need to get electronics out of the system.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPerry and Marder emphasize that many years of research remain ahead before their new materials will be practical. But they believe the approach they\u2019ve developed charts a path toward all-optical systems. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhile we have not made all-optical switches, what we have done is provide a fundamental understanding of what the systems are that could have the combined set of properties that would make this possible,\u201d Marder said. \u201cConceptually, we have probably made it over the hump with this class of molecules. The next part of this work will be difficult, but it will not require a fundamental new understanding of the molecular structure.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis article is based on work supported in part by the STC program of the National Science Foundation under agreement DMR-0120967, the DARPA MORPH Program and ONR (N00014-04-0095 and N00014-06-1-0897) and the DARPA ZOE Program (W31P4Q-09-1-0012). The comments and opinions expressed are those of the researchers and do not necessarily represent the views of the NSF, DARPA or ONR.\u003C\/em\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 314\u003Cbr \/\u003EAtlanta, Georgia 30308 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Abby Vogel (404-385-3364)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E). \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA class of molecules whose size, structure and chemical composition have been optimized for photonic use could provide the demanding combination of properties needed to serve as the foundation for low-power, high-speed all-optical signal processing.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dye-based materials may provide the basis for all-optical networks"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2010-02-23 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:05","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-02-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-02-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"53840":{"id":"53840","type":"image","title":"Professor Seth Marder","body":null,"created":"1449175342","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:22","changed":"1475894406","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:06","alt":"Professor Seth Marder","file":{"fid":"170991","name":"tiz58650.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tiz58650_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tiz58650_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1150222,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tiz58650_0.jpg?itok=eaL-O43G"}},"53841":{"id":"53841","type":"image","title":"Seth Marder \u0026 team","body":null,"created":"1449175342","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:22","changed":"1475894406","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:06","alt":"Seth Marder \u0026 team","file":{"fid":"170992","name":"tmr58650.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tmr58650_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tmr58650_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1097968,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tmr58650_0.jpg?itok=Md_XMabo"}},"53842":{"id":"53842","type":"image","title":"Prof. Joe Perry","body":null,"created":"1449175428","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:43:48","changed":"1475894468","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:08","alt":"Prof. Joe Perry","file":{"fid":"171058","name":"ted58650.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ted58650_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ted58650_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1417499,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ted58650_0.jpg?itok=ArlnPF6D"}}},"media_ids":["53840","53841","53842"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cope.gatech.edu\/","title":"COPE"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/Marder\/","title":"Seth Marder"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/Perry\/","title":"Joseph Perry\\\u0027s home page"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bredators.gatech.edu\/","title":"Jean-Luc Bredas"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1745","name":"networks"},{"id":"2768","name":"optics"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"170836","name":"switching"},{"id":"1463","name":"Telecommunications"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; 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Through this professorship, our goal is to increase the visibility of, and access to, leading-edge U.S. research and development in rotary wing technologies.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It is an honor, indeed, for us to have the Sikorsky name associated with a Professorship at Georgia Tech,\u0022 said Robert Loewy, the William R. T. Oakes School Chair of the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering.  \u0022We look forward with confidence to the incumbent being inspired, as we are, to making the greatest contributions possible to rotary wing engineering.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe institute is expected to name the Sikorsky Professor in 2005.  The recipient will hold the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor and will conduct rotorcraft-related research.  Sikorsky will fund the endowment over three years.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESikorsky Aircraft Corporation, based in Stratford, Conn., is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of advanced helicopters for commercial, industrial and military uses.  Its helicopters occupy a prominent position in the intermediate to heavy weight range.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation (NYSE: UTX), of Hartford, Conn., which provides a broad range of high-technology products and support services to the aerospace and building systems industries.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Sikorsky Aircraft has announced a $750,000 endowment to establish the Sikorsky Professorship at the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sikorsky gives $750,000 for new professorship"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2004-12-15 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:30","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3274","name":"electroncis"},{"id":"2289","name":"organic"},{"id":"3275","name":"pentacene"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"167182","name":"solar"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"378271":{"#nid":"378271","#data":{"type":"news","title":"MSE Professor honored by MRS","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mrs.org\/home\/\u0022\u003EMaterials Research Society\u003C\/a\u003E President Oliver Kraft has announced \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/Marder\/\u0022\u003ESeth R. Marder\u003C\/a\u003E as the 2015 recipient of the Mid-Career Researcher Award.\u0026nbsp; This award recognizes exceptional achievements in materials research made by mid-career professionals, and the award recipient must also demonstrate notable leadership in the materials area.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Marder is the Georgia Power Chair in Energy Efficiency and a Regents\u2019 Professor of Chemistry and Professor Materials Science and Engineering (courtesy) at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Marder was chosen from a large group of extraordinary nominees \u201cfor establishing fundamental relationships between the chemical structure of organic molecules and their optical and electronic properties thereby profoundly impacting how the scientific community designs optimized molecular structures for use in nonlinear optical applications.\u201d\u0026nbsp; Dr. Marder working with many colleagues, most notably Drs. Joseph Perry, and Jean-Luc Br\u00e9das provided both theoretical and experimental guidelines for the development of materials for second-order and third-order nonlinear optical materials which find applications in areas ranging from high speed signal processing to 3D micro- and nano-fabrication.\u0026nbsp; His work thus far has results in over 30 issued patents, many of which have been licensed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award consists of an engraved trophy and a cash prize.\u0026nbsp; These will be presented at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mrs.org\/spring2015\/\u0022\u003E2015 MRS Spring Meeting\u003C\/a\u003E, April 8 at 6:30 p.m. in San Francisco.\u0026nbsp; Dr. Marder will also present a talk during the meeting on April 8.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe holds or has held the following leadership roles: Founding Director of Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Director AFOSR- Center for Organic Materials for All-Optical Switching (COMAS), Co-Director NSF-GT Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Associate Director- DOE Energy Frontier Research Center: CISSEM\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Marder\u2019s research interests include Organic Materials, Optical Materials, Electronics Materials and Surface Modification.\u0026nbsp; However he is equally committed to his educational and diversity related activities at the Georgia Institute of Technology and around the US and the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis journal editorships include Materials Horizons \u2013\u0026nbsp;Founding Chair Editorial Board; Journal of Materials Chemistry \u2013 Member, Editorial Advisory Board;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChemistry of Materials \u2013 Member, Editorial Advisory Board; and, Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics \u2013 Member, Editorial Advisory Board.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Materials Research Society (MRS) was established in 1973 by a visionary group of scientists who shared the belief that their professional interests were broader in scope than existing single-discipline societies and that a new interdisciplinary organization was needed.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EToday MRS is a growing, vibrant member-driven organization of over 16,000 materials researchers from academia, industry and government, and is a recognized leader in the advancement of interdisciplinary materials research. Headquartered in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, (USA), MRS membership now spans over 80 countries.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Dr. Marer receives MRS research award"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mrs.org\/home\/\u0022\u003EMaterials Research Society\u003C\/a\u003E President Oliver Kraft has announced \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/Marder\/\u0022\u003ESeth R. 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Bredas\u0027 total record includes 331 papers cited a total of 9,658 times.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EESI\u0027s interview with Bredas is at the link below.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Jean-Luc Bredas is the third most cited author for scientific papers on organic thin-film transistors over the past decade, according to Essential Science Indicators (ESI) Web site, published by Thomson Scientific.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ESI ranks organic thin-film transistor papers"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2007-08-28 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:05","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2007-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71967":{"id":"71967","type":"image","title":"Jean-Luc Bredas","body":null,"created":"1449177425","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:17:05","changed":"1475894647","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:07"}},"media_ids":["71967"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.esi-topics.com\/otft\/interviews\/Jean-LucBredas.html","title":"ESI Special Topics Interview"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2288","name":"Bredas"},{"id":"609","name":"electronics"},{"id":"2289","name":"organic"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}