{"629753":{"#nid":"629753","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Fall 2019 IEN Facility Seed Grant Winners Announced","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology at Georgia Tech has announced the winners for the 2019 Fall Facility Seed Grants. The primary purpose of this program is to give first- or second-year graduate students in diverse 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.\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. This program is supported by the Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor (SENIC), a member of the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI), which is funded by the NSF (Grant ECCS-1542174).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOffered beginning in 2013, this grant program has seeded sixty projects with students working in ten different schools in COE and COS, as well as the Georgia Tech Research Institute and 3 other universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to IEN cleanroom and characterization lab access for the next year, the 4 students in this round, from a diverse group of engineering disciplines, will be provided travel support to present their findings at a technical conference. In keeping with the interdisciplinary mission of IEN, the projects that will be enabled by the grants include research in quantum computing, microfluidics, and new materials for electronic and biomedical applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFall 2019 IEN Facility Seed Grant Awards:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESynthesis and Characterization of Functional Hierarchically Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPI: Sankar Nair\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nStudent: Arvind Ganesan\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EQuantum Paraelectricity in Hafnia-Zirconia based Ferroic Materials for Quantum Computing\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPI: Asif Khan\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nStudent: Muhammad Mainul Islam\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMicrofabrication and Characterization of Phononic Topological Insulators\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPI: Michael Leamy and Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nStudent: Emily Kliewer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSchool of Mechanical Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMicrofabrication of Cell Biomarker Extraction Platform for Inline Intracellular Analysis\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPI: Andrei Fedorov\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nStudent: Austin Culberson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSchool of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Offered beginning in 2013, this grant program has seeded sixty projects with students working in ten different schools in COE and COS, as well as the Georgia Tech Research Institute and 3 other universities."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2019-12-06 15:19:54","changed_gmt":"2019-12-06 15:19:54","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-12-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-12-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"411511":{"id":"411511","type":"image","title":"seed grant tree","body":null,"created":"1449254204","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:44","changed":"1475895142","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:22","alt":"seed grant tree","file":{"fid":"202309","name":"bigstock-tree-3444336.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bigstock-tree-3444336_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bigstock-tree-3444336_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":910861,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bigstock-tree-3444336_0.jpg?itok=BI2MS-i7"}}},"media_ids":["411511"],"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"},{"id":"213771","name":"The Center for MEMS and Microsystems Technologies"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"167445","name":"School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"167535","name":"School of Materials Science and Engineering"},{"id":"167377","name":"School of Mechanical Engineering"},{"id":"12701","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"174822","name":"seed grants"},{"id":"167441","name":"student research"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"107","name":"Nanotechnology"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"12427","name":"microfluidics"},{"id":"2557","name":"mems"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"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":[],"email":["christa.ernst@ien.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}