Growth of Low-Dimensional Carbon Nanomaterials
Low dimensional carbon nanostructures, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene, have attracted significant interest due to promising applications ranging from high-speed electronics to sensing. However,...
View ArticleEnhancing IR Sensor Coupling Using Surface Plasmon Resonances
The mid-infrared (mid-IR) region of the electromagnetic spectrum is defined from λ ~ 8 – 14 μm. There are many important applications for mid-IR sensing including military, scientific, medical, and...
View ArticleFrom Solute Transport to Chemical Weathering
A theory for conservative solute transport, based on concepts from percolation theory, is applied directly to reactive solute transport. Chemical reactions are assumed to have reached equilibrium at...
View ArticleHigh-Performance Thermal Management
Traditionally thermal management systems are designed for steady-state behavior. Air Force systems tend to be highly complex, coupled, and highly-dynamic. The concept of high-performance thermal...
View ArticleApplied Human Factors Research in Minimally Invasive Surgery
Health care is probably the last remaining unsafe critical system. A large proportion of reported medical errors occur in the hospital operating room (OR), a highly complex sociotechnical environment....
View ArticleQuantum Tricks in the Shadows of Relativity and the Coulomb Force: Teaching...
The technological demand to bump the Gigahertz switching speed limit of today's magnetic memory and logic devices into the Terahertz regime underlies the entire field of spin-electronics and...
View ArticleNanocomposite Alloy Design for Power Electronic Applications
Recent USDOE workshops highlight the need for advanced soft magnetic materials leveraged in novel designs of power electronic components and systems for power conditioning and grid integration....
View ArticlePlastic Low-Cost Circuits Enabled Through Nanotechnology
The dawn of tunnel diodes, commonly attributed to Leo Esaki in the late 1950’s, predates much of the innovation and infrastructure investment into CMOS technology. But, the lack of a mass production...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Magnetic Ground States for Improper Multiferroic Materials
Multiferroic materials have the unique multi-functionality of controlling magnetism through electric field and/or electric polarization through magnetic field, which presents possibilities for new...
View ArticleSlip Flow Regimes and Induced Fluid Structure in Nanoscale Polymer Films:...
Over the last decade, there has been enormous interest in understanding transport phenomena in micro and nanofluidic systems and, in particular, in accurate prediction of fluid flows with slip...
View ArticleExploiting Quantum Phenomena Toward Technological Advancement
Technological advancement is often associated with scaling down electronic devices. As the size decreases, quantum phenomena start to govern the device performance. Electron transport through real,...
View ArticleDynamics and Kinetics of Radicals: Combustion to Multiscale Materials Modeling
Current combustion models have been developed and validated with low-pressure experimental data, and they fail at the high pressures of real devices. The goal of my research is to explore the...
View ArticleLaser Induced Ignition with Resonant Multiphoton Absorption in Oxygen
A novel resonant laser-induced breakdown scheme has been demonstrated to provide precision spatial guidance of spark formation within an air flow and has been further demonstrated successfully in...
View ArticleA Bioinformatics Method for Identifying RNA Structures within Human Cells
Single-stranded, negative-sense RNA (ssRNA-) serves many varied roles within the eukaryotic cell. Currently known examples include snRNA (short nuclear), snoRNA (short nucleolar), tRNA (transfer),...
View ArticleSapling Learning's Online Homework System for Science Courses
Created and supported by educators, Sapling Learning’s online homework drives student success and saves educators time. Passionately Crafted Content: Sapling Learning authors are experienced...
View ArticleSi/SiGe BiCMOS Microsystems for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Sensing and...
Since the early 1990’s, Silicon-Germanium heterojunction bipolar transistors revolutionized the way we build microwave and millimeter wave systems. Rivaling the once-dominant group III-V semiconductor...
View ArticleControlling Surface Chemistry of Liquid Metals to Enhance their Fluidic...
Gallium liquid metal alloys (GaLMA) are one of the key components of emerging technologies in reconfigurable, flexible, and printable electronics. Surface properties of GaLMA play important roles in...
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