Energy related materials, micro-fuel cells, solar cells, resonant and chemoresistive sensors, high K dielectrics, electro-optic and piezoelectric thin films, solid state ionics, thin film transistors, MEMS structures and devices.
Nano-engineered composites; nanocomposites; nanostructure synthesis and characterization, MEMS Power Devices and Energy Harvesting; Advanced Composite Materials and Systems; Structural Health Monitoring (SHM); fracture, fatigue and damage mechanics; durability modeling/testing; finite-element modeling; structural response and testing; buckling mechanics.
Fabrication, properties and applications of magnetic and magnetooptical films, nanostructures and devices; self assembly, block copolymer lithography.
Bioelectronics, analog and mixed-signal VLSI, biomedical systems, ultra low power circuits and systems, biologically inspired circuits and systems, molecular biology, neuroscience, control theory.
Advanced lithography, including x-ray, electron-beam, ion-beam, and optical. Nanotechnology and nanofabrication. Precision engineering and nano-accuracy dimensional metrology. Advanced interference lithography technology for high-accuracy patterning of general grating and grid patterns. Micro and nanometer fabrication technology applied to advanced astronomical and laboratory instrumentation. Silicon micromachined structures applied to high-precision optical assembly. X-ray optics and instrumentation.
MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS). Design and fabrication of high power microsystems, including pumps and MEMS components for lasers. Energy storage in carbon nanotube springs. Assembly of MEMS devices. Self-assembly techniques for nano- and micro-scale manufacturing.
Materials and devices: lattice-mismatched materials, III-V’s, IV’s, dielectrics; deposition including MOCVD; innovation and commercialization
Microfluidic systems for cell culture with applications to cancer diagnostics and drug screening, angiogenesis, studies of cell-cell interactions, cell migration, axon guidance and stem cell differentiation.
Micro- and nanoscale heat transfer and energy conversion with applications in thermoelectrics, photonics, and microelectronics; nano-mechanical devices and micro-electro-mechanical systems; radiation and electromagnetic metamaterials.
Sensing, display, user interface, and computation for consumer electronics applications, particularly self-organizing ecosystems of devices. Advanced data representations for multimedia.
Micro- and nano-technologies for tissue repair and regeneration. Applications in liver tissue engineering, cell-based BioMEMS, and nanobiotechnology.