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Development of Iontronics
Online Presentations | 19 Jan 2018 | 454 users
In this talk, I'm going to show the novel technique to modulate carrier density making use of ionic liquid electrolytes. With electrolyte gating, we can modulate up to 10^15/cm2 of carrier density at the interface which is 2 orders of magnitude larger than conventional gate dielectrics and...
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Nano Device Laboratories - Beyond More than Moore CMOS
Online Presentations | 21 Dec 2017 | Contributor(s): Wen-Kuan Yeh | 1438 users
NDL (National Nano Device Laboratories) is an important place to cultivate high-level technology talents for semiconductor and nano techniques in Taiwan. It has become a national open nano device process test environment, and provided a unique open experiment research environment for...
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Mesoscopic Optics
Online Presentations | 29 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Hui Cao | 76 users
In applications, optical scattering is the main obstacle to imaging or sending information through turbid media. Recent developments of adaptive wavefront shaping in optics enabled imaging and focusing of light through opaque samples. By selective coupling to open or closed channels, we varied...
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Integrated Photonic and Plasmonic Signal Transduction for Micro- and Nanomechanical Sensing
Online Presentations | 08 Feb 2018 | Contributor(s): Vladimir Aksyuk | 233 users
Measuring unknown quantities by coupling them to mechanical motion dates back at least 5000 years: simple equal-arm balances used for weighing goods in ancient Egypt are in fact mechanical measurement tools, with motion detected optically by the human eye. Modern microfabrication enables...
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Environmental Impacts of Nanoparticles: The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful
Online Presentations | 16 Jul 2018 | Contributor(s): James Kubicki, NACK Network | 1648 users
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Scalable Thermal Energy Technologies Seminar
Online Presentations | 20 Feb 2018 | Contributor(s): Shannon Yee | 309 users
The thermal conversion technologies that STEEL currently focusses on are: (i) polymer-based thermoelectrics, (ii) thermoelectro- chemical converters, specifically sodium ion heat engines and redox flow coolers, (iii) mass manufacturable thermoelectric technologies, and (iv) betavoltaic energy...
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Secure Human Centered Network of Intelligent Devices using Human Body Communication and In-Sensor Analytics
Online Presentations | 28 Feb 2018 | Contributor(s): Shreyas Sen | 624 users
In this talk we will highlight how a Secure Human-Centered Network of Intelligent Devices can be employed using multiple on-body sensors and a body hub connected to the cloud by efficiently incorporating (1) Staged Inference i.e. distributing the analytics in a hierarchical manner from sensors...
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Processing Science at Scale to Traverse the ‘Valley of Death’ from Fundamental Science to Commercialization
Online Presentations | 06 Mar 2018 | Contributor(s): Bryan D. Vogt | 120 users
Fundamental early-stage research can benefit from consideration of scalability, processing and manufacturability. Shorter vignettes will be presented describing how these concepts can be applied generally to defined problems at various technical readiness levels (TRLs).
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Laser Processing and Printing of Multilayer Films for Inexpensive and Flexible Microsystems
Online Presentations | 29 May 2018 | Contributor(s): Rahim Rahimi | 622 users
In the first section, I will describe the use of localized CO2 laser irradiation to selectively convert thermoset polymer films (e.g., polyimide) into electrically conductive and highly porous carbon micro/nano structures. This process provides a unique and facile approach for direct writing of...
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GHz CMOS-MEMS Resonators
Online Presentations | 05 Apr 2018 | Contributor(s): Dana Weinstein | 155 users
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Softening Hard CMOS Electronics through Manufacturable Heterogeneous Integration
Online Presentations | 09 Apr 2018 | Contributor(s): Muhammad Mustafa Hussain | 98 users
Moving forward as Internet of Everything (IoE) seamlessly connects people, process, device and data – can CMOS technology be expanded further to achieve new features in CMOS electronics while maintaining and/or strengthening existing attributes? Will the functionalities over cost be...
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Building Bone with Polymers: How New Materials & Additive Manufacturing are Changing Medicine
Online Presentations | 20 Apr 2018 | Contributor(s): Matthew L. Becker | 607 users
This presentation will describe the use of several translationally relevant chemistries and functionalization strategies that are impacting the practice of medicine and how physicians are planning for future therapies using additive manufacturing that were not possible previously.
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Energy Conversion with Semiconducting Polymers
Online Presentations | 30 Apr 2018 | Contributor(s): Michael Chabinyc | 27 users
We will discuss how soft X-ray scattering and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy can be used to reveal the charge transport pathways in semiconducting polymers. These studies provide a basis for understanding how electrical doping impacts their thermoelectric performance. We will...
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Quantum Optics on a Nonlinear Chip
Online Presentations | 08 May 2018 | Contributor(s): Alexander Solntsev | 324 users
Bringing the concepts of quantum entanglement and optical nonlinearity together, and integrating them on a chip, opens a way to efficient generation of entangled photons and entanglement.
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Semiconducting Halide Perovskite Nanomaterials and Heterojunctions
Online Presentations | 10 May 2018 | Contributor(s): Letian Dou | 288 users
Firstly, we present new synthetic methodology of halide perovskite nanowires with desired size, composition, and properties. Such synthetic approach includes colloidal, solution-phase, and vapor-phase growth. Sub-micrometer single crystal nanowires from solution-phase growth were demonstrated...
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Organic Conductive Polymers for Wearables Electronics
Online Presentations | 29 May 2018 | Contributor(s): Gegory A. Sotzing | 534 users
Our research laboratory has been involved with the incorporation of PEDOT-PSS into fabrics such as nonwovens like synthetic leathers, and wovens/knits such as spandex. We have discovered that a phase segregation of PEDOT and PSS occurs when PEDOT-PSS is applied to fabric via an esterification...
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The implication of Using Conductive Nitrides as Alternative Plasmonic Materials: Going Beyond TiN and ZrN
Online Presentations | 29 May 2018 | Contributor(s): Panos A. Patsalas | 268 users
In this seminar, the optical properties of VN, NbN, TaN, WN, and MoN polycrystalline and epitaxial films will be reviewed and will be critically evaluated by comparing them with ab initio calculations of the band structure of the ideal cubic crystals. Their optical performance will be also...
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Massively Parallel Sensing of Molecules with Mid-infrared Frequency Combs
Online Presentations | 03 Jul 2018 | Contributor(s): Konstantin L. Vodopyanov | 134 users
Mid-infrared spectroscopy offers supreme sensitivity for detection of trace gases, solids and liquids, based on specific for this spectral region telltale vibrational bands. I will present a new platform for mid-infrared spectroscopy, based on a pair of mutually coherent and broadband frequency...
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Magnon-Mediated Interlayer Coupling and Spin-Transfer Torques
Online Presentations | 09 Jul 2018 | Contributor(s): Ran Cheng | 379 users
In this talk we propose a magnonic analog of spin‐valve composed of insulating ferromagnet/antiferromagnet/ferromagnet trilayer. We find that magnons inside the antiferromagnetic spacer can mediate an effective exchange coupling between the two ferromagnets similar to the RKKY interaction.
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Shape-Preserving Transformation of Synthetic and Biogenic Structures into Chemically-Tailored 3-D Macroscopic and Microscopic Materials
Presentation Materials | 23 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Kenneth H. Sandhage | 67 users
Biological and synthetic self-assembly processes can yield macro-to-microscale structures with a variety of morphologies and fine patterned features. For example, intricate three-dimensional (3-D) microscale silica-based, chitin-based, and sporopollenin-based structures with finely-patterned...