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  1. Bagwell Lecture 9th Edition - John Rogers, Northwestern University

    Title: Soft, Biocompatible Optoelectronic Interfaces to the Brain Bio: Professor John A. Rogers obtained BA and BS degrees in chemistry and in physics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989.  From MIT, he received SM degrees in physics and in chemistry in 1992 and the PhD degree in physical chemistry in 1995.  From 1995 to 1997, Rogers was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows.  He joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in...

  2. Nanomanufacturing Preeminent Team Faculty Seminar

    Dr. Huan Hu Postdoctoral Research Scientist, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Title:  Advancing Nanomanufacturingfor Crucial Healthcare Applications Bio: Huan Hu received his Ph.D. in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014. Afterward he joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center as a postdoctoral research scientist working on developing novel nanomanufacturingprocess for bionanotechnologyapplications. He has published...

  3. Dr. Haimei Zheng Seminar

    Title:  Materials Transformations and Dynamic Phenomena at Solid-Liquid Interfaces Bio: Dr. HaimeiZheng is a staff scientist in Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is also an adjunct professor in Materials Science Department at University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Zheng earned her Ph.Dwith Prof. RamamoorthyRamesh and Prof. Lourdes Salamanca-Ribaat University of Maryland, College Park. She completed her Ph.Dresearch with Prof. Ramesh at UC...

  4. Nanomanufacturing Preeminent Team Faculty Seminar

    Dr. David Warsinger, Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Title:  Can we save lives with thermodynamics? Nanoengineeringand Thermofluidsfor the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Bio: Dr. David Warsinger completed his B.S. and M.Engat Cornell, and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at MIT: he completed his graduate studies in a combined 3 years. David’s research focuses on the water-energy nexus, with approaches from thermofluidsand nanoengineering. Currently, David is a Postdoc at MIT and...

  5. Nanotechnology Preeminent Team Faculty Seminar

    Dr. Carolin M. Sutter-Fella Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Title:  Thin Film Semiconductors for Efficient Energy Conversion Bio: Carolin M. Sutter-Fella received her Ph.D. from ETH Zürich, Switzerland, in 2014, where she worked in Prof. Ayodhya N. Tiwari’s laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics. Later in 2014, she joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at UC Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher working on a novel...

  6. Nanotechnology Preeminent Team Seminar

    Dr. Mohit Verma Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Title:  How to Engineer Human Microbiomes? Bio: Dr. Mohit Verma is a postdoctoral fellow in Professor George Whitesides' laboratory at Harvard University. Dr. Verma received his PhD in Chemical Engineering (Nanotechnology) in 2015 and his BAScin Nanotechnology Engineering in 2012 from the University of Waterloo (Canada). During his PhD, he conducted research on the use of gold nanoparticles for detecting bacteria and on the...

  7. Dr. Anant Agarwal Seminar

    The Revolution in Wide Band Gap (WBG) Power Devices Bio: Dr. Agarwal joined the US Department of Energy (DOE) in March 2013, retiring in November 2016.  While at DOE, Dr. Agarwal helped create and manage four programs related to wide band-gap technology and their applications including PowerAmerica, Next Generation of Electric Machines (I and II) and Graduate Traineeships. From 1999 to 2013, Dr. Agarwal was Director of Research and Development for Wide Band Gap (WBG) devices at Cree,...

  8. Dr. Hidekazu Tsuchida Seminar

    Title: Recent advances in 4H-SiC crystal growth and defect control for high-performance power devices Bio: Hidekazu Tsuchida, Dr., Deputy Associate Vice President, Sector Leader, Electronic Materials, Materials Science Research Laboratory, CRIEPI  Entered CRIEPI in 1992 and started SiC crystal growth and characterization in 1994 toward realizing next generation power devices for high-voltage power transmission and distribution. Recent research interests include fast 4H-SiC bulk growth...

  9. Dr. Shimpei ONO Seminar

    Title: Development of iontronics Abstract: Electric field control of charge carrier density has long been a key technology to tune the physical properties of condensed matter, exploring the modern semiconductor industry. One of the big challenges is to increase the maximum attainable carrier density, however it is limited by the quality of gate dielectrics. In this talk, I’m going to show the new technique to modulate carrier density making use of ionic liquid electrolytes. With...

  10. Dr. Frederique Deiss Seminar

    Title: Development of Electrochemical Tools for Preventive Care Using Paper, Microfluidic and Spectroscopy Bio: Frédérique Deiss was born in North-East of France and moved to Bordeaux (South-West of France) for her Engineering degree in Chemistry and Physics from the National Engineering school of Chemistry and Physics of Bordeaux, in 2006. She received her PhD in Chemistry-Physics in 2009, from the University of Bordeaux, working on opto-electrochemical biosensors using...

  11. Professor Andrew J. Steckl Seminar

    Circuits on Cellulose: From Transistors to LEDs, from Displays to Microfluidics on Paper Bio: Andrew Steckl (Fellow, IEEE and AAAS) received his BS from Princeton and his MS and PhD from the University of Rochester. Since 1988, he has been the Ohio Eminent Scholar & Gieringer Professor of Solid State Electronics at the University of Cincinnati. Current research activities are focused on: organic and biopolymeric materials for photonic and electronic devices; electrofluidic materials and...

  12. Ying Diao Seminar

    Directing Crystallization and Assembly for Printed Electronics Over the past thirty years, organic semiconductors have emerged as a new class of electronic and photoelectronicmaterials that are light-weight, flexible and can be manufactured using energy-efficient and high-throughput methods. The solution printability at near ambient conditions enables deposition on flexible polymer substrates to create wearable, stretchable, imperceptible electronic devices for use in applications...

  13. Nanomanufacturing Preeminent Team Seminar

    Greg Whiting Palo Alto Research Center Printed, Flexible and Transient Electronics for Distributed Systems Bio: Greg joined the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in 2008 where he currently manages the Novel Electronics Group.  He is interested in materials and processes for unconventional electronic systems – such as those that may be mechanically flexible and conformable, large area, widely distributed, controllably transient or manufactured using printing techniques, in order...

  14. Austin J. Minnich Seminar

    Austin J. Minnich Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics California Institute of Technology Heat under the microscope:Uncovering the microscopic processes that govern thermal transport Thermal transport is a ubiquitous process that incorporates a wide range of physics and plays an essential role in nearly every technological application, ranging from space power generation to consumer electronics. In many solids, heat is carried by phonons, or quanta of lattice...

  15. Dr. Takhee Lee Seminar

    Interface and surface control of 2D MoS2-based nanoelectronicdevices Transition metal dichalcogenide(TMD) two-dimensional (2D) atomic layered materials have recently drawn considerable attention as promising semiconductors for future ultrathin layered nanoelectronicdevice applications. Unlike graphene, TMD materials have a semiconductor band gap, for example, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) that has been widely studied is known to have a direct band gap of ~1.9 eV as a single MoS2layer and an...

  16. NanoDays 2016

    NanoDays is a nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering! NanoDays celebrations bring university researchers together with science educators to create learning experiences for children and adults to explore the minuscule world of atoms, molecules and nanoscale forces. Birck Nanotechnology Center at Discovery Park is hosting NanoDays activities at Purdue since 2010. All Purdue faculties and students are invited to display their nano-related research...

  17. NanoDays: 6-8pm

    NanoDays is a nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering! NanoDays celebrations bring university researchers together with science educators to create learning experiences for children and adults to explore the minuscule world of atoms, molecules and nanoscale forces. Birck Nanotechnology Center at Discovery Park is hosting NanoDays activities at Purdue since 2010. All Purdue faculties and students are invited to display their nano-related research...

  18. IEEE Central Ind. Section & Purdue Student Chapter of Eng. in Medicine & Biology Society Seminar

    Harold Sabbagh An Electrical Engineer Looks at Medicine and Biology This presentation is based on class notes developed by Professor Sabbagh for ECE201C at Purdue during the Fall of 2002. The notes were the basis of a final course project on pspice. We start by modeling nerve axons by electric circuits, which are then analyzed using pspice. The physiology of the nerve cells is also modeled by the circuits. We apply various input signals to the electric circuit, and demonstrate interesting...

  19. Dr. Yoshiro Yamada Seminar

    Recent advances in radiation thermometry standards and applications Reliability in radiation thermometry has not yet been sufficiently well established to meet industrial demands. New developments are being made to overcome the obstacles, in both standards and application techniques. The International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90) is a scale that approximates the thermodynamic temperature, and defines temperatures at a selected set of “defining fixed points”, the highest...

  20. Dr. Yongtao Cui Seminar

    Visualizing Magnetic and Electrical Phenomena in Nano Devices in Time and Space Domains Current CMOS technology is approaching the scaling limit as set by the semiconductor physics. Exploring new materials as well as other physical interactions than the electron charge, thus provides opportunities to enable new device schemes and architectures with improved performance. In the course of such study, developing new characterization techniques plays an important role to achieve better...