Collaborators

• Prof. Luca Daniel (MIT)
• Prof. Gary Fedder (CMU)
• Prof. Brian Otis (U. Washington)
• Prof. Muriel Medard (MIT)

Graduate Students

• Radhika Marathe (EECS)
• Wentao Wang (Mech. E)
• Laura Popa (Physics)
• Subramanian Sundaram (EECS)
• Steven Yee (EECS)
• Siping Wang (EECS)
• Bichoy Waguih (EECS)

Support Staff

• Valerie Dinardo, Administrative Assistant

Publications

Radhika Marathe, Wentao Wang, Dana Weinstein, “Si-based unreleased hybrid MEMS-CMOS resonators in 32nm technology” IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2012), 729-732.

Wentao Wang and Dana Weinstein, “Acoustic Bragg reflectors for Q-enhancement of unreleased MEMS resonators,” IEEE Frequency Control Symposium (FCS 2011), San Francisco, CA, May 1-5, 2011.

Wentao Wang, Laura C. Popa, Radhika Marathe, Dana Weinstein, “An unreleased mm-wave resonant body transistor,” IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2011), 1341-44.

Collaborators

• D. Bello, UMass-Lowell
• S. Buschhorn, Postdoc MIT AA
• H. Cebeci, ITU
• R.E. Cohen, MIT ChemE
• H.-M. Duong, NUS
• F. Fachin, MIT/Harvard/MGH HST
• E. J. Garcia, Gamesa
• K.E. Goodson, Stanford Univ.
• K. Gleason, MIT ChemE
• R. Guzman deVilloria, IMDEA
• A. J. Hart, Univ. of Michigan
• H. Thomas Hahn, UCLA
• S. Hofmann, Univ. of Cambridge
• S. Hong, Argonne Nat. Lab.
• S.S. Kessler, Metis Design Corp.
• S.-G. Kim, MIT ME
• S.-H. Kim, Brown Univ.
• N. Lachmann, Postdoc MIT AA
• S. Maruyama, Univ. of Tokyo
• G. McKinley, MIT ME
• A. Miravete, Univ. Zaragoza
• G. Nogueira, Postdoc MIT DMSE
• D. Papavassiliou, Univ. Oklahoma
• D. Plata, Duke
• M.F. Rubner, MIT DMSE
• L. Rocha, Univ. of Minho
• M. A. Schmidt, MIT EECS
• J.C. Seferis, Univ. Washington
• K. Schulte, TUHH
• J. Shiomi, Univ. of Tokyo
• A. H. Slocum, MIT ME
• S. Socrate, MIT ME
• K. Takahashi, UCLA
• C. Thompson, MIT DMSE
• M. Toner, MIT/Harvard/MGH HST
• D. Wagner, Weizmann Inst. of Sci.
• N. Yamamoto, MIT AA Postdoc
• Q. Zhang, Penn State Univ.

Graduate Students

• E. Colombini, Visiting AA
• D. Handlin, Res. Assistant, AA
• M. Kim, Res. Assistant, DMSE
• A. Kudo, Res. Assistant, DMSE
• R Li, Res. Assistant, AA
• A. Sepulveda, Visiting Student
• I. Stein, Res. Assistant, ME
• S.A. Steiner III, Res. Assistant, AA
• S. Wicks, Research Assistant, AA
• K. Takahashi , Visiting Student, AA

Undergraduate Students

• S. Chan, Visiting DMSE
• P. Florin, AA
• D. Lindston, AA
• H. Jethani, AA
• S. Kalamoun, Visiting AA
• H. Vincent, DMSE
• W. Wang, DMSE
• M. Williams, AA

Support Staff

• J. Kane, Research Specialist
• P.M. Lee, Financial Officer
• S. Chapman, Admin. Assist. II

Publications

Fachin, F., Chen, G.D., M. Toner, and B.L. Wardle, “Integration of Bulk Nanoporous Elements in Microfluidic Devices with Application to Biomedical Diagnostics,” J. of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS), Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1428 – 1438, 2011.

Fachin, F., Nikles, S.A., Dugundji, J., and B.L. Wardle, “Analytical Extraction of Residual Stresses and Gradients in MEMS Structures with Application to CMOS Layered Materials,” J. of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 21 (2011) 095017 (12pp).

Kim, M., Hong, S., Miller, D.J., Dugundji, J., and B.L. Wardle, “Size Effect of Flexible Proof Mass on the Mechanical Behavior of Micron-scale Cantilevers for Energy Harvesting Applications,” Applied Physics Letters, 99, 243506 (2011).

Fachin, F., Nikles, S.A., and B.L. Wardle, “Mechanics of Out-of-Plane MEMS via Postbuckling: Model-Experiment Demonstration Using CMOS,” JMEMS, Vol. PP, Issue 99, 2012.

A.M. Marconnet, N. Yamamoto, M. Panzer, B.L. Wardle, and K.E. Goodson, “Thermal Conduction in Aligned Carbon Nanotube–Polymer Nanocomposites with High Packing Density,” NanoLetters, Vol. 5, No. 6, 2011, pp. 4818–4825.

Duong, H.M., Yamamoto, N., Papavassiliou, D.V., Maruyama, S., and B.L. Wardle, “Morphology Effects on Non-isotropic Thermal Conduction of Aligned Single- and Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes in Polymer Nanocomposites,” J. Phys. Chem. C, (2011), 115 (10), 3872

Guzmán de Villoria, R., Hart, A.J., and B.L. Wardle, “Continuous High-Yield Production of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on 2D and 3D Substrates,” ACSNano, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 4850–4857, 2011.

G.D. Chen,F. Fachin, M. Fernandez-Suarez, B. L. Wardle, M. Toner, “Nanoporous Elements in Microfluidics for Multiscale Manipulation of Bioparticles”, Small, Vol.7 (8),2011,pp. 1061–1067.

R. Guzman de Villoria, N. Yamamoto, A. Miravete, and B.L. Wardle, “Multi-Physics Damage Sensing in Nano-Engineered Structural Composites,” Nanotechnology, vol. 22, 2011, p. 185502 (7pp).

Collaborators

• Prof. John G. Brisson, M.I.T.
• Prof. Cullen Buie, M.I.T.
• Prof. Gang Chen, M.I.T.
• Prof. Carlos Hidrovo, UT Austin
• Prof. Jeffrey Lang, M.I.T.
• Prof. Tomas Palacios, M.I.T.
• Prof. Marin Soljacic, M.I.T.
• Prof. Carl V. Thompson, M.I.T.
• Prof. Omar Yaghi, UC Berkeley

Visiting Faculty

• Prof. TieJun Zhang, China

Postdoctoral Associates

• Martin Cleary
• Ryan Enright
• Xiansen Li
• Teresa Peters
• Rishi Raj
• Sungwoo Yang

Graduate Students

• Solomon Adera (ME)
• Kevin Bagnall (ME)
• David Bierman (ME)
• Siyu Chen (ME)
• Kuang- Han (Hank) Chu (ME)
• Daniel Hanks (ME)
• Tom Humplik (ME)
• Arthur Kariya (ME)
• Andrej Lenert (ME)
• Nenad Miljkovic (ME)
• Heena Mutha (ME)
• Dan Preston (ME)
• Rong Xiao (ME)
• Yangying Zhu (ME)

Undergraduate Students

• Kristyn Kadala (Aerospace)
• Jean Sack (ME)

Support Staff

• Lubi Barre, Administrative Assistant

Publications

(see drl.mit.edu for full listing)

K.-H. Chu, R. Enright, E.N. Wang, “Structured surfaces for enhanced pool boiling heat transfer,” Applied Physics Letters, 100(24), p. 241603-00, 2012.

A. Lenert, E.N. Wang, “Optimization of nanofluid volumetric receivers for solar thermal energy conversion,” Solar Energy, 86(1), p. 253-265, 2012.

M. McCarthy, K. Gerasopoulos, R. Enright, J.N. Culver, R. Ghodssi, E.N. Wang, “Biotemplated hierarchical surfaces and the role of dual length scales on the repellency of impacting droplets,” Applied Physics Letters, 100(263701), p. 1-5, 2012.

N. Miljkovic, R. Enright, E.N. Wang, “Liquid Freezing Dynamics on Hydrophobic and Superhydrophobic Surfaces,” Journal of Heat Transfer, 134(8), p. 080902-080903, 2012.

N. Miljkovic, R. Enright, E.N. Wang, “Effect of Droplet Morphology on Growth Dynamics and Heat Transfer during Condensation on Superhydrophobic Nanostructured Surfaces,” ACS Nano, 6(2), p. 1776-1785, 2012.

A. Veeraragavan, A. Lenert, B. Yilbas, S. Al-Dini, E.N. Wang, “Analytical model for the design of volumetric solar flow receivers,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 55(4), p. 556-564, 2012.

S. Adera, R. Raj, R. Enright, E.N. Wang, “Evaporation-Induced Cassie Droplets on Superhydrophilic Microstructured Surfaces,” Proceedings of the ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, ICNMM2012, Rio Grande, PR, July 8-12, 2012.

R. Enright, N. Miljkovic, A. Al-Obeidi, C.V. Thompson, E.N. Wang, “Superhydrophobic Condensation: the Role of Energy Barriers and Size Scale,” ASME International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, Rio Grande, PR, July 8-12, 2012.

H.A. Kariya, W.L. Staats, D.F. Hanks, T.B. Peters, M. Cleary, J.G. Brisson, E.N. Wang, “Scaling of the Performance of an Air-Cooled Heat Pipe with the Addition of Multiple Modular Condensers,” IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, San Diego, CA, May 30 – June 1, 2012.

H.J. Cho, S.C. Maroo, E.N. Wang, “Characterization of Lipid Membrane Properties for Tunable Electroporation,” Proceedings of the ASME 2012 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 3-6, 2012.

R. Enright, N. Dou, N. Miljkovic, Y. Nam, E.N. Wang, “Condensation on Superhydrophobic Copper Oxide Nanostructures,” Proceedings of the 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 3-6, 2012.

N. Miljkovic, R. Enright, E.N. Wang, “Growth Dynamics During Dropwise Condensation on Nanostructured Superhydrophobic Surfaces,” Proceedings of the 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 3-6, 2012.

Collaborators

• T. Daniel, Univ. Washington
• H. Ploegh, MIT
• P. Sorger, Harvard Med. School
• J. White, MIT

Postdoctoral Associates

• M. Castellarnau
• T. Honegger
• C. T. Lo
• J. Prieto
• T. Sun

Graduate Students

• A. Dighe, Research Asst., ME
• B. Dura, Research Asst., EECS
• L. Pryzbyla, Res. Asst., Biology
• H.-W. Su, Research Asst., EECS
• S. Varma, Research Asst., EECS

Support Staff

• C. Collins, Administrative Assistant

Publications

M. D. Vahey and J. Voldman, “Isodielectric separation and analysis of cells,” in Single-cell analysis: Methods and protocols, S. Lindström and H. Andersson-Svahn, Eds.: Springer Science+Business Media, 2012, pp. 53-63.

W. M. Tsang, A. L. Stone, D. Otten, Z. N. Aldworth, T. L. Daniel, J. G. Hildebrand, R. D. Levine, and J. Voldman, “Insect-machine interface: A carbon nanotube-enhanced flexible neural probe,” Journal of Neuroscience Methods, vol. 204, pp. 355-65, 2012.

L. M. Przybyla and J. Voldman, “Attenuation of extrinsic signaling reveals the importance of matrix remodeling on maintenance of embryonic stem cell self-renewal,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 109, pp. 835-840, January 17, 2012 2012.

L. Przybyla and J. Voldman, “Probing embryonic stem cell autocrine and paracrine signaling using microfluidics,” Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry, 2012.

M. D. Vahey and J. Voldman, “Emergent behavior in particle-laden microfluidic systems informs strategies for improving cell and particle separations,” Lab on a Chip, vol. 11, pp. 2071-2080, 2011.

Y.-C. Toh and J. Voldman, “Fluid shear stress primes mouse embryonic stem cells for differentiation in a self-renewing environment via heparan sulfate proteoglycans transduction,” Faseb Journal, vol. 25, pp. 1208-17, 2011.

Y.-C. Toh, K. Blagovic, H. Yu, and J. Voldman, “Differential environmental spatial patterning (δesp) recreates proximal-distal axial patterns in embryonic stem cell colonies,” in Micro Total Analysis Systems Seattle, WA USA, 2011, pp. 30-32.

Y.-C. Toh, K. Blagovic, H. Yu, and J. Voldman, “Spatially organized in vitro models instruct asymmetric stem cell differentiation,” Integrative Biology, vol. 3, pp. 1179-1187, 2011.

T. Sun and J. Voldman, “Image-based screening of high-performing clones using photoactivated cell sorting via dual photopoylmerized microwell arrays,” in Micro Total Analysis Systems Seattle, WA USA, 2011, pp. 693-5.

N. Mittal and J. Voldman, “Non-mitogenic survival-enhancing autocrine factors including cyclophilin a contribute to density-dependent mesc growth,” Stem Cell Research, vol. 6, pp. 168-76, 2011.

M. M. Hoehl, S. K. Dougan, H. L. Ploegh, and J. Voldman, “Massively parallel microfluidic cell-pairing platform for the statistical study of immunolgical cell-cell interactions,” in Micro Total Analysis Systems Seattle, WA USA, 2011, pp. 1508-10.

S. P. Desai and J. Voldman, “Cell-based sensors for quantifying the physiological impact of microsystems,” Integrative Biology, vol. 3, pp. 48-56, 2011.

K. Blagovic, L. Y. Kim, and J. Voldman, “Microfluidic perfusion for regulating diffusible signaling in stem cells,” PLoS ONE, vol. 6, p. e22892, 2011.

Collaborators

• A.I. Akinwande, EECS, MIT
• K. Berggren, EECS, MIT
• W. Graves, Nuclear, MIT
• R. Gupta, CIMIT, Mass General
• V. Hruby, Busek Co.
• F. Kaertner, EECS, MIT
• R. Lanza, Nuclear, MIT
• C. Livermore, MechE, NEU
• P. Marek, US Army NSRDEC
• M.A. Schmidt, EECS, MIT
• K. Senecal, US Army NSRDEC
• S. Teller, EECS, MIT

Graduate Students

• E. S. Field, Research Assistant, MechE
• S. Guerrera, Research Assistant, EECS (co-supervised with A.I. Akinwande)
• E. V. Heubel, Research Assistant, MechE
• V. Jayanti, Research Assistant, EECS
• D. Jeng, Research Assistant, EECS (co-supervised with A.I. Akinwande)
• P. Ponce de Leon, MechE

Visiting Student

• Z. Liu, EECS, BU

Postdoctoral Associates

• A. Fomani (co-supervised with A.I. Akinwande)
• F. Hill
• M. Swanwick

Visiting Scientist

• E. Chimamkpam

Undergraduate Student

• M. R. Overlin, EECS, MIT

Support Staff

• C. Collins, Administrative Assistant II

Publications

S. Guerrera, L. F. Velásquez-García, and A. I. Akinwande, “Scaling of High-Aspect-Ratio Current Limiters for the Individual Ballasting of Large Arrays of Field Emitters,” accepted for publication, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 2012.

E. V. Heubel, A. I. Akinwande, and L. F. Velásquez-García, “MEMS-Enabled Retarding Potential Analyzers for Hypersonic In-Flight Plasma Diagnostics,” Technical Digest of the 15th Solid-State Sensor, Actuator and Microsystems Workshop, pp. 324 – 327, Hilton Head Island SC, USA, June 3 – 7, 2012.

P. D. Keathley, W. P. Putnam, A. Sell, S. Guerrera, L. F. Velásquez-García, and F. X. Kaertner, “Laser Induced Annealing Dynamics of Photo-Electron Spectra from Silicon Field Emitter Arrays,” Technical Digest of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics – CLEO, San Jose, CA, May 6-11, 2012.

S. A. Guerrera, L. F. Velásquez-García, and A. I. Akinwande, “Scaling of High Aspect Ratio Current Limiters for the Individual Ballasting of Large Arrays of Field Emitters,” Technical Digest 24th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference, Wuppertal, Germany, July 2011.

L.-Y. Chen, L. F. Velásquez-García, X. Wang, K. Cheung, K. Teo, and A. I. Akinwande, “A Micro Ionizer for Portable Mass Spectrometers using Double-Gated Isolated Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Arrays,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 58, No. 7, pp. 2149 – 2158, 2011.

L. F. Velásquez-García, S. Guerrera, Y. Niu, and A. I. Akinwande, “Uniform High-Current Cathodes Using Massive Arrays of Si Field Emitters Individually Controlled by Vertical Si Ungated FETs – Part 1: Device Design and Simulation,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 58, No. 6, pp. 1775 – 1782, 2011.

L. F. Velásquez-García, S. Guerrera, Y. Niu, and A. I. Akinwande, “Uniform High-Current Cathodes Using Massive Arrays of Si Field Emitters Individually Controlled by Vertical Si Ungated FETs – Part 2: Device Fabrication and Characterization,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 58, No. 6, pp. 1783 – 1791, 2011.

Collaborators

• W. Higgins, RMD, MA
• I. D. Kim, KAIST, Korea
• M. Martin & R. DeSouza, Aachen University, Germany
• D. Nocera, MIT
• R. Moos, Univ. Bayreuth Germany
• B. Yildiz, MIT
• K. Van Vliet, MIT
• J. Varela, UNESP, Brazil

Graduate Students

• G. Whitfield, Res. Asst., MSE
• D. Chen, Res. Asst., MSE
• J. Engel, Res. Asst., MSE
• J. J. Kim, Res. Asst., MSE
• N. Thompson, Res. Asst., MSE
• A. Geupel, visiting student, MSE
• A. Felix, visiting student, MSE
• A. Mani, visiting student, MSE

Postdoctoral Associates

• S. Bishop, MSE
• D.J. Yang, MSE
• P.S. Cho, MSE
• Y. Kuru, MSE, NSE
• M. Kuhn, MSE

Visiting Scientist

• J. Rupp, MSE, NSE
• M. Orlandi, MSE

Support Staff

• A. Rothwell, Administrative Assistant II

Publications

S. R. Bishop, W. Higgins, G. Ciampi, A. Churilov, K. S. Shah and H. L. Tuller, The Defect and Transport Properties of Donor Doped Single Crystal TlBr, J. Electrochem. Soc., 158, J47-J51 (2011)

Y. Chen, W.C. Jung, Y. Kuru, H. Tuller, and B. Yildiz, Chemical, Electronic and Nanostructure Dynamics on Sr(Ti_1-xFe_x)O₃ Thin-Film Surfaces at High Temperatures, ECS Transactions, 35 (1) 2409-2416 (2011), Solid Oxide Fuel Cells 12 (SOFC-XII). Eds. S. Singhal, K. Eguchi.

M. Schulz, J. Sauerwald, H. Seh, H. Fritze, H. L. Tuller, Defect Chemistry Based Design of Monolithic Langasite Structures for High Temperature Sensors, Solid State Ionics 184, 78–82 (2011)

S. R. Bishop, T. S. Stefanik and H. L. Tuller, Electrical Conductivity and Defect Equilibria of Pr_0.1Ce_0.9O_2-δ, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 13, 10165-10173 (2011).

Y. Kuru , S. R. Bishop, J. J. Kim, B. Yildiz, and H. L. Tuller, Chemomechanical Properties and Microstructural Stability of Nanocrystalline Pr-doped Ceria: an in situ X-ray Diffraction Investigation, Solid State Ionics, 193, 1-4 (2011).

H. L. Tuller and S. R. Bishop, Point Defects in Oxides: Tailoring Materials Through Defect Engineering, Annu. Rev. Mater. Res. 41, 13.1–13.30  (2011).  Invited Review.

M. Burbano, D. Marrocchelli, B. Yildiz, H. L. Tuller, S. T. Norberg, S.Hull, P. A. Madden, and G. W. Watson, A Dipole Polarizable Potential for Reduced and Doped CeO₂ from First-Principles. Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, 23 (25), 255402 (9 pg) (2011).

S. Bishop; H. L Tuller; Y. Kuru; B.Yildiz, Chemical Expansion of Nonstoichiometric Pr_0.1Ce_0.9O_2-δ: Correlation with Defect Equilibrium Model, J. Euro. Ceram. Soc. 31, 2351-2356 (2011).

Il-Doo Kim, Tae-Seon Hyun, H. Tuller, Duck-Kyun Choi, and Doo-Young Youn, Facile Synthesis of Highly Conductive RuO₂-Mn₃O₄ Composite Nanofibers via Electrospinning and Their Electrochemical Properties, J. Electrochem. Soc., 158 (8), A970-A975 (2011).

N. G. Cho, D. J. Yang, M.-J. Jin, H.-G. Kim, H. L. Tuller, and I.-D. Kim, Highly Sensitive SnO₂ Hollow Nanofiber-based NO₂ Gas Sensors, Sensors and Actuators B, 160, 1468-1472 (2011).

Y. Kuru, H. Jalili, Z. Cai, B. Yildiz, and H. L. Tuller, Direct Probing of Nano-dimensioned Oxide Multilayers with Aid of Focused Ion Beam Milling, Advanced Materials. 23, 4543-4548 (2011).

S. R. Bishop, J-J. Kim, N. Thompson, and H. L. Tuller, Defect Chemistry and Electrical Properties of a Pr-CeO₂ Solid Solution: From Nano- to Micro-scale, Symposium K, Frontiers of Solid State Ionics, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 1331, mrss11-1331-k02-02 (6 pages) (2011).

M. Søgaard, A. Bieberle- Hütter, P. Vang Hendriksen, M. Mogensen, H. L. Tuller, Oxygen Incorporation in Porous Thin Film of Strontium Doped Lanthanum Ferrite, J. Electroceramics, 27, 134-142 (2011).

H. L. Tuller, J. Engel, S. J. Litzelman, and S. R. Bishop, Nano-Structured Materials for Next Generation Fuel Cells and Photoelectrochemical Devices, Symposium on Renewable Fuels and Nanotechnology, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 1326, mrss11-1326-f08-01 (12 pages) (2011),

W. Jung and H. L. Tuller, A New Model Describing Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathode Kinetics: Model Thin Film SrTi_1-xFexO_3-δ Mixed Conducting Oxides – a Case Study, Advanced Energy Materials, 1, 1184-1191 (2011). 

Collaborators

• V. Bulović, MIT EECS
• S. Coe-Sullivan, QD Vision
• J. Steckel, QD Vision
• C. Breen, QD Vision

Postdoctoral Associate

• F. Prins

Graduate Students

• R. Hoffman, ChemE
• M. Weidman, ChemE
• A.J. Mork, Physical Chemistry

Support Staff

• B. Balkwill

Publications

G. M. Akselrod, B. J. Walker, W. A. Tisdale, M. G. Bawendi and V. Bulović, “Twenty-fold enhancement of molecular fluorescence by coupling to a J-aggregate critically coupled resonator,” ACS Nano, vol. 6, pp. 467-471 (2012).

W. A. Tisdale and X.-Y. Zhu, “Artificial atoms on semiconductor surfaces,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., vol. 108, pp. 965-970 (2011).

W. A. Tisdale, K. J. Williams, B. A. Timp, D. J. Norris, E. S. Aydil and X.-Y. Zhu, “Hot-Electron Transfer from Semiconductor Nanocrystals,” Science, vol. 328, pp. 1543-1547 (2010).

K. J. Williams, W. A. Tisdale, K. S. Leschkies, G. Haugstad, D. J. Norris, E. S. Aydil and X.-Y. Zhu, “Strong electronic coupling in two-dimensional assemblies of colloidal PbSe quantum dots,” ACS Nano, vol. 3, pp. 1532-1538 (2009).

M. Muntwiler, Q. Yang, W. A. Tisdale and X.-Y. Zhu, “Coulomb barrier for charge separation at an organic semiconductor interface,”Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 101, pp. 196403 (2008).

W. A. Tisdale, M. Muntwiler, D. J. Norris, E. S. Aydil and X.-Y. Zhu, “Electron dynamics at the ZnO (10-10) surface,” J. Phys. Chem. C, vol. 112, pp. 14682-14692 (2008).

Research Staff

• Dr. Wardhana Sasangka
• Dr. Swee Ching Tan

Collaborators

• Prof. Wee Kiong Choi (Nat’l. U. Singapore)
• Prof. Soo Jin Chua (NUS)
• Prof. Jesus del Alamo (MIT)
• Prof. Chee Lip Gan (Nanyang Tech. U.)
• Prof. D.L. Plata, Mt. Holyoke College
• Prof. A. John Hart (U. Michigan)
• Dr. Reiner Moenig (Karlsruhe Inst. Tech.)
• Dr. Gilbrt Nessim (Bar Ilan U.)
• Prof. Tomas Palacios (MIT)
• Prof. Yang Shao-Horn (MIT)
• Prof. Evelyn Wang (MIT)

Graduate Students

• Ahmed Al-Obeidi  (DMSE)
• Wubin Bai (DMSE)
• Tom Batcho (DMSE)
• Chee Ying Khoo (SMA)
• Gye Hyun Kim (DMSE)
• Changquan Lai (SMA)
• Prayudi Lianto (SMA)
• Hang Yu (DMSE)
• Hang Bo Zhao (DMSE)
• Wen Zheng (DMSE)

Support Staff

• Kathleen A. Fitzgerald, Administrative Assistant II

Publications

Ye, J. and Thompson, C.V., “Anisotropic edge retraction and hole growth during solid-state dewetting of single crystal nickel thin films,” Acta Materialia 59, 582 (2011).

Nessim, G.D., Seita, M., Plata, D.L., O’Brien, K.P., Hart, A.J., Meshot, E.R., Reddy, C.M., P.M. Gschwend,P.M., and Thompson, C.V. “Precursor gas chemistry determines the crystallinity of carbon nanotubes synthesized at low temperature,” Carbon 49, 804 (2011).

Oh, J., and Thompson, C.V., “A Tungsten Interlayer Process for Fabrication of Through-pore Anodic Aluminum Oxide Scaffolds on Gold Substrates,” J. Eelectrochem. Soc. 158, K11 (2011).

Oh, J., and Thompson, C.V., “Abnormal Anodic Aluminum Oxide Formation in Confined Structures for Lateral Pore Arrays,” J. Electrochem. Soc. 158, C71 (2011).

Ye, J. and C.V. Thompson, C.V., “Templated Solid-State Dewetting to Controllably Produce Complex Patterns,” Advanced Materials 23, 1567 (2011).

Oh, J., and Thompson, C.V., “The role of electric field in pore formation during aluminum anodization,” Electrochemica Acta 56, 4044 (2011).

Giermann, A.L., and Thompson, C.V., “Requirements for graphoepitaxial alignment through solid-state dewetting of Au films,” J. Appl. Phys. 109, 083520 (2011).

Choi, Z.-S., Lee, J., Lim, M.K., Gan C.L., and Thompson, C.V., “Void Dynamics in Copper-Based Interconnects,” J. Appl. Phys. 110, 033505 (2011).

Mitchell, R.R., Gallant, B.M., Thompson, C.V., and Shao-Horn, “All-carbon-nanofiber electrodes for high-energy rechargeable Li–O₂ batteries,” Energy Environ. Sci. 4, 2952 (2011).

Sasangka, W.A., Gan, C.L., Thompson, C.V., Choi, W.K. and Wei, J., “Influence of Bonding Parameters on the Interaction Between Cu and Noneutectic Sn-In Solder Thin Films,” J. Electronic Materials 40, 2329-3336 (2011).

Gao, F., Lu, B., Li, L., Kaun, S. Speck, J.S., Thompson, C.V., and Palacios, T.,  “Role of oxygen in the OFF-state degradation of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors,” Appl. Phys. Letts. 99, 223506 (2011).

Made, R.I., Gan, C.L., Yan, L., Kor, K.H.B., Chia, H.L., Pey. And Thompson, C.V. “Experimental characterization and modeling of the mechanical properties of Cu–Cu thermocompression bonds for three-dimensional integrated circuits,” Acta Materialia 60, 578 (2012).

Li, L., Joh, J., del Alamo, J.A., and Thompson, C.V.,”Spatial distribution of structural degradation under high-power stress in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs,” Appl. Phys. Letts. 100, 172109 (2012).

Collaborators

• E. Alon, UC Berkeley
• K. Asanović, UC Berkeley
• T.-J. King Liu, UC Berkeley
• D. Marković, UC Los Angeles
• C-K. K. Yang, UC Los Angeles

Graduate Students

• Y-H. Chen, Research Assistant, EECS
• S. Dutta, Research Assistant, EECS
• H. Fariborzi, Research Assistant, EECS
• M. Georgas, Research Assistant, EECS
• J. Leu, Research Assistant, EECS
• Y. Li, Research Assistant, EECS
• Z. Li, Research Assistant, EECS
• B. Moss, Research Assistant, EECS
• O. Salehi-Abari, Research Assistant, EECS
• R. Sredojević, Research Assistant, EECS
• A. Suleiman, Research Assistant, EECS
• C. Sun, Research Assistant, EECS
• S. Urosević, Research Assistant, EECS

Publications

M. Georgas, J. Orcutt, R. J. Ram, and V. Stojanović, “A Monolithically-Integrated Optical Receiver in Standard 45-nm SOI [Invited],“ IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 47, no. 7, 10 pages, July 2012.

J.S. Orcutt, B. Moss, C. Sun, J. Leu, M. Georgas, J. Shainline, E. Zgraggen, H. Li, J. Sun, M. Weaver, S. Urosevic, M. Popovic, R. J. Ram and V. Stojanović, “An Open Foundry Platform for High-Performance Electronic-Photonic Integration,” Optics Express, vol. 20, no. 11, pp. 12222-12232, May 2012.

T.-J. Liu, K., D. Marković, V. Stojanović and E. Alon, “The Relay Reborn,” [Invited] IEEE Spectrum, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 40-43, April 2012.

J. S. Orcutt, J. S., S. D. Tang, S. Kramer, H. Li, V. Stojanović, and R. J. Ram, “Low-loss polysilicon waveguides fabricated in an emulated high-volume electronics process,” Optics Express, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 7243–7254, March 2012.

F. Chen, A.P. Chandrakasan, and V. Stojanović “Design and Analysis of a Hardware-Efficient Compressed Sensing Architecture for Data Compression in Wireless Sensors,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 744-756, March 2012.

F. Lim and V. Stojanović “Non-Asymptotic Analysis of Compressed Sensing Random Matrices : An U-Statistics Approach,” accepted for publication at the IEEE International Conference on Communications, Ottawa, Canada, 6 pages, June 2012.

J.S. Orcutt, B. Moss, C. Sun, J. Leu, M. Georgas, J. Shainline, H. Li, J. Sun, M. Weaver, E. Zgraggen, M. Popovic, R. J. Ram and V. Stojanović, “Low Loss Waveguide Integration within a Thin-SOI CMOS Foundry,” to be presented at IEEE Optical Interconnects Conference, Santa Fe, NM, 2 pages, May 2012.

E. Timurdogan, A. Biberman, D. Trotter, C. Sun, M. Moresco, V. Stojanovic, M. Watts, “Automated Wavelength Recovery for Microring Resonators,” accepted for publication at the Optical Society of America – CLEO/QELS Conference, San Jose, CA, 2 pages, May 2012.

G. Kurian, C. Sun, O. Chen, J. Miller, L. Wei, J. Michel, D. Antoniadis, L-S. Peh, L. C. Kimerling, V. Stojanović and A. Agarwal, “Cross-layer Energy and Performance Evaluation of a Nanophotonic Manycore Processor System using Real Application Workloads,” accepted for publication at the 26th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, Shanghai, China, 12 pages, May 2012.

C. Sun, O. Chen, G. Kurian, L. Wei, J. Miller, A. Agarwal, L.-S. Peh, and V. Stojanović, “DSENT – A Tool Connecting Emerging Photonics with Electronics for Opto-Electronic Networks-on-Chip Modeling,” accepted for publication at the 6th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip, Lyngby, Denmark, 26 pages, May 2012.

O. Salehi-Abari, F. Chen, F. Lim, and V. Stojanović,”Performance Trade-offs and Design Limitations of Analog-to-Information Converter Front-Ends,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Kyoto, Japan, 4 pages, March 2012.

J.C. Leu and V. Stojanović, “Injection-Locked Clock Receiver for Monolithic Optical Link in 45nm, “Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, Jeju, Korea, pp. 149-152, November 2011.

H. Fariborzi, F. Chen, R. Nathanael, J. Jeon, T-J. K. Liu, and V. Stojanović, “Design and Demonstration of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Relay Multipliers,“ Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, Jeju, Korea, pp. 117-120, November 2011.

M. Georgas, J.C. Leu, B. Moss, C. Sun, and V. Stojanović, “Addressing Link-Level Design Tradeoffs for Integrated Photonic Interconnects,” [Invited] IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, San Jose, CA, 8 pages, September 2011.

M. Georgas, J. Orcutt, R. J. Ram, and V. Stojanović, “A Monolithically-Integrated Optical Receiver in Standard 45-nm SOI,“ European Solid-State Circuits Conference, Helsinki, Finland, pp. 407 – 410, September 2011.