RESEARCH NUGGETS
The Nanofabrication Lab's capabiilities span the full spectrum of nanoscale science, engineering, and technology and the lab supports projects in many disciplines including Physics, Optics, Materials, Life Sciences, MEMS, Electronics, Medicine, Geology/Earth Sciences, and Chemistry.
Below are just a sample of the research projects that take place in the facilities:
2009 Research Nuggets:
| Acoustic Tweezers Can Position Tiny Objects | Penn State University |
| Deterministic Nanowire Assembly | Penn State University |
| In situ Nanomechanical Testing Device | Case Western Reserve University |
| High Mobility Graphene FETs with Ferroelectric Gate Oxide | Penn State University |
| Nanoporous Silicon Membranes | H-Cubed, Inc. and Cleveland Clinic Foundation |
| Silicon Immersion Gratings | Astronomy Department, University of Florida |
| Spectrum SensorTM chip using nanoimprinting | Nanolambda Inc. |
| SiC NEMS for High Temperature Logic | Case Western Reserve University |
| Micromachined 35 MHz PC-MUT Array | TRS Technologies, Inc. and Blatek, Inc. |
| Triangles of Frustrated Nanomagnets | Penn State University |
2008 Research Nuggets:
| Spin Transfer Devices | New York University and Spin Transfer Technologies, LLC |
| High-Frequency Biomedical Ultrasound | TRS Technologies, Inc. |
| Digital Color Printing Cartridges | RD Imagetech and Penn State University |
| New Molecules for Chemical Patterning | Sigma-Aldrich and Penn State University |
| New Bottom-up Nanomanufacturing Methods | Penn State University |
| Water Splitting Photoelectrochemical Diodes | Penn State University |
| Spectrum SensorTM Chip by Nanoimprinting | Nanolambda Inc. |
| Light-Driven Plasmonic Switches | Penn State University |
| Demagnetization of Ferromagnetic Island Array | Penn State University |
| Pyroelectric Thermal Imaging | Bridge Semiconductor Corporation |
| Carbon Nanotube Atomic Force Microscope Tip | Carbon Nanotubes, Inc. |
| Silicon Nanoporours Membranes | University of California, San Francisco, H-Cubed, Inc., and Cleveland Clinic Foundation |
| Epitaxial Graphene | Penn State University Electro Optics Center |
| Improving Copper Electromigration Resistance | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. |
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