Nanofab Core Research Expertise

Advanced Additive Manufacturing

Medical Plastics Center, Hard Metals, Engineering Polymers with Tailored Properties

A hip joint printed with a material stronger than bone with a printed coating that encourages cell growth added in the same operation - that begins to look revolutionary Credit: Applied Research Lab, PSU

Additive Manufacturing

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Heterogeneous Integration

Center for ASSIST, and directed-assembly of nanowire-based devices

Advanced self-powered systems of integrated sensors and technologies and directed-assembly of nanowire-based devices

Nanoscale Electromagnetics

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NanoBioFluidic, NanoBioMechanical Systems for Personal and Global Health

Cell steering & cell screening, MEMS & NEMS, and medical diagnostics

Humanitarial & Cultural Materials Engineering

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Functional Oxides for Transduction, Actuation, and Sensing

Designer materials synthesis and their various integrations

Penn State research strives to build better systems for optical communications, imaging, computing, and sensing

Optical Metamaterials

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Materials and Devices for Free Form Electronics and Optoelectronics

Flexible electronics open the door to foldaway smartphone displays

Example of a flexible-circuit film displayed by a member of Professor Tom Jackson's Electronics Research Group on Penn State's University Park campus. Credit: Patrick Mansell, Penn State University

Nanomaterials, Nanostructures, and Nanofabrication

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Energy Efficient Information Processing Devices and Architectures

Complex multistep device fabrication & integration for CMOS

Scanning Electron Microscope micrograph of multigate InGaAs nanowire field effect transistor with an array of five nanowires of width 40 nm. Credit: Arun Thathachary, Penn State

Electronic Materials & Devices