IMR Facility Grant Awards, February 2008

ORISadmin General, Grants

  • Photomodulation of Carbon Nanosponges Lead: Vish Subramaniam, Mechanical Engineering; Co-Applicant: R. Sooryakumar, Physics
  • Fabrication of Essential Experimental Components for Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (MRFM) Lead: Chris Hammel, Physics
  • Enhance Program on Spintronic Phenomena in Organic-based Materials Lead: Arthur Epstein, Physics; Co-Applicants: Deniz Duman and Mark Murphey, Graduate Students
  • Preparation and Characterization of Ultrasharp Tips for sub-10nm Resolution Optical Microscopy and Spectroscopy Lead: Jay Gupta, Physics; Co-Applicants: Arthur Epstein, Physics; Terry Gustafson, Chemistry
  • Surface Acoustic Wave Sensor Development Lead: Erik Walton, ElectroScience Laboratory; Co-Applicant: Yakup Bayram, ElectroScience Laboratory
  • Spin Transport in Semiconductor Nanowires Lead: Fengyuan Yang, Physics
  • Fabrication of Si Microhotplate Arrays Lead: Patricia Morris, Materials Science and Engineering
  • Facility Support for Chemical and Conformational Analysis of AlGaN Biosensors Lead: Leonard Brillson, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Co-Applicants: Wu Lu, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Stephen Lee, Biomedical Engineering
  • Fabrication of Ultra-Dense Spin-Torque Oscillators (STOs) Lead: Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, Physics; Co-Applicant: Fengyuan Yang, Physics
  • nm-resolution studies of metal contacts to semiconducting nanowires Lead: Jonathan Pelz, Physics
  • Lorentz-Force Based MEMS Device for Controllable Mechanical Loading on Single Cell Lead: Yi Zhao, Biomedical Engineering
  • Measuring Cell Deformating Using Bioscope Dual AFM/fluorescence integrated miscroscope in the AFM Core of DHLRI Lead: Nicanor Moldovan, Internal Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
  • Site Specific Stamping of Graphene Lead: Nitin Padture, Materials Science and Engineering; Co-Applicant: Wolfgang Windl, Materials Science and Engineering
  • The Self-Assembly of Peptide-Dendron Hybrids Lead: Jon Parquette, Chemistry