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TABLE of CONTENTS & DIRECTORS' INTRODUCTION
PATENTS, PRESENTATIONS, AND PUBLICATIONS
BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
Development of a Biomembrane Platform for the Study of Virus Infection
Metamaterial Elliptical Cylinder for High Sensitive Single-Molecule Torque Detection
Building Microfluidics Devices to Study Zinc Metal Homeostasis in E. Coli Communities
Design and Application of Microfluidic Devices to Study the Effect of the Physical Microenvironment on Cellular Function
Metasurface-Enhanced Mid-Infrared Microscopy for Imaging Living Cells
Time-Lapse Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Live Cells Using High-Aspect-Ratio Metal-on-Dielectric Nanostructures
Biomimetic Loading Promotes Maturation and Suppresses Pathological Progression of Chick Embryonic Cardiomyocytes in Engineered Heart Tissues
Micro-Scale Optoelectronic Transduced Electrodes (MOTEs) for Chronic in vivo Neural Recording
On-Chip Cell Transportation and Rotation Using Vibration-Induced Flow
Fabrication of Microchip Devices for Organ-on-a-Chip and Lab-on-a-Chip Applications
Investigating the Effect of the Tumor Microenvironment on Metastatic Progression Using Micro and Nano-Scale Tools
Increasing Microfabrication Yield of Template-Based Carbon Nanotube Arrays for Gene Transfer
High-Density, Integrated, Multi-Functional Neural Probe for Small Animals
CHEMISTRY
Sequence-Defined Peptoids as Next-Generation EUV Photoresists
Direct Functionalization of Polyethylene Surfaces with High Density Polymer Brushes
New High-Resolution Resists for EUV Lithography
ELECTRONICS
Fabrication of 2D-Material-Based Ionic Transistors
Optimizing Annealing Temperature for Ohmic Contacts to AlGaN/GaN
Fabrication of Interdigitated Electrodes for use in a Homebuilt Electron Force Microscope
Ferroelectric Hafnium Zirconium Oxide Under the Gate of AlN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors
Improving Interface Quality and Repeatability in Contacts to ß-Ga2O3 by Metal-First Processing
Transparent Dual Polarized Antenna
Superconducting Microwave Devices at the CNF
System-on-Foil
ASIC Design for a Fast X-Ray Pixel Array Detector
Preferential Electrospray Deposition onto Interdigitated Electrodes
MATERIALS
Micro-Scale Ceramic Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace Applications
Synthesis of Temperature-Responsive Hydrogel Particles for Hydraulic Control of Cooled Short Circuits
Low Loss Superconducting LC Resonator for Strong Coupling with Magnons
Investigation of Dry Chemical Actuators Using Palladium Thin Films
Metal-Organic Framework-Inspired Metal-Containing Clusters for High-Resolution Patterning
Thiol-Norbornene Photopolymer for Two-Photon Photopolymerization
Influence of Ligand for Metallo-Elastomer Design
Fabrication of Polymer Grafted Core-Shell Nanoparticles
Quasi-2D Materials for Ultra-Low Resistance Electrical Interconnects
Lithiation Induced Phases in 1T.-MoTe2 Nanoflakes
Measuring Microplastic Migration Through Human Intestinal Mucus
Fabrication of Non-Volatile Memory Transistors Using Hybrid Two-Dimensional Materials
FuSe Internship
MECHANICAL DEVICES
Harnessing Magnetic-Field Driven Actuation for Microscale Motion in MEMS-Inspired Device
Fabrication of Micro Scale Triboelectric Microphone
Magnetically Programmed Diffractive Robotics
Microwave Frequency Acoustic Resonators for Quantum Applications
OPTICS & OPTO-ELECTRONICS
High Efficiency Fiber-Chip Coupling
Programmable Poling for Electric Field Induced Second Harmonic Generation
HfO2-Based Platform for High Index Contrast Visible and UV Integrated Photonics
Metamaterial Spectrometer: A Low SWaP, Robust, High Performance Hyperspectral Sensor for Land and Atmospheric Remote Sensing
optiXphere Sensor Development
Dual-Band Metalenses for Imaging and Absolute Temperature Detection
Diffractive Optical Element Manufacturing Feasibility
PHYSICS & NANO-STRUCTURE PHYSICS
Nanomolding of Topological Materials for Interconnects
Micro-Additive Manufacturing Processes for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
Study Unconventional Spin-Orbit Torque Generation on Micron-Sized Devices Fabricated with Photolithography
Van der Waals Magnetic Tunnel Junctions with Metallic Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Electrodes
Nanofabricated Superconducting Devices for Vortex Dynamics and Qubits
Fabrication of Nanoscale Josephson Junctions for Quantum Coherent Superconducting Circuits
Realization of the Haldane Chern Insulator in a Moiré Lattice
Giant Spin Hall Effect in AB-Stacked MoTe2/WSe2 Bilayers
Thin-Film Deposition for Surface Characterization Studies for Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavity Application
Imaging Pulse-Induced Charge Density Wave Switching in 1T-TaS2
Manufacturing SiN Bullseye Cavities and SOI Photonic Crystal Nanobeam Cavities
Weak Link Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices for High-Resolution Scanning Magnetometry
Fabrication of Fluxonium-Like Qubits
Characterization of Fluxonium Qubits
Probing Two-Dimensional Van der Waal Heterostructure and Height Characterization
Observation of Exciton Polariton Band Structure
Using Photolithography to Mass-Produce Rings of Controlled Size
PROCESS & CHARACTERIZATION
Fabrication of Superconducting Resonators on hBN Thin Films
Fabrication and Characterization of High-Resistivity Silicon Interposers
Atomic Layer Deposition of High-K Dielectrics
Investigating the Lateral Spreading of Vanadium-Based Ohmic Contacts
Effect of Temperature on Particle Morphology Polymerized via Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition in Liquid Crystal
Stoichiometric Dependence of Physical and Electrical Properties of Silicon Nitride
Atomic Layer Etching of III-Nitride Semiconductors
Fabricating Oxygen Managed and Thermally Robust Nb-Based Josephson Junction
Measuring Thickness of Extracellular Vesicle Mucin Coatings Using Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis
Polymer Film Microstructures via Surface-Directed Condensed Droplet Polymerization
Tuning the Surface Wettability of Alumina Membrane for Carbonate Crystallization
Lithography for Topological Nanowires
Through-Silicon Vias for Substrate-Integrated Waveguides
CNF NORDTECH Internship: Characterization of Oxynitride Films
Nanotechnology Workforce and Curriculum Development
Cornell NanoScale Facility High School Summer Internship
The Effects of Nitrogen Annealing on Etch Rates of HDPECVD and PECVD Silicon Dioxide Films
The Effects of Nitrogen Annealing on Stress of HDPECVD and PECVD Silicon Dioxide Films
The Viability of 1,3,3,3-Tetrafluoropropene as a Low Global Warming Potential Silicon Dioxide Etch Gas at the Cornell NanoScale Facility
An Evaluation of 1,3,3,3-Tetrafluoropropene as a Low Global Warming Potential Silicon Dioxide Etch Gas at the Cornell NanoScale Facility
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