2024 - 2025 CNF Research Accomplishments (RA)

2024-2025 CNF RA Front Cover
TABLE of CONTENTS & DIRECTORS' INTRODUCTION
PATENTS, PRESENTATIONS, AND PUBLICATIONS
BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
Tunable Elliptical Cylinders for Rotational Mechanical Studies of Single DNA Molecules
Building Microfluidics Devices to Study Zinc Metal Homeostasis in E. Coli Communities
Microfabricated Nanogrooves to Promote in Vitro Muscle Fiber Differentiation and Maturation
Microfluidic Flow Cells for Time-Resolved Fluorescence-Based Studies of Biomolecules
Metabolic Labeling of Mucin-Induced Extracellular Vesicles Isolated from Suspension-Adapted Cell Culture
Platform for Live Cells Infrared Chemical Imaging
Circulating Extracellular Vesicles and Physical Stress in ME/CFS
Broadband Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy of Single Cells for Viability Assessment
Microfluidic-Based Analysis and Selection of Mammalian Spermatozoa
Fabrication of Microchip Devices for Organ-on-a-Chip and Lab-on-a-Chip Applications
Nanofabrication of Metallic Barriers for Single Molecule Imaging
Fabrication of Microelectrode Arrays for Oxygen Generation to Support Cellular Growth in Implantable Devices
Generating Dendritic Cell-Mimetic Artificial Antigen Presenting Cell for Optimized T Cell Activation
Exploring Microfabrication Parameters of Template-Based Carbon Nanotube Arrays for Gene Transfer
Microfluidic Chip Fabrication Using CNF Facilities
Microfluidic Systems for Studying Bacteria Mechanobiology
Silicon Nitride Cantilevers for Muscle Myofibril Force Measurements
CHEMISTRY
Identifying Sources of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Photolithography Wastewater
New High Resolution Resists for EUV Lithography
ELECTRONICS
Isotropic Plasma ALE of Nitride Semiconductors
High Frequency Micro-Patterned Fe65Co35 Thin Film with Tunable FMR and Permeability for RF Passives
Supramolecular Control of Ionic Retention in Hybrid Bilayer Synaptic Transistors
Imaging Radiation Detectors for Synchrotron X-Ray Sources and Electron Microscopes
SUPREME Tasks 6/7
Nanoelectronic Artificial Intelligence Processors
Validation of a First Digitho Programmable Photomask Prototype
Microchannel Fabrication on Silicon Wafer and Development of Heating Elements on Silicon and Sapphire
Interconnect-Based Temperature Sensing Array for IC Thermal Management
Aluminum CMP Planarization for Graphene FETs
GALLO
Circuit Integration and Chip Design
Towards Quantitative Comparisons of Bulk and Local Optoelectronic Properties of Emerging Solar Cell Materials with Interdigital Electrodes
MATERIALS
Optimizing Silicon Chip Thickness and Pixel Activation Threshold in Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope Detectors
Initiated CVD (iCVD) Polymerization in Liquid Crystal to Synthesize Polymer Particles
Computer Vision Applied to Polymer Particles in Liquid Crystal (LC) to Enable On-the-Fly Characterization of their Morphology and Size Distribution, Among Other Properties
AJA Sputter 1 & 2 Materials Characterization
Effects of Reactive Ion Etching on Conductivity of NbAs
Synthesis of Temperature-Responsive Hydrogel Particles for Hydraulic Control of Cooled Short Circuits
Design and Synthesis of Sequence-Defined Oligopeptoids for Potential Lithographic Use
Broadband Waveguide
Sequence-Defined Polypeptoids Enable Stochastics Control and Discovery of Novel Patterning Mechanism in Next-Generation EUV Resists
Two-Photon Printing of Polymer and Glass Electrospray Emitters
A Brief Survey of Contact Angle Measurements for Predicting Fluid Flow in Electrospray Emitters
Lithography on 2D Materials for Stressor Film Deposition
Area Selective Deposition
Mapping Structure Evolution During Lithiation of 2D Materials
Spore-Polymer Composite Materials
Biphilic Porous Transport Layer Enabled High Efficiency and High-Current Density Proton Exchanger Membrane Electrolyzer
MECHANICAL DEVICES
Electrically Programmable Microvalve for On-Demand Drug Delivery
Programmable Magnetoelastic Energy Landscapes for Autonomous Microscopic Machines
Bioinspired Acoustic Particle Velocity Sensor
OPTICS & OPTO-ELECTRONICS
23dB On-Chip Interferometric Signal-to-Noise Enhancement via Weak Value Amplification
On-Chip Soliton Generation
Suspended Multimode SiN Platform for Strong Intermodal Brillouin Scattering
Reducing the Operating Voltage of Deep-Ultraviolet Light Emitting Diodes
Towards Release-Free Intermodal Acousto-Optic Modulation at Visible and UV Wavelengths
Programmable Poling for Electric Field Induced Second Harmonic Generation
Photonic Integrated Technologies for Low-SWaP, Narrow- Linewidth, and Tunable Laser System
Design and Fabricate Robust Nanocavities
PHYSICS & NANO-STRUCTURE PHYSICS
Fabricating Dual-Gated 2D CrSBr Devices to Investigate Nonlinear Transport Effects
Fabrication of Manhattan-style Josephson Junctions
Domain Switching in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene
Structure and Dynamics of the Compression Induced Polycrystalline-Glass Transition
Probing Spin Dynamics in Exfoliated van der Waals Ferromagnet Fe5GeTe2
Out-of-plane Spin Component Produced by Magnetic Ordering
Gate-tunable Electroresistance in a Sliding Ferroelectric Tunnel Junction
Quantum-Limited Measurement as a Tool for Entanglement in Superconducting Circuits
Deposition of Gold Films as a Sample Surface Coating for Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy
Perfect Coulomb Drag in a Dipolar Excitonic Insulator
Superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer WSe2
Thermodynamic Evidence of Fractional Chern Insulator in Moiré MoTe2
Investigating the Impact of an External Electric Field on Thermal Behavior
Thin-Film Deposition for Surface Characterization Studies for Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavity Application
Enhancement of Laser Plasma Driven Ion Acceleration Using Dialectric Metasurfaces
Sensing Superconducting Film Loss Via Flip Chip
Improving Quality Factors in Superconducting Resonators
Manufacturing SiN Bullseye Cavities & SOI Photonic Crystal Nanobeam Cavities
Fabrication of Fluxonium-Lime Qubits
Weak Link Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices for High-Resolution Scanning Magnetometry
Resistivity Scaling in Weyl Semimetal NbAs Nanowires and Thin Slabs
Resistivity Scaling of CuAl2-x Nanowires for Post-Cu Interconnects
Characterization of Fluxonium Qubits
Epitaxial Nitride Josephson Junctions
Fabrication of 2D Graphene Devices for Low Temperature Transport Measurement
Electrical Transport in Graphene Heterostructures
Reliable Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Prepared Fabrication for 2D Quantum Material Device Research
Sensor Development for Picosecond Timing
Fabrication of Superconducting Qubits at CNF
Study of Vortex Dynamics in Josephson Junction Arrays
Silicon Carbine Nanophotonic Cavities for Integration with Color Centers
PROCESS & CHARATERIZATION
Characterization of Silicon Carbide Wafers
Baseline Etch Processes: Evaluating Etching and Stripping Tools
Determining Out-of-Plane Structure via Electron Diffraction
Silicon Interposer for Millimeter-Wave Heterogenous Integration: Doped vs. High Resistivity Substrates
Alpha-Tantalum Thin Film Deposition on Pure Silicon Wafers with the Angstrom-Q
Characterization of Silicon Oxide Etching with Low Global Warming Potential Hydroolefin
Characterization of the Heidelberg MLA 150
Redistribution Layers on Glass Wafers
Metal-Containing Resists for Extreme Ultra Violet
Electrospray Propulsion Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Diagnostic