News, Awards and Grants
Michael Kalontarov and Bernardo Cordovez win Grand Prize and First Prize at 2009 ASME Micro- and Nanotechnology Society-wide Forum
Michael Kalontarov and his co-author Mekala Krishnan were awarded the Grand Prize for his poster on "Fluid Dynamically Driven Assembly in 3D for Programmable Matter" and Bernardo Cordovez and his co-author Aram Chung were awarded the first prize for their work on "Chemically driven insect cyborg sentinels" at the IMECE Nanotechnology Society Wide Forum in Orlando, Florida. There were a total of 144 entries.
Mekala Krishnan Awarded CNF's 2009 Nellie Yeh-Poh Lin Whetten Memorial Award
Congradulations to Mekala Kirshnan who was awarded the Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facilities "Nellie Yeh-Poh Lin Whetten Memorial Award" for 2009. The award is given to an outstanding female graduate student working at the CNF who displays the highest level of enthusiasm and commitment to professionalism. Mekala was given the award for her research on the development of microfluidic programmable matter, the excellent reviews she has received as a TA, and her extra-curricular work with Asha Cornell.
NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Awarded
Sean Moore and Casey Kraning have both been awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships in the 2009 Competition. Congradulations!
NSF CAREER Award
For his work on "Optofluidics - Fusing microfluidics and photonics" Professor Erickson has been awarded an NSF CAREER award.
Press releases and other coverage of "Optical Manipulation of Nanoparticles and Biomolecules in Subwavelength Slot Waveguides" Paper
A number of organizations put together stories and press releases related to this paper published in Nature. For more information see the following press releases from: National Science Foundation and Cornell University and related coverage from Science Daily, Lab-on-a-Chip , Analytical Chemistry News, Nature Methods News.
Chemistry world article on Insect Cyborgs
Chemistry world magazine has written an article detailing our work on insect cyborgs. The work is related to our paper "Engineering Insect Flight Metabolics using Immature Stage Implanted Microfluidics." Published in Lab-on-a-Chip.
Yun Suk Huh wins Grand Prize at ASME 3rd Micro- and Nanotechnology Society-wide Forum
Yun and his co-authors Aram Chung and Bernardo Cordovez were awarded the Grand Prize (1st out of over 160 entries) for the poster on their work "Optofluidic Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Chip for Detection of Dengue Virus" at the ASME 3rd Micro- and Nanotechnology Society-wide Forum at the IMECE conference in Boston. See this article from ASME news on-line.
Reconfigurable Photonics Grant Awarded
The Erickson lab in collaboration with Illuminaria LLC has received an AFOSR grant on microfluidically reconfigurable photonics.
Connecting with Cornell Article.
See the write up on our Nanoscale Optofluidic Sensor Arrays featured in this year's Connecting with Cornell.
Photonics Spectra Article on Optofluidics
See our recent review on Optofluidics in the February 2008 issue of Photonics Spectra. Co-written with Changhuei Yang and Demetri Psaltis.
Programmable Matter Grant Awarded
The Erickson lab in collaboration with the Hod Lipson (PI) and Jaeger Lab (U. Chicago) labs has been awarded a DARPA Grant on programmable matter.
Sudeep Mandal's NBTC Talk availiable for download
Sudeep's recent NanoBioTechnology center talk on photonic crystals for optofluidics is availiable for download from the NBTC website.
If the video does not download properly you may have to cut and paste the following link into your realplayer in order to see it.
rtsp://specevents.video.cornell.edu/NBTC2008/NBTC_041508.rm
Samsung HumanTech Thesis Prize
Aram Chung has been awarded a 2008 Samsung HumanTech Silver Prize for his work on "Electrokinetic microfluidic devices for rapid, low power drug delivery in autonomous microsystems". Details of the award and his prize can be found the HumanTech website.
Erickson named associate editor of "Journal of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics"
Prof. Erickson has been named an associate editor of the Journal of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. For information on the Journal please visit the website.
Erickson named associate editor of "Smart Materials and Structures"
Starting January 2008, Prof. Erickson will begin a 2 year term as associate editor of the Journal of Smart Materials and Structures. For information on the Journal please visit the website.
Best Presentation Award
Mekala Krishnan's presentation "Directed Hierarchical Self Assembly – Active Fluid Mechanics at the Micro and Nanoscales" was awarded the best presentation award at the ASME-IMECE Microfluidics 2007 Fluids Engineering in Micro- and Nanosystems. Congradulations!
Nanoscale Optofluidic Sensor Arrays featured in NBTC Newsletter
Our NBTC project in collaboration with Antje Baeumner and Michal Lipson is featured in the Winter 2007 NBTC newsletter. You can download a copy from here.
Special Issue on Optofluidics
The special issue on optofluidics edited by Prof. Erickson for the Journal of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics will be published as the final issue of 2007. The final list of
articles is provided below in alphabetical order.
- "Liquid-infiltrated photonic crystals: enhanced light-matter interactions for lab-on-a-chip applications" by Niels
Asger Mortensen, Sanshui Xiao and Jesper Pedersen
- "Nanobiosensors: optofluidic, electrical and mechanical approaches to biomolecular detection at the nanoscale" by David
Erickson, Sudeep Mandal, Allen H. J. Yang and Bernardo Cordovez
- "Nanohole arrays in metal films as optofluidic elements: progress and potential" by David Sinton, Reuven Gordon and
Alexandre G. Brolo
- "Optofluidic dye lasers" by Zhenyu Li and Demetri Psaltis
- "Optofluidic integration for microanalysis" by Hamish C. Hunt and James S. Wilkinson
- "Optofluidic waveguides: I. Concepts and implementations" by Holger Schmidt and Aaron R. Hawkins
- "Optofluidic waveguides: II. Fabrication and structures" by Aaron R. Hawkins and Holger Schmidt
- "Optofluidics: a novel generation of reconfigurable and adaptive compact architectures" by C. Monat, P. Domachuk, C.
Grillet, M. Collins, B. J. Eggleton, M. Cronin-Golomb, S. Mutzenich, T. Mahmud, G. Rosengarten and A. Mitchell
- "Optofluidics technology based on colloids and their assemblies" by Seung-Kon Lee, Shin-Hyun Kim, Ji-Hwan Kang, Sung-
Gyu Park, Won-Jong Jung, Se-Hoon Kim, Gi-Ra Yi and Seung-Man Yang
- "Tunable optofluidic devices" by Uriel Levy and Romi Shamai
Thanks to all the contributors!
NSF-NIRT Grant Awarded
The Erickson lab in collaboration with the Michal Lipson lab (Cornell) and the Krauss and Bren labs at the University of Rochester have been awarded an NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team program on "Active Nanophotofluidic Systems for Single Molecule/Particle Analysis". This award provides $1,000,000 to support the teams effort over 4 years. Further information on the program is availiable through our NIRT website.
Best Poster Awards at CNF 30th Anniversary
Allen Yang and Aram Chung both won best poster awards at the Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facilities (CNF) 30th anniversary symposium. Allen’s poster was on Optofluidic Transport and Aram’s was on his work on Insect Cyborg Sentinels.
NIH Grant Awarded
The Erickson lab in collaboration with the Baeumner labs has been awarded an NIH Grant to develop Optofluidic devices for Dengue virus RNA detection.
DARPA Young Faculty Award
Professor Erickson has been selected for the 2007 DARPA MTO Young Faculty Award. The award will support work on the development of Integrated Nanosystems for Autonomous Health Monitoring.
Nanobiotechnology Center Grant Awarded
The Erickson and Baeumner (bioengineering) Labs has been awarded an NBTC grant to develop "Nanoscale Optofluidic Devices for Biomolecular Analysis".
Nanomanufacturing Grant Awarded
The Lipson (PI) and Erickson (Co-PI) Labs has been awarded an NSF grant to develop "Actively Programmable Multi-level Fluidic Self-Assembly" which represents a new technique for Hierarchical Microfabrication.
SPIE Newsrooom article on Nanoscale Optofluidic Integration
Recently published SPIE Newsroom article on integrating nanophotonic devices with nanofluidics. Visit SPIE for more information.
Award for "Integrated Microfluidic Devices" paper
The article Integrated Microfluidic Devices published in 2004 is listed as one of Canada's Top 10 Hot Papers. See in-cites for information.
New Course: MAE 656 - Nanoscale Energy Transport and Conversion
Professor Erickson will offer a new course starting in the Spring 2006 term entitled MAE 656, Nanoscale Energy Transport and Conversion. Click here for more details.
Nanosensors Grant Awarded
The Erickson Lab has been awarded an NSF grant to develop nanoscale electro-active sensor devices in collaboration with Professor Sandra Troian at the California Institute of Technology.
Events
Special Symposium on Optofluidics
In collaboration with Holger Schmidt, UCSC, we are organizing a Symposium on Optofluidics at CLEO 2009 (conference on lasers and electroopics). Details of the symposium are availiable from the CLEO website.
Journal Special Issue on Optofluidics
We are publishing a special issue of the Journal of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics on the topic of "Optofluidics". If you would like to contribute, the deadline for submissions is May 15th, 2007. Please contact Professor Erickson (de54@cornell.edu) for details.
Building Nanostructures Bit by Bit
The Cornell Nanoscience and Technology Facility (CNF) is holding its 2nd Annual NNIN/CNF Fall Workshop on October 23- 25th, 2006. Professor Erickson will be giving a lecture on numerical techniques for micro-/nanofluidic analysis and providing a hands on tutorial on the ELMER finite element code. For more information please see the program website.
Optofluidics: Emerging Technologies and Applications
Professor Erickson is Co-Chairing (along with Prof. D. Psaltis from Caltech, Prof. Y-H Lo from UCSD and Dr. D. Rabus from the Institute for Microstructure Technology, Germany) a LEOS/IEEE 2006 Summer Topical Conference entitled “Optofluidics: Emerging Technologies and Applications”. If you are interested in participating please feel free to contact Prof. Erickson at de54@cornell.edu.
Optofluidics Session at 2005 SPIE Optics and Photonics
Professor Erickson is chairing an invited session on Optofluidics at the 2005 SPIE Optics and Photonics conference in
San Diego. Invited speakers include, Prof. Demetri Psaltis (Caltech), Prof. Stephen Quake (Stanford), Prof. John Rogers
(UIUC), Dr. Stein Kuiper (Phillips) and Prof. Sandra Troian (Princeton).