{"688452":{"#nid":"688452","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Challenges and Opportunities of Cold Weather and Technology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhile Italy\u2019s 2026 Winter Olympics draw the world\u2019s attention to snow and ice, Georgia Tech researchers are also confronting cold at its most extreme.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome labs in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE) use liquid nitrogen and liquid helium to chill cryogenic test systems to as low as 4 Kelvins (K), or -452.47 degrees Fahrenheit (F), temperatures that rival the coldest regions of deep space.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt this point, materials and electronic devices stop behaving in familiar ways, which is exactly why ECE researchers use these extreme conditions to explore and\u0026nbsp;develop new semiconductor technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cElectronics are very temperature dependent,\u201d Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/john-d-cressler\u0022\u003EJohn Cressler\u003C\/a\u003E said, whose lab houses some of these cryogenic test systems. \u201cWhether you see it or not, every electronic you buy has a tested temperature spec associated with it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrent commercially sold devices, including most cell phones, are made to run between 32 F and 85 F. Researchers in ECE test across a far wider range, as they develop technology with extraterrestrial and quantum computing applications in mind.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOther ECE teams work in natural extremes, carrying instruments into polar regions where cold creates challenges that no lab can fully replicate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJust as cold pushes athletes in different ways, it guides ECE research down its own distinct paths.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/challenges-and-opportunities-technology-cold\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead the full story on the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u0027s website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn labs chilled to 4 kelvins (-450 degrees!) and on expeditions to polar regions, Georgia Tech scientists are discovering how extreme cold simultaneously challenges and advances technology in computing, space exploration, and the interpretation of Earth\u2019s natural signals.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In labs chilled to 4 kelvins (-450 degrees!) and on expeditions to polar regions, Georgia Tech scientists are discovering how extreme cold simultaneously challenges and advances technology in computing, space exploration, and more."}],"uid":"36558","created_gmt":"2026-02-20 18:51:26","changed_gmt":"2026-02-20 19:43:10","author":"zwiniecki3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2026-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"679385":{"id":"679385","type":"image","title":"cold-techs--1-.gif","body":null,"created":"1771613526","gmt_created":"2026-02-20 18:52:06","changed":"1771613526","gmt_changed":"2026-02-20 18:52:06","alt":"Tech in the Cold","file":{"fid":"263540","name":"cold-techs--1-.gif","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/02\/20\/cold-techs--1-.gif","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/02\/20\/cold-techs--1-.gif","mime":"image\/gif","size":23995589,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/02\/20\/cold-techs--1-.gif?itok=4pbIyOsL"}}},"media_ids":["679385"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/challenges-and-opportunities-technology-cold","title":"Read the Full Story"}],"groups":[{"id":"660369","name":"Matter and Systems"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"660370","name":"Space"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"167686","name":"Semiconductors"},{"id":"1228","name":"memory"},{"id":"179829","name":"cold"},{"id":"623","name":"Technology"},{"id":"170841","name":"silicon-germanium"},{"id":"167146","name":"space"},{"id":"2868","name":"atmosphere"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"193652","name":"Matter and Systems"},{"id":"193657","name":"Space Research Initiative"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EZachary Winiecki\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["zwiniecki3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"682311":{"#nid":"682311","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Yun Awarded Prestigious Asan Foundation Biomedical Science Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFirst-year \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE) Ph.D. student Jooyeong Yun has been awarded the Asan Foundation Biomedical Science Scholarship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe prestigious three-year award is given to South Korea\u2019s top graduate students in the field of medical bioscience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYun\u2019s research interests lie at the intersection of biophotonics, nanophotonics, and image processing. Her work involves optical experiments, image processing, nanofabrication, and optimization at both the imaging system and device structure levels, all toward the development of advanced imaging technologies for biomedical applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrently, she\u2019s working \u0026nbsp;to enhance spatio-temporal resolution of optical microscopy by integrating high-speed camera systems, such as SPAD arrays, with advanced image processing algorithms to achieve high-SNR imaging with ultra-high spatial and temporal resolution for biomedical applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe\u2019s also working on the development of photonic devices for advanced imaging. The goal is to design and optimize nanophotonic structures for applications like single-shot hyperspectral imaging to enhance optical functionalities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYun received her B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea. During her master\u2019s degree, she published multiple papers on the design strategies of metasurfaces and other nanophotonic structures for applications including wide field-of-view depth imaging and radiative cooling.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs she pursues her Ph.D. in ECE, she aims to apply her background in light-matter interactions and design optimization to develop advanced bio-imaging systems that exploit higher degrees of freedom of light\u2014such as polarization, phase, and spectral properties\u2014and leverage complex photonic behaviors to push the frontiers of biomedical imaging.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Asan Foundation is a South Korean social welfare foundation that supports the betterment of human society through research funding and a number of other activities.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Ph.D. student \u0026nbsp;was recognized for advancing biomedical imaging through photonics research.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Ph.D. student  was recognized for advancing biomedical imaging through photonics research."}],"uid":"36558","created_gmt":"2025-05-09 16:03:11","changed_gmt":"2025-05-09 16:08:30","author":"zwiniecki3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677056":{"id":"677056","type":"image","title":"Yun-Fellowship.jpg","body":null,"created":"1746806715","gmt_created":"2025-05-09 16:05:15","changed":"1746806715","gmt_changed":"2025-05-09 16:05:15","alt":"Yun-Fellowship","file":{"fid":"260918","name":"Yun-Fellowship.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/05\/09\/Yun-Fellowship.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/05\/09\/Yun-Fellowship.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1341170,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/05\/09\/Yun-Fellowship.jpg?itok=Nz_4u52G"}}},"media_ids":["677056"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"368","name":"Fellowship"},{"id":"2548","name":"biomedical"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EZachary Winiecki\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["zwiniecki3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"679741":{"#nid":"679741","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Joins $840M DoD Project to Develop and Manufacture Next-gen Semiconductor Microsystems","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology is set to play a crucial role in a strategic effort funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) to help bolster America\u2019s national security and global military leadership.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project, led by the Texas Institute for Electronics (TIE) at The University of Texas at Austin, represents a total investment of $1.4 billion. The $840 million award from DARPA, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.utexas.edu\/2024\/07\/18\/uts-texas-institute-for-electronics-awarded-840m-to-build-a-dod-microelectronics-manufacturing-center-advance-u-s-semiconductor-industry\/\u0022\u003Eannounced by TIE in 2024\u003C\/a\u003E, aims to develop the next generation of high-performing semiconductor microsystems for the Department of Defense (DoD).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are honored to collaborate with TIE and its broader team on this far reaching and strategic program to enable best in class 3D heterogeneous integration (3DHI) processes and technologies in the United States,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/muhannad-s-bakir\u0022\u003EMuhannad S. Bakir\u003C\/a\u003E, the Dan Fielder Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E and director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/ien-prc\/\u0022\u003E3D Systems Packaging Research Center\u003C\/a\u003E, who is heading the project for Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E3DHI is a semiconductor manufacturing process that incorporates different materials and components into microsystems with precision assembly. The use of 3DHI allows for the creation of high-performance, compact, and energy-efficient systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe investment is part of DARPA\u2019s Next Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing (NGMM) Program comprised of 32 defense electronics and leading commercial semiconductor companies and 18 nationally recognized academic institutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003EUnder the agreement, TIE will establish a national open access R\u0026amp;D and prototyping fabrication facility. The facility will enable the DoD to create higher performance, lower power, lightweight, and compact defense systems. The advancements are expected to have wide-ranging applications, including radar, satellite imaging, and unmanned aerial vehicles.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech will provide a wide range of expertise in 3DHI including design, fabrication and assembly processes, and characterization to support the NGMM national open-access R\u0026amp;D and prototyping facility at TIE. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003ERegents\u0027 Professor and Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/sitaraman\u0022\u003ESuresh K. Sitaraman\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorge W. 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The instrument will be one of just a handful of weather radars operated by universities in the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are really excited about this partnership with Georgia Tech, the Georgia Tech Research Institute, the University of Georgia, and Georgia Gwinnett College,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/geography.uga.edu\/directory\/people\/james-marshall-shepherd\u0022\u003EMarshall Shepherd\u003C\/a\u003E, Associate Dean for Research, Scholarship and Partnership at UGA\u2019s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and Director of UGA\u2019s Atmospheric Sciences Program. \u201cThe radar will be a real-time component of classes, so it\u2019s creating new instructional and service capabilities. It will also enable researchers at the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech to pursue new research opportunities in the areas of severe weather, frozen precipitation \u2013 and perhaps even studies of birds and insects.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe radar will provide a new data source for UGA\u2019s WeatherDawgs service, which provides hyperlocal weather data not only for the Athens community, but also for residents of eastern and northeastern Georgia. The system will also provide a real-time component for the mesoscale meteorology course taught at the university.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Georgia Tech, the radar will support the work of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/severestorms.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESevere Storms Research Center (SSRC)\u003C\/a\u003E, a state-funded initiative that serves as a focal point for severe storms research in the state. The radar will also support research and education at Georgia Tech, including courses on weather radar systems and studies of lightning being done in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe new radar will help fill some low-level gaps in weather radar coverage in north Georgia, and give higher-resolution data for the Georgia Gwinnett campus, University of Georgia campus, Georgia Tech campus and areas in between,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/severestorms.gatech.edu\/contact-information\/\u0022\u003EJohn Trostel\u003C\/a\u003E, director of the SSRC. \u201cThis is an area where both UGA and Georgia Tech have interests because it goes from urban to suburban, then back to urban. We might see some very interesting weather phenomena going on in those transition areas.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe National Weather Service has access to a feed from the radar and will use it to obtain information about low-altitude weather activity that can\u2019t be seen as well from sources such as the NEXRAD radar based in Peachtree City and the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Trostel added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ggc.edu\u0022\u003EGeorgia Gwinnett College\u003C\/a\u003E, the radar will provide real-world examples of how physics and engineering concepts are applied. Data from the radar system, which will be accessible to the college, would also provide students with a new research opportunity that is a required component of the science curriculum.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur Physics and Pre-Engineering courses already cover the concepts of electromagnetic waves and the Doppler effect, which are the main principles behind radar,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ggc.edu\/directory\/neelam-khan\u0022\u003ENeelam Khan\u003C\/a\u003E, the Chair of the Physics and Pre-Engineering Department at Georgia Gwinnett College. \u201cThrough this radar, students will learn about the applications of Doppler radar to track weather patterns and visualize the data it produces.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EConnections with the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, and the Georgia Tech Research Institute will also help broaden the experience of students at Georgia Gwinnett College, a four-year public college that was founded in 2005 and now has more than 11,000 students, Khan said. All three collaborating institutions are part of the University System of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Furuno WR-2100 X-band weather radar was purchased in 2022 using funding from Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia. It was initially placed atop a building on GTRI\u2019s Smyrna campus, where it underwent tests while Trostel and Shepherd searched for the best location for a more permanent installation. The researchers have used the device to look at storms, generate data, and practice data analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Gwinnett location was selected because the campus location enables coverage for both Atlanta and Athens. The Gwinnett County location also helps fill potential gaps in northeast Georgia and brings a unique resource for GGC\u2019s educational mission. The radar is now fully operational.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOwning and operating a weather radar is unusual for colleges and universities, but not surprising given the impact of severe weather in Georgia, Shepherd noted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWeather is a significant threat to our lives and property, particularly in Georgia,\u201d Shepherd said. \u201cWhile we have an adequate radar network from the National Weather Service and the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar, there are often gaps and needs for higher resolution, more detailed information. Our institutions have entered very rare air in owning and operating a weather radar that will benefit our students, the state, and our research enterprise in the University System of Georgia institutions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause they\u2019ll be able to control the geographic areas covered by the radar and the level of detail in the information gathered, the new weather radar will be a useful tool not only for tracking storms, but also for conducting research, Trostel said. Its ability to provide highly detailed information even allows it to track the movement of insects and birds, for example.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe can see things at higher resolution, and we have complete control over how we manipulate the radar beam to look at things,\u201d Trostel said. \u201cThe radar is much less expensive to purchase and operate than other weather radars, which makes it a budget-friendly tool for university research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe instrument cost approximately $150,000 to purchase and was acquired through donations and internal funding at UGA and Georgia Tech. Shepherd and Tom Mote, the founding director of the Atmospheric Sciences Program at UGA, contributed funds from institutional research budgets. A significant financial gift was also acquired from Elaine Neal, an alumna of the UGA Department of Geography and longtime donor to the University of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, funds were provided by GTRI\u2019s Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, and the Aerospace, Transportation and Advanced Systems Laboratory, the Georgia Tech Office of the Executive Vice President for Research, and Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWriter: John Toon (john.toon@gtri.gatech.edu)\u003Cbr\u003EGTRI Communications\u003Cbr\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003Cbr\u003EAtlanta, Georgia USA\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EInstalled recently at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC), an X-band weather radar purchased two years ago by the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Georgia (UGA) is now providing data for a section of north Georgia where information on severe storms such as tornados can be limited by terrain. 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Trebino\u2019s techniques for measuring them have made possible a host of new research and technology applications in many areas, including the fundamental studies of matter and micro-material processing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETrebino has pioneered ultrashort-pulse measurement techniques for over three decades. In 1991, he invented the frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG) technique, the first method for completely measuring arbitrary ultrashort light pulses in time. It took pulse measurement from blurry black-and-white artifact-ridden snapshots to high-resolution full-color images. The FROG technique remains the gold standard in ultrashort pulse measurement and is used worldwide in physics, chemistry, engineering, biomedical, and telecommunications applications.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMore recently, Trebino has developed devices for measuring pulses with ever shorter and ever more complex temporal \u2014 and also spatial \u2014 variations. Thanks in large part to Trebino\u2019s techniques, these exotic light pulses have become much better understood and hence much shorter, more stable, and much more useful. His devices have also played key roles in work resulting in several recent Nobel Prizes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERick Trebino received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University and joined Georgia Tech in 1998 after having worked at Sandia National Laboratories. He has received numerous other awards and is a Fellow of four international scientific societies, including Optica, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and SPIE: the international society for optics and photonics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELearn more about Trebino\u2019s Ultrafast Optics Research Group here: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/frog.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Efrog.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EAbout Optica\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.optica.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EOptica\u003C\/a\u003E (formerly OSA), Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide, is the society dedicated to promoting the generation, application, archiving, and dissemination of knowledge in the field. 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He is also a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EOptica Fellows, a select group representing no more than 10 percent of the total membership, are individuals who have demonstrated exceptional dedication to advancing optics and photonics. 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The comprehensive list of the 2024 Optica Fellows is accessible \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.optica.org\/about\/newsroom\/news_releases\/2023\/october\/optica_announces_2024_fellows_class\/\u0022\u003Eonline.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EProfessor Wenshan Cai secures a spot in Optica\u0027s prestigious 2024 Fellow Class, recognizing his groundbreaking contributions that have advanced the field of optics and photonics.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Wenshan Cai secures a spot in Optica\u0027s prestigious 2024 Fellow Class, recognizing his groundbreaking contributions that have advanced the field of optics and photonics."}],"uid":"36172","created_gmt":"2023-11-09 18:23:17","changed_gmt":"2023-11-20 01:06:07","author":"dwatson71","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"672352":{"id":"672352","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Professor Wenshan Cai\u00a0","body":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Professor Wenshan Cai\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1699644046","gmt_created":"2023-11-10 19:20:46","changed":"1699644046","gmt_changed":"2023-11-10 19:20:46","alt":"Georgia Tech Professor Wenshan Cai\u00a0","file":{"fid":"255578","name":"Cai_5x7_B.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/11\/10\/Cai_5x7_B.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/11\/10\/Cai_5x7_B.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1704887,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/11\/10\/Cai_5x7_B.jpg?itok=WLnio58G"}}},"media_ids":["672352"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"91661","name":"Wenshan Cai"},{"id":"193251","name":"Optica"},{"id":"193252","name":"Optica Fellow"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"167535","name":"School of Materials Science and Engineering"},{"id":"2768","name":"optics"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"77481","name":"plasmonics"},{"id":"79971","name":"metamaterials"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDan Watson\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["dwatson@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"669806":{"#nid":"669806","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Advanced Radar Threat System Helps Aircrews Train to Evade Enemy Missiles","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EU.S. pilots and aircrews will be safer flying into contested airspace thanks to training provided by a 142-ton threat simulator system that shows them how radars built to guide hostile surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) interact with warning systems on their aircraft.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Advanced Radar Threat System Variant 1 (ARTS-V1) will be used on training ranges to simulate how defensive systems on fifth-generation aircraft engage with a variety of modern target engagement radar systems used by other nations. Gaining experience with the radars and practicing responses to the threats are part of training that helps aircrews improve survivability and increase combat effectiveness.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTarget engagement radars are directly coupled to hostile surface-to-air missile (SAM) batteries, so what we are doing with this simulated system is detecting and tracking targets just like the actual target engagement radar would do,\u201d said W. Jeffrey Rowe, a senior research engineer and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) director for the U.S. Air Force project. \u201cIt is designed to engage the best aircraft the U.S. has and help train their crews to protect themselves under highly realistic conditions.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe system, which was built by GTRI for the ARTS-V1 Program Office at AFLCMC\/HBZ, uses an electronically steered phased array that can simulate the operation of real threat radar systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECarried on two large tractor-trailers, the system is designed to be moved around ranges as needed to provide training on conditions aircrews can expect to encounter. The full system can be hauled by road or flown aboard Air Force transport aircraft. The first ARTS-V1 system was delivered to the Air Force in June 2023, and GTRI is currently under contract to build two additional systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPilots and aircrews that train with the ARTS-V1 will first be looking to detect its presence, based on signals the system is sending out. The simulator can operate on a wide range of frequencies and with different waveforms, rapidly changing them to challenge the radar warning systems in the aircraft. \u201cThere are specific waveform modes that are meant to be hard to detect,\u201d Rowe noted.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce an aircrew detects that they are being tracked by ARTS-V1, they must quickly decide how to protect themselves from the missiles that could then be fired at them. Practicing response tactics on a friendly training range under a broad range of conditions will help aircrews respond better in real combat situations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen they are flying training missions with this radar on a training range, they will get a feel for the circumstances under which they\u2019ll be able to detect it and know what the radar is doing,\u201d Rowe said. \u201cThey\u2019ll be able to avoid it, or deal with it as they proceed with their mission.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond the three ARTS-V1 systems, GTRI is providing training for multi-person operator crews, technical support for the systems, and spare parts to ensure they continue to operate. Also included is construction of two system integration labs that will develop software for the radars \u2013 one at GTRI and the other at a New Jersey-based contractor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe ARTS-V1 system is a follow-on to other threat simulator programs. GTRI has over 40 years of experience in threat system technical analysis, exploitation, and development of mobile, transportable, and fixed-site threat air-defense simulators for the test and evaluation and training communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWeighing a total of more than 285,000 pounds, the ARTS-V1 system may be the largest system ever built and delivered by GTRI. The trailer housing the radar unit is 81 feet long, while the trailer housing the operator unit is more than 94 feet long.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProducing the first ARTS-V1 system required years of design work and involved more than 50 GTRI researchers and technicians. The entire team had a great appreciation of how important this work and these systems are to aircrews flying into harm\u2019s way.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen crews take off on a mission, they have an electronic order of battle brief that shows where threats are expected to be,\u201d Rowe said. \u201cThis training will help them fly in, accomplish their mission, and fly back out.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWriter: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:john.toon@gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(john.toon@gtri.gatech.edu)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGTRI Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAtlanta, Georgia USA\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)\u003C\/a\u003E is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).\u202fFounded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station, GTRI has grown to more than 2,900 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $940 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry.\u202fGTRI\u0027s renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy, and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government, state, and industry.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EU.S. pilots and aircrews will be safer flying into contested airspace thanks to training provided by a 142-ton threat simulator system that shows them how radars built to guide hostile surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) interact with warning systems on their aircraft.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Advanced Radar Threat System Variant 1 (ARTS-V1) will be used on training ranges to simulate how defensive systems on fifth-generation aircraft engage with a variety of modern target engagement radar systems used by other nations. 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Using AI, we can take on tasks that would be too challenging for humans alone.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EUsing data from their ground-based lightning mapping array, the researchers also are studying \u201cjumps\u201d and \u201cdives\u201d in lightning activity to see how they may help predict the formation of tornadoes.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOvercoming the Challenges of Radar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EForecasters now rely on weather radar to identify tornadoes and predict which storms may spin them off. But in areas such as North Georgia, topographical features such as mountains can limit the ability to see lower portions of potentially-dangerous storms, while the time required for radars to update their views can cut into warning times. Electromagnetic interference also can create confusing radar results, and during large severe weather outbreaks stretching across hundreds of miles, there can be multiple storms that must be watched for signs of tornadic activity.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAs a result, the development of tornadoes can be missed, while false alarms may lead citizens to disregard warnings \u2013 or wait too long to seek shelter. Based on research conducted so far, Boggs believes warnings based on machine learning techniques could be significantly faster and more accurate \u2013 and offer the potential to automate the tracking of the storms.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cWith radar-based methods, there can be a high false alarm rate, as much as 60 or 70 percent,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the same time, the probability of detection can be as low as 50 or 60 percent, which means a lot of tornadoes are missed. With these machine-learning techniques, we expect to improve on both detection and false alarm rates.\u201d \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETraining Machine Learning with Detailed Storm Reports\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESo far, researchers have trained their machine learning system on data from 62 tornadoes resulting from 40 different storms in Georgia. In the Peach State, tornadoes commonly pop up from squall lines of storms, though supercells \u2013 larger rotating behemoths more often seen in the Midwest \u2013 also bring tornadoes into the state. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESupercells can spawn more powerful tornadoes \u2013 EF3, EF4, and EF5 \u2013 which are more dangerous to humans and destructive to property. But squall line tornadoes can also be deadly, even if they create less powerful EF0, EF1, and EF2 tornadoes, and lines of storms capable of producing them may extend across multiple states.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cOne of the main benefits of this machine learning technique is that by using data from the geostationary lightning mapper on the GOES satellite, you would be able to avoid the limitations of radar,\u201d he said. \u201cUsing satellite data, you have a huge field of view without the terrain blockages, and you can detect tornadoes over a huge distance \u2013 potentially the entire continental United States.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EUsing the technique, Boggs and his colleagues are evaluating as many as 40 different parameters to see which ones may be relevant to predicting tornado formation. Among them is the pattern of electrical charge within the storms, which he compares to a genetic profile. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cA typical thunderstorm may have two or three charge regions, but the supercells could have a dozen or more separate regions,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s really complicated to see what\u2019s going on with the lightning because those complex charge structures will create different types of discharges. The flash rate can be just noisy.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EDespite the potential advantages of satellite tornado prediction, Boggs believes forecasters will likely continue to use existing radar techniques, supplementing them with new technology as it develops. GTRI has submitted proposals to funding organizations to continue testing the machine learning tool, which also could be useful to countries that lack the weather radar network available to forecasters in the United States.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnalyzing Lightning \u2018Jumps\u2019 and \u2018Dives\u2019\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESatellite data and machine learning aren\u2019t the only approaches SSRC researchers are using to identify where tornadoes and other severe weather will pop up.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EFor several years, GTRI has operated the ground-based North Georgia Lightning Mapping Array (NGLMA) that tracks lightning bursts in North Georgia, centered on the Atlanta metropolitan area. Researchers are using radio-frequency emissions recorded by the array to study lightning flashes in an effort to correlate \u201cjumps\u201d \u2013 increases in lightning occurrence \u2013 and \u201cdives\u201d \u2013 reductions in frequency \u2013 with the development of severe storms.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe ground-based array \u2013 one of several operating in the United States \u2013 provides information not available from satellites, so the two sources are complementary, providing both optical and radio-frequency data.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe array was deployed by John Trostel, director of the SSRC, and correlates data on electromagnetic energy produced by the lightning bursts with precise timing and location information. The network of 12 ground stations tracks both lightning that interacts with the ground as well as bursts that stay in the clouds \u2013 which account for 75 percent of all lightning \u2013 providing a detailed map of electrical charge in the atmosphere.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cWhat we are looking for is a rapid increase in how many flashes there are over a brief period of time, on the order of a couple of minutes,\u201d said Jessica Losego, an SSRC research meteorologist who is using a NASA-developed algorithm to study the phenomena. \u201cIf you see a jump, you can feel somewhat confident that you\u2019re going to soon have some type of severe weather that may include damaging wind, hail, or a tornado. Analyzing this can help with all modes of severe weather, not just tornadoes.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ELosego is among the weather researchers worldwide who are also studying dives, sudden declines in lightning rates, though it\u2019s not yet clear how \u2013 and if \u2013 they may help forecasters. The dives in lightning activity may serve as yet another indicator of the strength of a storm and how it may be changing. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow Georgia\u2019s Severe Weather Is Different\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAfter a tornado killed a dozen people in North Georgia in 1998, the SSRC was created by the state of Georgia to develop improved means of providing early warning of tornadoes and severe storms. Beyond topographical issues, Georgia\u2019s tornadoes can differ from those of neighboring states in other ways, Losego noted. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cA lot of our storms come through later in the day, which means there\u2019s less sunlight to provide energy to the storms,\u201d she said. \u201cThe storms may start in Mississippi early in the day and may fall apart by the time they get there, but they are still dangerous. Storms that arrive late in the day or evening can make it more difficult to warn citizens who may be asleep when tornadoes are detected.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EData gathered by the NGLMA is shared with National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters in Peachtree City, providing an additional source of information for its forecasts.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cOur goal is to provide another tool that the NWS can use to provide more warning and have more confidence in that warning,\u201d Losego said. \u201cData from our lightning mapping array goes directly into their systems, and we will share what we learn about using information from jumps and dives that could improve warnings to Georgia citizens.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe NGLMA now covers North Georgia. Because the southern part of Georgia is out of the range of the NGLMA network and can have a different set of weather conditions, the researchers would like to establish a second array to track severe storms there.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch Supports SSRC Goals\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe SSRC was created through funding from the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the state of Georgia to serve as a focal point for severe storm research in Georgia.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cThe SSRC serves the state of Georgia by actively developing alternative methods for detecting and forecasting severe local storms and exploring improvements to existing storm prediction and sensor technology,\u201d said Trostel. \u201cWe are utilizing the latest in machine learning, data analysis, and other technologies to support the goals of keeping Georgians safe from severe storms.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWriter: John Toon (john.toon@gtri.gatech.edu)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGTRI Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAtlanta, Georgia\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).\u202fFounded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station, GTRI has grown to more than 2,900 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $800 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry.\u202fGTRI\u0027s renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy, and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government, state, and industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EResearch using data from a pair of geostationary satellites and a ground-based lightning mapping array could lead to more accurate forecasting of devastating tornadoes spinning off from severe storms. By analyzing dozens of factors, such as the electrical charge patterns within the storms and variations in lightning frequency, GTRI researchers are working to identify a \u201cgenetic profile\u201d of the thunderstorms likely to produce tornadoes.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"GTRI researchers are working to utilize an artificial intelligence technique, known as machine learning, that could dramatically improve the detection of severe storms \u2013 and reduce false alarms. 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The new radar system will fill a well-known gap in radar coverage over northeastern Georgia caused by the existing NEXRAD network coverage and terrain. A large landfill also causes blockage of the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) beam located near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/youtu.be\/6Tgv4cKFQ-4\u0022\u003EWatch a video about this project on YouTube\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA feed from the commercial Furuno WR-2100 radar, which will be located in Gwinnett County, will be shared with the National Weather Service (NWS) in Peachtree City, Georgia, and with other interested organizations. Beyond tornadoes and other severe storms, the radar could help forecasters predict winter precipitation and provide better rainfall estimates for flood warnings.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The acquisition of this radar is a game-changer for our state,\u0026rdquo; said Marshall Shepherd, director of UGA\u0026rsquo;s Atmospheric Sciences Program. \u0026ldquo;Not only does it provide a potentially lifesaving service for Georgians, but it is also a unique teaching and research tool for students at both institutions.\u0026rdquo; The radar will enable new research opportunities related to severe weather observations, winter weather forecasting, urban flood assessment, birds, and even insects, Shepherd said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJohn Knox, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor in the UGA Department of Geography, also envisions the radar information serving the public in another way. The student-run digital meteorology program at UGA, \u0026ldquo;WeatherDawgs,\u0026rdquo; serves over 70,000 followers across north Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The radar would allow UGA students to learn how to view, interpret, and use X-band radar data as well as how best to communicate it to the public,\u0026rdquo; Knox said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJessica Losego, a research scientist at the SSRC, said the new device will support the long-term goals of the Center and expand weather-forecasting collaboration.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is a unique opportunity for collaboration, and we look forward to working with UGA and the NWS to maximize this radar\u0026rsquo;s utility for research, education, and operations,\u0026rdquo; Losego said. \u0026ldquo;This equipment will support our efforts to understand the evolution and dynamics of severe storms in Georgia and lead to better capabilities for tracking these storms.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETrostel and colleagues at GTRI became aware of the radar\u0026rsquo;s availability and reached out to UGA colleagues about collaborating on the acquisition. The three-year-old device, which operates in the X-band, had been used at the manufacturer\u0026rsquo;s research facility.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe weather radar cost approximately $150,000 and was acquired through donations and internal funding at UGA and Georgia Tech. Shepherd and Tom Mote, the founding director of the Atmospheric Sciences Program at the University of Georgia and an associate dean in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, contributed funds from institutional research budgets. A significant financial gift was also acquired from Elaine Neil, a longtime donor in the UGA Department of Geography, which houses the Atmospheric Sciences Program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, funds were provided by GTRI\u0026rsquo;s Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory and the Aerospace, Transportation and Advanced Systems Laboratory, the Georgia Tech Office of the Executive Vice President for Research, and Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA 1998 tornado that stuck Gainesville led to the appointment of a task force to study steps that could be taken to protect citizens from future severe weather. Among its recommendations were the addition of a \u0026ldquo;gap-filling\u0026rdquo; radar for northeastern Georgia. Once it is placed in Gwinnett County after testing at GTRI, the new Georgia Tech-UGA radar will help to address that decades-old recommendation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGTRI Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta, Georgia USA\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout GTRI\u003C\/strong\u003E: The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).\u202fFounded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station, GTRI has grown to more than 2,800 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $700 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry.\u202fGTRI\u0026#39;s renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy, and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government, the state, and industry. 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The technology is not very far off, and a massive national effort, led in part by Georgia Tech researchers, is charting the course.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELast year, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.src.org\/\u0022\u003ESemiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) \u003C\/a\u003Eand the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/\u0022\u003EDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)\u003C\/a\u003E announced a new program to improve the nation\u0026rsquo;s information and technology infrastructure. With a global chip shortage, supply chain issues, and other challenges in play, a group of Georgia Tech faculty members jumped at the opportunity to participate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir landing was perfect. Two new research centers, representing an investment of about $65.7 million, have been awarded to Georgia Tech through the SRC-administrated Joint University Microelectronics Program 2.0, or \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.src.org\/program\/jump2\/\u0022\u003EJUMP 2.0\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJUMP 2.0 will support the work of dozens of inter-disciplinary researchers from multiple universities, tackling the technological issues of an increasingly connected world. The goal is to improve the nation\u0026rsquo;s performance, efficiency, and capabilities for both commercial and military applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech won two of the seven centers, which is not only fantastic, but also speaks highly about the breadth and depth of our research enterprise,\u0026rdquo; said Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/arijit-raychowdhury\u0022\u003EArijit Raychowdhury\u003C\/a\u003E, the Steve W. Chaddick Chair of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E and will direct one of the new centers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe JUMP 2.0 announcement represents the latest round of significant support advancing AI-related research at Georgia Tech. Last July, Tech received \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/29\/georgia-tech-joins-us-national-science-foundation-advance-ai-research-and-education\u0022\u003Etwo National Science Foundation Artificial Intelligence Research awards totaling $40 million.\u003C\/a\u003E In September, the U.S. Economic Development Administration awarded Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/economic-development-administration-awards-georgia-tech-65-million-ai-manufacturing-project\u0022\u003E$65 million to support a statewide initiative\u003C\/a\u003E combining AI and manufacturing innovations with workforce and outreach programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA New Collaborative Chapter\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELaunching in 2023, JUMP 2.0 is the next chapter of an SRC-led alliance that formed in 2018 \u0026ndash; the original JUMP, with its broad focus on nano-electronic computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJUMP 2.0 is a collaboration between SRC indust\u0026shy;\u0026shy;rial participants (IBM, Intel, Raytheon, TSMC and Samsung, to name a few) and the Department of Defense. The program asked researchers from U.S. universities to solicit proposals for collaborative, multidisciplinary, multi-institute research in seven theme areas: cognition; communications and connectivity; intelligent sensing to action; systems and architectures for distributed computing; intelligent memory and storage; advanced monolithic and heterogenous integration; and high-performance energy efficient devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe two new research centers Georgia Tech, both headquartered within the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) are:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026bull; CoCoSys: Center for the Co-Design of Cognitive Systems (theme area: cognition), under the direction of Raychowdhury;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026bull; CogniSense: Center on Cognitive Multispectral Sensors (theme area: intelligent sensing to action), under the direction of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/saibal-mukhopadhyay\u0022\u003ESaibal Mukhopadhyay\u003C\/a\u003E, Joseph M. 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So, a shortage of semiconductors \u0026ndash; or a shortcoming in terms of quality and efficiency \u0026ndash; spells trouble for sectors and industries that depend on these little bits of hardware, for example: computing, healthcare, telecommunication, security, transportation, or manufacturing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBuilding a Digital Human\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe goals for the JUMP 2.0 centers are lofty and wide-ranging, addressing current and future needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In some sense, the question we\u0026rsquo;re addressing is, \u0026lsquo;how do you build a perfect digital human,\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo; Raychowdhury said of the Team CoCoSys mission. \u0026ldquo;We want to learn how to build systems which are aware \u0026ndash; capable of interacting as human agents with us. For example, we want AI that can listen to a conversation between two human beings and learn from that and seamlessly merge into society.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECurrent AI, Raychowdhury said, may be able to perform relatively narrow tasks better than a human, but one area that it is much less effective is\u0026nbsp;human-intelligent machine collaboration. This concept has been increasingly researched in recent years as automated virtual assistants and the metaverse have entered the mainstream. As cognitive systems research moves toward creation of a digital human, it will have far-reaching impact in industry and healthcare testing, disaster relief, fully autonomous and collaborative systems, immersive training and gaming experiences, and more.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Continuous learning through interactions with humans is missing,\u0026rdquo; Raychowdhury said. \u0026ldquo;The next generation of AI needs to comprehend nuances of human interaction, explain, and interpret visual cues and language, and be able to do that in real-time with high energy-efficiency. That\u0026rsquo;s what we want to address. That\u0026rsquo;s the meta goal of this center.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThree other Georgia Tech faculty researchers, all from ECE, are part of Team CoCoSys: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/larry-p-heck\u0022\u003ELarry Heck\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/azad-j-naeemi\u0022\u003EAzad Naeemi\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/tushar-krishna\u0022\u003ETushar Krishna\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is a diverse team in all possible ways with expertise across the board,\u0026rdquo; Raychowdhury said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESensors with a Brain\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe ability to sense is fundamental and probably the most critical component for building an intelligent machine. \u0026ldquo;It is fundamental to nature,\u0026rdquo; said Mukhopadhyay. \u0026ldquo;We have eyes, ears, a nose, and skin to sense the environment around us.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe CogniSense Center research team wants to develop sensors that can effectively \u0026ldquo;perceive\u0026rdquo; everything around them and, like humans, efficiently attend to the information that really matters.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EToday\u0026rsquo;s electronics sensors samples everything they \u0026ldquo;see\u0026rdquo; and generate abundance of\u0026nbsp; digital data; sometime way too much for a machine store, process, and make sense. The CogniSense center\u0026rsquo;s goal is to change this paradigm by learning from biology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In human, sensors and the brain work together to control attention and extract only important information from everything happening around us,\u0026rdquo; said Mukhopadhyay. \u0026ldquo;Can we make electronic sensors that behave like that \u0026ndash; cognizant and energy efficient?\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team he\u0026rsquo;s assembled is made up of 20 researchers from 12 different institutions, including two other ECE faculty members: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/jrom.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EJustin Romberg\u003C\/a\u003E (associate chair for research in ECE) and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/muhannad-s-bakir\u0022\u003EMuhannad Bakir\u003C\/a\u003E (interim director of the Georgia Tech 3D Systems Packing Research Center).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We have a diverse team with expertise in radars, optics, integrated circuits, packaging, signal processing, and artificial intelligence to build these new sensors with a brain,\u0026rdquo; said Mukhopadhyay.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBeyond Campus\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers will play critical roles in three other centers based at other universities around the country:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026bull; PRISM: Center for Processing with Intelligent Storage and Memory\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026bull; ACE: Evolvable Computing for Next-Generation Distributed Computer Systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026bull;\u0026nbsp;CHIMES: Center for Heterogenous Integration of Microelectronic Systems\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECHIMES in particular will feature a large, multi-disciplinary Georgia Tech influence including ECE\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/suman-datta\u0022\u003ESuman Datta\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/callie-hao\u0022\u003ECallie Hao\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/shimeng-yu\u0022\u003EShimeng Yu\u003C\/a\u003E; George Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/sitaraman\u0022\u003ESuresh Sitaraman\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/kumar\u0022\u003ESatish Kumar;\u003C\/a\u003E and the center\u0026rsquo;s associate director, Bakir (doubling up on his JUMP 2.0 responsibilities as a member of both CogniSense and CHIMES).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are delighted in the critical and fundamental role Georgia Tech plays within CHIMES,\u0026rdquo; said Bakir. \u0026ldquo;In each of the four research themes that constitute this center, Georgia Tech faculty play a key role. This not only reflects our world class faculty, students, and staff, but also our world-class fabrication, assembly and bonding, and advanced system level prototyping facilities that will be critical in enabling next generation 3D heterogeneous and 3D monolithic circuits and systems.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETech\u0026#39;s multidisciplinary research activities related to CHIMES are supported by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/nano\u0022\u003EInstitute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN)\u003C\/a\u003E. 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He also \u0026nbsp;serves as director of the 3D Systems Packaging Research Center. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs an author of more than 450\u0026nbsp;technical publications who holds 29 patents, Swaminathan is one of the world\u0026rsquo;s leading experts on semiconductors and the semiconductor chips necessary for many of the devices we use every day to function.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Almost any consumer device that is electronic tends to have at least one semiconductor chip in it,\u0026rdquo; Swaminathan explains. \u0026ldquo;The more complicated the functions any device performs, the more chips it is likely to have.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESome of these semiconductor chips process information, some store data, and others provide sensing or communication functions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn short, they are crucial in devices from video games and smart thermostats to cars and computers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOur current shortage of these chips began with the Covid-19 pandemic. When consumers started staying at home and car purchases took a downward turn, chip manufacturers tried to shift to make more chips for other goods like smartphones and computers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut Swaminathan explains that making that kind of switch is not simple. Entire production operations have to be changed. The chips are highly sensitive and can be damaged by static electricity, temperature variations, and even tiny specks of dust. The manufacturing environments must be highly regulated, and changes in the process can add months.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe pandemic highlighted another challenge with the\u0026nbsp;semiconductor chip industry, according to Swaminathan.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s a major shortage of companies making chips,\u0026rdquo; he says.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;If\u0026nbsp;you look worldwide, there are maybe four or five manufacturers making 80-90% of these chips and they are located outside of the United States.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis creates supply chain hiccups with the raw supplies needed to make these chips as well. Add in the fact that many of these companies only design their chips \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;they don\u0026rsquo;t manufacture them directly.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;American consumers use 50% of the world\u0026rsquo;s chips,\u0026rdquo; Swaminathan says, which creates a serious challenge when the overwhelming majority of those chips are manufactured in other nations.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the short term, the costs of the chip shortage is being passed on to the consumer. We see this directly with products like PlayStations and Xboxes that are more and more expensive and harder to purchase when the chips necessary for the consoles to function are in short supply.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond 2022, Swaminathan says we need to work to revitalize the\u0026nbsp;industry domestically.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We need to bring more manufacturing back to the United States,\u0026rdquo; he says. \u0026ldquo;The U.S. government has recognized the importance of this semiconductor chip shortage and is trying to address the issue directly.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat means investing in new plants to manufacture the\u0026nbsp;chips, but America\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;journey toward\u0026nbsp; chip self-sufficiency will continue to be a work in progress.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is a cycle,\u0026rdquo; Swaminathan explains. \u0026ldquo;But this is probably the first time where it has had such a major effect in so many different industries.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut consumers can take direct action on their own in the coming year.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Reduce the number of times you purchase or upgrade electronic devices like phones and cars,\u0026rdquo; he says. \u0026ldquo;Then it becomes just a supply problem, not a demand and supply problem.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAmerica\u0026rsquo;s semiconductor chip shortage is likely to continue well into 2022, and a Georgia Tech expert predicts that America will need to make major changes to the manufacturing and supply chain of these all-important chips in the coming year to stave off further effects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech expert predicts that America will need to make major changes to the manufacturing and supply chain"}],"uid":"27948","created_gmt":"2022-01-21 16:52:18","changed_gmt":"2022-01-27 19:03:31","author":"Jennifer Tomasino","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-01-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-01-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"654671":{"id":"654671","type":"image","title":"Microchips","body":null,"created":"1642784000","gmt_created":"2022-01-21 16:53:20","changed":"1642784000","gmt_changed":"2022-01-21 16:53:20","alt":"Microchip","file":{"fid":"248269","name":"microchips.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/microchips.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/microchips.png","mime":"image\/png","size":100344,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/microchips.png?itok=ZA-iKhWg"}}},"media_ids":["654671"],"groups":[{"id":"1300","name":"Institute Communications"},{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7342","name":"microchip"},{"id":"176662","name":"microchips"},{"id":"167686","name":"Semiconductors"},{"id":"187433","name":"go-ien"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39461","name":"Manufacturing, Trade, and Logistics"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"},{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"653848":{"#nid":"653848","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Microelectronics Momentum Drives the Nation\u2019s Semiconductor Resurgence","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe world\u0026rsquo;s dependence on semiconductors came into sharp focus in 2021, when automotive manufacturing ground to a halt because of massive computer chip shortages \u0026ndash; as Asian suppliers couldn\u0026rsquo;t keep up with demand for microelectronics \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;miniaturized electronic circuits and components that drive everything from smartphones to new vehicle components to hypersonics weapons systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe culprit was global supply chain disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. 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The Institute, along with Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), leads in areas such as emerging materials\/devices, innovative circuit\/architectures, and advanced integration and packaging.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;One thing I love about Georgia Tech is that you have expertise in every single aspect of electronics,\u0026rdquo; said Muhannad Bakir, Dan Fielder electrical engineering professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;If I have questions on materials, devices, architectures, circuits, or even software compilers, I don\u0026rsquo;t have to look far. I turn a corner and there is that expert for you.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMonolithic to Heterogeneous Electronics Integration \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBakir credited this breadth of knowledge at Georgia Tech with helping the Institute be a leader in shifting from monolithic microelectronics to \u0026ldquo;heterogeneous\u0026rdquo; integration. In this type of integration, separately manufactured components become part of a higher-level assembly that, in total, provides enhanced functionality and improved operating characteristics for applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We have to look at a whole host of issues in order to continue to drive cost, performance and energy benefits going forward,\u0026rdquo; explained Bakir as to the reasons behind this development.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis team is identifying and optimizing the processes and materials of different microelectronic components to get the most out of each one. They then are integrating the different pieces into a single, high-performing system.\u0026nbsp; Specifically, Bakir is developing new ways to glue or wire these interconnect technologies together in a way that maximizes their performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;With most high-power applications, heat is a huge problem. As you build your stack by mounting \u0026nbsp;multiple chips on top of each other within a single semiconductor package, you really need to think about innovative cooling strategies,\u0026rdquo; said Bakir. \u0026ldquo;What you see today is a lot of mixing and matching of different technologies, each optimized for the function they\u0026rsquo;re performing\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo address this challenge, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bakirlab.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIntegrated 3D systems (i3DS) Lab\u003C\/a\u003E, which Bakir directs, is working on novel chip-level microfluidic cooling techniques to enhance heat removal, an area in which Georgia Tech has unique expertise and capabilities. Georgia Tech engineering faculty have won multiple large-scale funded research grants in embedded microfluidic cooling for electronic applications, including 3D chip stacking. The teams demonstrated Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s ability to drive advanced cooling technology solutions from fundamental design to manufacturing and integration on leading-edge electronic silicon-testbeds using in-house Georgia Tech facilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBakir\u0026rsquo;s lab is also working on novel \u0026ldquo;stitch-chips\u0026rdquo; that provide a high-speed connection between neighboring chips in a package by avoiding the traditional slow interconnection through a package with high electrical losses.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBakir considers GTRI \u0026ldquo;an incredible asset to what we do.\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;They have some unique design and fabrication capabilities. Equally important is the fact that GTRI is well known internationally for being able to deliver technologies that are truly differentiated and based on unique designs and processes that we develop inhouse,\u0026rdquo; Bakir said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHigh-Assurance Tools to Assess Chip Vulnerabilities\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of those partners includes Lee Lerner, chief scientist of GTRI\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/laboratories\/cybersecurity-information-protection-and-hardware-evaluation-research\u0022\u003ECybersecurity, Information Protection and Hardware Evaluation Research (CIPHER) Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; Lerner\u0026rsquo;s Lab develops third-party tools to conduct high-assurance microelectronics inspections for global customers like Intel and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on the defense side. His team focuses on high-assurance inspection through testing technologies that provide \u0026ldquo;assurance of trust,\u0026rdquo; or peace of mind that these systems perform as expected.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We can tell you that the tools and devices are actually doing what they\u0026#39;re supposed to do and nothing more,\u0026rdquo; Lerner said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn additional challenge in this space is that the current chip shortage creates more demand on older chip technologies, which have less security features or more known vulnerabilities than modern devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGTRI develops some of the most advanced IP and electronic security protections and features in existence. Because of this work, researchers understand which security features work and which are insufficient given the growing complexity and types of attacks at the hardware level.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Lerner, GTRI is making big investments over the next 10 years in building security and trust for microelectronics. In fact, the Institute\u0026rsquo;s strategic roadmap includes trusted microelectronics as a key pillar.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIncreased Cybersecurity Focus\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is also making big investments, such as establishing the new \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scp.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Cybersecurity and Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E, and hiring expert faculty such as Daniel Genkin, associate professor, who officially reported on Meltdown and Spectre, two of the most widely publicized vulnerabilities in the last decade involving chips in popular devices. In addition to Lerner and Genkin, Alenka Zaji\u0107, Ken Byers Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, has pioneered novel inspection techniques of microelectronics.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Having a good understanding of the true state of the art of security and trust features, as well as bleeding-edge vulnerabilities, help inform future generations of security protections that need to be incorporated into more devices generally, including approaches to design, so that we don\u0026#39;t encounter those types of vulnerabilities,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELee says more customers are paying attention to the importance of security flaws in designs and potential vulnerabilities. \u0026ldquo;They\u0026#39;re increasingly investing more, but there still are competing factors of designing for security versus designing for performance,\u0026rdquo; he added.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe emphasized that microelectronics is fundamentally hardware, which is very expensive to change once it\u0026rsquo;s fabricated and manufactured. \u0026ldquo;If big flaws or security exploits are discovered, it\u0026#39;s not easy to go back and distribute patches to those systems. Those flaws live on in the microelectronics\u0026hellip; sometimes for decades in even critical systems,\u0026rdquo; Lee noted. That\u0026rsquo;s where Georgia Tech and GTRI can be a valuable partner, by contributing security and design for trust \u0026ldquo;very early on in either materials or architectures that improve trust and reliability of devices.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn the chip innovation side, Georgia Tech faculty are leveraging the institute\u0026rsquo;s multidisciplinary strengths and semiconductor facilities to solve semiconductor development bottlenecks and improve the performance of chip technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDriving In-Memory Computing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne such innovator is Shimeng Yu, associate professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, whose work on \u0026ldquo;in-memory compute\u0026rdquo; could solve the hardware bottleneck in today\u0026rsquo;s data-intensive applications that increasingly rely on machine learning and artificial intelligence.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Data storage is becoming more important these days. There\u0026rsquo;s so much data and information from sensors and cameras, we want to do the computation locally using the data within the memory to save on data transfer energy and bandwidth,\u0026rdquo; Yu explained.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The memory market today focuses exclusively on data storage, and memory is expensive, accounting for nearly a third of the cost of a chip,\u0026rdquo; said Yu. His pioneering work merging the compute function with data storage is 10 times more energy-efficient than conventional approaches where data is fetched from a centralized data processor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo realize this new computing paradigm, Yu and his team are working with the Packaging Research Center (PRC) to package their solution into a prototype and ultimately, a complete system. Their work depends on the ability to innovate at the material\/device level and translate those innovations into circuits for prototype demonstrations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The capability to facilitate this kind of lab-to-fab tech transfer is critical,\u0026rdquo; said Yu.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile his team can explore new materials and standalone device structures in the Georgia Tech cleanroom, \u0026ldquo;we need a prototyping facility to enable large-scale, array-level demonstration for new memory technologies,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;The PRC is going to help us get there, packaging our prototype into a complete system.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The PRC enables the heterogeneous integration of our new device technologies with commercial off-the-shelf silicon chips from commercial foundries,\u0026rdquo; he added.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYu said his in-memory compute breakthrough is creating excitement among both traditional chip makers and non-traditional companies looking to build their own silicon chips such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Tesla.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E***\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology, or Georgia Tech, is a top 10 public research university developing leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute offers business, computing, design, engineering, liberal arts, and sciences degrees. Its nearly 44,000 students representing 50 states and 149 countries, study at the main campus in Atlanta, at campuses in France and China, and through distance and online learning. As a leading technological university, Georgia Tech is an engine of economic development for Georgia, the Southeast, and the nation, conducting more than $1 billion in research annually for government, industry, and society.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: Anne Wainscott-Sargent\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A hotbed for semiconductor innovation, the Georgia Institute of Technology offers deep domain expertise in device and integration technologies, as well as high-assurance tools for chip security. 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From daily news reports about manufacturers unable to complete orders due to the lack of chips, to \u0026ldquo;out of stock\u0026rdquo; messages across websites on popular electronics items, one of the impacts of COVID was to lay bare the massive importance of the microelectronic chip in daily modern life, and how a single-location centered manufacturing nexus can upend the consumer market on a massive scale. The combination of these real-world impacts on supply chains, as well as the need to localize semiconductor and chip manufacturing gave Congress the impetus to pass the \u0026ldquo;Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Act (CHIPS)\u0026rdquo;. CHIPS seeks to increase investments and incentives to support U.S. semiconductor manufacturing, research and development, and supply chain security.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology was the first university to offer a comprehensive curriculum on microelectronics and microsystems design and packaging and, currently, numerous faculty at Georgia Tech are widely known for their work in semiconductor and microelectronics technologies. In December of 2021 Georgia Tech researchers will again showcase how their pushes the boundaries of microelectronics technologies at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Electrical and Computer Engineering research teams of Assistant Professor Asif Khan, partnering with Dan Fielder Professor Muhannad Bakir, and Associate Professor Shimeng Yu, partnering with Professor Sung-Kyu Lim and Assistant Professor Shaolan Li, have dominated the 2021 IEDM presentation line-up with a total of 8 accepted papers. With topics ranging from ferroelectric materials for memory, new advances in ALD process, and in-memory computing and 3D reconfigurable architectures, the research presented by these teams is at the cutting-edge of advancing computing power and consumer electronics. In addition to the research presentations, Electrical and Computing Engineering Faculty \u0026amp; Director of the 3D Systems Packaging Research Center at GT will be presenting a short course session on devoted to \u0026ldquo;Heterogenous Integration Using Chiplets \u0026amp; Advanced Packaging\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENoting the timely nature of these research advancements, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.research.gatech.edu\/arijit-raychowdhury-0\u0022\u003EArijit Raychowdhory\u003C\/a\u003E; Professor and Steve W. Chaddick School Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering noted, \u0026ldquo;IEDM is a premier conference in the area of semiconductor devices. Such a strong performance by GT ECE exemplifies the strength of our program, the ingenuity of our students and the innovation driven by our world-class faculty. Sincere congratulations to Professors Khan, Yu Bakir, Lim and Li for their pioneering research in semiconductor logic and memory technologies, that are critical for our nation and our industries.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/electrons.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EAsif Khan\u003C\/a\u003E is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 2015. His work led to the first experimental proof-of-concept demonstration of the negative capacitance effect in ferroelectric oxides. His group at Georgia Tech conceptualizes and fabricates electronic devices that leverage interesting physics and novel phenomena in emerging materials (such as ferroelectrics, antiferroelectrics and strongly correlated systems) to overcome the \u0026ldquo;fundamental\u0026rdquo; limits in computation and to address the most pressing challenges in electronics and the semiconductor industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/shimeng.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EShimeng Yu\u003C\/a\u003E is currently an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Tech. He received the B.S. degree in microelectronics from Peking University in 2009, and the M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2011 and 2013, respectively. From 2013 to 2018, he was an assistant professor at Arizona State University. Prof. Yu\u0026rsquo;s research interests are the semiconductor devices and integrated circuits for energy-efficient computing systems. His research expertise is on the emerging non-volatile memories for applications such as deep learning accelerator, in-memory computing, 3D integration, and hardware security.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/muhannad-s-bakir\u0022\u003EMuhannad S. Bakir\u003C\/a\u003E is the Dan Fielder Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp; Dr. Bakir and his research group have received more than thirty paper and presentation awards including six from the IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), four from the IEEE International Interconnect Technology Conference (IITC), one from the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), and two from the IEEE Transactions on Components Packaging and Manufacturing Technology (TCPMT). Muhannad S. Bakir received the B.E.E. degree from Auburn University, Auburn, AL, in 1999 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Tech in 2000 and 2003, respectively. His research interests include, heterogeneous microsystem design and integration, including 2.5D and 3D ICs and packaging, electrical and photonic interconnects, and embedded cooling technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/sung-kyu-lim\u0022\u003ESung Kyu Lim\u003C\/a\u003E received B.S. (1994), M.S. (1997), and Ph.D. (2000) degrees all from the Computer Science Department at UCLA. During 2000-2001, he was a post-doctoral scholar at UCLA, and a senior engineer at Aplus Design Technologies, Inc. Lim joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology an assistant professor. He is currently the director of the GTCAD (Georgia Tech Computer Aided Design) Laboratory and focuses on VLSI and 3D circuit architecture and packaging.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/shaolan-li\u0022\u003EShaolan Li \u003C\/a\u003Ereceived his B.Eng. degree with highest honor from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2012, and his Ph.D. from UT Austin in 2018, all in electrical engineering. Prior joining Georgia Tech as an assistant professor in 2019, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Austin from 2018-2019. He also held intern positions in Broadcom Ltd. in Sunnyvale, California, and NXP in Tempe, Arizona during 2013-2014. His research interests are broadly in analog, mixed-signal, and RF integrated circuits. His expertise is in high-performance data converters, ultra-low-power low-cost sensor interface, and novel analog mixed-signal architectures for design automation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ieee-iedm.org\/\u0022\u003EThe IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting\u003C\/a\u003E (IEDM) is the world\u0026rsquo;s preeminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of semiconductor and electronic device technology, design, manufacturing, physics, and modeling. IEDM is the flagship conference for nanometer-scale CMOS transistor technology, advanced memory, displays, sensors, MEMS devices, novel quantum and nano-scale devices and phenomenology, optoelectronics, devices for power and energy harvesting, high-speed devices, as well as process technology and device modeling and simulation. Georgia Tech research teams have a strong track of record in IEDM publications in the recent years, including 8, 4, 9 and 7 papers presented in IEDM 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, respectively.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- Christa M. 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Raychowdhury has been a member of the Georgia Tech faculty since January 2013 and currently holds the Motorola Solutions Foundation Professorship. He is the director of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ien.gatech.edu\/research\u0022\u003EInstitute for Electronics and Nanotechnology\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Center for Circuits and Systems, while also serving as the co-director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/quantum\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Quantum Alliance\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Arijit has been a leader in ECE since arriving on campus eight years ago, serving as an executive in two of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s primary electrical and computer engineering initiatives,\u0026rdquo; said Raheem Beyah, dean of the College of Engineering and Southern Company Chair. \u0026ldquo;This experience, along with his expansive research portfolio and contributions to industry, make Arijit the ideal person to be our next ECE chair.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERaychowdhury is a pioneer in energy-efficient digital and mixed-signal circuit and system research. He has contributed to foundational technologies that have been widely adopted by the leading semiconductor industries. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he held research and leadership roles at Texas Instruments and Intel. His significant research contributions included the design of the world\u0026rsquo;s first adaptive echo-cancellation network for integrated digital subscriber lines at Texas Instruments, as well as ultra-low power embedded memory technologies at Intel. Each has been\u0026nbsp;used in a wide range of products.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERaychowdhury\u0026rsquo;s Georgia Tech research focuses on the design of power converters, logic and memory circuits, and hardware design for emerging computing platforms. He and his students have won numerous awards and fellowships, including 14 best paper awards. For his contributions to the field and impact on the industry, Raychowdhury received the Semiconductor Research Corporation\u0026rsquo;s highest technical honor \u0026mdash; the Technical Excellence Award \u0026mdash; in 2021 and IEEE\/ACM\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;Innovator Under 40 Award\u0026rdquo; in 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am very excited and\u0026nbsp;honored to serve as the next Steve W. Chaddick School Chair in ECE,\u0026rdquo; Raychowdhury said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Our\u0026nbsp;School is an amazing, vibrant, and diverse place, filled with exciting opportunities and incredible possibilities. As we move forward in this post-COVID era, let us aspire to a future where ECE will not only produce the most diverse, brightest, and most innovative engineers, but will also foster an environment of empathy and giving back to our community. I am eager to continue my collaborations with faculty, students, and staff in our collective efforts to expand ECE\u0026rsquo;s initiatives as we advance the School to the next level of excellence.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERaychowdhury holds 28 U.S. and international patents on various aspects of semiconductor technologies. His research has produced more than 300 articles in journals and peer-reviewed conferences and resulted in more than $21 million in sponsored research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to his roles at Georgia Tech, Raychowdhury is currently a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Solid State Circuits Society and a mentor for IEEE Young Professionals and IEEE Women in Circuits. He has leadership roles in multiple National Science Foundation and Semiconductor Research Corporation centers. He is also the site director for the SCALE-SoC (System-on-Chip) Workforce development program, an initiative sponsored by the Department of Defense to train the next generation of U.S. students in the area of SoC design.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDouglas Blough is currently serving as ECE\u0026rsquo;s interim chair and will return to his full-time role as\u0026nbsp;professor and associate chair for faculty development in December. A diverse group of faculty, staff, and students participated in a nationwide search for the new chair. The committee was led by Susan Margulies, professor and former chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I want to thank Susan and the committee for their leadership and guidance during the selection process,\u0026rdquo; said Beyah. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m also grateful to Doug for serving as our interim chair these last several months, especially as we began a new academic year.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERaychowdhury will succeed Magnus Egerstedt, who was named the dean of engineering at the University of California, Irvine earlier this year.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EArijit Raychowdhury, professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(ECE), has been selected as the\u0026nbsp;Steve W. 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Raychowdhury currently holds the Motorola Solutions Foundation Professorship in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Technical Excellence Award, first presented in 1991, is the highest technical award presented by SRC. It recognizes research of exceptional value to SRC member companies. This award recognizes key contributors of innovative technology that significantly enhance the productivity and competitiveness of the semiconductor industry. The nominations are from the industry, indicating the extent to which the research outcomes have been applied by the industry. In the history of this award, Raychowdhury is the second Georgia Tech researcher to win this award and the third person to receive this for contributions to the design of digital VLSI circuits.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA Georgia Tech ECE faculty member since 2013, Raychowdhury\u0026nbsp;leads the Integrated Circuits and Systems Research Lab. He\u0026nbsp;received the award for the contributions of his group in the digital linear regulator technologies for power management in Systems-on-Chips. The research conducted over the last eight years has now significantly impacted both internal research and product pathfinding in multiple SRC member companies. His nomination was supported by Intel, IBM, Qualcomm, and TSMC.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Professor\u0026nbsp;Arijit Raychowdhury has been selected for the 2021 Technical Excellence Award by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Professor\u00a0Arijit Raychowdhury has been selected for the 2021 Technical Excellence Award by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2021-09-22 12:41:07","changed_gmt":"2021-09-22 12:51:23","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-09-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-09-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"650985":{"id":"650985","type":"image","title":"Arijit Raychowdhury with SRC Technical Excellence Award","body":null,"created":"1632313850","gmt_created":"2021-09-22 12:30:50","changed":"1632313850","gmt_changed":"2021-09-22 12:30:50","alt":"photograph of Arijit Raychowdhury with SRC Technical Excellence Award","file":{"fid":"247005","name":"Arijit with SRC Award.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Arijit%20with%20SRC%20Award.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Arijit%20with%20SRC%20Award.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":505966,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Arijit%20with%20SRC%20Award.jpeg?itok=nWzEoPui"}}},"media_ids":["650985"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/arijit-raychowdhury","title":"Arijit Raychowdhury"},{"url":"https:\/\/icsrl.ece.gatech.edu","title":"Integrated Circuits and Systems Research Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.src.org","title":"Semiconductor Research Corporation"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"139771","name":"Arijit Raychowdhury"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"166953","name":"Semiconductor Research Corporation"},{"id":"167686","name":"Semiconductors"},{"id":"188893","name":"digital VLSI circuits"},{"id":"139781","name":"Integrated Circuits and Systems Research Lab"},{"id":"188894","name":"digital linear regulator technologies"},{"id":"184654","name":"power management"},{"id":"188895","name":"Systems-on-Chips"},{"id":"4767","name":"Intel"},{"id":"1126","name":"ibm"},{"id":"10219","name":"qualcomm"},{"id":"178490","name":"TSMC"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"650584":{"#nid":"650584","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech President Cabrera Pays Visit to Khan Lab ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech President\u0026nbsp;\u0026Aacute;ngel\u0026nbsp;Cabrera\u0026nbsp;recently\u0026nbsp;paid a visit to the Khan Lab, located in the Pettit Microelectronics Building, to learn more about the field of\u0026nbsp;ferroelectricity and\u0026nbsp;negative capacitance and its applications\u0026nbsp;in microelectronics.\u0026nbsp;Douglas M. 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He and his team of\u0026nbsp;six Ph.D. students and\u0026nbsp;two\u0026nbsp;engineers\u0026nbsp;research\u0026nbsp;microelectronic devices\u0026nbsp;to\u0026nbsp;address the challenges faced by the semiconductor\u0026nbsp;technology\u0026nbsp;due to the end of transistor miniaturization.\u0026nbsp;His group focuses on all aspects of ferroelectricity,\u0026nbsp;ranging from materials physics, growth, and electron microscopy to micro-\/nano-fabrication\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;ferroelectronic\u0026nbsp;devices. This includes\u0026nbsp;ferroelectric circuits and systems for artificial intelligence, machine learning,\u0026nbsp;and data-centric applications.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the visit with\u0026nbsp;Cabrera\u0026nbsp;on August 18,\u0026nbsp;Khan explained the importance of semiconductor\u0026nbsp;electronics\u0026nbsp;in modern times.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Transistors are the most abundant,\u0026nbsp;man-made\u0026nbsp;artifact\u0026nbsp;in history; more than ten sextillion\u0026nbsp;(10\u003Csup\u003E22\u003C\/sup\u003E)\u0026nbsp;transistors have been manufactured\u0026nbsp;since the 1960s,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Khan\u0026nbsp;said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;And they are the basis for the future that technology holds for us,\u0026nbsp;from\u0026nbsp;artificial intelligence, machine learning driven applications, autonomous transportation to space exploration, medicine,\u0026nbsp;and health care.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKhan\u0026nbsp;also gave an overview of\u0026nbsp;current challenges in microelectronics. \u0026ldquo;Cloud infrastructure\u0026nbsp;is estimated to\u0026nbsp;account\u0026nbsp;for\u0026nbsp;1 to 5 percent\u0026nbsp;of worldwide energy consumption\u0026nbsp;and has a significant carbon footprint equivalent to that of mid-sized countries like\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;Netherlands and Malaysia. 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They gave an overview of the concept of\u0026nbsp;negative capacitance, a phenomenon\u0026nbsp;in ferroelectric materials\u0026nbsp;that\u0026nbsp;can reduce the power dissipation in\u0026nbsp;transistors\u0026nbsp;below the \u0026lsquo;fundamental\u0026rsquo; thermodynamic limit.\u0026nbsp;Negative capacitance is an\u0026nbsp;area\u0026nbsp;of interest in multiple fields,\u0026nbsp;including\u0026nbsp;materials science, condensed matter physics, and electrical engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENujhat\u0026nbsp;Tasneem, a fifth year Ph.D. student, showed a ferroelectric transistor chip fabricated at the Institute of Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN), an interdisciplinary research institute at Georgia Tech. Besides its negative capacitance properties, FEFETs are also an emerging candidate in the embedded memory space for artificial intelligence applications. Tasneem\u0026#39;s work involves characterizing the performance of FEFETs as a memory device. Some of her characterization experiments were also shown to Cabrera.\u0026nbsp;The president\u0026rsquo;s visit\u0026nbsp;also showcased a state-of-the-art 300 mm ferroelectric wafer\u0026nbsp;that was\u0026nbsp;manufactured\u0026nbsp;at\u0026nbsp;a semiconductor company.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFollowing Tasneem\u0026rsquo;s presentation, Prasanna Ravindran, a third year Ph.D. student in the Khan Lab, in collaboration with IEN, demonstrated the use of Microsoft\u0026nbsp;Hololens\u0026nbsp;for remote assistance and effective collaboration\u0026nbsp;for cleanroom activities. The lab started using the technology during the pandemic\u0026nbsp;in order to\u0026nbsp;have discussions with collaborators who were unable to travel, as well as among lab members for remote assistance and for questions about experimental setups and metrology.\u0026nbsp;Khan alluded to the possibilities of using\u0026nbsp;Hololens\u0026nbsp;for many kinds of outreach and general awareness activities, including tours of labs and IEN cleanrooms for K-12 students.\u0026nbsp;Afterwards,\u0026nbsp;Ravindran\u0026nbsp;gave an overview of his cryogenic measurement setup which can measure devices down to 4 K.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECabrera shared stories\u0026nbsp;of his personal journey, including\u0026nbsp;his diverse professional training in telecommunications\u0026nbsp;engineering and cognitive psychology, and his\u0026nbsp;different leadership roles\u0026nbsp;spanning two different continents.\u0026nbsp;He also\u0026nbsp;mentioned the changing landscape of the metro\u0026nbsp;Atlanta area, especially with the recent arrival of\u0026nbsp;a\u0026nbsp;couple\u0026nbsp;of big-tech companies. 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Cressler has been promoted to the rank of Regents Professor; his nomination to this rank was approved by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents on August 10.\u0026nbsp;He is a faculty member in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECressler has been a prolific researcher and educator in the development of novel micro\/nanoelectronic and photonic devices,\u0026nbsp;circuits, and systems using nanoscale silicon-germanium (SiGe) alloys. He and his team apply these technologies to\u0026nbsp;next-generation communications systems, ground and space-based radar and remote sensing systems, quantum science, and planetary exploration missions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA proud Georgia\u0026nbsp;Tech alumnus, Cressler graduated with his B.S. degree in physics in 1984. He spent eight-and-a-half years at IBM T.J. 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He has graduated 62 Ph.D. students during his career, 53 of whom received their degrees from Georgia Tech. Cressler also serves as the associate director of the Georgia Electronic\u0026nbsp;Design Center, a position that he has held since 2015. Throughout his career, he has\u0026nbsp;received numerous awards for his research accomplishments,\u0026nbsp;including\u0026nbsp;being named an IEEE Fellow and an IEEE Third\u0026nbsp;Millennium Medal recipient.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECressler is highly dedicated to his classroom teaching and student mentoring. He is a mainstay in the microelectronics\u0026nbsp;instructional program in ECE for both the undergraduate and graduate students. His book, \u003Cem\u003ESilicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors\u003C\/em\u003E, is the most widely referenced book in this area and is used as a textbook for graduate classes at a number of universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECressler also teaches two highly popular courses that are open to all Georgia Tech undergraduate students. CoE 3002 \u0026mdash;Introduction to the Microelectronics and Nanotechnology Revolution serves both the Technology and Management Program and the Honors Program, while IAC 2002\u0026mdash;Science, Engineering, and Religion: An Interfaith Dialogue serves the Georgia Tech-Emory Leadership and Multifaith Program Partnership.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECressler has received numerous local, national, and international teaching and mentoring honors throughout his career. Earlier this year, he received the 2021 IEEE James H. 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Cressler and Justin K. Romberg, both faculty members from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), have been awarded with two of the most prestigious honors presented by the IEEE, the world\u0026rsquo;s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECressler and Romberg were both honored with IEEE medals at the IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit (IEEE VIC Summit) and Honors Ceremony, held virtually May 11-13, 2021. Cressler was honored with the 2021 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal for a career of outstanding contributions to education in the fields of interest to IEEE. Romberg was honored as a co-recipient of the 2021 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal for outstanding contributions in signal processing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn D. Cressler\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the recipient of the 2021 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal, Cressler was honored \u0026ldquo;for inspirational teaching and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students.\u0026rdquo; He was recognized with this award on May 11 by IEEE President-Elect Ray Liu.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECressler is the third faculty member\u0026nbsp;from ECE to receive this honor. Previous recipients include Ronald W. Schafer (1992) and James D. Meindl (1990, while with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute). The\u0026nbsp;James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal\u0026nbsp;was established in 1956 and is sponsored by Lockheed Martin, MathWorks, Pearson, and the IEEE Life Members Fund.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is a tremendous honor for John, and his commitment to teaching and mentoring \u0026mdash; and to the success and well-being of our students \u0026ndash; is a tremendous model for all of us to follow,\u0026rdquo; said Magnus Egerstedt, Steve W. Chaddick School Chair and Professor in ECE.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECressler\u0026nbsp;is the\u0026nbsp;Schlumberger Chair Professor in Electronics and the Ken Byers Teaching Fellow in Science and Religion at Georgia Tech. He has been the associate director of the Georgia Electronic Design Center since 2015. Cressler joined the Georgia Tech ECE faculty in 2002 after spending a decade as a faculty member in the Department of ECE at Auburn University. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied physics at Columbia University and his B.S. degree in physics from Georgia Tech in 1984.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECressler couples his passions for teaching and mentoring with being the leader of one of the largest, most visible, and most productive silicon-germanium (SiGe) research groups in the world. He and his colleagues have written over 700 refereed journal and conference papers, and he has graduated over 100 Ph.D. and master\u0026rsquo;s students who are now leaders in the electronics industry, academia, and government and research labs or who have started their own successful companies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECressler is a mainstay in the microelectronics instructional program in ECE and has introduced first-of-a-kind courses \u0026ndash; CoE 3002 Introduction to the Microelectronics and Nanotechnology Revolution and ECE 6444 Silicon-based Heterostructure Devices and Circuits \u0026ndash; that use textbooks that he has written and that have been adopted by other universities around the world. He also teaches IAC 2002 Science, Engineering, and Religion: An Interfaith Dialogue in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. This course is open to undergraduate students of all years and majors and has always been positively received by the students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECressler has received many top teaching and mentoring awards from Georgia Tech and from IEEE and Eta Kappa Nu. His goal for his Ph.D. students is to fall in love with research, while maintaining a good work-life balance, and to provide a safe place to fail and to be creative and innovative. In the classroom, Cressler believes that the keys to success are passion for what you teach, being real, being and sharing who you are and what you believe with your students, and being approachable and showing that you care.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECressler said that teaching is his life and vocation, and he counts teaching and mentoring as his great passion in the classroom, lab, and life. \u0026ldquo;My accomplishments are best measured by the success of my students,\u0026rdquo; Cressler said. \u0026ldquo;Receiving an award for teaching and mentoring, which is something very close to my heart, means a great deal to me.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo view Cressler\u0026rsquo;s award presentation from the IEEE VIC Summit and Honors Ceremony, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ieeetv.ieee.org\/channels\/communities\/awards-hall-c-day-1-ieee-vic-summit-and-honors-ceremony\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/ieeetv.ieee.org\/channels\/communities\/awards-hall-c-day-1-ieee-vic-summit-and-honors-ceremony\u003C\/a\u003E. His presentation starts at the 6:40 mark.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJustin K. Romberg \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a co-recipient of the 2021 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal, Romberg was honored \u0026ldquo;for groundbreaking contributions to compressed sensing.\u0026rdquo; He received this medal with his colleagues, Emmanuel Candes, who holds The Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics at Stanford University, and Terence Tao, a professor of mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERomberg and his colleagues were recognized with this award on May 12 by IEEE President-Elect Liu. He is the fourth faculty member from ECE to receive this honor. Previous recipients include Thomas P. Barnwell (2014), Ronald W. Schafer (2010), and James H. McClellan (2004). The IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal was established in 1995 and is sponsored by the Kilby Medal Fund.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is a tremendous honor for Justin, and our amazing faculty track record in receiving this award speaks of the high regard in which our digital signal processing program is held around the world,\u0026rdquo; said Egerstedt.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERomberg holds the Schlumberger Professorship and is the associate chair for Research in ECE. He is also the senior director for the Center for Machine Learning at Georgia Tech. Romberg joined the ECE faculty in 2006 after working as a postdoctoral scholar in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Caltech for three years. He received his B.S.E.E., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Rice University in 1997, 1999, and 2004, respectively.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERomberg, Candes, and Tao were recognized for their 2006 paper, \u0026ldquo;Robust Uncertainty Principles: Exact Reconstruction from Highly Incomplete Frequency Information,\u0026rdquo; which demonstrated that structured signal samples could be reconstructed perfectly from very few samples. The paper established the field of compressed sensing, which is considered one of the most important developments in signal processing in the last 50 years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis paper spurred a flurry of research activities, with engineers and scientists exploring ways to use compressed sensing in a variety of applications. Compressed sensing has been used in wireless sensor networks, more efficient data aggregation, and improved data recovery, and has resulted in energy-efficient network routing protocols, reduced data transmission requirements, and improved network security.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECompressed sensing has even been used in astrological imaging and medical imaging. The first images of black holes from the Event Horizon Telescope were based on compressed sensing reconstruction methods. However, the greatest success of compressed sensing can be found in MRI imaging, where the technology is used to shorten the imaging process drastically without losing image quality.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERomberg said that one of the best things about the work in compressed sensing is how it has introduced him to ideas and people in many different areas of applied mathematics, such as harmonic analysis, optimization, and applied probability and statistical learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It has been extremely rewarding to be exposed to new ideas from these fields by interacting with researchers on a common problem set,\u0026rdquo; Romberg said. \u0026ldquo;It has also been a pleasure to see how this early work was translated into different problem domains and built a strong foundation for me across disciplinary research, which is something that I have valued throughout my career.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo view Romberg\u0026rsquo;s award presentation from the IEEE VIC Summit and Honors Ceremony, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ieeetv.ieee.org\/channels\/communities\/awards-hall-a-day-2-ieee-vic-summit-and-honors-ceremony\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/ieeetv.ieee.org\/channels\/communities\/awards-hall-a-day-2-ieee-vic-summit-and-honors-ceremony\u003C\/a\u003E. 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Integrated photonics have become a key enabling technology in many commercial, defense and scientific applications such as fiber communications, data centers, RF analog links, quantum computing, and communications and sensing. Aerospace and spaceborne applications of integrated photonics present many challenges for researchers resulting from the harsh environment, however they provide enormous opportunities for increasing performance while reducing size weight and power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe EPICA IUCRC was first proposed by faculty of the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC), a center within the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN) at Georgia Tech. The GEDC is a cross-disciplinary research center focused on the development of high-speed electronic and photonics components and signal processing to achieve revolutionary system performance. 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This is the second year in a row that Wang has won this award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe QFA supports key professors and their research, with the goal of strengthening Qualcomm\u0026rsquo;s engagement with faculty who also play a key role in Qualcomm\u0026rsquo;s recruiting of top graduate students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere is a rapidly growing need for high-performance RF, millimeter wave (mm-Wave), and terahertz (THz) front-end circuits and transceiver systems to address the numerous 5G and Beyond 5G wireless communications and sensing applications. Wang\u0026#39;s research group has pioneered a variety of novel circuit topologies and system architectures that are agnostic to process technology platforms and can radically improve the bandwidth, energy-efficiency, robustness, and reconfigurability of RF, mm-Wave, and THz circuits and systems. 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As the uses of electronics increase, so does the need for highly specialized electronic components. Now, a new method for optimizing electronics has been developed that will dramatically cut the time that it takes to get new components and systems to market.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nTraditionally, electric components and systems, such as semiconductors and chips, are tuned and tested over months before they are optimized for a task. A new method developed by Madhavan Swaminathan and his students \u0026mdash; which is now available to companies as a software program \u0026mdash; uses a statistical technique based on probabilities called Bayesian optimization to replace the usual trial-and-error method.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESwaminathan is the John Pippin Chair in Electromagnetics and Microsystems Packaging in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Director of the 3D Systems Packaging Research Center. 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They are Hossein Taghinejad, Mohammad Taghinejad, Mehrdad Tahmasbi, Hakki Mert Torun, and Siddharth Varughese.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHossein Taghinejad\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;thesis is entitled \u0026ldquo;Synthesis of Alloys and Lateral Heterostructures of Atomically Thin Transition-Metal Dichalocogenides for Optoelectronic Applications.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Breakthroughs in microelectronics and advances in material development have always worked in tandem. Currently, microelectronics needs to adjust itself to welcome the era of quantum computing. In collaboration with his colleagues who work on ECE Professor Ali Adibi\u0026rsquo;s team, Taghinejad developed a quantum platform made of heterogeneous integration of atomically thin semiconductors, known as 2D semiconductors, with applications in the next generation of transistors and optoelectronic devices. Advised by Adibi, Taghinejad graduated in August 2020 and is now a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMohammad Taghinejad\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ethesis is entitled\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Active\u0026nbsp;and Nonlinear Nanophotonics Facilitated by Hot-Carrier Dynamics.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;As electronics approaches its intrinsic speed limitations, pursuing new computational paradigms for data processing is inevitable. Optical computing \u0026ndash; replacing electrons with photons \u0026ndash; has been introduced as a powerful alternative. The success of optical computing depends on the realization of optical switches to fulfill the role of electronic transistors in optical platforms. During his Ph.D. research, under the supervision of ECE Associate Professor Wenshan Cai, Taghinejad employed nonlinear optical effects to design and implement ultracompact optical switches with terahertz operation speed and very low energy consumption. Taghinejad graduated in December 2020 and is now a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMehrdad Tahmasbi\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;thesis is entitled \u0026ldquo;Covert Communication: From Classical Channels to Quantum Channels.\u0026rdquo; Tahmasbi\u0026nbsp;worked on a recently-explored notion of security called undetectability of a communication protocol. With an abundance of adversarial activities around modern communication systems, an unauthorized party could potentially extract useful information from the very existence of communication. Tahmasbi studied the fundamental limits of communication in several scenarios of interest, with the additional constraint that its probability of detection should remain negligible. Advised by ECE Associate Professor Matthieu Bloch, Tahmasbi graduated in May 2020 and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of\u0026nbsp;Amsterdam (The Netherlands).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHakki Mert Torun\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;thesis is entitled\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Machine Learning Based\u0026nbsp;Design and Optimization for\u0026nbsp;High-Performance Semiconductor\u0026nbsp;Packaging and Systems.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;As the demand for high-performance electronics increase, designing such systems becomes more and more complex. Conventional design methodologies either can\u0026rsquo;t handle such complexity or are too slow and significantly delay design closure. This thesis presents new, machine learning based modeling and optimization methodologies as a way to develop a fast and accurate design framework that can handle complexity of modern-day semiconductor systems. Advised by\u0026nbsp;ECE Professor Madhavan Swaminathan,\u0026nbsp;Torun graduated in\u0026nbsp;October 2020 and is now a power integrity engineer\u0026nbsp;with Apple in San Diego, California.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESiddharth Varughese\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ethesis is entitled\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Performance Analysis and Impairment Identification in Optical Communication Systems.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Over the past 50 years, optical communications systems have grown tremendously, achieving exceptional data rates and reaches owing to the introduction of various techniques and technologies. 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Advised by ECE Professor Stephen Ralph,\u0026nbsp;Varughese\u0026nbsp;graduated in December 2020 and is now a staff\u0026nbsp;optical development engineer for subsea\u0026nbsp;solutions at Infinera Corporation, located in Savage, Maryland.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFive recent graduates from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) have been chosen for Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Awards. 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Congratulations to these faculty members on achieving these career milestones!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EPromotion to Professor\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPamela Bhatti\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMatthieu Bloch\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWenshan Cai\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlenka Zajic\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPromotion to Associate Professor with Tenure\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELukas Graber\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETushar Krishna\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Granting promotion and tenure are very carefully\u0026nbsp;considered actions, and they are significant milestones that each of these faculty members worked extremely hard to reach,\u0026rdquo; said Magnus Egerstedt, Steve W. 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The ECE faculty members receiving this honor are Asif Khan, Bernard Kippelen, Frank Li, Benjamin Yang, Muhannad Bakir, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Matthieu Bloch, Omer Inan, and Sung Kyu Lim. This honor roll recognizes Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s top teachers for fall 2020. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis Class of 1934 distinction is one of several recognitions made annually by CTL to instructors and recognizes faculty members with exceptional response rates and scores on the Course-Instructor Opinion Surveys (CIOS). A high response rate (85 percent or greater) is required for consideration, and the composite scores for three CIOS items are used to rank instructors. Recognition is given to instructors who teach both small classes and large classes. 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He will succeed Benjamin Klein who served in this position since 2018 and who will become the next chair of the Department of ECE at Kennesaw State University.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter earning his Ph.D. in ECE from Georgia Tech in 2008, Bloch joined the ECE faculty in 2009, where he is currently an associate professor. He was first based at the Georgia Tech-Lorraine campus and then moved to the Atlanta campus in 2013. Bloch also earned a Ph.D. in engineering sciences from Universit\u0026eacute; de Franche-Comt\u0026eacute; in 2006, the M.S.E.C.E. degree from Georgia Tech in 2003, and the Diplome d\u0026rsquo;Ing\u0026eacute;nieur from Sup\u0026eacute;lec in 2003.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBloch\u0026rsquo;s educational and research interests are in information theory and error control coding, with a focus on how to make communication systems more efficient and secure. He leads the Adaptive Communication, Decision, and Information Systems Laboratory, where he advises three Ph.D. students. Bloch has graduated five Ph.D. students and has worked with 20 M.S. special problems students, seven undergraduate researchers, two postdoctoral fellows, and four visiting scholars. He has published one book,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPhysical Layer Security in Wireless Communications\u003C\/em\u003E, and he is the\u0026nbsp;author of 41 refereed journal papers and 82 refereed conference papers. He holds two patents. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBloch has devoted much time and effort to enhancing education for both undergraduate and graduate students. Since 2017, he has developed flipped course material for ECE 3084 Signals and Systems. Bloch advises a team with the Vertically Integrated Projects program that is known as Agile Communication Architecture. The team was established in spring 2018 to develop the next generation of intelligent radios and to explore the opportunities that are possible through the convergence of machine learning and software defined radios. As part of his activities with the Decision and Control Laboratory, Bloch launched a white board seminar series in fall 2019 to build a sense of community among students and professors and to remove the artificial barriers that exist between labs and research areas. He has also developed open-access resources for ECE 6254 Statistical Machine Learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn his professional field, Bloch served as a guest editor for the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Information Theory\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;this year. He is currently an associate editor for the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on\u0026nbsp;Information Forensics and Security\u003C\/em\u003E. 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The conference was held October 18-21, 2020 in a virtual format.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJoining him in receiving this award are his coauthors Chaitanya Krishna Chekuri, Nael Mizanur Rahman, Majid Ahadi Dolatsara, and Hakki Torun, who are all ECE Ph.D. students, and ECE Professors Madhavan Swaminathan, Saibal Mukhopadhyay, and Sung Kyu Lim. Kim is advised by Lim, Chekuri and Rahman are advised by Mukhopadhyay, and Dolatsara and Torun are advised by Swaminathan.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of the award-winning paper is \u0026quot;Silicon vs. Organic Interposer: PPA and Reliability Tradeoffs in Heterogeneous 2.5D Chiplet Integration.\u0026quot; The optimal selection of an interposer substrate is crucial in 2.5D systems, because its physical, material and electrical characteristics govern the overall system performance, reliability, and cost. Several materials have been proposed that offer various tradeoffs, including silicon, organic, and glass. In this paper, the research team conduct a quantitative comparison between two 2.5D integrated circuit (IC) designs based on silicon vs. liquid crystal polymer (LCP) interposer technologies for the first time. The team also investigates tradeoffs in power, performance and area (PPA), signal integrity (SI), and power integrity (PI), depending on the interposer technologies. Their benchmark is a large-scale RISC-V multi-core processor that is comparable to commercial products in terms of performance. Their designs are done at GDS-level and simulated with commercial quality sign-off tools that are developed by the team. This research is funded by the DARPA Electronics Resurgent Initiative under the CHIPS program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E2.5D heterogeneous integration of micro-electronics components using interposer technologies is rapidly becoming the norm in industry these days. 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Meindl worked with early industry pioneers,\u0026nbsp;who taught him about ICs, and he then began his own research, trying to figure out how to make an IC operate at a power level so low that it could be used inside a helmet as part of a radio receiver.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom 1967-1986, at Stanford University, Meindl served as founding director of the Integrated Circuits Laboratory, director of the Stanford Electronics Laboratories, associate dean for research in the School of Engineering, and founding co-director of the Center for Integrated Systems, which was a model for university and industry cooperative research in microelectronics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile at Stanford, Meindl developed low-power integrated circuits and sensors for a portable reading aid for the blind, miniature wireless radio telemetry systems for biomedical research, and non-invasive ultrasonic imaging and blood-flow measurement systems. 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Under the supervision of ECE Professor Wenshan Cai, he is studying the optically excited states of various materials such as metals, semiconductors, and conductive oxides to develop ultrafast optical switches and light modulators. His goal is to bridge the gap between state-of-the-art electronics and ultrafast optics to introduce practical methodologies for high-speed and low-energy hybrid electro-optical data processing units. Taghinejad is the recipient of the 2020 ECE Graduate Research Assistant Excellence Award from the School of ECE at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2020, the Society is awarding $298,000 in education scholarships to 78 outstanding SPIE student members, based on their potential contribution to optics and photonics or to a related discipline. Award-winning applicants were evaluated, selected, and approved by the SPIE Scholarship Committee, chaired by SPIE volunteer Kate Medicus. 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The long-term goal of the DARPA YFA program is to develop the next generation of academic scientists, engineers, and mathematicians who will focus a significant portion of their career on U.S. Department of Defense and national security issues.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the end of the initial two-year period, DARPA YFA awardees with exceptional technical achievements and leadership will be selected for the highly competitive DARPA Director\u0026rsquo;s Fellowship that provides additional funding and support for a third year to extend their risk-taking research explorations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWang was selected for his Director\u0026rsquo;s Fellowship by the DARPA Microsystems Technology Office that develops next-generation intelligent microelectronics systems and components. His research focuses on inventing fundamental circuit topologies and system architectures that will lead to a new class of load modulation power amplifiers with an unprecedented combination of bandwidth, energy efficiency, output power, and linearity. 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When we remove the conventional boundaries between devices, circuits, and electromagnetics, and consider everything holistically, interesting innovations will happen.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a member of the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) faculty since 2012, Wang is currently an associate professor and leads the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System (GEMS) Lab. He has received multiple prestigious academic awards, including the ECE Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship 2014-2018, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2017, Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award in 2016, National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2015, Roger P. Webb ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award in 2015, and Lockheed Dean\u0026rsquo;s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2015, as well as many best paper awards in the field of solid-state circuits, systems, and microwave engineering. 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The primary purpose of this program is to give first- or second-year graduate students in diverse disciplines working on original and un-funded research in micro- and nano-scale projects the opportunity to access the most advanced academic cleanroom space in the Southeast. In addition to accessing the high-level fabrication, lithography, and characterization tools in the labs, the students will have the opportunity to gain proficiency in cleanroom and tool methodology and to use the consultation services provided by research staff members of the IEN.\u0026nbsp; In addition, the Seed Grant program gives faculty with novel research topics the ability to develop preliminary data in order to pursue follow-up funding sources. 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After graduating with his doctorate, he worked as a research engineer in ECE for five years and then joined the School\u0026#39;s academic faculty in 2001.\u0026nbsp;Doolittle\u0026nbsp;leads the Advanced Semiconductor Technology Facility, which has an estimated equipment capitalization of $6 million.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDoolittle advises eight\u0026nbsp;Ph.D. students who work in the areas of microelectronic fabrication, materials growth, characterization, neuromorphic computational devices, power, high frequency transistors, and optoelectronic devices. To date, he has graduated\u0026nbsp;23\u0026nbsp;Ph.D. students,\u0026nbsp;12\u0026nbsp;master\u0026rsquo;s students, and\u0026nbsp;45 undergraduate students.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDoolittle pioneered the area of hyper doping of wide bandgap semiconductors, which has enabled the creation of new devices that use quantum mechanical processes to reduce power losses and to allow new ways of interconnecting advanced power and optoelectronic devices. He also pioneered the synthesis of lithium-metal-oxides, which have recently gained traction for very low power neuromorphic devices; these devices emulate human brain functionality.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom 2003-2009, Doolittle was the first assistant professor at Tech to win a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURI) award, and in fact, he was the lead PI on two MURI programs during this period. These initiatives focused on the development of next generation epitaxial systems for three-dimensional epitaxy. Doolittle and his team developed and exploited epitaxial multifunctional oxides, a newly developing family of materials that seek to interconnect at the atomic scale using more than one environmental force in order to facilitate the development of new sensors and actuators.\u0026nbsp;One example of materials that were birthed out of this field are \u0026ldquo;multiferroics,\u0026rdquo; where electric fields can tune magnetic moments. The latter MURI was an extension of his NSF CAREER Award from 2004 and led to a new branch of science in multifunctional materials.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDoolittle currently leads a third MURI program aimed at building nanoscale devices that operate in a way that is similar to various brain functions.\u0026nbsp;His MURI team\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;goal is to develop\u0026nbsp;an artificial retina that can learn autonomously and be used for\u0026nbsp;advanced image recognition cameras for national defense and police work. He is a co-PI on a fourth MURI, led by Samuel Graham, the Eugene C. Gwaltney Chair and Professor of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. This program examines the nanoscale engineering of thermal interfaces, so as to improve heat dissipation in power electronics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the years, Doolittle\u0026nbsp;and his colleagues have raised approximately\u0026nbsp;$38\u0026nbsp;million in research funding from multiple government agencies\u0026nbsp;and industry. He has published\u0026nbsp;157\u0026nbsp;refereed journal and conference papers, and he has been issued\u0026nbsp;nine\u0026nbsp;patents. For his hard work and dedication to research, Doolittle was recognized with the Georgia Tech Outstanding Achievement in Research Program Development Award in 2008, the 2002-2003 Student Government Faculty of the Year Award, and the 2005 ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn excellent classroom teacher, Doolittle earns teaching ratings from undergraduate and graduate students that consistently exceed the School\u0026rsquo;s norms.\u0026nbsp;He has taught 1,009 undergraduates and 178 graduate students with teaching effectiveness ratings of 4.7 out of 5 in courses such as\u0026nbsp;Microelectronics Circuits, Semiconductor Devices, Renewable Energy Devices, and Introduction to Microelectronic Technology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDoolittle is a two-time recipient of the Richard M. Bass\/Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teacher Award, an honor determined by a majority vote of the ECE senior class, in 2003 and 2011. 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Li is among 10 winners of this award worldwide and will be recognized at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium. This event will be held June 2-7, 2019 in Boston, Massachusetts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELi is a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). He works in the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System (GEMS) Lab, where he is advised by ECE Associate Professor Hua Wang.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELi\u0026rsquo;s research focuses on\u0026nbsp;millimeter-wave and terahertz integrated circuit, antenna, and system designs for 5G wireless communication, radar, and\u0026nbsp;hyperspectral\u0026nbsp;imaging applications. He graduated with his B.Eng. with Highest Honors and his B.A. from Zhejiang University and has been a member of the GEMS Lab since Fall 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student Sensen Li has been selected for the 2019 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Student Fellowship.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student Sensen Li has been selected for the 2019 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Student Fellowship."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2019-02-15 14:08:56","changed_gmt":"2019-02-15 14:15:00","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"617892":{"id":"617892","type":"image","title":"Sensen Li","body":null,"created":"1550239096","gmt_created":"2019-02-15 13:58:16","changed":"1550239096","gmt_changed":"2019-02-15 13:58:16","alt":"Sensen Li","file":{"fid":"235203","name":"Sensen_photo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sensen_photo.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sensen_photo.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":13610,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Sensen_photo.jpg?itok=fll3v1LB"}}},"media_ids":["617892"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gems.ece.gatech.edu\/index.html","title":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech "},{"url":"https:\/\/www.mtt.org","title":"IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society"},{"url":"https:\/\/ims-ieee.org","title":"IEEE International Microwave Symposium"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"177303","name":"Sensen Li"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"85861","name":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab"},{"id":"67901","name":"Hua Wang"},{"id":"1298","name":"IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society"},{"id":"38431","name":"IEEE International Microwave Symposium"},{"id":"180541","name":"millimeter-wave"},{"id":"7678","name":"Terahertz"},{"id":"7639","name":"integrated circuit"},{"id":"2616","name":"antenna"},{"id":"180542","name":"system design"},{"id":"180543","name":"5G wireless communication"},{"id":"2621","name":"radar"},{"id":"177760","name":"hyperspectral imaging"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"617718":{"#nid":"617718","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Garay, Nguyen Win Student Designer Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEdgar Garay and Huy Thong Nguyen have both been named recipients of the 2019 ISSCC Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award. They are Ph.D. students in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis award recognizes graduate students who are in the early portion of their graduate studies and who have shown exceptional achievements and promise in the general field of integrated circuits and systems. Garay and Nguyen will be presented with these awards at the 2019 International Solid-State Circuits Conference, to be held February 17-21 in San Francisco, California. They are members of the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab (GEMS), where they are advised by Hua Wang. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGaray\u0026rsquo;s Ph.D. research focuses on zero-power RF\/mm-wave signal processing, multi-functional digital transmitter systems for next-generation radar and 5G wireless communications, and power generation for THz Internet of Things devices. He joined the GEMS Lab in 2015. He graduated with his B.S. degree in physics in 2009 and his B.S.E.E. degree in 2010 from Florida International University and his M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Florida in 2013.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENguyen\u0026rsquo;s Ph.D. research focuses on innovating circuits and systems architectures to resolve the unmet challenges of next generation mm-wave\/THz technologies. He is working on addressing various emerging applications of this work to 5G, massive MIMO, radar, imaging, and spectroscopy. He joined the GEMS Lab in 2016. 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More specifically, my project is focused on how graphene quality affects its ability to protect copper against corrosion by inducing defects in large grain, non-defective graphene.\u0026nbsp; This research has the potential to better protect microelectronic devices from corrosion that can lead to damage or failure of the device. With thinner corrosion barriers, electronics for use in hostile environments (exposure to radiation, extreme temperatures, weathering, etc.) can be scaled down in footprint whilst still being protected.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E3. What has been your favorite lab activity\/ tool training\/ etc. thus far and why?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI have really enjoyed using the scanning electron microscopes in the Materials Characterization Facility. This tool essentially allows me to take pictures of my samples under extremely high magnification. 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What are your plans post-undergraduate? \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs of now, my only definitive plan is to obtain my undergraduate degree in materials science and engineering. Whether I pursue a master\u0026rsquo;s or doctorate, and if I will enter industry or remain in academia will be decided once I get through more of my undergraduate classes and gain more experience. Long term, I do like the idea of a career in R\u0026amp;D research at NASA or JPL.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E6. What is your favorite thing about\/impression of GA Tech and ATL? \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI love how many trees the campus has! I was really nervous about spending the summer in a big city because I am used to spending the summer hiking and working in a farm environment, but all of the greenspace has helped me miss home little less. 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Ernst - Marketing Manager\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology at Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E345 Ferst Drive, Atlanta GA, 30332 | 1151B\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404.894.1665 | christa.ernst@ien.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eien.gatech.edu | sums.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["christa.ernst@ien.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"611619":{"#nid":"611619","#data":{"type":"news","title":"3D-Printed Tracheal Splints Used in Groundbreaking Pediatric Surgery","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChildren\u0026rsquo;s Healthcare of Atlanta has performed Georgia\u0026rsquo;s first-ever procedure to place 3D-printed tracheal splints in a pediatric patient. A cross-functional team of Children\u0026rsquo;s surgeons used three custom-made splints, which biomedical engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology helped create using an innovative and experimental 3D-printing technology, to assist the breathing of a 7-month-old patient battling life-threatening airway obstruction.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;We are so fortunate to work with a leading engineering school like Georgia Tech to find innovative, potentially life-saving treatment options for our patients,\u0026rdquo; said Donna Hyland, president and CEO, Children\u0026rsquo;s Healthcare of Atlanta. \u0026ldquo;This is a great example of how aligning Children\u0026rsquo;s clinical expertise with the missions of our research collaborators can improve patient outcomes. Research that can be translated into more effective care at the bedside is why our collaboration with Georgia Tech is so important for the future of pediatric care in Georgia.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe patient who received the groundbreaking surgery is a 7-month-old boy battling both congenital heart disease and tracheo-bronchomalacia, a condition that causes severe life-threatening airway obstruction. During his six-month inpatient stay in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Children\u0026rsquo;s, he experienced frequent episodes of airway collapse that could not be corrected by typical surgery protocols. The clinical team proposed surgically inserting an experimental 3D-printed tracheal splint, which is a novel device still in development, to open his airways and expand the trachea and bronchus.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Scott-Hollister\u0022\u003EScott Hollister, Ph.D\u003C\/a\u003E., who holds the Patsy and Alan Dorris Endowed Chair in Pediatric Technology, a joint initiative supported by Georgia Tech and Children\u0026rsquo;s Healthcare of Atlanta, developed the process for creating the tracheal splint using 3D printing technology at University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children\u0026rsquo;s Hospital prior to joining Georgia Tech. The Children\u0026rsquo;s procedure was the 15th time a 3D-printed tracheal splint was placed in a pediatric patient.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The possibility of using 3D printing technology to save the life of a child is our motivation in the lab every day,\u0026rdquo; said Hollister, who is also the director of the Center for 3D Medical Fabrication at Georgia Tech and a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re determined to develop innovative solutions that meet the needs of Georgia\u0026rsquo;s most complex pediatric patients.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe splints were created using reconstructions of the patient\u0026rsquo;s airways from CT scans. Hollister and his team of biomedical engineers collaborated with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gcmiatl.com\/\u0022\u003EGlobal Center for Medical Innovation\u003C\/a\u003E (GCMI) so that GCMI could create multiple versions of the splint, of varying sizes, to ensure the perfect fit was available for the surgical team to select and place around the patient\u0026rsquo;s airways during surgery. GCMI will also support the ongoing development and commercialization of the technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a complex 10-hour surgery, Children\u0026rsquo;s cross-functional team of surgeons successfully placed three 3D-printed splints around the patient\u0026rsquo;s trachea on the morning of August 17, 2018. The splints will eventually be absorbed into the body, allowing for expansion of the trachea and bronchus.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Children\u0026rsquo;s tracheal splint team included Steve Goudy, M.D., and April Landry, M.D., (ENT), pediatric otolaryngologists; Subhadra Shashidharan, M.D., pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon; and Kevin Maher, M.D., pediatric cardiologist.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the tracheal procedure concluded, the child was placed on a heart lung machine for surgical repair of his cardiac defect. Postoperative care took place in the Cardiac ICU and the Pediatric ICU at Children\u0026rsquo;s.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s the close relationships we have with our research collaborators that make this kind of groundbreaking procedure possible,\u0026rdquo; said Dr. Goudy. \u0026ldquo;A large number of additional physicians, support staff and outside collaborators worked together on this innovative procedure.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 3D-printed tracheal splint is a new device still under development, as safety and effectiveness have not yet been determined and is therefore not available for clinical use. The Children\u0026rsquo;s team sought emergency clearance from the FDA to move forward with the procedure under expanded access guidelines.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2015, Georgia Tech and Children\u0026rsquo;s formed The Children\u0026#39;s Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Technology Center on Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s campus to further advance pediatric research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Contacts:\u0026nbsp;Chrissie Gallentine, Children\u0026rsquo;s Healthcare of Atlanta (404-785-7614) or\u0026nbsp;John Toon, Georgia Institute of Technology (404-894-6986)(jtoon@gatech.edu).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChildren\u0026rsquo;s Healthcare of Atlanta\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nChildren\u0026rsquo;s Healthcare of Atlanta has been 100 percent dedicated to kids for more than 100 years. A not- for-profit organization, Children\u0026rsquo;s is dedicated to making kids better today and healthier tomorrow. Our specialized care helps children get better faster and live healthier lives. Managing more than a million patient visits annually at three hospitals, Marcus Autism Center, and 27 neighborhood locations, Children\u0026rsquo;s is the largest healthcare provider for children in Georgia and one of the largest pediatric clinical care providers in the country. Children\u0026rsquo;s offers access to more than 60 pediatric specialties and programs and is ranked among the top children\u0026rsquo;s hospitals in the country by U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report.\u0026nbsp; With generous philanthropic and volunteer support since 1915, Children\u0026rsquo;s has impacted the lives of children in Georgia, the United States and throughout the world. 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The impact is measured by commercialization and\u0026nbsp;wide adoption of the nominee\u0026rsquo;s contributions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERaychowdhury won the award for his\u0026nbsp;contributions to \u0026quot;integrated DSL modems,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Ealways-on\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;intelligent\u0026nbsp;sensor hardware and model development for non-linear control in voltage regulators.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to attending graduate school, Raychowdhury first\u0026nbsp;worked as an analog researcher at Texas\u0026nbsp;Instruments (TI) for two\u0026nbsp;years,\u0026nbsp;where he\u0026nbsp;designed the\u0026nbsp;world\u0026#39;s first adaptive\u0026nbsp;mixed-signal\u0026nbsp;echo-canceller for the receive-channel in ADSL modems. It used a hardware based\u0026nbsp;optimizer for\u0026nbsp;impedance matching and resulted in 1.5X range improvement. 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Furthermore, by introducing small amounts of lanthanum into zirconia, the researchers were able to tune the properties of antiferroelectric zirconia, namely critical field\/voltage for phase transition, dielectric constant and polarization. \u0026ldquo;Such tunability can not only enable a large design space for nanoelectronic antiferroelectric devices, but also be useful for their traditional applications of antiferroelectrics in electro-calories, pyroelectrics and micro-actuators,\u0026rdquo; says Khan. He also mentions that antiferroelectricity is a close cousin of a well-known phenomenon\u0026mdash;ferroelectricity, which being researched and adopted by major semiconductor manufacturers for potential memory applications. His previous work also focused on ferroelectric oxides for ultra-low power negative capacitance transistors. 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He is a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is a highly prestigious and competitive honor for Ph.D. students in IEEE AP-S, and the goal of this award is to encourage pursuit of careers in advanced electromagnetics.\u0026nbsp;Li\u0026#39;s proposed research focuses on innovative multi-feed antennas and their co-operations with electronics to achieve mm-Wave massive MIMO systems with unprecedented front-end performance. The award announcement will be featured in the Education Column of the upcoming \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELi has worked for three years in the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System (GEMS) Lab, where he is advised by Hua Wang. Li received his\u0026nbsp;B.Eng. with highest honors and B.A. from Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China and\u0026nbsp;was awarded a First-Class Scholarship for outstanding undergraduate students.\u0026nbsp;He also received\u0026nbsp;Analog Devices, Inc. Outstanding Student Designer Award in\u0026nbsp;2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELi\u0026rsquo;s paper has been selected as a\u0026nbsp;Best Student Paper Award Finalist at the\u0026nbsp;2018 IEEE\u0026nbsp;Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), to be held June 10-12 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His Ph.D. research focuses on mm-Wave and THz integrated antenna,\u0026nbsp;circuit, and system designs for 5G MIMO\u0026nbsp;wireless communication, radar, and hyperspectral\u0026nbsp;imaging applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;Sensen Li has received a 2018 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Doctoral Research Grant.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student\u00a0Sensen Li has received a 2018 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Doctoral Research Grant."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2018-03-06 17:27:11","changed_gmt":"2018-03-06 17:27:11","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-03-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-03-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"603374":{"id":"603374","type":"image","title":"Sensen Li","body":null,"created":"1520356633","gmt_created":"2018-03-06 17:17:13","changed":"1520356633","gmt_changed":"2018-03-06 17:17:13","alt":"photograph of Sensen Li","file":{"fid":"229973","name":"Sensen_picture.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sensen_picture.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sensen_picture.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":13610,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Sensen_picture.jpg?itok=D0tEF8KO"}}},"media_ids":["603374"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gems.ece.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Microsystem Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.ieeeaps.org","title":"IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society "}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"67901","name":"Hua Wang"},{"id":"177303","name":"Sensen Li"},{"id":"172905","name":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Microsystem Lab"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"9595","name":"IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society"},{"id":"177304","name":"multi-feed antennas"},{"id":"177305","name":"massive MIMO systems"},{"id":"2621","name":"radar"},{"id":"177306","name":"hyperspectral imaging applications"},{"id":"177307","name":"5G MIMO wireless communication"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"603209":{"#nid":"603209","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Wang Tapped for DARPA Young Faculty Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHua Wang has received a DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) for his research on mm-Wave power amplifiers with extreme bandwidth and energy efficiency.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA member of the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty since 2012, Wang holds the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship and\u0026nbsp;leads the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System (GEMS) Lab. He has also received multiple prestigious academic awards, including the IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award in\u0026nbsp;2017,\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech Sigma\u0026nbsp;Xi\u0026nbsp;Young Faculty Award in\u0026nbsp;2016,\u0026nbsp;National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in\u0026nbsp;2015,\u0026nbsp;Roger\u0026nbsp;P. Webb ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award in\u0026nbsp;2015, and\u0026nbsp;Lockheed Dean\u0026rsquo;s Excellence in Teaching Award in\u0026nbsp;2015,\u0026nbsp;as well as many best paper awards in the field of solid-state circuits,\u0026nbsp;systems, and microwave engineering. Wang is also a\u0026nbsp;Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society for 2018 and\u0026nbsp;2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs millimeter-wave frequency applications have become prevalent in the commercial and Department of Defense\u0026nbsp;markets, there is a rapidly\u0026nbsp;growing\u0026nbsp;need for advanced\u0026nbsp;millimeter-wave\u0026nbsp;solid-state\u0026nbsp;power amplifier technologies that\u0026nbsp;can support\u0026nbsp;high energy\u0026nbsp;efficiency, sufficient output power, and high-speed complex modulations. 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They are Jaydev Desai, a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME); Saibal Mukhopadhyay and Justin Romberg, both professors in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE); and Kevin James \u0026ldquo;Jim\u0026rdquo; Sangston, a senior research engineer in the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. 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Mukhopadhyay\u0026rsquo;s team explores algorithmic principles to make these systems energy-efficient, robust, and secure, and pursue their experimental demonstration in silicon.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERomberg is being recognized \u0026ldquo;for contributions to compressive sensing.\u0026rdquo; An ECE faculty member since 2006, he is the School\u0026rsquo;s associate chair for Research and holds the Schlumberger Professorship. In addition, Romberg serves as associate director for the Center for Machine Learning. He conducts research that is on the interface between signal processing, applied harmonic analysis, and optimization. Romberg and his current team of six Ph.D. students are interested in both the mathematical theory and real-world implementation of algorithms to make difficult processing tasks much easier.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESangston is being recognized \u0026ldquo;for contributions to coherent detection of radar signals in clutter.\u0026rdquo; He initially came to GTRI from the U.S Naval Research Laboratory in 1996. His research in target detection in difficult clutter environments from the mid-1990s up till the present time has been a fruitful source of ideas and motivation for many investigators pursuing advanced research on radar target detection problems throughout the world. He currently works in the Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory (SEAL), where he\u0026nbsp;conducts research that seeks to combine advanced geometric and algebraic ideas to solve challenging radar signal processing problems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe IEEE is the world\u0026rsquo;s leading professional association for advancing technology for humanity. 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This maximum award amount is still in effect even if IEN non-cleanroom (lab) equipment, electron beam lithography (EBL), or tools in the Materials Characterization Facility (MCF) are required. The designated student user is expected to only utilize the cleanroom\/tool access while working with the PI on the proposed project. Members of the IEN processing staff will be available to consult during the project period. The number of awards for each proposal submission date will depend on the number and quality of the proposals. A short report describing the research activities is required midway and at the completion of the award period.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ESubmission Schedule\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThis Seed Grant program is offered in two competitions each year with due dates on October 1, 2017 and April 1, 2018. 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Selected from approximately 170 Aramco students pursuing Ph.D.s in the U.S. and around the world, Al-Shehri will be honored at the Aramco EXPEC Advanced Research Center International Advisory Committee Meeting, scheduled for this July in Houston, Texas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdvised by Professor Ian Akyildiz, Al-Shehri is a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and has been a member of the Broadband Wireless Networking Lab since spring 2014. His research topic is \u0026ldquo;OilMoles: Design of Wireless Underground Self-Contained Sensor Networks for Oil Reservoirs Monitoring.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe objective of Al-Shehri\u0026rsquo;s proposed research is to design fully integrated magnetic induction (MI)-based Wireless Underground Sensor Networks (WUSNs) to enable reliable and efficient wireless communications in underground oil reservoirs to perform in-situ monitoring of oil reservoirs. 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Second, Al-Shehri is developing a novel MI-based localization framework, which exploits the unique properties of the MI field to determine the locations of the randomly deployed sensor nodes in oil reservoirs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThird, Al-Shehri is proposing an accurate energy model framework of a linear oil sensor network topology that gives feasible sensors\u0026rsquo; transmission rates and sensor network topology while always guaranteeing enough energy. Once that framework is completed, he will design, develop, and fabricate MI-based sensor nodes. Lastly,\u0026nbsp;Al-Shehri will develop a physical MI-based WUSN testbed to validate the performance of the proposed solutions in a practical way as he is going to implement the proposed solutions in the designed MI-based sensor nodes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student Abdallah Al-Shehri has been chosen as the Best-in-Class Young Researcher by Aramco.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student Abdallah Al-Shehri has been chosen as the Best-in-Class Young Researcher by Aramco."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2017-05-02 17:55:19","changed_gmt":"2017-05-03 15:32:04","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"591230":{"id":"591230","type":"image","title":"Abdallah Al-Shehri","body":null,"created":"1493747913","gmt_created":"2017-05-02 17:58:33","changed":"1493747913","gmt_changed":"2017-05-02 17:58:33","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225280","name":"Abdallah Alshehri.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Abdallah%20Alshehri.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Abdallah%20Alshehri.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":20052,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Abdallah%20Alshehri.jpg?itok=7-asJwg9"}}},"media_ids":["591230"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/bwn.ece.gatech.edu","title":"Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.saudiaramco.com\/en\/home.html","title":"Aramco"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"174302","name":"Abdallah Al-Shehri"},{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"},{"id":"1526","name":"wireless"},{"id":"167066","name":"sensors"},{"id":"12096","name":"wireless underground sensor networks"},{"id":"174303","name":"oil reserves"},{"id":"174304","name":"Aramco"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"174305","name":"Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"590379":{"#nid":"590379","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Researcher Honored with Alan T. 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I-Corps participants interview prospective customers and identify market needs for federally funded innovations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, Cola and colleagues were responsible for engineering breakthroughs, including the first thermally conductive amorphous polymer, the first practical electrochemical cell for generating electricity from waste heat and the first evidence of thermal energy conduction by surface polaritons.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECola, 35, is the founder of Carbice Nanotechnologies, Inc., a company that uses a carbon nanotube-material to remove heat from computer chip testing stations, allowing for faster and cheaper testing of chips during production. The technology could eventually result in smaller, faster, more powerful computer chips for use in everything from smartphones to supercomputers. Carbice Nanotechnologies received support from NSF\u0026#39;s Small Business Innovation Research program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe also is co-founder of the NSF-funded Academic and Research Leadership Network, a group of more than 300 Ph.D. engineering researchers from minority groups underrepresented in academia, industry and government laboratories.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Princeton University, Pardon is a Clay Research Fellow and professor of mathematics. His research focuses on geometry and topology, the study of properties of shapes that are unaffected by deformations, such as stretching or twisting. He is known for solving problems that stumped other mathematicians for decades and generating solutions that provide new tools for geometric analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. In fiscal year (FY) 2016, its budget is $7.5 billion. NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 colleges, universities and other institutions. Each year, NSF receives more than 48,000 competitive proposals for funding and makes about 12,000 new funding awards. 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With a 15 milliwatt change in excitation power, they measured a 10-nanometer spectral shift in the material\u0026rsquo;s transmission resonances and a 14-degree polarization rotation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers believe that may be the strongest nonlinear optical rotation ever reported for a chiral metamaterial, and is about a hundred thousand times larger than the current record measurement for this type of structure. The research, supported by the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Research Laboratory, was reported February 27 in the journal \u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Nanoscale chiral structures offer an approach to modulating optical signals with relatively small variations in input power,\u0026rdquo; said Sean Rodrigues, a Ph.D. candidate who led the research in the laboratory of Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/wenshan-cai\u0022\u003EWenshan Cai\u003C\/a\u003E in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;To see this kind of change in such a thin material makes chiroptical metamaterials an interesting new platform for optical signal modulation.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis modulation of chiroptical responses from metamaterials by manipulating input power offers the potential for new types of active optics such as all-optical switching and light modulation. The technologies could have applications in such areas as data processing, sensing and communications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EChiral materials exhibit optical properties that differ depending on their opposing circular polarizations. The differences between these responses, which are created by the nanoscale patterning of absorptive materials, can be utilized to create large chiroptical resonances. To be useful in applications such as all-optical switching, these resonances would need to be induced by external tuning \u0026ndash; such as variations in power input.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When you increase the power, you shift the spectrum,\u0026rdquo; Rodrigues said. \u0026ldquo;In effect, you change the transmission at certain wavelengths, meaning you\u0026rsquo;re changing the amount of light passing through the sample by simply modifying input power.\u0026rdquo; For optical engineers, that could be the basis for a switch.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe material demonstrated by Cai\u0026rsquo;s lab are made by nano-patterning layers of silver \u0026ndash; approximately 33 nanometers thick \u0026ndash; onto glass substrates. Between the carefully-designed silver layers is a 45-nanometer layer of dielectric material. An elliptical pattern is created using electron beam lithography, then the entire structure is encapsulated within a dielectric material to prevent oxidation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It is the engineering of these structures that gives us these chiral optical properties,\u0026rdquo; Rodrigues explained. \u0026ldquo;The goal is really to take advantage of the discrepancy between one circular polarization versus the other to create the broadband resonances we need.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe material operates in the visible to near-infrared spectrum, at approximately 740 to 1,000 nanometers. The optical rotation and circular dichroism measurements were taken with the beam entering the material at a normal incident angle.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers induced the change in circular dichroism by increasing the optical power applied to the material from 0.5 milliwatts up to 15 milliwatts. While that is comparatively low power for a laser system, it has a high enough energy flux (energy transfer in time) to instigate change.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The beam size is roughly 40 microns, so it is really focused,\u0026rdquo; said Rodrigues. \u0026ldquo;We are putting a lot of energy into a small area, which causes the effect to be fairly intense.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe researchers don\u0026rsquo;t yet know what prompts the change, but suspect that thermal processes may be involved in altering the material\u0026rsquo;s properties to boost the circular dichroism. Tests show that the power applications do not damage the metamaterial.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECai\u0026rsquo;s laboratory has been studying chiral materials of different kinds for a variety of optical applications. In June 2015, they \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/news\/415011\/theory-turns-reality-nonlinear-optical-metamaterials\u0022\u003Ereported the realization\u003C\/a\u003E of one of the long-standing theoretical predictions in nonlinear optical metamaterials: creation of a nonlinear material that has opposite refractive indices at the fundamental and harmonic frequencies of light. Such a material, which doesn\u0026rsquo;t exist naturally, had been predicted for nearly a decade.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to those already mentioned, the research included Shoufeng Lan, Lei Kang, Yonghao Cui, Patrick Panuski, Shengxiang Wang and Augustine M. Urbas. Urbas is associated with the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; Wang is associated with Wuhan Textile University in China. The others are associated with Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis work was performed in part at the Georgia Tech Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology, a member of the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, which is supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant ECCS-1542174). This material is based on work partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. ECCS-1609567 and by collaborative support from the Air Force Research Laboratory through UES and Azimuth subcontracts S-977-022-001 and 238-5404-GIT, respectively. Support is also acknowledged from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. DGE-1650044. 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Today, they\u0026rsquo;re the working essence of everything from handheld laser pointers to stadium Jumbotrons.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe process is known as metalorganic chemical vapor deposition, or MOCVD, and until Dupuis, no one had figured out how to use it to grow high-quality semiconductors using those III-V elements. Essentially, MOCVD works by combining the atomic elements with molecules of organic gas and flowing the mixture over a hot semiconductor wafer. When repeated, the process grows layer after layer of crystals that can have any number of electrical properties, depending on the elements used.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDupuis remembers well the autumn day in 1976 he first produced a working III-V semiconductor device using MOCVD. \u0026ldquo;It was a solar cell,\u0026rdquo; he recalls. \u0026ldquo;I had built my own reactor mostly out of spare parts to study the MOCVD process to grow a semiconductor on a gallium arsenide substrate. I took the solar cell outside and connected it to a current meter, and it worked pretty good. Since MOCVD was viable for solar cell technology, I thought it should be good for lasers and LEDs.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe was right. At the time, Dupuis was a member of the technical staff at Rockwell International, hired to create working devices based on the MOCVD process being explored by Rockwell chemist Hal Manasevit.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;They knew they needed devices to make systems,\u0026rdquo; he says, \u0026ldquo;and I sold them on the idea that I could evaluate different materials using MOCVD to make those devices.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter his initial success, Dupuis built a second reactor and refined the process. He then published a paper on his discovery and presented it at the 1977 Device Research Conference, an annual gathering of industry professionals and academics. But before the presentation, he was approached by a familiar face: Nick Holonyak, a University of Illinois professor who was Dupuis\u0026rsquo; mentor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;He came to my room and said, \u0026lsquo;I see you\u0026rsquo;ve got an interesting paper \u0026ndash; can you build thin layers with MOCVD?\u0026rsquo; Dupuis says, laughing. \u0026ldquo;I said, I can do as many as you need. Nick looked at me like I was crazy and said, \u0026lsquo;I\u0026rsquo;ve been trying to do this for five years.\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHolonyak is a history-making engineer in his own right. Mentored by John Bardeen, the inventor of the transistor, he became the first to create a visible light-emitting diode in 1962, a breakthrough that continues to transform electrical lighting. While a senior at Illinois in 1969, Dupuis joined Holonyak\u0026rsquo;s lab.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EToday, at the age of 88, Holonyak continues to operate a lab, and his praise for Dupuis is nothing short of ebullient.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Russ Dupuis should be known as the person who invented the big process that\u0026rsquo;s now used to manufacture all the lasers and LEDs,\u0026rdquo; Holonyak says. \u0026ldquo;He has all the tricks to handle the complicated gases, the complicated chemistry, the stuff that explodes. I actually call the process \u0026lsquo;Dupuis-MOCVD\u0026rsquo; \u0026ndash; I hyphenate it.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir meet-up at the conference led Holonyak and Dupuis to reunite in the name of electrical engineering. Together, they published a paper after Dupuis demonstrated that MOCVD was superior to another emerging process, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), in growing high-purity layers for compound semiconductors. In other words, they showed that MOCVD would work even for compound semiconductor devices that required complex structures.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMeanwhile, MOCVD began to take off as an electronics manufacturing process. Today, it remains the most widely used technology for creating thin-film compound semiconductors for electrical devices.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDupuis left Rockwell in 1979 to join AT\u0026amp;T Bell Labs and later transitioned to academia, joining the faculty at the University of Texas, where he worked for 14 years. In 2002, he inquired about a position in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s College of Engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was a chance to work with really smart graduate students,\u0026rdquo; he remembers. \u0026ldquo;Plus, Georgia Tech had a building that was perfect for a clean room setup. I announced I was leaving a year before I actually left Texas, and when I walked in the door at Georgia Tech, the new lab was finished. The support here has been exceptional.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese days, Dupuis is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and holds the Steve W. Chaddick Endowed Chair in Electro-optics. He continues to explore new combinations of atomic elements to make thin-film compound semiconductors.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd while he may go unrecognized in the local Starbucks, he has not escaped acclaim. In 2003, the White House welcomed him, Nick Holonyak and a third engineer, George Craford, awarding all three the National Medal of Technology. Most recently, in 2015, he was one of five recipients of the National Academy of Engineering\u0026rsquo;s esteemed Charles Stark Draper Prize \u0026ndash; again, honored alongside his mentor, Holonyak.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWhile appreciative of the honors, Dupuis remains grounded as an engineer, more at ease with labor than with glamour.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I remember our team in Holonyak\u0026rsquo;s lab hand-building 36 furnaces in the machine shop to support a project,\u0026rdquo; says the man whose reactor forged from spare parts ended up making history. \u0026ldquo;New ideas don\u0026rsquo;t require the best equipment. So if you\u0026rsquo;ve got a new idea, get your act together, and with the tools on hand, try it and test it. Because someone somewhere else may get there before you do.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Russell Dupuis\u2019 discovery 40 years ago gave us today\u2019s definitive process for mass-produced electronics"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe smartphone you peer into, the LED bulb in your desk lamp, the Blu-Ray player that serves up your favorite film \u0026ndash; all are here largely because of Dupuis, a professor in electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The smartphone you peer into, the LED bulb in your desk lamp, the Blu-Ray player that serves up your favorite film \u2013 all are here largely because of Dupuis, a professor in electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Tech."}],"uid":"27842","created_gmt":"2017-01-05 21:03:30","changed_gmt":"2017-01-05 21:03:59","author":"Ashlee Gardner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"585564":{"id":"585564","type":"image","title":"Russell Dupuis","body":null,"created":"1483649679","gmt_created":"2017-01-05 20:54:39","changed":"1483649679","gmt_changed":"2017-01-05 20:54:39","alt":"","file":{"fid":"223223","name":"drrusselldupuis-rgb-1_small.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/drrusselldupuis-rgb-1_small.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/drrusselldupuis-rgb-1_small.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":110575,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/drrusselldupuis-rgb-1_small.jpg?itok=Gvppphux"}}},"media_ids":["585564"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2461","name":"Russell Dupuis"},{"id":"1259","name":"electrical engineering"},{"id":"14922","name":"LED"},{"id":"167686","name":"Semiconductors"},{"id":"173144","name":"MOCVD"},{"id":"167411","name":"solar cells"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAshlee Gardner\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Manager, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nashlee.gardner@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["ashlee.gardner@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"584842":{"#nid":"584842","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Professor David Citrin Publishes Research on Compressive Sensing Conducted with Colleagues at Centrale-Sup\u00e9lec in Metz, France","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe world largely consists of continuous signals.\u0026nbsp; For example, the electromagnetic field in a radio signal varies with time in a continuous fashion.\u0026nbsp; Likewise for audio signals and images.\u0026nbsp; When it comes time to store or process the signal on a computer, it is typical to retain only the signal at a set of discrete successive times separated by an interval that is sufficiently small so that none of the essential rapidly varying information is lost.\u0026nbsp; How to choose this interval is determined by the famous Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem.\u0026nbsp; Some signals, however, may be very sparse.\u0026nbsp; That is, the signal might be zero most of the time, so sampling at a rate determined by the Nyquist-Shannon limit may result in the retention of lots of data that are just zeros.\u0026nbsp; (More generally, the signal might be sparse in some other domain.)\u0026nbsp; Thus, storage or transmission of sparse signals sampled in the conventional way can be extremely inefficient.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCompressive sensing was devised by Justin Romberg of ECE and others to sample a sparse signal below the Nyquist-Shannon limit, but nonetheless to permit its faithful reconstruction, and thus to store and transmit sparse signals in a very efficient fashion.\u0026nbsp; Compression is the process of sampling and storing the sparse signal, while sensing is the process of reconstructing the original signal.\u0026nbsp; Compression relies on having at hand large strings of random (or sufficiently random-looking) numbers to populate the compression matrix needed to compress the data. Such strings of pseudo-random numbers are typically generated on a digital computer.\u0026nbsp; Nevertheless, for the ultimate in high speed and simplicity, it is desirable to generate the string of random-like numbers, and ultimately carry out the compression itself, not only at speeds not readily attained on a conventional computer, but also physically.\u0026nbsp; In recent work published in Scientific Reports [reference here], together with collaborator Damien Rontani of Centrale-Sup\u0026eacute;lec in Metz, France, Profs. David Citrin and Alexandre Locquet of ECE with PhD students Daeyoung Choi (ECE) and C.-Y. Chang (Physics) have used a chaotic optical signal produced by an external-cavity semiconductor laser to generate sufficiently random-like numbers at very high rate, based on the sub-100 picosecond timescale determining the dynamics of the laser.\u0026nbsp; The team demonstrated efficient compression followed by high-fidelity reconstruction of images using this technique.\u0026nbsp; The work at Georgia Tech was conducted at the GT-CNRS UMI 2958 laboratory (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtl-umi.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/gtl-umi.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) at Georgia Tech Lorraine (lorraine.gatech.edu) in Metz, France where the Nonlinear Dynamics and Optics group led by Profs. Citrin and Locquet.\u0026nbsp; According to Citrin, \u0026quot;This work is exciting as it opens the way to ultrahigh-speed compression of sparse signals--and we hope soon in a way to be carried out in the physical layer.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rdcu.be\/neD4\u0022\u003EView \u0026quot;Compressive Sensing with Optical Chaos\u0026quot; in Scientific Reports at this link.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Compressive Sensing with Optical Chaos\u0022 discusses the use of  chaotic optical signal for compression produced by an external-cavity semiconductor laser to generate sufficiently random-like numbers at very high rates."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2016-12-08 18:39:26","changed_gmt":"2016-12-08 18:41:58","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-12-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-12-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"213791","name":"3D Systems Packaging Research Center"},{"id":"198081","name":"Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC)"},{"id":"197261","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"172930","name":"David Citrin"},{"id":"29761","name":"Yves Berthelot"},{"id":"7037","name":"Justin Romberg"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"172931","name":"The Institute for Electronics and Nantechnology"},{"id":"169638","name":"sensing"},{"id":"172932","name":"compression techniques"},{"id":"2768","name":"optics"},{"id":"172933","name":"Nonlinear Dynamics and Optics"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["christa.ernst@ien.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"582675":{"#nid":"582675","#data":{"type":"news","title":"What is New @ GT in Packaging? 5G and mm-wave Packaging","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Tech and its industry partners are developing 5G and mm-wave packaging using ultra-thin Glass panel Fan-out technology with 10-100X improvement in bandwidth for consumer, computer, communication and automotive applications.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe explosive growth of data traffic from increasing number of digital and sensor devices, connected to the network, and the escalating demand for self-driving cars requiring both long-range vehicle-to-network and short-range vehicle-to-vehicle connectivity, has created a need for 10-100X increase in wireless data communication rates beyond current 4G LTE connectivity. This extreme traffic density requires high-frequency mobile bands, much beyond WLAN at 6 GHz, requiring mm-wave (e.g., 28-39 GHz and above) communications. Many challenges in achieving these goals such as those associated with system-level design, materials, processes, antennas and module integration must be addressed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETraditional mm-wave packages are based on ceramic substrates. The high cost and low-integration limitations of ceramics have led to the evolution of organic packages. A fully-integrated antenna-in-package (AiP) for W-band phased-array system, with 64 dual-polarization antennas embedded in a multi-layer organic substrate, with SiGe transceiver dies that are flipchip-attached has been demonstrated by IBM. In addition, ultra-low loss organic substrates using Teflon and LCPs were explored with high gains and high bandwidth. The evolution of embedded and fan-out wafer level ball grid array package technology (eWLB) further enhanced the performance of mm-wave packages by eliminating the wirebonds, as demonstrated by Infineon technologies, with SiGe-BiCMOS technology. However, organic laminates and molding-compound based fan-outs are limited by the precision and tolerance of circuitry for mm-wave components.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn contrast to the above approaches for 5G and beyond, Georgia Tech and its industry partners are pioneering ultra-thin, panel-based glass fan-out (GFO) embedded technology. GFO offers many advantages such as low electrical loss, superior dimensional stability for precision circuitry, stability to high temperature and humidity, matched CTE to Si and other devices and availability in thin and large glass panels processed with Cu-through vias, similar in dimensions to TSVs and RDL wiring layers, and similar to BEOL on Si. The Georgia Tech approach leads to major design, material, process and 3D package architecture innovations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESome of the key research innovations of the Georgia Tech 5G and beyond program include:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Col\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ELow-loss transmission with innovative waveguide structures on glass substrates with insertion losses approaching 0.05 dB\/mm.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EFormation of precision circuitry enabled by high dimensional stability and surface smoothness of glass resulting in further lowering of the losses.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EMiniaturized and high bandwidth, high gain antenna arrays enabled by glass, in combination with ultra-low loss thinfilm polymers with initial results indicating that the bandwidth can be improved by 20% with a gain of 10 dBi than those on organic substrates.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EFormation of via arrays in glass with double-side interconnections enabling compact passive elements such as couplers and filters.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EIntegrated power amplifiers with thermal management using large copper through-via structures in glass thus eliminating the hotspots and reliability issues with embedded high-power dies.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EFeasibility of transparent RF electronics enabled by transparent glass substrates, transparent dielectrics and conductors in automotive windshields and windows.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EInnovative materials and processes such as 3D printing on flex substrates being pioneered by Georgia Tech for low-cost IoT applications.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EInnovative module integration of passives and actives with ultra-short interconnection length and ultra-small-vias in glass, resulting in very low via inductance, less than 50 pH and via-related transition losses, to less than 0.03 dB.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 5G project is currently active in collaboration with many industry partners, including glass companies such as Corning Glass, Asahi Glass, and Schott Glass, supplying the ultra-thin glass panels; low-loss dielectric material suppliers such as Rogers; tool companies such as Ushio for precision lithography; Disco for planarization and dicing; Atotech for supplying the plating chemistry for advanced metallization processes; and end-users like Qualcomm.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Authors\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAtom Watanabe is a PhD student under the advisement of Prof. Rao Tummala. His research focus is on EMI shielding and mm-wave module integration; \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:atom@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eatom@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProf. Manos Tentzeris, Ken Byers Professor in ECE Department, Georgia Tech, is the faculty lead for the mm-wave program; \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:etentze@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eetentze@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProf. Rao Tummala is the Joseph M. Pettit Chair Professor in ECE and MSE, and the Director of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s 3D Systems Packaging Research Center (GT PRC); \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rao.tummala@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Erao.tummala@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Raj Pulugurtha is a Research Professor and the Program Manager of Power and RF Module Programs; \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:pm86@mail.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Epm86@mail.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Venky Sundaram is a Research Professor and the Program Manager of Glass Substrate Program; \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:vs24@mail.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Evs24@mail.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech and its industry partners are developing 5G and mm-wave packaging using ultra-thin Glass panel Fan-out technology"}],"uid":"27850","created_gmt":"2016-10-17 18:01:37","changed_gmt":"2016-10-17 18:07:51","author":"Karen May","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"582677":{"id":"582677","type":"image","title":"Printed mm-wave antenna arrays at Georgia Tech","body":null,"created":"1476727542","gmt_created":"2016-10-17 18:05:42","changed":"1476727542","gmt_changed":"2016-10-17 18:05:42","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222117","name":"Printed mm-wave antenna arrays at Georgia Tech PRC.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Printed%20mm-wave%20antenna%20arrays%20at%20Georgia%20Tech%20PRC.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Printed%20mm-wave%20antenna%20arrays%20at%20Georgia%20Tech%20PRC.png","mime":"image\/png","size":295936,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Printed%20mm-wave%20antenna%20arrays%20at%20Georgia%20Tech%20PRC.png?itok=NUGhHL5V"}},"582676":{"id":"582676","type":"image","title":"mm-Wave Characterization of transmission lines on glass with TPVs ","body":null,"created":"1476727467","gmt_created":"2016-10-17 18:04:27","changed":"1476727467","gmt_changed":"2016-10-17 18:04:27","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222116","name":"mm-Wave Characterization of transmission lines on glass with TPVs - Georgia Tech PRC.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mm-Wave%20Characterization%20of%20transmission%20lines%20on%20glass%20with%20TPVs%20-%20Georgia%20Tech%20PRC.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mm-Wave%20Characterization%20of%20transmission%20lines%20on%20glass%20with%20TPVs%20-%20Georgia%20Tech%20PRC.png","mime":"image\/png","size":70259,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mm-Wave%20Characterization%20of%20transmission%20lines%20on%20glass%20with%20TPVs%20-%20Georgia%20Tech%20PRC.png?itok=vwyMkgTQ"}}},"media_ids":["582677","582676"],"groups":[{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"},{"id":"197261","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"213791","name":"3D Systems Packaging Research Center"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4127","name":"PRC"},{"id":"12103","name":"Rao Tummala"},{"id":"172364","name":"5G"},{"id":"172479","name":"mm-wave packaging"},{"id":"172482","name":"antennea array"},{"id":"2621","name":"radar"},{"id":"62321","name":"Automotive"},{"id":"172480","name":"GFO"},{"id":"172481","name":"glass fanout"},{"id":"172373","name":"glass fan-out"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKaren May\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarketing \u0026amp; 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Electrical interconnects are limited for many reasons including device leakage, propagation delay, signal-to-signal crosstalk, reflection and others. Optical interconnects are immune to these and being photonic-based, are capable of meeting the above high bandwidth requirements. Unlike in long-distance telecommunications, short-distance bandwidth requires careful balance between performance, power and cost.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESilicon photonics and board-level optoelectronics are being intensely explored by the industry. Silicon photonics promises the highest potential by combining photonics and electronics onto a single die, using CMOS-compatible processes. Board-level optoelectronics, on the other hand, utilize low-cost board substrate process technologies to create Optical Printed Circuit Boards (O-PCB).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn contrast to these above approaches, Georgia Tech proposed and developed a very innovative 3D glass photonics (3DGP) technology, not at device or board-level, as with silicon and board-level photonics, but at package-level. It is a lower cost and low power alternative to silicon photonics and board-level optoelectronics. In addition, it is a 3D concept using glass with an ultra-short photonic\u0026nbsp;via interconnection. Glass offers a unique combination of optical, electrical, thermo-mechanical and dimensional-stability properties for precision alignments, and large-area panel processability for low cost, unmatched by other materials. Optically, the refractive index of glass can match that of glass optical fibers to enable low-loss light coupling. Electrically, the low-loss tangent of glass is far superior to that of silicon. Mechanically, the Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE) of glass matches silicon and other devices, thus improving the system-level reliability. The low surface roughness and high dimensional stability of glass is capable of 1\u0026micro;m and below features similar to back end of line (BEOL) silicon processes, for high interconnect density and precise coupling to optical fibers. Lastly, glass has the potential for low cost by virtue of large panel manufacturing\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERecently, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s 3DGP program demonstrated a 400 Gbps optical transceiver module. This test vehicle featured optimized electrical interconnects at \u0026lt; 0.1 dB\/mm insertion loss, thermal interconnects to keep laser temperature under 80\u0026ordm;C, and novel optical interconnections comprising of planar optical waveguides, 3D vertical optical vias, 45\u0026ordm; turning mirrors, and fiber alignment grooves in glass. These novel optical interconnections resulted in \u0026lt; 2 dB coupling loss with high-density out-of-plane turning, and alignment tolerance on par with fiber-to-fiber coupling.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech industry consortium is unique in the academic world. It involves partnership with end-user and supply chain companies, resulting in accelerated 3DGP technology development. The end-users include TE Connectivity and Ciena Corp.; and supply chain companies include Corning Glass, Asahi Glass, and Schott Glass for supplying the ultra-thin glass panels with vias or cavities; Dow-Chemical for polymers; Ushio for placing a lithographic tool at Georgia Tech to enable micro-mirror formation; Atotech for supplying the chemistry for advanced metallization processes; Microchem for supplying optical polymers; and DISCO for placing a dicing tool at Georgia Tech to enable fiber alignment groove formation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Authors\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBruce Chou, is graduating in Fall 2016 with his PhD under the advisement of Prof. Rao Tummala. His research focus is on Design and Demonstration of 3D Glass Photonics. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:cchou36@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ecchou36@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProf. Rao Tummala is Joseph. M. 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The program was coordinated by Mikkel A. Thomas, Nancy Healy, and Leslie O\u2019Neill, of the IEN, and Tracy Joyner and Shirley Pattman-Stubbs of the Gifted and Talented Education Program of the APS. The program allowed four students from three different Atlanta area high schools to come to Georgia Tech and work with graduate students in varying technical areas. Interns experienced what it is like to work side by side with Georgia Tech researchers and gained valuable hands on experience in the researchers\u2019 labs. The interns, after a daylong orientation session, spent one and half hours each week with their mentors. The program consisted of eight weekly sessions and was conducted from February 23, 1016 to May 3, 2016. The internship culminated in a capstone event on May 10, 2016 in which the students discussed their laboratory experience and training and presented the findings of their research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The APS students hosted at the IEN were Mamadou Balde, D\u2019Andre Brown, Titilayo Peters, and Xavier Bell. Mamdou worked with mentor Albert Ahn and PI Dr. Dong Qin examining the shape stability of Ag nanocrystals. D\u2019Andre worked with Mentor Ali Kazim and PI Dr. Baratunde Cola studying thermo-electrochemical cell design and characterization. Titalayo worked with mentor Bailey Risteen and PI Dr. Elsa Reichmanis researching the optimization of alkoxysilane grafting on cellulose nanocrystals. 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The visiting undergraduate scholars will be hosted by various IEN affiliated faculty across campus for a 9 week period, from May the 22\u003Csup\u003End\u003C\/sup\u003E until July the 29\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E, and will gain experience in laboratory research under the guidance of a faculty project director, as well a graduate student mentor. Additionally, the undergraduate researchers will have an opportunity to train on advanced fabrication and measurement equipment in the IEN cleanrooms and microscopy facilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe hosted students, their paired PIs, and research topics may be found below:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThomas Metke, Vanderbilt \u2013 Host PI: Todd Sulchek - Research Topic: \u003Cem\u003EHigh throughput cell separation with microfluidic devices\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECooper Thome, University of Tennessee \u2013 Host PI: Elsa Reichmanis - Research Topic: \u003Cem\u003ECellulose Nanocrystal Liquid Crystal Templating of Conductive PEDOT:PSS\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMichael Vander Zwaag, University of Michigan \u2013 Host PI: Kim Kurtis - Research Topic: \u003Cem\u003EMaking \u0022Greener\u0022 Concrete Using Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJohn Nance, University of North Carolina \u2013 Host PI: Peter Hesketh - Research Topic: \u003Cem\u003ECharacterization of NiFe Artificial Cilia\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EElizabeth Tom, University of Michigan \u2013 Host PI: Michael Filler - Research Topic: \u003Cem\u003EPlasmonic-Phononic Hybrid Nanowires: New Materials for Extreme Infrared Light Focusing\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYaneira Gonzalez, University of Puerto Rico \u2013 Host PI: Todd Sulchek - Research Topic: \u003Cem\u003EEffects of Metal Presence on the Structure, Reactivity and Transformation of Magnesium Oxides\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter the conclusion of the program, the students will present talks and posters on their research and attend a joint, one day convocation on July 28\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E, along with the College of Engineering\u2019s SURE REU program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPlease join us in welcoming the attendees to Georgia Tech as we host them over the 2016 summer session. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E- Christa M. 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Over 700 users each year utilize more than 200 tools in its cleanrooms and laboratories. As a partner in the Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor (SENIC), a member of the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI), the mission of the IEN is to provide expertise, facilities, infrastructure, and a teaming environment that facilitates interdisciplinary research in nanoscience, nanoengineering, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), microelectronics, nanobio systems, and nano\/microfluidics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn order to foster interdisciplinary communication among its users, IEN will be hosting its third IEN User Day on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 (8:30 AM to 4:45 PM). This special event will provide an opportunity to learn about the latest research activities from academic and industry organizations that use IEN facilities. This venue will also offer a great opportunity to share a glimpse of your work with the diverse audience in attendance. While registration for the event is required, there is no cost to attend and continental breakfast and a box lunch will be provided.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a user of our facility, we invite and highly encourage you to submit an abstract to be considered for one of the two poster sessions scheduled for this event. Outstanding posters will be recognized at the end of the day. The topics for contributed work include, but are not limited to: electronics, optics\/photonics, material, biomedical devices, fabrication technologies, sensors, and next generation devices. Users interested in presenting their research are requested to submit a 1-page abstract (no more than 500 words and 1-2 figures) describing their research activities using IEN facilities. The abstract must include a title, authors (indicating clearly the presenting author), and their affiliations. Abstracts will be reviewed by a panel of faculty and research staff, and those selected will be notified by email. 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Applications of this research span all disciplines in science and engineering with particular emphasis on biomedicine, electronics, optoelectronics and photonics, and energy applications. As there can be a learning curve associated with initial proof-of-concept development and testing using cleanroom tools, this seed grant program was developed to expedite the initiation of new graduate students and new research projects into productive activity. Successful proposals to this program will identify a new, currently-unfunded research idea that requires cleanroom access to generate preliminary data necessary to pursue other funding avenues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProgram Eligibility\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Tech Applicants\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis program is open to any current Georgia Tech or GTRI faculty member as project PI. The graduate student performing the research should be in the first 2 years of his\/her graduate studies, and preference will be given to students who are new users of the IEN facilities. The student\u2019s research advisor (project PI) does not need to be a current user of the IEN cleanroom\/lab facilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EExternal (non-Georgia Tech) Applicants\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERecent funding from the NSF to create the Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor (SENIC, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/senic.gatech.edu\/\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/senic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/senic.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E) as part of the NNCI has allowed IEN to open this program to external (not affiliated with Georgia Tech) users currently at an academic institution in the southeastern US. The graduate student performing the proposed research cannot be a current user of the IEN facilities. The student\u2019s research advisor (project PI) may have a current project in place for use of the IEN cleanroom\/lab facilities, but this is not a requirement. If awarded, a specialized service agreement will need to be arranged with the user\u2019s home institution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPast awardees of a seed grant may submit additional proposals for different students\/projects, but not in consecutive funding cycles. It is the responsibility of the project PI and student to determine their ability to make use of the awarded time during the grant period. Extensions requested once the project has begun will not be granted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAward Information\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEach seed grant award will consist of free cleanroom access to the student identified in the proposal for 2 (consecutive) billing quarters. Based on current access rates and the academic cap on hourly charges (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\/rates\/\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\/rates\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\/rates\/\u003C\/a\u003E), this comprises a maximum award of $6000 for the 6 month period. This maximum award amount is still in effect even if IEN non-cleanroom (lab) equipment or electron beam lithography (EBL) is required. The designated student user is expected to only utilize the cleanroom\/tool access while working with the PI on the proposed project. Members of the IEN Advanced Technology Team (ATT) will be available to consult during the project period. The number of awards for each proposal submission date will depend on the number and quality of the proposals. A short report describing the research activities is required midway and at the completion of the award period.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESubmission Schedule\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis Seed Grant program is offered in\u003Cstrong\u003E two competitions each year with due dates on April 1 and October 1\u003C\/strong\u003E. While it is expected that research activity will begin on June 1 and December 1, respectively, there is flexibility in scheduling the 2 quarters of research work, as long as they conform to the IEN billing quarters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProposal Requirements (2 pages max)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe proposal (submitted as a PDF file of no more than 2 pages) should do the following:\u003Cbr \/\u003E1. Provide a project title.\u003Cbr \/\u003E2. Identify the research problem and specify the proposed methods.\u003Cbr \/\u003E3. Indicate the IEN research tools necessary to conduct the research. If assistance is needed with this component, members of the IEN Advanced Technology Team are available for consultation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E4. Describe the relationship of this research to the PI\u2019s other research activity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E5. Identify the PI and the graduate student involved (including year of graduate work), and if there will be a mentoring relationship with the PI\u2019s other students. Note if there are collaborative relationships with Georgia Tech faculty that bear on this research project.\u003Cbr \/\u003E6. Specify the potential for follow-on funding based on the results of this initial work.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESubmit the PDF file by the specified due date to Ms. Amy Duke (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amy.duke@ien.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eamy.duke@ien.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReview Criteria\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EProposals will initially be reviewed by IEN staff for technical feasibility within the 6-month time frame. Rating of proposals will be done by a review committee of Georgia Tech faculty, with final selection of awardees by IEN staff.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, please contact Dr. David Gottfried, \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:dsgottfried@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edsgottfried@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E, (404) 894-0479.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech IEN is an Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRI) comprised of faculty and students interested in using the most advanced fabrication and characterization tools, and cleanroom infrastructure, to facilitate research in micro- and nano-scale materials, devices, and systems. Applications of this research span all disciplines in science and engineering with particular emphasis on biomedicine, electronics, optoelectronics and photonics, and energy applications. 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But until now there was no good way to study and simultaneously map these phenomena at the relevant length scales.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a new nondestructive technique for investigating these material changes by examining the acoustic response at the nanoscale. Information obtained from this technique \u2013 which uses electrically-conductive atomic force microscope (AFM) probes \u2013 could guide efforts to design materials with enhanced properties at small size scales.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe approach has been used in ferroelectric materials, but could also have applications in ferroelastics, solid protonic acids and materials known as relaxors. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy\u2019s Office of Science, the research was reported December 15 in the journal \u003Cem\u003EAdvanced Functional Materials\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have developed a new characterization technique that allows us to study changes in the crystalline structure and changes in materials behavior at substantially smaller length scales with a relatively simple approach,\u201d said Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb, an associate professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. \u201cKnowing where these phase transitions happen and at which length scales can help us design next-generation materials.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn ferroelectric materials such as PZT (lead zirconate titanate), phase transitions can occur at the boundaries between one crystal type and another, under external stimuli. Properties such as the piezoelectric and dielectric effects can be amplified at the boundaries, which are caused by the multi-element \u201cconfused chemistry\u201d of the materials. Determining when these transitions occur can be done in bulk materials using various techniques, and at the smallest scales using an electron microscope.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers realized they could detect these phase transitions using acoustic techniques in samples at size scales between the bulk and tens of atoms. Using band-excitation piezoresponse force microscopy (BE-PFM) techniques developed at ORNL, they analyzed the resulting changes in resonant frequencies to detect phase changes in sample sizes relevant to the material applications. To do that, they applied an electric field to the samples using an AFM tip that had been coated with platinum to make it conductive, and through generation and detection of a band of frequencies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019ve had very good techniques for characterizing these phase changes at the large scale, and we\u2019ve been able to use electron microscopy to figure out almost atomistically where the phase transition occurs, but until this technique was developed, we had nothing in between,\u201d said Bassiri-Gharb. \u201cTo influence the structure of these materials through chemical or other means, we really needed to know where the transition breaks down, and at what length scale that occurs. This technique fills a gap in our knowledge.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe changes the researchers detect acoustically are due to the elastic properties of the materials, so virtually any material with similar changes in elastic properties could be studied in this way. Bassiri-Gharb is interested in ferroelectrics such as PZT, but materials used in fuel cells, batteries, transducers and energy-harvesting devices could also be examined this way.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis new method will allow for much greater insight into energy-harvesting and energy transduction materials at the relevant length sales,\u201d noted Rama Vasudeven, the first author of the paper and a materials scientist at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, a U.S. Department of Energy user facility at ORNL.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers also modeled the relaxor-ferroelectric materials using thermodynamic methods, which supported the existence of a phase transition and the evolution of a complex domain pattern, in agreement with the experimental results.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUse of the AFM-based technique offers a number of attractive features. Laboratories already using AFM equipment can easily modify it to analyze these materials by adding electronic components and a conductive probe tip, Bassiri-Gharb noted. The AFM equipment can be operated under a range of temperature, electric field and other environmental conditions that are not easily implemented for electron microscope analysis, allowing scientists to study these materials under realistic operating conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis technique can probe a range of different materials at small scales and under difficult environmental conditions that would be inaccessible otherwise,\u201d said Bassiri-Gharb. \u201cMaterials used in energy applications experience these kinds of conditions, and our technique can provide the information we need to engineer materials with enhanced responses.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThough widely used, relaxor-ferroelectrics and PZT are still not well understood. In relaxor-ferroelectrics, for example, it\u2019s believed that there are pockets of material in phases that differ from the bulk, a distortion that may help confer the material\u2019s attractive properties. Using their technique, the researchers confirmed that the phase transitions can be extremely localized.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey also learned that high responses of the materials occurred at those same locations.\u003Cbr \/\u003ENext steps would include varying the chemical composition of the material to see if those transitions \u2013 and enhanced properties \u2013 can be controlled. The researchers also plan to examine other materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt turns out that many energy-related materials have electrical transitions, so we think this is going to be very important for studying functional materials in general,\u201d Bassiri-Gharb added. \u201cThe potential for gaining new understanding of these materials and their applications are huge.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through grant DMR-1255379. A portion of this research was conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility at ORNL. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NSF or DOE.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION\u003C\/strong\u003E: Rama K. 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Methods for selectively depositing materials onto these wide bandgap semiconductors simplify device fabrication processes, reducing time and costs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow Mark Losego of Georgia Institute of Technology, in collaboration with Elizabeth Paisley from Sandia National Laboratories and the team of J.P. Maria from North Carolina State University, have recently reported the development of a new selective area epitaxy (SAE) method for growth of dielectric MgO thin films on gallium nitride (GaN) surfaces using surface chemistry modification.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGaN-based materials are excellent candidates for use in advanced microelectronic devices because of their ability to operate at high frequencies, high powers, and high temperatures. The growth of atomically smooth MgO epitaxial layers onto GaN is one route to forming gate dielectrics for these devices.\u0026nbsp; However the selective growth of oxides on semiconductors is uncommon.\u0026nbsp; \u201cOur demonstration of using MBE [molecular beam epitaxy] to selectively grow MgO on GaN surfaces is one of the few examples of selective area epitaxy of an oxide by physical vapor deposition [PVD],\u201d Losego says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESelectivity is generally easier to achieve with a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process, than with PVD. \u201cThe reason for this is the use of elemental precursors in MBE. Atomic precursors \u2018stick better\u2019 to the underlying surface than molecular species, so we had to modify the surface chemistry to alter the sticking coefficient,\u201d Losego explains.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETreatment with hydrochloric acid had been previously shown to chlorinate GaN surfaces, but the effect of this surface chlorination on atomic adsorption had not been previously studied. Losego and colleagues found that treating GaN surfaces with hydrochloric acid impeded MgO film growth under certain conditions, and regions of \u201cgrowth\u201d or \u201cno growth\u201d could be readily patterned on GaN surfaces. A monolayer of Cl adatoms\u2013the only detectable difference in surface structure\u2013was identified as the source for adsorption impediment (a macroscale example of the results of this process are shown in the photograph).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe inset of this figure demonstrates that higher resolution features can also be replicated when photolithography is used to pattern the surface chlorination.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe group\u2019s work is described as \u201ca nice example of scientific creativity\u201d by Raffaella Calarco, senior scientist at Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics in Berlin. Calarco was not involved in the study. \u201cInstead of the most common approach using a hard mask, here a simple change of surface chemistry due to an appropriate Cl-termination is employed,\u201d she says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStephen J. Pearton at the University of Florida, who was also not involved in the study, adds: \u201cIt is a clever approach that avoids the need for more complex masking steps in order to achieve selective area growth. The next steps forward will need to expand the range of oxides that can be deposited in this fashion.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Losego, the researchers are now exploring extending this understanding of surface chemistry to other materials and to CVD processes.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Special issue focuses on career scholars in Materials Science"}],"uid":"28159","created_gmt":"2015-12-15 11:58:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:16","author":"Kelly Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"311231":{"id":"311231","type":"image","title":"Mark Losego, MSE","body":null,"created":"1449244726","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:58:46","changed":"1475895020","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:20","alt":"Mark Losego, MSE","file":{"fid":"201749","name":"mark_losego_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mark_losego_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mark_losego_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":109971,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mark_losego_0.jpg?itok=2AOxaOr2"}},"479011":{"id":"479011","type":"image","title":"MgO epitaxial thin film, GaN surface","body":null,"created":"1450285200","gmt_created":"2015-12-16 17:00:00","changed":"1475895232","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:52","alt":"MgO epitaxial thin film, GaN surface","file":{"fid":"204144","name":"mark_losego_photo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mark_losego_photo_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mark_losego_photo_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1184255,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mark_losego_photo_0.jpg?itok=2RdIJiOa"}}},"media_ids":["311231","479011"],"groups":[{"id":"217141","name":"Georgia Tech Materials Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"6439","name":"films"},{"id":"2294","name":"materials science"},{"id":"2832","name":"microelectronics"},{"id":"167686","name":"Semiconductors"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"441311":{"#nid":"441311","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Closing the Loop with Optogenetics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOptogenetics provides a powerful tool for studying the brain by allowing researchers to activate neurons using simple light-based signals. But until now, these optical stimulation techniques have been \u201copen loop,\u201d meaning they lack the kind of feedback control that most biological and engineering systems use to maintain a steady operating state.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn engineering example of closed-loop control is a simple thermostat used to maintain a steady temperature in the home. Without it, heating or air conditioning would run without reacting to changes in outside conditions, allowing inside temperatures to vary dramatically.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOptogenetics technology places genes that express light-sensitive proteins into mammalian cells that normally lack such proteins. When the proteins are illuminated with specific wavelengths of light, they change the behavior of the cells, introducing certain types of ions or pushing ions out of the cells to alter electrical activity. But without a feedback loop, scientists could only assume that the optical signals were having the effects desired \u2013 or try to confirm at the end of the experiment that this had happened.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo address that shortcoming, researchers have created an open-source technology called the optoclamp which closes the loop in optogenetic systems. The technique uses a computer to acquire and process the neuronal response to the optical stimulus in real-time and then vary the light input to maintain a desired firing rate. By providing this feedback control, the optoclamp could facilitate research into new therapies for epilepsy, Parkinson\u2019s disease, chronic pain \u2013 and even depression.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur work establishes a versatile test bed for creating the responsive neurotherapeutic tools of the future,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Steve-M.-Potter\u0022\u003ESteve Potter\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cNeural modulation therapies of the future, whether they be targeted drug delivery, electrical stimulation or even light-plus-optogenetics through fiber optics, will all be closed loop. That means they will be responsive to the moment-to-moment needs of the nervous system.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research, supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, was recently published in the open-access journal \u003Cem\u003EeLife\u003C\/em\u003E. Feedback control already exists for neural stimulation systems based on electrical inputs, but the optoclamp is the first system to provide similar closed-loop control for optical stimulation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOptoclamp provides continuous, real-time adjustments of optical stimulation to lock neural spiking activity to specified targets over time scales ranging from seconds to days. By providing precise optical control of firing in neuronal populations, the technology will help scientists disentangle causally related variables of circuit activation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers in Potter\u2019s lab studied the effects of open-loop optical stimulation on neural systems, and found considerable variation in the responses of neuronal networks grown on multi-electrode arrays and in the neurons of animal models.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe same stimulus pattern can produce highly variable levels of activity,\u201d said Jon Newman, who built the optoclamp while a Ph.D. student in Georgia Tech\u2019s Laboratory for Neuroengineering. Newman is now a postdoctoral researcher at MIT. \u201cThe amount of optical stimulation needed to achieve the same level of activity varied by orders of magnitude, depending on the population that was being controlled, or even in the same type of cells and preparation, but within different subjects.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a cultured cortical network, the optoclamp records activity from as many as 200 cells, using them to measure activity in the larger culture population, which can include as many as a million cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBecause we have all those electrodes, we can process the data in real-time and then compare the amount of activity being expressed by the culture to a target rate, then use the difference between those two signals to inform our optical stimulator to vary the intensities of different wavelengths of light,\u201d Newman explained.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe optoclamp can be used to control cell cultures grown atop electrode arrays, as well as in living animal models in which electrodes have been implanted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn research conducted with colleagues at Emory University, the optoclamp\u2019s ability to maintain a steady neural firing state allowed researchers to study a key control issue in homeostatic plasticity, a phenomenon that results from a lack of neural stimulation. Scientists had believed that the effect was controlled by the firing rate of cells, but the optoclamp allowed a team of researchers from Georgia Tech and Emory University to clamp firing at normal levels during the addition of a drug that inhibits neurotransmission. This showed that neurotransmission levels, not firing activity, governed a key form of homeostatic plasticity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEffectively, we were able to decouple two things that are normally very closely related,\u201d said Newman. \u201cThis is potentially a very big deal in terms of developing therapies for aberrant forms of synaptic plasticity.\u201d Potential applications include chronic pain, epilepsy, tinnitus, phantom limb syndrome and other nervous systems disorders where the brain has over-reacted to the loss of normal inputs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat work, recently published in the journal \u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E, was a collaboration with Emory University Professor Pete Wenner and former graduate student Ming-fai Fong, demonstrating the value of bringing biological scientists together with engineers. Newman, an engineer by training, says concepts common in engineering can be useful in the life sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cClosed-loop control is a concept that is woven through all engineered systems, but it\u2019s often hard to find in the biological sciences,\u201d he said. \u201cAny time you can introduce feedback control into an experiment, it almost always produces better control of the variables of interest. Feedback control is an extremely important concept for the life sciences.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EScientists are already using the optoclamp in its current form, but the researchers hope to improve spatial differentiation of the optical signals, allowing experiments to focus stimulation on specific areas of the brain or brain cell cultures. The light signals now affect an entire culture or brain region.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want to precisely control where photons are being sent to activate different cells,\u201d Newman said. \u201cOptogenetics allows genetic specification of which cells express these proteins, and that gives you some level of spatial control. But I don\u2019t believe that\u2019s as precise as what will be required to speak the language of the brain.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to those already mentioned, the research team included Professor Garrett Stanley from the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, and graduate students Daniel C. Millard and Clarissa J. Whitmire, also from the Coulter Department.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was supported by the National Science Foundation under Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience grant IOS-1131948 and Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation grant 1238097, and by the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke grant 2R01NS048285 and National Institute of Neurological Disorders grant 1R01NS079757-01. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Science Foundation or National Institutes of Health.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATIONS\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003ENewman, J. P., Fong, M-f, Millard, D. C., Whitmire, C. J., Stanley, G. B., \u0026amp; Potter, S. 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The $1.6 million in seed funding is intended to accelerate promising technologies developed in research laboratories with the goal of improving patients\u2019 lives. This year\u2019s projects include a rehabilitation device for children, a heart drug delivery catheter and a disposable kit that checks for anemia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Coulter program, which partners with the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, provides annual awards to research teams that develop products with great commercial potential and meet a well-defined health care need. Each research team pairs scientists or engineers with physicians. This year\u2019s amount also includes $100,000 contributed by the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe were very happy with the number of good projects we saw during this year\u2019s funding round,\u201d said Rachael Hagan, who serves as program director for the Coulter Translational Partnership Program. More than 50 applications requesting funding were received this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn June, we vetted each application for its potential to achieve commercial success with the help of professional health care consultants in marketing, regulatory, reimbursement and intellectual property to determine the likelihood of receiving commercial follow-on funding for these health care innovations. Projects that have been selected for funding will continue to work with these business experts to commercially de-risk their technologies to ensure successfully exiting the universities.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project awardees this year were:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnemoCheck: \u003C\/strong\u003Ea simple, disposable, handheld biochemical device that is inexpensive, accurate and provides a quantitative evaluation of anemia in less than two minutes (principal investigators: Wilbur Lam and Erika Tyburski).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAngioCloud\u003C\/strong\u003E: cloud-based software that assists interventional neurologists with the selection and deployment of flow diverters for the treatment of unruptured brain aneurysms (principal investigators: Frank Tong and Alessandro Veneziani).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECardiovascular MR Imaging: \u003C\/strong\u003Emethod of uploading, displaying, and automatically analyzing cardiovascular magnetic resonance function, viability and perfusion studies (principal investigators: Ernest Garcia, John Oshinski, Gerald Pohost and Anthony Yezzi).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EInvisiCool\u003C\/strong\u003E: gel to alleviate heat-related pain while not otherwise affecting the effectiveness of laser treatments (principal investigators: Jeff Dover, Andrei Fedorov and Craig Green).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKIDS\u003C\/strong\u003E: a low-volume, low-error continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) device for pediatric patients. There are currently no FDA-approved CRRT devices for patients who weigh less than 20 kilograms, and the KIDS technology is being developed to meet this unmet need (principal investigators:\u0026nbsp;Shiva Arjunon and Matt Paden).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELevit Catheter\u003C\/strong\u003E: \u0026nbsp;a drug delivery catheter for localized delivery of therapeutic-seeded hydrogels to the pericardial space (principal investigators: Andres Garcia and Rebecca Levit).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMitraPlug\u003C\/strong\u003E: a transcatheter implant that seeks to \u201cplug\u201d the fluid path, which is seen in patients with mitral regurgitation (principal investigators: Murali Padala and Eric Sarin).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENanocomposite Scintillators: \u003C\/strong\u003Ean imaging replacement for current, expensive crystals (principal investigators: Brooke Beckert, Eric Elder and Jason Nadler).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIC3D\u003C\/strong\u003E: an imaging silicon chip for Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) procedures with improved visualization for physicians (principal investigators: Levent Degertekin and Habib Samady).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E These newly funded academic projects were chosen by a committee composed of Emory doctors, Georgia Tech biomedical engineers and technology transfer representatives from each school. The other half of the selection committee included industry experts, venture capital specialists, serial entrepreneurs and angel investors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis seed funding is similar to venture capital funding, except there are no strings attached,\u201d said Hagan. \u201cOur committee picks projects based on a higher probability of receiving\u0026nbsp; commercial follow-on investment in hopes our best clinical research moves out of our universities to actual patient care.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is tremendously exciting to reinvigorate the Coulter Translational Program with an investment of over $1.5 million per year,\u201d said Ajit Yoganathan, Regents\u2019 Professor and associate chair for translational research in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. \u201cThe excitement and need for the program was obvious based on the number of initial applications. It demonstrates there is a pipeline of translational projects that has the potential for commercialization at Georgia Tech and Emory. The projects selected for funding cut across various areas of medicine including pediatrics. Funding pediatric technologies is critical, since kids are an underserved population.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;In 2001, the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation made a $25 million grant to the Georgia Tech-Emory biomedical engineering program. In recognition of this grant, the combined department is known as the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory. The department combines Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Engineering with Emory\u2019s School of Medicine. The grant also contains a $10 million endowment to provide ongoing funding specifically for translational research. Translational research is part of a continuum in which research findings are moved from a researcher\u2019s laboratory to a patient\u2019s bedside and community. Each year, co-investigators \u2013 composed of engineering faculty from Georgia Tech and medical staff and faculty from Emory \u2013\u0026nbsp;apply for commercialization funding that may lead to improvements in patient care.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSince our inception, our collaborative biomedical engineering department has leveraged academic, industry and donor support to create some of the best physician and engineering teams in the world,\u201d said Ravi Bellamkonda, chair of the Coulter Department. \u201cOur entrepreneurial spirit and culture combined with the world-class facilities at Georgia Tech and Emory result in a unique environment that fosters innovation.\u0026nbsp; We are fortunate to be able to provide funding to accelerate the development of these promising biomedical technologies so they can reach patients faster and be successfully translated from the laboratory to clinical use.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Coulter Department is the Coulter Foundation\u2019s flagship academic institution. The department\u2019s graduate program is ranked number two by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E. There are an additional 14 universities with Translational Research Partnership Programs supported by the foundation that include distinguished biomedical research institutions such as Johns Hopkins, Duke, Columbia, and Stanford universities.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Teams chosen to receive funding to accelerate commercialization of medical technologies invented in their labs"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENine Georgia Tech and Emory University biomedical research projects have been chosen to receive funding from the Coulter Translational Research Partnership Program. The $1.6 million in seed funding is intended to accelerate promising technologies developed in research laboratories with the goal of improving patients\u2019 lives. This year\u2019s projects include a rehabilitation device for children, a heart drug delivery catheter and a disposable kit that checks for anemia.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Seed funding from Coulter Foundation is designed to accelerate nine promising projects."}],"uid":"27560","created_gmt":"2015-07-21 11:56:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Jason Maderer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"410291":{"id":"410291","type":"image","title":"Ravi Bellamkonda, Wallace Coulter Biomedical Engineering Dept. Chair","body":null,"created":"1449254195","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:35","changed":"1475895139","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:19","alt":"Ravi Bellamkonda, Wallace Coulter Biomedical Engineering Dept. 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The material, developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology, uses nanometer- and micron-scale structures, plus a surface fluorocarbon, to turn old-fashioned paper into an advanced material.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe modified paper could be used as the foundation for a new generation of inexpensive biomedical diagnostics in which liquid samples would flow along patterns printed on the paper using special hydrophobic ink and an ordinary desktop printer. This paper could also provide an improved packaging material that would be less expensive than other oil- and water-repelling materials, while being both recyclable and sustainable.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPaper is a very heterogeneous material composed of fibers with different sizes, different lengths and a non-circular cross-section,\u201d said Dennis Hess, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. \u201cWe believe this is the first time that a superamphiphobic surface \u2013 one that repels all fluids \u2013 has been created on a flexible, traditional and heterogeneous material like paper.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch leading to development of the superamphiphobic paper has been supported by the Institute for Paper Science and Technology (IPST) at Georgia Tech. Details were published online May 24 in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EACS Applied Materials \u0026amp; Interfaces\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new paper, which is both superhydrophobic (water-repelling) and super oleophobic (oil-repelling), can be made from standard softwood and hardwood fibers using a modified paper process. In addition to Hess, the research team included Lester Li, a graduate research assistant, and Victor Breedveld, an associate professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProducing the new paper begins with breaking up cellulose fibers into smaller structures using a mechanical grinding process. As in traditional paper processing, the fibers are then pressed in the presence of water \u2013 but then the water is removed and additional processing is done with the chemical butanol. Use of butanol inhibits the hydrogen bonding that normally takes place between cellulose fibers, allowing better control of their spacing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe desirable properties we are seeking are mainly controlled by the geometry of the fibers,\u201d Hess explained.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe second step involves using an oxygen plasma etching process \u2013 a technique commonly used in the microelectronics industry \u2013 to remove the layer of amorphous \u201cfluffy\u201d cellulose surface material, exposing the crystalline cellulose nanofibrils. The process thereby uncovers smaller cellulose structures and provides a second level of \u201croughness\u201d with the proper geometry needed to repel liquids.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFinally, a thin coating of a fluoropolymer is applied over the network of cellulose fibers. In testing, the paper was able to repel water, motor oil, ethylene glycol and n-hexadecane solvent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers have printed patterns onto their paper using a hydrophobic ink and a desktop printer. Droplets applied to the pattern remain on the ink pattern, repelled by the adjacent superamphiphobic surface.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat capability could facilitate development of inexpensive biomedical diagnostic tests in which a droplet containing antigens could be rolled along a printed surface where it would encounter diagnostic chemicals. If appropriate reagents are used, the specific color or color intensity of the patterns could indicate the presence of a disease. Because the droplets adhere tightly to the printed lines or dots, the samples can be sent to a laboratory for additional testing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have shown that we can do the operations necessary for a microfluidic device,\u201d Hess said. \u201cWe can move the droplet along a pattern, split the droplet and transfer the droplet from one piece of paper to another. We can do all of these operations on a two-dimensional surface.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Hess, Li and Breedveld, creating a superhydrophobic suface was relatively straightforward because water has a high surface tension. For oils, which have a low surface tension, the key to creating the repellent surface is to create re-entrant \u2013 or undercut \u2013 angles between the droplets and the surface.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrevious examples of superamphiphobic surfaces have been made on rigid surfaces through lithographic techniques. Such processes tend to produce fragile surfaces that are prone to damage, Hess said.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe principal challenge has been to create high-performance in a material that is anything but geometrically regular and consistent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWorking with heterogeneous materials is fascinating, but it\u2019s very difficult not just to control them, because there is no inherent consistent structure, but also to change the processing conditions so you can get something that, on average, is what you need,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a real learning experience for us.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new paper has so far been made in samples about four inches on a side, but Hess sees no reason why the process couldn\u2019t be scaled up. Though long-term testing of the new paper hasn\u2019t been done, Hess is encouraged by what he\u2019s seen so far.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis research was featured in the May 31, 2013, issue of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324412604578515310574797872.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_5\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Wall Street Journal\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION\u003C\/strong\u003E: Lester Li, Victor Breedveld and Dennis Hess, \u201cDesign and Fabrication of Superamphiphobic Paper Surfaces,\u201d (ACS Applied Materials \u0026amp; Interfaces, 2013).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Using the \u0022lotus effect\u0022 researchers have developed paper that repels many liquids"}],"uid":"27178","created_gmt":"2015-06-11 09:33:35","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:37","author":"Amna Jamshad","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"413411":{"id":"413411","type":"image","title":"Professor Dennis Hess and graduate research assistant Lester Li observe oxygen plasma treatment that exposes the cellulose nanofibrils on their superamphiphobic paper samples. 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And that late-model car undoubtedly carries scores of devices based on MEMS and other sensing technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETypically sized at the micron scale \u2014 millionths of a meter \u2014 MEMS devices use minuscule moving parts to perform a broad range of sensing tasks. Small as they are, they can detect sound, motion, position, force, pressure, chemicals, bacteria, and numerous other things worth knowing about. Note that these miniaturized sensors don\u2019t always have moving parts, and a broader term \u2014 microsystems \u2014 is sometimes used rather than MEMS.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, more than 20 research teams focus on MEMS-related research and development. Supporting them is the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ien.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Electronics and Nanotechnology\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(IEN), one of Georgia Tech\u2019s nine Interdisciplinary Research Institutes. IEN\u2019s extensive shared-user facilities, including advanced labs and cleanrooms, are used by as many as 200 Georgia Tech faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers who work on MEMS and other microsystems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo read more about this research area, please visit this article in Georgia Tech\u0027s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/features\/unseen-machines\u0022\u003EResearch Horizons\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;magazine.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHidden inside your smartphone are micron-scale sensors that detect acceleration, rotation and more. 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(NYSE: KEYS) today announced the largest in-kind software donation in its longstanding relationship with the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech is among the best research universities in the world, offering the largest, most diverse electrical and computer engineering program in the United States and regularly turning out the largest number of engineers in America,\u0022 said Steven W. McLaughlin, professor and the Steve W. Chaddick Chair of Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. \u0022Maintaining that position requires the best teachers and facilities and, increasingly, key partnerships with companies like Keysight. Thanks to Keysight\u0027s support, our students will continue to have access to the industry\u0027s leading software and hardware tools.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKeysight\u0027s latest in-kind donation is valued at approximately $120 million (book value) over three years and will comprise Keysight EEsof EDA software, support and training. The donation is being given as part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.keysight.com\/find\/eesof-university\u0022\u003EKeysight EEsof EDA University Alliance program\u003C\/a\u003E. It also includes a tailored, three-year custom license program that provides member companies of ECE\u0027s Georgia Electronic Design Center with access to Keysight\u0027s EDA solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are dedicated to meaningful collaboration with researchers and educators around the world,\u0022 said Todd Cutler, general manager of Keysight EEsof EDA. \u0022Our latest gift of software products to Georgia Tech continues this tradition. We are proud to partner with Georgia Tech to help its students become industry-ready engineers.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAcademic uses of Keysight EDA software will focus on Keysight\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.keysight.com\/find\/eesof-ads\u0022\u003EAdvanced Design System\u003C\/a\u003E (ADS) and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.keysight.com\/find\/eesof-systemvue\u0022\u003ESystemVue\u003C\/a\u003E solutions. ADS is the world\u0027s leading electronic design automation software for RF, microwave and high-speed digital applications, pioneering innovative and commercially successful technologies such as X-parameters* and 3-D electromagnetic simulators. SystemVue is Keysight\u0027s premier platform for designing communications systems. It enables system architects and algorithm developers to innovate the physical layer of wireless and aerospace\/defense communications systems and provides unique value to RF, DSP and FPGA\/ASIC implementers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKeysight is dedicated to meaningful collaboration with researchers and educators around the world. In the research lab, our 75-year history of innovation continues to enable new breakthroughs in science and technology. In classrooms and teaching labs, our instruments and software offer students experience with the same tools used by our customers in government and industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore information on Keysight EDA software offerings is available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.keysight.com\/find\/eesof\u0022\u003Ewww.keysight.com\/find\/eesof\u003C\/a\u003E. For a video on the importance of Keysight\u0027s previous donation to Georgia Tech\u0027s engineering program, go to \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.keysight.com\/find\/GeorgiaTechandAgilent_video\u0022\u003Ewww.keysight.com\/find\/GeorgiaTechandAgilent_video\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology, also known as Georgia Tech, is one of the nation\u0027s leading research universities, providing a focused, technologically based education to more than 23,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Georgia Tech has many nationally recognized programs, all top-ranked by peers and publications alike, and is ranked in the nation\u0027s top 10 public universities by U.S. News and World Report. It offers degrees through the Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Sciences, the Scheller College of Business, and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. As a leading technological university, Georgia Tech has more than 100 centers focused on interdisciplinary research that consistently contribute vital research and innovation to American government, industry and business. Visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E for more information.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Keysight EEsof EDA Software\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKeysight EEsof EDA is the leading supplier of electronic design automation software for microwave, RF, high-frequency, high-speed digital, RF system, electronic system level, circuit, 3-D electromagnetic, physical design and device-modeling applications. More information is available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.keysight.com\/find\/eesof\u0022\u003Ewww.keysight.com\/find\/eesof\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Keysight Technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKeysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS) is a global electronic measurement technology and market leader helping to transform its customers\u0027 measurement experience through innovations in wireless, modular, and software solutions. Keysight\u0027s electronic measurement instruments, systems, software and services are used in the design, development, manufacture, installation, deployment and operation of electronic equipment. The business had revenues of $2.9 billion in fiscal year 2014. 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This professorship was previously held by Raghupathy Sivakumar.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAyazi joined the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) faculty in 1999, where he leads the Integrated MEMS (IMEMS) Laboratory and the Center for MEMS and Microsystems Technologies. He and his team of 10\u0026nbsp;graduate students and three postdoctoral fellows work in the area of integrated micro and nano electro mechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS), with a focus on micro and nano mechanical resonators and on mixed-signal interface circuits for MEMS and sensors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAyazi has graduated 20 Ph.D. students and advised eight postdoctoral fellows, and he has published over 200 refereed journal and conference papers and seven parts of books with his students and faculty colleagues. He and his graduate students have also won several best paper awards at IEEE conferences. \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA Fellow of the IEEE, Ayazi is the editor for the \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Electronic Devices\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and is a past editor of the \u003Cem\u003EIEEE\/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems\u003C\/em\u003E, a post that he held for seven years. He\u0026nbsp;has held leadership roles in the top MEMS and electronics conferences and workshops, including most recently as general chair for the 2014 IEEE MEMS Conference. He has been involved with numerous research centers at Georgia Tech, including the Nanotechnology Research Center, the Georgia Electronic Design Center, and the Packaging Research Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring his career at Georgia Tech, Ayazi has been very involved in entrepreneurial activities. He is the co-founder and CTO of Qualtr\u00e9, a spinout company of the IMEMS Lab that develops silicon bulk acoustic wave gyroscopes and motion sensors that power today\u2019s consumer electronics and personal navigation systems. A microresonator technology that Ayazi and his students developed at Georgia Tech was licensed to Integrated Device Technology (IDT), and the first product offering based on this technology, CrystalFree\u2122\u0026nbsp;pMEMS\u2122 Oscillators, was announced by IDT last year. He also holds 42 patents mainly in the areas of MEMS resonator and gyroscope technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAyazi is a past recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award, and the ECE Richard M. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, was named a fellow for 2014 by the American Chemical Society (ACS).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year, ACS named 99 members as fellows, chosen based on their outstanding accomplishments in chemistry as well as their contributions to ACS.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is a wonderful thing to be recognized by my peers and the research community,\u201d said Xia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EXia specializes in creating nanomaterials, studying their properties and exploring how they can be used. He has also served as an associate editor of the ACS journal Nano Letters since 2012.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrently Xia is working on developing more efficient catalysts for hydrogen fuel cell technology, creating new scaffolding materials to be used in regenerative medicine, and cultivating contrasts and therapeutic agents for use in the fight against cancer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe scientists selected as this year\u2019s class of ACS fellows are truly a dedicated group, said Tom Barton, president of ACS. \u201cTheir outstanding contributions to advancing chemistry through service to the society are many. In their quest to improve people\u2019s lives through the transforming power of chemistry, they are helping us to fulfill the vision of the American Chemical Society.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new fellows will be recognized at the ACS Fellows Ceremony and Reception on Monday, August 11, 2014 during the society\u2019s 248th National Meeting \u0026amp; Exposition in San Francisco.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Younan Xia was named a fellow for 2014 by the American Chemical Society.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Younan Xia was named a fellow for 2014 by the American Chemical Society."}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2014-07-30 09:50:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:48","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"253511":{"id":"253511","type":"image","title":"Younan Xia","body":null,"created":"1449243828","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:43:48","changed":"1475894934","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:54","alt":"Younan Xia","file":{"fid":"198154","name":"14c10302-p12-004.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/14c10302-p12-004_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/14c10302-p12-004_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1475310,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/14c10302-p12-004_0.jpg?itok=yxYyx3UD"}}},"media_ids":["253511"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"743","name":"acs"},{"id":"5477","name":"American Chemical Society"},{"id":"101","name":"Award"},{"id":"919","name":"Biochemistry"},{"id":"2548","name":"biomedical"},{"id":"1612","name":"BME"},{"id":"89","name":"chemistry"},{"id":"516","name":"engineering"},{"id":"98771","name":"xia"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"309071":{"#nid":"309071","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Official Inauguration of the Institut Lafayette","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Monday, May 26, 2014, the leadership of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Mr. E.G. Reade, consul General, dignitaries from the Lorraine region of France, and a host of research and corporate partners will gather at Georgia Tech-Lorraine in Metz, France for the official inauguration of the new building that will house the \u003Cem\u003EInstitut Lafayette\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech entered into a partnership with French governmental entities in 1990 to establish its first international campus in Metz, France. After two decades of innovative educational achievements, a world-class research presence was added in 2006 with the creation of the Georgia Tech-\u003Cem\u003ECentre National de la Recherche Scientifique\u003C\/em\u003E (CNRS) \u003Cem\u003EUnit\u00e9 Mixte Internationale\u003C\/em\u003E laboratory.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is now moving to the next critical stage of expansion of its global influence with the creation of an innovation platform, the\u003Cem\u003E Institut Lafayette\u003C\/em\u003E. By providing access to a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure; by sharing world-class expertise in science and technology; and by offering business model validation and commercialization tools, the \u003Cem\u003EInstitut Lafayette\u003C\/em\u003E will showcase and underscore Georgia Tech\u2019s capacity to help create a full regional ecosystem which can generate innovations of economic and social value for its international partners.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis expansion of Georgia Tech\u2019s global footprint will increase its impact around the globe, and serve to bring the world to Georgia Tech and to the State of Georgia. The \u003Cem\u003EInstitut Lafayette \u003C\/em\u003Ewill create opportunities to establish alliances with universities, companies, and governmental and non-governmental entities whose goals and activities align with Georgia Tech\u2019s strategic mission. This expansion will also significantly augment the teaching, research and entrepreneurial activities of Georgia Tech\u2019s faculty, staff, alumni and students both in Atlanta and in Lorraine. The new facilities also expand the European activities of the Georgia Tech Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (Georgia Tech-COPE). The \u003Cem\u003EInstitut Lafayette\u003C\/em\u003E is expected to serve as a catalyst for economic development in the region of Lorraine and to increase trade exchange opportunities with metropolitan Atlanta, and the State of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELocated adjacent to the existing Georgia Tech-Lorraine building, the brand new 25,000 square foot facility is comprised of offices, laboratories and a 5,000 square foot clean room, fully equipped with state-of-the-art nanofabrication tools to support innovations in optoelectronics and advanced semiconductor materials research. This facility will be managed by Georgia Tech faculty members who are world-renown experts in organic materials and semiconductors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis innovation platform will provide a unique combination of research expertise, an advanced technology infrastructure, and an array of technology transfer services which will increase efficiency and accelerate technology transfer. \u0026nbsp;Its impact and effectiveness will be further enabled by leveraging the resources of Georgia Tech \u2013 The Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2) will provide expertise in technology transfer and commercialization, and the Institute of Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN) will provide expertise in managing and operating high-technology infrastructures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Cem\u003EInstitut Lafayette\u003C\/em\u003E was named after the Marquis de Lafayette, a French aristocrat and military officer who served as a major-general in the Continental Army under George Washington in the American Revolution.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;It was in Metz in 1775 that the Marquis de Lafayette made the decision to commit himself to the cause of American independence.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech is now moving to the next critical stage of expansion of its global influence with the creation of an innovation platform, the Institut Lafayette."}],"uid":"27185","created_gmt":"2014-07-17 10:51:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:45","author":"Jason Martin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"309081":{"id":"309081","type":"image","title":"Inauguration of Institut Lafayette","body":null,"created":"1449244726","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:58:46","changed":"1475895017","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:17","alt":"Inauguration of Institut Lafayette","file":{"fid":"199815","name":"dsc_5166.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dsc_5166_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dsc_5166_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":6153981,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dsc_5166_0.jpg?itok=a2FtMOSI"}}},"media_ids":["309081"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/lafayette.gatech.edu\/","title":"Institut Lafayette"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.lorraine.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech-Lorraine"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.umi2958.eu\/","title":"Georgia Tech CNRS"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cope.gatech.edu\/","title":"COPE"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ien.gatech.edu\/","title":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"groups":[{"id":"1273","name":"Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"918","name":"COPE"},{"id":"609","name":"electronics"},{"id":"174","name":"Europe"},{"id":"1499","name":"Institute"},{"id":"4817","name":"lafayette"},{"id":"1692","name":"materials"},{"id":"107","name":"Nanotechnology"},{"id":"167686","name":"Semiconductors"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"303711":{"#nid":"303711","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at the Lafayette Institute Widens Tech\u0027s International Footprint","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn May 26, a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the nearly completed building on the Georgia-Tech Lorraine campus was attended by Georgia Tech\u2019s president, provost and other top officials from the university.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Lafayette at the Georgia Tech campus in Lorraine, France, began as a teaching and research center but, under the guidance of its newly appointed President Bernard Kippelen, is about to become a central point for optoelectronics technology transfer and commercialization. Institute Lafayette houses offices, laboratories, and a 5,000-square-foot clean room, equipped with state-of-the art nano fabrication tools to support the innovations it is discovering in optoelectronics and advanced semiconductor materials research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlso in attendance among the 350 guests were the U.S. consul general from Strasbourg, France, along with French officials from the Lorraine region and research and corporate partners.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.globalatlanta.com\/article\/26954\/lafayettes-legacy-creates-a-platform-for-georgia-tech-innovations\/\u0022\u003ETo read more about Georgia Tech\u0027s Lafayette Institute, follow this link\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"On May 26, a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Georgia-Tech Lorraine campus in Metz, France, was attended by University President G.P. Peterson, the U.S. consul general from Strasbourg, France, and French officials from the Lorraine region."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2014-06-18 09:34:49","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:37","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"303671":{"id":"303671","type":"image","title":"Peterson at Institute Lafayette","body":null,"created":"1449244609","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:56:49","changed":"1475895009","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:09","alt":"Peterson at Institute Lafayette","file":{"fid":"199627","name":"gp_peterson_at_gt_lorraine.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gp_peterson_at_gt_lorraine_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gp_peterson_at_gt_lorraine_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":38223,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gp_peterson_at_gt_lorraine_0.jpg?itok=KxQuM5TS"}}},"media_ids":["303671"],"groups":[{"id":"1271","name":"NanoTECH"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2431","name":"Bernard Kippelen"},{"id":"3399","name":"G.P. 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An assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Wang is the director of the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab and is a member of the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe paper is entitled \u0022A +27.3dBm Transformer-Based Digital Doherty Polar Power Amplifier Fully Integrated in Bulk CMOS,\u0022 and the co-authors include Wang\u0027s Ph.D. students Song Hu and Jong Seok Park; Outmane Chlieh, a Ph.D. student advised by ECE Professor John Papapolymerou; and Shouhei Kousai, a senior design engineer at Toshiba Corporation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the paper, the team proposed a novel digital Doherty polar power amplifier (PA) circuit architecture and implemented it in a standard 65 nm CMOS process. This architecture leverages digital reconfigurability and achieves\u0026nbsp;optimum Doherty active load-modulation operation for maximum PA back-off efficiency enhancement and optimum AM-AM and AM-PM linearization. These desired properties enabled the wireless transmission of high data-rate with drastically enhanced efficiency, and extended battery life in mobile devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, the team demonstrated that this digital Doherty architecture can be reconfigured to achieve robust PA performance against antenna load variations. This aspect of the design opens the door for in-field transmitter reconfiguration to ensure optimum wireless transmission under different or even time-varying radiation environments. This digital Doherty PA circuit architecture can also be further extended to other integrated circuit processes to address defense-related applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe work presented in this RFIC paper is sponsored by the Toshiba membership in the GEDC and by Toshiba\u0027s in-kind donations of CMOS multiproject wafer fabrication runs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E***********************\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPictured in the photo left to right are Hua Wang, Wang\u0027s Ph.D. students Jong Seok Park and Song Hu (first author), and Lawrence Kushner of BAE Systems. Kushner served as the general conference chair for the 2014 IEEE RFIC.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang and his colleagues won the First Place Student Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, held June 1-3 in Tampa, Florida.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang and his colleagues won the First Place Student Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, held June 1-3 in Tampa, Florida."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2014-06-20 10:52:35","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:37","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"304221":{"id":"304221","type":"image","title":"2014 IEEE RFIC Best Student Paper Award winners","body":null,"created":"1449244609","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:56:49","changed":"1475895009","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:09","alt":"2014 IEEE RFIC Best Student Paper Award winners","file":{"fid":"199648","name":"hua_wang_-_2014_ieee_rfic_best_paper_award.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hua_wang_-_2014_ieee_rfic_best_paper_award_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hua_wang_-_2014_ieee_rfic_best_paper_award_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":177693,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hua_wang_-_2014_ieee_rfic_best_paper_award_0.jpg?itok=f-pXbn6V"}}},"media_ids":["304221"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/research\/labs\/gems\/","title":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=169","title":"Hua Wang"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gedcenter.org\/","title":"Georgia Electronic Design Center"},{"url":"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/stamp\/stamp.jsp?arnumber=06556073","title":"2014 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3191","name":"Georgia Electronic Design Center"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"85861","name":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab"},{"id":"67901","name":"Hua Wang"},{"id":"95791","name":"IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"95801","name":"Toshiba Corporatoin"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"300141":{"#nid":"300141","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Disturbance in blood flow leads to epigenetic changes in atherosclerosis","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDisturbed patterns of blood flow induce lasting epigenetic changes to genes in the cells that line blood vessels, and those changes contribute to atherosclerosis, researchers have found. The findings suggest why the protective effects of good blood flow patterns, which aerobic exercise promotes, can persist over time. An epigenetic change to DNA is a chemical modification that alters whether nearby genes are likely to be turned on or off, but not the letter-by-letter sequence itself.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe results were published this week in the \u003Ca title=\u0022journal of clinical investigation\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.jci.org\/articles\/view\/74792\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EJournal of Clinical Investigation\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAtherosclerosis is the buildup of fats and inflammatory cells in arteries, a process that can lead to heart attacks and strokes. The curvature of arteries and resulting disturbed flow influence where atherosclerotic plaques develop. Biomedical engineer Hanjoong Jo and his colleagues have developed a model that allows them to see the inflammatory effects of disturbed blood flow quickly. Jo is professor of biomedical engineering in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis new study shows that disturbed blood flow induces epigenetic changes that lead to atherosclerosis,\u201d Jo says. \u201cIt had been known for a long time that plaques preferentially develop in curved and branched arteries, but our lab has been able to prove that disturbed blood flow can actually trigger atherosclerosis, in the presence of risk factors such as high blood cholesterol.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDespite the demonstrated importance of blood flow patterns in atherosclerosis, it can be blocked in mouse models with a drug that interrupts the process of DNA methylation, an epigenetic change that often turns genes off. Jo\u2019s team has identified several genes that become turned off under disturbed flow conditions, in a way that requires DNA methylation. Some of these genes may represent new therapeutic targets in atherosclerosis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe co-first authors of the JCI paper are biomedical engineering graduate students Jessilyn Dunn and Haiwei Qiu, and postdoc Soyeon Kim, PhD.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the Jo lab\u2019s mouse \u003Ca title=\u0022nam 2009\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2770764\/\u0022\u003Emodel\u003C\/a\u003E, researchers restrict blood flow in three carotid arteries on one side, in the presence of a high-fat diet. In a 2010 paper in \u003Ca title=\u0022blood hanjoong jo disturbed flow\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2974596\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBlood\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, they had found that one of the genes induced by disturbed blood flow is \u003Cem\u003EDNMT1\u003C\/em\u003E, encoding a DNA methyltransferase enzyme.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDNMT1\u003C\/em\u003E carries out DNA methylation, an epigenetic modification of DNA. Changes in DNA methylation are important for cells differentiating into different tissues such as blood, muscle or bone, and for the development of cancer. Dunn and her colleagues found that treatment with 5-aza-2\u2019-deoxycytidine, a drug that is now used to treat acute myeloid leukemia, can prevent atherosclerotic plaques from forming in the mouse model.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhile we do not envision using 5-aza for atherosclerosis treatment clinically, our results do reveal potential therapeutic targets,\u201d Jo says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA broader implication is that improving blood flow patterns, through aerobic exercise for example, can induce a lasting imprint on gene expression in the blood vessels, he says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research was supported by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (HL095070, HL114772, HL113451) and the Center for Translational Cardiovascular Nanomedicine (HHSN268201000043C).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EReference: J. Dunn et al. Flow alters genome-wide methylation, regulating endothelial gene expression and atherosclerosis. J. Clin. 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Conversely, electronic protection (EP) technology prevents hostile forces from using EA methods to disable U.S. radar equipment assets.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDefeating hostile radar helps shield aircraft from ground-to-air missiles and other threats, so it\u0027s a military priority to ensure that EW systems can defeat any opposing radar technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), which has supported U.S. electronic warfare capabilities for decades, a research team is developing a new generation of advanced radio frequency (RF) jammer technology. The project, known as Angry Kitten, is utilizing commercial electronics, custom hardware development, novel machine-learning software and a unique test bed to evaluate unprecedented levels of adaptability in EW technology. Angry Kitten has been internally funded by GTRI to investigate advanced methods that can counter increasingly sophisticated EW threats.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re developing fully adaptive and autonomous capabilities that aren\u0027t currently available in jammers,\u0022 said research engineer Stan Sutphin. \u0022We believe a cognitive electronic warfare approach, based on machine-learning algorithms and sophisticated hardware, will result in threat-response systems that offer significantly higher levels of electronic attack and electronic protection capabilities, and will provide enhanced security for U.S. combat aircraft.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen an EW encounter begins, the Angry Kitten system chooses an optimal jamming technique from among many available options, explained Sutphin, who leads a GTRI development team that includes senior research engineer Roger Dickerson and senior research scientist Aram Partizian.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the engagement progresses, the next-generation system is designed to adapt. It will assess how effective its jamming is against the threat and quickly modify its approach if necessary.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAngry Kitten research also includes investigation of cognitive learning algorithms that allow the jammer to independently assess and respond to novel opposing technology. The team is developing techniques to enable an EW system to respond effectively should it encounter unfamiliar hostile radar techniques.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMoreover, the flexibility of the Angry Kitten system allows it to represent a range of threat EA systems. That will help to support the development of new and improved EP measures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdaptive Digital Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETraditionally, Sutphin explained, radar jamming has consisted of two basic approaches.\u0026nbsp; One employs mechanical techniques that reflect radar beams back at the sender using chaff material spread through the air behind the carrying platform. The other uses electronic techniques to emit powerful electromagnetic signals that interfere with incoming hostile radar beams. But these techniques are relatively basic, and they involve overt suppression strategies that are often obvious to the other side.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToday\u0027s top EW systems are more subtle, thanks to digital techniques. The most advanced technology today \u2013 digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) \u2013 can deceive an enemy by recording his received radar signals, manipulating them and sending back false information that seems to be real.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A DRFM jammer is a very effective way of adding clutter to the scene without just using unsophisticated noise-jamming techniques,\u0022 Sutphin said. \u0022You can create false targets, or hide real targets, using the enemy\u0027s own waveforms against him.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe GTRI team believes that countering such techniques will lead to the development of increasingly more precise digital techniques for radar electronic protection (EP). That could spark an equivalent race for more advanced jammer techniques.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe need an approach to more quickly evaluate advances in digital RF signal generation, and to rapidly field countermeasures without expensive hardware upgrades,\u201d said Tom McDermott, GTRI\u2019s director of research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the first phase of developing a next-generation system, the GTRI team completed an advanced jamming system prototype. This custom hardware utilizes a wideband tunable transceiver system, and is built using open architecture\/open source approaches that are low-cost and enable operators to quickly modify the system in response to changing conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team is currently developing machine-learning algorithms that will allow the Angry Kitten system to continually assess its environment and switch among the best methods for jamming incoming threats. The ultimate goal is a robust platform that will characterize any threat emitter and respond in real time in the most effective way.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Unique Test Bed\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToday, DRFM jammers employ a computer-based \u0022library\u0022 of known threats that are used to identify and neutralize incoming signals, Sutphin explained. DRFM equipment may also include an electronic-intelligence (ELINT) capability, which monitors and collects information on enemy signals and jammers. The ELINT data gathered may eventually be used \u2013 possibly weeks, months, or years later \u2013 to improve U.S. threat-response techniques.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022What we want is to perform those same ELINT analysis and adaptive-response tasks in seconds \u2013 while the jamming is occurring \u2013 not months later,\u0022 Sutphin said. \u0022And obviously our system must work autonomously, because there\u0027s no time for human input.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo support the current effort, the researchers are utilizing a GTRI-designed tool called the enhanced radar test bed. Devised by a team led by Partizian, the test bed simulates opposing radar signals and enables convenient, low-cost and highly realistic testing of jammers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe test bed is an important asset in the development of the Angry Kitten system, Sutphin said.\u0026nbsp; It offers the ability to collect realistic, representative jammer data on advanced waveforms. 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But by modifying the underlying network of cellulose fibers, etching off surface \u201cfluff\u201d and applying a thin chemical coating, researchers have created a new type of paper that repels a wide variety of liquids \u2013 including water and oil.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe paper takes advantage of the so-called \u0022lotus effect\u0022 \u2013 used by leaves of the lotus plant \u2013 to repel liquids through the creation of surface patterns at two different size scales and the application of a chemical coating. The material, developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology, uses nanometer- and micron-scale structures, plus a surface fluorocarbon, to turn old-fashioned paper into an advanced material.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe modified paper could be used as the foundation for a new generation of inexpensive biomedical diagnostics in which liquid samples would flow along patterns printed on the paper using special hydrophobic ink and an ordinary desktop printer. This paper could also provide an improved packaging material that would be less expensive than other oil- and water-repelling materials, while being both recyclable and sustainable.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPaper is a very heterogeneous material composed of fibers with different sizes, different lengths and a non-circular cross-section,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/faculty\/hess\u0022\u003EDennis Hess\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cWe believe this is the first time that a superamphiphobic surface \u2013 one that repels all fluids \u2013 has been created on a flexible, traditional and heterogeneous material like paper.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch leading to development of the superamphiphobic paper has been supported by the Institute for Paper Science and Technology (IPST) at Georgia Tech. Details were published online May 24 in the journal \u003Cem\u003EACS Applied Materials \u0026amp; Interfaces\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new paper, which is both superhydrophobic (water-repelling) and super oleophobic (oil-repelling), can be made from standard softwood and hardwood fibers using a modified paper process. In addition to Hess, the research team included Lester Li, a graduate research assistant, and Victor Breedveld, an associate professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProducing the new paper begins with breaking up cellulose fibers into smaller structures using a mechanical grinding process. As in traditional paper processing, the fibers are then pressed in the presence of water \u2013 but then the water is removed and additional processing is done with the chemical butanol. Use of butanol inhibits the hydrogen bonding that normally takes place between cellulose fibers, allowing better control of their spacing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe desirable properties we are seeking are mainly controlled by the geometry of the fibers,\u201d Hess explained.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second step involves using an oxygen plasma etching process \u2013 a technique commonly used in the microelectronics industry \u2013 to remove the layer of amorphous \u201cfluffy\u201d cellulose surface material, exposing the crystalline cellulose nanofibrils. The process thereby uncovers smaller cellulose structures and provides a second level of \u201croughness\u201d with the proper geometry needed to repel liquids.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFinally, a thin coating of a fluoropolymer is applied over the network of cellulose fibers. In testing, the paper was able to repel water, motor oil, ethylene glycol and n-hexadecane solvent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers have printed patterns onto their paper using a hydrophobic ink and a desktop printer. Droplets applied to the pattern remain on the ink pattern, repelled by the adjacent superamphiphobic surface.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat capability could facilitate development of inexpensive biomedical diagnostic tests in which a droplet containing antigens could be rolled along a printed surface where it would encounter diagnostic chemicals. If appropriate reagents are used, the specific color or color intensity of the patterns could indicate the presence of a disease. Because the droplets adhere tightly to the printed lines or dots, the samples can be sent to a laboratory for additional testing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have shown that we can do the operations necessary for a microfluidic device,\u201d Hess said. \u201cWe can move the droplet along a pattern, split the droplet and transfer the droplet from one piece of paper to another. We can do all of these operations on a two-dimensional surface.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Hess, Li and Breedveld, creating a superhydrophobic suface was relatively straightforward because water has a high surface tension. For oils, which have a low surface tension, the key to creating the repellent surface is to create re-entrant \u2013 or undercut \u2013 angles between the droplets and the surface.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrevious examples of superamphiphobic surfaces have been made on rigid surfaces through lithographic techniques. Such processes tend to produce fragile surfaces that are prone to damage, Hess said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe principal challenge has been to create high-performance in a material that is anything but geometrically regular and consistent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWorking with heterogeneous materials is fascinating, but it\u2019s very difficult not just to control them, because there is no inherent consistent structure, but also to change the processing conditions so you can get something that, on average, is what you need,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a real learning experience for us.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new paper has so far been made in samples about four inches on a side, but Hess sees no reason why the process couldn\u2019t be scaled up. Though long-term testing of the new paper hasn\u2019t been done, Hess is encouraged by what he\u2019s seen so far.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION\u003C\/strong\u003E: Lester Li, Victor Breedveld and Dennis Hess, \u201cDesign and Fabrication of Superamphiphobic Paper Surfaces,\u201d (ACS Applied Materials \u0026amp; Interfaces, 2013).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia\u0026nbsp; 30332-0181\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contact\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPaper is known for its ability to absorb liquids, making it ideal for products such as paper towels. 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Phased array technology is replacing traditional electro-mechanical radar antennas \u2013 the familiar rotating dish that goes back many decades \u2013 because stationary solid state electronics are faster, more precise and more reliable than moving mechanical parts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYet phased array antennas, which require bulky supporting electronics, can be as large as older systems. To address this issue, a research team from the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a novel device \u2013 the ultra-compact passive true time delay.\u0026nbsp; This component could help reduce the size, complexity, power requirements and cost of phased array designs, and may have applications in other defense and communication areas as well.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe patent-pending ultra-compact device takes advantage of the difference in speed between light and sound, explained Ryan Westafer, a Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) research engineer who is leading the effort. The ultra-compact device uses acoustic technology to produce a type of signal delay that\u0027s essential to phased-array performance; existing phased-array antennas use cumbersome electrical technology to create this type of signal delay.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Most true time delay equipment currently uses long, meandering electromagnetic delay lines \u2013 comparable to coaxial cable \u2013 that take up a lot of space,\u0022 Westafer said. \u0022In addition, there are some time delay designs that utilize photonic technology, but they currently have size and functionality drawbacks as well.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ultra-compact delay device uses acoustic delay lines that are embedded entirely within thin film materials. The component can be made thousands of times smaller than an electrical delay-line design, Westafer said, and it can be readily integrated on top of semiconductor substrates commonly used in radar systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Critical Delay\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a phased array radar system, true time delays are necessary to assure proper performance of the many signal beam producing elements that make up the array. As the elements scan back and forth electronically at extremely high speeds, their timing requires extremely fine coordination.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The individual antenna elements of a phased array appear to scan together, but in fact each element\u2019s signal has to leave up to a few nanoseconds later than its neighbor or the steered beam will be spoiled,\u201d explained Kyle Davis, a GTRI research engineer who is a team member. \u0022These delays need to march down each element in the array in succession for a steered beam to be produced. Without correct time delays, the signals will be degraded by a periodic interference pattern and the location of the target will be unclear.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETraditional phased array systems use one foot of electrical delay line for each nanosecond of delay. By contrast, the Georgia Tech team\u0027s time-delay design consists of a thin-film acoustic component that\u0027s a mere 40 microns square. The tiny device can be readily integrated into the silicon substrate of a radar component, yet it provides the same delay as many feet of cable.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis size reduction is possible because of a simple fact of physics \u2013 sound traveling through the air moves about 100,000 times more slowly than light. As a result, when an electromagnetic wave such as a radar signal becomes an acoustic wave, it slows down dramatically. In the case of the ultra-compact passive true time delay component, the acoustic area of the component furnishes a multi-nanosecond delay in the space of a few microns.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Microwave acoustic delay lines actually date back to 1959, but our ultra-compact delay\u0027s small size represents a significant advance that should allow microwave acoustic delay lines to be manufactured and integrated much more readily,\u0022 explained William Hunt, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. \u0022And it\u0027s worth noting that this innovative work took place as the result of both strong student participation and very effective collaboration across several Georgia Tech units.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAcoustic Wave Conversion\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA phased array radar using the Georgia Tech time delay component could operate like this: An electromagnetic wave is transmitted through an electrical line to the compact time delay device. Then, within the delay device, a piezoelectric transducer converts electromagnetic waves to acoustic waves, and over the distance of a few microns the waves are slowed by several orders of magnitude.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOnce the required delay is achieved, the acoustic waves are transduced back to electromagnetic waves, delivered into another electrical line and transmitted by an antenna. A similar but reverse sequence takes place when the radar beam bounces back from its target and is received by the antenna.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to Westafer, Davis and Hunt, the Georgia Tech development team includes GTRI principal research engineers Jeff Hallman and Jim Maloney; GTRI research engineer Brent Tillery and GTRI research associate Chris Ward; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering student Stephen Mihalko, and GTRI student assistant Jonathan Perez.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo date, the Georgia Tech team has successfully demonstrated that the current version of the ultra-compact passive true time delay can handle radar signals at 100 percent bandwidth while delivering a 10 nanosecond delay. The team is presently addressing technical issues such as signal loss, and near-term plans call for the demonstration of an improved device design and the delivery of initial packaged devices to customers. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia\u0026nbsp; 30332-0181\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Lance Wallace (404-407-7280)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lance.wallace@gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elance.wallace@gtri.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: Rick Robinson\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA research team has developed an ultra-compact passive true time delay device that could help reduce the size, complexity, power requirements and cost of phased array designs. 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This aerial test bed, called the GTRI Airborne Unmanned Sensor System (GAUSS), is based on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) made by Griffon Aerospace and modified by GTRI.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Developing new sensor technologies that can be effectively employed from the air is a priority today given the rapidly increasing use of unmanned aircraft,\u0022 said Michael Brinkmann, a GTRI principal research engineer who is leading the work. \u0022Given suitable technology, small UAVs can perform complex, low-altitude missions effectively and at lower cost. The GAUSS system gives GTRI and its customers the ability to develop and test new airborne payloads in a rapid, cost effective way.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe current project includes development, installation and testing of a sensor suite relevant to many of GTRI\u2019s customers. This suite consists of a camera package, a signals intelligence package for detecting and locating ground-based emitters, and a multi-channel ground-mapping radar.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe radar is being designed using phased-array antenna technology that enables electronic scanning. This approach is more flexible and agile than traditional mechanically steered antennas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe combined sensor package is lightweight enough to be carried by the GAUSS UAV, which is a variant of the Griffon Outlaw ER aircraft and has a 13.6-foot wingspan and a payload capacity of approximately 40 pounds. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe aircraft navigates using a high precision global positioning system (GPS) combined with an inertial navigation system. These help guide the UAV, which can be programmed for autonomous flight or piloted manually from the ground. The airborne mission package also includes multi-terabyte onboard data recording and a stabilized gimbal that isolates the camera from aircraft movement.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHeavier sensor designs have several disadvantages, observed Mike Heiges, a principal research engineer who leads the GTRI team that is responsible for flying and maintaining the UAV platform. Larger sensors require larger unmanned aircraft to carry them, and those aircraft use bigger engines and must fly higher to avoid detection.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Rather than have your design spiral upwards until you\u0027re using very large and expensive aircraft, smaller sensors allow the use of smaller aircraft,\u0022 Heiges said.\u0026nbsp; \u0022A smaller UAV saves money and is logistically easier to support. But most important, it can gather information closer to the tactical level on the ground, where it\u0027s arguably most valuable.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe GTRI team has developed a modular design that allows the GAUSS platform to be reconfigured for a number of sensor types. Among the possibilities for evaluation are devices that utilize light detection and ranging (LIDAR) technology and chemical-biological sensing technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The overall concept for the GAUSS program is that the airplane itself will be simply a conveyance, and we can mount on it whatever sensor\/communication package is required,\u0022 said Brinkmann.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe radar package that GTRI is currently installing and testing is complex, he explained.\u0026nbsp; In addition to phased-array scanning capability, the radar operates in the X-band, is capable of five acquisition modes and can be programmed to transmit arbitrary waveforms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This radar is a very flexible system that will be able to do ground mapping, as well as detecting and tracking objects moving around on the ground,\u0022 Brinkmann said. \u0022These multiple sensing capabilities offer many possibilities for defense operations, along with search-and-rescue and disaster-recovery operations.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPossible applications include using the signals intelligence package to locate people buried in rubble by searching for cell phone signals, he said. 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But the Raman scattering technique they have been using to create the photons was inefficient and unable to provide the number of entangled photons needed for complex systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis new photon source is about a thousand times faster than existing systems,\u201d Dudin said. \u201cThe numbers are very good for our first experimental implementation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo create a Rydberg atom, the researchers used lasers to illuminate a dense ensemble of several hundred rubidium 87 atoms that had been laser-cooled and confined in an optical lattice. The illumination boosted a single atom from the entire cloud into the Rydberg state. Atoms excited to the Rydberg state strongly interact with other Rydberg atoms, and under suitable conditions, modify the atomic level energies and prevent more than one atom from being transferred into this state \u2013 a phenomenon known as the Rydberg blockade.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERydberg atoms show this strong interaction within a range of 10 to 20 microns. By limiting their starting ensemble of rubidium atoms to approximately that distance, Kuzmich and Dudin were able to ensure that no more than one such atom could form.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe excited Rydberg atom needs space around it and doesn\u2019t allow any other Rydberg atoms to come nearby,\u201d Dudin explained. \u201cOur ensemble has a limited volume, so we couldn\u2019t fit more than one of these atoms into the space available.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKuzmich and Dudin have been using Rydberg atoms with a principal quantum number of approximately 100. These excited atoms are much larger \u2013 as much as a half-micron in diameter \u2013 than ground state rubidium atoms, which have a quantum number of 5 and a diameter of a few Angstroms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOnce a highly excited atom was created, the researchers used an additional laser field to convert the excitation into a quantum light field that has the same statistical properties as the excitation. Because the field was produced by a single Rydberg atom, it contained just one photon, which can be used in a variety of protocols.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the Georgia Tech group, the next goal may be development of a quantum gate between light fields. The quantum gating of photons has been proposed and pursued by many research groups, so far unsuccessfully.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf this can be realized, such quantum gates would allow us to deterministically create complex entangled states of atoms and light, which would add valuable capabilities to the fields of quantum networks and computing,\u201d Kuzmich said. \u201cOur works points in this direction.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond quantum information systems, the new single-photon system could also help scientists investigating other areas of physics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur results also hold promise for studies of dynamics and disorder in many-body systems with tunable interactions,\u201d Kuzmich explained. \u201cIn particular, translational symmetry breaking, phase transitions and non-equilibrium many-body physics could be investigated in the future using strongly-coupled Rydberg excitations of an atomic gas.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe single-photon work complements research being done in the Kuzmich lab on long-lived quantum memories. A new Air Force Office of Scientific Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) was recently awarded to a consortium of seven U.S. universities that will work together to determine the best approach for generating quantum memories based on interaction between light and matter. Georgia Tech leads the MURI.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith this new work, we have demonstrated a new, deterministic source of single photons,\u201d Kuzmich said. \u201cIn its first experimental realization, it already out-performs other types of single photons that have been pursued during the past decade around the world, including in our group. With further increases in efficiency and generation rate \u2013 and integration with long-lived quantum memories being developed in related work \u2013 such a single-photon source may make possible optical quantum information processing.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 314\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia 30308 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Abby Robinson (404-385-3364)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:abby@innovate.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eabby@innovate.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"New approach could also aid study of dynamics and disorder in systems"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUsing lasers to excite just one atom from a cloud of ultra-cold rubidium gas, physicists have developed a new way to rapidly and efficiently create single photons for potential use in optical quantum information processing \u2013 and in the study of dynamics and disorder in certain physical systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Physicists have developed a new way to rapidly and efficiently create single photons for use in optical quantum information processing."}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2012-04-19 14:39:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:04","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"125081":{"id":"125081","type":"image","title":"Single-Photon Production","body":null,"created":"1449178593","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:36:33","changed":"1475894749","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:49","alt":"Single-Photon Production","file":{"fid":"194489","name":"rydberg-excitation7015.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rydberg-excitation7015_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rydberg-excitation7015_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1870498,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/rydberg-excitation7015_0.jpg?itok=KHJIVB5h"}},"125091":{"id":"125091","type":"image","title":"Single-Photon Production2","body":null,"created":"1449178593","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:36:33","changed":"1475894749","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:49","alt":"Single-Photon Production2","file":{"fid":"194490","name":"rydberg-excitation7021.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rydberg-excitation7021_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rydberg-excitation7021_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1292416,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/rydberg-excitation7021_0.jpg?itok=YVsI3OIy"}}},"media_ids":["125081","125091"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"24201","name":"Alex Kuzmich"},{"id":"4260","name":"laser"},{"id":"2768","name":"optics"},{"id":"1744","name":"quantum"},{"id":"31041","name":"quantum information processing"},{"id":"31021","name":"rubidium"},{"id":"31051","name":"Rydberg atom"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; 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As a member of the program, Cambridge NanoTech will connect to the faculty expertise and highly trained student and graduates of the Center as well as an international network of industrial partners in the field of organic photonics and electronics.\u0026nbsp; This includes access to the latest research and discoveries in this emerging field.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy approaching material science development through the use of fundamental techniques such as Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), scientists and engineers are able to improve device performance and produce novel applications\u201d explained Ganesh Sundaram, Vice President of Technology at Cambridge NanoTech. \u201cALD is capable of depositing flexible, multi-functional materials at low deposition temperatures, which is ideal when integrating these materials into organic electronics and photonics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECambridge NanoTech first introduced ALD systems nine years ago and has an install base of over 300 systems on six continents. Cambridge NanoTech\u2019s ALD systems have become an important strategic solution for researchers and manufacturers that require highly conformal and uniform thin film oxides, nitrides, sulfides, and metals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Sundaram added \u201cUnquestionably, organic electronics and photonics is an emerging field that is rapidly growing and we are excited to join the Industrial Affiliates Program so that we can participate in finding applications that meld the areas of ALD and organic science.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBernard Kippelen, Director of the Center stated, \u201cOur Center has pioneered the use of ALD in organic field-effect transistors and has been able to achieve excellent stability in such devices using a Cambridge NanoTech ALD system. 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As a member of the program, Cambridge NanoTech will connect to the faculty expertise and highly trained student and graduates of the Center as well as an international network of industrial partners in the field of organic photonics and electronics.\u0026nbsp; This includes access to the latest research and discoveries in this emerging field.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Cambridge NanoTech becomes new Industrial Affiliate"}],"uid":"27185","created_gmt":"2012-02-09 11:41:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:40","author":"Jason Martin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-04-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-04-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cambridgenanotech.com\/","title":"Cambridge NanoTech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cope.gatech.edu\/","title":"COPE"}],"groups":[{"id":"1273","name":"Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"23481","name":"cambridge nanotech"},{"id":"918","name":"COPE"},{"id":"609","name":"electronics"},{"id":"19411","name":"industrial affiliates program"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJason Martin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jmartin60\u0022\u003EContact Jason Martin\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"79111":{"#nid":"79111","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Institute of Technology Receives Grand Challenges Explorations Funding","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology announces that it will receive funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill \u0026amp; Melinda Gates Foundation that enables researchers worldwide to test unorthodox ideas that address persistent health and development challenges. Dr. Mark Styczynski, assistant professor in the School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering, will pursue an innovative global health research project, titled \u201cPigment-Based, Low-Cost, Portable Nutrition Status Tests.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGrand Challenges Explorations funds scientists and researchers worldwide to explore ideas that can break the mold in how we solve persistent global health and development challenges. Styczynski\u2019s project is one of 108 Grand Challenges Explorations grants announced in November 2011 as part of Round 7 of the program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe believe in the power of innovation\u2014that a single bold idea can pioneer solutions to our greatest health and development challenges,\u201d said Chris Wilson, Director of Global Health Discovery for the Bill \u0026amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. \u201cGrand Challenges Explorations seeks to identify and fund these new ideas wherever they come from, allowing scientists, innovators, and entrepreneurs to pursue the kinds of creative ideas and novel approaches that could help to accelerate the end of polio, cure HIV infection, or improve sanitation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProjects that are receiving funding show promise in tackling priority global health issues where solutions do not yet exist. 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Of those, 205 respondents reported using human embryonic stem cells in their research, and their responses were used in this study. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe surveyed scientists cited four main reasons for their problems accessing human embryonic stem cell lines: difficulty obtaining material transfer agreements, failure to acquire research approval from internal institutional oversight committees, cell line owners that were unwilling to share and federal policy considerations. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Bureaucratic challenges may be inevitable in this ethically contentious and politically sensitive field, but policymakers should attempt to mitigate these issues by doing things like encouraging institutions to accept third-party ownership verification and providing clearer guidance on human embryonic stem cell research not eligible for federal funding,\u0022 said Levine, who is also a member of the Georgia Tech Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe broad patents assigned to the initial inventors of the method used to isolate embryonic stem cells and numerous narrower patents claiming specific human embryonic stem cell-related techniques are also factors complicating access to human embryonic stem cell lines, according to Levine. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen survey respondents were asked how many of the more than 1,000 existing human embryonic stem cell lines they used, 76 percent reported using three or fewer lines and 54 percent reported using two or fewer lines in their research. More than half of the 130 respondents cited access issues as a major reason they chose to use specific cell lines in their research. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These results illustrate that many human embryonic stem cell scientists in the United States are not conducting comparative studies with a diverse set of human embryonic stem cell lines, which raises concern that at least some results are cell-line specific rather than broadly applicable,\u0022 said Levine. \u0022Federal and state funding agencies may want to consider encouraging research using multiple diverse human embryonic stem cell lines to improve the reliability of research results.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEmbryonic stem cell lines are being used to develop new cellular therapies for various diseases, to screen for new drugs and to better understand inherited diseases. It\u0027s crucial that diverse lines are available for this research to ensure that all individuals benefit from the results. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile availability was cited as the most common factor affecting scientists\u0027 choices regarding which cell lines to use, other considerations included suitability for a specific project, familiarity with specific lines, a desire to reduce complications in the laboratory, cost, the extent of relevant literature and the preferences of scientists\u0027 colleagues. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThree of the initial human embryonic stem cell lines derived at the University of Wisconsin in the late 1990s were the lines most commonly used by respondents. Cell lines H1, H9 and H7 were used by 79, 68 and 26 percent of respondents, respectively. Scientists also reported using more than 100 other lines, but each of these was used by fewer than 12 percent of respondents. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Other research communities in the life sciences have experienced material access problems and they addressed them, in part, by creating centralized information and data sharing hubs, including public DNA sequence databases, tissue banks and mouse repositories. The stem cell research community has taken promising steps in this direction, but this analysis should encourage the community to continue and, if possible, accelerate these efforts,\u0022 added Levine. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArticle Written by Abby Robinson, Georgia Tech Research News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERelated Links\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/nbt.2029\u0022\u003ENature Biotechnology paper\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.spp.gatech.edu\/aboutus\/faculty\/AaronLevine\u0022\u003EAaron Levine\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.spp.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Public Policy\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ibb.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe promise of stem cell research for drug discovery and cell-based therapies depends on the ability of scientists to acquire stem cell lines for their research. \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2011-12-13 15:47:32","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:50","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"74085":{"id":"74085","type":"image","title":"Aaron Levine","body":null,"created":"1449178046","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:26","changed":"1475894686","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:46","alt":"Aaron Levine","file":{"fid":"193765","name":"aaronlevine200x300wtboard.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/aaronlevine200x300wtboard_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/aaronlevine200x300wtboard_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":263264,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/aaronlevine200x300wtboard_0.jpg?itok=0abdrECH"}},"73880":{"id":"73880","type":"image","title":"Chart on difficulty","body":null,"created":"1449178028","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:08","changed":"1475894681","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:41"},"73881":{"id":"73881","type":"image","title":"Chart on choosing stem cells","body":null,"created":"1449178028","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:08","changed":"1475894681","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:41"}},"media_ids":["74085","73880","73881"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"9555","name":"aaron levine"},{"id":"2548","name":"biomedical"},{"id":"167413","name":"Stem Cell"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u0026nbsp; 404-894-1720\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"65765":{"#nid":"65765","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Radar Shows Promise for Detecting Concussions in Athletes and Soldiers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWalking and thinking at the same\ntime can be especially difficult for persons who\u2019ve suffered concussions, and\nscientists hope to use that multitasking challenge \u2013 measured by a simple radar\nsystem \u2013 to quickly screen individuals who may have suffered brain injuries.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBy asking an individual to walk\na short distance while saying the months of the year in reverse order,\nresearchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) are trying to determine\nif that person is impaired. This simple test, which could be performed on the\nsideline of a sporting event or on a battlefield, has the potential to help\ncoaches and commanders decide if athletes and soldiers are ready to engage in\nactivity again.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cResearch performed at the\nUniversity of Oregon found that when a person with a concussion performs\ncognitive and motor skill tasks simultaneously, they have a different gait\npattern than a healthy individual, and we are working to identify those\nanomalies in a person\u2019s walk with radar,\u201d said GTRI research engineer Jennifer\nPalmer.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMore than 1 million concussions\nand other mild traumatic brain injuries are reported each year in the United\nStates and catching them right after they happen can improve treatment and\nprevent further injury or other long-term health issues. Diagnosing concussions\ncan be difficult, though, because the symptoms of concussions are not always\neasily visible or detectable, even though they last for weeks or months\nfollowing the incident. Methods exist for detecting concussions, but most focus\npurely on cognitive impairment and do not assess accompanying motor skill\ndeterioration.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDetails of GTRI\u2019s research technique,\nwhich simultaneously examines a person\u2019s cognitive and motor skills, were presented\non April 26 at the SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing conference in Orlando.\nGTRI research engineers Kristin Bing and Amy Sharma, principal research\nscientist (ret) Eugene Greneker, and research scientist Teresa Selee also\nworked on this project, which is supported by the GTRI Independent Research and\nDevelopment (IRAD) program.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESeveral studies have shown that\nmeasuring changes in gait could be used to diagnose concussions, but measuring\na person\u2019s gait typically requires wearing special clothing with reflective\nmarkers or sensors so that movements can be captured with motion analysis\ncameras. Using radar for gait analysis could be faster and less intrusive than\nthese existing techniques. The assessment would be done with radar systems\nsimilar to those used by police for measuring the speed of vehicles.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oi0PDcZuMgU\u0022\u003EWatch a three-minute video describing this research\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor their study, the GTRI\nresearch team compared how 10 healthy individuals walked normally and when subjected\nto a simulated impairment. For the impairment scenario, individuals wore\ngoggles that simulated impairment produced by drinking alcoholic beverages.\nPast research has shown that concussion impairment is equivalent to having a\nblood alcohol level of 0.05 percent.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the trials, each\nindividual performed four 30-second walking tasks: a normal walk, walk while\nsaying the months of the year in reverse order, walk while wearing the goggles,\nand walk while wearing the goggles and performing the cognitive task. For each\ntask, the subjects walked away from the radar system, turned around and walked\nback toward the radar system.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re using a 10.5 gigahertz\ncontinuous wave radar, which is similar to a police officer\u2019s radar gun that\nmeasures the speed of a car,\u201d explained Bing. \u201cThe data we collect tells us the\nvelocity of everything that\u2019s in the field of view of the radar at that time,\nincluding a person\u2019s foot kicks, and head and torso movements.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers analyzed the\nradar data using information-theoretic techniques, which detected similarities\nand differences in the information without having to identify and align\nspecific body parts. In addition, these techniques could recognize a gait\nanomaly without requiring that an individual\u2019s normal gait be measured before\nthe person became impaired.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe found differences between\nthe gait patterns of individuals walking normally while completing a cognitive\ntask versus those with the simulated impairment while completing a cognitive\ntask,\u201d explained Palmer. \u201cThe gait of individuals walking normally while\ncompleting a cognitive task was more periodic, with regular and higher velocity\nfoot kicks and faster torso and head movement, than the gait exhibited by\nindividuals wearing impairment goggles and performing the cognitive task.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe results also indicated that\nif no cognitive task was performed, the gait pattern was not statistically\ndifferent when wearing and not wearing the goggles.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe found that we needed to exercise\na person\u2019s physical and mental capabilities at the same time to see a change in\ngait,\u201d said Bing. \u201cIt\u2019s easy for a person to concentrate on one task, but when\nthat person has to multitask we can begin to discriminate differences in gait.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the future, the researchers\nplan to collect additional data from healthy individuals of different heights\nand weights, and from individuals exhibiting concussion symptoms according to\nneuropsychological screening tests performed at a hospital. They also plan to\nreduce the size of the experimental system so that it becomes more practical to\nuse.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor the military, we envision\nthe system could fit into a tough box so that commanders can have it in the\nfield,\u201d added Bing. \u201cThey could simply press a button, connect the radar system\nto a laptop, and an easy-to-use interface would display the results.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EApproval from the Food and Drug\nAdministration will be required before this system can be used to help doctors diagnose\nconcussions.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 314\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Robinson (abby@innovate.gatech.edu; 404-385-3364) or John Toon (jtoon@gatech.edu; 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The simplified approach produces micro-scale optical detection devices that cost less to make than other designs, and provide a six-fold increase in sensitivity to target molecules.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new technique uses a thin film of porous silicon material to coat a layer of light-conducting dense silicon. The porous silicon thin film contains many connected pores and internal surfaces that greatly increase the effective area onto which a chemical component of interest \u2013 often referred to as an analyte \u2013 can bind. The increased surface area allows the porous silicon to capture larger numbers of analyte molecules, which increases overall detection sensitivity and thereby facilitates detection of analytes occurring in low concentrations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUnlike earlier methods for generating porous silicon, the Georgia Tech thin-film process is more easily adapted for use with standard silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrates, and also allows for highly precise control of the thickness of the porous silicon layer. The research was described in a recent paper, \u0022Magnesiothermically Formed Porous Silicon Thin Films on Silicon-on-Insulator Optical Microresonators for High-Sensitivity Detection,\u0022 published in the journal \u003Cem\u003EAdvanced Optical Materials\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A larger surface area means there\u0027s more room for the analytes you\u0027re seeking to land, and then to interact with the optical signal \u2013 the light \u2013 that detects them,\u0022 explained \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=2\u0022\u003EAli Adibi\u003C\/a\u003E, Joseph M. Pettit Chair and a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering \u003C\/a\u003E(ECE), who co-led the research along with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/faculty\/sandhage\u0022\u003EKenneth H. Sandhage\u003C\/a\u003E, B. Mifflin Hood Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Materials Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (MSE). \u0022And unlike other techniques, our process confines the pores to the thin film layer on top. The porous area doesn\u0027t impinge on the dense-silicon layer underneath, and consequently doesn\u0027t compromise the optical quality of the devices fabricated in the dense layer and the ability of the sensor to detect the analytes.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe work was part of the Centers in Integrated Photonics Engineering Research (CIPhER) program, a $4.3 million, two-year effort funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop advanced laboratory-on-chip sensing technology capable of detecting multiple biological and chemical threats on a compact integrated platform. Other center participants included Emory University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California-Santa Cruz, and Yale University.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, Professor Mostafa El-Sayed of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and David Gottfried of the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology were also principal investigators on the CIPhER program. Ali A. Eftekhar, an ECE research engineer, was also part of the technical management of this project. Adibi was the lead principal investigator of this program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOptical Detection of Analytes\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech researchers are working with a silicon-based optical sensor that utilizes a racetrack-shaped optical resonator capable of coupling strongly with light passing through a nearby optical waveguide at particular light frequencies. The resonator\u0027s surface is chemically functionalized to bind with specific bio-markers, chemical components or other analytes being sought.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the optical signal passes through the silicon waveguide and resonator, the associated electromagnetic field can interact with one or more specific types of chemical components captured in the silicon surface. If an analyte is present, it alters the resonance frequency of the racetrack resonator, showing its effect on the power transmitted through the waveguide. The greater the concentration of the analyte, the larger the frequency shift, and the larger the effect on the transmitted power.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETraditionally in bio-sensing, a layer of dense silicon has served a dual purpose. It functions as the waveguide for the optical signal that detects analytes, and it also provides the surface that captures those analytes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The problem with that approach is that dense, planar silicon has limited surface area onto which analytes can bind,\u0022 explained Sandhage, who is also on the faculty of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. \u0022That significantly reduces how much response you get from the interaction of the light with the analyte.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrevious efforts to create pores in silicon to increase surface area have encountered drawbacks, including complexity \u2013 such as difficulty in adapting to standard silicon-on-insulator substrates \u2013 and a reduction in silicon\u0027s ability to transport optical signals, he said. One such technique, called anodization, hinges on the problematic use of a hazardous hydrofluoric acid bath with an applied electrical current to etch into doped silicon. The technique tends to yield relatively large columnar (two-dimensional) pores in doped silicon, a modest surface area, and higher loss of optical signals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ability to controllably convert silica into porous silicon with fine, 3-D-interconnected pores is useful in other applications besides chemical sensing, Sandhage said. These include anodes for lithium ion batteries, optical displays, and inverse opals, which are three-dimensional photonic crystals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The collaborative interplay between Professor Adibi\u0027s group and my group was essential to the success of this work,\u0022 he said. \u0022We both brought to bear specific techniques and expertise that enabled us to accomplish what neither of us could have done alone.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Simpler Method\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn their recent paper, the Georgia Tech teams report development of a simpler, more effective device fabrication approach. Using an oxidation process, they first grew silica (silicon dioxide) on top of the dense-silicon layer. Then, using a shape-preserving magnesiothermic reduction process, the Sandhage group exposed the silica layer to magnesium gas generated by heating magnesium silicide. The process has been patented by the Georgia Tech Research Corp. under U.S. Patent No. 7,615,206.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe resulting magnesium gas reacted with the silica layer to yield a fine mixture of silicon and magnesium oxide, but did not react with the dense-silicon layer underneath. The magnesium oxide was then easily dissolved with a weak acid solution to yield a porous silicon layer with very fine 3-D-connected pores, which trapped analytes effectively but did not appreciably scatter light and could be tailored to within about a nanometer of thickness.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EForming a reliable sensor requires careful design and optimal fabrication of the nanophotonic structures, a task that was performed in Adibi\u2019s group. The fabrication process includes a critical step \u2013 using electron beams to cut channels in the porous silicon and underlying dense silicon, to form a patterned structure. This microlithography technique creates tiny trenches in the porous silicon and dense silicon, yielding porous-silicon-on-dense-silicon waveguides and microresonators that guide the optical signals and enable them to detect analytes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, the Adibi\u0026nbsp; team used advanced computing approaches to model the materials development process and to design the sensor structures. The models helped the researchers understand which techniques were most effective for producing efficient microresonators.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We have demonstrated that you can integrate microlithography and controlled-pore silicon on dense silicon without significantly sacrificing the quality of the resonator,\u0022 Adibi said. \u0022The result is a resonant-frequency response for sensing with much larger sensitivity \u2013 by about a factor of six \u2013 compared to when you don\u0027t have the porous silicon.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis research was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this article are those of the principal investigators and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsor, DARPA. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia\u0026nbsp; 30332-0181\u0026nbsp; USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) (404-894-6986) or Brett Israel (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brett.israel@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebrett.israel@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) (404-385-1933).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: Rick Robinson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a novel method for improving silicon-based sensors used to detect biochemicals and other molecules in liquids. 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detect multiple biological and chemical threats simultaneously with unprecedented performance may soon be within reach thanks to the establishment of a multi-million dollar research center led by Georgia Institute of Technology engineers. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBiological and chemical sensing are active research areas because of their applications in clinical screening, drug discovery, food safety, environmental monitoring and homeland security. Using integrated photonics, the new class of sensors will be capable of detecting chemical agents -- such as toxins, pollutants and trace gases -- and biological agents -- such as proteins, viruses and antibodies -- simultaneously on the same chip.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The proposed sensors will detect multiple biological and chemical threats on a compact integrated platform faster, less expensively and more sensitively than the current state-of-the-art sensors,\u0022 said the center\u0027s leader Ali Adibi, a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding the two-year $4.3 million center as one of its Centers in Integrated Photonics Engineering Research (CIPhER), which investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices or systems. For its center, Georgia Tech is working with researchers from Emory University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of California, Santa Cruz; and Yale University. The team also includes industry collaborators Rockwell Collins, Kotura, Santur Corporation and NanoRods.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo create an integrated chip that will simultaneously detect multiple biological and chemical agents, the researchers need to achieve three major goals:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u2022 Design and fabricate photonic and optomechanical structures to sense differences in a sample\u0027s refractive index, Raman emission, fluorescence, absorption and mass;\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u2022 Functionalize the sensor surface with coatings that chemical and biological agents will attach to and create differences that can be detected; and\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u2022 Develop the sample preparation method and microfluidic sample delivery device, and connect the device to the coated photonic structure.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAdibi is leading the first thrust, which is primarily focused on fabricating the millimeter-square sensing structures and on-chip spectrometers that will enable multiplexing -- the detection of multiple agents using the same sensing modules. The sensors will detect changes in the refractive index, Raman emission, fluorescence, absorption spectra and optomechanical properties when a sample that includes specific biological or chemical particles interacts with the sensor coatings.  Combining information obtained from the five different sensing modalities will maximize the sensor specificity and minimize its false detection rate, the researchers say.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The goal is to achieve very high sensitivity for each modality and investigate the advantages of each modality for different classes of biological and chemical agents in order to develop a clear set of guidelines for combining different modalities to achieve the desired performance for a specific set of agents,\u0022 explained Adibi.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMassachusetts Institute of Technology chemistry professor Timothy Swager is leading the second part of this project, which aims to design surface coatings that will achieve maximum sensor specificity in detecting multiple biological and chemical agents. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We plan to develop glycan-based surface coatings to sense biological agents and polymer-based surface coatings to sense chemical agents,\u0022 noted Adibi.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the third thrust, which is being led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology electrical engineering associate professor Jongyoon Han, the researchers will develop optimal sample preparation and delivery techniques. Their goal is to maximize the biological or chemical particle concentration in the sample and limit detection time to minutes.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In two years, we hope to have a lab-on-a-chip system that includes all of the sensing modalities with appropriate coatings and microfluidic delivery,\u0022 said Adibi. \u0022To show the feasibility of the technology, we plan to demonstrate the high sensitivity and high selectivity of each sensor individually and be able to use at least two of the sensing modalities simultaneously to detect two or three different chemical or biological agents.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to those already mentioned, this center also includes Georgia Tech chemistry and biochemistry professor Mostafa El-Sayed, Georgia Tech materials science and engineering professor Kenneth Sandhage, Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Research Center senior research scientist David Gottfried,  Emory University biochemistry chair Richard Cummings, University of California Santa Cruz electrical engineering professor Holger Schmidt, and Yale University electrical engineering associate professor Hong Tang.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; 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The 960-page work, published by SciTech Publishing Inc., was edited by Georgia Tech researchers Mark A. Richards, James A. Scheer and William A. Holm. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The genesis of this publication can be found in the highly-respected Georgia Tech professional education short course entitled Principles of Modern Radar, which was first offered over 40 years ago,\u0022 said Holm, a principal research scientist with the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and the associate vice provost for Distance Learning and Professional Education at Georgia Tech. \u0022This book will be used to support that course, or any course that offers a complete, comprehensive introduction to radar technology.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new work, he added, should not be confused with a 1987 text, also entitled \u003Cem\u003EPrinciples of Modern Radar \u003C\/em\u003Eand written by some of the same authors. The current publication is an entirely new effort handled by a different publisher. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Radar technology has progressed very extensively during the last 20 years,\u0022 said Richards, who is a principal research engineer in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the book\u0027s editor-in-chief. \u0022The action today is in signal processing \u2013 that\u0027s where the technology has developed most significantly.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EConsequently, he said, the new book provides an extensive treatment of signal processing along with thorough overviews of radar technology, subsystems and phenomenology. It also covers such cutting-edge transmitter-receiver technologies as phased-array radars and radar exciters. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EScheer noted that \u003Cem\u003EPrinciples of Modern Radar: Basic Principles\u003C\/em\u003E is actually the first of a two-volume series. A volume on advanced radar concepts, largely by the same team of authors, is expected to be published by SciTech in 2011. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The rapid evolution of hardware computing power has enabled software signal-processing techniques that can do so much more with a given radar signal, and this new work reflects that tremendous change,\u0022 said Scheer, a retired GTRI engineer who continues to work and teach at Georgia Tech. \u0022I would call it a comprehensive presentation of radar technology that also contains a relatively high level of signal-processing content. It can serve as a basic-principles text for radar courses or as a reference for practicing engineers.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the three editors, chapter contributors for \u003Cem\u003EPrinciples of Modern Radar: Basic Principles \u003C\/em\u003Einclude: Christopher Bailey, GTRI; William Dale Blair, GTRI: Joseph A. Bruder, GTRI; Nicholas C. Currie, GTRI; Randy J. Jost, Utah State University; Byron M. Keel, GTRI; David G. Long, Brigham Young University; Jay Saffold, Research Network Inc., formerly with GTRI; Paul E. Schmid, Engineering Systems Inc.; John Shaeffer, formerly with GTRI; Gregory A. Showman, GTRI, and Tracy Wallace, GTRI. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore information on \u003Cem\u003EPrinciples of Modern Radar: Basic Principles \u003C\/em\u003Ecan be found on the Web at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scitechpub.com\/pomr\/\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.scitechpub.com\/pomr\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.scitechpub.com\/pomr\/\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 314\u003Cbr \/\u003EAtlanta, Georgia 30308 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: Kirk Englehardt (404-407-7280)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kirk.englehardt@gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekirk.englehardt@gtri.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E). \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: Rick Robinson \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team consisting primarily of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology has completed a new book on radar technology aimed at both students and professionals.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new book on radar technology captures Georgia Tech expertise."}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2010-07-27 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:15","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-07-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-07-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"60239":{"id":"60239","type":"image","title":"Authors of radar book","body":null,"created":"1449176253","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:57:33","changed":"1475894523","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:03","alt":"Authors of radar book","file":{"fid":"191081","name":"tkx83377.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tkx83377_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tkx83377_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":982282,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tkx83377_0.jpg?itok=tIYfFcIu"}},"60240":{"id":"60240","type":"image","title":"Authors of radar book","body":null,"created":"1449176253","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:57:33","changed":"1475894523","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:03","alt":"Authors of radar book","file":{"fid":"191082","name":"teo83377.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/teo83377_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/teo83377_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1185111,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/teo83377_0.jpg?itok=yE9A6oz-"}}},"media_ids":["60239","60240"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Research Institute"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2621","name":"radar"},{"id":"623","name":"Technology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jt7\u0022\u003EContact John Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-6986\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"60212":{"#nid":"60212","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ravi Bellamkonda Named Associate Vice President for Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERavi Bellamkonda, a professor in the Wallace\nH. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named an associate\nvice president within the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research\n(EVPR). The three-year appointment, which begins on August 1, enables\nBellamkonda to divide his time evenly between his own research and the\nadministrative responsibilities of this new position.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn announcing the appointment, Executive\nVice President for Research Steve Cross said, \u201cI worked closely with Ravi\nduring the strategic planning process of the past year and was pleased to learn\nof his continued interest in supporting Georgia Tech research on an\ninstitutional level. Ravi is a first-rate scientist with excellent intellectual\ncuriosity and temperament, and I am excited about his joining our leadership\nteam.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EA Georgia Cancer Coalition\nDistinguished Scholar, Bellamkonda directs the Neurological Biomaterials and\nCancer Therapeutics Laboratory and a National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32\ntraining program in the Rational Design of Biomaterials. He also served as\ndeputy director for research at the Georgia Tech \u0026amp; Emory Center for\nRegenerative Medicine (GTEC).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThough the appointment is part time,\nBellamkonda\u2019s portfolio will be substantial, supporting the EVPR both in terms\nof oversight and coordination of the Institute\u2019s research strategy as well as\nin establishment and growth of partnerships that further Tech\u2019s research\nmission.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe breadth of expertise at Georgia\nTech, and the associated research converging at the intersection of disciplines,\nhas created a unique opportunity.\u201d Bellamkonda said. \u201cI am grateful for the\nopportunity to have direct involvement in shaping our research program and in\nhelping build an institutional culture that will define the technological\nresearch university of the 21st century.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Three-year appointment allows continuation of research agenda"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERavi Bellamkonda, a professor in the Wallace\nH. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named an associate\nvice president within the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research\n(EVPR). 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The newly elected Fellows were nominated and approved by current Fellows of the College, consisting of more than 900 engineers and scientists.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERecipients of this honor are recognized for their outstanding achievements in medical and biological engineering. A formal induction ceremony will be held during the Institute\u0027s Annual Event at the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, D.C. on February 11-13, 2009.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EABOUT DR. MARK PRAUSNITZ\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. Prausnitz and his colleagues carry out research on biophysical methods of drug delivery using ultrasound, microneedles and other approaches. The success of drug and gene delivery is limited by the inability of drugs, proteins and DNA to cross biological barriers in the body. The most daunting barrier is that posed by lipid bilayers, which block transport into cells, into tissues, and into the body. The Prausnitz lab studies the effect of ultrasound and microneedles to selectively and reversibly disrupt those biological barriers and thereby deliver drugs into the body across the skin, into the eye, and into targeted cells through short-lived holes their membranes. Ultrasound studies focus on the mechanisms by which ultrasound disrupts membranes and drives intracellular delivery of molecules, as well as mechanisms of cell death. Microneedles studies address basic questions of drug transport, avoidance of pain, and insertion mechanics of microneedles in skin along with applied questions relating to drug and vaccine delivery and needle fabrication technologies. Additional studies address electroporation for drug and gene delivery, pore-forming peptides for transdermal delivery, theoretical and experimental studies of drug delivery to the eye, and enhanced transfection of plant cells for forestry biotechnology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to training graduate students in the laboratory, Dr. Prausnitz is actively involved with teaching undergraduate students in the classroom. His core courses are introductory classes on mass and energy balances and thermodynamics and the upper-division course on unit operations laboratory. An elective course developed by Dr. Prausnitz is entitled \u0022Effective Communication for Professional Engineering,\u0022 which addresses oral and written communication in the context of a case study of the nicotine patch.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother elective course, developed in collaboration with Dr. Bommarius, is entitled \u0022Drug Design, Development, and Delivery.\u0022 This course for senior undergraduates and graduate students exposes students to the interplay between multiple technical, as well as economic and societal factors that influence the creation of a successful pharmaceutical.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Prausnitz has co-authored more than 100 research articles, given 120 invited lectures to industry and academia, published 170 conference abstracts, holds close to 20 issued or pending patents, and has served as an expert witness. Among his honors are the NSF\/NIH Scholar-in-Residence at the National Institutes of Health, CAREER Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, TR100 Young Innovator Award from Technology Review and Young Investigator Award and Outstanding Pharmaceutical Paper Award from the Controlled Release Society.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EABOUT AIMBE AND THE COLLEGE OF FELLOWS\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe College of Fellows leads the way in technological advancement, advocating for\u003Cbr \/\u003E\npublic policies facilitating progress in medical and biological research and development\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nto benefit the public. Since 1991, AIMBE Fellows have helped to revolutionize medicine, engineering and related fields that enhance and extend the lives of people all over the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nworld. Counting several Nobel Prize winners among them, through their work the Fellows also help protect the environment, lead to new national security safeguards, and contribute to a better, healthier society in many other ways.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith Fellows in every U.S. state\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Mark Prausnitz, Professor \u0026amp; the Emerson Lewis Faculty Fellow in Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering, was elected as one of the newest members of the College of Fellows by The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). 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The work discussed at the conference will impact issues related to biological imaging and sensing, as well as photovoltaics and lighting. The conference is chaired by Seth Marder, director of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics and professor in the School of Chemistry, and Jean-Luc Br\u00e9das, regent\u0027s professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and chair in molecular design.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EF-\u03c0-9 will follow the success of previous F-\u03c0 conferences organized in Japan (Osaka in 1989, 1999, and 2006 and Kobe in 1992), the United States (Santa Cruz in 1995 and Ithaca in 2004), Germany (Ulm in 2002) and Austria (Graz in 2008). The conference started as the \u0022International Symposium on Functional Dyes\u0022; however, to broaden the scope of the conference and to adjust to developments in academic and industrial research, the name was changed to the \u0022International Symposium on Functional \u03c0-Electron Systems\u0022 in 2002.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBringing the Ninth International Conference on Functional Pi-Electron Systems to Georgia Tech is a tribute to the strength and breadth of the faculty, students and staff in this area.\u0026nbsp; It is a recognition of the impact that the Center for Organic Electronics and Photonics has had locally, nationally and internationally,\u201d said Marder.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EF-\u03c0-9 will attract around 500 participants from all over the world to discuss their new results in the context of conjugated polymer\/oligomer synthesis, organic semiconductor materials, photovoltaic and electroactive materials and devices, graphene, functional \u03c0-systems for therapeutic applications and more. Six plenary speakers, including the 2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Roger Tsien, will present their latest research along with 35 invited speakers. 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Georgia Tech is cooperating fully with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation which is conducting the investigation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe total amount of the suspected malfeasance is under review. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGEDC\u0027s research is specifically focused on designing integrated circuits \u2013 the chips that make computers, cell phones and many other electronic devices possible. Dr. Mark Allen, senior vice provost for research and innovation, has been named acting director of the center.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Department of Audits Review Questions Appropriation of Institute Resources"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn internal audit examination has led to the suspension of Georgia\nInstitute of Technology employees Joy Laskar and Stephane Pinel. While reviewing cost overruns within the Georgia Electronic Design\nCenter (GEDC),\u0026nbsp; Georgia Tech\u2019s Department of Internal Auditing found\nevidence of possible malfeasance including the misappropriation of\nInstitute resources for the benefit of a company, Sayana Wireless, LLC,\nof which Laskar and Pinel are co-owners.\u0026nbsp; Both Laskar and Pinel, along\nwith staff members Chris Evans and Amanda Scacchitti, have been\nsuspended without pay until the investigation is completed.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"An internal audit examination has led to the suspension of Georgia Institute of Technology employees Joy Laskar and Stephane Pinel."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2010-05-17 07:34:37","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:57","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-05-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-05-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3192","name":"GEDC"},{"id":"9309","name":"Georgia Bureau of Investigation"},{"id":"9310","name":"Laskar"},{"id":"9308","name":"malfeasance"},{"id":"9311","name":"Pinel"},{"id":"170966","name":"Suspension"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["mattnagel@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"54741":{"#nid":"54741","#data":{"type":"news","title":"NASA Grant Enables Development of Novel Radar to Map Ice Formations","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded $2.4 million to the Georgia Institute of Technology to develop a new type of radar system that will be used to study the Earth\u0027s ice and snow formations from the air. The system could provide new information about the effects of global climate change.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research will create a technological first -- a small, lightweight, low-cost phased-array radar that uses silicon-germanium (SiGe) chips in tandem with radio-frequency micro-electromechanical systems (RF MEMS). The system being developed could be mounted on aircraft or satellites to enable high-quality mapping of ice and snow formations. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETraditionally, research on frozen areas has required bulky radar equipment that must be operated on the surface, said John Papapolymerou, a professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering who is principal investigator on the project. The lightweight radar approach could allow unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to gather information by flying over a large area such as Greenland, using the radar system to map ice sheets in three dimensions. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This aerial approach would greatly facilitate environmental remote sensing of ice, allowing us to map larger areas of interest to better understand location, quantity and composition,\u0022 said Papapolymerou, who is teamed with another Georgia Tech professor, John Cressler, and Ted Heath, a Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) senior research scientist. \u0022This mapping ability is very important because we need to know about ice accumulation, consistency and stability.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhased-array radar technology uses fixed, interconnected antenna elements to send and receive multiple radar signals almost simultaneously. This approach employs a technique called phase-shifting to electronically steer the radar-signal beam. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy contrast, a conventional radar antenna changes the direction of the signal beam mechanically; the antenna moves physically among set positions, sending and receiving signals at each position. The serial approach used by conventional radar generally offers slower and less-effective performance than the more parallel technique of phased-array radar. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe basic sub-array unit under development consists of a flat grid with eight antenna elements on a side -- 64 elements in all. These sub-arrays, measuring about 8.5 by 7 inches, can be combined to create a far larger radar array capable of high-quality 3-D mapping. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe sub-arrays are constructed using polymers as the substrate, which is the board-like structure in which the electronics are embedded. Polymers have numerous advantages; robust and flexible, they are also low in cost and offer good electrical performance. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo date, the researchers have produced and successfully tested an eight-by-two-element sub-array mounted on a multi-layer substrate. This substrate consists of a layer of liquid crystal polymer (LCP), which is a robust organic polymer, and a layer of a composite material called Duroid. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe LCP\/Duroid substrate houses integrated circuits made from silicon-germanium (SiGe). The SiGe chips transmit and receive the radar signals via the sub-array\u0027s multiple interconnected antenna elements. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers chose silicon-germanium because it offers high-performance signal amplification that is also low in noise and in power consumption, said Cressler, who is a Ken Byers Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. SiGe chips are also robust, low in cost and highly resistant to weather and to radiation encountered in space. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Using silicon-germanium allows much higher levels of integration, which older radar systems don\u2019t give you,\u0022 Cressler said. \u0022It enables you to go from a system which is much larger and more expensive, and less robust, to a chip that is only a few millimeters on a side and costs far less.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESilicon-germanium circuits also interface well with RF-MEMS systems, which are tiny micro-electromechanical devices capable of movement on a very small scale. The team is using RF-MEMS devices, embedded in the substrate, to perform two functions -- switching between the transmit and receive circuits, and activating phase-shifters that electronically guide the radar signals sent by the sub-array\u0027s 64 antenna elements. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing MEMS devices for electro-mechanical switching results in less signal loss than integrating the transmit-receive switching function within a SiGe chip electronically, Cressler said. And while MEMS switching is a bit slower than a purely electronic approach, it offers both better signal performance and the ability to handle higher signal-output power. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe system under development uses the X band -- microwave frequencies between 8 and 12 gigahertz (GHz). This band is especially effective for scanning within ice and snow deposits and remotely mapping them in three dimensions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGTRI\u0027s Heath and his team are developing the hardware that controls the electronic components, such as the field-programmable gate arrays used by the phase-shifters to electronically steer the signal beam. The GTRI team is also designing the power supplies required by the system. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, the Georgia Tech team is using the radar range at GTRI\u0027s Cobb Country Research Facility for testing. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022GTRI is tasked with taking the silicon-germanium \/ MEMS transmit-receive elements and putting them into a functioning radar system,\u0022 Heath said. \u0022These back-end electronics supply the power to those chips, as well as provide the signal processing and conditioning that steer the signals, and the processing of the raw data coming back.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPapapolymerou added that this approach to phased-array technology is expected to have uses in a variety of defense and commercial applications. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was conducted under contract number NNX-08AN22G. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this article are those of the researchers, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.\u003C\/em\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 314\u003Cbr \/\u003EAtlanta, Georgia 30308 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Assistance\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Abby Vogel (404-385-3364)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E). \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechnical Contact\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Papapolymerou (404-385-6004)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ioannis.papapolymerou@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eioannis.papapolymerou@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E). \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: Rick Robinson \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded $2.4 million to the Georgia Institute of Technology to develop a new type of radar system that will be used to study the Earth\u0027s ice and snow formations from the air.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new radar system will enable remote mapping of ice formations."}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2010-03-03 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:38","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-03-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"54742":{"id":"54742","type":"image","title":"John Papapolymerou and graduate students","body":null,"created":"1449175474","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:44:34","changed":"1475894481","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:21"},"54743":{"id":"54743","type":"image","title":"John Papapolymerou and radar sub-arrays","body":null,"created":"1449175474","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:44:34","changed":"1475894481","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:21"},"54744":{"id":"54744","type":"image","title":"John Papapolymerou and graduate students","body":null,"created":"1449175474","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:44:34","changed":"1475894481","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:21"}},"media_ids":["54742","54743","54744"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Research Institute"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=78","title":"John Papapolymerou"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=123","title":"John Cressler"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"831","name":"climate change"},{"id":"8885","name":"ice"},{"id":"408","name":"NASA"},{"id":"7638","name":"phased-array"},{"id":"2621","name":"radar"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jt7\u0022\u003EContact John Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-6986\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"72267":{"#nid":"72267","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Digital Process Provides Better Aircraft Warnings","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have patented a discovery that could significantly increase reliability and reduce cost in equipment that helps protect U.S. military aircraft from attack.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe patent covers a device called a digital crystal video receiver (DCVR), a vital part of the radar warning receiver (RWR) system that alerts an aircraft crew to enemy ground-radar activity.  GTRI researchers Michael J. Willis and Michael L. McGuire, working with Air Force scientist Charlie W. Clark, have patented a way to use digital circuitry to perform many functions formerly allotted to more-problematic analog chips. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESpecifically, the researchers have moved a critical operation -- the logarithmic transfer function -- from the analog to the digital domain. The logarithmic transfer function coordinates the input and output of a radar warning receiver\u0027s signal-processing system. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Electronic analog technologies have a number of error sources and limitations when subjected to the extended temperature range that our military requires,\u0022 said Willis, a principal research engineer with GTRI\u0027s Electronic Systems Laboratory (ELSYS).  \u0022By moving the logarithmic transfer function into the digital signal-processing domain, we\u0027ve improved the stability of the circuit.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnalog circuits, traditionally used to detect real-world phenomena such as sound or temperature, hold a multitude of continuous values across any given range.  By contrast, digital circuits process information in discrete steps governed by the binary code that computers use.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn radar warning receivers, Willis explains, the continuous-scale analog implementation has been difficult to calibrate and maintain. By contrast, the digital domain needs no calibration and is more robust.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe digital version is also far less expensive to manufacture.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Moving the logarithmic transfer function from analog to digital probably reduces production costs of a radar warning receiver by a factor of between five and 10,\u0022 he said. \u0022The cost of the digital video portion could become nearly insignificant in comparison to the cost of the remainder of the RWR system.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new digital crystal video receiver is comprised of an analog-to-digital converter and a programmable logic component.  Together, they\u0027re able to transfer most received analog signals to the more-reliable digital domain. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEarlier crystal video receiver architectures, Willis explains, detected radio-frequency (RF) signals immediately, without intermediate processing.  Such analog \u0022direct-conversion\u0022 receivers often needed multiple receivers to detect radar signals over a range of frequencies.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBy contrast, the DCVR\u0027s improvements include a capacity to readily detect RF signals through a wide range of frequencies using up-to-date broadband receiver techniques.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EScientists use the word \u0022video\u0022 to describe this technology because the receiver demodulates received radar signals into video waveforms.  The new digital crystal video receiver approach subjects those video waveforms to digital signal processing, producing a digital equivalent with a logarithmic function applied to it to make processing easier.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Adding the word \u0022digital\u0022 to the older term \u0022crystal video receiver\u0022 emphasizes that technology advances have allowed us to overcome many limitations of the older-generation, crystal-based, direct-conversion receivers,\u0022 Willis said. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe initial sponsored research involved a radar warning receiver used on a number of U.S. military aircraft, Willis said.  The discovery may have other military applications as well.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECommercial applications are also possible, he said. The discovery could be applied not only to radar warning receivers but to any receiver that requires a logarithmic transfer function.  Thus, it could be used in many types of radios or in other devices that involve signal receiving and processing capabilities. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe recent patent, shared by GTRI and the U.S. government, is significant because it protects the technology.  Still, Willis said, the patent is only another step in an ongoing process leading to field deployment.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECurrently, he said, GTRI is studying how to implement the new technology.   He expects it will take two years to complete the design process and transition the final implementation into production.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Assistance\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Kirk Englehardt (404-407-7280); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kirk.englehardt@gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekirk.englehardt@gtri.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: Rick Robinson\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"GTRI researchers receive patent for radar warning receiver improvement"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have patented a discovery that could significantly increase reliability and reduce cost in equipment that helps protect U.S. military aircraft from attack.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"GTRI researchers patent an improved receiver"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2007-03-08 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:29","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2007-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"72268":{"id":"72268","type":"image","title":"Mike Willis","body":null,"created":"1449177446","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:17:26","changed":"1475894653","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:13"},"72269":{"id":"72269","type":"image","title":"Mike Willis","body":null,"created":"1449177446","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:17:26","changed":"1475894653","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:13"}},"media_ids":["72268","72269"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/elsys\/index.html","title":"Electronic Systems Laboratory"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Research Institute"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7569","name":"analog"},{"id":"525","name":"military"},{"id":"2621","name":"radar"},{"id":"2027","name":"warning"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jt7\u0022\u003EContact John Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-6986\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71836":{"#nid":"71836","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Receives $13 Million from Agilent","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has announced an agreement with Agilent Technologies Inc. to supply its electronic design automation (EDA) software, support, and training to a new center at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) in Atlanta. This donation, valued at just over $13 million, is one of the largest that Agilent has made to a single university.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new, dedicated Agilent EDA Simulation Center will provide radio frequency (RF) and microwave system and circuit design instruction and additional software design capabilities to Georgia Tech students, and will provide licenses at no cost or at greatly discounted rates to start-ups in wireless communications design at GEDC.   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe venture, located at Georgia Tech\u0027s Technology Square, is expected to be fully operational by year\u0027s end. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are excited about Agilent\u0027s participation with us.  The company\u0027s EDA tools help us continue to advance the technology and support our students, as well as to encourage and support commercial innovation,\u0022 said Joy Laskar, director of the GEDC and Schlumberger Chair in Microelectronics in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). \u0022We also want to contribute to the success of other academic and non-profit institutions through sharing our experience in this partnership with Agilent, and we are making plans to release large portions of work using the Agilent EEsof EDA platforms for academic use.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe deal marks a significant expansion of the long-standing relationship between Georgia Tech and Agilent and is a key part of Agilent\u0027s strategy to develop extensive relationships with key universities worldwide through the newly created Agilent EEsof EDA University Alliance program.  It includes a tailored, three-year custom license program to provide access to the complete line of Agilent EEsof EDA tools to start-up companies during their critical formative periods.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is one of the largest academic donations of Agilent EEsof products to a single institution to date,\u0022 said Jim McGillivary, vice president and general manager with Agilent\u0027s EEsof EDA division. \u0022We realize that universities and startup incubator programs play a crucial role in pushing the limits of EDA tools. They consistently ask for and expect Agilent to offer integrated and leading simulation technology in all areas, and we are pleased to support their efforts.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAcademic uses of the Agilent EEsof Simulation Center at GEDC will focus on Agilent EEsof\u0027s Advanced Design System (ADS), the 3D Electromagnetic Design System (EMDS) 3D EM simulator and the AMDS simulator that incorporates antenna EM simulation technology recently acquired by Agilent. The center will also be the world\u0027s largest academic installation of Agilent\u0027s Golden Gate simulator in a parallel processor environment. Golden Gate offers the ability to simulate complex CMOS RFIC designs, including complete network parasitic elements, in production scale SOC implementations. Initial plans include a 60 parallel core configuration. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are grateful for Agilent\u0027s continued support of GEDC and ECE. By using these specialized tools on a regular basis, students will have important technical concepts enhanced and reinforced that they are learning in our electronics and electromagnetics courses. Upon graduation, our students will be ready to actively contribute to their employers in academia and industry,\u0022 said Gary S. May, Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of Georgia Tech\u0027s ECE.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech is uniquely positioned within our Agilent EEsof University Alliance program to expand research and development activities in tandem with Agilent EEsof products,\u0022 said Todd Cutler, product marketing manager with Agilent\u0027s EEsof EDA division. \u0022The energy, enthusiasm and drive of academics and small companies spark development of new RF and microwave design innovations that our enterprise customers can adopt and run with. It\u0027s really exciting for all of us.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAgilent also plans to offer customer training at the GEDC\u0027s Agilent EDA Simulation Center.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA ribbon-cutting ceremony for the EDA Simulation Center at the GEDC in Atlanta is planned for October 30, 2007 at 4:30 p.m. ET. The event will take place at the Technology Square Research Building, located at 85 5th Street, on the Georgia Tech campus. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAdditional information about Agilent\u0027s EDA software offerings is available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.agilent.com\/find\/eesof\u0022 title=\u0022www.agilent.com\/find\/eesof\u0022\u003Ewww.agilent.com\/find\/eesof\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Agilent Technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAgilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world\u0027s premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company\u0027s 19,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $5.0 billion in fiscal year 2006. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.agilent.com\u0022 title=\u0022www.agilent.com\u0022\u003Ewww.agilent.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation\u0027s premiere research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u0027s top public universities, Georgia Tech\u0027s 17,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the nation\u0027s top producers of women and African-American engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is the largest of nine schools and departments in the College of Engineering and the largest individual school at the Georgia Institute of Technology. All ECE undergraduate and graduate programs are in the top 10 of the most recent college rankings by U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report. More than 2,300 students are enrolled in the School\u0027s graduate and undergraduate programs, and in the last academic year, 712 degrees were awarded. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMore than 110 ECE faculty members are involved in 10 areas of research and education - bioengineering, computer engineering, digital signal processing, electric power, electromagnetics, electronic design and applications, microsystems, optics and photonics, systems and controls, and telecommunications. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Georgia Electronic Design Center \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) supports world-class research, active and solution-oriented industry collaboration, intellectual property generation and revenue generating commercialization efforts. GEDC attracts funding support from federal laboratories and industry partners. GEDC\u0027s research is broadly focused on fostering technology at the intersection of today\u0027s communications applications: wireless\/RF, wired\/copper and fiber channels. The activities of GEDC provide the state of Georgia the opportunity to grow and expand its technology leadership in the design of broadband (high-speed) communications systems, devices and integrated circuits. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Center is specifically focused on enabling the mobile Internet with innovative research on mixed-signal systems that are at the boundary between telecommunications, microelectronics, analog\/RF and sensing technologies. These efforts produce partnerships with industry that attract new jobs to the state and support smaller, start-up companies that create new jobs for Georgians. Additional information about Georgia Tech and GEDC is available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gedcenter.org\u0022 title=\u0022www.gedcenter.org\u0022\u003Ewww.gedcenter.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Co\u003C\/strong\u003Entacts: John Toon, Research News and Publications Office (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Jackie Nemeth, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (404-894-2906); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Gift will establish new electronic design automation simulation center"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech has announced an agreement with Agilent Technologies Inc. to supply its electronic design automation (EDA) software, support, and training to a new center at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) in Atlanta.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"$13 million gift creates design automation center"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2007-10-04 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:24","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-10-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2007-10-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71837":{"id":"71837","type":"image","title":"GEDC chips","body":null,"created":"1449177405","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:45","changed":"1475894644","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:04"},"71838":{"id":"71838","type":"image","title":"High-frequency lab","body":null,"created":"1449177405","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:45","changed":"1475894644","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:04"}},"media_ids":["71837","71838"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gedcenter.org\/","title":"Georgia Electronic Design Center"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"6503","name":"automation"},{"id":"823","name":"design"},{"id":"4186","name":"electronic"},{"id":"3192","name":"GEDC"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Jackie Nemeth\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71119":{"#nid":"71119","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bioscience and Engineering Converge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen former Georgia Institute of Technology President Wayne Clough broke ground on the first building of Georgia Tech\u0027s new Biotechnology Complex in May 1998, the shovel heralded more than just new brick and glass.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 800,000 square feet of new buildings in the complex represent the convergence of bioscience and engineering, providing the foundation for a $27 million biomedical engineering research program that is now the second largest university-based program in the United States. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe centerpiece academic department for this research is the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Created in 1997, the Department joined the engineering expertise of Georgia Tech with the medical expertise of Emory University. Since then, the Department has grown to include 45 primary faculty members, 175 graduate students and more than 800 undergraduate students. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond research, the Coulter Department has become an innovative center for education with a strong focus on problem-based learning, a student-centered instructional strategy in which students work in small collaborative groups to solve open-ended problems with a faculty member serving as facilitator. In the \u0027America\u0027s Best Colleges 2008\u0027 edition of U. S. News \u0026amp; World Report, the undergraduate program ranked third and the doctoral program ranked second in the biomedical engineering specialty category.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMarking its 10th anniversary this year, the Coulter Department continues to build its interdisciplinary programs to tackle the challenges of the 21st century, including cardiovascular disease, nerve injuries, neurological disorders and cancer. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDetecting Cardiovascular Disease\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA team of Coulter Department researchers led by John Oshinski, assistant professor in the Coulter Department and Emory\u0027s Division of Radiology, has funding from the National Institutes of Health to use magnetic resonance imaging scans to predict where atherosclerotic plaques will form. Plaques form in artery walls because of cholesterol build-up. When they rupture, they can block blood vessels, leading to heart attack or stroke. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECoulter Department Professor Hanjoong Jo is developing drugs that inhibit the genes that are over-expressed when arteries are exposed to abnormal, nonlinear flow patterns. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECoulter Department Professor Gang Bao leads the Program of Excellence in Nanotechnology at Georgia Tech, which focuses on creating advanced nanotechnologies, such as nanoparticles and quantum dots, to detect and analyze cardiovascular disease. The $11.5 million program funded in April 2005 includes Coulter Department biomedical engineers and Emory University cardiologists and is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReconnecting Nerves\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMotor vehicle accidents and surgical procedures can damage peripheral nerves to varying degrees. Coulter Department professor Ravi Bellamkonda has demonstrated that thin polymer films made of aligned nanometer-diameter fibers provide topographical cues to stimulate nerve regeneration without growth-promoting proteins.                                                                                           Unlike peripheral nervous system damage, injury to the central nervous system, such as the brain or spinal cord, is not followed by extensive regeneration because of the hostile growth environment caused in large part by the injury. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo encourage the regeneration of damaged central nervous system neurons, Yadong Wang, a Coulter Department assistant professor, has shown that incorporating neurotransmitters into a biodegradable polymer spurs the growth of neurites, which are projections that form the connections among neurons and between neurons and other cells. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Complex Brain\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHow brains learn, or more specifically, how they acquire memories and behaviors, is of interest to Steve Potter, a Coulter Department associate professor. The process of learning is thought to correspond to changes in the relationships between neurons in the brain, but exactly how those changes are expressed at the network level is not well understood. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EXiaoping Hu, a Coulter Department professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to study drug addiction, elderly brain health and long-term effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on brain development. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEberhard Voit, a Coulter Department professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, and Gary Miller, an associate professor in Emory\u0027s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, aim to better understand how genetic, environmental and pharmacological factors alter how dopamine functions in the brain. To do this, they developed a mathematical model of the dopamine network that allows them to study dopamine in healthy neurotransmission as well as in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson\u0027s disease and schizophrenia.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EZenda Technologies, a company founded by associate professor Michelle LaPlaca and Emory\u0027s David Wright, aims to commercialize DETECT, a portable device that makes quick neuropsychological assessments. Such assessments could be important in identifying brain disorders such as concussion and early stages of Alzheimer\u0027s disease.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUnderstanding Cancer Pathways\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMelissa Kemp, a Coulter Department assistant professor and Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Professor, is using systems biology approaches to understand complex cancer pathways involved in drug-resistant acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a type of cancer of the white blood cells. Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia exhibit a diverse response to chemotherapy, with about one-fourth of them relapsing with drug-resistant disease.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn collaboration with Harry Findley, an associate professor in Emory\u0027s Department of Pediatrics, Kemp is developing individualized computational models to identify key enzymes involved in regulating the protein NF-\u00ce\u00baB, which seems to play a role in drug resistance. This research is funded by Georgia Tech\u0027s Health Systems Institute and the Georgia Cancer Coalition.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Coulter Department also hosts the Nanotechnology Center for Personalized and Predictive Oncology, funded by the National Cancer Institute. Led by Coulter Department Professor Shuming Nie, the center was launched in October 2005 and now boasts six projects and five support teams that focus on developing nanotechnologies for cancer applications. The amount awarded is expected to reach $27 million over a five-year period, which includes $19 million from the National Cancer Institute.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECenter researchers are developing nanoparticles to image cancer inside the body and examine metastasis. They are also developing probes to study gene expression of cancer cells and treat cancer. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A unique strength of this center is that we have broad faculty expertise from translational bioinformatics to clinical oncology, which will allow us to move some of these technologies into clinical trials in the next two to three years,\u0022 says Nie.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis story was excerpted from a longer article in the Winter\/Spring issue of \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/reshor\/rh-ws08\/bio-main.html\u0027\u003EResearch Horizons Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe research projects described in this article that are funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH or NSF.\u003C\/em\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\n\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contacts: Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Vogel\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Biomedical Engineering Department at Georgia Tech and Emory University Marks 10th Anniversary"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Marking its 10th anniversary this year, the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University continues to build its interdisciplinary programs to tackle the challenges of the 21st century, including cardiovascular disease, nerve injuries, neurological disorders and cancer.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Biomedical Engineering Department Marks\u0027 10th Anniversary"}],"uid":"27206","created_gmt":"2008-07-21 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:19","author":"Abby Vogel Robinson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71120":{"id":"71120","type":"image","title":"Gang Bao nanoprobes","body":null,"created":"1449177348","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:48","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"},"71121":{"id":"71121","type":"image","title":"Steve Potter","body":null,"created":"1449177348","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:48","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"},"71122":{"id":"71122","type":"image","title":"Melissa Kemp","body":null,"created":"1449177348","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:48","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"}},"media_ids":["71120","71121","71122"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. 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The Samsung Design Center focuses on research and development of mixed-signal integrated circuits, primarily for use in wireless applications.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new Samsung facility, located in the Centergy One Building at 75 Fifth St. NW, houses 5,400 square feet of laboratory and office space.  The new center is located close to its Georgia Tech research partner, the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC), which is headquartered in the Technology Square Research Building at 85 Fifth St. NW.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is a very satisfying day for us at Samsung,\u0022 said Kang. \u0022We are proud of our research work in Georgia, and we look forward to ongoing success in our partnership with the Georgia Electronic Design Center.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Samsung Design Center first opened in 2005 in the Technology Square Research Building. It has now grown to more than 50 full- and part-time employees, and Samsung has announced its intention to have 100 full-time and 50 part-time people working for the center within two years.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The Samsung project is a prime example of the importance of the city\u0027s and the Atlanta Development Authority\u0027s (ADA) focus on strong, long-term economic development partnerships,\u0022 said Shirley Franklin, mayor of Atlanta. \u0022ADA has been a partner with Georgia Tech since the inception of Technology Square and maintains a great working relationship with the Georgia Department of Economic Development, the Georgia Electronic Design Center and the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMayor Franklin praised Samsung for its investment and expressed confidence in the continued growth of the company\u0027s research center. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong the dignitaries on hand at the opening ceremonies was Ken Stewart, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Economic Development. Stewart later noted that since its inception the Samsung effort has had the combined support of his department, the Georgia Research Alliance and Georgia Tech. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The expansion of the Samsung design center is a true win-win event for both Samsung and the State of Georgia,\u0022 he said. \u0022This successful center can be expected to serve as an ongoing economic asset for the city and the state, as well as a beacon to other top international microelectronics players.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nKwang Wook Bae recently took over as executive director of the Samsung center.  Chang-Ho Lee, Ph.D., who has been with the center since it began, now serves as research director.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Samsung center is currently researching core technologies for next-generation communication systems, with particular focus on development of CMOS-based system-on-chip devices for modem, digital and RF systems. One device under development is a cost-effective, highly efficient CMOS-based transmitter for wireless communication applications. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EInnovations developed by researchers at the Atlanta-based design center are expected to impact a broad spectrum of Samsung\u0027s worldwide product offerings, according to company executives.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESamsung\u0027s former space in the Technology Square Research Building will continue to be used by GEDC for work related to Samsung\u0027s research interests.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are delighted that Samsung is increasing its research profile here,\u0022 said Joy Laskar, director of GEDC and Schlumberger Chair in Microelectronics in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. \u0022We expect this partnership between Samsung and GEDC to continue to develop key new technologies in cognitive radio and other important wireless fields.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: Rick Robinson (404-694-2284); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rick.robinson@innovate.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Erick.robinson@innovate.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: Rick Robinson\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. has significantly increased its research presence here, opening a new wireless-technology laboratory and expanding its working relationship with the Georgia Institute of Technology.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Korea-based Samsung has opened a new lab here and added staff"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2008-07-29 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:19","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71106":{"id":"71106","type":"image","title":"Research laboratory","body":null,"created":"1449177348","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:48","changed":"1475894628","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:48"},"71107":{"id":"71107","type":"image","title":"Laboratory space","body":null,"created":"1449177348","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:48","changed":"1475894628","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:48"}},"media_ids":["71106","71107"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gedcenter.org\/","title":"Georgia Electronic Design Center"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3192","name":"GEDC"},{"id":"365","name":"Research"},{"id":"167680","name":"Samsung"},{"id":"1526","name":"wireless"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERick Robinson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rick.robinson@innovate.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Rick Robinson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-694-2284\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rick.robinson@innovate.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71128":{"#nid":"71128","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Study Reveals Principles Behind Gold Nanocluster Stability","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA report published in the July 8 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E (\u003Cem\u003EPNAS\u003C\/em\u003E) is the first to describe the principles behind the stability and electronic properties of tiny nanoclusters of metallic gold. The study, which confirms the \u0027divide and protect\u0027 bonding structure, resulted from the work of researchers at four universities on two continents.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022While gold nanoparticles are being used by so many researchers - chemists, materials scientists and biomedical engineers - no one understood their molecular and electronic structures until now,\u0022 said Robert Whetten, a professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s School of Physics and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. \u0022This research opens a new window for nanoparticle chemistry.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGold and sulfur atoms tend to aggregate in specific numbers and highly symmetrical geometries. Sometimes these clusters are called \u0027superatoms\u0027 because they can mimic the chemistry of single atoms of a completely different element.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers commonly use gold nanoparticles because they are stable and exhibit distinct optical, electronic, electrochemical and bio-labeling properties. However, understanding the physicochemical properties of such clusters is a challenge, according to Whetten, because that requires knowledge of their atomic structures. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA significant advance came in late 2007 though, when Stanford University researchers reported the first-ever total structure determination of a 102-atom gold cluster. The X-ray structure study revealed that pairs of organic sulfur (\u0027thiolate\u0027) groups extracted gold atoms from the gold layer to form a linear thiolate-gold-thiolate bridge while interacting weakly with the metal surface below. These gold-thiolate complexes formed a sort of protective crust around the nanoparticles.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This discovery contradicted what most chemists believed was going on - which was that the sulfur atom merely sat atop the uppermost gold layer, bound to three adjacent metal atoms,\u0022 said Whetten.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the experimentally determined structural coordinates, an international team of researchers from Georgia Tech, Stanford University, the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden set out to determine the electronic principles underlying the 102-atom gold compound and others like it. The team conducted large-scale electronic structure calculations in supercomputing centers in Espoo, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; and Juelich, Germany.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers found that the 102-atom gold cluster was a \u0027superatom\u0027 with a core of 79 gold atoms arranged into a truncated decahedron: two pyramids with pentagonal bases joined together into a faceted shape, but with the pyramids-tips chopped off. Around the core, 23 gold atoms formed an unusual pattern, joining the thiolates in shapes that resemble handles. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe results confirmed the \u0027divide and protect\u0027 structure first predicted by team member Hannu Hakkinen, a professor at the University of Jyvaskyla and former senior research scientist at Georgia Tech in the laboratory of Uzi Landman. Hakkinen and Henrik Gronbeck of the Chalmers University of Technology previously proposed that a cluster of 38-atom gold contained a central metallic core of 14 gold atoms and a protective layer of 24 gold atoms bound to sulfur. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In 2006, we predicted that gold atoms in this bonding motif were divided in two groups - those that made the metal core and those that helped to protected it,\u0022 explained Hakkinen. \u0022Now there was evidence that this was true.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the study reported in \u003Cem\u003EPNAS\u003C\/em\u003E, the researchers found that the clusters were stable because the surface gold atoms in the core each had at least one surface-chemical bond and the gold core exhibited a strong electron shell closing.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the 102-atom gold cluster, each gold atom in the cluster donated one valence electron. Forty-four of those electrons were immobilized in bonds between gold atoms and thiolates, leaving 58 electrons to fill a shell around the \u0027superatom.\u0027 In this configuration, the cluster wouldn\u0027t benefit from adding or shedding electrons, which would destabilize its structure.  This process is similar to what happens in noble gases, which are chemically inert because they have just the right number of electrons to fill a shell around each atom\u0027s nucleus.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAssociated with the filled electron shell, the gold-thiolate compound also had a major energy gap to unoccupied states. The calculated energy gap between the highest occupied molecular orbital and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital states for the 102-atom compound was significant - 0.5 electron volts. Metals typically have a gap of zero, so this gap indicates an atypical electronic stability of the compound, explained Whetten.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBesides the 102-atom compound, the researchers also determined the electronic structures for 11-, 13- and 39-atom gold cluster compounds. They found that the 11- and 13-gold atom clusters form closed electronic shells with 8 electrons and the 39-atom gold clusters with 34.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The theoretical concepts published in this paper provide a solid background for further understanding of the distinct electrical, optical and chemical properties of the stable mono-layer-protected gold nanoclusters,\u0022 said Whetten, whose funding for this research came from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy. Former Georgia Tech graduate student Ryan Price and current graduate student James Bradshaw also contributed to this work.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe study also shows that experimentally well-characterized, structure-resolved, thermodynamically stable species of thiolate-, phosphine-halide-, and phosphine-thiolate-protected gold nanoparticles share common factors underlying their stability. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce this initial work was completed, the researchers started predicting the structures of other stable gold cluster compositions that are still awaiting a precise structure determination.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn the March 26 issue of the \u003Cem\u003EJournal of the American Chemical Society\u003C\/em\u003E, the research team predicted the structure for a cluster containing 25 gold atoms. They determined that the structure was comprised of an icosahedron-like 13-atom gold core protected by six \u0027V-shaped\u0027 long units, creating a \u0027divide and protect\u0027 composition. The structural prediction was recently confirmed by another group\u0027s experimental work.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We now have a unified model that provides a solid background for nanoengineering ligand-protected gold clusters for applications in catalysis, sensing, photonics, bio-labeling and molecular electronics,\u0022 said Hakkinen.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAdditional authors on the \u003Cem\u003EPNAS\u003C\/em\u003E paper included Michael Walter, Jaakko Akola and Olga Lopez-Acevedo of the University of Jyvaskyla; and Pablo Jadzinsky, Guillermo Calero and Christopher Ackerson of Stanford University.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\n\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contacts: Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Vogel\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"International team confirms \u0027divide and protect\u0027 bonding structure"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"A report published in the July 8 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E (PNAS) is the first to describe the principles behind the stability and electronic properties of tiny nanoclusters of metallic gold.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers from four universities report on nanoclusters"}],"uid":"27206","created_gmt":"2008-07-11 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:19","author":"Abby Vogel Robinson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71129":{"id":"71129","type":"image","title":"102-atom gold nanocluster","body":null,"created":"1449177348","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:48","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"},"71130":{"id":"71130","type":"image","title":"25-atom gold nanocluster","body":null,"created":"1449177348","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:48","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"},"71131":{"id":"71131","type":"image","title":"39- and 11-atom gold nanoclusters","body":null,"created":"1449177348","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:48","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"}},"media_ids":["71129","71130","71131"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech School of Physics"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/Whetten\/","title":"Robert Whetten"},{"url":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.0801001105","title":"PNAS article"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7288","name":"bio-labeling"},{"id":"2507","name":"catalysis"},{"id":"89","name":"chemistry"},{"id":"2529","name":"cluster"},{"id":"7283","name":"divide"},{"id":"7287","name":"electrochemical"},{"id":"6884","name":"electron"},{"id":"4186","name":"electronic"},{"id":"213","name":"energy"},{"id":"7291","name":"gap"},{"id":"2185","name":"gold"},{"id":"7082","name":"metal"},{"id":"3030","name":"molecular"},{"id":"2286","name":"nano"},{"id":"2528","name":"nanocluster"},{"id":"1143","name":"optical"},{"id":"7282","name":"orbital"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"7284","name":"protect"},{"id":"170866","name":"stability"},{"id":"169761","name":"structure"},{"id":"170840","name":"sulfur"},{"id":"170867","name":"superatom"},{"id":"167325","name":"supercomputer"},{"id":"7289","name":"thiol"},{"id":"7290","name":"valence"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EAbby Robinson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News and Publications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=avogel6\u0022\u003EContact Abby Robinson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-3364\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["abby@innovate.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"46258":{"#nid":"46258","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Scientists Unlock Optical \u0026 Chemical Secrets of Jeweled Beetles","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA small green beetle may have some interesting lessons to teach scientists about optics and liquid crystals -- complex mechanisms the insect uses to create a shell so strikingly beautiful that for centuries it was used in jewelry.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn an article published in the July 24 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E, researchers provide a detailed analysis of how the jeweled beetle \u003Cem\u003EChrysina gloriosa \u003C\/em\u003Ecreates the striking colors using a unique helical structure that reflects light of two specific colors -- and of only one polarization: left circular polarization.  The reflecting structures used by the beetle consist predominately of three different polygonal shapes whose percentages vary with the curvature of the insect\u0027s shell.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Iridescent beetles, butterflies, certain sea organisms and many birds derive their unique colors from the interaction of light with physical structures on their external surfaces,\u0022 said Mohan Srinivasarao, a professor in the School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  \u0022Understanding how these structures give rise to the stunning colors we see in nature could benefit the quest for miniature optical devices and photonics.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith support from the National Science Foundation, Srinivasarao and colleagues Vivek Sharma, Matija Crne and Jung Ok Park used two different microscopy techniques to study the surface structures on the shell of the beetle.  What they found confirmed earlier suggestions that the colors are produced from liquid crystalline material, which self-assembles into a complex arrangement of polygonal shapes each less than 10 microns in size.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When we looked at the beetle\u0027s surface, we found tiles in the shapes mostly of hexagons, pentagons and heptagons,\u0022 Srinivasarao said.  \u0022These patterns arise, we think, because of the nature of the cholesteric liquid crystal and how the liquid crystal phase structures itself at the interface between air and fluid.  We think these patterns result because the liquid crystal must have defects on the surface when exposed to air, and those defects create the patterns in the beetle\u0027s shell or exoskeleton.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBecause of simple geometric restrictions, the percentage of each shape depends on the curvature of that particular section of the shell.  \u0022This is really a pattern formation issue,\u0022 said Srinivasarao.  \u0022It is difficult to pack only hexagons onto a curved surface.  On flat surfaces, there are fewer defects in the form of five- and seven-sided cells.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, the five- and seven-sided cells normally appear in pairs, an issue also dictated by the geometric difficulties of packing the shapes onto curved surfaces.  The researchers found very similar structures in the ten different beetles purchased from an insect supply house.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELiquid crystalline materials are valuable industrially, used in displays for laptop computers, portable music players and other devices.  They are also used in children\u0027s thermometers, where temperature affects the color of light reflected from the material, indicating whether or not a child has a fever.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile the structures are determined genetically, their final form depends on the living conditions the beetle experiences during its growth and development, Srinivasarao noted.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe fact that these jeweled beetles reflect circular polarization was identified in the early 1900s by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, A.A. Michelson, who hypothesized that the circular polarization might result from a \u0022screw structure\u0022 within the insect\u0027s cuticle, but he did not elaborate on it further.  The solidified structures produced from a cholesteric liquid crystal and its defects on the beetle\u0027s shell reflect bright green light with a wavelength of 530 nanometers mixed with yellow light in a wavelength of 580 nanometers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The most dramatic way to get saturated color is through what this beetle does with the circularly-polarized light,\u0022 Srinivasarao said.  \u0022The reflection is very metallic and angle-dependent, and this is due to the helical pitch of the cholesteric liquid crystal.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESunlight normally contains light in equal quantities with a left circular polarization and a right circular polarization.  The jewel beetle\u0027s exoskeleton, however, reflects only light with a left circular polarization.  Only a few members of the scarab family of beetles reflect both polarizations.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHow the beetles benefit from the specific color and polarization isn\u0027t known for sure, but scientists speculate that the optical properties may confuse predators, causing them to misjudge the location of the insects -- or suggest that they may not be good to eat.  The colors may also help the insects find mates. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn future research, Srinivasarao hopes to study other insects that use complex structures to create unique colors.  He believes that scientists still have a lot to learn by studying the optical structures of beetles and other insects.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are just now starting to catch up with what these beetles have been doing for many, many years,\u0022 he said.  \u0022There are hundreds of thousand of species, and the way they generate color is just stunning -- especially since it is all done with water-based systems, mostly based on the biopolymer chitin.  This is self-assembly at several levels, and we need to learn a lot more to duplicate what these insects do.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Assistance\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechnical Assistance\u003C\/strong\u003E: Mohan Srinivasarao (404-894-9348); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:mohan.srinivasarao@ptfe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emohan.srinivasarao@ptfe.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Research has applications in optics, liquid crystal displays"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"A small green beetle may have some interesting lessons to teach scientists about optics and liquid crystals -- complex mechanisms the insect uses to create a shell so strikingly beautiful that for centuries it was used in jewelry.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Scientists are learning the optical secrets of a small beetle"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2009-07-23 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:14","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-07-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-07-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"46259":{"id":"46259","type":"image","title":"Jeweled beetle","body":null,"created":"1449174375","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:26:15","changed":"1475894414","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:14","alt":"Jeweled beetle","file":{"fid":"101050","name":"twq78748.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/twq78748.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/twq78748.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":932318,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/twq78748.jpg?itok=O1RE9daV"}},"46260":{"id":"46260","type":"image","title":"Mohan Srinivasarao","body":null,"created":"1449174375","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:26:15","changed":"1475894414","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:14","alt":"Mohan Srinivasarao","file":{"fid":"101051","name":"tlq78748.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tlq78748.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tlq78748.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1397177,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tlq78748.jpg?itok=MWI7taC4"}},"46261":{"id":"46261","type":"image","title":"Jung Ok Park","body":null,"created":"1449174375","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:26:15","changed":"1475894414","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:14","alt":"Jung Ok Park","file":{"fid":"101052","name":"tqd78748.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tqd78748.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tqd78748.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1358978,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tqd78748.jpg?itok=xKRtipok"}}},"media_ids":["46259","46260","46261"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ptfe.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/index.php?id=ms308","title":"Mohan Srinivasarao"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ptfe.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/newsmedia\/beetles\/","title":"National Science Foundation slideshow on beetles"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7065","name":"beetle"},{"id":"3248","name":"crystals"},{"id":"7064","name":"iridescent"},{"id":"2768","name":"optics"},{"id":"7066","name":"polarize"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jt7\u0022\u003EContact John Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-6986\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"46274":{"#nid":"46274","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Heat-Transfer Material Could Allow More Powerful Radar Electronics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOpen any computer and you\u0027re sure to see at least one massive cooling device, complete with metal fins and a noisy fan. Today\u0027s high-power processing chips generate lots of heat -- and those chips can fry quickly without some serious cooling.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) are developing a novel material for transferring heat away from ultra-high-power defense electronics. The exotic material, a composite of diamond and copper, is one of the materials under development as part of a new concept called a \u0022Thermal Ground Plane\u0022 that aims to remove heat up to 100 times more effectively than present thermal-conducting schemes.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESuch a performance leap could be vital to cooling next-generation radars, said Jason Nadler, a GTRI research engineer. Nadler is investigating ways to bring new materials and techniques to bear on the problem.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Many areas of electronics are running up against the same issue: you just can\u0027t move the heat away fast enough to let the devices be reliable,\u0022 Nadler said. \u0022As we rely increasingly on very high-power devices, the methods of getting heat away from them have to become more efficient.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is working with the Raytheon Co. on a project that seeks to raise thermal conductivity capabilities to 20,000 watts per meter Kelvin (a measure of thermal-conductivity efficiency). That\u0027s a tall order, considering that the current conductivity champion, for radar applications, is a copper material with performance of approximately 200 to 300 watts per meter Kelvin.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe three-phase, four-year project is sponsored by the Microsystems Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis improved cooling capability could benefit future high-power transmit-receive (T\/R) module packages. Because of their higher power, those transmit-receive modules will also have higher cooling needs that may require a Thermal Ground Plane -- a sort of heat-dissipating sandwich about one millimeter thick that would be part of the T\/R module\u0027s packaging.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A Thermal Ground Plane is basically a materials system,\u0022 Nadler explained. \u0022The most thermally conductive natural material, pure diamond, has a conductivity of about 2,000 watts per meter Kelvin. We\u0027re aiming for 20,000, and to do that we have to look at the problem from a materials systems standpoint.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENadler\u0027s material is one of those under development to serve as the heart of the Thermal Ground Plane. The conductivity of that material would be improved with the addition of a liquid coolant able to carry heat away from the T\/R module devices in the same way that sweat cools a body. A metal heat sink would help the liquid coolant dissipate the heat by condensing the vapor back to a fluid.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing a liquid coolant takes advantage of phase changes -- the conversion of matter between liquid and vapor states. The diamond-copper material would conduct heat to the liquid coolant and optimize cooling through wicking and evaporation. Then, the heat would be rejected as the vapor is re-condensed to a liquid on the side attached to the metal heat sink.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The trick is to use evaporation, condensation and intrinsic thermal conductivity together, in series, in a continuous system,\u0022 Nadler said. \u0022The whole device is a closed loop.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EChallenges remain, however, including some specific materials issues. To form the desired materials, diamond and copper must be integrated into a porous structure that can best transfer heat and facilitate efficient evaporation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut diamond and copper don\u0027t bond well, due in part to their different coefficients of thermal expansion and chemical incompatibility. Diamond doesn\u0027t expand much when heated, while copper expands moderately. That difference leads to a thermal-expansion mismatch, which can fracture the interface between the two materials when they\u0027re heated.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, the porous internal structure of the diamond-copper material must have exactly the right size and shape to maximize its own intrinsic heat conductivity. Yet its internal structure must also be designed in ways that can help draw the liquid coolant toward the heat source to facilitate evaporation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENadler explained that liquid coolant flow can be maximized by fine tuning such mechanisms as the capillarity of the diamond-copper material. Capillarity refers to a given structure\u0027s ability to draw in a substance, especially a liquid, the way a sponge absorbs water or a medical technician pulls a drop of blood up into a narrow glass tube.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo be effective, the size of a capillary structure must be precisely controlled; if it\u0027s too large or too small, the wicking phenomenon won\u0027t occur. The GTRI team must size the diamond-copper material\u0027s internal structure to maximize capillarity.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re finding ways to change the cellular structure of the diamond-copper material at the nanoscale and the microscale,\u0022 Nadler said. \u0022We\u0027re doing this by making complex open-celled structures -- basically tiny foams with exactly the right properties.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia 30308 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: Kirk Englehardt (404-407-7280); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kirkeng@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekirkeng@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: Rick Robinson\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) are developing a novel material for transferring heat away from ultra-high-power defense electronics. 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The gift was an unprecedented in-kind gift for the facility and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe multi-year commitment, which will begin in 2010 and continue through 2012, marks the second phase of Agilent\u0027s work with GEDC. The company made a similar in-kind gift in 2007 of EDA software and tools valued at $13 million.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe commitment reflects Agilent\u0027s continuing investment in the university community and the company\u2019s dedication to staying at the leading edge of the world of electronic design. The selection of Georgia Tech and the GEDC team, under the leadership of Dr. Joy Laskar, continues Agilent\u0027s alignment with one of the world\u0027s leading research centers in communication technology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Access to Agilent technology has been invaluable to GEDC research and student training\u0022 said Laskar \u0022As GEDC strives to maintain its place as a world leader in communication research technology, the Agilent alliance is one of the strong foundations of that leadership position\u0022.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis new agreement further develops the relationship between Georgia Tech and Agilent and provides an outlet for smaller start-up companies to gain access to Agilent EDA software and technologies through GEDC. The Agilent EDA Simulation Center currently provides RF, microwave-system and circuit-design instruction and research for students and start-up companies.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EQualified start-ups can utilize the Agilent tools at GEDC at no cost for the first year of a company\u0027s launch and at a reduced rate for the following three years of incubation, helping to alleviate the financial burden for new electronic design companies.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech is a hotbed of great ideas that can be turned into commercial success,\u0022 said Stephen Fleming, vice provost of the Enterprise Innovation Institute at Georgia Tech. \u0022Within the area of semiconductor design, companies\u0027 access to design systems at low cost is essential to the development and prototyping process. Agilent\u0027s gift solves this problem for our companies. We are greatly indebted to them for their most generous donation.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe accessibility to Agilent products is already driving new enterprises to Atlanta and the resources at GEDC.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When we decided to relocate our start-up company from California to Atlanta, there were several major reasons driving that decision,\u0022 said Jeff Galloway, co-founder of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSilicon Creations. \u0022Access to Georgia Tech, quality of life, cost of living, etc. A major benefit to us has been the no-cost access to Agilent\u0027s suite of design tools via their Georgia Tech Design Simulation Design donation. We look forward to a long term association and partnership.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis second phase of the Georgia Tech-Agilent partnership will also introduce Agilent Student Liaisons, two graduate research assistants who will deliver software training as well as coordinate and supervise research projects that utilize Agilent software and tools.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are grateful for this latest in-kind commitment from Agilent, which is the largest that ECE has ever received and for the company\u0027s longstanding and generous support of our efforts,\u0022 said Gary S. May, Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. \u0022By using these specialized tools on a regular basis, students will have important technical concepts enhanced and reinforced that they learn in our electronics and electromagnetics courses and while they are on the job in our research labs. Upon graduation, they will immediately be valuable contributors to their employers in academia and industry.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECollaborations such as this are vital as Georgia Tech seeks to strengthen ties with both the business and technology community.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Throughout its history, much of the strength of Georgia Tech has come from successful partnerships with business and industry,\u0022 said Dr. G.P. \u0022Bud\u0022 Peterson, Georgia Tech president.  \u0022Agilent has and continues to be a leader in the development of electronic, biomedical and nano electronics.  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All-optical processing could also facilitate photonic computers with similar speed advances. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDetails of these materials \u2013 and the design approach behind them \u2013 were reported February 18th in Science Express, the rapid online publication of the journal \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E. Conducted at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the research was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR). \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis work provides proof that at least from a molecular point of view, we can identify and produce materials that have the right properties for all-optical processing,\u201d said Seth Marder, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and co-author of the paper. \u201cThis opens the door for looking at this issue in an entirely different way.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe polymethine organic dye materials developed by the Georgia Tech team combine large nonlinear properties, low nonlinear optical losses, and low linear losses. Materials with these properties are essential if optical engineers are to develop a new generation of devices for low-power and high-contrast optical switching of signals at telecommunications wavelengths. Keeping data all-optical would greatly facilitate the rapid transmission of detailed medical images, development of new telepresence applications, high-speed image recognition \u2013 and even the fast download of high-definition movies. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut favorable optical properties these new materials developed at Georgia Tech have only been demonstrated in solution. For their materials to have practical value, the researchers will have to incorporate them in a solid phase for use in optical waveguides \u2013 and address a long list of other challenges. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have developed high-performing materials by starting with optimized molecules and getting the molecular properties right,\u201d said co-author Joseph Perry, also a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. \u201cNow we have to figure out how to pack them together so they have a high density and useful physical forms that would be stable under operation.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarder, Perry and collaborators in Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE) have been working on the molecules for several years, refining their properties and adding atoms to maximize their length without inducing symmetry breaking, a phenomenon in which unequal charges build up within molecules. This molecular design effort, which builds on earlier research with smaller molecules, included both experimental work \u2013 and theoretical studies done in collaboration with Jean-Luc Bredas, a also a professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe design strategies identified by the research team \u2013 which also included Joel Hales, Jonathan Matichak, Stephen Barlow, Shino Ohira, and Kada Yesudas \u2013 could be applied to development of even more active molecules, though Marder believes the existing materials could be modified to meet the needs of all-optical processing \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor this class of molecules, we can with a high-degree of reliability predict where the molecules will have both large optical nonlinearities and low two-photon absorption,\u201d said Marder. \u201cNot only can we predict that, but using well-established chemical principles, we can tune where that will occur such that if people want to work at telecommunications wavelengths, we can move to where the molecules absorb to optimize its properties.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESwitching of optical signals carried in telecommunications networks currently requires conversion to electrical signals, which must be switched and then converted back to optical format. Existing electro-optical technology may ultimately be able to provide transmission speeds of up to 100 gigabits-per-second. However, all-optical processing could theoretically transmit data at speeds as high as 2,000 gigabits-per-second, allowing download of high-definition movies in minutes rather than hours. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEven if the frequency of signals coming and going is high, there is a latency that causes a bottleneck for the signals until the modulation and switching are done,\u201d Perry explained. \u201cIf we can do that all optically, then that delay can be reduced. We need to get electronics out of the system.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPerry and Marder emphasize that many years of research remain ahead before their new materials will be practical. But they believe the approach they\u2019ve developed charts a path toward all-optical systems. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhile we have not made all-optical switches, what we have done is provide a fundamental understanding of what the systems are that could have the combined set of properties that would make this possible,\u201d Marder said. \u201cConceptually, we have probably made it over the hump with this class of molecules. The next part of this work will be difficult, but it will not require a fundamental new understanding of the molecular structure.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis article is based on work supported in part by the STC program of the National Science Foundation under agreement DMR-0120967, the DARPA MORPH Program and ONR (N00014-04-0095 and N00014-06-1-0897) and the DARPA ZOE Program (W31P4Q-09-1-0012). 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Through this professorship, our goal is to increase the visibility of, and access to, leading-edge U.S. research and development in rotary wing technologies.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It is an honor, indeed, for us to have the Sikorsky name associated with a Professorship at Georgia Tech,\u0022 said Robert Loewy, the William R. T. Oakes School Chair of the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering.  \u0022We look forward with confidence to the incumbent being inspired, as we are, to making the greatest contributions possible to rotary wing engineering.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe institute is expected to name the Sikorsky Professor in 2005.  The recipient will hold the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor and will conduct rotorcraft-related research.  Sikorsky will fund the endowment over three years.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESikorsky Aircraft Corporation, based in Stratford, Conn., is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of advanced helicopters for commercial, industrial and military uses.  Its helicopters occupy a prominent position in the intermediate to heavy weight range.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation (NYSE: UTX), of Hartford, Conn., which provides a broad range of high-technology products and support services to the aerospace and building systems industries.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Sikorsky Aircraft has announced a $750,000 endowment to establish the Sikorsky Professorship at the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sikorsky gives $750,000 for new professorship"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2004-12-15 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:30","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3274","name":"electroncis"},{"id":"2289","name":"organic"},{"id":"3275","name":"pentacene"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"167182","name":"solar"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"41543":{"#nid":"41543","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Samsung Announces Design Center at Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Samsung Electro-Mechanics Company, Ltd. (SEM) has announced the establishment of a Georgia-based design center to develop next-generation radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) technology. SEM is a corporation within the SAMSUNG group, a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe center is expected to become the company\u0027s principal North American research location. The new center\u0027s initial focus will emphasize high-speed RFIC technologies and expertise, including providing leadership to industry-critical activities that are setting worldwide standards for next-generation products. As the center grows, it will impact the entire Samsung product line, including communications, consumer and semiconductor products. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EChang-Ho Lee, formerly with the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC), has been named director of the new design center. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Samsung is one of today\u0027s top electronics companies,\u0022 said Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue. \u0022We are pleased that Samsung has chosen Georgia for this new design center, and we look forward to having them as part of Georgia\u0027s growing economy.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOfficials of the South Korean company cited the opportunity to collaborate with Georgia Tech researchers and support from the GEDC as their primary reason for choosing an Atlanta location for the new design center. Samsung has had a successful research interaction with Georgia Tech for almost a decade. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The opening of this RFIC Design Center is just the starting point with Georgia Tech and the state of Georgia and it will expand our ability to play an even greater role in bringing high function, high quality and low cost products to the world marketplace,\u0022 said Dr. Byeongcheon Koh, chief technical officer of SEM. \u0022Locating in Atlanta and partnering with Georgia Tech assures us of access to both the best faculty and student researchers. We have been most impressed with the support being offered by the state of Georgia and the welcome we are receiving here at the university.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology President Wayne Clough welcomed the announcement, noting that Georgia Tech is a world-class center for research and enjoys an excellent reputation in the area of RF integrated circuits and related technology. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The Georgia Electronic Design Center, in partnership with our School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is a world leader in technology for mixed-signal electronics,\u0022 Clough noted. \u0022As wireless devices and RFIC technology become increasingly important to our economy, these resources will continue to attract companies, top researchers and the best students to Georgia Tech and Atlanta.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new design center will initially be housed at the GEDC, located in Georgia Tech\u0027s Technology Square campus in midtown Atlanta. As it expands over the next few years, the company plans to extend its cooperation with Georgia Tech and Atlanta to include packaging technology. In addition to the economic impact from the center\u0027s personnel, Samsung\u0027s expanded interaction with Georgia Tech would boost the already-strong research collaboration. The activity will also provide new opportunities for Georgia Tech students to gain real-world design experience and open up the potential for additional collaborative activities in topics such as cognitive radio and power amplifiers, already strong research areas for Georgia Tech. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout SEM: Samsung Electro-Mechanics was established in 1973 as a manufacturer of key electronic components, and the company has grown into one of the industry leaders, thanks to cutting-edge technology and top product quality. SEM pioneered the technological framework for Korean production of A\/V components and the company diversified into materials and computer parts. In the early 1990s, the focus was on manufacturing chip components, multi-layer circuit boards, and mobile communication and optical components. In the late 1990s, operations expanded into the production of digital products with applied high- frequency, software, engineering and design technologies. For more information, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sem.samsung.co.kr\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.sem.samsung.co.kr\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.sem.samsung.co.kr\u003C\/a\u003E \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout the Georgia Electronic Design Center: The Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) supports world-class research, active and solution-oriented industry collaboration, intellectual property generation and revenue generating commercialization efforts. Supported both by industry partners and federal laboratories, GEDC\u0027s research is broadly focused on fostering technology at the intersection of today\u0027s communications applications: wireless\/RF, wired\/copper and fiber channels. For more information, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gedcenter.org\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.gedcenter.org\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.gedcenter.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Samsung has announced that it will establish a Georgia-based design center to develop next-generation radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) technology. The new design center will initially be housed at the GEDC, located in Georgia Tech\u0027s Technology Square campus in midtown Atlanta.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Samsung establishes new design center at Tech"}],"uid":"15436","created_gmt":"2005-04-25 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:27","author":"Automator","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2005-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3192","name":"GEDC"},{"id":"3191","name":"Georgia Electronic Design Center"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"386431":{"#nid":"386431","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Hua Wang Selected for NSF CAREER Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHua Wang has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his project entitled \u201cA CMOS Multi-Modality Cellular Interfacing Platform for Drug Screening and Stem Cell Culture.\u201d Wang will investigate CMOS cellular interfacing arrays with novel pixelated multi-modality sensors\/actuators and will explore their use in transformative bioscience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang holds the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), where he leads the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab and is a member of the Georgia Electronic Design Center. Wang is interested in innovating and engineering mixed-signal, RF, and millimeter-wave integrated systems for wireless communication and bioelectronics applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFully understanding the physiological behaviors of cells is necessary to further advance the frontiers in bioscience. At this time, existing sensors and actuators can only process electrochemical signals from cells. However, cells are highly complex systems that have numerous molecules operating in hundreds of pathways to maintain proper functions and phenotypes. At this scale of complexity, cells often undergo multi-physics responses all at once, which cannot be explored by single-modality platforms. This constraint poses a fundamental limit on the communication link between the electronics and cells\/tissues. Many sensors and actuators also require exotic processing steps, limiting their cost, yield, and scalability in mass production.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo address these challenges, Wang\u2019s NSF CAREER project focuses on innovating sensor\/actuator technologies as large-scaled arrays with novel pixel-level multi-modality sensing\/actuation functionalities. These microelectronics interfaces allow interrogating and stimulating living cells\/tissues via multi-physics signaling at a high spatiotemporal resolution. Low-cost CMOS processes, widely used for manufacturing CPU and memory chips, will be employed to ensure high-integration, low-cost, and high-yield.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe proposed CMOS multi-modality cellular interfacing platform will lead to broad societal impacts. Capturing the complex cellular responses may substantially increase the throughput in drug development. As another example, real-time monitoring stem cells and enhancing the desired cell differentiation trajectories may drastically improve the purity in large-scale stem cell manufacturing and enable low-cost stem cell therapies. In addition, the cellular interfacing platform may serve as a novel research tool for new scientific discoveries.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his project entitled \u201cA CMOS Multi-Modality Cellular Interfacing Platform for Drug Screening and Stem Cell Culture.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his project entitled \u201cA CMOS Multi-Modality Cellular Interfacing Platform for Drug Screening and Stem Cell Culture.\u201d"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2015-03-10 14:39:19","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:54","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"274201":{"id":"274201","type":"image","title":"Hua Wang","body":null,"created":"1449244112","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:48:32","changed":"1475894964","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:24","alt":"Hua Wang","file":{"fid":"198716","name":"hua_wang_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hua_wang_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hua_wang_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4678905,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hua_wang_0_0.jpg?itok=BMypdVZq"}}},"media_ids":["274201"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=169","title":"Hua Wang"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/research\/labs\/gems\/","title":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gedc.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Electronic Design Center"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"140","name":"Cancer Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3191","name":"Georgia Electronic Design Center"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"85861","name":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab"},{"id":"67901","name":"Hua Wang"},{"id":"362","name":"National Science Foundation"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"378271":{"#nid":"378271","#data":{"type":"news","title":"MSE Professor honored by MRS","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mrs.org\/home\/\u0022\u003EMaterials Research Society\u003C\/a\u003E President Oliver Kraft has announced \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/Marder\/\u0022\u003ESeth R. Marder\u003C\/a\u003E as the 2015 recipient of the Mid-Career Researcher Award.\u0026nbsp; This award recognizes exceptional achievements in materials research made by mid-career professionals, and the award recipient must also demonstrate notable leadership in the materials area.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Marder is the Georgia Power Chair in Energy Efficiency and a Regents\u2019 Professor of Chemistry and Professor Materials Science and Engineering (courtesy) at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Marder was chosen from a large group of extraordinary nominees \u201cfor establishing fundamental relationships between the chemical structure of organic molecules and their optical and electronic properties thereby profoundly impacting how the scientific community designs optimized molecular structures for use in nonlinear optical applications.\u201d\u0026nbsp; Dr. Marder working with many colleagues, most notably Drs. Joseph Perry, and Jean-Luc Br\u00e9das provided both theoretical and experimental guidelines for the development of materials for second-order and third-order nonlinear optical materials which find applications in areas ranging from high speed signal processing to 3D micro- and nano-fabrication.\u0026nbsp; His work thus far has results in over 30 issued patents, many of which have been licensed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award consists of an engraved trophy and a cash prize.\u0026nbsp; These will be presented at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mrs.org\/spring2015\/\u0022\u003E2015 MRS Spring Meeting\u003C\/a\u003E, April 8 at 6:30 p.m. in San Francisco.\u0026nbsp; Dr. Marder will also present a talk during the meeting on April 8.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe holds or has held the following leadership roles: Founding Director of Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Director AFOSR- Center for Organic Materials for All-Optical Switching (COMAS), Co-Director NSF-GT Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Associate Director- DOE Energy Frontier Research Center: CISSEM\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Marder\u2019s research interests include Organic Materials, Optical Materials, Electronics Materials and Surface Modification.\u0026nbsp; However he is equally committed to his educational and diversity related activities at the Georgia Institute of Technology and around the US and the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis journal editorships include Materials Horizons \u2013\u0026nbsp;Founding Chair Editorial Board; Journal of Materials Chemistry \u2013 Member, Editorial Advisory Board;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChemistry of Materials \u2013 Member, Editorial Advisory Board; and, Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics \u2013 Member, Editorial Advisory Board.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Materials Research Society (MRS) was established in 1973 by a visionary group of scientists who shared the belief that their professional interests were broader in scope than existing single-discipline societies and that a new interdisciplinary organization was needed.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EToday MRS is a growing, vibrant member-driven organization of over 16,000 materials researchers from academia, industry and government, and is a recognized leader in the advancement of interdisciplinary materials research. Headquartered in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, (USA), MRS membership now spans over 80 countries.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Dr. Marer receives MRS research award"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mrs.org\/home\/\u0022\u003EMaterials Research Society\u003C\/a\u003E President Oliver Kraft has announced \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/Marder\/\u0022\u003ESeth R. Marder\u003C\/a\u003E as the 2015 recipient of the Mid-Career Researcher Award.\u0026nbsp; This award recognizes exceptional achievements in materials research made by mid-career professionals, and the award recipient must also demonstrate notable leadership in the materials area.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Marder is the Georgia Power Chair in Energy Efficiency and a Regents\u2019 Professor of Chemistry and Professor Materials Science and Engineering (courtesy) at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award will be presented at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mrs.org\/spring2015\/\u0022\u003E2015 MRS Spring Meeting\u003C\/a\u003E, April 8 at 6:30 p.m. in San Francisco.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The award recognizes exceptional achievements in materials research made by mid-career professionals, and the award recipient must also demonstrate notable leadership in the materials area."}],"uid":"28159","created_gmt":"2015-02-13 11:59:47","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:46","author":"Kelly Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-02-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-02-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"378291":{"id":"378291","type":"image","title":"Seth Marder","body":null,"created":"1449246205","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:23:25","changed":"1475894388","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:48","alt":"Seth Marder","file":{"fid":"75210","name":"seth_2108.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/seth_2108.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/seth_2108.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":71692,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/seth_2108.jpg?itok=Xu5aSwNQ"}}},"media_ids":["378291"],"groups":[{"id":"217141","name":"Georgia Tech Materials Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"77571","name":"3D"},{"id":"516","name":"engineering"},{"id":"1692","name":"materials"},{"id":"2286","name":"nano"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"365","name":"Research"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"72563":{"#nid":"72563","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT Defense Technology Begins Learning Assessments","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s defense technology education program is implementing an assessment of learning in its professional short courses to further strengthen its certificates in Antenna Engineering, Electronic Warfare Technology, Infrared \u0026amp; Electro-Optical Technology, Radar Systems, Radar Signal Processing \u0026amp; Techniques, and Modeling \u0026amp; Simulation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022By assessing our attendees in this manner, our certificates will be more meaningful and valuable to our students and their companies,\u0022 said Dr. Bill Holm, assistant vice provost for Distance Learning and Professional Education and director of the Georgia Tech defense technology education program.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeginning in September, the assessments are required if the short course counts toward a certificate.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The assessments can be as simple as 10 multiple-choice questions given each day at the beginning of the course,\u0022 Holm said. \u0022Students would then answer the questions and submit them at the end of the day.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents attending at least 80 percent of the class receive a Certificate of Attendance indicating the continuing education units earned. Students who also pass the assessment receive a Certificate of Successful Completion indicating the CEUs earned and that the course helps satisfies requirements for a professional certificate. Depending on the field of study, five or six courses are required for a professional certificate.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFour courses in systems engineering are also being introduced to meet growing industry demand, as well as five other defense courses. These new systems engineering courses will eventually become part of a certificate program:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n-\tFundamentals of Modern Systems Engineering,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n-\tLeading Systems Engineering Teams,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n-\tModeling and Simulation for Systems Engineering, and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n-\tSystems Design and Analysis.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the systems engineering courses, the defense technology education program has added six short courses to its 58-course inventory:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n-\tRadar Waveforms: Properties, Analysis, Design, and Applications,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n-\tIntroduction to Wireless Communication Systems,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n-\tModeling and Simulation of Antennas\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n-\tAtmospheric LIDAR Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n-\tIntroduction to MIL-STD-1553, and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n-\tTransmit\/Receive Modules for Phased Array Radar: Components, Construction, and Costs.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022All of our defense technology courses highlight some of the latest research efforts of our scientists and engineers,\u0022 Holm said. \u0022Our researchers work on the forefront of science and technology to improve the defense preparedness of the U.S. We understand the importance lifelong education plays in that preparedness.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 2006-2007 defense technology course schedule is posted online at \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.pe.gatech.edu\/\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.pe.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E. For more information about upcoming courses or the defense technology program, contact Holm at 404-385-6158 or \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bill.holm@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebill.holm@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFOR MORE INFORMATION\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nJennifer Wooley\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssistant Director of Client Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n404-385-7460\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jennifer.wooley@dlpe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejennifer.wooley@dlpe.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Georgia Tech defense technology introduces learning assessments for certificates"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Defense technology program assesses its short courses to strengthen certificates in Antenna Engineering, Electronic Warfare Technology, Infrared \u0026amp; Electro-Optical Technology, Radar Systems, Radar Signal Processing \u0026amp; Techniques, and Modeling \u0026amp; Simulation.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professional short courses begins assessments"}],"uid":"27301","created_gmt":"2006-10-23 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:42","author":"Elizabeth Campell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-10-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-10-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"72564":{"id":"72564","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449177934","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:25:34","changed":"1475894661","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:21"}},"media_ids":["72564"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.pe.gatech.edu\/","title":"Professional Education"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2616","name":"antenna"},{"id":"1653","name":"continuing education"},{"id":"1366","name":"defense"},{"id":"410","name":"DLPE"},{"id":"2619","name":"electro-optical"},{"id":"2618","name":"infrared"},{"id":"525","name":"military"},{"id":"2623","name":"modeling"},{"id":"2615","name":"professional courses"},{"id":"2621","name":"radar"},{"id":"2622","name":"radar signal processing \u0026 Techniques"},{"id":"2620","name":"radar systems"},{"id":"169422","name":"short courses"},{"id":"167045","name":"simulation"},{"id":"2617","name":"warfare"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"72502":{"#nid":"72502","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Don Giddens Wins Biomedical Industry Growth Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Don Giddens, dean of Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Engineering, will be awarded the 2007 Biomedical Industry Growth Award by the Georgia Biomedical Partnership (GBP).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe GBP\u0027s annual Biomedical Industry Growth Awards honor people in the public and private sectors who have made extraordinary contributions to the growth of Georgia\u0027s life sciences industry. Giddens will be honored as the recipient from the public sector, and Dr. Eric Tomlinson, president and CEO of Altea Therapeutics, is the recipient from the private sector.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGiddens, one of the nation\u0027s pioneers in biomedical engineering, is being honored for developing Georgia Tech\u0027s bioengineering program, enhancing its research and technology commercialization efforts, and expanding the school\u0027s partnerships with Emory University. These partnerships have been critical in expanding the life sciences research base in Georgia and in creating an engine of growth for the life sciences industry.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027m honored to be recognized as a contributor to the impressive growth of Georgia\u0027s biomedical industry,\u0022 Giddens said. \u0022Georgia Tech\u0027s partnership with Emory has truly enhanced our opportunities for research innovation.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGiddens is the founding chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, a unique collaboration between a public engineering university and private medical school. The department is the No. 3 graduate program of biomedical engineering in the country, according to rankings from U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGiddens received all three of his degrees (B.S.E. 1963, M.S 1965, and Ph.D. 1966) from Georgia Tech. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1968. In 1992 he left his position as the chair of aerospace engineering to serve as the dean of the Whiting School of Engineering and professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University until 1997. Giddens then rejoined Georgia Tech to serve as chair of The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. Giddens became the dean of the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech in 2002.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGiddens is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Big 10+ Deans Council, and a founding fellow and past president of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), fellow of the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He received the H.R. Lissner Award from ASME in 1993 and was the ASME Thurston Lecturer in 1996. 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He is also the author of more than 100 refereed publications and book chapters, 190 paper presentations and proceedings, and maintains an active research program in cardiovascular hemodynamics.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Biomedical Partnership (GBP), founded in 1989, represents more than 270 pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies, universities, research institutes, government groups and other business organizations involved in the development of products that improve the health and quality of life people worldwide.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Dr. Don Giddens, dean of Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Engineering, will be awarded the Biomedical Industry Growth Award by the Georgia Biomedical Partnership.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Giddens honored for contribution to Georgia biotech"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2006-12-13 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:37","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-12-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-12-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"72503":{"id":"72503","type":"image","title":"Don Giddens","body":null,"created":"1449177934","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:25:34","changed":"1475894658","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:18"}},"media_ids":["72503"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.gabio.org\/index.asp","title":"Georgia Biomedical Partnership"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. 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Bredas\u0027 total record includes 331 papers cited a total of 9,658 times.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EESI\u0027s interview with Bredas is at the link below.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Jean-Luc Bredas is the third most cited author for scientific papers on organic thin-film transistors over the past decade, according to Essential Science Indicators (ESI) Web site, published by Thomson Scientific.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ESI ranks organic thin-film transistor papers"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2007-08-28 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:05","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2007-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71967":{"id":"71967","type":"image","title":"Jean-Luc Bredas","body":null,"created":"1449177425","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:17:05","changed":"1475894647","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:07"}},"media_ids":["71967"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.esi-topics.com\/otft\/interviews\/Jean-LucBredas.html","title":"ESI Special Topics Interview"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2288","name":"Bredas"},{"id":"609","name":"electronics"},{"id":"2289","name":"organic"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"40455":{"#nid":"40455","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Scientists Develop Focus-Changing Eyeglass Lenses","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOptical scientists at The University of Arizona and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed new switchable, flat, liquid crystal diffractive lenses that can adaptively change their focusing power.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0027s great news for those old enough to wear bifocals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnd it\u0027s great news for anyone with imperfect vision, for it opens the wayfor next-generation \u0022smart\u0022 eyeglasses -- glasses with built-in automatic focus. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the foreseeable future, for example, you won\u0027t change prescription eyeglasses -- your eye doctor will just tweak a new prescription into the specs you already own.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYou could even program your glasses for better than 20-20 vision.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Right now, in our prototype, you switch the lenses on or off to change focus,\u0022 said Nasser Peyghambarian, chair of photonics and lasers in UA\u0027s College of Optical Sciences and professor of optical sciences, materials science and engineering. \u0022But ultimately this will act just like your automatic camera: Eyeglass lenses will know where to focus just like your auto-focusing camera does.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPeyghambarian is part of the team that began developing the focus-changing lenses in 2001 under an agreement between the university and private industry. The UA licensed three patents from the work to the Johnson and Johnson Development Corp., which sponsored the research. A firm called Pixel Optics has since purchased the patent licenses from Johnson and Johnson to commercialize the innovative technology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETen UA scientists and two colleagues now at the Georgia Institute of Technology are publishing their first science paper about the switchable-focus lenses this week in an article online at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences website, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/current\/shtml\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/current\/shtml\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.pnas.org\/current\/shtml\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It\u0027s great to see our new concept materialize and be validated after all these years of continuous efforts,\u0022 said Bernard Kippelen. Kippelen, who helped start the project when he was at the UA, is now a professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate director of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics at Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe novel lenses focus electroactively, said Guoqiang Li, UA optical sciences assistant research professor and lead author on the scientific paper. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThey are basically two pieces of flat glass spaced five microns apart. Five microns is an incredibly small space -- roughly one-twentieth the diameter of a human hair. The space is filled with liquid crystal -- the same kind of stuff in your laptop\u0027s liquid crystal display.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe flat glass is coated with an even thinner layer (one-tenth micron) of indium tin oxide, or ITO, which is a transparent electrode. Unlike electrodes made of aluminum or gold, ITO transmits most of the light that hits it. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe transparent electrodes are patterned in a circular array over the area of the lens. The circular pattern is created through photolithography, an extremely precise technique that processes with light and chemicals.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EApplying less than two volts to the circuit changes the orientation of the liquid crystal molecules, and that changes the optical path length through the lens. It takes only about 1.8 volts to change the index of refraction so that light refocuses, Peyghambarian and Li explained. The result is a flat piece of glass that acts like a lens.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe scientists first tested the imaging properties of the lens on a model human eye, then built prototype eyeglasses that real humans tested. The clinical results agreed with the model eye test.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir tests showed that distance vision was no way impaired when the glasses were switched off and enabled close-up vision when switched on.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We have demonstrated switchable liquid crystal diffractive lenses with high diffraction efficiency, high optical quality, rapid response time, and diffraction limited performance,\u0022 they reported in the PNAS article. \u0022These flat lenses are highly promising to replace conventional area division refractive, multi-focal spectacle lenses used by presbyopes,\u0022 they report.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEstimates are that 93 percent of the world\u0027s population over age 45 have the condition called \u0022presbyopia,\u0022 where an aging person\u0027s eye lens loses flexibility and therefore, its ability to shift focus from distant to near objects.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPresbyopes will be some of the first to benefit from the UA research.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EElectroactively focusing eyeglasses will revolutionize the $50 billion worldwide vision care industry, backers said at the outset of the UA research project. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir major step in creating state-of-the-art liquid crystal diffractive lenses will have applications beyond vision care, the scientists predict. Tools with switchable lens elements would be valuable in dentistry, for example.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022People don\u0027t often recognize that university scientists make prototypes,\u0022 Peyghambarin said. \u0022People think of us as just generating science papers. But when we actually make something like this, in house, people begin to realize we have real expertise that\u0027s applicable to everyday problems.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to Li and Peyghambarian, UA optical scientists who collaborated in the research are David L. Mathine, Pouria Valley, Pekka Ayras, M. S. Giridhar, Gregory Williby, James Schwiegerling (who also is on the faculty in UA\u0027s department of ophthalmology and vision sciences), Gerald R. Meredith, and Seppo Honkanen. Bernard Kippelen and Joshua N. 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