Electrical and computer engineering Ph.D candidate Zheyi Han has been a part of the WNF community as both a student worker and as a graduate research assistant for over five years. In this Q&A, she tells us about her research integrating micro-electromechanical systems into compact optical systems. She also shares her hopes of joining an industrial research lab after graduation.
Sarice Jones is one of our newest staff members! Sarice helps ensure our equipment operates smoothly so that the users who depend on these tools for their work have reliable access to them. In the past, she has used and maintained a range of house-built fabrication equipment, teaching her the ins and outs of many complex fabrication tools. She joined WNF as a research engineer in October 2019.
The UW’s strengths in photonics, materials science, physics and electrical and computer engineering give it an edge in pursuing quantum science. Resources such as the Washington Nanofabrication Facility also help, as does the College of Engineering’s strong commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration. Learn more about how the QuantumX initiative is helping move the UW into the coming Quantum Age.
Tunoptix, an optics startup co-founded by University of Washington (UW) electrical and computer engineering professors Karl Böhringer and Arka Majumdar, was awarded $223,000 in Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop metasurface lenses (or metalenses) for imaging in satellites at the UW Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF).
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NCI-Southwest is co-hosting a webinar on Integrated Nanophotonics: The Transition to High-Volume Manufacturing and Implications for Workforce Education. Presented by Professor Robert Geer, SUNY Polytechnic on October 17 at 1 PM ET. Register!
It’s National Nanotechnology Day! Celebrate by listening to our very own Dan Ratner, UW Professor of Bioengineering and our site’s NNCI lead for education & outreach, on this week’s podcast from the National Nanotechnology Initiative as he talks about his passion for sharing the awesome power of nanotechnology with the next generation of scientists and engaged citizens.
A team led by Arka Majumdar, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at UW, has designed and tested a 3D-printed metamaterial that can manipulate light with nanoscale precision. The device described in their October 4 article in the journal Science Advances was fabricated using our Nanoscribe GT two-photon lithography system. Says Majumdar, “No one has really made a device like this before with this set of capabilities.”
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Maria Huffman is the new WNF director! Huffman joins WNF from Lund University in southern Sweden, where she was the director of the Lund Nano Lab (LNL), an open-access nanofabrication facility serving researchers at the university, in the region, and beyond. Previously, Huffman spent over 30 years working in the semiconductor and solar industries in a variety of research and development as well as manufacturing roles.
An undergraduate student constructing a probe to measure properties of quantum materials and a masters student developing an acousto-optic deflector to change the direction of an optical beam using sound waves are among the diverse group of five University of Washington students to receive $4,000 grants from the UW initiative QuantumX to fabricate nanoscale structures and devices in the Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF) this summer.