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NDnano affiliated faculty are engaged in multidisciplinary research and collaborations across the campus and across the world. Representing more than $50 million in funding, the projects demonstrate the broad reach of Notre Dame research and aim to be a force for good.  View all current associated projects below, filter by topic, or search to find projects of interest.

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  • Injectable Glucose-Responsive Hydrogels for Multi-Hormone Therapy

    Diabetes blood glucose management requires rigorous therapy, but fails to fully return healthy glucose control. New materials will be engineered that can bind to insulin and regulate its release more exactly in response to changes in blood glucose.

    Sponsors:
    Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Matthew Webber

  • CAREER: An Integrated Research and Education Program to Investigate Hypoxia and Matrix Remodeling During Stem Cell Differentiation and Lymphatic Morphogenesis

    The research goal is to utilize biomaterials and an engineered-tissue culture system to investigate the interactions between hypoxia and matrix remodeling, two important components that govern lymphatic morphogenesis.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Donny Hanjaya-Putra

  • Engineering the Stem Cell Microenvironment for Lymphatic Regeneration

    The overall research goal is to derive lymphatic endothelial cells from human pluripotent stem cells that can be used as a clinically relevant cell source for therapeutic lymphangiogenesis in a synthetic and controllable matrix environment.

    Sponsors:
    National Institutes of Health
    ND Investigators:
    Donny Hanjaya-Putra

  • CAREER: Dissipative Non-Equilibrium Supramolecular Hydrogels Using Fuels

    The NSF CAREER award research will utilize high-affinity motifs and light responsive motifs to realize fuel-dependent non-equilibrium formation and stability in host-guest supramolecular hydrogels.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Matthew Webber

  • Next generation deep tissue quantitative optical imaging

    This research team will create a reflectance-based frequency domain diffuse optical spectroscopy imaging platform for quantitative deep tissue spectroscopy and tomography with unprecedented scalability, precision, and speed.

    Sponsors:
    National Institutes of Health
    ND Investigators:
    Tom O'Sullivan and Scott Howard
    Collaborators:
    University of California-Irvine, University of Birmingham

  • Interaction with Ionizing Radiation with Matter, University Research Alliance (IIRM-URA)

    This work will examine the radiation effect on resistive memory and ferroelectric transistor memory and pursue strategies for mitigation of radiation effects through materials engineering, device redesign, and applications level masking techniques.

    Sponsors:
    Defense Threat Reduction Agency
    ND Investigators:
    Suman Datta
    Collaborators:
    Penn State University

  • Glucose-Responsive Glucagon: Translational Development of Platform Materials

    The goal of this project is to improve performance of material platforms for glucagon release to accelerate glucagon availability under low glucose conditions, while minimizing glucagon release (leakage) under normal glucose conditions.

    Sponsors:
    Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
    ND Investigators:
    Matthew Webber

  • Collaborative Research: High-frequency, High-power Amplifier Based on Distributed Coupling of GaN HEMTs Through a SiC Substrate Integrated Waveguide

    This research focuses on measurement and modeling of AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistors for circuit design, and D-band characterization of novel amplifier topology.

    Sponsors:
    NSF
    ND Investigators:
    Patrick Fay
    Collaborators:
    Cornell University

  • Tailoring the Nanophotonic and Nanoelectronic Properties of Nanometals using Oxide-Directed Syntheses

    The objective of this project is to advance a liquid-state, seed-mediated chemistry for the synthesis of on-chip metal nanostructures that is responsive to the synthetic controls imposed by an impinging oxide.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Svetlana Neretina

  • STEM-EELS Nano-Spectroscopy of Energy Transfer from Plasmonic Nanostructures to Molecular Media

    STEM/EELS studies of mid-infrared plasmonic materials.

    Sponsors:
    U.S. Department of Air Force
    ND Investigators:
    Jon Camden
    Collaborators:
    University of Washington-Seattle

  • CAREER: Catalytic hollow-fiber membranes as an efficient and scalable process in water treatment

    The team is investigating the kinetic mechanisms, stability, and scalability of catalytic hollow-fiber membrane synthesis parameters, operational conditions, and water quality parameters to solve fundamental and applied problems in water treatment.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Kyle Doudrick

  • Collaborative Research: Characterization and Optimization of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Functionalized Nanoparticle Systems

    This project proposes fundamental explorations of N-heterocyclic carbene - nanoparticle systems that will enable top-down functionalization of noble-metal nanoparticles of arbitrary shape and size with enhanced chemical functionalities.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Jon Camden and Mary-Geraldine Svarovsky
    Collaborators:
    University of Tennessee

  • Rapid hypoglycemic rescue devices for glucose-response glucagon

    This research aims to combat hypoglycemia with a new class of materials that exist only in the presence of glucose fuel, and integrate these into devices for prophylactic glucagon rescue.

    Sponsors:
    American Diabetes Association
    ND Investigators:
    Matthew Webber

  • Optimizing Additive Manufacturing of Thermoelectric Materials using Bayesian Optimization-Enhanced Transfer Learning

    The research objective is to develop a Bayesian optimization-enhanced Machine Learning algorithm to optimize the additive manufacturing processes of thermoelectric semiconductor materials for energy conversion applications.

    Sponsors:
    U.S. Department of Energy
    ND Investigators:
    Tengfei Luo, Yanliang Zhang, David Go, and Alexander Dowling
    Collaborators:
    Idaho National Laboraroy

  • Collaborative Research: Machine learning exploration of atomic heterostructures towards perfect light absorber and giant piezoelectricity

    Researchers are developing a machine-learning-guided density functional theory tool for the discovery of new heterostructures exhibiting perfect light absorption in the visible spectrum and giant piezoelectricity of order 1000 pm/V.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Chris Hinkle
    Collaborators:
    University of Minnesota

  • Realizing robust superfluorescence from nanocrystal superlattices

    This work investigates nanocrystal superfluorescence though concerted theoretical and experimental studies with the ultimate goal of realizing robust, room temperature nanocrystal superlattice superfluorescence.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Ken Kuno, Boldizsar Janko

  • Mid-infrared intraband and localized surface plasmon resonance spectroscopies of doped semiconductor nanocrystals

    Addressing a need in the area of doped, IR active, semiconductor nanocrystals (NC), this team will direct absorption measurements on both small ensembles and individual mid infrared-responsive NCs utilizing infrared photothermal heterodyne imaging.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Ken Kuno

  • Mass Sensing, Strong Vibrational Coupling and Super-Resolution Imaging of Noble Metal Nanostructures

    This work aims to create nanometer sized mass balances that can operate at room temperature, and explore vibrational coupling between the mechanical modes of the gold nanoplates and determine whether these modes can be coherently controlled.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Greg Hartland

  • Microresonator solitons in quantum cascade lasers

    The goal of this program is to create the first soliton sources of long-wavelength light on a chip. Solitons are ultrashort pulses which have high peak power, large spectral bandwidth, and ultrashort temporal duration.

    Sponsors:
    Department of the Air Force
    ND Investigators:
    David Burghoff
    Collaborators:
    Princeton University

  • Collaborative Research: Design a New Polymer Platform for Engineering Fast and Selective Molecular Transport in Membranes

    This research will exploit a flexible polymer platform with a wide range of structure and functionality that aids elucidating the effects of molecular-level and mesoscale features to ultimately engineer fast and selective gas transport in polymers.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Haifeng Gao, Ruilan Guo

  • Leveraging a new theoretical paradigm to enhance interfacial thermal transport In wide bandgap power electronics

    This research utilizes first-principle calculations, molecular dynamics simulations, and experiments to study phonon transport across different interfaces.

    Sponsors:
    Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S. Department of Navy
    ND Investigators:
    Tengfei Luo

  • Collaborative Research: Chemically Modified, Plasma-Nanoengineered Graphene Nanopetals for Spontaneous, Self-Powered and Efficient Oil Contamination Remediation

    There is a need to develop new oil spill remediation technologies. This research will focus on key factors that control plasma-nanogenerated graphene nanopetals (GPs) and then demonstrate an improved oil skimmer system based on the GP technology.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Tengfei Luo
    Collaborators:
    University of Nevada, Reno

  • Fast, Multi-spectral, Polarization-Sensitive IR Detectors for Solar Astronomy from 5 to 100 Microns

    This team aims to develop a new class of high-cadence imaging detectors in the 3 to 100 um wavelength range with novel polarization and spectral properties to characterize the layer of the solar atmosphere that is sensitive to these wavelengths.

    Sponsors:
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    ND Investigators:
    Gary Bernstein, Gergo Szakmany, Wolfgang Porod, Alexei Orlov, Edward Kinzel, David Burghoff

  • Advanced Designs for GaN-based Vertical IMPATT Diodes

    This program aims to develop and demonstrate GaN-based impact ionization avalanche transit-time diodes for high-power microwave through millimeter-wave frequency generation.

    Sponsors:
    Department of Navy
    ND Investigators:
    Patrick Fay

  • CAREER: Targeting assembly in colloidal materials by tilting the free energy surface

    This work hypothesizes that kinetics may be used to control the crystallization of colloidal particles starting from fundamental clusters and involves detailed exploration of the self-assembly of colloidal materials via molecular simulation.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Jonathan Whitmer

  • An engineered tissue model of aged mammary microenvironment

    Researchers aim to better understand the impact of aged breast tissue and its biological impact on cancer development by developing an Aging-mimicking Breast Tissue (ABTe) model for breast cancer research.

    Sponsors:
    National Institutes of Health
    ND Investigators:
    Pinar Zorlutuna, Siyuan Zhang, Zonggao Shi, Xiaoshan Yue

  • Applications and Systems Driven Center for Energy-Efficient Integrated NanoTechnologies (ASCENT)

    Led by Notre Dame, ASCENT is a microelectronics research center funded by the SRC and DARPA. Its mission is to provide advances in integrated nanoelectronics to sustain the promise of Moore’s Law.

    Sponsors:
    Semiconductor Research Corporation and DARPA
    ND Investigators:
    Suman Datta, Patrick Fay, Michael Niemier
    Collaborators:
    Cornell, Georgia Tech, Illinois Institute of Technology, Purdue, Stanford, University of Minnesota, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, UC-San Diego, UC-Santa Barbara, University of Colorado, University of Texas-Dallas, and Wayne State.

  • IMPACT (Innovative Materials and Processes for Accelerated Compute Technologies)

    Professor Hinkle will explore the synthesis of new oxide-based, 3D Dirac and topological metals including oxides. Professor Datta will investigate ferroelectric/amorphous oxide semiconductor gate stacks for non-volatile reconfigurable interconnects.

    Sponsors:
    Semiconductor Research Corporation
    ND Investigators:
    Chris Hinkle and Suman Datta
    Collaborators:
    Stanford University

  • The impact of nanostructure geometry on photo-thermal evaporation processes

    The team models and conducts experiments in the International Space Station and terrestrial experiments to understand the link between geometric factors of plasmon nanostructures and the evaporation process when they are heated by optical excitations.

    Sponsors:
    Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS)
    ND Investigators:
    Tengfei Luo, Hsueh-Chia Chang, Hirotaka Sakaue

  • Collaborative Research: Ice melting-induced flows by an adjacent heated immiscible liquid layer

    The team will conduct fundamental research on ice melt flows accompanied by convective single and multi-roll flow structures that occur during the melting of an ice wall in contact with an immiscible liquid absorbing heat in the range of 1 to 50 kW/m2.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Hirotaka Sakue, Seong-kyun Im
    Collaborators:
    Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • Electron spin effects in semiconductor nanostructure: magnetism and topology

    Researchers are investigating coupling between magnetism and topology in semiconductors to develop robust spintronic topological phases using magnetic topological heterostructures.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Margaret Dobrowolska, Jacek Furdyna, Xinyu Liu, Badih Assaf

  • CAREER: Printing and interface engineering of colloidal nanocrystals for flexible thermoelectrics and electronics

    The project goal is to establish a scalable additive manufacturing process to fabricate flexible films using colloidal nanocrystals, and create methods to tailor and control electronic, thermal and thermoelectric transport properties.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Yanliang Zhang

  • High-performance biocatalytic membranes with self-contained radial polymer mediators for water reclamation and reuse

    In this research, the team is integrating redox-active radical polymer mediators and laccase enzymes on membrane supports to deliver a state-of-the-art treatment technology for the removal and degradation of micropollutants.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    William Phillip, Na Wei

  • Highly Sensitive Multiplexed Nanocone Array for Point-of-Care Pan-Cancer Screening

    The ultimate goal of this research is to develop the first optical fiber nanoarray for point-of-care (POC) quantification of a massively large library of molecular biomarkers for a wide range of bio-sensing applications.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Tengfei Luo, Hsueh-Chia Chang, Satyajyoti Senapati

  • CMI: Super Resolution THz Imaging of Nanostructures

    The goal of this project is to develop a super-resolution terahertz (THz) microscope that will be capable of recording THz images with a spatial resolution of a few hundred nanometers and a field of view of hundreds of microns.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Gregory Hartland

  • Energy harvesting approaches to low-temperature plasma generation for field applications

    Researchers aim to engineer low-temperature plasmas that operate without a power supply by harvesting thermal or mechanical energy to directly produce an air plasma -- improving water purification, sterilization, wound healing, and pollution control.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    David Go, Seung-Kyun Im

  • Collaborative Research: Using molecular functionalization to tune nanoscale interfacial energy and momentum transport

    The goal of this project is to demonstrate a novel technique for molecular-level tuning of interfacial thermal conductance (ITC), surface charge, capillary properties, and biological interaction of solid-liquid interfaces.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Tengfei Luo
    Collaborators:
    Colorado Mesa University

  • EAGER: Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Nanoparticles in Light-Excited Supercavitation

    This project will study the force and energy balance of spherical nanoparticles (NP) inside a supercavitation with the greater goal to understand the fundamentals of light-driven super-fast plasmonic NP movement to develop novel applications.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Tengfei Luo and Eungkyu Lee
    Collaborators:
    Colorado Mesa University

  • Unifying principles for the design and manufacture of chemically patterned polymeric membrane

    The goal of this research is to develop the fundamental knowledge that enables the systematic design and fabrication of charge-patterned mosaic membranes used in chemical separations and sensing processes.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    William Phillip

  • Refractory Plasmonics Enabled by Single Crystal Nanostructures

    The objective of this research is to demonstrate that suitably protected single-crystal nanostructures of gold, silver, and copper can act as high-performance photoactive materials at elevated temperatures.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Svetlana Neretina

  • Engineering deterministic electron correlations and topological states in site-controlled III-V quantum droplets

    The aim of this research is to produce deterministic quantum electron droplets to support "large scale" development of composite fermion Majorna zero modes. These methods will be explorable and exploitable by the quantum technology scientific community.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Gregory Snider, Alexander Mintairov, Alexei Orlov
    Collaborators:
    Tyndall National Institute, Queen's University Belfast

  • Optically controlled waveguide architectures for advanced tunable and reconfigurable THz circuits

    This project investigates and demonstrates three optically controlled waveguide architectures based on a novel photo-induced spatial modulation for developing high-performance tunable and reconfigurable THz passive components.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Lei Liu, Patrick Fay

  • Regulating gas transport in molecularly engineered polymer membranes

    The research goal is to use specifically-designed model polymer networks with controlled architectural regularity and targeted synthetic motifs to determine the impact of crosslink inhomogeneity on the gas transport in crosslinked polymer membranes.

    Sponsors:
    U.S. Department of Energy
    ND Investigators:
    Ruilan Guo

  • Adiabatic systems for low power computation

    This project investigates MEMS structures for both crucial parts of a computational system: logic and energy recycling clocks. Adiabatic Capacitive Logic eliminates electrical contacts and leakage in logic, and power resonators can recycle energy.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Gregory Snider, Alexei Orlov

  • An analog hardware system for solving Boolean satisfiability

    This project aims to design an analog hardware system for solving a representative NP-complete problem, the Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem. SAT is quintessential to many electronic design automation problems.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Sharon Hu

  • SemiSymBio: Cardiac muscle-cell-based couples oscillator networks for collective computing

    Researchers are exploring the potential of coupled oscillator networks made of living heart muscle cells as collective computing components for solving computationally hard problems such as optimization, learning and inference tasks.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Pinar Zorlutuna, Hsueh-Chia Chang, Suman Datta

  • CAREER: Chain-growth polymerization of AB2 monomer to produce hyperbranched polymers

    This project focuses on new methods for polymer synthesis. It offers, for the first time, a novel one-pot polymerization method that can produce hyperbranched polymers with well-defined structures and compositions.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Haifeng Gao

  • CAREER: Tissue-engineering an aging heart: The effect of aged cell microenvironment in myocardial infarction

    The team is establishing a unique tissue engineered model system of the aging human myocardium and investigating the role of the aging tissue microenvironment on cell survival upon myocardial infarction.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Pinar Zorlutuna

  • CAREER: Fundamental materials studies on fast ion diffusion in model side-chain ionomers

    Researchers are synthesizing and characterizing model polymers to understand the parameters governing ion transport rates in ionomer ionic domains, while simultaneously integrating educational and outreach programs for women in STEM fields.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Jennifer Schaefer

  • RET Site: Biologically and physically inspired computing models and systems

    The objective of the program is to form partnerships between Notre Dame personnel and high school teachers and students to help prepare high school students for forthcoming changes to information processing systems.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Michael Niemier, Kevin Bowyer

  • Metasurface Integrated Uncooled Silicon Germanium Oxide Microbolometers

    This team seeks to identify and investigate the structure/property relationships for metasurface integrated microbolometers utilized for IR imaging. This project includes metasurface design, simulation, modeling, construction, and evaluation.

    Sponsors:
    U.S. Dept. of Army, University of Missouri, Columbia
    ND Investigators:
    Ed Kinzel

  • New Layered 2D Gate Dielectrics for Scaled BEOL Transistors

    This project investigates a new class of 2D van der Waals layered insulators with halogen moieties to open up a relatively large band gap, dielectric constants that range from 13-68, and reduce the growth temperature into the back-end-of-line range.

    Sponsors:
    Semiconductor Research Corporation
    ND Investigators:
    Chris Hinkle
    Collaborators:
    University of Texas, Dallas

  • Collaborative Research: Understanding the Synergistic Effect of Graphene Plasmonics and Nanoscale Spatial Confinement on Solar-Driven Water Phase Change

    This project aims to understand basic mechanisms of synergistic effects of graphene plasmonics and nanoscale spatial confinement of solar-driven water phase change via electromagnetic wave calculations, molecular simulations, and experimental validation.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Tengfei Luo, Eungkyu Lee
    Collaborators:
    University of Nevada

  • Backend-of-the-line (BEOL) compatible GaN growth and passivation for 3D integration

    This project will build on recent success in driving down the growth temperatures of other compound semiconductors and on the team’s extensive experience in Ga-based III-V and III-N research.

    Sponsors:
    Semiconductor Research Corporation, Intel
    ND Investigators:
    Chris Hinkle

  • CAREER: Three-dimensional, super-resolution, and super-sensitivity quantitative molecular multiphoton

    The research goal is to study, develop, characterize, and evaluate a new method for super-resolution molecular imaging in living animals while simultaneously integrating educational and outreach programs aimed at future biophotonics researchers.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Scott Howard

  • Gradient Coatings for Molten Salt Corrosion Under Radiation Field

    The project’s goal is to develop a combinatorial aerosol based printing process to discover and develop coating materials for molten salt corrosion using a high throughput methodology to screen large numbers of compositions and processing conditions.

    Sponsors:
    Idaho National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
    ND Investigators:
    Yanliang Zhang

  • Multi-Component Semiconducting Oxide FETs: Materials-Device Co-Design,Synthesis, NanoFabrication, Characterization and Benchmarking

    The team aims to design, synthesize and optimize a thermally stable, hydrogen insensitive n-type semiconducting oxide thin film with electron mobility ~100cm2V-1s-1, to demonstrate a fully back-end-of-the-line compatible n-channel oxide FET.

    Sponsors:
    Semiconductor Research Corporation
    ND Investigators:
    Suman Datta

  • Multi-Bit-per-Cell (MBC) Ferroelectric FET Memory Using Ferroelectric (FE) Superlattice with Anti-Ferroelectric (AFE) Interfacial Coupling

    The goal is to design, synthesize and optimize a ferroelectric superlattice structure based on stacked layers of ferroelectric thin films with non-ferroelectric spacer layers, demonstrating a fully CMOS compatible multi-bit/cell ferroelectric FET memory.

    Sponsors:
    Semiconductor Research Corporation
    ND Investigators:
    Suman Datta

  • NEW materials for LogIc, Memory and InTerconnectS (New Limits)

    Team members are developing backend-of-the-line (BEOL) materials and integration processes focusing on the low-temperature growth of traditional and novel semiconductors.

    Sponsors:
    Purdue University, Semiconductor Research Corporation
    ND Investigators:
    Chris Hinkle
    Collaborators:
    University of Michigan, Penn State University, University of Texas Dallas

  • Simulation of Supercooled Droplet Icing using Luminescent Imaging

    Researchers are providing experimental data showing the impact of droplets on a surface using luminescent imaging techniques for a variety of physical conditions.

    Sponsors:
    ANSYS Inc.
    ND Investigators:
    Hirotaka Sakaue, Aleksandar Jemcov

  • In-Pile Instrumentation Initiative: Work Package 4

    This project will develop functional sensors via additive manufacturing and study the sensors through in-pile tests and post-irradiation examinations to understand radiation effects on the printed sensor material structures and properties.

    Sponsors:
    Idaho National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
    ND Investigators:
    Yanliang Zhang

  • Out-of-equilibrium self-assembly for rapid hypoglycemic rescue

    To provide a read-out of the disease state in diabetes, researchers are preparing highly unstable materials that exist only in the presence of glucose and rapidly dissipate/dissolve if glucose is absent.

    Sponsors:
    Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
    ND Investigators:
    Matthew Webber

  • Let spin-wave physics do the computing

    In this research, the team is working to demonstrate a specific hardware block that uses the spin-wave substrate to show that this hardware can be configured to solve a number of computationally hard problems.

    Sponsors:
    Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
    ND Investigators:
    Wolfgang Porod, Gary Bernstein, Jonathan Chisum, Alexei Orlov

  • Thermal evaporation around optically excited functionalized nanoparticles

    For potential use in solar absorber-assisted thermal evaporation applications, specially functionalized nanoparticles that can be heated through light absorption are being investigated to further understand their localized heating properties.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Tengfei Luo, Hsueh-Chia Chang
    Collaborators:
    College of Saint Benedict, Saint John's University

  • Complex Transport of Complex Nanoparticles in Complex Flows: Integrating Lab and Field Data with Models at Multiple Scales

    This study completely integrates lab and field experiments and modeling to determine the fate of complex nanoparticles in complex streams, providing key advances in understanding nanoparticle fate and transport in realistic flow environmental systems.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Kyle Doudrick, Diogo Bolster

  • Novel devices and circuits for side channels

    The project goal is to identify novel devices and associated logic gates and circuits for cryptographic primitives that produce symmetric power and radiation signatures to solve side channel leakages, and that can be integrated with CMOS processes.

    Sponsors:
    Semiconductor Research Corporation
    ND Investigators:
    Michael Niemier, Sharon Hu, Yiyu Shi

  • CAREER: Mid-infrared intersubband polaritonics

    This project studies the physics of mid-infrared cavities resonantly coupled to intersubband transitions and demonstrates superluminescent optical devices based on this coupling. The results will be used to improve technical education at all levels.

    Sponsors:
    National Science Foundation
    ND Investigators:
    Anthony Hoffman

  • MICCoM – SSAGES ad COPSS packages

    This work continues the development, validation, and maintenance of the SSAGES package, and supports cross-collaborations and code couplings to COPSS, DASH, QBOX, and WEST.

    Sponsors:
    U.S. Department of Energy
    ND Investigators:
    Jonathan Whitmer
    Collaborators:
    Argonne National Laboratory, University of Michigan, Northwestern University, UC Davis, University of Chicago