Top down fabrication is utilized extensively for the manufacturing of integrated circuits and to a lesser extent to areas of MEMS and optoelectronics. We are interested in developing novel and extending existing techniques to create structures and devices in the micro and nanoscale. Ongoing research includes micro optical devices and mass spectrometer on-a-chip. The research is done at facility both at the university and outside the university.
Nanophotonics
The optical
properties of many materials change drastically as their dimensions are reduced
to the optical and de Broglie wavelengths of the
quasi-particle transitions. We leverage our expertise in nanofabrication to
create novel photonic devices with engineered electrical and optical properties.
Optical and impedance spectroscopy are key techniques to
probe and understand the nanostructures.
Control and probing of chemical reaction in fluid in real time can be done using an integrated optical and microfluidics platform. We fabricate polymer based waveguide and combine them with fluidic structures for a variety of sensing and spectroscopic applications.
