Tenure-track or research-track professors who have either a primary (one-person) or secondary (shared) office in the BNC, equipment or a lab space assignment in the BNC, or resident BNC graduate students under their supervision. Resident Faculty Members must sign a Birck agreement.
AKIN, DEMIR
Assistant Research Professor
Manager
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Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Birck BioMEMs and BioNano Laboratories |
Research Areas : nanomedicine, nanotechnology, bioMEMS, targeted drug delivery, controlled drug release, experimental therapeutics, cancer and infectious disease diagnostics, systems biology, biosensors, cellular
engineering, synthetic biology, nanorobotics |
ALAM, MOHAMMAD
Professor |
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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APPENZELLER. JOERG
Professor,
Scientific Director of Nanoelectronics
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Research Areas:
Device and transport physics of low-dimensional systems, experimental verification of novel device concept for improved transistor performance, exploration of nano-materials and nano-interfaces for future nanoelectronics applications
Areas of Interest:
Microelectronics and Nanotechnology |
BASHIR, RASHID
Professor
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
School of Mechanical Engineering |
Research Areas : bioMEMS; nanotechnology; bionanotechnology; biochips and biosensors
Areas of Interest :
applications of micro and nanotechnology in dease, biology, and medicine
Expertise :
micro and nanofabrication; nanotechnology; biomedical applications of nanotechnology |
BEAUDOIN, STEPHEN P.
Associate Professor
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School of Chemical Engineering |
Research Areas : particle and thin film adhesion; biosensors; wafer planarization
Areas of Interest : mass transfer and interfacial phenomena
Expertise : atomic force microscopy; microwave plasma processing; CMP |
BERGSTROM, DONALD
Professor
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Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology |
Expertise : bionanotechnology |
CAPANO, MICHAEL
Associate Professor
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Research Areas : silicon carbide; chemical vapor deposition processing
Areas of Interest : epitaxy; device processing; characterization; X-ray diffraction
Expertise : epitaxial growth; structural and electrical characterization |
CHANG, LUH-MAAN
Associate Professor
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School of Civil Engineering |
Areas of Interest : detection of hazardous molecules and materials
Expertise : nanostructures |
CHAPPELL, WILLIAM J.
Assistant Professor
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Research Areas : high frequency circuits; advanced packaging; antennas; microwave circuits; sensors; sensor-scale mass spectrometry; RFID
Expertise : applied electromagnetics |
COOPER, JAMES A.
Charles William Harrison Professor
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Research Areas : semiconductor devices; semiconductor device physics; semiconductor fabrication technology; compound semiconductors; wide bandgap semiconductors; silicon carbide (SiC)
Areas of Interest : integrated circuits; power switching devices; novel device concepts; novel measurement techniques
Expertise : device fabrication techniques; device design and simulation; integrated circuit design; device characterization |
DATTA, SUPRIYO
Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Research Areas : nanoelectronics
Areas of Interest : spin electronics; molecular electronics; mesoscopic superconductivity; heterogeneous catalysis; SPS
Expertise : nanoscale device physics |
FISHER, TIMOTHY S.
Associate Professor
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School of Mechanical Engineering |
Research Areas : heat transfer; energy storage and conversion; nanomanufacturing
Areas of Interest : carbon nanotube and diamond film synthesis; simulation and measurement of nanoscale heat transfer; coupled electro-thermal effects in semiconductor devices; nanoscale direct energy conversion; vacuum and solid-state; nanoelectronics; microfluidic devices; hydrogen storage; subcontinuum computation methods
Expertise : plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition; high-reolution electron energy spectroscopy; field and thermionic emission; nanoscale heat transfer and evergy conversion; interfacial transport; atomistic simulation; soft lithography |
GARCIA, R. EDWIN
Assistant Professor
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School of Materials Engineering |
Research Areas: development of codes and theoretical tools for the analysis of microstructurally complex materials, by starting from micrographic images, in order to engineer their properties and macroscopic response |
GARIMELLA, SURESH
Professor
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School of Mechanical Engineering |
Research Areas : high-performance compact cooling technologies and electronics packaging; thermal microsystems; micro- and nano-scale thermal phenomena; materials processing; crystal growth |
JANES, DAVID B.
Associate Professor
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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KAIS, SABRE
Professor
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Department of Chemistry |
Research Areas : electronic structure of finite systems of atoms, molecules, clusters, and quantum dots; quantum information; quantum computation
Areas of Interest : dynamics of entanglement for spin systems and quantum dots; finite size scaling and quantum phase transitions; quantum computing and quantum algorithms
Expertise : electronic structure and dynamics of finite systems; quantum information theory and quantum computation; finite size scaling and quantum criticality |
KLIMECK, GERHARD
Professor
Technical Director
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Network for Computational Nanotechnology |
Research Areas : computational nanoelectronics; modeling of nanoelectronic devices; genetic algorithm based optimization; image processing
Areas of Interest : reaching researchers, educators, and students with simulation tools
Expertise : nanoelectronics; computational science; parallel computing |
LEARY, JAMES F.
SVM Professor of Nanomedicine
Professor of Basic Medical Sciences
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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Department of Basic Medical Sciences
School of Veterinary Medicine |
Research Areas : bioMEMS; bionanotechnlogy; nanomedicine
Areas of Interest : design of nanomedical systems; high-throughput microfluidic devices; cancer; infectious diseases; stem cell therapeutics
Expertise : high-throughput technologies; flow/image cytometry; cytomics; stem cell biology; developmental immunology; cancel cell biology; infectious diseases |
LEE, GIL
Professor
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School of Chemical Engineering |
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LU, CHANG
Assistant Professor
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School of Agricultural and Biological Engineering |
Research Areas : nanomaterials; microfluidics/nanofluidics
Areas of Interest : nanomaterials for biosensing; microfluidics for processing of single molecules and cells
Expertise : nanofabrication; materials; surface chemistry; fluorescence spectroscopy |
LUNDSTROM, MARK S.
Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Network for Computational Nanotechnology |
Research Areas / Areas of Interest / Expertise : nanoelectronics; carrier transport in semiconductors; electronic device physics; limits of silicon technology and possibilities of nanoelectronics; cyberinfrastructure and nanotechnology |
LYANDA-GELLER, YULI
Associate Professor
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Department of Physics |
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McNALLY, HELEN
Assistant Professor
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology |
Research Areas : nano/micro techniques applied to biology and medicine; atomic force microscopy
Areas of Interest : spinal cord injury; cell to cell communications
Expertise : biological atoms force microscopy |
MELLOCH, MICHAEL
Professor
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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MOHAMMADI, SAEED
Assistant Professor
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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MOON, ROBERT J.
Materials Research Engineer
Adjunct Professor
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USDA Forest Products Laboratory
School of Materials Engineering
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MURHTY, JAYATHI Y.
Professor
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School of Mechanical Engineering |
Research Areas : computational fluid synamics and heat transfer; nano-scale thermal transport; thermal transport in emerging electronics
Expertise : numerical simulation; unstructured mesh finite volume methods; fluid dynamics; heat transfer; submicron thermal transport |
NARIMANOV, EVGENII
Associate Professor
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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PEROULIS, DIMITRIOS
Assistant Professor
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Expertise : bio-nanotechnology |
QI, MINGHAO
Assistant Professor
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Areas of Interest : fabrication of novel photonic devices
Expertise : nanolithography |
RAMAN, ARVIND
Professor
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School of Mechanical Engineering |
Research Areas : bio-nanotechnology
Expertise : nanostructures |
RAO, MASA P.
Assistant Professor
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School of Mechanical Engineering |
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REIFENBERGER, RONALD
Professor
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Department of Physics |
Expertise : nanostructures |
RIBBE, ALEXANDER E.
Director, Purdue Laboratory for Chemical Nanotechnology
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Department of Chemistry |
Research Areas : polymers; nanoparticles; composites; morphology; microscopy
Areas of Interest/Expertise : phase separation and self-assembly of polymer and polymercomposite systems; electron microscopy (EFTEM, EELS); scanning probe microscopy; nanolithography; ultra thin films |
ROKHINSON, LEONID
Assistant Professor
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Department of Physics |
Research Areas : solid state physics; mesoscopic physics; nanodevices; quantum information
Areas of Expertise : nanotechnology; AFM lithography |
SANDS, TIMOTHY D.
Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering
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School of Materials Engineering
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Research Areas : solid-state lighting; direct thermal energy conversion (thermoelectrics and solid-state thermionics); self-assembly of 1-D nanocomposites; nanowire devices
Areas of Interest : solid-state energy conversion; nanotechnology; materials science; nanomanufacturing; heterogeneous integration
Areas of Expertise : materials characterization; thin-film deposition and heteroepitaxy; contacts to semicondcutors; physical properties of materials |
SAVRAN, CAGRI
Assistant Professor
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School of Mechanical Engineering
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
School of Biomedical Engineering |
Research Areas : bioMEMS; bionanotechnology; biosensors; biomolecular detection; cell detection; protein detection
Areas of Interest : aptamers; aptazymes; cancer biology; proteins
Areas of Expertise : microfabrication; instrumentation; device functionalization |
SCHWARTZ, RICHARD J.
Professor
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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SHALAEV, VLADIMIR M.
Robert and Anne Burnett Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Research Areas : optical properties of nanostructured materials; nonlinear optics and spectroscopy; mesoscopic physics; quantum electronics and optoelectronics
Areas of Interest : communications, networking, signal & image processing; fields and optics; microelectronics and nanotechnology
Areas of Expertise : photonics |
STACH, ERIC A.
Associate Professor
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School of Materials Engineering |
Research Areas : electron microscopy; nanostructured materials; crystal growth; thin films; deformation in materials
Areas of Interest : growth and performance of nanostructure materials for applications in nanoelectronics and energy
Areas of Expertise : nanoscale materials characterization; electron and ion microscoy; deformation in materials; crystal growth; nanostructured materials growth |
WEI, ALEXANDER
Associate Professor
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Department of Chemistry |
Research Areas : nanoparticle self-assembly; surface functionalization; organic synthesis; optical and magnetic materials; bionanotechnology |
WERELEY, STEVE
Associate Professor
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School of Mechanical Engineering |
Research Areas : microfluidics; MEMS |
WOODALL, JERRY M.
Distinguished Professor
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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XU, XIANFAN
Professor
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School of Mechanical Engineering |
Research Areas : nanomanufacturing; nanolithography; nano-optics; nanoscale energy transfer; ultrafast laser materials interaction
Areas of Interest : laser manufacturing; NEMS/MEMS
Areas of Expertise : lasers; optics; energy transfer; manufacturing |
YE, PEIDE (PETER)
Associate Professor
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Research Areas : atomic layer deposition; nanofabrication and nanostructures; quantum/spin transport; semiconductor physics and devices; III-V MOSFETs |
ZIAIE, BABAK
Associate Professor
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Research Areas : biomedical micro and nanosystems; bioMEMS; implantable wireless microsystems; micro and nanofabrication technology; biomimetics; soft condensed matter; analog circuit design for biomedical applications
Areas of Expertise : bio-Nano; implantable bio-medical devices |
