Highlights
Apr 7, 2008
University of California, Santa Barbara
Materials Research Outreach Program (MROP)
Craig Hawker
The annual 3-day program is held in late January to showcase the materials research capabilities of UCSB. The MROP has evolved from a polymer-focused program to a broad materials-themed event over the past 6 years, and features a combination of "latest and greatest" research presentations by UCSB senior students, post-docs, and faculty as well as featured guest speakers from Industry and National Laboratories.
Mar 25, 2008
Princeton University
Fine Print: New Technique Allows Fast Printing of Microscopic Electronics
Sibel Korkut, Dudley Saville, and Ilhan Aksay
While electronics have become much smaller and more powerful, an elusive goal has been to "print" these tiny devices rapidly over very large areas.While electronics have become much smaller and more powerful, an elusive goal has been to "print" these tiny devices rapidly over very large areas. The ability to do so could lead to larger and less expensive video displays in the near-term and wide-area sensors or medical devices in the longer term.
Mar 25, 2008
Princeton University
New Initiatives in PCCM REU Program
Education: Jay Benziger, Dan Steinberg, and dozens of faculty mentors
The Princeton Center for Complex Materials has run a highly successful Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program for over a decade. The 33 participants in 2007's program were selected from a strong pool of 310 applicants, and through our Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) with California State University - Northridge (CSUN), we were able to include five CSUN undergraduates in this group. Through our REU program, students become familiar with Princeton as well as research; five former REU students are currently enrolled here as Ph.D.
Mar 14, 2008
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Printed Organic FETs on Plastic
In a collaboration with an industrial manufacturer of aerosol jet printers (Optomec, Inc.), Lodge, Frisbie, and their students have demonstrated successful low voltage operation of an array of ion-gel gated OFETs printed on flexible polyimide substrates. Every component of the OFETs was printed--the metal electrodes (gold colloidal ink), the semiconductor (poly(3-hexylthiophene), and the gate insulator (the new ion gel material).
Mar 14, 2008
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Understanding Magnetic "Exchange Pinning"
Magnetic storage of digital data is now possible at densities approaching 1 Terabit per square inch at a cost of only about a tenth of a cent per Megabit. To a large extent, the breathtaking progress in this area of technology is sustained by discovery of bits. The invention of “GMR" sensors based on stacks of ultra-thin films of magnetic metals (for which the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in 2007) is a perfect example.
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