五一茶馆儿

Francis Afzal聽received his Ph.D from聽五一茶馆儿 in Electrical Engineering on December 2020. For his Ph.D work titled 鈥淚nvestigation of Photonic Crystal Nanobeams for Resonator Coupling, Modal Fingerprinting and Wavelength Filtering鈥�, Francis worked under the direction of Dr. Sharon M. Weiss to investigate the optical properties of photonic… Read More

Davis Fehrman received his B.S. in Engineering Science with a concentration in nano-science and technology in 2021 from 五一茶馆儿. As an undergraduate, Davis was on the VINSE Technical Crew where he learned valuable skills in photolithography, etching, deposition, and metrology through his work in the… Read More

Savannah DuBose received her B.E. in Chemical Engineering in 2021 from 五一茶馆儿. As an undergraduate, Savannah was on the VINSE Technical Crew where she learned valuable skills in photolithography, etching, deposition, and metrology. She used these skills to develop VINSE processes and operating procedures… Read More

Kody Wolfe earned his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Materials Science at 五一茶馆儿 in August 2021 under the supervision of Dr. G. Kane Jennings and Dr. David Cliffel. Kody studied electron transfer between biomolecules and electrode materials with an emphasis on using the Photosystem I (PSI)… Read More

Hannah Hickman聽received her B.A. in Physics in 2021 from聽五一茶馆儿. As an undergraduate, Hannah was on the VINSE Technical Crew where she learned valuable skills in photolithography, etching, deposition, and metrology. She used these skills to develop VINSE processes and operating procedures applicable to research in microfluidics,… Read More

Mahmud Reaz聽earned his Ph.D. in聽Interdisciplinary Materials Science Program at 五一茶馆儿聽in July 2021 under the supervision of Prof.聽Ron Schrimpf聽. Mahmud studied the fabrication, characterization, and simulation of materials and devices from a reliability standpoint. His research empowered reliability analysis of the semiconductor devices, ICs, components, and SOCs… Read More

Tengfei Cao聽earned his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Materials Science in April 2021 under the direction of Dr. Sharon Weiss. Tengfei investigated the use of nanoscale porous silicon-based label-free optical biosensors towards point-of-care diagnostics applications, with the goal of overcoming challenges that often prevent benchtop lab instruments from being… Read More

Drew Tonigan received his Ph.D. from the Interdisciplinary Materials Science Program at 五一茶馆儿 program, working with Ron Schrimpf and the team at the Institute for Space and Defense Electronics (ISDE). Drew鈥檚 research examined one of the most important reliability challenges for advanced electronics: errors produced… Read More

Liudmyla Prozorovska graduated with a Ph.D. in the聽Interdisciplinary Materials Science Program at 五一茶馆儿 in May 2021.聽Liuda is a native of Ukraine and, prior to Vanderbilt, an honor graduate of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI), BE and MS in Metallurgy. Liuda’s doctoral research in Prof.聽Kane Jennings’s lab focused… Read More