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Hanyu Zheng is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Dr. Jason Valentine鈥檚 group majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research focuses on metasurface-based devices with applications in spatial light modulation and imaging processing. Hanyu鈥檚 recent publication in ACS Nano introduced a novel method based on compound meta-optics for… Read More

Douglas Adams, vice dean of the Vanderbilt School of Engineering and associate provost in the Office of Research and Innovation, has been named a member of the Springer Nature U.S. Research Advisory Council. Springer Nature is an academic publishing company that includes leading publications such as… Read More

The VINSE Technical Crew summer fellowship undergraduates will work directly with VINSE staff on cleanroom projects and activities critical to daily operations and that help expand the process capabilities and knowledge base available to researchers.聽 Projects include building and testing microfluidic devices for biomedical applications, solar cell fabrication… Read More

DISSERTATION DEFENSE John Waugh, Interdisciplinary Materials Science *under the direction of Peter Pintauro “Electrospun Electrodes for Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes and Capacitive Deionization” 03.24.23聽 |聽 1:15PM CST聽 |聽 048 Engineering Science Building (ESB)聽 |聽 Zoom Electrospinning is a promising approach for fabricating energy storage materials with significant morphological… Read More

Mackey “Trey” Long, an Interdisciplinary Materials Science graduate student, has won the Richard Bennett/Dorothy Danforth Compton Prize. This is one of eight endowed awards established by donors to recognize students with outstanding scholarships, specifically recognizes promising graduate minority students in science… Read More

Sen Yang is a fifth-year graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Materials Science under the direction of Dr. Justus Ndukaife. Ndukaife鈥檚 group focuses on multidisciplinary research including plasmonic and resonant dielectric nanostructures for efficient nano-optical trapping, manipulation, enhanced spectroscopy, and sensing of nanoscale objects. Sen鈥檚 recent publication… Read More

IMS hosted an Open House on Sunday, March 5 and Monday, March 6. Overall, 8 exceptional students visited from all over the US, with three other acceptances delivered to students overseas. The students visited with various IMS faculty, toured Vanderbilt鈥檚 campus, saw the cleanroom and were able to meet… Read More

DISSERTATION DEFENSE Hanyu Zheng,聽Electrical Engineering *under the direction of Dr.聽Jason Valentine 鈥淐ompound Meta-optic for Complete Wavefront Control鈥� 03.07.23聽 |聽 2:00pm CST聽 |聽聽Stevenson聽2212 Optical metasurfaces, based on subwavelength structuring, offer a compact platform for manipulation of the amplitude, phase and polarization state of light. Independent control over these properties,… Read More

AFM is an advanced multi-parametric imaging technique. It delivers very high-resolution 3D images of聽the topography of the sample. It also enables the characterization of the nano-mechanical, nano-electrical, and nano-magnetic properties of the surface. Users will learn about the theory of AFM as well as practical applications, operational tips for… Read More

Microfluidic devices can enable 鈥渓abs on chips鈥� that consume less reagents and聽have faster analysis times than similar experiments performed in a traditional lab environment. Applications of microfluidic devices include portable sensors for point-of-care analysis, molecular and cell biology studies, and high-throughput, multiplexed assays. This short course will introduce… Read More