Research Highlights
Highlights
Holonyak Featured in Illinois Inovations
"Nick Holonyak's inventions, like all great works of scientific inspiration, have changed our world," says Richard Herman, the chancellor of the Urbana campus.
Published Date: July 9, 2008
Cantilever Array Used To Measure Cells (Chemical & Engineering News)
Professor Rashid Bashir and colleagues have developed a new array of microfabricated silicon cantilevers that enable researchers to track the growth of cells.
Published Date: June 25, 2008
AFM Patterned Quantum Dots
AFM Patterned Quantum Dots by James Coleman.
Published Date: April 10, 2008
Biosensor technology being used for research across campus
During the past three years, ECE Associate Professor Brian Cunningham and his graduate students have been developing new ways to use photonic crystals in biosensing. Their research projects involve collaboration with several departments within the University.
Published Date: March 24, 2008
Leburton, Timp, and team propose DNA fabrication technique
Along with ECE Professor Greg Timp, Professor Jean-Pierre Leburton is studying DNA sequencing using a synthetic nanopore. The effort stems from a large goal of the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to make DNA sequencing faster and more cost effective.
Published Date: March 10, 2008