2020-2021 CNF Research Accomplishments (RA)

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Table of Contents, Welcome, and 2020 Publications,
Biological Applications,
Investigating Metabolic Regulation of Cancer Stem-Like Cells in the Perivascular Niche,
Generating Microfluidic Devices to Study Confined Migration of Cancer Cells,
Body-on-a-Chip Systems for Drug Development and in vitro Interactions,
Silicon Nitride Cantilevers for Muscle Myofibril Force Measurements,
Nanophotonic Standing-Wave Array Trap for Single-Molecule Applications,
Microfluidics Channels for Zinc Metal Homeostasis,
Sample Cells for High Pressure Biological X-Ray Solution Scattering,
Bacterial Mechanics and Mechanobiology,
Design and Application of Microfluidic Devices to Study Cell Migration in Confined Environments,
Microfabrication of Fixed Length Sample Holders for Cryogenic Small Angle X-Ray Scattering,
Metasurface-Enhanced Infrared Spectroscopy for the Measurement of Live Cells,
Retinal Implant Project,
Development of Heparin-Based Coacervate Loaded Liposomes as Non-Invasive Therapy for Myocardial Infarction,
Test Chip for Impedance Spectroscopy of Neuro Excitability,
Fabrication of Microchip Devices for Organ-on-a-Chip and Lab-on-a-Chip,
Human MSCs Release Multiple EV Populations Containing Mitochondria,
Microfluidic Device to Study Breast Cancer Cell Migration,
Chemistry,
Peptoid Photoresists with Precisely Controllable Length and Composition,
Controlling the Crystallite Size Distribution of Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) Using Base-Mediated Equilibrium Dynamics,
Electronics,
Graphene-on-Polymer Flexible Vaporizable Sensor,
Towards Low-Coercive Field Operation of Sputtered Ferroelectric ScxAl1-xN,
A High-Performance Epitaxial Transparent Oxide Thin-Film Transistor Fabricated at Back-End-Of-Line Temperature (< 450°C) by Suboxide Molecular-Beam Epitaxy,
Fabrication and Manipulation of Microscale Opto-Electrically Transduced Electrodes (MOTEs),
Millimeter-Wave Large Signal Performance of AlN/GaN/AlN HEMTs,
Nitrogen Polar III-Nitride Resonant Tunneling Diodes,
CMOS Neural Probe with Multi-Turn Micro-Coil Magnetic Stimulation,
Materials,
New Generation of DUV Photoresists with Precise Molecular Structure,
A New Generation of Small Molecules for EUV Photolithography,
Mesoporous Thin Film Quantum Materials via Block Copolymer Self-Assembly Patterned by Photolithography,
Nano-Scale Area-Selective Formation of Polymer Brushes,
Raman Spectroscopy and Aging of the Low-Loss Ferrimagnet Vanadium Tetracyanoethylene,
Encapsulation of Photocathodes in Two-Dimensional Materials,
Fabricating Planar Microwave Resonators for On-Chip Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy,
Scissionable Polymer Photoresist for Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography,
Control of Water Adsorption via Electrically Doped Graphene,
Driving Structure Selection in Colloidal Particles Through Confinement,
Elucidating the Chemical Crypsis Mechanism in South African Snakes by Determining Microscale and Nanoscale Structure-Function Relationships in Snake Skin Sheds and Replicas,
Mechanical Devices,
Programmable Magnetic Microsystems,
Smart Microscopic Robots,
Characterizing Disjoining Pressure of Water in SiO2 Nanochannels by Wicking Experiments,
Origami-Inspired Micro-Robotic Arm,
Electrically Controllable Micro-Machines,
Nanoscale Hot-Wire Anemometer Probe with Contoured Silicon Probe Body,
Hot-Wire Anemometer Probe with SU-8 Support Structure,
Limit Cycle Oscillations in Silicon Structures Using Opto-Thermal Excitation,
Optics & Opto-Electronics,
Ultra-Broadband Entangled Photons on a Nanophotonic Chip,
Narrow Linewidth, Widely Tunable Integrated Lasers from Visible to Near-IR,
Development of Single and Double Layer Anti-Reflective Coatings for Astronomical Instruments,
Electrically Actuated Zoom-Lens Based on a Liquid-Crystal-Embedded Semiconductor Metasurface,
Lithium Niobate Ring Resonator Device for Adiabatic Wavelength Conversion,
Precise Phase Measurement with Weak Value Amplification on Integrated Photonic Chip,
Engineered Second-Order Nonlinearity in SiN,
Description of the Thermal Control using Metamaterials Project,
Metamaterial Spectrometer: A Low SWaP, Robust, High Performance Hyperspectral Sensor for Land and Atmospheric Remote Sensing,
Stoichiometric Silicon Nitride Growth for Nonlinear Nanophotonics,
Physics & Nano-Structure Physics,
Controlling the Pre-Curvature of Surface Electrochemical Actuators for Microscopic Robots,
Current-Induced Magnetization Switching in a Ferrimagnetic Layer,
Separation of Artifacts from Spin-Torque Ferromagnetic Resonance Measurements of Spin-Orbit Torque for the Low-Symmetry Semi-Metal ZrTe3,
Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in Graphene/ Insulating Ferromagnet van der Waals Heterostructures,
Small Devices for Photo-Induced Electrochemical Synthesis,
Nanofabricated Superconducting Devices for Vortex Dynamics and Qubits,
Fabrication of Nanoscale Josephson Junctions for Quantum Coherent Superconducting Circuits,
Nanoscale Magnetization and Current Imaging using Time-Resolved Scanning-Probe Magneto-Thermal Microscopy,
Strain Tuning of Quantum Emitters in Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides,
Mechanically Driven Electron Spins with a Diamond Thin-Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator,
Fabrication of Nanophotonic Optical Cavity Device from Inverse Design,
Charge-Order-Enhanced Capacitance in Semiconductor Moiré Superlattices,
Thermal and Electrical Properties of Quasi-1D van der Waals Nanowires,
Superconducting Thin Film Growth, Process Development, Defects Investigation, and Device Fabrication for Radio-Frequency Accelerating Cavities,
Process & Characterization,
Characterization of Extracellular Vesicles Produced from Glycocalyx-Engineered Cells in vitro,
NanoScale Hole Patterns Etched into Glass for Spectral Sensing,
300 mm E-Beam Lithography,
Characterization of Additively Manufactured High Aspect Ratio Microchannels via Two-Photon Polymerization,
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