2013 NNIN REU Convocation Videos

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Session C1 Clough Commons Room 152

Mr. Daniel Loman (UCSB), Trap Density Analysis of High Dielectric Oxides on III-V Semiconductor
Ms. Maike Blakely (Cornell), Characterization of Single Component Molecular Glass Resists
Ms. Tiffany Huang (Stanford), Deposition of Immobilization Layers for Extremophile-Based Biosensors
Mr. Kristofer Chow (UCSB), MOSFET: Fabrication Process and Performance Analysis
Mr. Stephen March (UT Austin), Electrical and Optical Studies of Metal:Semiconductor Nanocomposities for Nanophotonics
Ms. Emily Donahue (Colorado), Silicon Nanophotonic Add-Drop Filters Based on High

Session C2 Clough Commons Room 102

Ms. Keiko Kato (PSU), Developing Bioinspired Slippery Coating on Industrial Steels
Mr. Brendan McMurtray (Howard), Growth of MoS2 Atomic Layers
Ms. Carolyn Zhang (Harvard), Fabrication of Smart Gels with Tunable Stiffness
Mr. Kyle Marshall (PSU), Mobile Targeted Objects Steered by Chemical Micropumps
Mr. Tyler Erjavec (Cornell), Area-Selective Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD): New Recipe Development
Mr. Michael West (WUSTL). Solid-State Pulse NMR of (CdSe)₁₃(propylamine₎₁₃

Session C3 Clough Commons Room 152

Mr. Christopher Addiego (UW), Fabrication of Graphene Field Effect Transistors on Boron Nitride Substrates
Ms. Brandi Burton (ASU), Low-Temperature Cu Segregation and Oxidation in Microwaved Ag-Cu Alloys
Ms. Deanna Lanigan (WUSTL), Improving Lithium Ion Battery Performance with Dopant Substitution
Ms. Jaelin Quinn (Georgia Tech), Influence of Al2O3 Coating on the Annealing Behavior of Si Nanowires
Mr. Jeremy Leshin (WUSTL), Preparation of Transparent Conducting CuAIO2 Foils

Session C4 Clough Commons Room 102

Mr. Suman Gunasekaran (Minnesota), Fabrication of Nanofluidic Devices for DNA Confinement
Mr. Corey Landry (Harvard), Design of Synthetic Protein Membranes Using Droplet Microfluidics
Ms. Ayobami Adeleke (Howard), Binding of DU145 Prostate Tumor Cells on SiC
Mr. Dakota Crisp (UT Austin), System Automation for High Throughput Biosensor
Ms. Sarah Nainar (Stanford), Identifying the Biomechanical Effects of UV Resistant Molecules and Nanoparticles on Human Skin

Session C5 Clough Commons Room 152

Mr. Dylan Barber (Stanford), Use of Field-Induced Surface-Organometallic Interactions to Control Selectivity in Rhodium-Catalyzed Organic Reactions
Ms. Kris Beykirch (Cornell), Effect of Reactive Ion Etching on Laser-Annealed Low-k SiCOH Materials
Mr. Satoshi Anada (PSU), Si/TiO2 Core/Shell Nanowire for Gas Sensor Arrays on Si CMOS
Mr. Kosuke Wataya (Michigan), Radio Frequency Switches Using Phase Change Material

Session C6 Clough Commons Room 102

Ms. Crystal Chukwurah (Howard), Growth of Graphene on Various Substrates
Ms. Christine Le (WUSTL), Crumpled Graphene Oxide Nanostructures for Advanced Water Treatment Technologies
Ms. Michelle Chen (UCSB), Development of Platinum@Reduced Graphene Oxide Catalyst for Fuel Cell Applications
Ms. Anne Showalter (ASU), Micro-Scale Microbial Fuel Cell: Petroleum Biosensing

Session C7 Clough Commons Room 152

Ms. Meghan Kazanski (Michigan), Development of Microfluidic Devices for use in Immunophenotyping
Mr. Ang Li (Harvard), Curved Functionalized Microfluidic Channels for Study of Cell Dynamics
Ms. Seung Yeon Kim (Minnesota), Fabrication of “Barcode” Nanowires for Multiplexed Detection in Biological Assays
Mr. Ted Kocher (Minnesota), Effects of Cellular Architecture on MDA-MB 231 Breast Cancer Cell Motility
Mr. Zachary Pritchard (UCSB), Fabrication of Nano Ion Pumps for Retinal and Neural Prosthesis
Mr. Gabriel Lopez Marcial (Cornell), Designing a Microfluidic Device to Measure the Deformability of Cancer Cells

Session C8 Clough Commons Room 102

Mr. Kiwamu Nishimoto (UCSB), WSi2 Films for Superconducting Resonators
Mr. Andinet Desalegn (Michigan), Nanoscale High-Speed Transparent Electronics Using E-Beam Patterning of Zinc Tin Oxide Thin Film Transistors
Mr. Kenton McFaul (PSU), Fabricating Nanostructures to Modulate Local Potential in Graphene
Ms. Veronica Medrano (Howard), Growth and Characterization of Synthetic Diamond
Mr. Tomoyuki Inoue (ASU), Fabrication of All-Aluminum n-Type Silicon Solar Cells
Mr. Alexandro Rocha (UT Austin), Designing Directional Micro-Machined Microphones

Session C9 Clough Commons Room 152

Ms. Shelby Pursley (Georgia Tech), Electrospun Nanofibers for Regenerative Medicine
Mr. John Schwalbe (UW), Studying the Interfacial Dynamics of Miscible Fluids with Microfluidics
Mr. Justin Nauman (WUSTL), Effects of Hydrophilic Membrane Modifications and Natural Organic Matter Fouling on Reverse Osmosis Membrane Performance
Ms. Jacqueline Ong (Stanford), Stabilizing Fiber Optic Pressure Sensor Measurements by Fabricating an Enclosed Photonic Crystal Cavity
Mr. Brandon Pereyra (Cornell), Surface Scatterers on Slab-Wave Guides for Uniform Bacteria Growth
Mr. Peter Su (Georgia Tech), Dynamics of Bacterial Quorum Sensing in Microfluidic Devices

Session C10 Clough Commons Room 102

Mr. Eric Reichwein (UCSB), Electron Blocking Layer in Gallium Nitride Devices
Mr. Bradlee Beauchamp (Colorado), Fabricating Dual-Sided Micro Lenses and High Frequency Talbot Diffraction Gratings Using Binary Masks
Ms. Priyanka Gaur (UT Austin), Voltage-tunable Plasmonic Metamaterials Based on Stark Tunable Intersubband Polaritons
Mr. Christopher Green (ASU), Silicon Nanowires for Optical Light Trapping in Solar Cells
Mr. Joshua Michalenko (PSU), High Strain Low Voltage Induced Densified Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Ionic Actuators
Mr. Arthur Bowman, III (Michigan), Infrared Filtering via Sub-Wavelength Gratings for Hyperspectral Imaging

Session C11 Clough Commons Room 152

Mr. John Binion (UT Austin), Inkjet Printed Interconnects for Multilayer Flexible Electronics
Mr. Daichi Oka (UT Austin), Carbon Coated Tin-Seeded Silicon Nanowires for Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes
Mr. Christopher Florencio-Aleman (Georgia Tech), Nanocharacterization of Wood Fibers in Cement
Mr. Harrison Goldwyn (UW), Understanding Magnetic Plasmon Mode Mixing using Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
Mr. Rafael Haro (Cornell), Determination of Strength Degradation Mechanisms of Native Oxide on Silicon Nanostructures of Native Oxide on Silicon Nanostructures

Session C12 Clough Commons Room 102

Ms. Hannah Bailey (WUSTL), Crumpled Graphene for Applications in Energy and the Environment
Mr. Caleb Christianson (Cornell), An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Ultrasound Transmission in Bubbly PDMS Phononic Crystals
Mr. Yuki Sunayamas (Colorado), Graphene-Based Electro-Optic Modulators
Ms. Katelyn Conrad (Colorado), Ion Transport Through Porous Graphene
Mr. Michael Sunyak (Colorado), Graphene-Based Electro-Optic Modulator Fabrication

Session C13 Clough Commons Room 152

Ms. Allison Wustrow (PSU), Directed Self Assembly of Mixed Nanowire Populations via Lithographic Microwells
Mr. Kevin Tkacz (UCSB), Nanostructuring Diamond for Quantum Sensing
Mr. John Ferrier, Jr. (Harvard), Engineering Three-Dimensional Biological Scaffolds Using a Modified Rotary Jet Spinning System
Ms. Azusa Miyagawa (Michigan), Direct Nano Patterning of Anisotropic Conjugated Polymer
Mr. Connor McMahan (Colorado), Electro-Mechanical Characterization of Stretchable and Flexible Nanowires
Mr. Yuki Hamasaki (UW), Poly(3-alkyldithienothiophene): Synthesis, Structure and Optical Properties

Session C14 Clough Commons Room 102

Mr. Tyler Burkett (Georgia Tech), Silver Nanoplates: Structural Stability and Optical Properties
Mr. Benjamin Helfrecht (ASU), Zinc Oxide Based Solar Cells for Self-Powered Smart Window Application
Ms. Alice Perrin (Cornell), Spin Manipulation of Antiferromagnetic Devices
Mr. Andrew Stephan (Minnesota), Infrared Photodetectors With 2D Materials
Ms. Katherine Warthen (Michigan), The Impact of MEMS-Produced Micro-Electrode Material Coating on Dental Plaque Biofilm Growth
Ms. Christine Truong (PSU), The Study of Disposable Substrates in Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) Devices

Session C15 Clough Commons Room 152

Ms. Connie Wu (Cornell), Full Body Silicon Medical Tweezers for Cancerous Tissue Detection and Characterization
Ms. Ashlyn Young (Minnesota), Exploring the Effects of Theophylline on Neutrophil Function in Inflammatory Diseases
Ms. Hannah Zeitler (UW), Azobenzene Modified DNA for Light-Induced DNA Stringency
Ms. Jeanne Xu (WUSTL), Synthesis of Metal Supported Catalysts for the Hydrogenolysis of Lignin

Session C16 Clough Commons Room 152

Ms. Hannah Oros (UT Austin), Gender and Nanoscientists: The Public Communication of Nanotechnology
Mr. Charles Yates (Georgia Tech), Big Ideas on Small Matters: A Multi-Method Approach to Understanding Knowledge Transfer Practices in the NNIN
Mr. Fumiya Kurokawa (PSU), Thermodynamic Control of Lead Content in the Piezoelectric Thin Film
Ms. Jill Wenderott (UCSB), Fabrication and Characterization of InGaAs Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Capacitors (MOSCaps) with HfO2 Dielectrics
Mr. Frank Luciano (UCSB), Mobility of the Two-Dimensional-Electron-Gas in Lattice-Matched InAlN/GaN Grown by Ammonia Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Mr. Shay Wallace (Harvard), Improvement of Tin Sulfide Solar Cell Efficiency

Session C17 Clough Commons Room 152

Mr. Peter Kim (UW), Cellular Migration on Curved Substrata
Ms. Lisa Kriegh (ASU), Microfluidics for the Study of Breast Cancer
Mr. Ming-Lun Wu (Minnesota), Micro-Fabrication of Chemical Field-Effect Transistor
Ms. Alexandra Benson (UW), Characterization of Polymer Films on Silicon Photonics Devices for Blood Analysis
Ms. Dara Bobb-Semple (Stanford), Developing Nanoscale Electrodes for Sensitive Detection of Brain Cell Activities
Ms. Stephanie Cone (Stanford), Investigation of Microfluidic Integration in Magneto-Nanosensor Based Protein Biomarker Detection

Session C18 Clough Commons Room 152

Mr. Moath Othman (Cornell), Electrokinetic Characterization of Nanoscale Metal Oxide Films
Ms. Audre Ramey (Michigan), Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing on Hydrogel Substrates for Cell Culturing Applications
Mr. Joseph Rivas (Michigan), Deposition and Characterization of Magnetic Permalloy for Future Endomicroscope Actuators
Ms. Samantha Corber (WUSTL), Cisplatin-based Metal Organic Framework Nanoparticles for Target Drug Delivery and Tumor Imaging
Mr. Marco De Lira (Howard), Fabrication of Accelerometers using Paper MEMS Substrates

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2013 NNIN REU Convocation Videos