New EE Departmental Brochure has been published
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The article of Prof. A. Cartwright has been highlitened in national press.
The article of Prof. A. Cartwright was highlighted in Chemical Technology.
Professor A. Fam obtained one more US patent.
US Patent No. 7,492,312 has been issued issued on 2/17/2009 to Dr.Adly T. Fam and Dr. Indranil Sarkar: "Multiplicative Mismatched Filters for Optimum Range Sidelobe Suppression in Barker Code Reception". Dr. Sarkar Obtained his Ph. D. on September 2007 with Professor Fam as his major advisor.
The University at Buffalo IEEE student section earned 3rd place in the Micromouse competition.
The University at Buffalo IEEE student section earned 3rd place in the Micromouse competition The competition was part of the 2009 IEEE Region 1 Student Conference held on April 25, 2009 in Trenton, NJ. The participants were: Richie Brosius, Matt Bowers, Thomas Smith, Jimmy Wu, Tom Piwtorak, David Berquist, Adriane Wotawa-Bergen, Matt Swasey, Eric Musuta and Rich Bell. The Micromouse contest is a technological competition dedicated to the creation of an automatic machine that could explore autonomously a labyrinth, reach its center, and eventually find the shortest path between the start and end. The team came away with a $500 reward for their excellence.
Dr. Yong-Kyu Yoon received the "UB's Exceptional Scholar: Young Investigator Award for 2009."
This award was established in 2001 to recognize tenure track junior faculty whose body of work over a number of years has garnered professional or public accolades beyond the norm for faculty at a similar career stage. The UB Exceptional Scholar and Teaching Innovation Awards reception will be held on Monday, May 18th, 3-5pm, in the Kaveeshwar Gallery in 501 Capen Hall.
Prof. J. Bird received Exceptional Scholar Award Announcement.
He was awarded on the basis of his excpetional contributions to the field of nanoelectronics.
Professor Dimitris A. Pados receives SUNY Chancellor's Award.
Professor Dimitris A. Pados is receiving the 2009 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. ``The Chancellor's Awards for Excellence are System-level honors conferred to acknowledge and provide system-wide recognition of and tribute to these individuals' expertise, dedication, and commitment. Award recipients personify professional excellence and serve as role models for the State University of New York community - `To Learn, to Search, to Serve.' '' [Chancellor's Awards for Excellence Memorandum, Policies and Procedures]
Prof. Liu was selected by students of Tau Beta Pi, The Engineering Honor Society, UB SEAS chapter, as the 2009 Professor of the Year.
He developed demonstrations and incorporated remote laboratory in his lectures to enhance learning experiences of students.
EE Student Congratulations Edwin De Roux Fuentes received Award at RadarCon '09.
His article with Prof. A. Fam was selected as the one of the best papers of those considered in our Travel Grant Competition. These travel grants, courtesy of NASA, are provided to students of US institutions The article entitled " Mismatched Filters for Frank Polyphase Codes Via Sidelobe Inversion" has been awarded a grant of up to $1500.
EE Sophomore, Claire Lochner, awarded the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
Claire Lochner, class of 2011, has received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. She is the only recipient this year from the University at Buffalo. The award is based on academic excellence and awarded to students that "have outstanding potential and intend to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering." Claire has been actively involved in the electrical engineering department. She served as a student assistant with Prof. Zirnheld and as a research assistant with Prof. Cartwright. As a student assistant with Prof. Zirnheld, she enlightened freshmen engineers with her knowledge to help them solve interdisciplinary case studies as part of EAS 140, an introductory course for the school of engineering and applied sciences. During her research experience with Prof. Cartwright, she investigated the development of flexible solar cells made from plastics using an inexpensive fabrication process. In addition, she has been actively involved in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Student Chapter, Engineers for a Sustainable World, the Society of Women Engineers, the Engineering Impact on Society Group, and the UB Engineering Ambassador program. Her vast contributions to our University illustrate her commitment to advancing the engineering profession.
EE Student Brian McSkimming received EE Chair's Recognition Award.
EE Student Brian McSkimming received EE Chair's Recognition Award. This Award is given to a student in Electrical Engineering based on academic merit and appropriateness of candidate's background.
Mr. Don MacFarland, current EE UB Student, has received UB Presidential Fellowship
Mr. Don MacFarland, current EE UB Student, has received UB Presidential Fellowship. For more information about The UB Presidential Fellowship Award Click here.
Assistant Professor Multiscale Modeling
The University at Buffalo (SUNY) seeks a tenure-track assistant professor in the broad area of multiscale modeling of the production, assembly, and properties of engineered nanoscale materials, structures, or devices. Appointment at higher rank is possible in exceptional cases. Example research areas of interest include, but are not limited to: modeling energy transport in materials and devices for thermoelectric, photovoltaic, and photocatalytic applications; modeling of nanoscale devices in the regime of strong quantum effects; coarse-graining or multi-scale modeling strategies that link quantum chemistry and atomistic molecular simulations to the nano, micro, and macro scales; and simulation of the transport of natural and human-made nanostructures in biological environments. This position is associated with the UB2020 Strategic Strength in Integrated Nanostructured Systems (www.nano.buffalo.edu), one of eight areas of scholarly activity identified for strategic investment at UB. The home department of the successful candidate will be determined by mutual agreement at the time of hiring, and could be Chemical and Biological Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, or Electrical Engineering. Applicants should submit a curriculum vita, statements of teaching and research plans, and names of three references via the UBJobs system, at www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu, referencing posting number 0900080. The University at Buffalo is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer/Recruiter
Dan Muffoletto a senior EE student has been awarded the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence
The SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence acknowledges students who have received recognition for student excellence. This award is given to the students who have best demonstrated, and have been recognized for, the integration of academic excellence with other aspects of their lives, which may include arts, athletics, career achievement, community service, and leadership.
Prof. Cartwright received the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Faculty Excellence Award for 2008
Prof. Cartwright received a Faculty Excellence Award, given to select faculty members who showed exceptional diligence and effort towards being both productive (quantity) and excellent (quality) in all their activities. Prof. Cartwright was one of only two School of Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty members to receive this award.
Interview with Prof. Esther S. Takeuchi has been published in C&E News magazine
Interview with Prof. Esther S. Takeuchi has been published in C&E News magazine of American Chemical Society. Prof. Takeuchi is Co-Director of NYSTAR Center for Advanced Technology in Bioniformatics and Biomedicine. She is a recent recipient of Astellas Foundation Award (2008) administered by American Chemical Society. For the full profile of Prof. Takeuchi see her personal Web page.
Faculty Research Projects in the Department of Electrical Engineering
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Dr. Whalen and Dr. Yoon lead a newly established Bird Technologies Group Fellowship Program
Dr. Whalen and Dr. Yoon lead a newly established Bird Technologies Group Fellowship Program. Bird Technologies Group, Solon, OH, has given $200,000 to the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to advance research and education in UB's RF/microwave systems program. In honor of the corporation's gift, space in the new engineering building to be constructed on UB's North (Amherst) Campus will be called the Bird Technologies Group Microwave Laboratory. The gift also establishes the Bird Technologies Group Fellowship Program. UB electrical engineering faculty Yong-Kyu Yoon, assistant professor, and James J. Whalen, professor, will lead the newly established Bird Technologies Fellowship Program, which will provide scholarship support for three students in electrical engineering. For more information Click Here.
New article of Prof.G. Strasser in Applied Physics Letters was highlitened in the cover page of the journal
A copy of the article can be found here.
THz nanosensor to see the first light from the Early Universe: News & views articles are highlighting Prof. Sergeev's paper in Nature Nanotechnology
A novel nanosensor, developed by the Rutgers-JPL-UB team, offers unprecedented sensitivity in the THz range, which contains 98% of the light emitted since the Big Bang. The paper "Ultrasensitive hot-electron nanobolometers for terahertz astrophysics," recently published in Nature Nanotechnology, 3, 496 (2008) has demonstrated that manageable electron-phonon kinetics together with ultrasmall electron heat capacity in nanostructures provide wide possibilities for significant improvement of detectors, quantum counters and calorimeters.
The developed technology will help astronomers to observe very distant galaxies as they were in the Early Universe. As a magic time-machine, the detector will allow them to see the first light in the Universe, which was generated in the processes of star and galaxy formation almost 14 billion years ago. Besides astrophysics, these nanodevices are promising for quantum information technologies and quantum metrology.
News & views articles are highlighting this research:
www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v3/n8/full/nnano.2008.221.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080710155246.htm
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1783
http://www.nano.org.uk/news/july2008/latest1488.htm
Ph.D. Student L. H. Chien receives best paper award at recent WOFE conference
Ph.D. student L. H. Chien has received the best paper award for her work "Hot-Electron Transport in Quantum Dot Photodetectors" presented at the Workshop on Frontiers in Electronics, WOFE07.
L. H. Chien's research has been done under the guidance of Profs. Mitin and Sergeev.
A recent publication of Prof. Strasser was highlighted on the front cover of Applied Physics Letters
A copy of the article can be found here.
Prof. Yoon receives $200k in funding to explore Multidirectional 3-D UV Lithography for Advanced Microfabrication
Prof. Yoon has received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the amount of $200,000 to explore Multidirectional 3-D UV Lithography for Advanced Microfabrication. For more information about Prof. Yoon's research Click Here.
UB Today acrticle about Prof. Takeuchi
The renowned lithium battery researcher Esther Takeuchi brings her considerable energy and creativity to UB after a trailblazing career in industry. For the full story Click Here.
A recent publication of Prof. Bird was highlighted on the front cover of Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
Prof. Takeuchi has been elected Vice President of the Electrochemical Society
Prof. Takeuchi has been elected Vice President of the Electrochemical Society. This is one of the most prestigious international electrochemical societies, and is quite an honor for her and the department.
Prof. Mitin named SUNY Distinguished Professor
Professor and Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department Vladimir Mitin has just been named SUNY Distinguished Professor in recognition of prominence and reputation in the field of nanophononics, the branch of nanotechnology concerned with heat transfer and energy exchange at the nanoscale level. Click here for the story in UB reporter.
Prof. Mitin received AFOSR grant to investigate kinetics and transport in quantum-dot structures
Prof. Mitin has received a three-years AFOSR grant for advanced theoretical research in the area of electron kinetics in quantum-dot structures with the main goal to optimize infrared photodetectors. This research program focuses on design of next generation quantum-dot infrared photodetectors (QDIPs) with controllable electron kinetics. A wide range of novel properties may be realized through the manipulation of quantum dots and potential barriers created by selective doping. The local and collective barriers around the dots may be used to separate the localized intra-dot electron states from the conducting states in the matrix and, in this way, to control all electron processes. Engineering of QDIPs with manageable kinetics is a promising way for substantial improvements in performance.
Prof. Mitin's papers selected for Virtual Journals in Science and Technology
Virtual Journals in Science and Technology have been jointly developed by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Physical Society (APS). Each of the virtual journals presents an online collection of relevant papers from a broad range of source journals in the physical sciences. Articles appearing in these virtual journals are selected by editors and experts in the particular fields. Prof. Mitin's papers are often selected for virtual journals. His recent paper "Heat current in the magnetic field: Nernst-Ettingshausen effect above the superconducting transition," published in Physical Review B 77, 064501 (2008), has been selected for the February 15, 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity. This work produced in collaboration with Andrei Sergeev and Michael Reizer has developed the gauge-invariant formulation of thermomagnetic phenomena. It has been shown for the first time that the interaction energy of electrons with a magnetic field should be considered as the thermal energy (heat), while, as it is well established, the interaction with an electric field contributes to potential energy. Only with this fundamental correction, the thermomagnetic coefficients satisfy basic physical principals, such as the Onsager relation and the third law of thermodynamics. This work gives a direct answer to the question: what is heat and what is potential energy in the magnetic field.
Former UB EE Student elected into the National Academy of Engineering
Former UB EE student Chrysostomos L. (Max) Nikias, MS 1980 & PhD 1982, Provost & Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at USC was just elected into the National Academy of Engineering.
Prof. Yoon received a 2008 NSF CAREER award
Dr. Yong-Kyu 'YK' Yoon has received the Faculty Early Career
Development (CAREER) Award from National Science Foundation (NSF). The
NSF CAREER program offers the most prestigious awards in support of the
early career-development activities of those scholars who most
effectively integrated research and education within the context of the
mission of their organization. He will receive a grant of $399,999 in
support of the project titled "RF/Microwave components and devices
using micro-/nano machined metamaterial" for a period of 5 years
starting from February 1, 2008.
This research will investigate and implement low loss, multidimensional
high quality metamaterials using advanced micromachining and
nanotechnology, and translate the developed metamaterial technologies
to highly efficient, compact, and multifunctional radio frequency (RF)
devices and components. The technical and societal impacts of this
research will occur in diverse areas such as telecommunications,
defense, microelectronics, and medical imaging.
EE Department Holiday Postcard
Prof. E. Takeuchi is 2008 recipient of an Astellas USA Foundation Award, administered by the American Chemical Society (ACS)
Dr. Takeuchi has been selected as the 2008 recipient of an Astellas USA
Foundation Award, administered by the American Chemical Society (ACS).
This award carries a $30,000 prize and an invitation to speak at a ½ day
ASC symposium during the 236th ACS National Meeting in Philadelphia, PA,
in August 2008.
The Astellas USA Foundation Awards were established to identify
individuals or teams who exemplify the criterion of having significantly
contributed to scientific research that improved public health through
their contributions in the chemical and related sciences. The award
information letter from ACS recognizes the achievements of Dr. Takeuchi
in the development of silver anadium oxide (SVO) battery technology
which enabled the development of lifesaving implantable cardiac
defibrillators (ICDs).
The Communications research group receives yet another federal research grant
Prof. Weifeng Su, Prof. Tommaso Melodia, Prof. Stella Batalama, and Prof. Dimitris Pados (principal investigator) receive a new $451,000 AFRL grant for work on cognitive airborne networking. Earlier this year, Prof. Dimitris Pados and Prof. Stella Batalama (principal investigator) received a $312,000 AFOSR grant for research on multiuser steganography.
Prof Bird's Research Highlighted in many news articles
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070927135543.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-09/uab-qdt092707.php http://www.physorg.com/news110120796.html http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=5038 http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol39/vol39n5/articles/BirdSpintronics.html
UB Electrical Engineering Dept represented at The Center of Inquiry's (CFI) Science and Art Festival
The UB Electrical Engineering Dept was well represented by two students Hung Van and Jonathan Bell at the CFI Science and Art Festival on Sept 15, 2007. The exhibit shown below included a demonstration of Atomic Force Microscopy, An exhibit that will be unveiled at the Buffalo Museum of Science which demonstrates how nanotechnology can be used to improve ordinary household lighting, and also samples of nanometer scale devices made in the department. For more information about the festival Click Here.
Prof. Esther S. Takeuchi becomes a Greatbatch Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Greatbatch Inc. agrees to fund Prof. Esther S. Takeuchi's professorship for 5 years at a level of $100k per year. The funding is unrestricted and starts on January 1, 2008.
Third $750K NYSTAR Grant Awarded to EE bringing it to 2.25 Million Awarded over the past four years
A third NYSTAR Grant has been awarded to the EE department at the University at Buffalo to recruit Professor Strasser to develop an advanced technological foundry to produce terahertz devices such as nanostructured emitters and detectors. Click Here for more informatiom.
Department welcomes Professor Melodia.
The department welcomes:
Dr. Tommaso Melodia Click Here to visit Prof Melodia's Faculty Page
New article of Prof. Bird with co-authors has been accepted for pubication in Physical Review Letters
New paper on probing trapped spins in quantum point contacts of Prof. J. Bird group with co-authors has been published in PRL: "Probing the microscopic structure of bound states in quantum point contacts", Y. Yoon, L. Mourokh, T. Morimoto, N. Aoki, Y. Ochiai, J.L. Reno, et al.
Prof. Stella N. Batalama was selected to serve in the 2007-2008 Faculty in Leadership class for the University
Prof. Stella N. Batalama was selected to serve in the 2007-2008 Faculty in Leadership class for the University. In this program, faculty leaders are paired with a senior member of administration in the offices of the president and the Provost. They will focus on specific projects that will allow them to gain valuable administrative experience.
Prof. Mitin Publishes new Nanoelectronics Textbook
The textbook by V.V. Mitin, V.A. Kochelap, and
M.A. Stroscio 'Introduction to Nanoelectronics: Science,
Nanotechnology, Engineering, and Applications' is now in the final
stage of publication by Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-
88172-2. This textbook is suitable for advanced undergraduate and
graduate students in electrical and electronic engineering,
nanoscience, materials, bioengineering, and chemical engineering.
The new textbook is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the
technology and science that underpin nanoelectronics, covering the
underlying physics, nanostructures, nanomaterials, and nanodevices.
Without assuming prior knowledge of quantum physics, this book provides
a unifying framework for the basic ideas needed to understand the
recent developments in the field. Following an introductory description
of recent trends in semiconductor and device nanotechnologies, as well
as novel device concepts, materials for nanoelectronics are treated,
covering methods of growth, fabrication, and characterization.
Treatment then moves to an analysis of nanostructures including
recently discovered nanoobjects, and concludes with a discussion of
devices that use a simple scaling-down approach to copy well-known
microelectronic devices, and nanodevices based on new principles that
cannot be realized at the macroscale. Numerous illustrations, homework
problems, and interactive Java applets help the student to appreciate
the basic principles of nanotechnology, and to apply them to real
problems.
Cartwright to be provost's point person for UB 2020
Alexander N. Cartwright, professor of electrical engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been appointed vice provost for strategic initiatives, a new position in which he will serve as the point person in the Provost's Office for the UB 2020 strategic strengths initiatives. UB Reporter Article
New publication of Prof. J. Bird on spintronics and qubit processing is featured in Journal of Physics.
Prof. J. Bird with co-authors has published an article entitled: "Using split-gate structures to explore the implementation of a coupled- electron-waveguide qubit scheme" in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter The paper is featured in the July 2007 print version of the journal. click here for article
Prof. Batalama and Prof. Pados received new US AFOSR grant
2/12/2007 Professors Stella Batalama and Dimitris Pados received a new US AFOSR grant of $312,826 for work on blind spread-spectrum steganalysis via iterative techniques (duration 34 months).
A Single Chip Terahertz Detector
Prof. J. Bird (EE) in collaboration with Prof. A. Markelz (Physics/EE), and collaborators at several other universities, received a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT) initiative to develop novel Terahertz detectors. The grant was one of only 10 that NSF funded, from more than 400 applications to the NIRT program. For more information Click Here.
Wireless Sensors for Power Systems
The team from the UB EE Department, lead by Prof. W. James Sarjeant, James Clerk Maxwell Chair and director of the UB's Energy Systems Institute, is seeking to develop new power-systems failure diagnostic technology based on miniature wireless sensors. Such systems would provide a far more efficient, and cost-effective way to modernize the power grid, as opposed to replacing components after they fail. The research team includes J. Zirnheld, adjunct lecturer in electrical engineering and deputy director of UB's Energy Systems Institute, Profs. J. Bird, A. Cartwright, A. Titus, V. Mitin (all from EE), and Prof. C. Basaran (CSEE). For more information Click Here.
Prof. Alexander Cartwright was name an Associate Editor for the new SPIE Journal of Nanophotonics
Prof. Alexander Cartwright was name an Associate Editor for the new SPIE Journal of Nanophotonics. This appointment is recognition of the Prof. Cartwright's international reputation in nanophotonics. This journal dedicated to nanophotonics is acknowledgment of the continued expansion of research in this excited area. The multidisciplinary research areas cover the synthesis, fabrication and application of nanostructured materials and devices. For more information please Click here.
2006 EE Ph.D. Graduate name Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University
2006 EE Ph.D. Graduate name Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University. Vamsy Chodavarapu, a 2006 Ph.D. graduate of the Electrical Engineering, was recently named an Assistant Professor at McGill University. Dr. Chodavarapu's graduate research focused on portable biological and chemical sensors. Specifically, he demonstrated the feasibility of developing multianalyte sensor systems using standard CMOS processing. Dr. Chodavarapu was co-advised by Prof. Alexander Cartwright and Prof. Albert Titus.
Department welcomes Professor Yoon.
The department welcomes:
Dr. Yong K. Yoon (RF/Microwave, from August 2006)
Department welcomes Professor Oh.
The department welcomes:
Dr. Kwang W. Oh (nanoelectronics, from March 2006)
Ph.D. student presentation highlighted
in Nature Conferences blog
Presentation of our Ph.D. student, Matthew Bell, at the American Physical Society meeting was highlighted in Nature Conferences blog:
APS: Superconducting eyes on the sky
Second $750,000 NYSTAR Award in Nanotechnology and Engineering
http://www.buffalo.edu/news/fast-execute.cgi/article-page.html?article=76570009
Professor Mitin has been recognized as a world-class research faculty and received $750,000 award from the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR) to conduct multidisciplinary research designed to develop and commercialize multifunctional nanosensors and sensor networks to enhance health care, especially for remote applications, to improve detection of contaminants and to boost advances in quantum communication.
One of the projects that the grant will make possible addresses the current health-care system's inadequate out-patient monitoring of vital biological parameters. It involves development of a customized, mobile health-monitoring system, called a Biofluid-Probe Platform for Mobile Health Telematics, which will consist of multi-analyte sensors allowing hospitals to monitor essential chemical and biological parameters in patients' blood and urine frequently and remotely.
Another project Mitin is investigating exploits the ability of novel quantum technologies to surpass traditional classical approaches, using ultrafast photon counters with high quantum efficiency. Specifically, Mitin will work toward achieving ultrafast quantum communication.
The research will be concentrated in UB's Center on Hybrid Nanodevices and Systems, which integrates scientific and technological achievements in nanomaterials and electronics with fundamental engineering research in the fields of public healthcare, environmental monitoring and communication.
