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November 4, 2021
NanoES welcomes new member faculty
The Institute for Nano-engineered Systems (NanoES) is thrilled to welcome seven new faculty members for the 2021-22 academic year. With research ranging from the development of bio-inspired, lightweight sensors to engineering infrastructure for quantum systems, these faculty members are poised to help develop solutions to grand challenges in information processing, energy, health, and interconnected life.
October 13, 2021
Small Business awards from DARPA and NASA fuel growth of UW spinout Tunoptix
Tunoptix, a Seattle-based optics startup co-founded by University of Washington electrical and computer engineering professors Karl Böhringer and Arka Majumdar, received a $1,500,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award from NASA to advance their meta-optics imaging systems.
October 11, 2021
Tiny structures, big impact
Miqin Zhang is working to improve cancer treatment with nanoparticles made from the same material found in crustacean shells.
September 28, 2021
2021 Plenty of Room at the Bottom Image Contest
Every year in honor of National Nanotechnology Day on October 9th, the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) hosts a Plenty of Beauty at the Bottom image contest to celebrate the beauty of the micro and nanoscale. Check out this years winners and featured submissions!
September 24, 2021
David Veesler named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
Veesler’s lab studies the structure and function of macromolecular complexes involved in the pathogenesis of infectious diseases, such as SARS-CoV-2, to provide avenues for creating vaccines and therapeutics.
September 16, 2021
UW-led team receives $5M award to help bring quantum computing into the real world
A multi-institutional research team led by NanoES faculty members Mo Li, Arka Majumdar and Karl Böhringer is developing a powerful, miniaturized optical control engine, called PEAQUE, which will greatly increase capacity and speed of quantum computers.
September 9, 2021
NSF to fund revolutionary center for optoelectronic, quantum technologies
The National Science Foundation has announced it will fund a new endeavor to bring atomic-level precision to the devices and technologies that underpin much of modern life, and will transform fields like information technology in the decades to come. The five-year, $25 million Science and Technology Center grant will found the Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand — or IMOD — a collaboration of scientists and engineers at 11 universities led by the University of Washington.
August 5, 2021
Matthew Yankowitz wins NSF CAREER Award
The five-year award will provide $650,000 of funding to support Yankowitz’s research investigating and controlling novel topological states of matter in twisted van der Waals heterostructures.
July 28, 2021
Bringing light into computers to accelerate AI and machine learning
NanoES faculty member and ECE Professor Mo Li is part of a multi-institutional research team, which has received a four-year grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a new type of computer chip that uses laser light for AI and machine learning computation.
April 30, 2021
Building a career at the nanoscale
Ana Constantin joins Facebook after three years of undergraduate and professional experience at the Washington Nanofabrication Facility.
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