The University of Washington’s Institute for Nano-Engineered Systems (NanoES) awarded Electrical & Computer Engineering Ph.D. student Nicholas Yama its 2025 Student Achievement Award. Yama was recognized at the NanoES Symposium on May 8.
The UW Institute for Nano-engineered Systems (NanoES) has awarded four seed grants to UW researchers to use nanotechnology tools to develop new, innovative technologies and devices. Leo Brody, a postdoctoral scholar in chemical engineering; Mo Chen, an assistant professor in materials science and engineering; Ji Feng, a research scientist in mechanical engineering, and Quansan Yang, an assistant professor in materials science and engineering, will receive up to $10,000 to carry out work in UW’s Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF) and the Molecular Analysis Facility (MAF). The WNF and MAF are key nanotechnology facilities in the Northwest Nanotechnology Infrastructure, one of 16 sites in the NSF’s National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) program.
Four years ago, as an Engineering Dean’s Scholar, Jimmy Phan was listening to a lecture from the College of Engineering’s associate dean, Dan Ratner. Ratner told Phan’s cohort about the Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF), an open-access nanofabrication facility at the UW, and the opportunities for undergraduates to work there.
Step inside the Washington Nanofabrication Facility, where tiny tech is transforming research in quantum, chips, medicine and more.
March 3, 2025
Superconductors and magnets are already in wide use today — from magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, scanners that look deep inside the body to gamma ray detectors of clandestine nuclear material to bolometers used in x-ray astronomy. They have been implemented in medical, military, security, and power applications as well as quantum computing and sensing. Because Eley’s research contributes to expanding fundamental knowledge about superconductivity and magnetism, her work could contribute to advancing technology in all of these areas.
Xiaodong Xu, professor of physics in the College of Arts & Sciences and of material sciences and engineering in the College of Engineering, was awarded the NAS Award for Scientific Discovery.
Feb. 11, 2025
Collaboration can be a beautiful thing, especially when people work together to create something new. Take, for example, a longstanding collaboration between Arka Majumdar, a UW professor in electrical and computer engineering and physics, and Felix Heide, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University. Together, they and their students have produced some eye-popping and groundbreaking research, including shrinking a camera down to the size of a grain of salt while still capturing crisp, clear images.
In the University of Washington’s Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF), undergraduate lab assistants have a unique opportunity to receive on-the-job training from research engineers and network with professionals in advanced electronics, nanotechnology, semiconductors and fabrication-related jobs. Fourth-year electrical and computer engineering major Prithvi Krishnaswamy’s work in the WNF helped him land a summer internship at Nvidia, a company that designs hardware and software for the high-performance computing (HPC) market. Krishnaswamy interned at its Durham, North Carolina office.
Three exotic new species of superconductivity were spotted last year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup.
Dec. 14, 2024
Maria Huffman, director of the University of Washington’s Washington Nanofabrication Facility, is part of a new, state-wide group of leaders from universities, research institutions, technology companies and the government who aim to strengthen the state’s semiconductor industry.
The group, organized by the Washington Department of Commerce, will work to attract federal funding through the CHIPS and Sciences Act.