Quantum computing is the key to solving problems regular computers can’t handle, like designing silver-bullet drugs for cancer or improving materials for data storage. With a culture of interdisciplinary collaboration, and strengths in photonics, materials science, physics and electrical and computer engineering, the UW is positioned to lead the field with the launch of QuantumX, an initiative that brings together quantum expertise across campus.
Tunoptix, an optics startup co-founded by University of Washington (UW) electrical and computer engineering professors Karl Böhringer and Arka Majumdar, was awarded $223,000 in Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop metasurface lenses (or metalenses) for imaging in satellites at the UW Washington Nanofabrication Facility.
Congratulations to materials science & engineering professor Miqin Zhang for receiving the faculty research award and Shane Colburn, a PhD student in Arka Majumdar’s lab, for receiving the student research award.
Students in the lab of NanoES faculty member and ME professor Igor Novosselov’s formed the startup AeroSpec to provide real-time air quality analysis. They recently participated in the Jones + Foster Accelerator Program, which supports students looking to grow their ideas into a new company.
NanoES faculty member Kai-Mei Fu, an experimental physics researcher and professor focusing on advanced quantum technologies, sat down with Dr. Krysta Svore, general manager of quantum systems and software at Microsoft, for the latest episode of Microsoft’s Quantum Impact series.
Mechanical engineering faculty in NanoES are developing new materials, systems and devices for environmental monitoring and health care.
A team led by NanoES faculty member David Masiello and scientists from the University of Notre Dame used recent advances in electron microscopy to observe Fano interferences — a form of quantum-mechanical interference by electrons — directly in a pair of metallic nanoparticles.
A team led by NanoES faculty member Peter Pauzauskie, a professor of materials science and engineering, has developed a method that could make reproducible manufacturing at the nanoscale possible. The team adapted a light-based technology employed widely in biology — known as optical traps or optical tweezers — to operate in a water-free liquid environment of carbon-rich organic solvents, thereby enabling new potential applications.
NCI-Southwest is co-hosting a webinar on “Integrated Nanophotonics: The Transition to High-Volume Manufacturing and Implications for Workforce Education” presented by Professor Robert Geer from SUNY Polytechnic on October 17 at 1 PM ET. Register!
It’s National Nanotechnology Day! Celebrate by listening to our very own Dan Ratner, UW Professor of Bioengineering, on this week’s podcast from the National Nanotechnology Initiative as he talks about his passion for sharing the awesome power of nanotechnology with the next generation of scientists and engaged citizens.