April 12, 2012IMMERSE 2011 - Kickoff Meeting1
IMMERSE 2012Kick-off Meeting
April 12, 2012Brigham Young University
April 12, 2012IMMERSE 2010 - Kickoff Meeting2
IMMERSE 2012 STUDENTSDouglas Bailey – [email protected] Blanco – [email protected] Meagan Bracken - [email protected] Clark – [email protected] Sara Ehlert - [email protected] Fredrick – [email protected] David Gulbransen - [email protected] Hynynen - [email protected] Nathan Ives – [email protected] Lim – [email protected] Niemi – [email protected] Stout - [email protected] Lopez Villalpando – [email protected] Thomas Wall – [email protected] Whitaker - [email protected] Wood - [email protected] Woodard – [email protected]
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TECHNICAL SUBGROUPS
IMMERSE
Hawkins
Coordinator: John Stout
Team:Meagan BrackenSara EhlertDavid Gulbransen Sampo HynynenNathan Ives Yaeji Lim Ricky Niemi John Stout Thomas Wall
SchultzSchultz
Coordinator: Brad Whitaker
Team:Brad WhitakerDouglas BaileyLeeland Woodard
Mazzeo
Coordinator: Stephen Wood
Team:Stephen Wood
Bangerter
Coordinator: Ali Fredrick
Team:Jorge BlancoDavid ClarkAli FredrickRaul Lopez Villalpando
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HAWKINS - ARROWsARROW stands for Anti-Resonant Reflective Optical Waveguide. These structures are unique because they allow for the guiding of light in waveguides with air or liquid cores. The purpose of this project is the fabrication and study of ARROW structures and the construction of photonic devices built using ARROWs. Project sponsored by NIH, NSF, and DARPA.
Project relies on: Advanced Lithography Development, Metal and Dielectric Deposition, Chemical Etching of Core Materials, Research in Micro-fluidic Handling and Packaging, Scanning Electron Microscopy
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HAWKINS – MICRO FILTERS
Project relies on: Advanced Lithography Development, Metal and Dielectric Deposition, Chemical Etching, RIE Etching, packaging
Microfilters are made on silicon substrates and consist of microfluidic channels in which very precise pores are etched. These pores would be used to remove a variety of bioparticles from a complex fluid mixture. One application would be the removal of bacteria and viruses from blood.
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SCHULTZ - OPTICAL FIBER DEVICES
Fiber Grating Interrogator• Make short fiber Bragg grating
for the measurement of strain• Refine the high speed FBG
measurement
Electric field sensing• Slab coupled optical field sensing
(SCOS)• Create optical fiber based electric
field sensing elements• Refine detection electronics
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BANGERTER – MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
Quantitative Sodium MRIThis project seeks to improve the measurement of sodium concentrations with MRI through pulse sequence innovations, better coils, and sophisticated post-processing techniques. Applications include quantitative assessment of cartilage health and characterization of tumors.
Improved MRI of Breast CancerIn this project, we are developing new sodium imaging techniques, improved accelerated proton imaging techniques, and phased-array coil designs for imaging of breast cancer tumors in vivo.
Diffusion Tensor MRI with Non-Linear High-Performance GradientsThis project seeks to improve diffusion tensor imaging sensitivity and SNR through the use of non-linear high-performance gradient inserts available at the University of Utah.
All projects rely on advanced signal/statistical processing models, noise analysis, image acquisition modeling, image processing, and familiarity with MRI scanning techniques.
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DOCUMENTATION PROJECTS
IMMERSE
Outreach Websites/ Tutorials
TeamDavid Gulbransen
Nathan IvesRicky NiemiAli FredrickDavid Clark
Douglas Bailey
New Classes
TeamMeagan Bracken
Sara EhlertThomas Wall
Brad WhitakerRaul Lopez Villalpando
Leeland Woodard
TeamSampo Hynynen
John StoutYaeji Lim
Stephen WoodJorge Blanco
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OUTREACHSpecific Topics1) Update IMMERSE website – pictures, new students, more bios, project
descriptions2) Conduct lab interactions with SOAR students. These can include lab
tours, displays, use of microscopes, posters3) Improve existing demo displays. We want maximum interaction and
potentially giving something away (food).
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NEW CLASSES1) Devise interesting questions for ECEn191
2) Make questions and answers available to students online for ECEn191
3) Assist with implementing new lab exercises for ECEn452 – capacitance measurement, resistance measurement
4) Help with the development of new junior level projects
5) Assist with development of new lab and course material for ECEn 380
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WEBSITES / TUTORIALSCleanroom Website 1) Clean up bad links and navigation2) The ultimate implantation calculator3) Fully document a procedure for wafer polishing and using the CMP4) Fully document the steps needed for wafer bonding – including etching of trenches5) Dielectric table – refractive index, dielectric constant, deposition method6) Add instructions for using new ellipsometer7) Complete PN Junctions Properties Calculator8) Create a Bandgap vs. temperature calculator9) Learn to use the new pattern generator – provide complete documentation of use and
standardize a process for getting a mask written – layout, file transfer, payment, etc.10) Scale (http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/scale_of_the_universe_2012)
Hawkins Website www.et.byu.edu/faculty/ahawkins11) Update present and past student bios12) Update publications and “news” items
Schultz Website
Bangerter Website – Update laboratory information and current research projects
cleanroom.byu.edu
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MEETING STRUCTUREWeekly MME Meeting – Entire Group• Bring Up Common Problems and Concerns• Student Presentations on Projects• Led by Faculty Members
Weekly Project Meetings – Sub Groups• Correlate Weekly Goals and Strategy• Report Results• Coordinator Gathers Reports and Tracks Results • Faculty Member Present
Weekly Documentation Meetings – Sub Groups• Correlate Weekly Goals and Strategy• Report Results• Faculty Member Present
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TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS
Week of Topic Presenter
April 25 How to Give a Presentation Hawkins
Research Process Mazzeo
May 2 Web Programming Schultz
Student Presentation
May 9 Google Rankings Hawkins
Student Presentation
May 16 Ethics Bangerter
Student Presentation
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MEAGAN BRACKEN
Research Responsibility: Assist with the production and evaluation of tapers and nanosieving chips
1) Standardize method for creating tapered photoresist slabs (30 to 150 nm thick over 8 mm width – multiple patterns on same wafer)
2) Create tapered chips3) Verify performance of chips and write paper4) Mentor Nathan Ives
Student Collaborators: Sara, John, Jie
Goals for First 2 Weeks: Ideal tapered chip, particle sorting
Documentation Assignment: New Classes (New Labs)1) Assist with implementing new lab exercises for ECEn452 – capacitance
measurement, resistance measurement
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SARA EHLERTResearch Responsibility: Microfilters on silicon1. Develop consistent process for creating a tall photoresist microchannel2. Develop photolithography recipe to etch holes in tall channels3. Develop consistent reservoir for filter channels4. Measure filtration efficiency using fluorescent beads5. Mentor Nathan Ives
Student Collaborators: John, Meagan
Documentation Assignment: Websites Update Hawkins Group Website www.et.byu.edu/faculty/ahawkins1) Update present and past student bios2) Update publications and “news” items3) Format to look beautiful – any way you like it
ClassesAssist with implementing new lab exercises for ECEn452 – capacitance measurement. Get the resistance measurements right
Goals for First 2 Weeks: First filtrations on new generation of chips
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DAVID GULBRANSENResearch Responsibility: Hollow Core Waveguides for guiding in liquids1. Assist with fabrication of ARROW chips for liquid core sensors2. Test optical characteristics of waveguides using scattering waveguide method3. Etch micropores in waveguide chips4. Create chips containing an electrode under micropores5. Help to mentor Yaeji
Collaborators: Lynnell Wright and Yaeji Lim
Documentation Assignment: Outreach1) Conduct lab interactions with SOAR students. These can include lab tours, displays,
use of microscopes, posters2) Improve existing demo displays. We want maximum interaction and potentially
giving something away.
Goals for First 2 Weeks: Scattering loss tests, working electrodes under micropore structures
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SAMPO HYNYNENResearch Responsibility: Silicon Wafer Bonding for Gas Chromotograph1. Bond silicon wafers for GC analyzers2. Assist with packaging of silicon chips with capillaries3. Assist with placement of heating elements on chips
Graduate Collaborator: Anzi Wang
Goal for First 2 Weeks: Working silicon GC
Documentation Assignment: Website/Tutorials1) Fully document a procedure for wafer polishing and using the CMP2) Fully document the steps needed for wafer bonding – including etching of trenches
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NATHAN IVESResearch Responsibility: Assist with the production and evaluation of nanofluidic
chips. Study flow characteristics for different geometries.1) Fabricate 50 nm chips with photoresist and aluminum cores and compare filling
characteristics2) Build a capacitively induced electroosmotic pump3) Build nanofluidic channels with geometries down to 10 nm and study flow
characteristics
Mentors: John Stout, Meagan Bracken, Sara Ehlert
Goals for First 2 Weeks: Gain access to the cleanroom and get initial training; Fabricate first nanochannels with photoresist and aluminum cores; begin laying out pump mask in Cadence
Documentation Assignment: Outreach1) Update IMMERSE website – pictures, new students, more bios, project descriptions2) Conduct lab interactions with SOAR students. These can include lab tours, displays,
use of microscopes, posters
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YAEJI LIM
Research Responsibility: Hollow Core Waveguides for guiding in liquids1. Assist with fabrication of ARROW chips for liquid core sensors2. Test optical characteristics of waveguides using scattering waveguide method3. Automate scattering testing setup using LabView
Mentors: Lynnell Wright and David Gulbranson
Goals for First 2 Weeks: Complete basic cleanroom training; Learn how to do thin film deposition and fabricate ARROWs; Complete first scattering loss tests; complete dielectric table
Documentation Assignment: Website/Tutorials1) Dielectric table – refractive index, dielectric constant, deposition method2) Add instructions for using new ellipsometer3) Complete PN Junctions Properties Calculator4) Create a Bandgap vs. temperature calculator
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RICKY NIEMIResearch Responsibilities: Assist with the fabrication of a variety of new solid-state
and microfabricated devices1) Assist with soldering capacitors to PCB boards for use in planar Mass
Spectrometry system2) Do proof-of-concept testing of powder/fluidic solar cells3) Wire bond electrodes to electronic mock-ups in support of the Solid-State Ion
Detector project
Documentation Assignment: Outreach1) Conduct lab interactions with SOAR students. These can include lab tours, displays,
use of microscopes, posters2) Improve existing demo displays. We are especially interested in building a demo
involving food. Perhaps something with cooking.
Mentors: Brett Hansen, Sadek Sabbah
Goals for First 2 Weeks: Gain access to the cleanroom and get initial training on wire bonding; Solder first capacitors on mass-spec PCBs, try solar cell concept on simple copper boards
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JOHN STOUT
Student Collaborators: Nathan, Sara, Meagan
Goals for First 2 Weeks: Have 2nd generation chip with metal sandwich completed
Documentation Assignment: Websites/Tutorials1) Complete the ultimate implantation calculator2) Learn to use the new pattern generator – provide complete documentation of use
and standardize a process for getting a mask written – layout, file transfer, payment, etc.
Research Responsibility: Construct a dual pore, electrically measured nanopore chip1) Create 2nd generation chip with metal sandwiched between nitride2) Create 3rd generation chip with electrodes under membranes
3) Mentor Nathan Ives on fabrication and mask layout
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THOMAS WALL
Research Responsibility: Hollow Core Waveguides for air cores1. Assist with fabrication of minicell test platforms (polishing and electroplating)2. Assist with minicell soldering3. Assist with soldering of reservoirs to ARROW chips4. Assist with ARROW chip production
Mentors: John Hulbert and Matthieu Girard-Carrier
Goals for First 2 Weeks: Complete basic cleanroom training and gain cleanroom access, Learn how to do thin film deposition and fabricate ARROWs, Complete first packaging attempts
Documentation Assignment: New Classes1) Devise interesting questions for ECEn1912) Make questions and answers available to students online
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BRAD WHITAKERResearch Responsibility:• Develop SCOS fabrication techniques to improve sensitivity• SCOS interrogation systems
Documentation Assignment: New Class1) Work on junior project classes2) Work on new demos
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DOUGLAS BAILEYResearch Responsibility:• Develop SCOS fabrication techniques to improve sensitivity• SCOS direction sensing• Characterize directionality of SCOS
First two week: 1. Get cleanroom access2. Complete the acid and solvent tests3. Take Laser safety training4. Learn how to etch optical fiber and make SCOS
Documentation Assignment: New Class1) Work on Junior project class (laser tag)
Mentor: Daniel Perry
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LEELAND WOODARDResearch Responsibility:• Using SCOS to measure voltage potential• Applying electric field measurements to measure voltages in coaxial cables and
between plates.
First two week: 1. Get cleanroom access2. Complete the acid and solvent tests3. Learn optical fiber handling procedures
Documentation Assignment: Outreach1) Work on new demos2) Idea: electrical arcing for marshmellow melting
Mentor: Spencer Chadderdon
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STEPHEN WOODResearch Responsibility:• Using dielectric spectroscopy to measure proteins in solution – in conjunction
with University of Nebraska and MIT• Calibration of U-type dielectric cells and small cavity cells.
First two week: 1. Use water bath temperature flowing through tempering beakers to vary water
permittivity and then perform calibration on our cells.2. Start to take over data analysis and parameter extraction from Brett – begin the
dielectric spectrscopy brain dump from Brett.
Documentation Assignment: Website1) Update current projects list on faculty website2) Make chart specifying what is needed to successfully perform DS experiments.
Mentor: Brett Mellor
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ALI FREDRICKResearch Responsibility:1) Assist in gathering sodium breast cancer data for June 2012 grant proposal2) Assist in measurement and characterization of tissue parameters (T1, T2) in vivo
a. Characterization of sodium tissue parameters in the breast3) Assist with study design, data collection, and analysis for risk/disaster fMRI
project
Documentation Assignment: Outreach1) Help improve the outreach demos (such as the BrainWave demo)2) Work with SOAR3) Other work TBD
Graduate Student Mentor: Josh KaggieStudent Collaborators: James Badal, David Clark, Raul Lopez Villalpando
Goal for first 4 weeks: Risk/disaster study designed and materials prepared. Assist with acquiring in vivo sodium MRI breast data.
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RAUL LOPEZ VILLALPANDO
Research Responsibility:1) Measurement and characterization of tissue parameters (T1, T2) in vivo
a. Musculoskeletal tissue parameters at high fieldb. Characterization of sodium tissue parameters in the breastc. Implementation and data gathering of DESPOT1 and DESPOT2 sequences
Documentation Assignment: New Classes1) Help devise new materials for ECEn 3802) Other work TBD
Graduate Student Mentor: Josh KaggieStudent Collaborators: James Badal, Josh Kaggie
Goal for first 4 weeks: DESPOT1 and DESPOT2 T1 and T2 maps in vivo (hydrogen first)!
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DAVID CLARK
Research Responsibility:1) Assist with study design, data collection, and analysis for risk/disaster fMRI
project
Documentation Assignment: Outreach1) Help improve the outreach demos2) Work with SOAR3) Other work TBD
Graduate Student Mentor: TBD (people in Mikle South lab right now)Student Collaborators: Ali Fredrick and students in the South lab
Goal for first 4 weeks: Risk/disaster study designed and materials prepared.
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JORGE BLANCO
Research Responsibility:1) Partial Fourier reconstructions2) Diffusion with non-linear gradient inserts
Documentation Assignment: Website/Tutorials1) ECEn 380 materials and MRI class tutorials2) Bangerter website work3) Other work TBD
Graduate Student Mentor: Danny Park, Peter JepsenStudent Collaborators: Peter Jepsen, James Badal, Josh Kaggie
Goal for first 4 weeks: Assist in analyzing diffusion weighted data gathered with insert gradients, and help write first draft of paper.