The project, “A Platform Technology for High-throughput Atomically Precise Manufacturing: Mechatronics at the Atomic Scale”, was selected earlier this year as one of the 24 proposals to be funded under this program by DOE-EERE Advanced Manufacturing Office. The project is led by Moheimani and involves Zyvex Labs (John Randall) and NIST (Jason Gorman) as subcontractors. More details can be found here.

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Congratulations to Michael Ruppert for receiving University of Newcastle’s Award for Higher Degree by Research Excellence for his thesis titled: “Self-Sensing, Estimation and Control in Multifrequency Atomic Force Microscopy”

Congratulations to Farid Tajaddodianfar for successfully defending his thesis and starting his career with Microsoft Research.

Congratulations to Farid Tajaddodianfar for being a recipient of a prestigious ECS Fellowship for 2017-2018.

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May-June AM Lab focus

Professor Moheimani will be presenting a plenary lecture at ACODS 2018, IFAC International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems. The conference will be held on February 18-22, 2018 in Hyderabad, India. The talk will be concerned with the LDCN’s work on control system design for atomically precise manufacturing (APM).

LDCN’s recent development of a silicon-on-insulator MEMS-based atomic force microscope has recently been featured in IEEE Spectrum in the article New Paradigm in Microscopy: Atomic Force Microscope on a Chip. The article highlights the group’s latest results from their ongoing research in on-chip atomic force microscopy, which has led to the development of a single-chip MEMS device designed for tapping-mode AFM that features an in-plane scanner and an integrated microcantilever with piezoelectric actuation and sensing. Further details about the on-chip AFM are reported in IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems.

Professor Reza Moheimani has been invited to present a plenary talk at ICCAS 2017, the 17th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems. The conference will be held on October 18-21, 2017 in Jeju, Korea. The plenary talk will focus on LDCN’s ongoing research in on-chip atomic force microscopy, with further details being available here.

At the invitation of LDCN, a number of control systems experts will visit UT Dallas this fall. The first visitor will be Professor Richard Braatz (MIT), who will present a seminar at UT Dallas on September 19.

Other visitors who are scheduled to visit this fall include:

• Professor Santosh Devasia (UW)
• Professor Murti Salapaka (UMN)
• Professor Robert Skelton (TAMU)
• Professor David Trumper (MIT)