Reza Moheimani and James Owen (Zyvex Labs) have won a Department of Energy (DOE) Phase-II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) award. The project “High Speed Platform for Highly Parallel STM lithography and Hierarchical Assembly.” This project builds on the team’s work in Phase-I to develop and commercialize Microelectromechanical System (MEMS)-based Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) scanners for atomically precise manufacturing.

Reza Moheimani is a Partner Investigator on the ARC Discovery Grant: “Robust Control of Highly Resonant Flexible and Nanoscale Systems” that was recently selected for funding by Australian Research Council. The project is led by Professor Ian Petersen at Australian National University. Professor Alex Lanzon at University of Manchester is another PI. The project’s aim is to develop systematic control synthesis tools for highly resonant systems, and to investigate their applications, particularly in micro and nano-electromechanical sensors.

$2.4 Million Grant Gives Big Boost to Atomic-Level Manufacturing Project

The paper titled “Multimode Q Control in Tapping-Mode AFM: Enabling Imaging on Higher Flexural Eigenmodes”, published in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 24, No. 4, pp 1149-1159, July 2016 was selected to receive the 2018 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award. More information
here.

The conference will beheld in Taichung, Taiwan Dec. 6-8, 2018
http://auto2018.ncut.edu.tw/

Reza Moheimani and James Owen (Zyvex Labs) have won a Department of Energy (DOE) Phase-I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) award. The project “High Speed Platform for Highly Parallel STM lithography and Hierarchical Assembly” aims to develop and commercialize Microelectromechanical System (MEMS)-based Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) scanners.

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.

http://ests18.org/index.html

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.