April 1, 2019
Mohammad starts his academic career in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln as an assistant professor from this fall. Big congratulations, Mohammad!
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Mohammad joins the University of Nebraska, Lincoln!
Mohammad passed his PhD dissertation defense
April 1, 2019
Mohammad passed his doctoral dissertation defense entitled “Experimental Investigation of nanoscale Radiative Transfer for Energy Applications.”
A new publication in Applied Optics
March 5, 2019
Our first work in scattering type visible near-field scanning optical microscope has been published in Applied Optics. Abstract: Due to its superb imaging spatial resolution and spectroscopic viability, scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) has proven to be widely applicable for nanoscale surface imaging and characterization. However, limited works have investigated the sensitivity of […]
Devon passed his PhD Dissertation Defense
February 1, 2019
Devon passed his doctoral dissertation defense titled: “Fundamental Studies of Engineered Electron Interactions in Micro/Nanoscale Optical and Thermionic Devices” Photon interactions with electrons have led to devices engineered to improve industries in communication, energy, and sensing. Among the different types of devices, nanoantennas are particularly useful in these industries due to their spectral versatility achieved […]
Prof. Park and Amun attended the Eurotherm Conference.
January 4, 2019
Prof. Park and Amun attended the Eurotherm Nanoscale and Microscale Heat Transfer VI Conference to present the group’s recent research progresses. A. Jarzembski, T. Tokunaga, J. Crossley, J. Yun, C. Shaskey, R. Murdick, I. Park, M. Francoeur & K. Park (2018). “Heat transfer enhancement due to acoustic phonon tunneling at near-contact vacuum gap distances.” Nanoscale and […]
A new paper has come out.
November 24, 2018
Our research in collaboration with Prof. Jungchul Lee’s group at KAIST (Korea) has been published in Micro and Nano Systems Letters. The paper title is “Hydrogel tip attached quartz tuning fork for shear force microscopy”. Abstract: This paper reports the first demonstration of hydrogel conical tip attachment onto quartz tuning fork (QTF) by using an […]
Prof. Park attended the 1st Multi-Scale Heat Transfer Workshop
November 19, 2018
Prof. Park attended the 1st Multi-Scale Heat Transfer Workshop at the University of Texas, Dallas (Nov. 14th – 17th), and gave a presentation entitled “Things that can happen in nanoscale vacuum gap distances.”
DOE Funding for Volumetrically Absorbing Thermal Insulator (VATI) for Monolithic High-Temperature Microchannel Receiver Modules
November 19, 2018
The U would like to announce that it was selected to receive a $500,000 award from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to advance concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) research and development. This project will explore a novel approach to improve the overall solar to thermal collection efficiencies by reducing both optical and thermal losses. Critical to enabling large-scale concentrated […]
Mohammad recognized as Graduate Research of the Year
September 11, 2018
In recognition for devotion to advancing research intellectual merit and benefiting the broader impacts to society, the Department of Mechanical Engineering recognized Graduate Student Researchers of the Year at an event on August 24, with faculty and students. Awards were presented for each of the four broad mechanical engineering research areas: “Our students’ success is […]
Devon defends his Ph.D. proposal
August 17, 2018
Devon has successfully finished his PhD proposal defense. The title of his presentation is “Fundamental studies of engineered electron interactions in optical and thermionic devices at the micro and nano scale.” Congratulations, Devon!