Advanced manufacturing of micro/nano devices and materials

Themes

Structural Interfaces

Nanomaterial Applications

Structure-environment design

Wave and field interactions, processing, properties

Projects

Brown is building research activity in the area of small structures and systems and has current research activity in the following topics:

• Geometric nonlinearity in mechanics
• Interlocking structures for manufacturing
• CMOS-integrated sensors (microphones, chemical sensors, etc.)
• Micro/nano devices and structures on flexible materials
• Nanostructured materials synthesis, characterization, and applications
• Mechanical engineering with atomically precise materials synthesis (from atomic layer deposition).