since 9/1/05
Contact Information:
933 Rhodes Hall
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45221
Lab: (513) 556-4990
Office: (513) 556-4763
Fax: (513) 556-7326
NDL performs highly multidisciplinary research spanning fundamental science to more applied work through industrial partnerships. At present, NDL is largely focused on electrowetting optics and electrofluidics. Such research involves the electronic control and manipulation of fluids for optical, electrical, and biological devices.
In addition to typical academic research, NDL has the practical knowledge, equipment, and a strong track-record for rapidly transforming novel concepts into commercially viable prototypes. In the past three years NDL industrial projects have included two U.S. Fortune 500 companies, two European companies, and more than 3 Asian companies and institutions.
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NDL
gratefully acknowledges support from (alphabetical):
Army CERDEC, AFOSR Young Investigator Award, AFRL Materials Directorate, AFRL Sensors Directorate, Industrial Technology Research Institute (Taiwan), Motorola Research Labs, Northorp Grumman Corp., NSF Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, NSF CAREER - Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, NSF Stanford Nanofab Facility, Ohio Dept. of Development IDCAST, Ohio Board of Regents, Polymer Vision (The Netherlands), SeeReal Technologies (Germany)
Sun Chemical, Prime View International (Taiwan), UC Research Council, UC Launchpad, UC Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, University Orthopedic Research and Education Foundation
Recent News:
02.09.10 – NDL paper "A full description of a scalable microfabrication process for arrayed electrowetting microprisms", in Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol 20, pp015044 (2010), has been downloaded 250 times since Dec.18,2009, which is among 10% of articles that were accessed over 250 this quarter across all the IOP journals.01.02.10 – Eta Kappa Nu won the Outstanding Chapter Award for 2008-2009, NDL student Matt Hagedon as the President.
10.15.09 – NDL's research virtual tour "Liquids combine with light" is now unveiled online.
09.18.09 – Dr.Heikenfeld won the $10,000 first-place award in the patent category of CincyTech's first Cincinnati Innovates competition for "Electrofluidics Displays". See the news.
05.01.09 – NDL's major breakthrough in e-paper is formally announced. See Nature Photonics, Technology Review, and Gamma-Dynamics for more information!
02.18.09 – Prof. Heikenfeld and Russ Schwartz (V.P.Colors Technology at Sun Chemical) represented UC and Sun Chemical at the mini-Showcase at the State Capitol.
01.14.09 – Prof. Heikenfeld honored at UC halftime for recent granted patents. Click Here for photo.
01.01.09 - NDL article in
Optics and Photonics News. Click here
for
article.
