11.02.09 – Electrofluidic display is reported in Communications of the ACM (Vol.52, No.11) as "Electronic Paper's Next Chapter".
10.15.09 – NDL's virtual tour "Liquids combine with light" is unveiled online!
10.09 – 935 renovation/expansion start.
09.22.09 – Dr.Heikenfeld won the $10,000 first-place award for "Electrofluidic Displays" in the Patent category of CincyTech's first Cincinnati Innovates competetion. Click Here to read the news.
08.11.09 – Dr. Stein Kuiper from Philips liquid lens group visited NDL and had dinner with Dr.Heikenfeld and Ph.D student Linlin Hou.
05.25.09 – For a NPR Audio clip click here.
05.01.09 – NDL's major breakthrough in e-paper is formally announced. See Nature Photonics, Technology Review, and Gamma-Dynamics for more information! Other major media stories will be posted soon...
4.27.09 – Technologyreview.com reported NDL's electrowetting display in an online paper "A New E-paper Compatitor".
4.08.09 –The earliest origins of electrowetting optics are revealed in the Letters section of the April issue of OPN. Click here to find out.
3.26.09 – NDL Student Linlin Hou featured on UC’s website.
3.23.09 – Light Wave Coupling product launch at the sign museum. Click here to see UC's News "Signs of Things to Come in Display Technology", and here to see Fox 19 video clip.
2.18.09 – Prof. Heikenfeld and Russ Schwartz (V.P. Colors Technology at Sun Chemical) represented UC and Sun Chemical, along with a small group of UC researchers at the Feb. 18th mini-Showcase at the State Capitol.
1.14.09 – Prof. Heikenfeld honored at UC halftime for recent granted patents.
11.03.08 - DIC President Dr. Oe visits NDL. Phtographs of the visit is shown below.
8.26.08 - NDL gives opening talk at 2008 Electrowetting Workshop and Linlin Hou awarded a best poster award. Click Here for photo of the attendees.
3.08 - Electrowetting Optics on Target for Record Optical Performance.
Click here to read the article.
1.23.08 – Prof. Heikenfeld honored at UC halftime for recent granted patents .
8.1.07 - Laser Focus World discusses NDL's self-assembly technology for electrowetting devices. Click here to read the article.
8.1.07 - Laser Focus World discusses NDL's self-assembly technology for electrowetting devices. Click here to read the article.
7.5.07 - NDL research in electrowetting displays presented in an invited talk at IDMC 2007.
6.30.07 - NSF awards collaborative multidimensional separations project between NDL (PI), Univ. Tennesse, and Oak Ridge National Lab.
12.12.06 - NDL awarded $400k by the National Science Foundation CAREER Program for "Electrowetting Microprisms - from Agile Fresnel Optics to Wide-Angle Phased Arrays".
12.12.06 - NDL's first graduate, M. Dhindsa, is awarded a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering.
11.01.06 - NDL undergoes a major lab and office expansion! Photos of the construction and new lab (along with photographical evidence of the dedication to research displayed by NDL members during the intermediate stages) can be seen by clicking the photos below.
10.01.06 - NDL recieves AFOSR award to support fundamental work in electrowetting optics initiative (see college announcement).
08.01.06 - NDL flat electrowetting optics initiative will be featured on the cover of IEEE LEOS Newsletter (www.i-leos.org/).
07.18.06 - NDL's Manjeet Singh Dhindsa gives presentation at IEEE 2006 Nanotechnology Conference.
04.19.06 - NDL licenses novel active-signage technology to industry! Further details will be released at a later date.
03.21.06 - NDL expands lab, moving into additional/fabrication cleanroom space (photos coming).
03.10.06
- NDL hosts
a visit by Akira Suzuki of Ricoh Company Ltd. Mr. Suzuki
holds
over 100 patents in electronic paper and related technologies.
03.01.06
- NDL
receives a CIS user grant for access to Stanford Nanofab Facility.
01.01.06
- Murali Kilaru is the third student to join the Novel Devices
Laboratory.
12.01.05
- NDL to aquire cleanroom space including wet/bench and fume hood
(photos coming).
11.07.05
- Dr. Heikenfeld gives an invited talk at ERSO/ITRI in Taiwan and
visits LCD manufacturer Prime View International.
10.30.05 - The Novel Devices Laboratory is completed. Our thanks to Rich Koch, UC Director of Engineering Facilities, who was instrumental in setting up the lab and office space.
09.21.05 - Manjeet Singh Dhindsa joins the NDL as the first M.S. student!
09.15.05 - Neil Smith joins the NDL as the first Ph.D. student!
09.01.05 - Construction begins on the Novel Devices Laboratory. Some early October photos of the lab/office in development are shown below:
09.01.05 - The Novel Devices Laboratory is open for business!
Contact
Information:
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University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45221
Lab: (513) 556-4990
Office:
(513) 556-4763
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