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
Welcome to the Novel Devices Laboratory (NDL) in the School of Electronics and Computing at the University of Cincinnati! With UC having +43,000 students and having been ranked among the top 25 we are part of a top destination for both cutting edge research and education!
NDL performs highly multidisciplinary research spanning fundamental science to more applied work through industrial partnerships. At present, NDL has significant focus on electrowetting 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, facilities, and a strong track-record for rapidly transforming novel concepts into commercially viable prototypes. Since 2006, NDL has partnered with numerous U.S., European, and Asian companies in pushing new technologies to market (click here for support map).
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NDL
gratefully acknowledges support from (alphabetical):
Army CERDEC, Army Research Labs, AU Optronics (AUO, Taiwan), AFOSR Young Investigator Award, AFRL Materials Directorate, AFRL Sensors Directorate, Crayola, DuPont, Gamma Dynamics Corp., Industrial Technology Research Institute (Taiwan), Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, LG Displays (Korea), Motorola Research Labs, MicroChem, Northorp Grumman Corp., NSF Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, NSF Career - Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, NSF Integrative, Hybrid, and Cyber Systems, NSF Stanford Nanofab Facility, Ohio Dept. of Development (IDCAST & 3rd Frontier), Ohio Board of Regents, Philips (The Netherlands), Polymer Vision (The Netherlands), Procter and Gamble (P&G), Ricoh (Japan), SeeReal Technologies (Germany), Sun Chemical, Prime View International (Taiwan), UES, UC Research Council, UC Launchpad, UC Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, University Orthopedic Research and Education Foundation
04.26.13 – See our article featured in LOC about Artificial Microfluidic Skin!
04.18.13 – Dr. Heikenfeld receives Established Faculty Entrepreneur Achievement Award (article, video)
04.04.13 – Dr. Heikenfeld receives the 2013 Young Investigator Award by the UC chapter of Sigma Xi
01.30.13 – See Daniel Rose, Daniel Griffin, and Linlin Hou in NDL's article about sweat-sensor diagnostic tools as well as being covered in NPR's Focus on Technology [mp3]
01.01.13 – See " Lighter, Brighter Displays: Electrowetting combines the best of LCD and E Ink. " an article featured in IEEE Spectrum.
10.30.12 – NDL publishes paper on " Bright e-Paper by Transport of Ink through a White Electrofluidic Imaging Film ", in the journal Nature Communications, which has been picked up by major media outlets including Yahoo! News , LiveScience , MSNBC.com and materials360online.
10.09.12 – See our collection of articles and our podcast involving a interesting relation between nature and our E-Reader technology: " Can Octopuses Help Us Make Better Kindles? ", " How E-Reader Tech Mimics Octopuses " and listen to " Biomimicry and e-Readers ".
06.30.12 – Matt Hagedon gives an excellent talk on Electrofluidic Ink Transposition at TEDx Cincy.
06.11.12 – NDL's article " Investigation of five types of switchable retroreflector films for enhanced visible and infrared conspicuity applications " featured on the Applied Optics cover page
06.08.12 – Congrats to our new Ph.Ds !!
05.30.12 – Eric Kreit Awarded $100 for Best Dissertation Award 2012!!
01.30.12 – Congrats to Dr. Yang
01.19.12 – Congrats to Dr. Kreit
01.11.12 – UC's Top 10 Countdown of most-read stories in 2011. See Prof. Heikenfeld's review of the next gen. electronic paper devices.
01.01.12 – UC President's New Year Greetings. See NDL inside.
