• Servo-Photonic Crystals
– Can we use MEMs to move defects to create servo controllable photonic crystals?
– Ph.D. Student Alex Sprunt (funded)
– Media Lab Collaboration: Scott Manalis?
• Planar Pentabot
– MEMs 5 dof platforms for manipulation on the atomic scale (e.g., as a stage for AFM memory tips)
– Ph.D. Student Shorya Awtar (need funding)
– Media Lab Collaboration: Scott Manalis?
• Differential Acoustic Imaging Using Precisely Aligned Transducers (PAT) for the Detection
of Breast Tumors
– We have shown that we can detect tumors 1 mm in size (10x better) using ultrasound
– Ph.D. Student Xu’een Yang (need funding)
– Media Lab Collaboration: Joe Paradiso?
• The Single Cell Probe:  A Novel Nano-Bioreactor
– Our NSF funded Nanogate allows nanometer gap control, and now we can use this principle to
control motion of cells and flow in and out of single cell reaction chambers
– We might be able to sort proteins and study their properties one-at-a-time
– S.M. (and then Ph.D.) student Hong Ma (?)
– Media Lab Collaboration: Scott Manalis, Joe Paradiso?
• Angle-plate, vibration generating Nanometer gap control for forming structured monolayers
– New idea with Dr. Shugang Zhang (on the bus ride over!)
• Personal Fabricators
– Fundamental new low cost ways to make machines to make things
– With Neil Gershenfeld