News and Announcements:

• Bio-Inspired Sensors and Optoelectronics Laboraty has openings for interested graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.
• The opto-electro-mechanical detector developed by Jack Kohoutek et. al was named as part of 2009's “Accelerated Ingenuity” by Laser Focus World. (Jan 2010)
• Wei Wu won the "TEGAM Research Challenge". (June 2009)
• "Squeezing light for single-molecule spectroscopy" has been published in the SPIE newsroom. (May 2009)
• "Nanostructured Device Design Based on Plasmonic Crystal Confinement May Enable Single- Molecule Detection" has been featured in the MRS Bulletin. (May 2009)
• "Modeling and fabrication of electrically tunable quantum dot intersubband devices" by W. Wu et. al. was selected for the May 25th, 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology by the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society. (May 2009)
• "Nanocavity plasmonic device for ultrabroadband single molecule sensing" by R. M. Gelfand et. al. was selected for the Volume 4-Issue 6 of Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics by the Optical Society of America. (May 2009)
• "Nanocavity plasmonic device for ultrabroadband single molecule sensing" by R. M. Gelfand et. al. was selected for the April 27th, 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology by the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society. (Apr 2009)
• Wei Wu has become one of the five recipients of the 2008 Ryan Fellowship to persue research in nanotechnology. He is also the second student from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department to be awarded (Dec 2008).
• "Large areas of periodic nanoholes perforated in multistacked films produced by lift-off" by W. Wu et. al. was selected for the Sept 28th, 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology by the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society. (Oct 2008)
• Prof. Mohseni has appeared on "Nanotech Today". The video can be found online. (Apr 2008)
• Wei Wu is awarded the SPIE Scholarship. (Apr 2008)
• BISOL received the second phase of DARPA Photon Counting Array funding. Under this multi-million dollar program, BISOL is developing the world's first high resolution single-photon imaging array. During the first phase of the project, BISOL successfully demonstrated its novel bio-inspired single photon detector called FOCUS. (Feb 2008)
• One of BISOL's images of nano-sphere lithography is published on the cover of Villa and Virtual Conferences on Interaction Among Nanostructures program. (Jan 2008)
• "A Single photon detector inspired by the human eye" has been published in the SPIE Newsroom. (Jan 2008)
• "A deep sub-wavelength process for formation of highly uniform arrays of nano-holes and nano-pillars" by W. Wu et. al. has been rated amongst the most popular articles in Nanotechnology Journal, exceeding 250 downloads in two months. (Jan 2008)
• Nanotechweb.org published an article about BISOL's nano-lithograpy process. (Jan 2008)
• Omer Gokalp Memis is the first from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, being awarded the Ryan Fellowship to persue research in nanotechnology. (Dec 2007)
• An image from the BISOL nano-sphere lithography process is on the cover of Nanotechnology Journal Vol 18, Issue 48. (Nov 2007)
• "A deep sub-wavelength process for formation of highly uniform arrays of nano-holes and nano-pillars" by W. Wu et. al. was selected as an article of particular interest by Nanotechnology Journal. (Nov 2007)
• "A photon detector with very high gain at low bias and at room temperature," by O. G. Memis et. al. was selected for the November 5th, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology by the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society. (Nov 2007)
• Laser Focus World reports on the single photon detectors developed by BISOL in the article "Long-wave infrared detectors: Inspired by nature, IR detector targets long-wavelength applications" by O. G. Memis and H. Mohseni. (Apr 2007)

Contact:

          Hooman Mohseni

          Room M250
          EECS Department
          (847) 491-7108

Bio-Inspired Sensors and Optoelectronics Laboratory

The Bio-inspired Sensors and Optoelectronics Lab (BISOL) has a general goal of producing novel photonics and optoelectronic devices inspired by nature. Current research is focused on infrared detectors and vision systems, nano-scale lasers, visible to terahertz plasmonics, and novel nano-processing. Equipped with state-of-the-art simulation, processing, measurement and characterization tools, BISOL explores physics of nano-scale dimensions to realize novel devices that could revolutionize many medical, commercial, and security applications.