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University at Buffalo The State University of New York ANNUAL REPORT Department of Electrical Engineering 2004-2005 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences TABLE OF CONTENTS I. II. NARRATIVE/CHAIR’S INTRODUCTION …………………………………….. 4 INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES – 2004/2005………………………………….. 30 II.1. Courses Taught and Enrollments………………………………………….. 32 II.2. Degrees Awarded (for graduate degrees, provide names; thesis/dissertation/project titles optional) II.3. New Courses Developed/Major Course Revisions………………………… 35 II.4. New Teaching Materials Prepared…………………………………………. 36 II.5. New Teaching Techniques or Technologies Introduced…………………... 37 II.6. Meetings, Conferences, Courses or Seminars Attended, Primarily to Improve Teaching Techniques, or Substantive Knowledge for Courses Taught…….38 II.6.1. Papers Presented…………………………………………………… 38 II.6.2 Without Paper Presentation………………………………………... 39 RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY – 2004/2005……………………….. 39 III.1. New Grants………………………………………………………………… 39 III.2. Continuing Grants…………………………………………………………. 40 III.3. Proposals Submitted……………………………………………………….. 43 III.4. Refereed Journal Publications (published)………………………………… 48 III.5. Refereed Journal Publications (accepted)…………………………………. 51 III.6. Invited Conference Publications…………………………………………… 51 III.7. Contributed Conference Publications……………………………………… 52 III.8. Books………………………………………………………………………. 58 III.9. Chapters in Books………………………………………………………….. 58 III.10. Invited Presentations……………………………………………………….. 58 III.11. Contributed Presentations………………………………………………….. 59 III.12. Faculty Lectures/Other Presentations……………………………………… 61 III.13. Inventions and Patent Disclosures…………………………………………. 63 III.14. Patents Awarded…………………………………………………………… 63 III.15. Posters/Reviewed Posters…………………………………………………...64 III. IV. HONORS AND AWARDS – 2004/2005…………………………………………. 64 IV.1. Faculty …………………………………………………………………….. 64 IV.2. Student…………………………………………………………………….. 65 IV.3. New Editorships…………………………………………………………… 65 IV.4. Continuing Editorships…………………………………………………….. 65 IV.5. New Faculty Fellow Positions……………………………………………... 65 IV.6. Continuing Faculty Fellow Positions………………………………………. 65 IV.7. Other (see attached list), New……………………………………………… 65 IV.8. Other (see attached list), Continuing………………………………………. 65 2 V. SERVICE AND OTHER ACTIVITIES…………………………………………… 65 V.1. Professional Service……………………………………………………….. 65 V.2. University Service…………………………………………………………. 68 V.3.1 School-wide Service……………………………………………………….. 70 V.3.2 Departmental Service………………………………………………………. 73 V.4. Public (Community) Service………………………………………………..78 DEPARTMENTAL ORGANIZATION…………………………………………... 80 VI.1. Faculty (include lecturers, adjuncts, emeritus)…………………………….. 80 VI.2. Staff………………………………………………………………………… 82 DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS………………………………………………….. 83 DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE STRUCTURES/MEMBERSHIPS………….. 88 INDUSTRIAL INTERACTIONS…………………………………………………. 89 VI. VII. VIII. IX. 3 I. NARRATIVE/CHAIR’S INTRODUCTION The Department hired three new faculty members during the past year. Professor Jonathan Bird from Arizona State University joined the Department in August 2004. As was already indicated in the previous report, the high qualifications of Dr. Bird, and his help, has allowed Dr. Mitin to prepare proposal that was submitted to and funded by the Faculty Development Program (recruitment) of NYSTAR. The $750,000 recruitment funds from NYSTAR and $844,756 match from the EE, SEAS and the office of the Vice President for Research helped to establish the state-of-the-art “Nanoelectronic Materials and Devices Laboratory” of Dr. Bird, to update the clean room facilities in Bonner Hall and to recruit and hire Assistant Professor Aleksandr Verevkin. Dr. Verevkin joined the Department in January 2005 and he is in the final stage of using his start-up package to set up his “Laboratory of Optoelectronics”. These two well-recognized specialists in the area of nanoelectronics are valuable additions to the Nanoelectronics and Photonics group of the Department. This group has become the largest group in the Department with the major research expenditures and largest number of papers published and graduate students supported. Dr. Weifeng Su joined the Department in March 2005. He is a high qualified specialist in the area of Communications. The Department has now twenty-one faculty (13 Professors, 4 Associate Professors, and 4 Assistant Professors): ten faculty are in the area of Nanoelectronics and Photonics (Wayne Anderson, Jonathan Bird, Alexander Cartwright, Pao-Lo Liu, Vladimir Mitin, David Shaw, Albert Titus, Aleksandr Verevkin, James Whalen, and Chu Ryang Wie), eight faculty are in the area of Communications and Signal Processing (Stella Batalama, Adly Fam, Donald Givone, Raj Kaul, Lisimachos Kondi, Dimitris Pados, Mehrdad Soumekh, and Weifeng Su), and three faculty (P. C. Cheng, Kasra Etemadi, and W. James Sarjeant) and five five part time faculty (Douglas Hopkins, Dennis Malone, Mohammed Safiuddin, Darold Wobshall, and Jennifer Zirnheld) are in the area of Energy Systems. The Department has a shortage of faculty, yet. During the 2004-2005 academic year, the EE Department offered 72 courses. Full-time faculty taught 57 courses, and adjunct faculty taught 15. The total enrollment in those courses was 3,108 students: 2346 undergraduate and 762 graduate students. That leads to an average 43 students per course (or per instructor). This is practically the same number of students that were served by the Department during the previous academic year. The Department had 230 graduate students and 444 undergraduates in the Spring 2005 semester. During the 2004-2005 academic year, 108 students obtained their BSEE degree, 78 – MS degree, 7 – MEng degree and 10 – Ph.D. degree. Due to large number of students and high enrollment in undergraduate courses, the Department needs more Professors, more Teaching Assistants and at least one technician to oversee the research facilities of the EE. All faculty are working hard to improve and update courses they teach. Professors Bird, Givone, and Mitin have developed and taught new courses (Professor Fam has prepared a new course that he will teach during next academic year). Professors Cheng, Etemadi, Pados, and Titus have prepared new teaching materials or made major course revisions. To improve our delivery of lab courses, the EE computer laboratory has been updated with seven new PCs. More than 50% of EE faculty are active in research. Last year research expenditures in the Department, reported by SEAS, were $ 3,107,214. That is 30% increase from the previous fiscal year ($2,413,875) and 130% increase from the year before ($1,358,654) as well as from the eight previous years average ($1,404,821). The Department has obtained 16 new grants for $2,056,146. That includes $1,314,435 received by Sarjeant and Zirnheld ($1,269,254 were mentioned in the previous year report as funding was already in the pipeline), $337,311 – by Bird, $89,900 – by Titus. In addition, EE faculty are participants in large multidisciplinary 4 proposals and grants. For example, Dr. Cartwright is a participant in the $925,000 grant from OISHEI on “Nanomedicine” and five EE faculty are participants in a 14M proposal to NSF Material Research Science & Engineering Center Program. An answer from the NSF about the fate of the proposal is expected by the end of this summer. Substantial research activity is confirmed by publications and by Masters and Ph.D. students supported and graduated. 67 graduate students were supported by fellowships and assistantships. Some 45 papers have been published in refereed journals, 2 book chapters were published and 4 are in process, 19 invited and 75 contributed presentations were delivered at conferences; out of these, 12 and 65, respectively, were published in conference proceedings (almost double from the previous year), two patents (Titus and Shaw) were obtained and several patent applications from the EE faculty are in process. Diagrams on the next few pages give some information about the state of the department with some examples of research activities. 5 Number of Students in the EE Department at the Beginning of Each Academic Year 480 Number of students 440 400 360 320 280 240 200 160 120 80 (444) Undergraduate students (sphs, jrs, srs) Graduate students (MS, MEng, PhD) (230) MS – 139 MEng -12 PhD – 52 Non-Matriculated - 27 00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 04-05 Academic Year 6 Number of Incoming Graduate Students in the Fall Semester of Each Year 70 Number of students New-coming Graduate Students 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Degrees to Pursue MS 51 MEng 1 PhD 13 (65) Areas of Concentration Communications 28 Energy Systems 9 Microelectronics 28 Countries of Origin India - 29, Korea - 10 US - 8, Taiwan - 6 China - 5, Others - 7 00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 04-05 Academic Year 7 Degrees Conferred 12 140 D egrees conferred 10 8 (10) (7) D e g re e s c o n fe rre d MEng PhD 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 BSEE MS (108) (78) 6 4 2 0 00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 04-05 00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 04-05 Academic Year Academic Year 8 Number of Graduate Students Supported Number of Students 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Fellowships GA Total RA TA (67) (31) (29) (5) (2) 00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 04-05 Academic Year 9 NSF IGERT: Biophotonics Fellowship program for 16 graduate students per year in Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Biological Sciences, and Medicine Magnetic Core Optical Probe SiO2 Silica Shell 20-50 nm LH-RH Xerogel Based Nanoclinics Sensors Bioimaging Localized Spectroscopy Innovative Educational Activities • Interdisciplinary Courses & Teams • Multidisciplinary Colloquium • Research Rotations • Internships • Co-advisement • Soft-skills development Bioimaging Biosensors and Sensing Light Activated Therapies and Diagnostics Modeling and Analysis Materials and Characterization 10 Research Publications Refereed Journal Publications 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 04-05 Journal Publications Conference Papers (69) (45) Academic Year Last year data show that publications of our faculty were cited in almost 5,000 research papers. 11 Research Expenditures Research Expedintures ($) 3M $ 3.1 M $ 2.4 M 2M $ 1.2 M 1M 0 00 01 02 03 04 Fiscal Year In 2003-2004 fiscal year 42% of expenditures came through centers, $4,457,350 of new funds were generated in addition to about $5.5M of existing funding. Funding for the efforts of the faculty is provided by a diverse range of sources, including the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health, the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, the Semiconductor Research Corporation, and Industry. 12 EE’s Productivity is Increasing The EE Department is shaping into a strong, interdisciplinary group of faculty who consolidate efforts in the areas of Energy Systems, Nanoelectronics and Photonics, and Communications and Signal Processing to solve problems of development of intelligent sensing and regulatory systems that can enable monitoring and response at an unprecedented level. The cumulative skills of talented faculty includes the invention, fabrication, and characterization of novel nanoelectronic and nanophotonic devices, such as singleelectron transistors, superconducting single-photon detectors, organic photonic devices, and chemical detectors, development of components for high rep-rate, high-power and pulsed-power applications, and thin films with high energy density. This broad experimental capability is supplemented by an expertise in the theoretical and numerical analyses with a substantial strength in communication and signal processing . During less than two years, the Department hired four new faculty approaching a critical mass of research faculty in the nanoelectronics and photonics area that is reinforced by faculty in the area of communications and signal processing and energy systems. 13 Energy Systems Institute Members • • • • • Dr. W. J. Sarjeant*+ – Director Dr. Jennifer L. Zirnheld – Deputy Director Dr. Douglas Hopkins – Institute Fellow Dr. Mohammed Safiuddin* – Institute Fellow Margaret (Peg) McNamara – Institute Fellow Mission Statement “Serve the needs of member firms for applied research and development in the inter-disciplinary technologies of power conversion and energy management systems, and application of information technology tools to such systems, with high quality faculty expertise, graduate students, state-of-the-art laboratories, and software development facilities, at UB-SEAS” + James Clerk Maxwell General Dynamics Chair Professor. * Fellows of the IEEE. Research Areas Power and Energy Systems Nano-Energetics, Robotics / Mobility Platforms Generation, Distribution, and Controls Power Electronics Insulation Coordination, design of reliable long life consumer power and pulsed power / industrial electronics Electronics Packaging All areas are current points of interest in Homeland Security, National Defense and Federal energy initiatives Contact: jsarjean@eng.buffalo.edu 14 The Ten Identified Strategic Strengths of UB 1. Aging and Chronic Diseases 2. Artistic Expression and Performing Arts 3. Biodefense and Response to Catastrophic Events 4. Civic Engagement and Public Policy 5. Clinical Sciences and Experimental Medicine 6. Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies 7. Information and Computing Technology 8. Molecular Understanding of Biological Systems 9. Integrated Nanostructured Systems (INS) 10. Bioinformatics and Health Sciences EE Department is one of four leading departments in INS (# 9) and EE faculty contribute to five other Strategic Strengths (# 3, 7, 8, and 10). 15 Example of interdisciplinary initiative: Center on Hybrid Nanodevices and Systems (CoHN) Mission: To combine efforts in nanoparticle technology with nanoengineering and Functionalized nanoparticles (FNP): the atom-like electronic states, controllable coupling, high sensitivity to bio-chemical agents, high selectivity to electromagnetic quanta, small absolute fluctuations – small noise record scalability, Hybrid nanodevices Quantum dots, Nanopores Nanoclinics, Helicenes Chemical and Biological Sensors based on Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Nanostructures Sensors of Electromagneti Mechanical The main goals of CoHN research are: To advance and establish the basic science and technology needed to assemble and utilize FNP To develop methods to assemble FNP into multifunctional structures To develop multiparametric multi-analyte sensors for precise measurements of various physical parameters and key chemical and biological agents; To explore and utilize new concepts of integrated nanodevices based on nanoparticle sensors. Contact faculty: V. Mitin: vmitin@eng.buffalo.edu 16 Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics ILPB and CAPEM DURINT: Nanoelectronics and Nanophotonics UB + 4 institutions, AFOSR, 5 yrs, $5 million NYSTAR IT Collaboratory (RIT, Alfred and UB ILPB) $4.8 million facilities NSF IGERT: Biophotonics UB, NSF, 5 yrs, $2.7 million E-CAT for Nanoscale Biomedical and Laser Photonics Materials (UB, CUNY) Spintronics and Spinphotonics UB + 9 institutions, DARPA, 5 yrs, >$10 million Disease Modeling and Therapy Discovery (UB, HW, RPCI, Kaleida), $2.0 million Technology Transfer Laser Photonic Technology Hybrid Advanced Cytometry Materials Instrumentation Systems Contact faculty: A. Cartwright anc@eng.buffalo.edu 17 DURINT: Polymeric Nanophotonics Porous Reflection Gratings Hybrid Inorganic:Organic LED’s and Solar Cells METAL ETL EL HTL Glass Substrate Colloidal Core Shell Nanoparticles InP/CdS Photonic Bandgap Crystals InP/CdSe Etched InP InP/ZnS II-VI InP Core/Shell nanocrystal Etched InP nanocrystals and CoreShell nanocrystals (302nm excitation) Contact faculty: A. Cartwright anc@eng.buffalo.edu 18 NANOELECTRONIC-DEVICE RESEARCH PROGRAM OBJECTIVES • Develop a fundamental understanding of electrical phenomena in nanoelectronic devices where quantum effects are critically important APPROACHES • Conventional semiconductor microfabrication techniques & novel selfassembly approaches • Measurement of electrical properties of • Explore new device concepts that utilize the unique quantum properties of nanostructures nanostructures over a wide temperature range (0.02 – 300 K) and in high magnetic fields (<8 T) • Characterize novel nanostructured materials for application to nanoelectronics • Implementation of devices that utilize the charge, wave & spin properties of electrons Spin readout using coupled quantum wires Efficient switching in an electron-wave qubit R A O TW E D U IRE 500 nm SPIN M MN OET INSW PT E W IRE 1. IMPLEMENTATION OF A QUBIT FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING USING COUPLED QUANTUM WIRES 2. CURRENTS IN THE WIRES SHOW QUANTUM-NOT SWITCHING AS THE WIRE 1. SPIN-POLARIZED STATE FORMS IN THE SWEPT WIRE AS IT PINCHES OFF 2. SPIN-POLARIZED STATE DETECTED AS A PEAK IN THE CONDUCTANCE OF THE READOUT WIRE! COUPLING IS VARIED Contact faculty: J. Bird: jbird@eng.buffalo.edu 19 Example of EE Projects: Ultimately sensitive nanodetectors Ultrafast Single IR Photon Processing THz Hot-electron 2DEG-based Heterodyne Detector Picosecond IR single-photon counter Spiral antenn D L 2DEG Quantum Communication Platform Medical Diagnostics Contact faculty: A. Verevkin: verevkin@eng.buffalo.edu 20 Solar Cells for Space-Based Electrical Power Approach Three concepts are under investigation. One utilizes thin silicon films on a flexible metal substrate topped with nanowires to achieve an efficiency of 12-16% with a light weight module. The second offers an extremely high efficiency, potentially exceeding 40%, utilizing a graded bandgap compound semiconductor which converts most of the solar spectrum to electric power. The third will use InGaN thin films that have potential to achieve 70% efficiency. Nanowires µc-Si Metal Seed SiO2 coating Thin-Film Si Cells Metal-Induced Growth (MIG) produces 510 micron thick microcrystalline Si films on flexible substrates. These will be topped with Si or NiSi nanowires to provide high optical absorption and good electrical contact. Substrate Thin-Film InN Cells The bandgap of InxGa1-xN has been recently demonstrated to span energies from 3.4 eV to 0.7 (UV to IR). This broad spectral response is promising for highly efficient tandem solar cells that can approach 70%. Much fundamental research remains to make this possible but continued improvements in materials make this a worthwhile candidate solar cell material. Solar Radiation (a. u.) Band gap of InGaN 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.4 Solar Spectrum 0.2 0.0 2000 500 1000 1500 Wavelength (nm) Contact faculty: W. Anderson: waanders@eng.buffalo.edu 21 Indium Concentration of InGaN Alloy Carrier Dynamics in Indium Nitride 7 6 AlN 10 0 T = 300 K; λprobe=1.9 µm 8.83 µm Bandgap (eV) 5 4 GaN 3 2 1 3.0 3.1 3.2 AlInN Diffraction Efficiency (a. u.) AlGaN 10 -1 5.72 µm InGaN InN 3.3 3.4 3.5 -10 4.28 µm 10 -2 3.6 3.36 µm 2.92 µm 10 -3 a-Lattice Constant (10 m) 1.0 Solar Radiation (a. u.) Indium Concentration of InGaN Alloy 0.8 Band gap of InGaN 0.6 0.4 Solar Spectrum 0.2 0.0 2000 0 1000 2000 3000 Time Delay (ps) 500 1000 1500 Wavelength (nm) Understand Diffusion and Recombination 1 Diffusion Da × ∇N (x ) τG-1 (ns-1) 1.2 1.0 τG = 1 τR + 4π 2 Da Λ2 CB Recombination 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 1/τ R VB x axis 0.0 0 1 2 2 2 3 -2 4 5 Contact faculty: A. Cartwright: anc@eng.buffalo.edu 4π /Λ (µm ) 22 Application, Safety, K-12 Technology Education of Carbon Nanotubes Nano Safety Engaging Public in Nano Education Hydrogen Storage dshaw@buffalo.edu 23 Electronics Packaging Laboratory Side View Long Chain Directional Polymer FR 4 Sn63/Pb37 solder Fringe Analysis Horizontal Deformation Before Vertical Deformation Before After After Interferometry Picture of Moiré Setup CWT + PSI + Phase Calibration (Increased Sensitivity) 0.417 µm/fringe 27.8 nm/fringe Contact faculty: A. Cartwright: anc@eng.buffalo.edu D. Hopkins: dchopkins@eng.buffalo.edu 24 Video Coding and Transmission over Wireless Systems • Development of wavelet-based video compression algorithms • Cross-layer system optimization for video transmission over wireless CDMA channels Channel Encoder (RCPC) Spreading (Variable) Channel Decoder (RCPC) Despreading Channel Source Encoder Applications: • Wireless multimedia • Surveillance • Video transmission over tactical Ad Hoc networks • Homeland security Source Decoder Contact faculty: Lisimachos P. Kondi: lkondi@eng.buffalo.edu 25 Space-Time Coding for Next-Generation Wireless Communications Motivations • How to design next-generation broadband wireless communication systems with high- date rate (Gbits/second) ? A promising approach is to deploy multiple transmit and multiple receive antennas to increase the capacity, so-called MIMO technology. • • New coding and transmission techniques have to be developed ! Achievements ct1 hi , j (t ) yt1 Developed a class of orthogonal space-time codes with the best-known coding rates. Designed a block-orthogonal space-time code with full diversity for systems with four transmit antennas, which is promising to be used in standard. Developed a systematic design method to construct space-frequency codes for broadband MIMO-OFDM communication systems. A U.S. patent application is pending. • ct2 yt2 • ctM t Mt Mr ytM r • • Contact faculty: W. Su: weifeng@buffalo.edu 26 Communications and Signals Laboratory • Current sponsors: NSF, AFOSR, AFRL. • Current research grants: $1,323,000 (from above sources). • Professional activities and international technical recognition of group: – Editorships in 4 major IEEE journals in field. – TPC members of major IEEE and European conferences. – Best paper award in IEEE Intern. Conf. on Telecomm., 2001 (with student). – Best paper award, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, 2003 (with student). • Major recent technical accomplishments: – Small sample support adaptive filtering: The Auxiliary-Vector (AV) algorithm [Batalama et al.]. – The “Karystinos-Pados” bounds and optimal designs of binary signature sets [Pados, Karystinos, Ganapathy]. Contact faculty: Stella N. Batalama: batalama@eng.buffalo.edu Dimitris A. Pados: pados@eng.buffalo.edu 27 Short-data-record adaptive filtering: The auxiliary-vector (AV) algorithm AV filters: Favorable • Sequence of filters that converges to the MMSE/MVDR solution. • Computationally simple recursions (no matrix inversion, decomposition or diagonalization). • For short data records, the early non-asymptotic elements of the generated sequence of AV filter estimators offer favorable bias/variance balance and outperform in MS estimation error (constraint-) LMS, RLS, orthogonal multistage decomposition and DL-SMI estimates. • Data-record-based criteria for the selection of an AV estimator: a) maximum output Jdivergence rule and b) cross- validated minimum output variance rule AV filters: Best suited • High-dimensional adaptive signal processing applications that rely on data records of limited size. • Rapidly changing communications environments Norm-square bias and covariance trace for the sequence of filter estimators, n=0,1,…. (synchronous DS-CDMA system, processing gain L=32, K=13 users, SNR1=12dB,SNR2-13=0 {10dB, 12dB, 14dB}). MS estimation error versus number of auxiliary vectors n and sample support M. Block diagram representation of the iteratively generated sequence of filters w0, w1, w2, … The algorithm for the iterative generation of the filter sequence w 0, w 1, w 2, … MS estimation error for the best multistage and AV estimators over the data support range M=0.5L=16 to M=3L=96. The MS estimation error of the ∆=3.45 DLSMI estimator is also included as a reference. BER versus SNR for the user signal of interest (M=230). DS-CDMA multipath fading channel and narrowband antenna array reception. K=20 (SNR: 6-10dB), L=31, 3 paths, 5 antenna elements. 100 channel realizations and 10 independent data record regenerations per channel. Application • Interference resistant rapid synchronization and combined demodulation of SS signals. • Adaptive antenna arrays for interference resistant space-time processing of SS signals. • Adaptive robust SS receivers (non-Gaussian, impulsive SS interference). parameters (eg. Neural networks). Future • Short-data-record performance prediction of adaptive receivers. • Short-data-record convergence acceleration of adaptive non-linear systems with large number of • Adaptive assignment of binary DS-SS spreading codes. • Optimum design of DS-CDMA binary spreading codes. • Design of interference and multipath resistant signature waveforms for radar and communications Bit-error-rate as a function of the data record size Coarse synchronization error rate as a function of the under multipath fading (total SNR1 =15 dB, one data record size. (Processing gain L=31, 10 interferers at jammer present) for a GPS system with M=2 antenna SNR 10-28dB, Gold codes, random delays). elements, processing gain L=1023 and the presence of K=4 satellite signals with fixed C/A Gold codes. Pre-detection SINR versus signature-set adaptation cycle for three users of the system (10 total users, 3 Rayleigh paths, code length 31, SNR0-3=8dB, SNR4-6=9dB, Contact faculty: Stella N. Batalama: batalama@eng.buffalo.edu 28 Optimum Design of DS-CDMA Binary Spreading Codes Objectives • Optimum signature assignment in a DS-SS multiple access system • Binary signature optimization Technical Innovation • New bounds on the total-squared-correlation (TSC) of binary signature sets for DS-CDMA systems • Procedure for design of signature sets that achieve the new bounds (TSC-optimum sets) • Combined treatment of both underloaded and overloaded DS-CDMA systems Novel Framework Design Procedure Contact faculty: Dimitris A. Pados: pados@eng.buffalo.edu 29 II. INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES – 2004/2005 II.1. Courses Taught and Enrollments During the 2004-2005 academic year, the EE Department offered 72 courses. Full-time faculty taught 57 courses, and adjunct faculty taught 15. The total enrollment in those courses was 3,108 students: 2346 undergraduate and 762 graduate students. Faculty Anderson Fall 455/555 Enrollment 18/15 Spring 353 453/553 538 Enrollment 119 3/13 19 Batalama 483 573 24 32 Bird Cartwright 492 585(SEM) 480/580 448/548 403/503 324 416-cancelled 516 378 28 88 42/35 41/30 7/6 30 424/524 494/594 586(SEM) 202 511 324 EAS 200 517 EAS 305 577 450ST 303 203 565 4/20 15/17 73 123 40 84 94 2 57 27 20 62 99 25 Cheng Etemadi Fam 14 142 Givone(ADM) Kaul 303 450ST/500ST 531 202 69 11 29 154 Kondi 30 Faculty Liu (DGS) Fall 312 352 Enrollment 17 116 Spring 413/513 Enrollment 19/5 Mitin Pados Safiuddin 614 419/519 25 12/13 240 SABB (EAS 200) 35 Sarjeant 495/595 460 507 605ST 408 415/515 631 606ST 498/598 203 429/529 458/575 310 488/588 8/5 6 0 0 126 2/29 13 4 6/28 50 9/7 6/6 113 8/11 465 567 495/595 0 5 6/1 Shaw 422/522 15/24 Soumekh 462/562 6/21 Titus 541ST 311 7 116 Whalen(DUGS) Wie 449/549 14/19 Bargach 101 456/574 310MFC 401/569 402 566 32 11/16 34 11 484 31 402 311MFC 67 4/7 26 Bordner Gillette Hopkins Malone Xiong 30 7 Faculty Zirnheld Fall 482/582 EAS140 410/510 Enrollment 41/9 116 36/5 Spring 425/505 Enrollment 21/10 Wobschall 514 5 NOTE: ST = Special Topics II.2. Degree ME ME ME ME ME ME ME M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. Degrees Awarded Degree Date Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Feb-05 Feb-05 Jun-05 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Student Name Althoff, Erik Karl Hoh, Hoong Sum Koch, George Christopher Lynch, Gregory O. Fissehaye, Lidya Marc, Albert Harper, James Earl Agrawal, Swati Akkapeddi, Naga Prakash Ananthakrishnan, Harish Ananthakrishnan, Vishwanath Bansal, Manu Chen, Ju-Shi Couchman, Paul Edward Divekar, Shantanu Erukulla, Himabindu Fang, Xiaoyue Gill, Harold Michael Kadiyala, Anirudh Kasotiya, Manish Kumar Krishnamsetty, Rajeswari Lee, Chang-Hsiao Meade, James Patrick Nandamuri, Bhanu Samarth Narayanan, Sriram Partasides, George A. Puppala, Anil Kumar Ramachandran, Uma 32 Degree M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. Degree Date Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Student Name Rudravaram, Pavan Kumar Sengupta, Shubhrangshu Seshan, Vijay Sukavanam, Saradha Syed, Zia Hafizuddin Venkatsuresh, Ajay Kumar Warhadkar, Abhishek Yen, Ting-Fang Amarasinghe, Dhanushka Ruwan Bandyopadhyay, Saurav Kumar Boudette, Peter L. Chou, Ming-Hung Dalessio, Anthony Paul Damodaran Pillai, Arun Babu Dave, Pranati Deepak Han, Seok-Kyu Heckleman, Todd Evan Hegde, Akshay-Venkatraman Jayaram, Srividya Jayavelmurugan, Pradeep Joshi, Preeti Sadanand Jubran, Mohammad Khalel Kaundin, Suchita Kayembe, Leonard Lakshmanan, Deepak Li, Ming Liu, Anjun Minko, Paul Stanley Momeni, Massoud Nirmala Sreedharan, Manoj Pandian, Karthik Shekar, Shwetha Tao, Sijing Tiwari, Snehil Valdez, Abad Abdalaziz Vedavyasan, Arunkumar Venkatesan, Subha Wei, Lili Wong, Jia-Lock Yoo, Youngjin Yoon, Youngsoo Zhou, Mengling 33 Degree M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. Degree Date Jun-05 Jun-05 Jun-05 Jun-05 Jun-05 Jun-05 Jun-05 Jun-05 Jun-05 Jun-05 Jun-05 Jun-05 Jun-05 Jun-05 Jun-05 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Feb-05 Feb-05 Feb-05 Jun-05 Jun-05 Student Name Agarwal, Sandeep Bangalore Thimmachary, Manjunath Bell, Matthew Thomas Bhagavathula, Kiriti Sravan Kumar Chao, Tinghua Chikkerur, Sharat Suresh Enser, Kevin Edward Lee, Joo Whan Luo, Yong Nagarkar, Ajay Mukund Qian, Jinyu Shen, Li Tai, Lawrence C. Wang, Wei-Cheng Wendmagegn, Girumsew Solomon Chen, Fei Matyjas, John David Na, Inmook Xiong, Ping Zirnheld, Jennifer Lynn Davenport, Michael Parrish He, Hu Sheeshia, Sami F. Ji, Chunhai Liu, Zhenyu Summary of Degrees Conferred During the 2004-2005 Academic Year EE Degree Title B.S. M.Eng M.S. Ph.D. Sept 2004 Conferred 10 4 29 5 Feb 2005 June 2005 Conferred Conferred 36 2 34 3 62 1 15 2 Totals 108 7 78 10 34 II.3. New courses developed/major course revisions Jonathan Bird - Introduction to Nanoelectronics, EE 424/524 (Lecture). New course developed that provides an introduction to nanoelectronics for senior undergraduate and graduate students. Course was offered for the first time in spring 2005 with an enrollment of 4 undergraduate and 20 graduate students. P. C. Cheng - EE511 Biophotonics, lecture and seminar. 40 students. Kasra Etemadi - EAS 200- EE Concepts-nonmajors. http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~etemadi/eas200/index.html. Lecture; New Course; Spring 2005; Lectured the first half (second half was taught by Prof. Safiuddin). New website Powerpoint presentations were developed. Enrollment: 94 Kasra Etemadi - EE 324- Electromagnetic Theory. http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/Courses/ee324/index.html. Username: ee324. Password: ete2005 Lecture, Fall 2004 and Spring 2005; Revision of lecture presentations; Enrollment: Fall 2005 – 30; Spring 2005 - 84 Kasra Etemadi - EE 403/503- Introduction to Plasma Processing http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/Courses/ee403/index.html. Lectures, Revision of course materials, new Textbook and students’ seminar activities. Enrollment - 13 Adly Fam - New Course (Approved by Grad. School): EE 617 Digital Sequences and Codes in DSP Applications, Lecture, will be offered next academic year. Donald Givone - EE 450 Special Topics in Digital Design: A 3 credit hour lecture course was revised to include a new CAD tool and to introduce the hardware description language VHDL. The topics presented were: Design of synchronous sequential networks, Design of algorithmic state machines, Design of asynchronous sequential networks, CPLDs and FPGAs, the Altera Quartus II CAD tools, and an introduction to VHDL. The enrollment was 20. Vladimir Mitin - Developed and taught new course for the second year undergraduate students: EE 240 “Nanotechnology, Engineering, and Science”. 35 students have taken the course in Spring 2005 semester. The development of the course is supported by NSF. Albert H. Titus - EE 541- Silicon Neural Networks was taught for the first time in Spring 2004 and have taught it again in Spring 2005. The enrollment is less than 10 students. The course was redesigned to allow the students to go into more depth on the topics. The final design project (a team project) requires them to design a complete chip. The course requires students to read current research papers and discuss them in class. Albert H. Titus - EE 498/598- Analog Circuits: This was the second year that the course was also offered as a Senior (Undergraduate) elective. The content was modified to spend more time on the introductory material based on the results of a “First Day Exam.” All students worked as part of a three or four person group to design and layout a complete IC (including undergraduates). 35 James J. Whalen - EE 575 RF & Microwave Laboratory was taught for the first time. Measurements with power meters, spectrum analyzers, and vector network analyzers were emphasized. Enrollment was 6 in addition to 6 students in EE 458 RF & Microwave Laboratory. Jennifer Zirnheld EE 583 Y Power Systems Engineering II - although this course has been offered by other faculty and the course description for the class did not change, this was the first time Dr. Zirnheld taught it. Dr. Zirnheld developed a new set of lectures based on a new textbook and specific needs of the Enginet students. Dr. Zirnheld included a major project component which involved modeling and simulation software package. All lectures were given electronically. Class was broadcast over the Western and Central New York area along with southern Ontario. Due to the fact that many of the students were not physically in the room special accommodations were required so that the students could listen and call to ask questions during the class period. Enrollment for the 20042005 (Winter Session) was 25. II.4. New teaching materials prepared Jonathan Bird - A full set of Power Point lecture notes was prepared for Introduction to Nanoelectronics, EE 424/524. P. C. Cheng - Entire PowerPoint lecture series for EE 202. Donald Givone - Digital Principles – Maintained a Web site for the course. All the transparencies and problem sets were done in pdf form. Donald Givone - Special Topics in Digital Design – Maintained a Web site for the course. All transparencies and problem sets were done in pdf form. Donald Givone - Advanced Switching Theory I – Maintained a Web site for the course. All transparencies and problem sets were done in pdf form. Vladimir Mitin - Lecture materials were developed, prepared and displayed on “Ublearns” to be used by students of EE 240 “Nanotechnology, Engineering, and Science”. The lecture notes are to be improved for Spring 2006 semester and textbook will be submitted to a publisher within a year. Dimitris Pados - EE 614 - Smart Antennas: New and revised exam problems. David T. Shaw - New ANSYS Lab for MEMS -- Design assignments based on ANSYS code are incorporated and integrated into MEMS (EE 415/515). Enrollment: 31. David T. Shaw – Case-based learning -- Case studies are used in EE 408 (Senior Seminar) for the discussions of entrepreneurship and engineering professional ethics. Enrollment: 126. David T. Shaw – Introduced basic concepts of nanobiotechnology in EE 422/522. Enrollment: 39. David T. Shaw - Completely digital instructional materials and student homework assignments -- Lecture notes (in PowerPoint format), together with reading and homework assignments, in all three courses are posted at 36 UBLEARNS. Students’ homework and course project reports (including PowerPoint presentations are collected through the “digital drop box” of UBLEARNS. Aleksandr Verevkin - The lecture Course on Optical Communications: Lecture notes, homework assignments, list of student projects. Jennifer Zirnheld - EAS 140 Engineering Solutions (LEC/LAB). II.5. New teaching techniques or technologies introduced Vladimir Mitin - Group projects for students of the course EE 240 were introduced. 20% of grades were from the project. Six projects on nanoelectronics, as well as some pictures that were taken during presentations are displayed on the web: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/Courses/ee240 W.J. Sarjeant - EE 460 Current Research Topics of Power Modulation Applications. EE 460 is a class that has been approved now as a 4 credit component lecture/lab class. The class credit has been developed by having the students working as an Integrated Project Team to execute a project addressing a recent development in the field of power modulation. For the Fall 04 class, the projects developed were as follows: 1. "Generation of Electrical Energy Including Wind Power" 2. "Mathematical and Numerical Model of Various Flashover Configurations in Metallized Polypropylene Film and Its Resultant Effect on Power Transfer" 3. "Design of a Compact Brushless Motor Control System for RoboCup Robots" The class met regularly in “lecture mode” to analyze the overarching considerations of the energy system design approach, and identify any specific areas demanding further laboratory research on the part of the IPT. Since the new approach of having the design occur iteratively with regular review, it was possible to effect risk reduction and affordability optimization in near-real-time. The latter is of great importance in modern engineering in order to reduce the need for rework, mainly from designs that were inadequately simulated before the hardware phase started. This logical and innovative approach to teamwork design results in not only an affordable project component to the course, but also encourages the students to innovate early on in the design process. This point is emphasized in the grading of the final reports, and the results have been highly effective. Due to the extensive design work that these students (F ’04) did work with Dr. Whalen and the EE undergraduate curriculum committee so that the students would receive design credit for this semester. The plan for the next year is to incorporate recent relevant advances in component s and modeling that have arisen from EE 567, "Power Electronics Simulation” into EE 460. This will form an integrated approach to both lecturing and laboratory course components in Energy Systems for the first time. W. J. Sarjeant - EE 567 Power Electronics Simulation 37 This course in modeling and simulation, with hardware in the loop has been completely revised for this semester in order to more accurately reflect advances in simulation capabilities and needs for modern Power Electronics Applications. During the revision, it became apparent that changes were also needed in how to organize and distribute work in the modern teamwork work structure of today. In order to accommodate this, the class met at least once each week with a new approach to work distribution. New this year was the implementation of the Integrated Project Team (IPT) approach as a more effective tool for organization and execution of the work in the course. There was an IPT technical secretary selected by the IPT group, having appropriate technical and organizational skills for the position. In addition, a project planner was similarly selected for planning the work in a PERT chart approach, as is done in modern industry. A technical lead engineer was also selected by the IPT under the guidance of Professor Sarjeant, as a senior technically experienced member of the team who had the broadest understanding of the critical issues to be addressed by the IPT. In this semester, the focus was on power transformer modeling in the frequency and phase domain in order to simulate the effects that may be observed in practice. As a foundation a recent research paper was utilized as a way of anchoring the simulation fidelity, and also to provide the students with a reference against which they could indeed verify and validate their own simulation results. For the purposes of this year, the PSPICE program was utilized and observations as to limitations of the internal transformer model were reviewed and workarounds developed. It has become clear that core material properties are important for very high power transformer design and the plan is to address this next year in an revision to the curriculum and the modeling approach. For this semester, the modeling fidelity obtained when the simulation was fine tuned was almost acceptable and in reasonable agreement with the published work. On the other hand, discrepancies were found at 10 KHz and above that suggest a careful review and analyses needs to be undertaken of the parasitic conditions within the model. Albert H. Titus - developed a “First Day Exam” in EE 498/598 course in the fall. This allowed to gauge the level of the undergraduate and graduate students in the course and to modify the material that should be covered during the semester. The “exam” was not graded and was not part of students’ final grade. The questions were on fundamental concepts regarding analog MOSFET circuits. II.6. Meetings, conferences, courses, or seminars attended primarily to improve teaching techniques or substantive knowledge for courses taught II.6.1. Papers presented P. C. Cheng - 3D Microscopy of Living Cells and Second, Post-course Workshop on 3D Image Processing, June 12-June 28, 2004, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Microscopy and Microanalysis 2004, August 2-5, Savannah, GA. Vladimir Mitin - Attended an Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Head Association meeting in New Orleans (March, 2005). The meeting discussed important issues of education in ECE Departments. II.6.2. Without Paper Presentation P. C. Cheng - American NeuroScience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Nov 8-11. Kasra Etemadi - 31th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, Baltimore, Maryland, June 28-July 1, 2004. 38 Kasra Etemadi - Mini Course on “Non-Thermal Medical/Biological Applications of Ionized Gases and Electromagnetic Fields”, Baltimore, Maryland, July 1-2, 2004. W.J. Sarjeant - Dr Sarjeant attended on January 21, 2005 in Knox 104 an UB Environmental Health and Safety Certification and Right to Know Seminar in order to better prepare graduate/undergraduate students for a lab/research environment applicable to classes such as EE 460, EE 465, and EE 567. III. RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY (June 1, 2004 - May 31, 2005) III.1. New Grants Wayne Anderson - AMBPTech, 11/04-6/05, $31k, develop high electron mobility materials. Jonathan Bird - Department of Energy, Quantum Coherence and its Manipulation in Coupled Quantum Dots, 09/15/04 – 09/14/07, $337,311. Jonathan Bird - NYSTAR (New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research) Faculty Development Grant, 09/01/04 – 08/31/06, $750,000. Alexander Cartwright - “Nanomedicine,” John R. Oishei Foundation, P.N. Prasad, 7/1/04-6/30/07, $925,000, (Participant). Alexander Cartwright - “Highly Selective Solid State Multianalyte Biosensors,” UB IRCAF, T. Connell, A.H. Titus (co-PI, 25%), F.V. Bright, A.N. Cartwright, 11/1/2004-10/31/2005, $28,000, (Co-PI, 25%). Alexander Cartwright - “Fuel Cell Inspection System,” ENgR Systems through TCIE, A.N. Cartwright, D. Hopkins, V. Govindaraju, 2/1/2005-12/31/2005, $75,000, (PI 50%). Vladimir Mitin - "Planning Group for NSF Engineering Research Center", IRCAF, 11/1/2004-10/31/2005, $8,800.00, RF of SUNY account 1044330-1-32304. W. J. Sarjeant (50 %) and J. L. Zirnheld (50 %), “Power and Energy Management for System of Systems Architecture,” for Mr. Harry Moore, US. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ, June 3, 2004 to June 3, 2006, $ 1,082,981. W. J. Sarjeant (50 %) and J. L. Zirnheld (50 %), “High Energy Density and Thermally Rated Pulsed Power Capacitor Devices,” submitted with AMBP Tech. to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Submitted January 28, 2005, Funded for $24,820. January 25, 2005 to July 25, 2005. W. J. Sarjeant (50 %) and J. L. Zirnheld (50 %) ”Partial Discharge Study for High Energy Density Capacitors for Generation after next Systems of Systems” at the Energy Systems Institute. For General Atomics Electronic Systems, Inc., Flow through from US ARMY, Feb 2005 to May 2005. ($40K). 39 Albert H. Titus - (co-PI) UB-IRCAF, $37500 (direct costs), “Equipment: Optical Mask Aligner for Nanotechnology Research” (J. Bird is PI, A. Markelz is co-PI), November 1, 2004 – October 31, 2005. Albert H. Titus - (PI) Michael Swiader-Knowna, $4400, (total costs), “Novel Mouse Design,” August 2004October 2004. Albert H. Titus - (PI) Dynamic Eye (TCIE-SPIR), approx. $20000, (total costs), “Toward an Improved Glare Sensor Array,” July 2004-March 2005. James J. Whalen - Saint Gobain Isover G& H, September 1, 2004 to present time, $10,500. Description: Measurements of shielding effectiveness of materials in the frequency range 1 MHz to 4 GHz according to IEEE Standard 299 and ASTM D4935. III.2. Continuing Grants Wayne A. Anderson, Ohmcraft, 1/04-6/05, ~ $15K, develop highly stable resistors. Wayne A. Anderson, NSF, 8/03-8/06, $250K, develop improved solar cells and TFT’s. Wayne A. Anderson, NASA, 2/04-1/05, $15K, space grant fellowships. Wayne A. Anderson, NSF, 8/01-9/05, $200K, develop improved magnetic materials, (R. Wetherhold is PI). Stella Batalama, PI/PD (%effort: 100%), "Wireless Technology,'' Air Force Research Laboratory, Award No. F30602-03-2-0105, May 22, 2003 – Sept. 30, 2005, $186,988. Administrative Unit: Research Foundation of SUNY, Acc. #1032672-1-28849. Stella Batalama, PI (%effort: 50%), "Framework for Detection of Hidden Communications,'' Air Force Research Laboratory, Award No. FA8750-04-1-0091 and F30602-03-2-0023, Apr. 27, 2004 - Oct. 26, 2005, $140,000.; PI/PD: D. Pados. Administrative Unit: Research Foundation of SUNY, Acc. #1029958-1-027672. Stella Batalama, PI/PD (%effort: 50%), "ITR: Development of a Novel Short-Data-Record Adaptive Filtering Framework for Rapidly Changing Communications Environments,'' National Science Foundation, ComputerCommunications Research, Grant No. CCR-0219903, Aug. 15, 2002 - July 31, 2005, $375,000. Administrative Unit: Research Foundation of SUNY, Acc. #1026936-1-26141. Jonathan Bird, National Science Foundation, Spin Manipulation in Semiconductor Nanostructures Investigators: J. P. Bird (PI), S. M. Goodnick, and D. Vasileska, 10/01/02 – 09/30/05, $449,737. Jonathan Bird, National Science Foundation, Silicide Nanowires for Nanoelectronics. Investigators: P. A. Bennett (PI), J. P. Bird, N.J. Tao, and M. van Schilfgaarde, 10/01/03 – 09/30/07, $1,460,000. Jonathan Bird, Office of Naval Research, Developing Functionality in Quantum Dots, 05/01/02 – 04/30/05, $379,784. 40 Alexander Cartwright, “A Biologically Inspired Smart Sensor System (BIS3) for Health Monitoring,” Johnson & Johnson, A. H. Titus, A. N. Cartwright, 4/2004-4/2007, $180,000, (co-PI, 50%). Alexander Cartwright, “IGERT: Biophotonics - Materials and Applications,” NSF, A. N. Cartwright, Supplement, 9/01/2001-9/14/2006, $142,500, NSF Award DGE-0345408, (PI, 30%). Alexander Cartwright, “REU Site: Transdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Initiative On Nanostructured Semiconductors (TURIONS),” NSF, M. Swihart, A. N. Cartwright, 09/19/2002, 4/01/-3/31/2008, $306,000, NSF Award DMR-0243833 (co-PI, 50%). Alexander Cartwright, “III-V/Mn Ferromagnetic Semiconductors for Device Applications,” NSF, H. Luo, A. N. Cartwright, B. D. McCombe, 3/15/2002, 11/01/2002-10/31/2005, $300,000, NSF Award ECS-0224206 (CoPI, 33%). Alexander Cartwright, “Acquisition of a Nanostructure Fabrication and Characterization System for Research and Education,” NSF, B. D. McCombe, H. Luo, A. N. Cartwright, P. N. Prasad, A. H. Titus, 1/24/2002, 7/01/2002-10/31/2005, $342,048, University match of $146,592 for a total equipment cost of $488,640 DMR0216136 (Co-PI, 20%). Alexander Cartwright, “IGERT: Biophotonics - Materials and Applications,” NSF, A. N. Cartwright, D. Kofke, B. D. McCombe, E. Bergey, P. N. Prasad, 9/15/2001-9/14/2006, $2,574,849, NSF Award DGE0114330. (PI, 20%). Alexander Cartwright, “The IT Collaboratory,” New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research (NYSTAR), joint project between Rochester Institute of Technology, Alfred University, and University at Buffalo, University at Buffalo PIs: Paras N. Prasad, A. N. Cartwright, H. Luo, B. D. McCombe, P. L. Liu, C. Basaran, 6/1/01-5/31/2006, $14,000,000 (Co-PI, 20%). Alexander Cartwright, “New Generation Materials and Structures for Nanophotonics and Nanoelectronics,” Air Force Office of Scientific Research, DURINT, Paras N. Prasad, A. N. Cartwright, B. D. McCombe, H. Luo and H. Suga, 5/1/2001-4/30/2006, $4,972,152 AFOSR Award F496200110358 (Co-PI, 15%). Alexander Cartwright, “Spintronics and Spin-Photonics in Ferromagnetic InAs/GaSb-based Hetereostructures,” B.D. McCombe, PI; Co-PI; H. Luo, J.K. Furdyna, N. Tolk, L. Molenkamp, J. Meyer, A., 10/01/2000 - 9/31/2005, $5,883,610 (participant in program). Lisimachos Kondi, Air Force Research Laboratory (Rome, NY), $50,000, 10/1/04-02/28/06. DS-CDMA Video Transmission and Cross-Layer System Optimization. This is a renewal of last year’s award. Vladimir Mitin, Terahertz Microwave Generation in dc-Biased Ballistic Semiconductor Devices, NSF – 0344609, single PI, transferred to UB 8/4/2003 – 10/30/2004, $86,129, UB award # 29736, project # 1034454. Vladimir Mitin, Advanced Nanoparticle Technologies for Novel Photodetectors and Emitters, IRCAF, 12/1/2004 –11/30/2005, PI, share of Mitin is $20,000, RF of SUNY account 1036645-1-26466. 41 Vladimir Mitin, Developing Terahertz Radiation Sensors Based on Quantum Dot Molecules, IRCAF 03/2004– 03/2005, Co-Pi, share of Mitin is $15,000, RF of SUNY account 1038725-1-28466. Projects of the previous year which remain active for the next reporting period: Vladimir Mitin, NUE: Introduction to Nanoelectronics, NSF, 6/1/2004 –5/30/2006, $100,000, PI share 90%, RF of SUNY account 1041027-1-33025. Vladimir Mitin, Theory and Modeling of Complex Two-dimensional Structures Fabricated with the Aid of Bacterial S-layer Protein Masks, PRF, 4/1/2004 –8/31/2006, Single PI, $80,000, RF of SUNY account 1040140-1-32615. Vladimir Mitin, Developing Functionality in Quantum Dots, ONR, subcontracting via Arizona State University, single PI, Transferred to UB 10/1/2003 –5/31/2005, $101,361, RF of SUNY account 1038830-132054. Dimitris Pados - PI/PD (%effort: 100%), ‘‘Two Key Issues in Interference Avoidance and Mitigation: Adaptive Digital Signature Design and Short-data-record Adaptive Filtering,’’ Air Force Research Laboratory, Award No. FA8750-04-2-0179, May 24, 2004 - Nov. 23, 2006, $240,000. Administrative Unit: Research Foundation of SUNY, Acc. #1040616-1-32838. Dimitris Pados - PI (%effort: 50%), ‘‘(TCATS) Signature Waveform Design, Interference Suppression, and Data Authentication for Wireless Sensor Networks,’’ Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Grant No. FA9550-04-1-0256, May 1, 2004 - Apr. 30, 2009, $381,070. PI/PD: S. N. Batalama, Assoc. Prof. EE, Univ. at Buffalo, SUNY. Administrative Unit: Research Foundation of SUNY, Acc. #1040062-1-32575. Dimitris Pados - PI/PD (%effort: 50%), ‘‘Framework for Detection of Hidden Communications,’’ Air Force Research Laboratory, Award No. FA8750-04-1-0091, Apr. 27, 2004 - Oct. 26, 2005, $90,000. Administrative Unit: Research Foundation of SUNY, Acc. #1040407-1-32709. Dimitris Pados - PI/PD (%effort: 50%), ‘‘A Spread-Spectrum Approach to Next Generation Intrusion Detection,’’ Air Force Research Laboratory, Award No. F30602-03- 2-0023, Jan. 7, 2003 - July 7, 2004, $50,000. Administrative Unit: Research Foundation of SUNY, Acc. #1029958-1-27672. Dimitris Pados - PI (%effort: 50%), ‘‘ITR: Development of a Novel Short-Data-Record Adaptive Filtering Framework for Rapidly Changing Communications Environments,’’ National Science Foundation, ComputerCommunications Research, Grant No. CCR-0219903, Aug. 15, 2002 - July 31, 2005, $375,000. PI/PD: S. N. Batalama. Administrative Unit: Research Foundation of SUNY, Acc. #1026936-1-26141. W. J. Sarjeant (50 %) and J. L. Zirnheld (50 %), “High Energy Density Capacitors for NAVY Pulsed Power Applications Subtitle: ONR Phase 2 – ESI investigations,” for TPL, Inc, Albuquerque, NM, Jul. 2003 to Feb. 2005, Flow through from ONR, $ 166,634 December 28, 2004 to 27 June 06. W. J. Sarjeant (100%) “E. & W. G. Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Energy Systems”, Mr. Wilson Greatbatch, E. & W. G. Foundation, September 2001 to August 2004 (Funded $25K). 42 W. J. Sarjeant (50 %) and J. L. Zirnheld (50 %) , “Validate the use of partial discharge testing as an accurate non-destructive predictor of ceramic material maximum safe operation voltage.” for Jeff Alexander, Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque, NM, Dec. 2003 to Sept. 2004 ($ 52,672). W. J. Sarjeant (50 %) and J. L. Zirnheld (50 %), “High energy density for navy pulsed power applications” Phase 1, for Mr. Kirk Slenes, TPL, Inc., Albuquerque, NM, Jul. 2003 to Feb. 2005 ($ 25,583). W. J. Sarjeant (50 %) and J. L. Zirnheld (50 %), “Controlled Surface Fuzing,” for Mr. Harry Moore, Army Picatinny Arsenal, Picatinny, NJ, Oct 2002 to Sept. 2008 ($ 3,313,894.00). W. J. Sarjeant (100%), “James Clerk Maxwell General Dynamics Chair, Professor”, General Dynamics, Chair (Funded $745K) Description: To support a chair professor in Electrical Engineering in the Energy Systems Area. Albert H. Titus, (PI) National Science Foundation, CAREER Award. $209,753 (total costs). Modularized Silicon-based Neuromorphic Visual Processing Systems Implemented in Analog VLSI. Award start date: September 1, 2000. Albert H. Titus, (PI) Johnson & Johnson Focused Giving Grant, $180,000, “A Biologically Inspired Smart Sensor System (BIS3) for Health Monitoring,” (A. Cartwright is co-PI). Start date: May 1, 2004, three year duration. Albert H. Titus, (PI) National Science Foundation, $299,781 (total costs), “SENSORS: Solid-State Imprinted Xerogel Arrays Integrated with Smart CMOS Detectors for Biological Agents,” (F. Bright and A. Cartwright are co-PIs), September 15, 2003 - August 31, 2006. Albert H. Titus, (PI) Intel Corp., $51869 (total costs), “Continuation of the Routing/Packaging Study,” (A. Cartwright co-PI). Sept 1, 2003-August 31, 2004. III.3. Proposals Submitted Wayne A. Anderson, AMBPTech, 11/04-6/05, $31K, develop high electron mobility materials. Wayne A. Anderson, Ohmcraft, 1/04-6/05, ~ $15K, develop highly stable resistors. Wayne A. Anderson, NSF, 8/03-8/06, $250K, develop improved solar cells and TFT’s. Wayne A. Anderson, NASA, 2/04-1/05, $15K, space grant fellowships. Wayne A. Anderson, NSF, 8/01-9/05, $200K, develop improved magnetic materials, (R. Wetherhold is PI). Stella Batalama, PI/PD (%effort: 100%), "Multiuser Detection and Data Exploitation,'' Air Force Research Laboratory, June 1, 2005 – Dec. 31, 2005, $20,000. Administrative Unit: Research Foundation of SUNY. Submitted May 2005. 43 Jonathan Bird, National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research: Local Moment Formation in Quantum Point Contacts, 05/15/05 – 05/14/08, $323,591. Jonathan Bird, National Science Foundation, MRSEC: Nanostructured Semiconductors and Hybrid Materials for Spin-Based Technologies, Investigators: B. D. McCombe (PI), J. P. Bird, F. Bright, A. N. Cartwright, J. A. Gardella, H. Luo, V. Mitin, A. Petrou, P. N. Prasad, and M. Swihart, 10/01/05 – 09/30/11, $14,117,477. Jonathan Bird, National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research: Semiconductor Nanomagnetoelectronics, 10/01/05 – 09/30/08, $345,051. Alexander Cartwright, NSF, “NUE: Variable Nanophotonics Modules," A.N. Cartwright, A.H. Titus, 10/01/2005-09/30/2007, $199,935. Cartwright: .75 student supported per year, 0.25 summer month support, 0.2 academic year support. Alexander Cartwright, NSF, “Spin-Based Device Studies Using Ferromagnetic Half Metal Nanostructures and Semiconductors,” H. Luo, A. N. Cartwright, H. Zeng, 09/01/2005-08/31/2008, $591,672 (Co-PI). Cartwright: 1 student supported per year, 0.5 summer month support. Alexander Cartwright, NSF, “Acquisition of an Imaging Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer,” J.A. Gardella, F.V. Bright, A.N. Cartwright, H. Luo, M.T. Swihart, 10/01/2005-09/30/2006, $1,304,369 (CoPI). Cartwright: no student support, 0 summer month support, (equipment only). Alexander Cartwright, NSF, “Nanostructured Semiconductors and Hybrid Materials for Spin-Based Technologies,” B.D. McCombe, J.P. Bird, A.N. Cartwright, H. Luo, P.N. Prasad, 10/01/2005-09/30/2011, $14,117,477 (Co-PI). Cartwright: 1 month summer support. Alexander Cartwright, NSF, “NER: Development of Lateral Structures for Spintronics,” A. N. Cartwright, H. Luo, V. Mitin, A. H. Titus, 04/01/2005-03/31/2006,$159,117 (PI). Cartwright: 1 student supported per year, 0 academic year month, 0.25 summer month support. Alexander Cartwright, NSF, “NIRT: Block copolymer nanopatterning for electronic devices,” V. Mitin, A. N. Cartwright, P. Alexandridis, J. Gardella, A. Markelz, 05/01/2005-04/30/2009, $1,999,585 (Co-PI). Cartwright: 1 student supported per year, 0 academic year month, 0.5 summer month support. Alexander Cartwright, NSF, “Engineering Research Center for Adaptive Health Assessment Systems,” V. Mitin, A. N. Cartwright, P. Fauchet, L. Luck, S. Luryi, 06/01/2006-05/31/2010, $17,749,996 (Co-PI). Lisimachos Kondi, Air Force Research Laboratory (Rome, NY), Submitted 1/24/05, L. P. Kondi, sole PI $50,000, DS-CDMA Video Transmission and Cross-Layer System Optimization. Lisimachos Kondi, Office of Naval Research (Arlington, VA), Submitted 1/16/05, L. P. Kondi, sole PI $300,000, Super-Resolution of Electro-Optical and Infrared Sensor Data. Lisimachos Kondi, National Science Foundation (Arlington, VA), Submitted 1/3/05, L. P. Kondi, sole PI $182,231, A Framework for Scalable Wavelet-Based Video Coding with Delay Constraints. 44 Pao-Lo Liu, NSF, 12-08-04, “Technology Based Assessment,” $389,719; pending. Hewlett Packard Foundation, 02-12-05, “Interactive Teaching and Learning Using Tablet PC,” $15,500; not funded. Pao-Lo Liu, Microsoft, 03-03-05, “Engineering Design and Assessment Using ConferenceXP,” $50,000; unfunded. Vladimir Mitin, Preproposal “Engineering Research Center for Adaptive Health Assessment System was submitted to NSF ERC program for $17,749,997. NSF panel recommended that “if possible” we will be invited to submit a proposal. We hope that next round we will be more successful. W. J. Sarjeant (50 %) and J. L. Zirnheld (50 %), “REU Site for Advanced Power and Energy Systems Management at the Energy Systems Institute”, National Science Foundation, Submitted August 17, 2004, $616,085 (Rejected). W. J. Sarjeant (50 %) and J. L. Zirnheld (50 %) “Partial Discharge Study for High Energy Density Capacitors for Generation after next Systems of Systems” at the Energy Systems Institute. For General Atomics Electronic Systems, Inc., Flow through from US ARMY, Submitted July 2004, Feb 2005 to May 2005. ($607,000) Partially funded now; total level remains to be seen. W. J. Sarjeant (50 %) and J. L. Zirnheld (50 %), “High Energy Density Capacitors for NAVY Pulsed Power Applications Subtitle: ONR Phase 2 – ESI investigations,” for TPL, Inc, Albuquerque, NM, Flow through from ONR, Submitted August 19, 2004,$ 166,634, Jul. 2003 to Feb. 2005. W. J. Sarjeant (50 %) and J. L. Zirnheld (50 %), “High Energy Density and Thermally Rated Pulsed Power Capacitor Devices,” submitted with AMBP Tech. to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Submitted February 4, 2005, Funded for $24,820. January 25, 2005 to July 25, 2005. W. J. Sarjeant (50 %) and J. L. Zirnheld (50 %), “Surface Flashover and Partial Discharge Characterization of Diamond Like Carbon Coatings on Plastics” Phase 1, for Nehal Chokshi, AMBP Tech Corp., Buffalo, NY, federal flow through $ from US Air Force Submitted February 4, 2005 ($ 25K) May 2005 to Feb. 2006. David T. Shaw, NSF, April 26, 2005, 3 years, $956,000 The three year Nanoscale Manufacturing Curriculum for Advanced Technological Education Project (NaMCATE) will develop, field-test, evaluate, and revise four inquiry-based nanomanufacturing curriculum modules for grades 11-14. The Project will disseminate the modules and replicable workforce development models for nanoscale manufacturing technology (NMT) education to high school (HS) and community college (CC) faculty through national workshops. The Project is a collaborative New York State (NYS) effort involving Fulton Montgomery Community College (FMCC), Dutchess Community College (DCC), area school districts, SUNY at Buffalo, Nanotechnology Research Centers at SUNY/Albany and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, nanoscale manufacturing companies, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Project 2061. Project partners have collaborated on three previous NSF projects and have developed excellent professional relationships and have assimilated a shared vision of curriculum design and its pedagogical underpinnings. Project 2061, through its collaborative work with NSF materials development projects and the Center for Curriculum Materials in 45 Science, will ensure that the design process focuses on important learning goals for science literacy and provides adequate instructional support for helping students achieve them. Albert H. Titus, (PI), NSF, submitted June 2004, $74,804 (total costs), “Enhancing Electrical Engineering Design Through Sensors,” (A. Cartwright is co-PI). Albert H. Titus, (Senior Investigator), NSF, submitted Fall 2004, $14,117,477 (total costs) “Nanostructured Semiconductors and Hybrid Materials for Spin-Based Technologies,”PI: B.D. McCombe, co-PIs: J.P. Bird, A.N. Cartwright, H. Luo, P.N. Prasad. Albert H. Titus, (Key personnel) NIH, submitted July 2004, $16,680,283 (total costs), “Nanomedicine in Chronic Ischemia & Sudden Cardiac Death,” PI: J.M. Canty. Albert H. Titus, (co-PI) NSF, submitted October 22, 2004, $159,117 (total costs), “NER: Development of Nanoscale Lateral Structures for Spintronics,” (A. Cartwright is PI, V. Mitin and H. Luo are also co-PIs). Albert H. Titus (Senior Investigator), NSF, submitted Feb 2005, $17,749,996 (total costs), “Engineering Research Center for Adaptive Health Assessment Systems,” (PI-V. Mitin, co-PIs: A. N. Cartwright, P. Fauchet, L. Luck, S. Luryi). Albert H. Titus, (PI) UB ETC program, $9000 (submitted April 2005), “USB-Based Personal Oscilliscope Plug-in (UB-POP).” Albert H. Titus, (PI) Gerald A. Sterbutzel Research Fund, submitted April 1, 2005, $79,668 (direct costs only), “Development of a Modular Multi-Analyte Sensor System,” (F. Bright and A. Cartwright are co-PIs). Albert H. Titus, (co-PI), NSF, submitted April 6, 2005, $199,935 (total costs), “NUE: Variable Nanophotonics Modules,” (A. Cartwright is PI). Albert H. Titus, (co-PI), John R. Oishei Foundation, Concept Paper Submitted in February 2005, full proposal submission requested, $800,000 (direct costs), “Unobtrusive Disease Detection by Odor Typing,” (F. Bright is PI, A. Cartwright and V. Govindaraju are co-PIs). Albert H. Titus, (Key personnel), NIH, submitted March 25, 2005, $27,602,606 (total costs) “Centers for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Proposal: Biophysical Detection and Treatment of Cancer Using Nanotechnology,” (Roswell Park-led, submitted proposal to NIH). Aleksandr Verevkin, NSF MRI Program, submitted 1/27/2005, $403,185, “Development of Resonance Quantum-State Separation System”. We proposed to develop technology of precise selection of nanoparticles with specific electronic transitions for biosensors, bioprobes, and nanoscale detectors. Aleksandr Verevkin, NSF “Sensors and Sensor Networks” Program, submitted 03/03/05. User (no individual support specified). The wireless surface-plasmon resonance sensor will be developed and tested within the project. 46 Aleksandr Verevkin, NSF MRSEC project, Seed #1 Project Leader, submitted 1/24/05, $150,000 per year for 2 seed projects (planed project duration 5 years), “Single-photon spectroscopy with superconducting detectors”. The part of collaborative initiative leaded by Prof. B. MacCombe. Aleksandr Verevkin, G. Sterbutzel Research Fund, PI, submitted 03/08/05, $40,000 per year ($80, 000 total for 2 years), “Low-cost infrared Imager for Mediacl Imaging and Electronic Materials Microscopy”. This project is a collaborative initiative with the Center of Electronics Packaging of UB. One particular goal is to develop a new instrument for investigation of solder heating and melting processes during the packaging of electronic devices. Aleksandr Verevkin, NSF “Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Laboratory for Nanoelectroinics”, Co-PI, submitted 5/18/05, $200,000. The proposal has a goal to establish Nanoelectronics Laboratory for undergraduate and graduate students at EE Dept. of UB. Aleksandr Verevkin, DOE, LANL Users Proposal, PI, $25,000, submitted 2/05/05, “Nonequilibrium Response of Superconducting Nanowires to Single Photons”. The proposal has a goal to establish the connections with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Aleksandr Verevkin, DOE, LANL Exploratory Research Projects program, Co-PI, submitted 04/05/05, $250,000 per year ($750,000 total for three years), “Single-photon Counter for Ultrafast Quantum Processing”. The goal of this joint proposal with LANL is to obtain funds for postdoctoral scientist position at EE Dept. of UB. James J. Whalen, Saint Gobain Isover G& H, July 1, 2005 to September 30, 2005, $3,000. Description: Measurements of shielding effectiveness of materials in the frequency range 1 MHz to 4 GHz according to IEEE Standard 299 and ASTM D4935. Chu Ryang Wie, NSF: ORGANICS: Laser Annealed Organic Thin Film Transistors, 05/11/04, $573,648 , Wayne Anderson (PI), and Co-PI’s, Elena Guliants, Hong Luo, Chu Wie, and Robert DeLeon (Declined). Chu Ryang Wie, NSF:GOALI (Subcontract from Brown Univ.), Metamorphic Buffer Layer Engineering, 9/29/04, $229,159, C.R.Wie (PI) (Declined). Chu Ryang Wie, NSF: "Development, Testing and Dissemination of Visual Simulation Learning Materials for Si-based Nanoelectronic Devices", 04/29/05, $149,983, C.R.Wie (PI) (Pending). White Papers “Fundamental Understanding of Novel Nano-Dielectrics, J. L. Zirnheld (50 %) and W. J Sarjeant (50 %), Department of Defense research offices: The office of Naval Research (ONR), The Army Research Office (ARO) and the Air Force Office of Scientific research (AFOSR), submitted August 12, 2004 in response to BAA Announcement # 04-021 Topic # 10: Novel Dielectric Materials for High Pulsed Power Capacitors, $2.175 Million over 3 years. Rejected. III.4. Refereed Journal Publications (published) 47 Chunhai Ji and Wayne A. Anderson, “Poly-Si Thin Films by Metal-Induced Growth for Photovoltaic Applications”, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 85, 313-320, 2005. I. N. Psaromiligkos and S. N. Batalama, "Data record size requirements for adaptive space-time DS/CDMA signal detection", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 52, pp. 1538-1546, Sept. 2004. D. K. Ferry, R. Akis, and J. P. Bird, “Einselection and the quantum to classical transition in quantum dots”, J. Phys.: Condens. Matt 17, S1017 – S1036 (2005). J.-F. Song, J. P. Bird, and Y. Ochiai, “Manipulating the transmission of a two-dimensional electron gas via spatially-varying magnetic fields”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 062106 (1 – 3) (2005). K. H. Cho, B. H. Choi, S. H. Son, S. W. Hwang, D. Ahn, B.-G. Park, B. Naser, J.-F Lin, and J. P. Bird, “Evidence of double layer quantum dot formation in a silicon-on-insulator nanowire transistor”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 043101 (1 – 3) (2005). M. Elhassan, R. Akis, J. P. Bird, D. K. Ferry, T. Ida, and K. Ishibashi, “Magnetically-induced Bragg scattering of electrons in quantum-dot crystals”, Phys. Rev. B 70, 205341 (1 – 4) (2004). Also published in the December 13th, 2004 issue of the: Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology. J.-F. Lin, J. P. Bird, Zhian-He, P. A. Bennett, and D. J. Smith, “Signatures of quantum transport in selfassembled epitaxial nickel silicide nanowires”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 281 – 283 (2004). Also published in the July 19th, 2004 issue of the: Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology. D. K. Ferry, R. Akis, and J. P. Bird, “Einselection in action: Decoherence-induced selection of preferred pointer states in open quantum dots”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 026803 (1 – 4) (2004). Also published in the July 19th, 2004 issue of the: Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology. J.-F. Lin, J. P. Bird, L. Rotkina, A. Sergeev, and V. Mitin, “Large effects due to electron-phonon-impurity interference in the resistivity of Pt/C-Ga composite nanowires”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 3828 – 3830 (2004). T. Sasaki, T. Morimoto, Y. Iwase, N. Aoki, Y. Ochiai, A. Shailos, J. P. Bird, M. P. Lilly, J. L. Reno, and J. A. Simmons, “Novel many-body transport phenomenon in coupled quantum wires”, IEEE Trans. Nanotech. 3, 110 – 114 (2004). E. Tribus, G. Namkoong, W. Henderson, W. A. Doolittle, R. Liu, J. Mei, F. Ponce, M. Cheung, F. Chen, M. Furis, and A. Cartwright, "Growth of InN on Ge Substrate by Molecular Beam Epitaxy," Journal of Crystal Growth, in press, available online April 7 2005. M.C. Cheung, G. Namkoong, F. Chen, M. Furis, H. E. Pudavar, A. N. Cartwright, and W. A. Doolittle, “Photoluminescence Study of MBE Grown InGaN with Intentional Indium Segregation,” Phys. Stat. Soli.(c), 2(7), 2779-2782 (2005). F. Chen, A. N. Cartwright, C. Liu and I. M. Watson, "Emission Dynamics of Red Emitting InGaN/GaN Single Quantum Wells," Phys. Stat. Soli.(c), 2(7), 2787-2790 (2005). 48 F. Chen, A. N. Cartwright, H. Lu, and W. J. Schaff, "Temperature Dependence of Carrier Lifetimes in InN," Phys. Stat. Soli.(a) 202(5), 768-772 (2005). M. Furis, A.N. Cartwright, E.L. Waldron, and E.F. Schubert, “Spectral and Temporal Resolution of Recombination from Multiple Excitation States in Modulation-Doped AlGaN/GaN Multiple Quantum Wells Heterostructures,” Applied Physics Letters, 86(1), 162103 (2005). V. K. S. Hsiao, T.-C. Lin, G. S. He, A. N. Cartwright, P. N. Prasad, L. V. Natarajan, V. P. Tondiglia, and T. J. Bunning, “Optical microfabrication of highly reflective volume Bragg gratings,” Applied Physics Letters, 86(1), 131113 (2005). B. Jaiswal, A. H. Titus, T. Dishongh, and A. N. Cartwright, "Innovative Circuit Board Level Routing Designs for BGA Packages," IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging, 27(4), 630-639 (2004). F. Chen, A. N. Cartwright, H. Lu and W. J. Schaff, “Ultrafast carrier dynamics in InN epilayers,” Journal of Crystal Growth, 260, 10-14 (2004). H. Liu, C. Basaran, A. N. Cartwright, W. Casey, “Application of moiré interferometry to determine strain fields and debonding of solder joints in BGA packages,” IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, 27(1), 217-223 (2004). H. Liu, A. N. Cartwright, C. Basaran, “Moiré interferogram phase extraction: A ridge detection algorithm of continuous wavelet transforms,” Applied Optics-Information Processing, 43(4), 850-857 (2004). F. Chen, A. N. Cartwright, H. Lu, and W. J. Schaff, “Temperature dependent optical properties of wurtzite InN,” Physica E-Low-Dimensional Systems & Nanostructures 20(3-4), 308-312 (2004). Cover story on Scanning, Scanning Vol. 26, No.3, P. C. Cheng. Cover story on Scanning, Scanning Vol. 26, No 4, P. C. Cheng. D. Srinivasan, L. P. Kondi, D. A. Pados, “Scalable Video Transmission Over Wireless DS-CDMA Channels Using Minimum TSC Spreading Codes”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 11, No. 10, October 2004, pp. 836-840. H. He, L. P. Kondi, “Resolution Enhancement of Video Sequences with Simultaneous Estimation of the Regularization Parameter”, SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 13, No. 3, July 2004, pp. 586-596. A. Sergeev, M.Yu. Reizer, and V. Mitin, "Deformation Electron-Phonon Coupling in Disordered Semiconductors and Nanosstructures" Phys. Rev. Letters, 2005, Vol. 94, pp. 136602-- 1-4. A. Sergeev, V. Mitin, and M. Reizer, “On the Nature of Logatrithmic Term in Resistivity of One-Dimensional and Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductors" WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics, 2004, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 370375. 49 V. Ryzhii, I. Khmyrova, M. Ryzhii, and V. Mitin, “Comparison of dark current, responsivity and detectivity in different intersubband infrared photodetectors,” Semicond. Sci. Technol., 2004, Vol. 19, pp. 8-16. Z. Liu and D. A. Pados, “A decoding algorithm for finite geometry LDPC codes,’’ IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 53, pp. 415-421, Mar. 2005. G. N. Karystinos and D. A. Pados, ‘‘The maximum squared correlation, sum capacity, and total asymptotic efficiency of minimum total-squared- correlation binary signature sets,’’ IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 51, pp. 348-355, Jan. 2005. S. Gopalan, G. N. Karystinos, and D. A. Pados, ‘‘Capacity, throughput, and delay of slotted ALOHA DSCDMA links with adaptive space-time auxiliary- vector receivers,’’ IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 4, pp. 79-92, Jan. 2005. S. De, C. Qiao, D. A. Pados, M. Chatterjee, and S. J. Philip, ‘‘An integrated cross-layer study of wireless CDMA sensor networks,’’ IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Quality-ofService Delivery in Variable Topology Networks, vol. 22, pp. 1271-1285, Sept. 2004. Weifeng Su, Z. Safar, and K. J. R. Liu, "Full-rate full-diversity space-frequency codes with optimum coding advantage" IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 51, no. 1, pp.229-249, January 2005. T. Himsoon, Weifeng Su, and K. J. R. Liu, "Differential unitary space-time signal design using matrix rotation structure," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vo. 12, no. 1, pp.45-48, January 2005. A. Song, G. Wang, Weifeng Su, X.-G. Xia, "Unitary space-time codes from Alamouti's scheme with APSK," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 3, no. 6, pp.2374-2384, November 2004. Weifeng Su and X.-G. Xia, "Signal constellations for quasi-orthogonal space-time block codes with full diversity," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 50, no. 10, pp.2331-2347, October 2004. Weifeng Su, Z. Safar, and K. J. R. Liu, "Diversity analysis of space-time modulation over time-correlated Raleigh fading channels," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 50, no. 8, pp.1832-1839, August 2004. Weifeng Su, X.-G. Xia, and K. J. R. Liu, "A Systematic Design of High-Rate Complex Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 8, no. 6, pp.380-382, June 2004. Rey-de-Castro R., Wang, D., Verevkin, A., Mycielski A., Sobolewski R., “CdMnTe semimagnetic semiconductors for ultrafast magnetooptics and spintronics ”, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 4, 106 (2005). Rey-De-Castro, R. Wang, D. Zheng, X. Verevkin, A. Sobolewski, Roman. Mikulics, M. Adam, R. Kordos, P. Mycielski, A. ,"Subpicosecond Faraday effect in Cd1-xMnxTe and its application in magneto-optical sampling", Applied Physics Letters, 85, p. 3806 (2004). Korneev, A. Kouminov, P. Matvienko, V. Chulkova, G. Smirnov, K. Voronov, B. Gol'tsman, G N. Currie, M. Lo, W. Wilsher, K. Zhang, J. Sllysz, W. Pearlman, A. Verevkin, A. Sobolewski, R., "Sensitivity and gigahertz 50 counting performance of NbN superconducting single-photon detectors" Applied Physics Letters, 84, 5338 (2004). Verevkin, A. Pearlman, A. Slysz, W. Zhang, J. Currie, M. Korneev, A. Chulkova, G. Okunev, O. Kouminov, P. Smirnov, K. Voronov, B. Gol'tsman, G N. Sobolewski,"Ultrafast superconducting single-photon detectors for near-infrared- wavelength quantum communications", Roman. [Journal Article] Journal of Modern Optics, 51, 1447 (2004). Goltsman, G. Korneev, A. Izbenko, V. Smirnov, K. Kouminov, P. Voronov, B. Kaurova, N. Verevkin, A. Zhang, J. Pearlman, A. Slysz, W. Sobolewski, R., “Nano-structured superconducting single-photon detectors", Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors & Associated Equipment, 520, 527 (2004). M.S.Park, I.M.Na, and C.R.Wie , “A Comparison of Ionizing Radiation and High Field Stress Effects in NChannel Power Vertical Double-Diffused Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors” J.Appl.Phys. 97(1), 014503-1 ~ 014503-6 (2005). III.5. Refereed Journal Publications (accepted) L. P. Kondi, D. Srinivasan, D. A. Pados, and S. N. Batalama, "Layered video transmission over multirate DSCDMA wireless systems,'' IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, to appear. L. P. Kondi and K.R. Matty, “Balanced Multiple Description Video Coding Using Optimal Partitioning of the DCT Coefficients,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 15, July 2005, pp. 928934. L. P. Kondi, “A Rate-Distortion Optimal Hybrid Scalable/Multiple-Description Video Codec,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 15, July 2005, pp. 921-927. L. P. Kondi and H. He, “An Image Super-Resolution Algorithm for Different Error Levels per Frame,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, to appear. III.6. Invited Conference Publications A. N. Cartwright, “Ultrafast Carrier Recombination and Transport in III-N Materials,” 2nd US-Korea Workshop on Nanoelectronics, Seoul, Korea, 25-26 April 2005. A. N. Cartwright, “Time-resolved Spectroscopy in GaN Based Devices,” Second International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Queenstown, New Zealand, 6-11 February 2005. A. N. Cartwright, F. Chen, H. Lu, W. J. Schaff, “Time-resolved Spectroscopy of Recombination and Relaxation Dynamics in InN,” paper 5725-60, SPIE Photonics West ’05 International Symposium on Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructure Materials IX, Optoelectronics, SPIE Photonics West Conference, San Jose, CA, 22-27 January 2005. 51 A. N. Cartwright, “Integrated Biosensors,” NATO Advanced Institute in Biophotonics, Biophotonics – from Fundamental Principles to Health, Environment, Security and Defense Applications, Ottawa, Canada, 29 September – 9 October 2004. A. N. Cartwright, “Temporal Resolution of Carrier Dynamics and Transport in III-N Epilayers and Heterostructures,” Workshop on Nanoscale Issues Nitride Semiconductors, Anchorage, AK, 22-25 August 2004. A. N. Cartwright, “Holographic Writing of Gratings for Nanophotonics,” Liquid Crystal Technology and Applications Conference, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, 7-11 June 2004. P. C. Cheng (2004): Optical data storage, Microsc. Microanal. 10, 1258CD. David T. Shaw, Keynote speaker: The Emerging of Nanotechnology and its Impacts on Surface and Interfacial Science and Engineering, The 2nd International Conference on Surface and Interface Science and Engineering, Guangzhou, China, May 14, 2004. David T. Shaw, Invited speaker: Prospective R&D Trends in MEMS and Nanotech, Institute of Materials Science Nanotech Workshop, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, May 16, 2004. Aleksandr Verevkin, "Superconducting Single-Photon Optical Detectors", Proceedings of Single Photon Symposium IV, CLEO/IQEC ‘04, San Francisco, CA, 2004. Aleksandr Verevkin, “CdMnTe semimagnetic semiconductors for ultrafast magnetooptics and spintronics”, Abstracts of IEEE Nanotechnology Council Workshop on Quantum Devices ’04, Potsdam NY, April 2004. Aleksandr Verevkin, “Advanced ultrafast nanostructured NbN single-photon detector operated at 2.0K”, Proceedings of SPIE Photonics West 2005, San Francisco CA, January 2005. III.7. Contributed Conference Publications Chunhai Ji, Joondong Kim and Wayne A. Anderson, “Study of Photovoltaic Properties and Light Absorption in Poly-Si Thin Film Solar Cell Grown by the Metal-Induced Method”, Denver, U.S.A. August 4-6, 2004, SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering 5520-39 (2004), 184-191. Joondong Kim, Wayne A. Anderson, Elena A. Guliants and Christopher E. Bunker, “Morphological Changes while Growing Nickel Monosilicide Nanowires”, Boston, U.S.A. Nov. 28 – Dec. 2, 2004, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceeding 854E (2004) U 5. 10. Chunhai Ji, Joondong Kim and Wayne A. Anderson, “Current Transport Study of Schottky and P-N Junction Solar Cells Using Metal-Induced Growth Poly-Si Thin Films”, Boston, U.S.A. Nov. 28 – Dec. 2, 2004, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceeding 836 (2004) L 5.4. 52 J.H. Tan, V.H. Guerrero, R.C. Wetherhold, and W.A. Anderson, “Effect of Stress-Induced Magnetic Anisotropy on the Properties of Giant Magnetostrictive Single Layer and Multilayer Thin Films”, Materials Research Society Symposium – Proceedings, Boston, Dec. 2, 2004. Chunhai Ji and Wayne A. Anderson, “Device Performance and Current Transport Study of Metal-Induced Grown microcrystalline Si for Solar Cell Applications”, 31st IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Walt Disney World, FL, Jan 3-7, 2005. Chunhai Ji and Wayne A. Anderson, “Optimization of Metal-Induced Growth for the Fabrication of Microcrystalline Si Thin Film Solar Cells”, 31st IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Walt Disney World FL, Jan 3-7, 2005. M.Li and W.A. Anderson, "Defect Reduction in Si-based Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Photodetectors with Cryogenic Processed Schottky Contacts”, Materials Research Society Meeting, San Francisco, March 28-April 1, 2005. Joondong Kim, Chunhai Ji and Wayne A. Anderson, “Metal Induced Growth of Poly-Si Solar Cells and Silicide Nanowires by use of Multiple Catalyst Layers”, San Francisco, U.S.A., March 28 – April 1, 2005, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceeding 862 (2005) A 21.5. Joondong Kim, Wayne A. Anderson and Young-Joo Song, “Spontaneous Growth of Nickel Silicide Nanowires and Formation of Self-Assembled Nanobridges by the Metal Induced Growth Method”, San Francisco, U.S.A., March 28 – April 1, 2005, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceeding 872 E (2005) J 7.2. M. Gkizeli, D. A. Pados, S. N. Batalama, and M. J. Medley, "Two algorithms for blind spread-spectrum steganalysis,'' in Proceedings 2005 IEEE Workshop on Signal Proc. Systems, Athens, Greece, Nov. 2005, submitted. P. Xiong, S. N. Batalama, D. A. Pados, and B. Suter, "Downlink multiuser transmit beamforming with channel correlation feedback,'' in Proceedings IEEE MILCOM '05 - Conference on Military Communications, Atlantic City, NJ, Nov. 2005, submitted. P. Xiong and S. N. Batalama, "Multiuser multichannel estimation and detection with side user information in space-time coded CDMA systems,'' in Proceedings IEEE ICASSP'05 - International Conference on Accoustics Speech and Signal Processing, vol. 3, Philadelphia, PA, Mar. 2005, pp. 901-904. P. Xiong, S. N. Batalama, and M. J. Medley, "Multiuser channel estimation and detection with partial user information for CDMA systems,'' in Proceedings CISS '05 - Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore, MD, Mar. 2005. P. Xiong, S. N. Batalama, and M. J. Medley, "Multiuser channel estimation and detection with partial user information for space-time coded CDMA systems,'' in Proceedings SPIE'05 Defense and Security Symposium, Digital Wireless Commun. Conf., Orlando, FL, Mar. 2005. 53 A. N. Cartwright, V. Chodavarapu, M. Davenport, L. Tehan, A. H. Titus, F. V. Bright, “Protein Sensors using Integrated Nano-Structured Sensor Elements with CMOS Detectors,” paper 5705-10, Nanobiophotonics and Biomedical Applications, Photonics West, BiOS 2005 Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA (2005). Vincent K. S. Hsiao, G. S. He, A. N. Cartwright and P. N. Prasad, “Holographic Formation of Photonic Bandgap Structures with High Refractive Index Modulation,” paper CC4.9, Liquid Crystal Materials and Technology, 2004 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting (2004). A. N. Cartwright, W. D. Kirkey, M. Pan, V. K. S. Hsaio, R. Thapa, D. W. Lucey and P. N. Prasad, “Nanofabrication of Organic and Inorganic: Organic Structures for Nanophotonics,” paper DD12.6, Organic and Nanocomposite Optical Materials, 2004 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting (2004). M. Furis, W. D. Kirkey, G. Singh, A. N. Cartwright, D. W. Lucey, and P. N. Prasad, “Effect of Different II-VI Shells on the Photoluminescence of InP Nanoparticles,” paper FF9.24, Solid-State Chemistry of Inorganic Materials V, 2004 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting (2004). M. Cheung, A. N. Cartwright, T. Murphy, J. D. Phillips, and W. E. Bowen, “Time Resolved Photoluminescence of ZnO Thin Films grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition,” paper H11.43, Functional and Multifunctional Oxide Films, 2004 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA (2004). T. Murphy, K. Moazzami, and J. Phillips, M. Cheung and A. N. Cartwright, "Time-Resolved Optoelectronic Properties of ZnO Epilayers," paper P2-24, 3rd International Workshop on ZnO and Related Materials, Sendai, Japan (2004). M. Furis, A. N. Cartwright, University at Buffalo, E. Waldron, and F. Schubert, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “Spectral and Temporal Resolution of Recombination Dynamics from Multiple Excited States in Modulation-Doped AlGaN/GaN MQW Heterostructures,” paper P8.16, International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors, Pittsburgh, PA, July (2004). M. Cheung, and A. N. Cartwright, University at Buffalo, G. Namkoong, and W. A. Doolittle, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Photoluminescence Study of MBE Grown InGaN with Intentional Indium Segregation", paper P3.38, International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors, Pittsburgh, PA, July (2004). F. Chen and A. N. Cartwright, University at Buffalo; C. Liu and I. Watson,University of Strathclyde, “Emission Dynamics of Red and Near-Infrared Emitting InGaN/GaN Single Quantum Wells,” paper P8.7, International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors, Pittsburgh, PA, July (2004). F. Chen and A. N. Cartwright, University at Buffalo, H. Lu, W. J. Schaff, Cornell University; “Excitation Intensity Dependence of Photoluminescence in Highly Excited InN Epilayers,” paper P15.8, International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors, Pittsburgh, PA, July (2004). 54 M. Davenport, V. Chodavarapu, E. Tehan, A. H. Titus, A. N. Cartwright, F. V. Bright, “Chemical Sensor Systems Using CMOS Detectors and LED Arrays,” Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH June, (2004). M. Cheung, G. Namkoong, A. Cartwright, and W. A. Doolittle, “Photoluminescence Study of MBE Grown InGaN with Intentional Indium Segregation,” paper P8.38, International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors, Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA, June (2004). W. Y. Cheng, V. C. Cheng, P. C. Cheng and D. B. Walden (2004): The orbicule of maize, Microsc. Microanal. 10, 1444CD. W. Y. Cheng, V. C. Cheng, P. C. Cheng and D. B. Walden (2004): The orbicule in the anther of maize (Zea mays L.), Scanning 26, 150-151. P. C. Cheng and D. B. Walden (2005): Anther cuticle of maize (Zea mays L.), Scanning 27, 78-80. V. C. Cheng, W. Y. Cheng, P. C. Cheng and D. B. Walden (2005): Dwarf mutants of maize (Zea mays L.), Scanning 27, 81-82. P. C. Cheng and David B. Walden (2005) Cuticle of Maize (Zea mays L.) Anther, Microsc. Microanal., 11 (in press). Victoria C. Cheng, Wayne Y. Cheng, P. C. Cheng and David B. Walden (2005): Comparative Study of Dwarf Mutants of Maize (Zea mays L.), Microsc. Microanal., 11 (in press). Arian, P., Saramäki, T. & Fam, A. T, "Generalized linear-phase FIR filters based on switching and resetting of IIR filters," Proceedings of Internatinal Conference on Signals and Electronic Systems, ICSES'04, Poznan, Poland, pp. 39-42, 13-15 September 2004. Arian, P., Saramäki, T. & Fam, A. T, "A new class of linear-phase FIR filters based on switching and resetting of IIR filters," Proceedings of IEEE Norchip 2004, Oslo, Norway, pp. 167-170, 8-9 November 2004. Peyman Arian, Tapio Saramäki and Adly T. Fam, "Design of IIR-Like Filter Blocks in Cascade for Generating Narrow Transition-Band Linear-Phase FIR Filters," Proceedings of the IEEE Conference TENCON 2004, Analog and Digital Techniques in Electrical Engineering, Chiang Mai, Thailand Lotus Hotel Pang Suan Kaew, pp 60-63, November 21-24 2004. Peyman Arian, Tapio Saramäk and Adly T. Fam, , "Implementation of IIR-Like Filter Blocks in Cascade for Generating Narrow Transition-Band Linear-Phase FIR Filters" Proceedings of the IEEE Conference TENCON 2004, Analog and Digital Techniques in Electrical Engineering, Chiang Mai, Thailand Lotus Hotel Pang Suan Kaew, pp 64-67, November 21-24 2004. Indranil Sarkar and Adly T. Fam, "The Interlaced Chirp Z Transform," The 7th IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM2004), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, pp. -, December 11-14, 2004. 55 H. He, L. P. Kondi, “A Super-Resolution Technique with Motion Estimation Considering Atmospheric Turbulence”, in Proc. SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Orlando, FL, March-April 2005. G. Partasides, L. P. Kondi, “Scalable Video Transmission over GMC-CDMA Wireless Channels”, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005. M. Bansal, L. P. Kondi, “Scalable Video Transmission over Rayleigh Fading Channels using LDPC Codes”, in Proc. SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference (Image and Video Communications and Processing), San Jose, CA, January 2005. H. He, C. Jose, L. P. Kondi, “An EM Based Resolution Enhancement Algorithm Considering Partially Known Point Spread Function”, in Proc. IEEE Western New York Image Processing Workshop, Rochester, NY, September 2004. M. Bansal, L. P. Kondi, “Scalable Video Transmission over Wireless Channels Using 3-D SPIHT and LDPC Codes”, in Proc. IEEE Western New York Image Processing Workshop, Rochester, NY, September 2004. S. Bandyopadhyay, L. P. Kondi, “Jointly Optimal Contour-Based Shape Coding and Shape-Adaptive Texture Coding”, in Proc. IEEE Western New York Image Processing Workshop, Rochester, NY, September 2004. H. He, L. P. Kondi, “A Regularization Framework for Joint Blur Estimation and Super-Resolution of Video Sequences”, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Genova, Italy, September 2005, to appear. S. Bandyopadhyay, L. P. Kondi, “Optimal Bit Allocation for Joint Contour-Based Shape Coding and ShapeAdaptive Texture Coding”, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Genova, Italy, September 2005, to appear. V. Seran, L. P. Kondi, “3D Based Video Coding in the Overcomplete Discrete Wavelet Transform Domain with Reduced Delay Requirements”, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Genova, Italy, September 2005, to appear. V. Seran, L. P. Kondi, “Drift Control in Variable Bitrate Wireless Channels for Scalable Wavelet Based Video Coding in the Overcomplete Discrete Wavelet Transform Domain”, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Genova, Italy, September 2005, to appear. J. D. Buneo, J. L. Zirnheld, K. M, Burke, W. J. Sarjeant, M. Sussman and C. Freud, “Characterization of Pulse Induced Plasma Fueled by Aluminum Metallization” in IEEE Conference Record of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS), Baltimore, MD, June 28 – July 1, 2004, pp 451. I. Kohlberg, G. Boezer, W. Sarjeant, H. Moore, H, Singh, “Environmental Electromagnetic Fields Produced by Antennas.” in EuroEM Conference Proceedings of the 2004 Euro Electromagnetics (EuroEM), Magdeburg, Germany July 12-16,2004, pp. 52. David Shaw, Copper-based 2nd generation HTS wires, DOE wire workshop, St. Petersburg, January19, 2005. 56 Weifeng Su, A. K. Sadek, and K. J. R. Liu, “SER performance analysis and optimum power allocation for decode-and-forward cooperation protocol in wireless networks,” in Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’05), New Orleans, LA, March 13-17, 2005. T. Himsoon, Weifeng Su, and K. J. R. Liu, “Single-block differential transmit scheme for frequency-selective MIMO-OFDM systems,” in Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’05), New Orleans, LA, March 13-17, 2005. W. P. Siriwongpairat, Weifeng Su, M. Olfat, and K. J. R. Liu, “Multi-antenna multi-band UWB-OFDM systems with space-time-frequency coding,” in Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’05), New Orleans, LA, March 13-17, 2005. A. K. Sadek, Weifeng Su, and K. J. R. Liu, “Performance analysis for multi-node decode-and-forward relaying in collaborative wireless networks,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP’05), Philadelphia, PA, March 19-23, 2005. Weifeng Su and K. J. R. Liu, “Differential space-frequency modulation for MIMO-OFDM systems via a “smooth” logical channel,” in Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM’04), Dallas, Texas, vol. 2, pp.913-917, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004. A. K. Sadek, Weifeng Su, and K. J. R. Liu, “Maximum achievable diversity for arbitrary spatially correlated MIMO-OFDM systems,” in Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM’04), Dallas, Texas, vol. 4, pp.2664-2668, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004. Z. Safar, Weifeng Su, and K. J. R. Liu, “A fast decoding framework for space-frequency block codes,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, France, vol. 5, pp.2591-2595, June 20-24, 2004. B. Jaiswal and A.H. Titus, “A New Ball Placement Approach for Maximizing Board Level Routability of BGA Packages,” proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Microelectronics, Long Beach, CA, USA, November 14-18, 2004. Aleksandr Verevkin, Proceedings of Applied Superconductivity Conference, Jacksonville FL, October 2004, “Fabrication Development for Nanowire GHz-Counting-Rate Single-Photon Detectors”. Aleksandr Verevkin, Proceedings of Applied Superconductivity Conference, Jacksonville FL, October 2004, “Origin of Dark Counts in Nanostructured NbN Single-Photon Detectors,” Aleksandr Verevkin, Proceedings of Applied Superconductivity Conference, Jacksonville FL, October 2004 “Gigahertz Counting Rates of NbN Single-Photon Detectors for Quantum Communications.” Aleksandr Verevkin, Proceedings of Applied Superconductivity Conference, Jacksonville FL, October 2004, “Superconducting optical single-photon detectors for quantum information technologies”. 57 Aleksandr Verevkin, Proceedings of CLEO/IQEC ’04, San Francisco, CA, May 2004: “Subpicosecond Room-temperature magneto-optical sampling with CdMnTe”. Aleksandr Verevkin, Proceedings of Joint 29th International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves and 12th International Conference on TeraHertz Electronics Aleksandr Verevkin, “Spectral Sensitivity, Quantum Efficiency, and Noise Equivalent Power of NbN Superconducting Single-Photon Detectors in the IR Range”. III.8. Books Books edited A.N. Cartwright, “Proceedings of SPIE – Nanobiophotonics and Biomedical Applications,” Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging – Nanobiophotonics and Biomedical Applications, 5705 (2005). A.N. Cartwright, T. Cooper, S. Karna, H. Bakanishi, “Organic and Nanocomposite Optical Materials,” Proceedings of the Materials Research Society 2004 Annual Meeting, 846, (2005). III.9. Chapters in Books A. N. Cartwright, A. H. Titus, “Integrated Optical Sensors for Biophotonics Applications,” NATO Advanced Study Institute on Biophotonics, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Scientific Affairs Division, Brian Wilson (Editor), 2005. Holmes, T. J. and P. C. Cheng (2005): Basic principles of imaging, in: Focus on Multi-modality Microscopy, Eds. P. C. Cheng, and H. Yu, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, (in press). III.10. Invited Presentations Jonathan P. Bird, “Electron waveguides for quantum computing”, The 35th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird UT, January 2004: invited oral presentation. Alexander N. Cartwright, “Ultrafast Carrier Recombination and Transport in III-N Materials,” 2nd US-Korea Workshop on Nanoelectronics, Seoul, Korea, 25-26 April 2005. Alexander N. Cartwright, “Time-resolved Spectroscopy in GaN Based Devices,” Second International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Queenstown, New Zealand, 6-11 February 2005. Alexander N. Cartwright, “Time-resolved Spectroscopy of Recombination and Relaxation Dynamics in InN,” paper 5725-60, SPIE Photonics West ’05 International Symposium on Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors 58 and Nanostructure Materials IX, Optoelectronics, SPIE Photonics West Conference, San Jose, CA, 22-27 January 2005. Alexander N. Cartwright, “Integrated Biosensors,” NATO Advanced Institute in Biophotonics, Biophotonics – from Fundamental Principles to Health, Environment, Security and Defense Applications, Ottawa, Canada, 29 September – 9 October 2004. Alexander N. Cartwright, “Temporal Resolution of Carrier Dynamics and Transport in III-N Epilayers and Heterostructures,” Workshop on Nanoscale Issues Nitride Semiconductors, Anchorage, AK, 22-25 August 2004. Alexander N. Cartwright, “Nitride Luminescence,” ONR Electronic Materials Division, Monterey, CA, 1-4 August 2004. Alexander N. Cartwright, “Holographic Writing of Gratings for Nanophotonics,” Liquid Crystal Technology and Applications Conference, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, 7-11 June 2004. P. C. Cheng (2004): Optical data storage, Microsc. Microanal. 10, 1258CD. Albert H. Titus, "CMOS Optical Detectors and Smart Focal Plane Arrays," invited talk given at the Institute for Microstructural Sciences National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada, July 19, 2004. Albert H. Titus, “From Analog VLSI to XeroFETs: An Overview of Sensing and Detecting on a Chip,” invited talk given as Analytical Chemistry Seminar Series sponsored by Pfizer, University at Buffalo Department of Chemistry, April 20, 2005. David T. Shaw, Web-based technology education modules, NSF K-12 Math, Science, and Technology Curriculum Developers Conference, May 9-12, 2004, Hyatt Arlington, Arlington, VA. Audience: Curriculum developers. David T. Shaw, The design of web-based technology education instructional materials, NSF Program Review Conference on MST Curriculum Development, March 1, 2005, Holiday Inn, Alexandria, VA. Audience: Curriculum developers. James J. Whalen, Conducted Workshop "Preparing for the NARTE Exam" at the 2004 IEEE EMC Symposium at Santa Clara, California, August 9, 2004. James J. Whalen, Conducted demonstration “How Parasitic Effects in Inductors and Capacitors Affect Electrical Equipment” at 2004 IEEE EMC Symposium at Santa Clara, California, August 10, 2004. III.11. Contributed Presentations P. Xiong and S. N. Batalama, "Multiuser multichannel estimation and detection with side user information in space-time coded CDMA systems,'' IEEE ICASSP'05 - International Conference on Accoustics Speech and Signal Processing, vol. 3, Philadelphia, PA, Mar. 2005, pp. 901-904. 59 P. Xiong, S. N. Batalama, and M. J. Medley, "Multiuser channel estimation and detection with partial user information for CDMA systems,'' CISS '05 - Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore, MD, Mar. 2005. P. Xiong, S. N. Batalama, and M. J. Medley, "Multiuser channel estimation and detection with partial user information for space-time coded CDMA systems,'' SPIE'05 Defense and Security Symposium, Digital Wireless Commun. Conf., Orlando, FL, Mar. 2005. W. Y. Cheng, V. C. Cheng, P. C. Cheng and D. B. Walden (2004): The orbicule of maize, Microsc. Microanal. 10, 1444CD. W. Y. Cheng, V. C. Cheng, P. C. Cheng and D. B. Walden (2004): The orbicule in the anther of maize (Zea mays L.), Scanning 26, 150-151. P. C. Cheng and D. B. Walden (2005): Anther cuticle of maize (Zea mays L.), Scanning 27, 78-80. V. C. Cheng, W. Y. Cheng, P. C. Cheng and D. B. Walden (2005): Dwarf mutants of maize (Zea mays L.), Scanning 27, 81-82. P. C. Cheng and David B. Walden (2005) Cuticle of Maize (Zea mays L.) Anther, Microsc. Microanal., 11 (in press). Victoria C. Cheng, Wayne Y. Cheng, P. C. Cheng and David B. Walden (2005): Comparative Study of Dwarf Mutants of Maize (Zea mays L.), Microsc. Microanal., 11 (in press). Lisimachos Kondi, “A Super-Resolution Technique with Motion Estimation Considering Atmospheric Turbulence”, presented at the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Orlando, FL, March 2005. Lisimachos Kondi, “Scalable Video Transmission over GMC-CDMA Wireless Channels”, presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005. Vladimir Mitin, "Deformation Electron-Phonon Coupling in Disorded Semiconductors and Nanostructures," A. Sergeev, M. Reizer, and V. Mitin, American Physical Society Meeting, March 21-25, 2005, Los Angeles, CA, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2005, Abstract S19.00006. Vladimir Mitin, "Electron-Phonon Intetaction in Disorded Semiconductors and Low-Dimensional Structures," A. Sergeev, V. Mitin, and M.Yu. Reizer, 11th Advanced Heterostructure Workshop, Kona, Hawaii, Dec. 5-10, 2004, Program, page 3. Vladimir Mitin, "Temperature-Dependent Conductivity in Weakly Disordered One-Dimensional and QuasiOne-Dimensional Conductors," A. Sergeev, V. Mitin, and M. Reizer, ICPS 2004, J5-30, Flagstaff, AZ, July 2630, 2004, Program and abstracts, page 138. 60 Vladimir Mitin, "Role of Electron-Phonon-Impurity Scattering Interference Effects in the Resistivity of Pt/CGa Composite Nanowires," J.-F. Lin, J.P. Bird, L. Rotkina, A. Sergeev, and V. Mitin, H5-35, ICPS 2004, Flagstaff, AZ, July 26-30, 2004, Program and abstracts, page 73. Dimitris Pados, R. Grover, D. A. Pados, and M. J. Medley, ‘‘Super-resolution direction finding with an Auxiliary-Vector basis,’’ in Proceedings of SPIE, Digital Wireless Communications Conf., SPIE Defense & Security Symposium, Orlando, FL, Mar. 28 - Apr. 1, 2005, vol. 5819. Dimitris Pados, H. Qian and D. A. Pados, ‘‘Filter estimation for multiuser detection with side user information,’’ in Proceedings IEEE MILCOM 2004 (Conf. on Military Communications), Monterey, CA, Oct. 31 - Nov. 3, 2004. Dimitris Pados, M. Gkizeli, D. A. Pados, and M. J. Medley, “SINR, bit error rate, and Shannon capacity optimized spread-spectrum steganography,’’ in Proceedings IEEE ICIP 2004 (International Conf. on Image Proc.), Singapore, Oct. 24-27, 2004, vol. 3, pp. 1561-1564. Dimitris Pados, Z. Liu and D. A. Pados, ‘‘LDPC codes from generalized polygons,’’ in Proceedings 1st IEEE Upstate NY Workshop on Comm. and Networking, Rochester, NY, Nov. 12, 2004. W.J. Sarjeant, “Environmental Electromagnetic Fields Produced by Antennas.” International scientific and engineering community for electromagnetics, Magdeburg, Germany, on July 13, 2004. W.J. Sarjeant, “Characterization of Pulse Induced Plasma Fueled by Aluminum Metallization”, International leaders in Plasma community, Baltimore, MD, on July 1, 2004. Albert Titus, “A Biologically Inspired Smart Sensor System (BIS3) for Health Monitoring,” A.H. Titus and A.N. Cartwright, presented at the Johnson & Johnson Annual Focused Giving Symposium, November 30, 2004. Jennifer Zirnheld, “Characterization of Pulse Induced Plasma Fueled by Aluminum Metallization”, International Leaders in the Plasma Sciences Community, Baltimore, MD, on July 1, 2004. III.12. Faculty Lectures/Other Presentations Stella Batalama, Invited Speaker, "Short-data-record adaptive filtering: The auxiliary-vector algorithm," U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, IFGC and MITRE Corp./MOIE, Rome, NY, May 19, 2005. Stella Batalama, Invited Speaker, "Short-data-record adaptive filtering: The auxiliary-vector algorithm," Seminar Series, Electrical Engineering Dept., Harvard University, Oct. 8, 2004. Stella Batalama, Invited Speaker, "CITE - Center for Integrated Transmission and Exploitation: History, present activities, and future challenges," Air Force Office of Scientific Research Contractor's Meeting and Technical Review, University of Delaware, June 2-4, 2004. Stella Batalama, Invited Speaker, "Novel packet-data receivers," Air Force Office of Scientific Research Contractor's Meeting and Technical Review, University of Delaware, June 2-4, 2004. 61 Stella Batalama, Invited Speaker, "CITE - Center for Integrated Transmission and Exploitation: History, present activities and future challenges," CITE Strategic Planning Workshop, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, IF, Rome, NY, June 2004. Stella Batalama, Invited Speaker, "Research challenges in sensors network communications", Information Institute Workshop, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, IF, Rome, NY, June 2004. Alexander N. Cartwright, “Ultrafast Carrier and Transport Dynamics in III-N Materials,” University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, 25 March 2005. Alexander N. Cartwright, “Carrier Recombination and Transport in III-N Materials,” University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, 15 March 2005. Alexander N. Cartwright, “Ultrafast Processes in III-N Nanostructures,” University of Michigan, WIMS, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2 November 2004. P. C. Cheng, 3D Microscopy of Living Cells and Second, Post-course Workshop on 3D Image Processing, June 12-June 28, 2004, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Lisimachos Kondi, “Video Coding and Cross-Layer Optimization for Transmission over DS-CDMA Wireless Systems”, IEEE Signal Processing Society (Rochester chapter), Rochester, NY, May 4, 2005 (Invited seminar). Vladimir Mitin, Delivered four lectures/seminars on research activity of the Materials, Device, and Circuit Simulations Laboratory: University Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR, February 25, 2005. Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, January 21, 2005. NIST Electromagnetic Division 818 Seminar, Bolder, CO, October 15, 2004. Stony Brook, State University of New York, NY, June 11, 2004. Dimitris Pados, ‘‘Optimal Signature Design for Spread-Spectrum Steganography,’’ UB EE Graduate Seminar Series, 109 Knox Hall, North Campus, 11/19/04. Dimitris Pados, ‘‘Future Research Directions in Integrated Transmission and Exploitation,’’ The Center for Integrated Transmission and Exploitation (CITE) Strategic Planning Meeting, May 11, 2004, Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY. David T. Shaw, A series of ten lectures on the Recent developments in MEMS and nanoelectronics and the expected impacts on nanoscale manufacturing, to the faculty and students of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu, China, May 16-21, 2005. David T. Shaw, Nanotechnology and Advanced Technology Education, to the community college technology education faculty, August 24, 2004 at Dutchess Community College. David T. Shaw, Nanotechnology and Museum Informal Science Education, to Museum exhibition designers, December 15, 2004 at Brookhaven National Laboratory. 62 Aleksandr Verevkin, “Single-Photon Detectors and applications”, UB, Graduate Student Seminar of EE Department, February 11th 2005. Aleksandr Verevkin, “Superconducting single-photon Detectors”, UB, Physics Department Seminar, March 8th 2005. III.13. Inventions and Patent Disclosures Patent Disclosures “CMOS ISFET-based pH Sensor,” A. N. Cartwright, V. Chodavarpu, A. H. Titus, Disclosed to the University at Buffalo STOR June 2004, provisional patent filed October 1, 2004. “ISFET-based Highly Selective Biochemical Sensors and Sensor Arrays” A. N. Cartwright, V. Chodavarpu, A. H. Titus, R. Bukowski, F. V. Bright, Disclosed to the University at Buffalo STOR June 2004, provisional patent filed December 2004. “Holographic formation of periodic polymeric photonic bandgap structures for visible to IR wavelengths,” K-S Hsiao, A. N. Cartwright and P. Prasad, Disclosed to the University at Buffalo STOR May 2004, provisional patent filed July 2004. Albert H. Titus, Three patent applications have been filed. Two more provisional patents were filed and one additional disclosure was submitted to STOR. Sensor and Method of sensing Having an Energy source and Detector on the same Side of a Sensor Substance (Patent App. 10/957,254) (A.H. Titus, A.N. Cartwright, F.V. Bright) filed October 1, 2004 Detection Device and Method Using Modulated Energy, (Patent App. 10/948,062) (A.H. Titus and F.V. Bright) filed September 23, 2004. Temporally Addressable Detection Array (Patent App. 10/945,344) (A.H. Titus, A.N. Cartwright, F.V. Bright) filed September 20, 2004. CMOS ISFET Based pH Sensor (Provisional Patent App. 60/615,473) ( V. Chodavarapu, A.H. Titus, A.N. Cartwright,) filed October 1, 2004. ISFET based Highly Selective Biochemical Sensors and Sensor Arrays, (Provisional patent App.) (A.N. Cartwright, F.V. Bright, R. Bukowski, V. Chodavarapu, A.H. Titus). Low Power Glare Sensor, Disclosure submitted on April 14, 2005 (C. S. Mullin, A. H. Titus, and K. Bhagavathula). III.14. Patents Awarded 63 David T. Shaw - US6695870: Process for treating disease. Treatment of diseased cells with protons and light nuclei by disposing nanocapsules within biological organism, focusing laser energy at specified wavelength and intensity, and contacting the nanocapsules with focused laser energy. Albert H. Titus - D.P. Phinney and A.H. Titus, “A Method and Apparatus for Correcting a Phase Shift Between a Transmitter and Receiver,” U.S. Patent No. 6,868,135, March 15, 2005. III.15. Posters/Reviewed Posters IV. HONORS AND AWARDS RECEIVED (2004 – 2005) IV.1. Faculty New Jonathan Bird - NYSTAR Distinguished Professor of 2003, received January 2005. Adly T. Fam - “Certificate of Recognition” from Career Services at UB, Division of Student Affairs, April 19, 2005. Vladimir Mitin - 2005 the University at Buffalo Sustained Achievement Award (for senior scholars, May 26, 2005). David T. Shaw - Outstanding Achievement Award of the Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists Association of Southern California (Los Angeles). David T. Shaw - Distinguished Achievement Award of the Chinese Institute of Engineers (New York). Continuing W.J. Sarjeant is the James Clerk Maxwell General Dynamics Chair, Professor Description: To support a chair professor in Electrical Engineering in the Energy Systems Area. W.J. Sarjeant - Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2003 – 2004. Description: The recipient is acknowledged for excellence as a distinguished educator and as a teacher who “made a difference” in the life of a student. David T. Shaw - Honorary professorship, Sun Yat Sen University (Guangzhou, China). David T. Shaw - Honorary professorship, South China University of Technology (Guangzhou, China). David T. Shaw - Honorary professorship, Institute of Metal of the Chinese Academy of Science (Shengyang, China). 64 IV.2. Student IV.3. New Editorships Lisimachos Kondi – Associate Editor, European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing Journal on Applied Signal Processing, beginning July 1, 2005. IV.4. Continuing Editorships IV.5. New Faculty Fellow Positions Vladimir Mitin - Fellow of the Institute of Physics, elected: September 2004. IV.6. Continuing Faculty Fellow Positions Jonathan Bird - Fellow, Institute of Physics. W.J. Sarjeant is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). David T. Shaw - Association Fellow, American Association for Aerosol Research. IV.7. Other - New IV.8. Other – Continuing V. SERVICE AND OTHER ACTIVITIES V.1. Professional Service W.J. Sarjeant is the Student Activities Counselor for the IEEE Buffalo Section (6 years.) Responsibilities include mentoring as needed of all the student chapters in the western NY region technically, and socially. Jennifer Zirnheld is the IEEE Buffalo Section Student Activities Co - Counselor for University at Buffalo - 5 years. Responsibilities include mentoring of the UB IEEE Student chapter technically and socially. Jennifer Zirnheld is the IEEE Buffalo Section Newsletter Editor - 4 Years. Jennifer Zirnheld was the IEEE Buffalo Section Senior Past Chair through 12/04. 65 Stella Batalama - Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Feb. 2002 - present (estimated # of manuscripts handled per year: 15). Stella Batalama - Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Letters, Oct. 2000 - present manuscripts (estimated # of manuscripts handled per year: 30). Stella Batalama - Member of the IEEE Communications Theory Technical Committee. Stella Batalama - Workshop Organizer/Chair, CITE Strategic Planning Workshop, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, IF, Rome, NY, June 2004. Stella Batalama - Session Organizer/Chair, Session on Sensor Networks, Information Institute Workshop, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, IF, Rome, NY, June 2004. Stella Batalama - International Technical Committee Member, ICC '06 – International Conference on Communications, Istanbul, Turkey, June 11-15, 2006. Jonathan Bird - Publications chair & program committee, 7th International Conference of New Phenomena in Mesoscopic Structures/5th International Conference on Surfaces & Interfaces of Mesoscopic Devices, to be held in Maui, HI, Dec. 2005. Jonathan Bird - Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Nanoelectronics (NTC TC-6) since 2002. Executive editor of the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter since 2003. Alexander Cartwright - January 2005: Co-Chair of “Nano/Biophotonics and Biomedical Applications,” SPIE Photonics West, BiOS Annual Conference, San Jose, CA, January 22-27, 2005. Alexander Cartwright - December 2004: Chair of Symposium “Novel Materials for Nanophotonics,” MRS Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 29-December 3, 2004. Alexander Cartwright - August 2004: Co-Chair of “Nanophotonic Materials,” SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, August 2-6, 2004. P. C. Cheng - Program committee, Focus on Microscopy 2004 (17th International Conference on Confocal Microscopy and 16th International Conference on 3D Image Processing in Microscopy), April 4-8, 2004, Philadelphia, PA. P. C. Cheng - Member of program committee, Scanning 2003, April 27-29, 2004, Washington DC. Vladimir Mitin - Co-organizer, Session Chair, and Program Committee Member of the 3rd SPIE Conference on Noise in Devices and Circuits III, Austin, Texas, USA, May 24-26, 2005. Dimitris Pados - Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Jan. 2001 - Dec. 2004. Dimitris Pados - Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (area communications and signal processing), Jan. 2001 - present. 66 Dimitris Pados - Member, Communications Theory Committee, IEEE Communications Theory Society. Dimitris Pados - Technical Program Committee Member, 16th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2005), Berlin, Germany, Sept. 11 - 14, 2005. Dimitris Pados - Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2005), Genova, Italy, Sept. 11-14, 2005. Dimitris Pados - Technical Program Committee Member for Wireless Access, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2004-Spring), Milan, Italy, May 17-19, 2004. Dimitris Pados - Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2004), Singapore, Oct. 24-27, 2004. Dimitris Pados -Reviewer for IEEE Trans. Communications, IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, IEEE Trans. Information Theory, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Tech., IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Proc., IEEE GLOBECOM 2005, IEEE Intern. Conf. on Image Proc. (ICIP 2005), IEEE Vehic. Tech. Conf. (VTC Fall 2004). W.J. Sarjeant is an active member of the Rotary Club of Cheektowaga – (Rotarian 25 years) He has served on numerous Rotary Committees over this time. W.J. Sarjeant is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (10 years). Dr. Sarjeant serves as an active member of the society and participates in elections and other relevant technical matters as they arise. W.J. Sarjeant is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Fellow – 16 years, Member 42 Years Nominated Jerry Durand for senior membership in July 2004 Faculty advisor the IEEE UB student chapter Dr. Sarjeant is the Student Activities Counselor for the IEEE Buffalo Section (6 years.). W.J. Sarjeant is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (9 years). Dr. Sarjeant serves as an active member of the society and participates in elections and other relevant technical matters as they arise. W.J. Sarjeant is a member of the IEEE Power Modulator Conference Organizing International Scientific Committee; He serves and advises the PMC on scientific issues, advances and development in modulators and high voltage topics. The conference is held every other year. W.J. Sarjeant is an IEEE Liaison member of and active participant in the ongoing public articles and releases from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society with the Committee on Man and Radiation (COMAR). 67 W.J. Sarjeant is a member of the organizing committee of an Interdisciplinary Workshop on Failure Modes in Aging, High Value Engineered Systems-Forecasting Methods and Strategies, Italy, Conference was June 21 – 23, 2004. W.J. Sarjeant belongs to the Tesla Memorial Society where he is a member of the Board of Directors, the Executive Board, the Science Committee, and the Scholarship committee (20 years). Albert H. Titus - IEE Electronics Letters, paper reviewer. James J. Whalen - Member of IEEE P299 Standard Committee. V.2. University Service Faculty Senate activities, committees, projects, etc. Pao-Lo Liu - Alternate member of Faculty Senate while Dr. Pados is on leave. Dimitris Pados - University Faculty Senator (elected by the School of Eng. and Applied Sc. voting faculty), July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2006. Albert H. Titus - Served as the alternate Senator during the fall semester for Dr. Ann Bisantz. Agreed to be nominated for Faculty Senate for upcoming term (pending vote). Presidential/Vice Presidential committees, task groups, etc. Alexander Cartwright - Fall 2004 – Spring 2005: Member: University at Buffalo Task Force on Centers and Institutes. Alexander Cartwright - Fall 2004 – Spring 2005: Member: University at Buffalo Task Force on Research Incentives and Support. Alexander Cartwright - Spring 2005: Chair: White Paper Committee for UB2020 Foci of Excellence on Nanomaterials (Integrated Nanostructured Systems). W.J. Sarjeant participated in the first Nanotechnology UB Research Retreat on Monday March 07, 2005. Faculty were invited to participate in this first retreat to develop an approach for UB to address the field of Nanotechnology as a university-wide initiative W.J. Sarjeant participated in the second Nanotechnology retreat on Monday April 18, 2005. Meetings will continue to develop plan for this strategic theme area. University administrative assignments 68 Alexander Cartwright - Fall 2002 – Present: Chair of ILPB Executive Committee. Alexander Cartwright - Spring 2002 - Present: Director: Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics. Kasra Etemadi - University Academic Adjudication Committee. Other Wayne A. Anderson - Mentor for new faculty. Jonathan Bird - Assistant Director, Center for Spin Effects and Quantum Information in Nanostructures (CSEQuIN). Alexander Cartwright - Member: Center for Spin Effects & Quantum Information in Nanostructures (CSEQuIN); Member: Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS). W.J. Sarjeant participated in SEAS wide analyses of EE Strengths and Weaknesses: December 14, 2004 faculty meeting and preparation for as well as analyses needed to prepare detailed response to the subject areas of analyses of strengths within EE as part of Provost academic Planning activity. In preparation for this meeting on December 1, 2004, Dr. Sarjeant reviewed the draft document and inserted additional technical information and ideas. W.J. Sarjeant completed the UB 2020 online survey for the 2020 Strategic Planning Activity being undertaken by the Office of the Provost on November 11, 2004. This is in support of: “As you know, our university is broadly and actively engaged in a comprehensive long-range strategic planning effort, UB 2020. UB 2020 will provide the University at Buffalo with a clear set of academic goals and an appreciation of the academic support infrastructure necessary to achieve those goals.” W.J. Sarjeant hosted from an Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Militarily Critical Technology Working Review meeting at UB on Monday through Wednesday, November 15-17, 2004, on the subject of Energy Systems, and related technical issues, with participants from IDA and colleagues from UB. Participants included: Mr. Gordon Boezer, COL USAF (Ret.), Deputy Director, Technology Identification and Analysis Center, Science and Technology Division, Institute for Defense Analyses; Mr. Donald Staffiere, IDA; and Mr. Van Wilson, IDA. This activity highlights high voltage and Energy Systems capabilities in the context of government requirements and opportunities. This activity may lead to future research and contacts from the Department of Defense. W.J. Sarjeant participated in the Saturday, November 20, 2004 UB Honors Forum at the request of Dr. M. Ryan. This university event gave tours to potential new UB honors engineering undergraduates of the Energy Systems Institute as part of our volunteer support to the school and the department. W.J. Sarjeant participated in the inauguration of the 14th president of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. W.J. Sarjeant facilitated tours of the Energy Systems Institute for the University wide Open House. University wide Preview Day. 69 W.J. Sarjeant participated in the EPA audit of the UB campus on August 8, 2004. The Energy Systems Institute was favorably reviewed to meet all regulations and requirements. The one issues cited was corrected on the spot. W.J. Sarjeant received special recognition from Robert Genco for increasing UB’s standing as one of the nation’s top 100 intuitions. Dr Sarjeant’s efforts were in receiving more federal funding which is cited in Chronicle of Higher Education. UB rose from 63 to 53. W.J. Sarjeant responded to the technology and video equipped classroom survey in December 2004, in an effort to improve the campus community. Albert H. Titus - Participating in two UB2020 Committees. V.3. 1. School-wide Service Committee memberships Stella Batalama - Faculty Personnel Committee, May 2002 – present. James J. Whalen - SEAS Undergraduate Academic Program Committee. Special projects Dimitris Pados - Freshman Mentor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Honors Students Mentor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. W.J. Sarjeant is the Director of the Energy Systems Institute. W.J. Sarjeant is a member of the Engineering Donor Societies, the Dean Associates. W.J. Sarjeant participated in the Saturday, November 20, 2004 UB Honors Forum at the request of Dr. M. Ryan. This university event gave tours to potential new UB honors engineering undergraduates of the Energy Systems Institute as part of our volunteer support to the school and the department. W.J. Sarjeant acted as a faculty mentor for the Buffalo area Engineering Awareness for Minorities (BEAM) Program. This program specializes in introducing minority high school students to engineering research at the University at Buffalo. Dr. Sarjeant mentored Leah Hall from Hutch Tech High School from July 6 – August 6, 2004. W.J. Sarjeant nominated and provided supporting documentation per Michael Hardy’s request that the Association of Old Crow’s was specifically interested in awarding scholarship in the Energy Systems Area. The Association of Old Crow’s had received a donation to their scholarship fund with the expressed desire that the students’ chosen have an interest in Energy Systems. Dr Sarjeant supplied reference letters and nomination 70 packages for candidates Shola Olabisi, Herick Nelson, Evan Halstead, and Adam Halstead. Two Scholarships were awarded to Evan Halstead and Adam Halstead and presented at the annual Dean’s scholarship reception. W.J. Sarjeant, per Dr. Karwan’s request, met with Dr. Henry Stone in regards to Energy and Energy Systems on November 4, 2004. W.J. Sarjeant participated in the EPA audit of the UB campus on August 8, 2004. The Energy Systems Institute was favorably reviewed to meet all regulations and requirements. The one issues cited was corrected on the spot. W.J. Sarjeant responded to the Washington Advisory Group request for information on the placement of Dr. Sarjeant’s Ph.D. graduates over the last 10 years. This information will also be used as part of the NRC review. Considerable effort went into this project to obtain relevant information on my students. W.J. Sarjeant and the ESI Team during November 2004 to present worked in conjunction with the department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, UB’s department of Environmental Health and Safety and the fire marshal’s to comply with all fire marshals requests and action items. W.J. Sarjeant attended on September 24, 2004 per invitation from Dr. Karwan the grand opening of the “George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Facility”. W.J. Sarjeant serves as a mentor to junior faculty within the School of Engineering and Applied Science. W.J. Sarjeant participated in SEAS wide analyses of EE Strengths and Weaknesses: December 14, 2004 faculty meeting and preparation for as well as analyses needed to prepare detailed response to the subject areas of analyses of strengths within EE as part of Provost academic Planning activity. In preparation for this meeting on December 1, 2004, Dr. Sarjeant reviewed the draft document and inserted additional technical information and ideas. W.J. Sarjeant, by invitation of Dean Karwan, participated in the visit with Niagara Mohawk on February 15, 2005. Dr. Sarjeant met with Tim Siderakis, Dr. Jennifer Zirnheld, Adam Cermak, Mike Madonia, David Devendorf and Dennis Elsenbeck on "Transmission Engineering", and other Energy Systems strengths of SEAS. Technical discussions were in a roundtable fashion. The capabilities of the Energy Systems Institute in SEAS were summarized and hardcopy of the Mission Statement of the Institute as well as an Introduction were supplied. The plan that moved forward was that Dave Devendorf recommended for himself to circulate this information within NIMO to test the waters to see if there are any common areas of interest. W.J. Sarjeant participated in the annual SEAS Scholarship Reception, April 1, 2005. Many the ESI students were honored at this event. W.J. Sarjeant has been a SEAS Mentor from Fall 1998 to the Present. Participated in SEAS Opening Day on August 29, 2004. Discussed with the students what their goals were at the university and in their future careers. Furthermore, discussed how to ease the transition to a collegiate environment. Mentoring 4 first year engineering student this year. 71 A number of Dr. Sarjeant’s students have continued to meet with him over the course of the year. For example Mark Scibilia and Dr Sarjeant discussed his changing from EE to MAE. As another example Patrick Dailey and Dr. Sarjeant talked about switching from EE to Education with a focus on teaching High School History. W.J. Sarjeant participated in the Open House sessions for Interested Engineering students on October 16, 2004 and April 2, 2005. W.J. Sarjeant served as group organizer for numerous public tours of the Energy Systems Institute at the request of the SEAS Dean of Undergraduate Engineering. W.J. Sarjeant participated in the fourth annual Engineering Seminar & Exhibition for High School Students on Saturday, March 12, 2005, at the University at Buffalo, North Campus. The Technical Societies Council of the Niagara Frontier (TSC), Engineering Opportunities Program, and the University at Buffalo (UB), School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, sponsored this Engineering Seminar & Exhibition for High School Students. ESI conducted tours for these students approximately 100 students tour the labs and participated in interactive demonstrations. W.J. Sarjeant participated in IEEE Regional Student Branch Conference for the Eastern section of USA on April 09-10, 2005 participants were from all over the eastern section of the USA. Dr. Sarjeant worked with Nitin Mistry, President of the Student Section of the IEEE and Zac Lochner, Treasurer. Dr. Sarjeant recommended they contact local high technology industries such as Calspan and DRS-EWNS for possible participation and financial support. W.J. Sarjeant was a faculty mentor for three students who were participating in the SUNY Alliance for Minority Participation (AMP) Program. This program funds minority undergraduate students to participate in faculty supervised research. The three student participants were: Jahmil Campbell, and Gavin Campbell, who are both studying electrical engineering at UB. The SUNY AMP Program took place from May to July 2004. W.J. Sarjeant’s research students Shola Olabisi, Gavin Campbell and Jahmil Campbell presented their summer research at the10th annual Ronald E. McNair Western New York Inter Collegiate Student Research conference on July 15 – 17, 2005. Shola presented his research “Magnetically Modulated Plasma Effects” in an oral session. Gavin and Jahmil presented their research “Fusing Phenomena of Thin Metallized Films” in a poster presentation. W.J. Sarjeant served as a faculty mentor for UB’s Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program. This program promotes and encourages underrepresented minority students to pursue a graduate education. Dr. Sarjeant served as a mentor to Shola Olabisi. W.J. Sarjeant was a faculty mentor for a student who was participating in the SUNY Collegiate Science Technology and Engineering Program (CSTEP). This program funds minority undergraduate students to participate in faculty supervised research. Akin Caulcrick participated in the program this past summer. The program ran from May to July 2004. W.J. Sarjeant nominated and provided supporting documentation on Evan Halstead to participate in a NASA sponsored undergraduate research grant for the summer of 2004 and the fall of 2004. Evan’s research is on the 72 lifetime reliability of synthetic capacitor materials. Dr. Sarjeant will be the faculty advisor to Evan. The title of Evan’s topic is, “Stress Testing of High Voltage Capacitors for Consideration as an Alternative Means of Energy Storage in Space-Based Applications”. W.J. Sarjeant served, with Dr. J. Whalen and Dr. J. Zirnheld, as technical evaluators on the Student “Project Teamwork” workshop held at UB in Talbot Hall. The detailed presentations of senior groups were presented to the evaluation faculty participating and ranked by them. This activity emphasized engineers working together on project teams to solve interdisciplinary problems in response to ABET's curriculum request. Project team work involved students from Aerospace, Computer, Electrical, and Mechanical seniors who formed multidisciplinary teams and worked on the DARPA challenge. Each student was asked to give a one minute presentation to the faculty evaluator in the room. Administrative assignments Alexander Cartwright - Co-Director: Electronics Packaging Laboratory. Kasra Etemadi - MBA/EE collaborative program coordinator. Donald D. Givone - Director of Graduate Admissions; Course Scheduling. Pao-Lo Liu - Director of Graduate Studies; Revision of Graduate Student Manual, exam grading policy, admission control. Vladimir Mitin - EE Department Chair. James J. Whalen - Director of Undergraduate Studies. V.3.2. Departmental Service Committees Chaired Wayne A. Anderson – Director of Financial Aid. Stella Batalama - EE Dept., Chair of Faculty Recruitment Committee, Sept. 2004 - May 2005. Alexander Cartwright - Graduate Curriculum Committee, Awards Committee, Graduate Seminar Committee Space Committee. W.J. Sarjeant - Energy Systems Curriculum Committee, Master of Engineering Program Director 8/03 – 8/04. David T. Shaw - Comprehensive Exam Committee. James J. Whalen - EE Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. Committee memberships 73 Stella Batalama - EE Dept. Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Member, Sept. 2002 - present. EE Dept. Graduate Curriculum Committee Member, Sept. 2002 – present; EE Dept. Graduate Affairs Committee Member, Sept. 2001 – present; EE Dept., Staff Duties and Evaluation Committee Member, Sept. 2004 - present. Jonathan Bird - Safety Committee; Graduate Curriculum Committee. Alexander Cartwright - Graduate Affairs Committee; Undergraduate Curriculum Committee/ABET Committee; Staff Duties & Evaluation Committee. Donald D. Givone - Graduate Affairs Committee. Lisimachos Kondi - Publicity committee. Dimitris Pados - Member, Faculty Search Committee 2004-05; Member, Financial Aid Committee. W.J. Sarjeant - Electrical Engineering Department Graduate Affairs Committee; Electrical Engineering Department Publicity Committee. Albert H. Titus - EE Department Undergraduate Curriculum Committee: This committee was created from the ABET committee to oversee the Undergraduate curriculum in response to ABET 2000 Criteria for continuous monitoring. The committee sets guidelines for design content and coordinates general course content, and aids the Director of Undergraduate Studies on many issues. Involved with the EE department’s portion of the Project Teamwork. In charge of the website (http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/academic/teamwork/). Albert H. Titus - Member of the EE Department Teaching Assistant Financial Aid Committee. Chu R. Wie – Member, Graduate Admissions Committee. Jennifer Zirnheld - Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum/ABET Committee -2004 – 2005; Space Planning and Allocation Committee - Sept. 2001 – Present. Special projects Wayne A. Anderson - New clean room design and planning. Lisimachos Kondi - Faculty member responsible for the EE website (webmaster). Pao-Lo Liu - New EE website and graduate recruiting brochure development. Dimitris Pados - Faculty Advisor, HKN Honor Society. W.J. Sarjeant is the Director of the Energy Systems Institute. 74 W.J. Sarjeant on October 26, 2004, nominated and provided supporting documentation on Shola Olabisi, Evan Halstead, and Adam Halstead to Prof. Pao-Lo Liu for senior Scholarships sponsored by the department and SEAS. For Spring 2005 semester, Evan Halstead and Adam Halstead were selected by the department as worthy candidates to participate in this program. They have had the opportunity to research at ESI as part of this honor. W.J. Sarjeant is the advisor to the new free resource via the internet that is designed for undergraduate and graduate level engineering students as they prepare for their careers after college. This resource can be found at: www.gradnet.iec.org. More specifically, Dr. Sarjeant worked as a liaison between students, student clubs, and industry to make this endeavor happen. W.J. Sarjeant, in an effort to improve the image of ESI and Electrical Engineering per the request of our new ambitious chair, Dr. V. Mitin, had new signs developed, and produced in conjunction w/ I Media of the University at Buffalo for all Energy Systems Institute Research Space. W.J. Sarjeant undertook the completion of the ESI contributions to the EE Website: Using the information developed about our ESI Energy Systems Focus group a comprehensive set of contributions to the EE Web Page was developed as requested by Dr. Liu. These new inputs to the important information package were put together over a several weeks of substantial integrating work and reflect the most current information available. In addition the complete resume of Dr. Sarjeant was updated and put into pdf format with a photograph, as requested by Dr. Liu. The pdf format has the advantage that the file size is small and can be read on almost any computer. New photographs of Dr. Sarjeant were taken and they have been integrated into the new full Academic Resume. W.J. Sarjeant is one of the faculty mentors to Michael Licitra and Stephan Zickler to present their unique undergraduate research project for presentation at UB celebration of Excellence on April 29, 2005. Their research in mobility platforms includes use of artificial intelligence systems, machine vision, mechanical/electrical optimal system design, and behavioral control algorithms. W.J. Sarjeant responded to Melissa Hubbard, an Engineering Career Counselor, with UB’s Career Planning and Placement request for information on recent graduates of note. He nominated Mr. Erik Althoff as a recent grad of note working locally. W.J. Sarjeant nominated per Dr. V. Mitin/Dr. M. Karwan request that Mr. Adam Halstead serve on the interview panel for UB’s vice-president for research candidates. W.J. Sarjeant served as a committee member and advisor for Master of Science student F. Z. Shaik. Defense not scheduled yet. W.J. Sarjeant, in preparation for UB Business Partners Day on (6/6/05) recommended that Mr. Joe Tomasino, CEO DRS-EWNS be invited as he has been supportive of UB’s research and undergraduates. DRS – EWNS has contributed $3,000.00 to UB Robotics, $2,000.00 to IEEE UB chapter and $1,000.00 (personally) towards scholarships in the Energy Systems area. In addition DRS – EWNS is part of the collegium at UB with the U.S. Army to support a two-year research program. W.J. Sarjeant worked with Dr. Kondi to make sure links from departmental web site directed users to the new www.esi.buffalo.edu site. This effort was done in late November of 2004. 75 W.J. Sarjeant responded to Dr. V. Mitin’s request for updated information on Directors of Electrical Engineering Department Research Centers. W.J. Sarjeant worked with Dr. Kondi to draft a press release type announcement for the William G. Dunbar award for the departmental web site. This effort was done in early November of 2004. W.J. Sarjeant worked with Cathy Muscarella and Betty Brown to have new pictures taken in preparation for the updated departmental web site. This effort was done in early March of 2005. W.J. Sarjeant provided various letters of support or reference as needed for students. For example, Mr. Goh needed a letter of recommendation to engage in practical training. Other examples include letters of reference for Mr. A. Halstead, Mr. E. Halstead, and Mr. S. Olabisi for graduate studies. W.J. Sarjeant attended the internal audits of hazardous waste for the Energy Systems Institute on November 23, 2004 and March 23, 2005. W.J. Sarjeant took an active role in the department’s efforts to recruit a new faculty person in the area of nanodevices. He attended open forums for each candidate during the fall 2004. W.J. Sarjeant participated in SEAS wide analyses of EE Strengths and Weaknesses, that took place at the December 14, 2004 faculty meeting which included preparation for as well as analyses needed to prepare detailed response to the subject areas of analyses of strengths within EE as part of the Provost’s Academic Planning activity. W.J. Sarjeant participated in the Saturday, November 20, 2004 UB Honors Forum at the request of Dr. M. Ryan. This university event gave tours to potential new UB honors engineering undergraduates of the Energy Systems Institute as part of our volunteer support to the school and the department. W.J. Sarjeant participated in the Open House sessions on Interested Engineering students on October 16, 2004 and April 2, 2005. W.J. Sarjeant granted permission for numerous public tours of the Energy Systems Institute facilities and educational and research program throughout this last year. In addition, he and his students organized and executed specialized tours and demonstrations for minority, high school, potential and declared students, and parents in the engineering discipline area. This is part of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Informational Sessions and Tours. The tours are about once or twice a week throughout the year. W.J. Sarjeant participated in a tour on October 20, 2004 for a group of students from the East Aurora BOCES center at the request of Dr. M. Ryan. This university event gave a tour to potential new engineering undergraduates of the Energy Systems Institute as part of our volunteer support to the school and the department. W.J. Sarjeant is the faculty advisor of the IEEE Student Branch, SUNY/AB, from September 1996 – Present Responsibilities include mentoring (~100 students) of the UB IEEE Student chapter technically and socially and encouraging new membership. Dr. Sarjeant also participated in IEEE Buffalo Sections Annual Student Night 76 on February 24, 2005. The topic was career readiness and the speaker was Mr. Joseph Bellant, Senior Consultant Applied Science Group, Inc. W.J. Sarjeant was specifically contacted by Generator Group, LLC because he is the advisor to IEEE UB student branch. Generator Group LLC is looking for qualified candidates and qualified student members for a variety of openings that are available. W.J. Sarjeant is a mentor to Electrical Engineering departmentally assigned Undergraduates/Graduates. Mentored 10 departmental students in addition to students employed at the Institute. For example, Dr. Sarjeant met to advise undergraduate Christopher Strong on 11/30/04 on his interests in Engineering. Continues to interact with post SEAS mentee; for example Andrew Huefner a mentee from 2003. W.J. Sarjeant provided orientation for new students on Energy Systems focus areas when requested. W.J. Sarjeant provided input in the Energy Systems Focus Area for the Fall 2004 and Spring 2005 M.S./Ph.D. exam. W.J. Sarjeant on September 8, 2004 at the request of Dr. M. Karwan met with Northrop Grumman’s George W. Reynolds and Gregory L. Hodges and gave a review of the Energy Systems Institute. This day long event featured various faculty making presentations from Electrical Engineering. Dr. Sarjeant’s presentation was an hour long and focused on common research interests between ESI and Northrop Grumman. W.J. Sarjeant on March 31, 2005 attended a follow up meeting of Mark Karwan with Northrop Grumman to discuss joint areas of interest for collaboration. Technical capabilities discussions founded on short white papers from the Faculty. ESI covered specifically Current Research and Capabilities of the Energy Systems Institute as they relate to Homeland Security and National Defense. In preparation for the event Dr. Sarjeant worked with Dr. Safiuddin and his students to obtain pictures of research projects related to Homeland Security and National Defense. W.J. Sarjeant participated in the EE new graduate student orientation on August 27, 2004. He spoke to new graduate students on the topic of Energy Systems and advised them on course selection. W.J. Sarjeant prepared a presentation on electrical safety titled, “Electrical Safety – Safe Standoff Distances”. This document was created in conjunction with Dr. Etemadi, Niagara Mohawk Power Company, Sandia National Labs and other outside industries. This document is still a work in progress as it still is addressing some safety issues. W.J. Sarjeant participated in the EPA audit of the UB campus on August 8, 2004. The Energy Systems Institute was favorably reviewed to meet all regulations and requirements. The one issue cited was corrected on the spot. W.J. Sarjeant and the ESI team from November 2004 to present worked in conjunction with the department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, UB’s department of Environmental Health and Safety and the fire marshal’s to comply with all fire marshals requests and action items. 77 W.J. Sarjeant on November 13, 2004 served, with Dr. J. Whalen and Dr. J. Zirnheld, as technical evaluators on the Student “Project Teamwork” workshop held at UB in Talbot Hall. The detailed presentations of senior groups were presented to the evaluation faculty participating and ranked by them. This activity emphasized engineers working together on project teams to solve interdisciplinary problems in response to ABET’s curriculum request. Project team work involved students from Aerospace, Computer, Electrical and Mechanical seniors who formed multi-disciplinary teams and worked on the DARPA challenge. Each student was asked to give a one minute presentation to the faculty evaluator in the room. Albert H. Titus - Participated in the Open House in the Fall, Preview Day in the Spring. Albert H. Titus - Served (and continue to serve) as a Faculty mentor as part of the SEAS freshman mentoring program. James J. Whalen - Discussion of EE Response to 2002 Evaluation with ABET Team Leader (October 1, 2004). James J. Whalen - Project Teamwork Fall 2004 for CEN, EE & MEA Seniors September 18, 2004 with Leadership Development Center: Lectures and Tower Building Project November 13, 2004 with Leadership Development Center: Lectures and DARPA Challenge Project. James J. Whalen - Responsible for EE PC Lab in Furnas 214. James J. Whalen - Organized EE Demonstrations for Open House in Fall & Preview Day in spring. James J. Whalen - Responsible for EE Entries in UB Undergraduate Catalog and UB At-a-Glance. James J. Whalen - Revision of EE Undergraduate Manual. V.4. Public (Community) Service Research W.J. Sarjeant worked with the Cheektowaga Rotary and related agencies to support cultural, educational, and economic development through communication and innovation programs, especially with disadvantaged children in the local area. Teaching Wayne A. Anderson - Sunday School Teacher. Pao-Lo Liu - Representative of EE and UB on SUNY Learning Environments; SUNY-wide online degree program, BE in EE; Grant Proposal to Sloan Foundation; SUNY Learning Network II Task Force. W.J. Sarjeant acted as a faculty mentor for the Buffalo area Engineering Awareness for Minorities (BEAM) Program. This program specializes in introducing minority high school students to engineering research at the 78 University at Buffalo. Dr. Sarjeant mentored Leah Hall from Hutch Tech High School from July 6 – August 6, 2004. W.J. Sarjeant was a faculty mentor for three students who were participating in the SUNY Alliance for Minority Participation (AMP) Program. This program funds minority undergraduate students to participate in faculty supervised research. The three student participants were: Jahmil Campbell, and Gavin Campbell, who are both studying electrical engineering at UB. The SUNY AMP Program took place from May to July 2004. W.J. Sarjeant’s research students Shola Olabisi, Gavin Campbell and Jahmil Campbell presented their summer research at 10th annual Ronald E. McNair Western New York Inter Collegiate Student Research conference on July 15 – 17, 2005. Shola presented his research, “Magnetically Modulated Plasma Effects” in an oral session. Gavin and Jahmil presented their research, “Fusing Phenomena of Thin Metallized Films” in a poster presentation. W.J. Sarjeant served as a faculty mentor for UB’s Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program. This program promotes and encourages underrepresented minority students to pursue a graduate education. Dr Sarjeant served as a mentor to Shola Olabisi. W.J. Sarjeant was a faculty mentor for a student who was participating in the SUNY Collegiate Science Technology and Engineering Program (CSTEP). This program funds minority undergraduate students to participate in faculty supervised research. Akin Caulcrick participated in the program this past summer. The program ran from May to July 2004. Jennifer Zirnheld acted as a faculty mentor for the Buffalo area Engineering Awareness for Minorities (BEAM) Program. This program specializes in introducing minority high school students to engineering research at the University at Buffalo. Dr. Zirnheld mentored Leah Hall from Hutch Tech High School from July 6 – August 6, 2004. Public Service Projects and Activities W.J. Sarjeant facilitates the presentation of weekly laboratory tours of the Energy Systems Institute in an effort to promote the University’s engineering excellence to students, staff and the general public. W.J. Sarjeant worked with Don Sherman from Environmental Health and Safety Services at UB to obtain signs for hazardous Materials Notification in the appropriate Energy Systems Institute areas for general public safety. David T. Shaw coordinated the formation of a team for the submission of a NSF proposal (proposed budget ~ $24 million for 5 years) for museum informal science education in nanotechnology. The PI is New York State Museum. The vision is to engage seven world-class academic, industrial, and national research institutions (from Columbia University, RPI, Cornell, SUNY/Albany, and SUNY/Buffalo) as content and education experts, collaborating with the American Association Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Horizon Research, Inc. (the independent external evaluator) to work with the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), EPCOT®, and Brookhaven National Laboratory Science Museum (BNLSM) to develop “edutainment” exhibitions that are designed and distributed in the Northeastern States. 79 Jennifer Zirnheld worked with Don Sherman from Environmental Health and Safety services at UB to obtain signs for hazardous Materials Notification in the appropriate Energy Systems Institute areas for general public safety. Other Public Service Wayne A. Anderson - Chairman and Conference Organizer for International Students Inc. Adly T. Fam - IEEE Region I Student Conference Judge: April 9-10, 2005. (Hosted by UB): Judge for the micromouse competition. Adly T. Fam - Book Reviews: three book reviews for Prentice Hall and John Wiley. W.J. Sarjeant is an active member of the Rotary Club of Cheektowaga – (Rotarian 25 years). He has served on numerous Rotary Committees over this time. Albert H. Titus - I have been a panel reviewer for NSF; specifically, I reviewed proposals for the Sensors Small Team Solicitation. Jennifer Zirnheld worked with the Blessed Sacrament Athletic Club and related agencies to support cultural, educational, and economic development through communication and innovative athletic programs. VI. DEPARTMENTAL ORGANIZATION VI.1. Faculty (include lecturers, adjuncts, emeritus) Full-time Faculty 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Anderson, Wayne, Professor Batalama, Stella, Associate Professor Bird, Jonathan, Professor Cartwright, Alexander, Asociate Professor Cheng, Ping-Chin, Professor Etemadi, Kasra, Associate Professor Fam, Adly, Professor Givone, Donald, Professor Kaul, Raj, Professor Kondi, Lisimachos, Assistant Professor Liu, Pao-Lo, Professor Mitin, Vladimir, Professor and Chair Pados, Dimitrios, Assistant Professor Prasad, Paras, Professor (joint) 80 15. Sarjeant, W. James, Professor 16. Shaw, David, Professor 17. Soumekh, Mehrdad, Professor 18. Su, Weifeng, Assistant Professor 19. Titus, Albert, Assistant Professor 20. Verevkin, Aleksandr, Assistant Professor 21. Whalen, James, Professor 22. Wie, Chu Ryang, Professor Emeritus Faculty 1. Malone, Dennis, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus 2. Wobschall, Darold, Adjunct Associate Professor Emeritus Part-time Teaching Faculty 1. 2. 3. 4. Bargach, Khadija, Lecturer Hopkins, Douglas, Research Associate Professor Safiuddin, Mohammed, ATA Professor Zirnheld, Jennifer, Lecturer Adjunct Faculty from CSE 1. Govindaraju, Venugopal 2. Miller, Russ 3. Scott, Peter 4. Sridhar, Ramalingam 5. Upadhyaya, Shambhu 6. Wang, Xin Other Adjunct Faculty 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Bargach, Khadija Greatbatch, Wilson Markelz, Andrea – Physics Department McCombe, Bruce – Physics Department Vagidov, Nizami – Research Assistant Professor Sergeev, Andrei – Research Associate Professor MFC Faculty Bordner, George, Lecturer 81 VI.2. Staff 1. 2. 3. 4. Brown, Betty, Assistant to Chair Rance, Cheryl, Undergraduate Secretary Muscarella, Cathleen, Graduate Secretary Reuse, Meta, Chair’s Secretary Staff – Technical Keptner, James, Instructional Support Specialist 82 VI. DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS Electrical Engineering Department Graduate Seminar Series 2004-2005 Fall 2004 September 3 Dr. Alexander Cartwright Orientation Dept. of Electrical Engineering University at Buffalo September 10 Dr. Wayne Anderson and Dr. Pao-Lo Liu Financial Aid & Graduate Degree Program Information Dept. of Electrical Engineering University at Buffalo September 17 Dr. Christian Wetzel "DEVELOPMENT OF GREEN LIGHT EMITTING DIODES AND THE BANDSTRUCTURE OF POLARIZED GaInN/GaN QUANTUM WELLS" (abstract and biography pdf) Future Chips Constellation Professor Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute September 24 Dr. Alexander Cartwright "NANOPHOTONICS: NANOSCALE STRUCTURES FOR PHOTONICS" Dept. of Electrical Engineering University at Buffalo October 1 Dr. Michael Gans "SOME EFFECTS OF MUTUAL COUPLING and NOISE ON CHANNEL CAPACITY BETWEEN ANTENNA ARRAYS" Center for Integrated Transmission and Exploitation Air Force Research Laboratory IFGC Rome, NY Dr. Anatoly Smirnov "SOLID-STATE QUANTUM COMPUTING" (abstract and biography pdf) D-Wave Systems, Inc. Vancouver, B.C. Canada 83 October 8 October 15 Dr. Guna Seetharaman "3D IMAGE CAPTURE AND 3D IMAGE DISPLAYS: NEMS/MEMS ENABLED OPPORTUNITIES" (abstract and biography pdf) Air Force Institute of Technology Wright-Patterson AFB Dr. Fatemah Shahedipour "OPTIMIZATION OF INGAN-BASED VIOLET LIGHT EMITTING DIODES USING A STATISTICAL MULTI-PARAMETER DOE APPROACH" (abstract and biography pdf) Albany Nano Tech University at Albany Dr. Andrea Markelz "ESTABLISHING A MEASURE OF PROTEIN FLEXIBILITY" Dept. of Physics University at Buffalo Dr. Robert Eisenberg (cv pdf) "ION CHANNELS IN BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES: NATURAL NANOTUBES" (abstract and biography pdf) Bio Essay Life Across The Length Scales (pdf) Rush University Dr. Martin Haardt "TRANSMIT PROCESSING in MULTI-USER MIMO SYSTEMS" Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany Please note this a special added seminar, but is not a requirement. October 22 October 29 November 5 November 8 11:00 a.m. Bonner 414 November 12 Dr. Benjamin Miller "NEW OPTICAL SENSORS for GENOMICS, PROTEOMICS, and MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS" (abstract and biography pdf) 84 Departments of Dermatology, Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Biomedical Engineering University of Rochester November 19 Dr. Dimitris Pados "OPTIMAL SIGNATURE DESIGN FOR SPREADSPECTRUM STEGANOGRAPHY" Dept. of Electrical Engineering University at Buffalo December 3 Dr. Raj K. Kaul and Aaron Clarke "FRANCTIONAL CALCULUS and A VARIABLE INDES RIEMANN WINDOW" Dept. of Electrical Engineering University at Buffalo Spring 2005 Knox 104 3:00 - 3:50 PM Please note Dr. Dwight Woolard's seminar will be on Thursday, April 21 in 140 Ketter Hall at 5:00 pm. January 21 Carol Schmeidler Facilities Deparatment University at Buffalo CHEMICAL RIGHT TO KNOW, HAZARDOUS WASTE TRAINING Dr. Stella Batalama Dept. of Electrical Engineering University at Buffalo "SHORT-DATA-RECORD ADAPTIVE FILTERING: THE AUXILIARY-VECTOR ALGORITHM" January 28 February 4 Dr. Hao Zeng Department of Physics University at Buffalo 85 "NANOPARTICLE BUILDING BLOCKS for FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS and DEVICES" February 11 Dr. Aleksandr Verevkin Department of Electrical Engineering University at Buffalo "SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS" February 18 Dr. Igor Sokolov Departments of Physics and Chemistry, and the Center for Advanced Materials Processing Clarkson University "ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY AS KEY TECHNIQUE FOR DEVELOPING BIOSENSORS" February 25 March 4 Dr. Joan Redwing - RESCHEDULED TO APRIL 29, 2005 Dr. Jena Debdeep Dept. of Electrical Engineering University of Notre Dame "POLARIZATION ENGINEERING in III-V NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTORS - GROWTH, TRANSPORT, and DEVICE APPLICATIONS" March 11 March 25 April 1 CANCELLED CANCELLED Dr. Devon Shipp Department of Chemistry Clarkson University 86 "LIVING RADICAL POLYMERIZATIONS - MAKING POLYMERS WITH PRECISION" April 8 Dr. Quanxi Jia Superconductivity Technology Center Los Alamos National Labs "LIMITING FACTORS for HIGH PERFORMANCE SECOND-GENERATION COATED CONDUCTORS" April 15 Dr. Wolfgang Rudolph Department of Physics and Astronomy University of New Mexico "FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE MICROCOPY WITH APPLICATIONS IN PHYSICS, ENGINEERING AND BIOMEDICINE" Dr. Dwight Woolard Army Research Office "A Bio-Molecular Inspired Electronic Architecture: BioBased Device Concepts for Enhanced Sensing" Dr. Joan Redwing Department of Materials Science & Engineering Penn State Unviersity "SYNTHESIS and CHARACTERIZATION of GROUP IV SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRES" April 21 Thursday 5:00 pm April 29 87 VIII. DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE STRUCTURES/MEMBERSHIPS Undergraduate Curriculum Committee/ABET Committee Drs. Whalen (Director of Undergraduate Studies), Titus, Cartwright, Batalama, & J. Zirnheld Space Committee Safety Committee Drs. Cartwright, Anderson and J. Zirnheld Drs. Etemadi and Bird Graduate Affairs Committee Drs. Liu (Director of Graduate Studies), Anderson, Batalama, Bird, Cartwright, Givone, Sarjeant Graduate Admissions Committee Drs. Givone (Director of Graduate Admissions), Wie, Cartwright Financial Aid Committee Dr. Anderson (Director of Financial Aid), Titus, Pados Graduate Curriculum Committee Graduate Seminar Committee Faculty Recruitment Committee Award Committee Fund Raising Committee Drs. Cartwright, Batalama, Bird Dr. Cartwright Drs. Titus and Batalama (to form two subcommittees) Drs. Cartwright, Titus (inactive 03-04) Drs. Malone, Whalen, Wobschall (inactive 03-04) Drs. Batalama, Cartwright Drs. Wie, Kondi, Shaw, Sarjeant, Bird Dr. Shaw Dr. Etemadi Staff Duties & Evaluation Committee Publicity Committee Coordinator of M.S./Ph.D. Exam Coordinator of Combined Degree (BSEE/MBA) COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES Representative to Web Committee Grievance Committee Dr. Kondi Drs. Titus, Liu 88 IX. INDUSTRIAL INTERACTIONS Please provide information about your activities with New York State companies. This information will be used in our School’s Annual Report for SPIR (The Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence) to our funding agency SUNY. Company activity done through TCIE (The Center for Industrial Effectiveness) and SEAS student employment programs will be reported directly to the SEAS SPIR Program by TCIE and the departmental person overseeing his/her student program, so do not include those activities below. Items needed for each New York State company activity: Dr. Wayne Anderson Company Name: Ohmcraft Company Address:93 Paper Mill St, Honeoye Falls, NY 14092 Company Contact Person: Dr Frank Collins Project Name: Thin Film Resistors Description: (1-2 sentences) Develop resistors in which resistance does not change with temperature. Project Dates: 7/1/04-6/30/05 Approximate Faculty Member time: 2 hrs/wk Student Name(s), if any: Meiya Li, Brian Choi, Lidya Fissehaye Approximate Student Time: 6 hrs/wk Amount Invested by Company (Funding): [designate whether cash or in-kind; if known] ~$10k Other Sources of Funding (amount and sources): SPIR-amount not clear Results: (1-2 sentences) Resistors with near zero change of resistance with temp have been developed. Extent of Company Involvement: Discussions and supplying substrates and testing. Quantifiable Positive Outcomes – Cannot answer. a) Number of Jobs Created: b) Number of Jobs Retained: c) $ Increase in Sales: d) Federal Dollars Leveraged: ALSO: AMBPTech, Amherst NY, Nehal Chokshi is contact. Oblective is to develop high electron mobility materials for transistors. Dates are 11/04-6/05 at a funding of $31k. Meiya Li is student worker and spends about 20 hrs/wk. Funding is from DARPA, I believe. Progress is being made. Further results will be known in June. Dr. W.J. Sarjeant Company Name: Wilson Greatbatch Technologies Company Address: 4455 Genesee Street, Buffalo, NY 14225 Company Contact Person: Yan Ming Liu Project Name: Defibrillator Capacitor Technology Description: Initial investigations in the area of electrical surface flashover in capacitors Project Dates: Fall 2004 – Spring 2005 (Completed). Approximate Faculty Member time: 10 % Student Name(s), if any: Approximate Student Time: 89 Amount Invested by Company (Funding) [designate whether cash or in-kind; if known]:Estimated $2500 in time and products. Other Sources of Funding: None Results: (1-2 sentences): Cutting edge research has been furthered, allowing WGT to expand their facilities Extent of Company Involvement: Regular Meetings Quantifiable Positive Outcomes: Company’s component’s quality significantly improved and our research satisfied their requirements a) Number of Jobs Created: b) Number of Jobs Retained: c) $ Increase in Sales: d) Federal Dollars Leveraged: Company Name: General Electric Company Company Address: Building K-1 Room 3B20, 1 Research Circle, Niskayuna, NY 12309 phone 518 387 4163 Company Contact Person: Yang Cao Project Name: Development of a new capacitor program Description: Discussions were on advanced dielectrics for next generation capacitor systems. GE is exploring developing new market areas in the commercial and industrial sectors. Discussions covered previous advances in capacitor and cable technologies especially for very compact systems that are the pressure point for all modern electronics systems. Project Dates: January 26, 2005 through June 2006 Approximate Faculty Member time: 10% Student Name(s), if any: N/A Approximate Student Time: N/A Amount Invested by Company (Funding): [designate whether cash or in-kind; if known] Other Sources of Funding (amount and sources): Results: (1-2 sentences) Extent of Company Involvement: Company is developing a new investment strategy for electronic components and will be back in contact with us once approval for their program has been obtained. Quantifiable Positive Outcomes -a) Number of Jobs Created: b) Number of Jobs Retained: c) $ Increase in Sales: d) Federal Dollars Leveraged: Company Name: Tabtronics Company Address: PO Box 128 Geneseo, NY 14454-0128 Company Contact Person: Victor Quinn Project Name: Advanced Magnetics for Electronics Applications Description: Continue discussions at Tabtronics initiation to understand how and if UB Energy Systems expertise in multifactor stress aging is supportive of their next generation products as they compete in the international sphere. Project Dates: February 3, 2005 start and ongoing Approximate Faculty Member time: 5% 90 Student Name(s), if any: Approximate Student Time: Amount Invested by Company (Funding): [designate whether cash or in-kind; if known] Company has contributed several days of their time to define needs for their technologies. They are preparing a technical presentation for UB in the magnetics area in order to support our understanding of their design and manufacturing methodology. Other Sources of Funding (amount and sources): Results: (1-2 sentences) Awaiting presentation by the company, which they will contact us on. Extent of Company Involvement: To come back to give a lecture Quantifiable Positive Outcomes -a) Number of Jobs Created: b) Number of Jobs Retained: c) $ Increase in Sales: d) Federal Dollars Leveraged: Company Name: Kennedy Defense International (KDI) Company Address: 24 Highland Dr Williamsville NY 14221 Company Contact Person: Arch Arthur Project Name: Military SBIR’s Description: Collaboration to initiate and develop multi disciplinary research between faculty members in electrical engineering and KDI as a foundation for advance research between KDI, the university and various branches of the US military. Project Dates: January 2005 till present Approximate Faculty Member time: 5% Student Name(s), if any: Approximate Student Time: Amount Invested by Company (Funding): [designate whether cash or in-kind; if known] Other Sources of Funding (amount and sources): Results: (1-2 sentences) Extent of Company Involvement: Quantifiable Positive Outcomes -a) Number of Jobs Created: b) Number of Jobs Retained: c) $ Increase in Sales: d) Federal Dollars Leveraged: 91 Dr. Albert Titus SPIR funding through TCIE Dynamic Eye, Inc. 243 Brantwood Road Amherst NY 14226 (716) 837-5499 FAX: (206) 238-2544 Chris Mullin Company Name: Knowna Company Address: 2 Jean Street, Rye, NY 10580 Company Contact Person: Michael Swiader Project Name: Novel Mouse Design Description: (1-2 sentences) We will design a circuit that meets the requirements for a novel computer-based pointing device (a mouse). We will develop a schematic and parts list for three designs. Project Dates: August 2004-October 2004 Approximate Faculty Member time: 0.1 summer month Student Name(s), if any: Massoud Momeni Approximate Student Time: 20-30 hours Amount Invested by Company (Funding): [designate whether cash or in-kind; if known] $4400 (cash) Other Sources of Funding (amount and sources): none Results: (1-2 sentences) A completed design and schematic was provided Extent of Company Involvement: Initial idea and design concept Quantifiable Positive Outcomes -a) Number of Jobs Created: unknown to date b) Number of Jobs Retained: unknown to date c) $ Increase in Sales: unknown to date d) Federal Dollars Leveraged: unknown to date Dr. James Whalen Company Name: Saint Gobain Technical Fabrics (Canada and New York) Company Address: Saint Gobain Technical Fabrics New York State location is 354 3rd Street, Suite 615, Niagara Falls, NY 14303; Company Contact Person: Robert G. Pleydon Project Name: Shielding Effectiveness Testing Description: Measurements of shielding effectiveness of materials in the frequency range 1 MHz to 4 GHz according to IEEE Standard 299 and ASTM D4935. Project Dates: August1, 2004 to June 30, 2005 Approximate Faculty Member time: 10 days Post-Doctoral: Dr. Khadija Bargach Approximate Post-Doctoral Time: 10 days Amount Invested by Company (Funding): Cash $10,500 & in-kind 10 man-days of staff time Other Sources of Funding (amount and sources): None 92 Results: Completed successfully shielding effectiveness measurements of planar materials according to ASTM D4935 and shielding effectiveness room test measurements according to IEEE Standard 299 Extent of Company Involvement: Two members of technical staff each spent 5 days in Buffalo during December 2004. Quantifiable Positive Outcomes -a) Number of Jobs Created: Unknown b) Number of Jobs Retained: Unknown c) $ Increase in Sales: To be determined d) Federal Dollars Leveraged: Not applicable Company Name: Sti-Co Industries, Inc. Company Address: 11 Cobham Drive, Orchard Park, NY 14127-4187 Company Contact Person: Ms. Kyle Swiat & Mr. Chris Goetz Project Name: Not Applicable Description: Initial meeting between Ms. Kyle Swiat & Mr. Chris Goetz of Sti-Co and Dr. Khadija Bargach, Dr. James Llinas, & Dr. James Whalen of UB to discuss how Sti-Co & UB might interact. Jim Llinas was instrumental in setting up meeting. Project Dates: Meeting on Saturday May 14 in 332 Bonner Hall at UB Faculty Member Name: and Dr. Khadija Bargach, Dr. James Llinas, & Dr. James Whalen Approximate Faculty Member time: 1 hour each Post-Doctoral: Not Applicable Approximate Post-Doctoral Time: Not Applicable Amount Invested by Company (Funding): Not Applicable Other Sources of Funding (amount and sources): Not Applicable Results: Dr. Bargach & Dr. Whalen will visit Sti-Co. Extent of Company Involvement: The meeting described in Item 6 (One hour meeting) Quantifiable Positive Outcomes -a) Not Applicable b) Not Applicable c) Not Applicable d) Not Applicable 93