Axel Scherer
Bernard Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics and Physics; Merkin Institute Professor
Research interests: silicon photonics for agile optical data communications systems with 100Gb/s bandwidth. Sample to answer point of care diagnostic tools for rapid and fully automated disease detection. Implantable wireless health monitors. Wireless resistivity, temperature and pressure probes for oilfield environments. Nanostructure fabrication below 10nm and bandgap engineered structures in silicon. Plasmonic sensing of biomolecules. Miniaturization of vacuum tube technology. Optical strain gauges.
Overview
Professor Scherer's group focuses on the application of microfabrication to integrated microsystems. Recently, his group has specialized on developing sensors and diagnostic tools that can be used for low-cost point-of-care disease detection as well as precision health monitoring.
Professor Scherer has pioneered microcavity lasers and filters, and now his group works on integration of microfluidic chips with electronic, photonic and magnetic sensors. His group has also developed silicon nanophotonics and surface plasmon enhanced light emitting diodes, and has perfected the fabrication and characterization of ultra-small structures by lithography and electron microscopy.
Presently, his group works on integration of microfluidic chips with electronic, photonic and magnetic sensors. His group has also developed silicon nanophotonics and surface plasmon enhanced light emitting diodes, and has perfected the fabrication and characterization of ultra-small structures by lithography and electron microscopy.
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- Jeon, Taeyoon;Nateghi, Amirhossein et al. (2024) Compact Mid‐Infrared Spectrometer Using Continuously Variable Infrared Filter and Microbolometer Array for Simple and Fast Measurement of Molecular Mid‐IR SpectraAdvanced Optical Materials
- Jeon, Taeyoon;Myung, Jieun et al. (2023) Novel Deposition Method of Crosslinked Polyethylene Thin Film for Low-Refractive-Index Mid-Infrared Optical CoatingsSensors
- De Rose, L. B.;Jones, W. M. et al. (2023) Lateral nanoscale field emission comb for frequency mixingApplied Physics Letters
- De Rose, L. B.;Catanzaro, D. H. et al. (2023) Effect of praseodymium coating on electron emission from a nanoscale gold field emitter arrayJournal of Vacuum Science & Technology B
- Lewis, Scott M.;Alty, Hayden R. et al. (2022) Sensitivity enhancement of a high-resolution negative-tone nonchemically amplified metal organic photoresist for extreme ultraviolet lithographyJournal of Micro/Nanopatterning, Materials, and Metrology
- Lewis, Scott M.;DeRose, Guy A. et al. (2022) Tuning the Performance of Negative Tone Electron Beam Resists for the Next Generation LithographyAdvanced Functional Materials
- Jeon, Taeyoon;Nateghi, Amirhossein et al. (2022) Development of a Compact and Robust Mid-Infrared Spectrometer by Using a Silicon/Air Hyperspectral FilterACS Photonics
- Coltelli, Michelangelo A.;Catterlin, Jeffrey et al. (2021) Simulations of 3D-Printable biomimetic artificial muscles based on microfluidic microcapacitors for exoskeletal actuation and stealthy underwater propulsionSensors and Actuators A
- De Rose, Lucia B.;Scherer, Axel et al. (2020) Suspended Nanoscale Field Emitter Devices for High-Temperature OperationIEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
- Lewis, Scott M.;Hunt, Matthew S. et al. (2019) Plasma-etched pattern transfer of sub-10 nm structures using a metal–organic resist and helium ion beam lithographyNano Letters