Dr. Elton Graugnard is a Research Assistant Professor with the Department of Materials Science & Engineering. He is currently working on DNA nanotechnology with the Nanoscale Materials and Device Group (see Links at right). Prior to joining Boise State, he served as a physics professor at Rollins College involved in photonic crystals research. In collaboration with Chris Summer's Nanophotonics research group in the School of Materials Science & Engineering at Georgia Tech, he developed techniques to fabricate and manipulate the optical properties of 2D and 3D photonic crystals using atomic layer deposition (ALD). Dr. Graugnard has also worked on ultra-high vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of semiconductor surfaces (Si and GaAs). He received a Ph.D. in Physics in 2000 from Purdue University, where he researched the field emission and electronic conductance of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) in Ron Reifenberger's group.
Articles
Kinetics of DNA and RNA Hybridization in Serum and Serum-SDS (with Amber Cox, Jeunghoon Lee, Cheryl Jorcyk, Bernard Yurke, and William L. Hughes), IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (2010)
Cancer is recognized as a serious health challenge both in the United States and throughout...
Programmable Periodicity of Quantum Dot Arrays with DNA Origami Nanotubes (with Hieu Bui, Craig Onodera, Carson Kidwell, YerPeng Tan, Wan Kuang, Jeunghoon Lee, William B. Knowlton, Bernard Yurke, and William L. Hughes), Nano Letters (2010)
To fabricate quantum dot arrays with programmable periodicity, functionalized DNA origami nanotubes were developed. Selected...
Atomic Force Microscopy of DNA Self-Assembled Nanostructures for Device Applications (with Hieu Bui, Craig Onodera, Bernard Yurke, Wan Kuang, Jeunghoon Lee, William B. Knowlton, and William L. Hughes), International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium (2009)
DNA nanotechnology, which relies on Watson-Crick hybridization, is a versatile selfassembly process whereby a variety...
Replicated Photonic Crystals by Atomic Layer Deposition Within Holographically Defined Polymer Templates (with O. M. Roche, S. N. Dunham, J. S. King, D. N. Sharp, R. G. Denning, A. J. Turberfield, and C. J. Summers), Applied Physics Letters (2009)
We report the replication of holographically defined photonic crystals using multistage atomic layer deposition. Low-...
Dispersion Control in Two-Dimensional Superlattice Photonic Crystal Slab Waveguides by Atomic Layer Deposition (with D. P. Gaillot, J. Blair, and C. J. Summers), Applied Physics Letters (2007)
The frequency and dispersion of photonic bands in two-dimensional triangular-based superlattice photonic crystal Si slab...
Presentations
Operation of a DNA-Based Autocatalytic Network in Serum (with Amber Cox, Jeunghoon Lee, Cheryl Jorcyk, Bernard Yurke, and William L. Hughes), 16th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming (2010)
The potential for inferring the presence of cancer by the detection of miRNA in human...