Dr. Elton Graugnard joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Boise State University in 2009. He is currently working on DNA nanotechnology with the Nanoscale Materials and Device Group (see Links at right). Prior to joining Boise State, he was 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 and Conference Proceedings
DNA-Controlled Excitonic Switches (with Donald L. Kellis, Hieu Bui, Stephanie Barnes, Wan Kuang, Jeunghoon Lee, William L. Hughes, William Knowlton, and Bernard Yurke), Nano Letters (2012)
Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) is a promising means of enabling information processing in nanoscale...
Operation of a DNA-Based Autocatalytic Network in Serum (with Amber Cox, Jeunghoon Lee, Cheryl Jorcyk, Bernard Yurke, and William L. Hughes), Lecture Notes in Computer Science: DNA Computing and Molecular Programming (2011)
The potential for inferring the presence of cancer by the detection of miRNA in human...
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...
Presentations