Articles & Conference Proceedings

How Can We Help Faculty Balance Between Teaching and Scholarly Activities? (with Cheryl Schrader, Seung Youn Chyung, Kotaro Sasaki, Teresa Cole, and John N. Chiasson), 118th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 26-29, 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada (2011)

Boise State University (BSU), which is among the fastest growing institutions of higher education in...

 

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Operation of a DNA-Based Autocatalytic Network in Serum (with Elton Graugnard, Amber Cox, Jeunghoon Lee, Cheryl Jorcyk, and Bernard Yurke), DNA'10 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming (2011)

The potential for inferring the presence of cancer by the detection of miRNA in human...

 

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Cavity Resonant Mode in a Metal Film Perforated with Two-Dimensional Triangular Lattice Hole Arrays (with Wan Kuang, Alex English, William B. Knowlton, Jeunghoon Lee, and Bernard Yurke), Optics Communications (2010)

The transmission property of metallic films with two-dimensional hole arrays is studied experimentally and numerically....

 

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Kinetics of DNA and RNA Hybridization in Serum and Serum-SDS (with Elton Graugnard, Amber Cox, Jeunghoon Lee, Cheryl Jorcyk, and Bernard Yurke), IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (2010)

Cancer is recognized as a serious health challenge both in the United States and throughout...

 

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Programmable Periodicity of Quantum Dot Arrays with DNA Origami Nanotubes (with Hieu Bui, Craig Onodera, Carson Kidwell, YerPeng Tan, Elton Graugnard, Wan Kuang, Jeunghoon Lee, William B. Knowlton, and Bernard Yurke), Nano Letters (2010)

To fabricate quantum dot arrays with programmable periodicity, functionalized DNA origami nanotubes were developed. Selected...

 

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Atomic Force Microscopy of DNA Self-Assembled Nanostructures for Device Applications (with Hieu Bui, Craig Onodera, Bernard Yurke, Elton Graugnard, Wan Kuang, Jeunghoon Lee, and William B. Knowlton), International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, 2009. ISDRS '09. (2009)

DNA nanotechnology, which relies on Watson-Crick hybridization, is a versatile selfassembly process whereby a variety...

 

Enhanced Transmission in Plasmonic Crystals: Interactions of Cavity Resonance and Surface Mode (with Wan Kuang, A. English, Z. C. Chang, Min-Hsiung Shih, William B. Knowlton, Jeunghoon Lee, and Bernard Yurke), OSA's 93rd Annual Meeting Frontiers in Optics and APS/DLS 25th Annual Meeting Laser Science Joint Conferences (2009)

Transmission of periodically modified Ag film is studied experimentally and numerically. Both cavity resonance and...

 

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The Four-Domain Development Diagram: A Tool for Designing Development-Centered Teaching (with Linda Vanasupa and Trevor S. Harding), Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition: Pittsburgh, PA (2008)

Research in education has brought to light the complexity of the learning process, demonstrating that...

 

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Converting Traditional Materials Labs to Project-based Learning Experiences: Aiding Students' Development of Higher-order Cognitive Skills (with Linda Vanasupa, Katherine C. Chen, Jonathan Stolk, Richard N. Savage, Trevor S. Harding, and Blair London), Forum on Materials Science and Engineering Education for 2020 (Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings: Boston, MA, 2007) (2007)

Against a backdrop of compelling societal needs, graduates in science and engineering now must master...

 

Patents

Probe Sensor with Multi-Dimensional Optical Grating (with Zhong L. Wang and Brent A. Buchine) (2010)

A displacement sensor employs an electromagnetic radiation source that generates a beam of electromagnetic radiation...

 

Probe Sensor with Multi-Dimensional Optical Grating (with Zhong L. Wang and Brent A. Buchine) (2010)

A displacement sensor employs an electromagnetic radiation source that generates a beam of electromagnetic radiation...

 

Probe Tips and Method of Making Same (with Zhong L. Wang and Brent A. Buchine) (2008)

A probe includes a substrate and a tetragonal structure disposed on the substrate that has...

 

Presentations

DNA as an Engineered Material (with Bernard Yurke, Elton Graugnard, Jeunghoon Lee, Wan Kuang, Cheryl Jorcyk, and William B. Knowlton), 10th Annual Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Conference (2011)
 

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Point-of-Contact, DNA-Based Amplifier for Detecting Cancer-Related Micro-RNA in Blood Serum (with Elton Graugnard, Amber Cox, Jeunghoon Lee, Cheryl Jorcyk, and Bernard Yurke), 7th Annual Foundations of Nanoscience: Self-Assembled Architectures and Devices (2010)