Hiebert Research Group
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Group photo from
2011. Left to right: Meng (Richard) Kan, Vince Sauer,
Zhu Diao, and Wayne Hiebert.
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Wayne Hiebert.
Associate Research Officer and Principle Investigator, NINT Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics, University of Alberta I received my Ph.D. from UAlberta Physics in the field of magnetization dynamics (2001). I continued with similar research at IMEC in Belgium (2001-2003) before entering the field of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) at Caltech (2003-2006) and continuing in it upon returning to NINT in Edmonton. Our present efforts concentrate on exploring the potential of nanophotonic NEMS. |
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Vince Sauer.
(2007 - ) Ph.D. Student, NSERC CGS Scholarship holder, NINT Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UAlberta I received my undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics at the University of Alberta. Upon graduating, I worked at NINT as a technical officer for a year before entering graduate school. I am currently working on my Ph.D. in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in conjunction with Dr. Ying Tsui (ECE) and Dr. Mark Freeman (Physics), and I am looking at ways to create NEMS mass sensors utilizing nanophotonics to study laser ablation techniques. |
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Meng (Richard) Kan.
(2008 - ) Ph.D. Student, NINT Department of Physics, UAlberta I received my undergraduate degree in Semiconductor Physics and Device at Xidian University. After graduating, I worked at Microelectronics Research Institute as an Electronics Engineer for eight years and at NINT as a technical officer for one and a half years. In 2007, I came back to University studies and received my M. Sc.degree in 2010 from University of Alberta. Currently, I am working on my Ph. D. in the Physics Department of UAlberta in conjunction with Dr. Mark Freeman, and I am using techniques with electron tunneling sensors to detect the motion of NEMS. |
| No image | Jocelyn Westwood.
(2013 - ) Ph.D. Student, Vanier Scholarship holder, NINT Department of Physics, UAlberta Jocelyn helped obtain our first nanophotonic nanomechanical data in a test device during her senior undergrad project in 2011. She has returned to the group to work on NOMS devices. |
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| No image | Swapan Roy.
(2013 - ) Ph.D. Student, NINT Department of Physics, UAlberta Swapan joined our group in October 2013, having finished his Ph.D. coursework. He has some exciting results showing that, when dynamic range can be maximized, mechanical Q-factor does not matter to mass sensitivity. The result has implications for mass sensors in fluid. Swapan is also working on our GC-NEMS project. |
| No image | Anandram Venkatasubramanian. (2014 - ) Postdoctoral Fellow, NINT Anandram (yet to arrive, awaiting work permit), coming from a chemistry and nanosensing background, will be leading our efforts in gas chromatography using NOMS devices (GC-NEMS). |
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Tohru
Nakamura. (2011) Visiting scientist at NINT.
National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology (AIST), Nanosystems Research Institute (NRI),
Tsukuba, JAPAN. http://www.aist.go.jp
Mark
Freeman.
NINT and Department of Physics,
UAlberta.
Ken Bosnick.
Research Officer at NINT.
Doug Vick.
Research Officer at NINT.
David Munoz-Paniagua.
Research Associate at NINT.
John Davis.
Department of Physics, UAlberta.
Paul Barclay.
NINT and Department of Physics, UCalgary and
IQIS, UCalgary.
Ying Tsui.
Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, UAlberta.
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Zhu Daio.
(2010 - 2013) Postdoctoral Fellow, NINT Zhu went on to a senior postdoctoral fellow position at Stockhom University in Sweden. |
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Jocelyn Westwood.
(2011) Senior Undergrad Project student, NINT
and UAlberta ECE. Jocelyn helped obtain our first nanophotonic nanomechanical data in a test device. Jocelyn went on to graduate school within the ECE department at UAlberta. |
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Michal Mleczko.
(2010) Co-op student, NINT
and University of Waterloo Engineering. Michal worked with and was co-supervised by Ken Bosnick's group. He built a porosimetry apparatus for measurement of vertically aligned carbon nanotube films porosity via frequency shift mass sensing. Michal went on to graduate school at Stanford University. |
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Matthew
Malayney. (2008) Senior Undergrad Project student,
NINT
and UAlberta ECE. Matt's project lokoed at localized capacitive excitation of NEMS resonators. Matt moved on to a job at Hallibruton Energy Services. |
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Oleksiy
Svitelskiy. (2007-2009) Postdoctoral Fellow at NINT and
UAlberta Physics. Department of Physics, UAlberta Oleksiy built a pressure cell and completed a comprehensive study of NEMS damping in various gases at high and low pressures. His efforts culminated in a PRL on pressurized fluid damping of NEMS. Oleksiy was co-supervised by Mark Freeman from Physics. Oleksiy moved on to a PDF position at the University of North Carolina Charlotte in nanophotonics. |
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Kar Mun Cheng.
(2006-2007) M.Sc. Student at NINT and
UAlberta Physics. Department of Physics, UAlberta Kar Mun worked on nanofabrication and STM down-mixed tunneling. She was co-supervised by Mark Freeman from Physics. Kar Mun moved on to a fabrication engineering position at Micralyne. |
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Nick Kalogirou.
(2007) Engineering Co-op student at NINT and
UAlberta ECE dept. Department of Physics, UAlberta Nick developed our phase locked loop technology for frequency tracking sensing. Nick moved on to an engineering position at Telus. |
