News from the Lab......
Linjie Li was one of two students in the Department to receive a Research Excellence Award. He gave a talk entitled, "Multiphoton Absorption: Fabrication, Functionalization and Applications" at the Graduate Awards Symposium.
Pearl Horng was one of two undergraduates in the Department to be named a Beckman Scholar this year. Her project is "Fabrication of Functional Microdevices Using Multiphoton Absorption Polymerization".
Qin Zhong received a Travel Award from the College of Chemical and Life Sciences to present his poster "Measurement of different tensor elements of OKE response by antiresonant ring Kerr spectrometer" at the ACS National Meeting in Philadelphia.
Meghan Driscoll was awarded a Thomas Mason Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Research for the Summer of 2008. In January she gave a talk entitled, "The Cellular Migration of Dictyostelium on Topographically Modified Surfaces" at the Environmental and Biological Applications of Lasers Conference in Cairo. She will present a poster on "Competing Chemical and Topographical Signals in Dictyostelium discoideum Migration" at the Q-Bio Conference on Cellular Information Processing in August.
Soner Erduran and Yunbo Shi graduated with their Master's Degrees in May.
Images from the Lab
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3D letter M (for Maryland) created using multiphoton absorption polymerization. To appear in "Multiphoton Fabrication," Christopher N. LaFratta, John T. Fourkas, Tommaso Baldacchini and Richard A. Farrer, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
Microinductor created using multiphoton absorption polymerization followed by selective metallization. Also to appear in "Multiphoton Fabrication."
Welcome to the Fourkas Group web site.
Our research focus is on the use of ultrafast lasers and nonlinear optical techniques to probe, control and fashion condensed matter.
Some of our current areas of interest include multiphoton fabrication of
functional micro and nanodevices, development of new nonlinear optical microscopies,
and the structure and dynamics of confined liquids.
We hope you will enjoy this virtual tour of our research, and come back
often for the latest group news.
