We are very delighted our wearable blood pressure work (nature nanotechnology 2022) was highlighted among the ‘remarkable discoveries’ of 2022. We look forward to advancing the concept so it becomes widely available and help many of the millions at risk or suffering from hypertension/cardio-vascular issues.
Category Archives: featured
Wearable Blood Pressure Monitoring in Nature Nano. Global media interest.
We report the development of graphene electronic tattoos for continuous blood pressure monitoring using bio-impedance modality. Machine learning techniques were implemented to get Grade A accuracy results, which is the highest grade of the IEEE standard.
Work is now published in Nature Nanotechnology, and is a collaboration with Roozbeh Jafari’s group at Texas A&M. Postdoc Scholar Dr. Dmitry Kireev is the first author.
Several media outlets have reported on this significant achievement.
–KXAN News Station Live Coverage
–Spectrum TV Coverage all over Texas
–CNN
-Metro, the largest print newspaper in the World
Grad Student Siva Receives Student Leader Award
Sivasakthya (Siva) Mohan has received the Student Leader Award from the Cockrell School of Engineering. A major honor. Congrats Siva!! The official citation is
“Every year, Engineering Student Life presents student leader awards to undergraduate and graduate students to recognize students who have motivated, guided, mentored and supported Cockrell School student organizations by working effectively with colleagues, honoring contributions and pushing others to excel”
Review of memristors and applications in Science.
A thorough review of resistance switching devices, aka, memristors is now in Science.
This work was led by Mario Lanza at KAUST with many other leading scholars contributing to the review article.
We describe memristors made from 2D materials, a phenomenon we discovered and can be utilized for various applications including 5G/6G/THz ‘zero-power’ switches.
The link to the Science review is here.
MoS2 6G Switches (500GHz, 100Gb/s) in nature electronics
Our latest work on non-volatile ‘zero-power’ switches has been published in nature electronics.
This switches feature DC-500GHz bandwidth and can transmit data at 100Gb/s at ~300GHz. They can also be switched in less than a nanosecond. This performance meets/exceeds the IEEE 6G standardization target.
The collaborative work was the focus of the dissertation of former PhD student Myungsoo Kim, who is now a professor at UNIST.
The link to the paper is here.
A nature research briefing accessible to all is here
UT Press release is here.
IEEE Media Coverage is here.
R&S and FormFactor Support UT Research for 5G Switches
Rohde & Schwarz and FormFactor Support UT Austin in Research on Improved RF Switches
The RF Switches were pioneered by Akinwande laboratory based on atomically 2D materials such as h-BN and MoS2. This research has resulted in many publications at Nature electronics, Nature communications, Advanced materials, and Nanoletters.
Visual memory makes Cover of ACS Nano. Postdoc, Dr. Hong now a Professor
Visual memory paper led by postdoc scholar Dr. Seongin Hong and with collaborators from Yonsei University and SKKU; now published in ACS Nano and made the cover article.
Congrats Dr. Hong and collaborators.
Dr. Hong is now a Professor at Gachon University in South Korea as of 2022.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.1c06758
Congrats Myungsoo Kim, Best PhD Thesis Award. Now Asst. Professor at UNIST.
2020 PhD graduate, Dr. Myungsoo Kim has won the UT-Austin Ben Streetman PhD Prize “For Outstanding Research by a Graduate Student in Electronic and Photonic Materials and Devices.” CONGRATS!
Myungsoo began his faculty career in 2021/2022 as an Assistant Professor at UNIST in South Korea.
Dr. Kim authored several high-profile papers including 5G switches in Nature Electronics, and high-frequency applications of 2D memristors at the IEDM.
Prof. Akinwande on Wall Street Journal and ACM Mag.
Wall street journal interviewed Professor Akinwande and featured his research and a picture with research scholar Dr. Kireev in an article on 2D materials.
Also ACM Magazine quoted Prof. Akinwande in an article on Chip scaling and 2D materials.
Nature Nano: Single atom (smallest) memristor
In original discovery research reported in nature nanotechnology, we discover the underlying physics (metal bonding to atomic vacancy) behind atomristor or memristor effect in atomic sheets using MoS2 as a model. This is arguably the smallest atomic memory unit (1nm feature size).
Work led by Dr. Saban Hus and with several distinguished collaborators.
Article Main page https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-020-00789-w
Direct pdf file https://rdcu.be/b997C
Nature Comms: Li-ion substrate for electronics
New research demonstrating lithium-ion glass as a high performance substrate for studying 2D electronic materials for transistors and amplifiers. Congrats Md. Hasibul Alam.
We are grateful to collaborators including Professors Sanjay Banerjee, and Helena Braga.
Article is open access and can be seen here
Nature Electronics: hBN switches for 5G & THz. On TV
A single atomically-thin layer of hexagonal boron nitride shows that thinner is better with regards to radio-frequency switching applications. This work is now published and is based on our earlier discovery of atomristors.
Fruitful collaboration between UT-Austin (lead grad student, Myungsoo Kim) and CNRS in Lille led by Emiliano Pallecchi and Henri Happy.
Title: Analog switches made from boron nitride monolayers for application in 5G and terahertz communication systems. Nature Electronics May 2018. ->PDF.
A blog post in Nature can be read here.
News Media coverage:
Live TV interview on the public importance
Public Radio interview and Texas Standard transcript
Nature article on 2D-Silicon nanotechnology
The combination of 2D materials and Silicon arguably represents the biggest application of these materials in advancing commercial semiconductor applications.
As such, a review article on the progress, opportunities and challenges for graphene/2D materials integration on Silicon for heterogeneous 3D nanotechnology was commissioned and is now available at Nature journal.
This is a balanced review featuring academia and industry leaders in the area of 2D materials and Silicon technology.
The article link is below.
Adv. Mat. 2019: Thinnest memory based on h-BN.
Our work on 2D memory has resulted in the thinnest non-volatile memory device. A record for device applications of nanomaterials.
Congrats to Xiaohan Wu and Ruijing Ge who did much of the experimental work and our international collaborators at Peking and Taiwan.
Advanced Materials, 2019.
See news article on PhysicsWorld
Group Alumni Shideh Ameri, now Assistant Professor.
Congrats to our former postdoctoral scholar, Dr. Shideh Ameri who is an Assistant Professor at Queens University, Canada, effective September 2018.
Shideh did pioneering work on graphene electronic tattoos for mobile health and human-machine control. Her work has been widely covered by the media including the BBC.