News from the Lab......
Katherine Manfred received the College Chemistry Achievement Award from the Chemical Society of Washington. She has been awarded a Clarendon Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford for graduate school, and is one of 5 students named Undergraduate Researcher of the Year by the University. She will receive a $500 award and a plaque.
Katherine has also been awarded the J. R. Dorfman Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Research by the College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences. She will receive $1000 and a certificate in recognition of her accomplishments.
John Bender has been awarded a 3-year Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. He was also awarded a Dean's Summer Fellowship by the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry.
The Board of Regents met in Executive Session on February 17, 2012 and approved the recommendation of the Council of University System Faculty to present John Fourkas with the Regents Faculty Award for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity. This award is the highest honor presented by the Board of Regents to exemplary faculty members. Nominees for the Research/ Scholarship/Creative Activity Excellence Award must have shown evidence of exceptional scholarship, research, or creative accomplishments that extend or deepen the bounds of knowledge.
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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."
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Welcome to the Fourkas Group
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 that you will enjoy this virtual tour of our research, and come backoften for the latest group news.
Fabrication of a microcoil using multiphoton absorption polymerization.
The width of the coil is 30 microns and the length is 100 microns (approximately the width of a human hair).
