Equipment Grants
HBCU/MI Equipment/Instrumentation Award
Aerosol Jet Printing System for Additive Manufacturing and Material Development
PI: Yihong Chen
Purpose: A team of researchers from Texas State University received funds to acquire a versatile Optomec Aerosol Jet 300 printing system for flexible electronic circuits and printable nanomaterials based chemical/biological sensors.
The Aerosol Jet AJ300 system is ideally suited for 3D printed electronics applications such as fully printed antennas, sensors, molded interconnect devices, etc. The system enhances our capability to develop low-cost high-throughput flexible/conformal electronics with additive manufacture technology.
HBCU/MI Equipment/Instrumentation Award
Scanning Probe Microscope for Materials Research and Education
PI: Alexander Zakhidov
Purpose: Acquisition of a multifunctional high-resolution scanning probe microscope for the imaging and characterization of semiconductors, polymers, functional oxides, 2D materials, and DNA molecules, which is user-friendly and reconfigurable. The instrument is hosted by the Shared Research Operation (SRO) office and available to be used by any TXST student, staff, and faculty member. Since installation it directly impacted more than 100 students from Physics, Chemistry, Engineering and Biology via the course work and research projects.