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Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment
Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment
Sustainability and Future Plans
Director Claire Gmachl
Princeton University
NSF-ERC Cooperative Agreement EEC-0540832
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Research
NSF-ERC Cooperative Agreement EEC-0540832
Strategic plan: 3-level framework
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Arvind Ravikumar, Ph.D. Thesis 2015 (AIR-TT program)
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Associated projects
• Advancement of QCL-Based IR Microscopy for Biomedical Applications • An Observational and Modeling Study of Natural Gas Leakage in Urban Houston
• Analysis of Surface PM and Trace Gas Data for Houston DISCOVER-AQ • Anti-Jamming Capability for RT-1944/U Radio
• Atomically Accurate Structure Analysis for InAs/InAsSb Strained-Layer Superlattices • Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER Phase III - Adaptive Processes in the Baltimore Socioecological System: From Sanitary to Sustainable City • Center for the Exploitation of Nanostructures for Sensors and Energy Systems • Chalcogenide Waveguides for Broadband Four Wave Mixing • Coastal SEES Collaborative Research: Effects of Restoration and Redevelopment on Nitrogen Dynamics in an Urban Coastal Watershed • Coherent Mid-Infrared Molecular Dispersion Spectroscopy for Ultra-Sensitive Chemical Detection • Collaborative Research: Sensitivity of Gas and Aqueous-Phase Production of SOA to Chemical and Environmental Perturbations • Collaborative Research: Ultrashort pulse generation and mid-infrared frequency combs from quantum cascade lasers • Collaborative Research: Urbach-Tail Dynamics and Implications for Photonic Devices • Compact Multi-Pollutant Mid-Infrared Laser Spectroscopic Trace-Gas Sensor • Compressive Sensing Sum Frequency Generation Microscope • Development of a Real-time Neural Network Estimator for near real time compensation of meteorology to Improve Missile Warning and
Defense Capabilities of HEO satellites • Development of Vertical and Synoptic Tools to Assess and Improve PM2.5 Forecast Products • Distribution of Fugitive Methane Emissions in the Marcellus Shale • EAGER: Collaborative Research - Development of a New Technique to Measure Ecosystem Level Soil Nitrous Oxide Fluxes using
Micrometeorological Towers • End-to-End Data System for Sensor Networks • Environmental Conditions and Characteristics of Ice Supersaturated Regions in DC3 • ERC-Small Business: Remote Sensing Instrumentation Based on Chirped Laser Dispersion Spectroscopy (Physical Sciences, Inc.) • High-Index, Non-Linear Chalcogenide Optics for Subwavelength Laser Processing and Imaging • Houston Aerosol Characterization and Health Experiment • Hyper Control, Hy-C • Image Optimization for Small Focal Plane Array • Imaging using spatial nonlinearity • Interdisciplinary Scientific Data Management • International Collaboration in Chemistry: Next Generation of Compact Infrared Laser Based Sensor for Environmental Monitoring
(NexCILAS) • Intersubband Ultrafast All-Optical Switches from Wide Band Gap II-VI Semiconductors • KeCom: Knowledge Enhanced Compressive Imaging • Laboratory Studies of Nitric Acid Uptake on Organic Aerosols
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Associated projects
• Laser Vapor Deposition for Thin-Film Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites • Measurement of Atmospheric Particle Number Concentration in Houston, TX
• Measurements of PM, VOCs and Photochemically Relevant Gases in Support of DISCOVER-AQ • Methane Emissions from Near Field Sources using an Electronic Aircraft
• Microfluidic Microscopy • Modeling and Design of IR Laser Sources, Nonlinear Sources, and Devices • MRI: Acquisition of Liquid Water Isotope Analyzer Capability for Advancing Hydrologic Research in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study
LTER • Multi-Purpose Ocular Laser Surgical Station • NOAA Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center • OCT Image Guided Microsurgical Tools with Enhanced Surgical Functions • Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation Research-Technology Transfer: Prototype Mid-Infrared, Methane Sensor for Natural
Gas Leak Detection on Small Unmanned Aerial Systems • Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Mid-Infrared Medical Systems (MIMeS) • Portable Nitrous Oxide Sensor for Understanding Agricultural and Soil Emissions • Precision Trace Gas Monitoring using Infrared Semiconductor Lasers and Quartz Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy • Proto-Type II-VI Quantum Well-Based Unipolar Mid-Infrared Photodetectors • Quantifying Ammonia Emissions from Agriculture and Cities During DISCOVER-AQ • Quantum Cascade Laser Spectrometer for Bio-Medical Applications • Regional Climate Variability and Patterns of Urban Development - Impacts on the Urban Water Cycle and Nutient Export • Response of the Soil Ecosystem to the Changing Climate: In Situ Observations in Deciduous Forests • Room Temperature, Continuous Wave, High Wall-Plug Efficiency Quantum Cascade Lasers • Small Business-ERC Collaborative Opportunity to Develop an Instrument for Trace Detection of O2 using a High-finesse Prism Optical
Cavity and the Faraday Effect • Source Apportionment of Anthropogenic Secondary Organic Aerosol • Spatial wavefront control in classical and quantum optics • Standoff Photoacoustic Chemical Detections • Structural Characterization of InAs/InAsSb Superlattices with Cross-Sectional STM • STTR Phase II - Rapid Anomaly Detection and Tracking via Compressive Time-Spectra Measurement • Towards Precision Ultra-Portable 13C/12C CO2 Atmospheric Isotopic Ratio Monitors Using Quantum Cascade Laser Spectroscopy • U.S.-Japan Collaborative Research and Education: Terahertz dynamics in nanostructures • Understanding Spatial Variability of Methane by Comparing Bottom-Up and Top-Down Methods During DISCOVER-AQ Colorado • Validation of TES Ammonia using an Open-Path Quantum Cascade Laser Based Spectrometer • Wideband Radio Local Interference Optimization Techniques
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Education & Education Outreach Program
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Recruiting and mentoring of minority students
• Collaboration w/ minority serving programs
– MSI (CCNY) – LSAMP – AGEP – ...
• Recruiting at conferences – NSBE, AISES, SWE, others ...
• Joint CCNY-Princeton pilot
program for CCNY undergraduates to enter Princeton graduate tracks
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Future plans - Education
• University level programs – Expand cross-institutional teaching & learning
opportunities • Maintain Research & Teaching Fellows program • Maintain student exchange opportunities • Strengthen international exchange program • Strengthen entrepreneurial training
– 2016 REU Program & Workshop
– Online education resource package
• Pre-college programs – Continued growth/maintenance of successful programs – Maintenance of YSAP – Maintenance of the RET program
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MIRTHE online
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New MIRTHE web-site
Industry & Practitioner Program
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Engagement of Investment Community
MIRTHE Investment Focus Group is
a group of venture capitalists and angel investors seeking opportunities emerging from MIRTHE technologies
Mission: Introduction of venture capital to mid-IR technologies and applications opportunities Exposure to MIRTHE small and large company members Opportunities to nurture MIRTHE related start-ups
― Formed in early 2010
― 20 board members: Co-chaired by Dr. Mort Collins and Dr. Ralph Taylor-Smith of Battelle Venture
― 6 workshops has been held: Oct. 2010 on all MIRTHE applications; Oct. 2011 on medical applications, 4/2012, 5/2013, 5/2014, and 4/2015 on defense and security at DSS conference; next workshop April 2016
IFG workshop @ Princeton University IFG workshop @ the Defense, Security & Sensing conference, Baltimore, MD
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Mid-InfraRed Pavilion @ CLEO
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Future Plans - Industry
• Targeted growth of the industry/practitioner/affiliate consortium
• Cultivate and intensify partnerships with current members:
– Closer interactions
– Joint outreach and public relations,
– Joint SBIR/STTR proposals and NSF supplemental funding opportunities (e.g. SECO)
• More student-industry internships and opportunities for recruitment
• Further promotion of MIRTHE meetings with industry presence
• Conducting regular IFG conferences, and targeted workshops with the OSA and SPIE
• Newsletter
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Future plans
NSF-ERC Cooperative Agreement EEC-0540832
Future plan – MIRTHE Strategic Business Plan for Self-Sufficiency
• Prioritization of MIRTHE core features – what to sustain? – Survey of all MIRTHE ... “must keep”
• Cross-institutionality & interdisciplinarity • MIRTHE’s post-doctoral program • Student Leadership Council (SLC) • MIRTHE’s Summer Workshop and MIRTHE@CLEO meeting • Research in applications of MIRTHE’s sensors • REU program • Industry and practitioner program
• Reassessment and restructuring of research areas – Environmental sensing
• Unified body ... retain under core MIRTHE name – Security / defense
• Carried by industry / practitioners (sustained collaborations with MIRTHE) – Health
• Grow and spin off as new center ... ERC preproposal for diabetes management – Detectors
• Grow and spin off as new center ... Together with energy focus
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Future plan – MIRTHE Strategic Business Plan for Self-Sufficiency
• Exploration of continued federal funding and/or university support – NIH (breath analysis and non-invasive testing) – EPA (environmental sensing) – TSA (port security) – Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Energy – NSF
– SEAS transitional support – PRISM – ACEE (new, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment) ... MIRTHE space included
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Future plan – MIRTHE Strategic Business Plan for Self-Sufficiency
MIRTHE Optical Sensing Lab MIRTHE Display Bowen Hall First Floor Plan Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment
Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment
