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Dr. Yong Tao
 Building and Renewable
Position
PACCAR Professor of
Engineering and
Chairman
E-mail
[email protected]
Phone
(940) 565-2400
Energy
 Energy Efficient Building
Cooling Systems
 Ground Source Heat
Pump
 Heat and Mass Transfer
in Multiphase Media
UNT Net Zero Research House
(Rendering)
Department of Mechanical & Energy Engineering, University of North Texas | Denton, Texas, USA
Zero-Energy House
Utility
Materials and
Appliances
Building
Systems
Plug-in
Hybrid/EVehicles
Distributed
Generation and
Storage
Renewable
Energy
(solar/wind)
Smart
Sensors
Geothermal
Heat Pump
American (UNT) House, Beijing China
Visit by Secretaries Chu and
Locke, July 16, ‘09
Z0E – Zero Energy Lab
Department of Mechanical & Energy Engineering, University of North Texas | Denton, Texas, USA
Dr. Sheldon Q. Shi
Green Building Materials
 Engineering wood composites for construction applications
 Composite material processing, product evaluation, and
qualification
 Environmental friendly adhesives for biocomposite building
materials
 Building insulation materials, such as PU foam, etc. from
renewable biomass resources.
Position
Associate Professor
E-mail
[email protected]
Phone
(940) 565-2031
Group
Renewable Bioproducts
Structure Testing
Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, University of North Texas | Denton, Texas, USA
Dr. Jiangtao Cheng
Electrowetting Solar Cell
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Electrowetting Solar Tracking
Electrowetting Solar House
Optofluidic Solar Concentrator
Thermal-Fluid Sciences
Micro/Nano-Fluidics
Position
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical
& Energy Engineering
Dual-axis tracking without mechanical moving parts
E-mail
[email protected]
Phone
(940) 369-5929
Department of Mechanical & Energy Engineering, University of North Texas | Denton, Texas, USA
Dr. Jaehyung Ju
 Energy Harvesting with Dielectric Elastomers
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Nonlinear constitutive modeling of electro-active
polymers for energy harvesting
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E-mail
[email protected]
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Phone
(940) 565-2118
Group
Laboratory of
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Dr. Mihai G. Burzo
 Heat transfer in microelectronics
& nanostructures
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Position
Assistant Professor
E-mail
[email protected]
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Nanoscale Thermography:
non-invasive thermoreflectance
based surface temperature mapping
of active microelectronic devices
at submicron and nanoscale levels
Applications: Detect hot spots;
diagnose performance of
microelectronic devices;
failure localization.
FET CHANNEL
Thermal Mapping
(Gold Microresistor)
CAMERA IMAGE
MOSFET
Phone
(940) 369-5104
Group
Microscale Heat
Transfer Laboratory
Brake in Gate
oxide
THERMAL IMAGE
Failure Localization
Hot Spot Detection
Department of Mechanical & Energy Engineering, University of North Texas | Denton, Texas, USA
Dr. Nandika D’Souza
 “Cradle to cradle” bioproducts
Position
Professor
E-mail
[email protected]
Phone
(940) 565-2979
Group
Polymer Mechanical
and Rheology
Laboratory
Department of Mechanical & Energy Engineering, University of North Texas | Denton, Texas, USA
Dr. Nandika D’Souza
 Polymer Composites
♦ Explore the fundamental properties that renewable resources provide
so that we can replace with no loss of function non-renewable
materials
♦ Investigate nano, micro and macroscale composites with hybrid
reinforcement
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E-mail
[email protected]
Phone
(940) 565-2979
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Polymer Mechanical
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Laboratory
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Department of Mechanical & Energy Engineering, University of North Texas | Denton, Texas, USA
Dr. Stevens M. Brumbley
 Engineering of High Biomass C4 Grasses for
Production of Bioplastics
Position
Associate Professor
E-mail
[email protected]
Phone
(940) 369-5072
Group
Plant Metabolic
Engineering
 Biopolymers produced
by bacteria have
properties similar to
commercially available
petrochemical based
plastics.
 We’ve used the
bacterial gene to
engineer the high
biomass C4 grass
sugarcane so it can
produce and
accumulate these
plastics in cells of the
leaf and stalk
Polyhydroxyalkanoates produced in sugarcane leaf cells
Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas | Denton, Texas, USA
Dr. Michael Allen
 Biocomposites
Position
Assistant Professor
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Renewable, biodegradable
replacements for
fiberglass, building panels,
car parts, etc.
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Understanding microbial
community function during
fiber processing
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Retting process
optimization for fiber yield,
properties
E-mail
[email protected]
Phone
(940) 369-8247
Group
Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology ,
Renewable Bioproducts
Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas | Denton, Texas, USA
Dr. Sheldon Q. Shi
Natural Fiber Biocomposites
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Natural fibers to replace synthetic fibers for structural components, such
as natural fiber SMC, etc.
Cellulosic natural fiber evalaution
Bioresin synthesis from renewable bioresources, such as soybean, etc.
Adhesion durability and interfacial bonding, surface energy
characterization
Position
Associate Professor
E-mail
[email protected]
Phone
(940) 565-2031
* Light weight
* Low cost
* Less reliance on petroleum
resource
* Environmental friendly
Group
Renewable Bioproducts
Single fiber testing
Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, University of North Texas | Denton, Texas, USA
Dr. Sheldon Q. Shi
Cellulose Nanocomposites
 Nanophase treatment of natural fiber for functional
composites, such as anti static, anti radiation, anti
permeation, anti microbial, de-toxication, and with
enhanced or reduced thermal conductivities
 Cellulose nanofiber / nano whisker
Position
Associate Professor
Anti-blood,
E-mail
oil permeation
[email protected]
Anti static
gloves
Magnetic bioabsorbent
Phone
(940) 565-2031
Group
Renewable Bioproducts
Nanoparticle deposited on
the fiber surface
Cellulose nanofiber process
Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, University of North Texas | Denton, Texas, USA
Dr. Nigel Shepherd
 Semiconductors, Electronic and Optical Thin Films:
Position
Assistant Professor
Materials and Device Physics
♦ Organic Light Emitting Diodes:
• Red, Blue, Green: Emissive Displays
• White: Solid State Lighting
♦ Flexible optoelectronic devices:
flexible displays and phototherapy bandages
E-mail
[email protected]
Phone
(940) 369-7714
Group
Optoelectronics and
Thin Films Laboratory
(OFTL)
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of North Texas | Denton, Texas, USA
Dr. Nigel Shepherd
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Heterojunction solar cells
• Ge, GaAs, GaP, InAs, InP
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Multilayer graphene HEMTs
• gate oxide deposition
• contact influence on mobility
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P-type ZnO for inorganic LEDs, GaN, ZnS
Position
Assistant Professor
E-mail
[email protected]
Phone
(940) 369-7714
Group
Optoelectronics and
Thin Films Laboratory
(OFTL)
Pulsed laser deposition, RF and DC sputtering, Physical vapor deposition, Atomic layer deposition
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of North Texas | Denton, Texas, USA
Dr. Michael Allen
 Biofuels
Position
Assistant Professor
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Conversion of lignocellulosic
feedstocks to biofuels
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Genetic engineering of
defined microbial
communities
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Understanding bacterial
responses to stress for
process optimization
E-mail
[email protected]
Phone
(940) 369-8247
Group
Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology ,
Renewable Bioproducts
Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas | Denton, Texas, USA
Dr. W. Justin Youngblood
 Interfacial electron transport in hybrid
polymer-oxide solar cells.
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Acceptor-Sensitizers mediate electron transport
between p-type semiconductive polymer and n-type
metal oxide semiconductors
Solar cell improvement tracks with
redox potential of the sensitizer.
Position
Assistant Professor
E-mail
[email protected]
Phone
(940) 369-8289
Group
Organic/Molecular
Semiconductors and
Excitonic Solar Cells
ZnO nanorods
TiO2 (rutile) nanorods
Enhanced current & voltage
Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas | Denton, Texas, USA
Dr. W. Justin Youngblood
 Dye-sensitized solar cells using p-type NiO.
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Photoinduced hole transfer from p-type Nickel
Oxide (NiO) to acceptor-sensitizers based on
fullerene and acenequinone compounds.
New morphologies of nanostructured NiO.
Polymer-oxide solar cells using n-type polymers.
Position
Assistant Professor
E-mail
[email protected]
Phone
(940) 369-8289
NiO nanowhiskers
Group
Organic/Molecular
Semiconductors and
Excitonic Solar Cells
Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas | Denton, Texas, USA
Dr. Elias Kougianos
 III-V Device Physics
♦ Efficient numerical techniques
for the self-consistent solution
of Schrödinger-Poisson in III-V
heterostructures.
♦ Interface handling at III-V
boundaries.
♦ Transverse energy effects in
III-V devices.
♦ Applications to resonant
tunnel diodes.
Position
Associate Professor
E-mail
[email protected]
Phone
(940) 891-6708
Group
Nano-System Design
Laboratory (NSDL)
Selected references: [1] Kougianos et al. “Discretization Techniques for the Efficient Solution of the Eigenvalue
Problem in Heterostructures”, Wiley InterScience International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic
Networks, Devices and Fields (IJNM), Vol. 22, No. 1, January/February 2009, pp. 1-21.
[2] Kougianos et al. “The Effect of Transverse Energy on Electronic Bound States in Heterostructure Quantum
Wells”, Semiconductor Science and Technology, Vol. 21, No. 10, October 2006, pp. 1472-1477.
Department of Engineering Technology, University of North Texas | Denton, Texas, USA
Dr. Gayatri Mehta
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Energy-Aware Next-Generation Portable/Wearable Computing Platforms
Position
Assistant Professor
E-mail
[email protected]
Phone
(940) 369-5118
Group
Power Aware Computing
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of North Texas | Denton, Texas, USA
Dr. Saraju P. Mohanty
Design and CAD for Low-Power HighPerformance Nanoscale Digital and
Analog/Mixed-Signal VLSI:
Position
Associate Professor
E-mail
saraju.mohanty@unt
.edu
Phone
(940) 565-3276
Group
 Power, Leakage, and Performance
Modeling of Nanoscale Digital and
Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuits
 Optimization of Nanoscale Digital and
Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuits
 VLSI Architecture for Multimedia
Processing
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of North Texas | Denton, Texas, USA