Micro/Nano Biomechanical Characterization Lab

Thin film adhesion: In the macro world, adhesion is not dominant compared to gravity and is always ignored. But at the nano scale, adhesion has significant impacts in nano-technology and life sciences, such as the material stiction problem in MEMS RF-switch and cell-cell adhesion problem in biological systems. Mechanical characterization of thin film adhesion can supply critical design criteria for nanotechnology.

Graphene adhesion and Graphene device: Graphene, a monolayer graphite, is the first truly two-dimensional material (just one atom thick), has ultrahigh mechanical strength, conductivity and optical transparency and is an ideal material in nanotechnology. We are trying to investigate the adhesion behavior of graphene and apply our thin film adhesion model to graphene adhesion. This can help us to design new graphene devices.

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