The Seed Grant program’s secondary purpose is to give faculty with novel research topics the ability to develop preliminary data in order to pursue follow-up funding sources.

The 4 student winners from various schools across campus, along with their Principal Investigator mentors, were awarded no-cost blocks of IEN cleanroom and lab access time. In keeping with the interdisciplinary mission of IEN, the projects that will be enabled by the grants include micro- and nano-scale sensing research, biomedical research, optoelectronic research, and packaging applications research.

The Fall 2013-2014 IEN Seed Grant Award winners are Virginia Liao, working with PI Brent Wagner of The Georgia Tech Research Institute, for A Thin Film Sensor for the Selective Detection of Low Hydrogen Concentrations; Harrison Norman, working with PI Ross Ethier of the School of Biomedical Engineering, for Lamina Cribrosa on a Chip; Jared Schwartz, working with PI Paul Kohl of the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, for Materials and Structures Enabling Vanishing Optically Triggered Sensors;  and David Brown, working with PI Satish Kumar of the School of Mechanical Engineering, for On-Chip Thermoelectric Generators Using Si Nanowire Arrays.  Awardees will present the results of their research efforts at the annual IEN User Day in 2014.

Another round of Seed Grants will be offered in the spring of 2014. A request for proposals will be issued with a proposal submission deadline of April 1^st, 2014.

To view the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology's 2013-14 Fall Seed Grant Announcement and Guidelines follow this link.