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Babak Amir Parviz


Babak Amir Parviz
Assistant professor
Bionanotechnology, Self-Assembly, Nanofabrication, MEMS
Office M250 EE1
Box 352500
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Phone: (206) 616-4038
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Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow (Chemistry and Chemical Biology)
University of Michigan, PhD (Electrical Engineering)
University of Michigan, MS (Physics)
University of Michigan, MS (Electrical Engineering)
Sharif University of Technology, BS (Electrical Engineering)
University of Washington, BA (English Literature)

[Biosketch] [Honors] [Research Interests] [Publications] [Group Webpage]

Biosketch

Babak received his graduate degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. From 2000 to 2001 he was with Nanovation Technologies Inc. as a device designer and a product manager working on integrated photonics. He joined the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2001. At Harvard, he was involved in research on developing novel nanofabrication technologies, self-assembled systems, low-cost biosensing, and using organics for electronics and MEMS. He joined the UW Electrical Engineering Department as a faculty member in October 2003. He is currently the Associate Director of the Micro-scale Life Sciences Center at the University of Washington. Babak is a founding member of the American Academy of Nanomedicine; a senior member of the IEEE; and a member of the American Association for Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, and Sigma Xi.

Honors and Awards

Research Interests

1. Research at the interface between biology and electrical engineering (ultra-low-cost genome sequencing technology; developing tools for the study of biology at the single cell level; direct conversion of molecular recognition and binding events to electrical signals; using biomolecules for self-assembling engineered structures; hybrid biological/solid-state devices and systems, low-cost biomedical devices)

2. Engineered Self-assembly (design and construction of self-assembled structures and devices in the micro and nano-scales; self-assembly as an engineering concept; self-assembly across the size-scale; self-assembly for heterogeneous system integration; self-packaging; developing self-assembly as a method for mass manufacturing)

3. Nanotechnology (design and fabrication of nano-scale electronic, photonic, and mechanical devices; investigation of novel nano-scale phenomena for device design in the nano-scale)

4. MEMS (large area and low-cost microfabrication; green microfabrication; biodegradable micro devices; micro devices for human performance augmentation

Sample Publications from 2006

Sean A. Stauth and Babak A. Parviz, “Self-Assembled Single Crystal Silicon Circuits on Plastic”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v 103, n 38, September 2006, p 13922-13927

Highlighted in Materials Today v 9 n 11 November 2006

John Lund, Ranjana Mehta, Babak A. Parviz, “Label-Free Direct Electronic Detection of Biomolecules with Amorphous Silicon Nanostructures”, Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine, v 2, n 4, 2006, p 230-238

Christopher J. Morris, Harvey Ho, and Babak A. Parviz, “Liquid Polymer Deposition on Free-Standing Microfabricated Parts for Self-Assembly”, ASME/IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 15, n 6, 2006, p 1795-1804

Chia-Jean Wang, Ludan Huang, Babak A. Parviz, and Lih Y. Lin, “Sub-diffraction Photon Guidance by Quantum Dot Cascades”, Nano Letters, v 6, n 11, 2006, p 2549-2553

Highlighted in Nature Photonics on-line November 9th 2006

Candan Tamerler, Memed Duman, Ersin Emre Oren, Mustafa Gungormus, Xiaorong Xiong, Turgay Kacar, Babak A. Parviz, Mehmet Sarikaya, “Materials Specificity and Directed Assembly of a Gold Binding Peptide”, Small, v 2, n 11, 2006, p 1372-1378

Jianchun Dong and Babak A. Parviz, “Using Noise for Controlled Disassembly of Nano-Scale Gold Wires”, Nanotechnology, v 17, 2006, p 5124-5130

Babak A. Parviz, “Integrated electronic detection of biomolecules”, (invited paper), Trends in Microbiology, v 14, n 9, September 2006, p 373-375

Jianchun Dong, Hin L. Yip, Hong Ma, Alex K.Y. Jen, Babak A. Parviz, “Gated lateral charge transport in self-assembled pyryl phosphonic acid molecular multi-layers”, Applied Physics Letters, v 88, 2006, p 223112-1 223112-3

[Also, selected for publication in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology, v13, n 24, 2006]

John A. Lund, Jianchun Dong, Zhaoxiang Deng, Chengde Mao, and Babak A. Parviz, “Electrical Conduction in 7 nm Wires Constructed on l-DNA”, Nanotechnology, v 17, n 11, 2006, p 2752-2757

Hin-Lap Yip, Hong Ma, Alex K.-Y. Jen, Jianchun Dong, Babak A. Parviz, “Two-Dimensional Self-Assembly of 1-Pyrylphosphonic Acid: Transfer of Stacks on Structured Surface”, Journal of American Chemical Society, v 128, n 17, 2006, p 5672-5679

Christopher J. Morris and Babak A. Parviz, “Self-assembly and Characterization of Marangoni Microfluidic Actuators”, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v16, n5, May 2006, p 972-980

Group Webpage

For more information about current projects, students, and publications please refer to the group Webpage.

UW EE Bionanotechnology Laboratory

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