Faculty - Materials Science & Engineering

Harris L. Marcus - Research

• SFF of Photonic Crystals using optical tweezers to establish long range order. Design two-dimensional colloidal photonic crystals and develop continuous and pulsed laser methods to insert controlled defects and to create waveguides for channeling light.
• Application of Surface Spectroscopy Techniques to materials science and engineering. Areas of interest are in fingerprint forensic science, surface effects on catalytic behavior and alloying effects on catalytic behavior
• Solid Freeform Fabrication, SFF, with gas phase- selective area laser deposition, SALD, and SALD vapor infiltration, SALDVI of a wide range of materials.
• Working with a multidisciplinary team perfvorming research to produce bio-nano sensors using bacteria as a fuel cell and SWNT decorated with proteins for detection of a wide range of molecular species.
• Studying the nature of laser processing for a range of processes and approaches including cladding, hole drilling, as well as the processes described above.