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Research
Laboratories
PHO417
Applied Electromagnetics Laboratory
617/353-1909
This laboratory is devoted to problems in experimental electromagnetics with a primary focus on industrial electrostatics, sensors, and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). Current projects include a study of spark energies from insulating surfaces, studies of the electrostatic properties of insulating materials, development of a circular electrode array plasma-torch system, and charge-control systems for MEMS actuators.
Faculty:
Horenstein
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PHO714
Biological Sensing and Imaging Laboratory (BSAIL)
617/353-5887
BSAIL develops optical, electrical, and computational methods to study biological problems. We develop sensing and imaging devices that emphasize label-free, high throughput data collection on extremely small quantities of biomaterials. Applications include disease and biohazard detection, drug discovery and equipment development. Ongoing projects include the Resonant Cavity Imaging Biosensor which applies hyperspectral IR imaging of transmissive and reflective resonant optical cavities for DNA and protein measurements; the Fabricator - a mask-free optical synthesizer for bio-arrays (the "Fabricator" project) used in RCIB and other biochip systems, and self-interference microscopy. Our group is interdisciplinary, with engineers, phyicists, chemists and biologists, and encourages undergraduate researchers in REU or UROP.
Faculty:
Ruane,
Semeter,
Swan,
Ünlü
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PHO512
Biomedical Optics and Biophotonics Laboratory
617/358-2041
The core theme of biomedical optics/ photonics is minimally invasive optical diagnostics and therapeutics. This laboratory focuses on the development of optics-based technologies for clinical applications and biomedical research. Current research topic areas include:
- Advanced spectroscopic technologies for tissue diagnosis
- Noninvasive measurement of drug concentrations in tissue
- Interstitial laser thermotherapy and photodynamic therapy
- Computational methods for modeling optical transport in tissue
- Optical interferometry for imaging nerve activation
Faculty:
Bigio
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PHO446
Broadband Wireless Communications Laboratory
617/353-9575
This laboratory supports research projects on the design, theory, and prototyping of broadband wireless communication systems. The major focus is on the use of light as the transmission medium for high-datarate indoor wireless local-area networks. The laboratory includes facilities for the fabrication and testing of experimental prototypes as well as computing resources for system design and analysis.
Faculty:
Carruthers
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Cognition and Brain Signal Processing
617/353-4718
This laboratory conducts signal processing research for cognition signals from physical stimuli of human perception and for brain signals from electrical transmissions of neural activity. This laboratory has been a major innovator in computational signal processing, short-time and short-space signal processing, artificial intelligence for signal processing, auditory signal processing, and decomposition of electromyographic signals.
Faculty:
Nawab
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PHO539
Computational Electronics Laboratory
The Computational Electronics Laboratory (CEL) is equipped with state-of-the-art computing tools. The lab has two computer clusters, one XP1000 Alpha Cluster (8 CPUs) running True UNIX 64, and an AMD Athalon MP Cluster (13 CPUs) running Linux. The lab also operates a variety of high performance PCs and printers. The Computational Electronics Group develops software to study semiconductor materials and to perform electronics and optoelectronics device simulation. Commercial simulation packages, such as ISE Genesis and Silvaco Virtual Wafer Fab are currently employed.
Faculty:
Bellotti
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PHO413
Computer Architecture and Automated Design Laboratory
http://www.bu.edu/caadlab/
Work focuses on experimental computer architecture, particularly on the application of emerging technology to computationally intensive application. Projects include developing design tools for application specific coprocessors, designing MPP router switches, vision computers, and the application of configurable computing to bioinformatics.
Faculty:
Herbordt
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PHO416
Functorial Electromagnetics Laboratory
The Functorial Electromagnetic Analysis Lab considers the difficulties encountered in the finite element analysis of three-dimensional electromagnetic fields that cannot be anticipated through experience with two-dimensional simulations. The lab has focussed its efforts in the development of Whitney form techniques, homology calculations, algorithms for total magnetic scalar potentials in multiply-connected regions, helicity functional techniques, and data structures based on semi-simplicial objects. Torsion invariants of complexes and rational homotopy theory are currently being exploited in the context of direct and inverse three-dimensional problems such as impedance tomography and magnetic field synthesis.
Faculty:
Kotiuga
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Imaging Science Laboratory (ISL)
Affiliated with the Boston University Center for Space Physics, the ISL applies state-of-the-art optical imaging technology to the study of the Earth, Moon, planets and comets. Activities include equipment design and fabrication, field campaigns to observing sites world-wide, and digital signal processing.
Faculty:
Mendillo,
Semeter
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PHO413A
Laboratory of Networking and Information Systems
http://nislab.bu.edu
This lab is involved in providing novel perspectives on modern networking issues, including scalability, heterogeneity, and performance. The lab is equipped with sophisticated hardware and software and promotes research into the fields of network synchronization, mobile computing, Internet traffic engineering, distributed Web caching, and coding theoretic approaches to real-time information reconciliation.
Faculty:
Starobinski,
Trachtenberg
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PHO505
Lightwave Technology Laboratory
617/358-1036
This lab is one of the few university laboratories capable of designing, fabricating, and characterizing silica optical fibers. The research activities of this laboratory focus on new processing techniques for optical fibers , high power optical fiber lasers, and a variety of optical fiber sensors. We are developing a new technique for combining multimode pump radiation into double clad fibers. The components of this facility consist of a fabrication laboratory with three glass lathes including a new stateof- the-art Nextrom MCVD system, an optical laboratory with numerous pump lasers for fiber lasers, five isolation tables, and an 8m optical fiber draw tower, newly outfitted with Nextrom widing and control equipment. In addition, there is a CVD laboratory for studies of thin films.
Faculty:
Morse
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PHO401
Multi-Dimensional Signal Processing (MDSP) Laboratory
617/353-1668
The MDSP Lab conducts research in the areas of multidimensional and multiresolution signal and image processing and estimation, and geometric-based estimation. The applications that motivate this research include, but are not limited to, problems arising in automatic target detection and recognition, geophysical inverse problems (such as finding oil and analyzing the atmosphere), and medical estimation problems (such as tomography and MRI). The general goal is to develop efficient methods for the extraction of information from diverse data sources in the presence of uncertainty. The lab's approach is based on the development of statistical models for both observations, prior knowledge, and the subsequent use of these models for optimal or near-optimal processing.
Faculty:
Karl
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PHO445
Multimedia Communications Laboratory
617/353-8042
The focus of this laboratory is the enabling technology for distributed and multimedia applications. Research includes investigation of distributed modes interaction among wireless computers; aggregation and clustering techniques for scaling large-scale Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) and Sensor Networks; communication systems for continuous media; and conceptual and physical database organizations. The laboratory is equipped a high-performance simulation environment and a wireless testbed for proof-of-concept prototype development.
Faculty:
Little
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PHOB11
Optical Characterization and Nanophotonics (OCN)
http://ultra.bu.edu/ | 617/353-1712
Nanophotonics addresses a broad spectrum of optics on the nanometer scale covering technology and basic science. Compared to the behavior of isolated molecules or bulk materials; the behavior of nanostructures exhibit important physical properties not necessarily predictable from observations of either individual constituents or large ensembles. We develop and apply advanced optical characterization techniques to the study of solid-state and biological phenomena at the nanoscale. Current projects include development of high-resolution subsurface imaging techniques based on numerical aperture increasing lens (NAIL) for the study of semiconductor devices and circuits and spectroscopy of quantum dots; micro resonant Raman and emission spectroscopy of individual carbon nanotubes; biosensors based on microring resonators; and development of new nanoscale microscopy techniques utilizing interference of excitation as well as emission from fluorescent molecules. In addition to microscopy, optical resonance is nearly ubiqutious in our research projects including development of resonant cavity enhanced photodetectors and imaging biosensors for DNA and protein arrays.
Faculty:
Goldberg,
Ünlü
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PHOB15
Quantum Communication and Measurement Laboratory
http://people.bu.edu/alexserg/ | 617/353-9943
Research in the Quantum Communication & Measurement (QCM) Laboratory focus on fundamentals of quantum optics and quantum information processing with the purpose of developing quantum-optical communication networks and engineering novel ultra-precise measurement techniques in nano-photonics and life sciences that outperform conventional solutions. Experimental projects include quantum cryptography in metropolitan network, super-resolution phase sensors based on quantum dispersion cancellation effect, quantum imaging and microscopy with spatial aberration cancellation, quantum spectroscopic ellipsometry for characterizing nanoscale devices in semiconductor industry and proteomics, high-resolution fluorescent correlation spectroscopy and microscopy.
Research and development projects at QCM Laboratory concentrate on:
- quantum optical device engineering using parametric amplification in specially designed periodically polled nonlinear structures, entanglement manipulation and processing on a chip, micro- and nano-photonics, ultra-fast quantum optics;
- high-performance single-photon detection and correlation measurement in a wide spectral range from ultraviolet to mid-infrared and terahertz;
- quantum information processing, quantum communication and cryptography, linear-optical quantum computing, quantum networks;
- quantum bio-photonics: characterization and diagnostic of biological materials and devices in life sciences, picosecond-resolution fluorescent correlation spectroscopy in the visible and in the infrared spectral range for early disease diagnostic.
The Quantum Communication & Measurement Laboratory is located in PHO B15(A/B)
Faculty:
Saleh,
Sergienko,
Teich
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PHO418
Radio Communications and Plasma Research Laboratories
617/353-5934
Field experiments are conducted in this lab using ground-based facilities and spacecraft-borne instruments to investigate radio-wave propagation and interactions with ionospheric plasmas, with applications to establishing artificial radio communication paths. Laboratory experiments with a large, toroidal plasma device are also conducted to study the microwave interactions with magnetoplasmas, simulating and crosschecking the results obtained in the field experiments.
Faculty:
Lee,
Semeter
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PHO302
Reliable Computing Laboratory
http://reliable.bu.edu/ | 617/353-9592
Members of the Reliable Computing Laboratory conduct research on a broad variety of topics, including the design of computer chips; efficient hardware testing at the chip, board, and system levels; functional software testing; efficient signal processing algorithms; coding and decoding; fault-tolerant message routing for multiprocessor systems; and the design of reliable computer networks.
Faculty:
Karpovsky,
Levitin,
Taubin
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PHO446
Visual Information Processing (VIP) Laboratory
http://vip.bu.edu/ | 617/353-0847
The VIP Laboratory provides computational and visualization infrastructure for
research in the area of visual information processing. The topics of
interest are: retrieval, analysis, compression, and transmission of visual
information, whether in the form of still images, video sequences, or
multimedia data. Two research thrusts are currently pursued. Videopsy (video autopsy) is
concerned with the analysis of streaming video data from networked cameras. Some of its
goals are: segmentation and tracking of moving objects, detection of normal and abnormal
events, characterization of object flow patterns. The second thrust is concerned with
the analysis, compression and visualization of stereoscopic and multiscopic (3-D)
imagery. One application of this research is in the next-generation 3-D multimedia
communications, while another is in biomedical visualization. Some of the problems
studied are: disparity estimation (correspondence) under occlusions, wavelet-based
compression in space-time, data pre-filtering for automultiscopic rendering. The VIP
Laboratory is equipped with a network of state-of-the-art workstations to serve
computational needs, while its visualization infrastructure includes 2-D and 3-D digital
cameras and capture systems, as well as 3-D displays (shuttered and 9-view
automultiscopic "Synthagram").
Faculty:
Konrad
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PHO303
VLSI and Neural Networks Systems (VNNS) Laboratory
http://www.bu.edu/vnns/ | 617/353-9882
The VNNS group designs, builds, and tests innovative architectures that span a wide variety of VLSI applications in electrical and biological fields. Chips designed using digital, analog, and subthreshold methodologies are realized using CMOS BiCMOS and Bipolar technologies. Applications include neural-net image processing, integrated photonic devices and parallel photonic testing, automatic partial-valued dynamic logic synthesis, single-chip large-molecule and DNA analyzers, and neural tissue interface chips. The group is equipped with a full suite of design tools and testing instrumentation for analog and digital systems.
Faculty:
Hubbard
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PHO839
Wide Band Gap Semiconductors Laboratory
http://www.bu.edu/nitrides/ | 617/353-1248
In this laboratory, we investigate the growth, fabrication and characterization of devices based on the family of III-Nitride semiconductors. The materials are grown by MBE, MOCVD, HVPE and Gas cluster Ion-beam deposition (GCIB). The current focus is in the development of Optical Devices (Blue, Green, and UV-LEDs, UV-LDs, Optical Modulators, Detectors), Electronic Devices (High Power Diodes, Transistors and Thyristors) and Electromechanical Devices (SiC/III-Nitride MEMS sensors). Materials physics issues are also addressed and the group collaborates closely with Professor Enrico Bellotti in the area of theoretical modeling, Professor Karl Ludwig (Physics) in the area of materials structure, Professor Kevin Smith (Physics) in the area of electronic structure, and Professor Roberto Paiella in the area of devices based on intersubband transitions.
Faculty:
Moustakas
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