The Odom Group

Recent News

Nov 2011: Angela, Alex and Cliff are selected as Hierarchical Materials Cluster Program Fellows.
Nov 2011: Kayla is selected as a Biotechnology Cluster Program Fellow.
Nov 2011: David Thomas wins Meteor Award for Excellence in a New Position.
Sept 2011: Mark's paper on portable, benchtop photolithography is published in Small.
July 2011: Christina's paper on the optical properties of tipless nanopyramids is published in Small.
July 2011: Christina and Colleen's paper on the Three-Channel Spectrometer was published in JPCC.

June 2011: Mark and team win top prize in the Dow Sustainability Innovation Challenge.
May 2011: Wei's paper on dark lattice plasmons is AOP in Nature Nanotech.
Apr 2011: Kelsey and Julia's perspective on 3D SERS NP substrates is AA in Chem. Sci.
April 2011: Matt and Christina's paper on chemistry in microfluidic channels is on the cover of J. of Chem. Educ.
Feb 2011: SANE lithography highlighted on cover of Nano Lett.
Dec 2010: First year students Alex, Angela, Cliff, and Kayla join the lab.

WELCOME!

Our research focuses on controlling materials at the 100-nanometer scale and investigating their size and shape-dependent properties. We have developed massively parallel, multi-scale nanopatterning tools to generate noble metal (plasmonic) structures that can manipulate visible light at the nanoscale. We are focusing on multi-scale, anisotropic, and 3D plasmonic materials for applications in imaging, sensing, and cancer therapeutics.

Featured Research: Photolithography on the Benchtop

Solid-state photolithography (SSP) enables the capabilities of one of the most important tools in nano- and microfabrication, the mask aligner, to be performed on the benchtop. SSP can create patterns over a wide range of different length scales (down to several hundred nanometers) and over macroscale areas at a fraction of the cost of current instruments. The design of the SSP system alleviates the need for dedicated power supplies, vacuum lines, and cooling systems, and thus makes SSP a compact and portable photolithography option. The cover image is a close-up of the ultraviolet light-emitting diode (LED) array that is used as the solid-state light source for SSP.