Flexible Photonic Crystal for Robotic Tactile Sensing

1. FPGA Based Real-time High-speed Vision Platform and Its Application. (Advisor: Youping Chen, Jingming Xie) Configuring a optical setup for capturing the information on the surface of cigarettes. Designing a FPGA based image processing board for Real-time defects detection on the surface of cigarettes. Designing a imaging processing algorithm which can be realized in FPGA board by Verilog language.

1. Photonic Crystal based Nanofluidic SensorSupervisor: Brian T. CunninghamModule 1 Simulating the required photonic crystal structure for nanofluidic.Module 2 Design the fabrication process for the sensor at whole system level.Module 3 Fabricating the sensor in cleanroom with Semiconductor technology.Module 4 Setting biology experience with the real sensor for photonic crystal enhanced fluorescence detection.2. Lab in A Smartphone ProjectModule 1 Setting the proof of concept optical platform for lab-in-a-smartphone.Module 2 Setting initial fluorescence and absorption experiments with cooperators.Module 3 Designing and Manufacturing reconfigurable microfluidic system for detection.Module 4 Creating CMOS/LVF(linear variable filter) based spectrometer for optical detection.Module 5 Real experiments with fluorescence dyes and SERS substrates.

Photonic crystal based nanofluidic biosensor design and fabrication in cleanroom.