L. Jay Guo

Guo is working to boost the visibility of autonomous cars for improved safety, and Mi is building a prototype solar hydrogen production system that could out-compete electric cars.

Michigan Engineers change the game by making a conductive coating that’s also anti-reflective.

Nine technologies competed for $75k in the ECE Innovator Program, which emphasizes a team approach to entrepreneurial success.

With a bit of metal, nanoparticles shine in colors based on size.

A little silver goes a long way to improving touchscreens, displays, and much more

With the help of the grant, improved devices, in combination with a new coating from a U-M engineering lab, could make concentrated solar power cheaper and more efficient.

Cheng Zhang and Elizabeth Dreyer are both Ph.D. students in electrical engineering, and Lauren Bilbo is an undergraduate senior majoring in electrical engineering.

Cheng works with Prof. L. Jay Guo on research projects in the field of micro/nano-scale optical device physics and fabrication.

Congratulations to Profs Guo, Lafortune, Liu, and Lu!

Cheng is a 4th year PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering working in field of micro/nano-scale optical device physics and fabrication.

U-M researchers demonstrated a unique terahertz detector and imaging system that could bridge the terahertz gap.

The cells, believed to be the first semi-transparent, colored photovoltaics, have the potential to vastly broaden the use of the energy source.

Several of the cubes enabled research to progress to the point that faculty are applying for larger grants to continue the work.

Zhang is working on building structural color filters and is also designing ultrahigh Q optical microring resonators.

The research could lead to advanced color e-readers, more energy efficient electronic devices, and improved data storage and cryptography.

The goal of MCubed is to jumpstart novel, high-risk and transformative research projects.

“We believe this could be used as an invisible knife for noninvasive surgery,” Guo said. “Nothing pokes into your body, just the ultrasound beam.”

The carbon nanotube carpet is about half the thickness of a sheet of paper and absorbs 99.9 percent of the light that hits it.

Professor Jay Guo has developed the reflective photovoltaic color filter device that can convert absorbed light to electricity.

Guo’s computer chip imprinter is one of more than 300 inventions that researchers disclosed last year to U-M’s Technology Transfer office.