Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Dr. James G. GroteUS Air Force Research LaboratoryAbstract: A new class of polymer, based on DNA derived from biowaste materials, has been demonstrated to possess unique optical and electromagnetic properties that no other known polymer has, including tunable conductivity, tunable dielectric constant and ultra low optical and microwave loss. Electronic and electro-optic devices fabricated from this new biopolymer have demonstrated performance that exceeds the performance of the state-of-the-art devices fabricated from current organic-based materials. This new biopolymer may be tomorrow's "silicon" of polymers, with its potential impact on a wide spectrum of both electronic and optoelectronic devices, while at the same time being inexpensive and easy to process. This is significant because it demonstrates that biotechnology is not only applicable for genomic sequencing and clinical diagnosis and treatment, but can also have a major impact on non biotech applications as well, such as electronics and photonics, opening up a whole new field for bioengineering.Biography:Dr. James G. Grote is a Senior Electronics Research Engineer with the Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, where he conducts research in polymer based opto-electronics. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Dayton and University of Cincinnati. Dr. Grote received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering for Ohio University and both his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Dayton, with partial study at the University of California, San Diego. He was a visiting scholar at the Institut d'Optique, Universite de Paris, Sud in the summer of 1995 and a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California, the University of California in Los Angeles and the University of Washington in 2001. Dr. Grote is a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and the European Optical Society (EOS).Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Place: SSL 150
Time: 2:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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