Postercasts in Calit2 Summer Undergraduate Research Scholar Program at UCSD

Fabrication of vertical silicon nanowire arrays using nanolithography
The determination of thermal conductivity of nanostructures, in addition to its scientific importance, is applicable to characterization of heat utilization efficiency and energy conversion. My...

A Distributed Acoustic Localization System using Clusters of Microphones.
There currently are systems that can determine with relative accuracy the source of a sound, but these systems rely on a central unit to process all necessary calculations. The goal of my project...

Plasmonics for Sensing Applications
Surface plasmons are oscillations in electron density formed at the interface between a metal and an insulator. The project will use surface plasmon resonance on 2D nanohole arrays for biological...

A Game-Based Approach for Collecting Semantic Music Annotations
To create a collection of online games to generate significant amounts of high-quality semantic labels that will be used to organize, search, recommend, retrieve and describe huge - and growing -...

Modeling Fragmentation Patterns of ECD/ETD Mass Spectrometers
Mass spectrometers are sophisticated instruments that detect the mass of ionized molecules, which is useful in the field of chemistry and most recently proteomics. Newer spectrometers ionize and...

Weather Data Management System
My current small project that im just doing right now for Professor Jan Jkleissl and the team in MAE171B is simply a scrap and fetching the generated data. the idea of integrating php as a scrapper...

Nanowire Solar Cells
I spent the summer of 2008 modeling the light absorption of nanowire solar cells.

Corrosion-Enabled Powering Approach for Structural Health Monitoring Sensor Networks
This goal of this project is to power a novel sensor node by creating a battery from corroding reinforced concrete. The application of this technology would benefit civil infrastructure by...

Soft mechanical actuators: Applications in artificial implants, biomimicking devices, and stem cell culture.
Our project will be focused on the development of a multifunctional oscillating hydrogel device that undergoes reversible, time dependent and sinusoidal volume/mechanical changes in response to...

Bioengineering Synovial Fluid with Modulated Hyaluronan Molecular Weight and Function
This project seeks to gain a better understanding of (1) how cytokines regulate the molecular weight (MW) of the synovial fluid (SF) lubricant molecule hyaluronan (HA), and (2) the relationship...