• OVPR

    The Office of the Vice President for Research facilitates collaborative research opportunities, streamlines related policies and procedures, and acts as a unified voice for U of I research.

  • UIC OTM

    The Office of Technology Management at Chicago is responsible for managing the intellectual property generated by research and educational activities at the University.

  • UIC Research Center

    Supplies a fully-equipped infrastructure and access to University resources, internship programs, world-class talent, and custom-designed business development services.

  • UI Research Park

    Provides an ideal environment for starting a high-growth technology venture, with wet-chemistry labs, office space, an array of shared equipment, server co-location facilities, and conference rooms.

  • IllinoisVENTURES

    IllinoisVENTURES is a seed and early-stage technology investment firm focused on research-derived companies in information technologies, physical sciences and life sciences, with a particular emphasis on those deriving from research conducted at the University of Illinois and other regional research institutions and federal laboratories.

Office of Technology Management, Urbana-Champaign

Advanced Manufacturing

The following Illinois faculty have created innovations in the field of advanced manufacturing.

Electronics Manufacturing

Kent Choquette

Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Area of Research: Microelectronics and Photonics. Vertical cavity surface emidng lasers (VCSELs), micro-­‐cavity lasers, nano-­‐cavity lasers, photonic crystal materials, optoelectronic devices, low power consumption photonics, selective oxidation of compound semiconductors, hybrid heterogenous integration, micro-­‐fluidic and opto-­‐fluidic devices, nano-­‐processing semiconductor fabrication, high bandwidth communication systems, optical sensing applications including medical and environmental sensing.

Visit Kent Choquette's webpage.

Brian Cunningham

Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Area of Research: Application of sub-­‐wavelength optical phenomena and fabrication methods to the development of novel devices and instrumentation for the life sciences, including optical biosensors, photonic crystals, nanofabrication, finite difference time domain analysis, sensor design and instrumentation.

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Gary Eden

Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Area of research: The study and applications of the interaction of visible and ultraviolet
radiation with matter. The laboratory has discovered more than a dozen lasers or amplifiers in the ultraviolet, visible, and near-­‐infrared, including the first ultraviolet and violet fiber lasers, atomic lasers pumped by the photoexcitation of atomic collision pairs, and the Cd– and Zn-­‐halide diatomic systems.

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Gregory Girolami

LAS, Chemistry

Areas of Research: The synthesis, properties, and reactivity of new inorganic, organometallic, and solid state species, including Mechanisc studies of organometallic reactions, synthesis of new "molecule-­based" magnetic materials, chemical vapor deposition of thin films from "designed" molecular precursors, and design of an artificial photosynthetic center.

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