Aaron R. Hawkins

TL;DR: This study suggests considerable potential for an inexpensive and portable sensor capable of discrimination between viruses of different sizes.

TL;DR: In this paper, a transfer matrix theory is developed to analyze the magneto-optic Kerr effect from an arbitrary number of possibly lossy dielectric layers, and the combination of one lossless and one thin metallic layer is found to be most favorable for studying individual nanomagnets, providing the best tradeoff between signal enhancement and spatial resolution.

TL;DR: The ability to perform correlation spectroscopy using silicon photonics without the need for free-space microscopy permits implementation of numerous diagnostic applications on compact planar optofluidic devices.

TL;DR: The optimal piranha mixture produces high yields while quickly etching hollow structures made using a highly crosslinked SU8 polymer sacrificial core and was demonstrated in the construction of hollow anti-resonant reflecting optical waveguides.

TL;DR: A new radio-frequency ion trap mass analyzer, the coaxial ion trap, in which both toroidal and quadrupolar trapping regions are created simultaneously, which demonstrates better mass resolving power than the radially ejecting halo ion trap and better sensitivity than the planar quadrupole ion trap.