University of North Texas 
Sensor Platform Research and Fabrication
Research Focus
- Materials growth, device fabrication, electrical and optical responses
- Flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices for wearables
- Fundamentals of sensor response: surface and interface science, carrier generation, injection and transport
- Nano and microfabrication
- Printed electronic devices
Faculty Working in the Area
Research Highlights
Physical vapor deposition, semiconductors and dielectrics, surface and interface phenomena, carrier injection and transport, electronic and optoelectronic devices
Surface properties, electronic transport and band structure: Hall, PL, PLE, XPS,UPS, UV-Vis
Structural characterization of multilayer thin-films
Flexible inorganic and organic optoelectronic devices with integrated photonic crystals for sensors
Plasma processing of two-dimensional (2D) flexible device electronic materials
Nanomaterials based flexible electronics
Alloying and Defect-Engineering of 2D TMDs
Nanowire Sensor
2D TMDs Piezoelectric Sensors
Liquid crystal enabled sensors by directed self-assembled 3D/heterogeneous structures
Temperature sensitive soft photonic crystals
Temperature/light sensitive plasmonic particle array
Nanoporous materials for sensing applications
Properties:
- Large library of materials: Al2O3, ZnO2, TiO2, Fe2O3, Fe3O4, PdO, CoO, etc.
- High surface area
- Selective functionality
- Multicomponent adaptability
Applications:
- Gas and humidity sensors
- Stress sensors
- Oil degradation sensing
- Magnetic sensors
New robust approach for design of porous oxides
Humidity sensing
CO detection
Nano/microfabrication, temperature sensors, cell thermal conductivity
High voltage, piezo-resistive, piezo-electric, corrosion sensing fibers, textiles, composites, films
Multifunctional fibers and foam architectures form elements as fibers, struts in 3d printed frameworks or structural composites and sandwich composites.
Subsurface corrosion/chemical impedance sensing, high speed impact piezo-responsive measurements
Electrical conductivity based sensor textiles for fatigue, creep, quasi-static response