Dr. Gregory P. Nordin: Curriculum Vitae

Gregory P. Nordin

Professor

458 CB
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602

nordin@ee.byu.edu
Ph: (801) 422-1863
Fax: (801) 422-0201
http://www.ece.byu.edu/faculty/nordin/

Research Activities and Interests

Photonics-enabled chemical and biological sensors, nanophotonics and integrated optics, micro- and nanofabrication, MEMS, microfluidics, rigorous electromagnetic analysis and design of optical structures, electro-optics, and polymer materials and devices.

Academic History

Summary

BS (cum laude)	Brigham Young University	Physics	1984
MS	UCLA	Physics	1986
PhD	University of Southern California	Electrical Engineering	1992

Scholarships and Fellowships

Presidential Scholarship (BYU)

John Einar Anderson Scholarship (BYU)

Elvira S. Barrett Scholarship (BYU)

Hughes Aircraft Company Masters Degree Fellowship, 2 years (UCLA)

Hughes Aircraft Company Doctoral Fellowship, 6 years (USC)

Center for Photonic Technology Prize Fellowship (USC)

Honors and Awards

NSF CAREER Development Award, 1996-2001

UAH Outstanding Researcher Award, 1998-1999

UAH Outstanding Researcher Award, 1999-2000

UAH Foundation Award for Research and Creative Achievement, 2000

Founding Director, Nano and Micro Devices Center (UAH), 2003

Professional Experience

Brigham Young University Provo, Utah (2005 - present)
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, Alabama (1992 - 2005)

Director, Nano and Micro Devices Center (NMDC) (2003-2005) and Technical Associate Director, LICOS (precursor to NMDC) (1999-2003)

Report directly to the Vice President for Research as of January 1, 2003. Calendar year appointment.

NMDC approved by the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees as an official campus research center on April 16, 2004. Prior to this it operated as a campus-designated research center.

Responsible for hiring and directing center staff (5-7) as well as working with associated faculty (5) and students (15-20).

Set up nano/microfabrication facility in 1,300 sq. ft. cleanroom space, 1995-1999.

Enlarged facility to 7,600 sq. ft. (5,500 sq. ft. cleanroom) with greatly expanded tool set (http://nmdc.uah.edu/facilities/equipment.html) based on grants and $2M gifts from community benefactor, 2000-2002.

Developed computing facility based on linux clusters for rigorous electromagnetic design and analysis of nanophotonic structures with parallelized custom software tools developed in my group, 2001-2004.

Professor (2001–2005)

Associate Professor (1996–2001) (promoted 2 years early and tenured one year early in August, 1997)

Assistant Professor (1992–1996)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Optical Science and Engineering Ph.D. Program; Materials Science Ph.D. Program (2002-present).

Research activities at UAH

Microcantilever-based chemical and biological detectors, photonic crystals and planar lightwave circuits, polymer integrated optics, subwavelength polarization filters and arrays for imaging polarimetry, diffractive optical elements, micro- and nanofabrication, microfluidic device fabrication, interferometric lithography, liquid crystal lenses, real-time 3-D holographic-like displays, volume holographic optical memories, stratified volume holographic optical elements, high resolution liquid crystal gratings, liquid crystal gratings on silicon VLSI electronics.

Hughes Aircraft Company El Segundo and Malibu, California (1984-1992)

Hughes Research Laboratories (1990-1992)

Multiplexed volume holographic interconnections for optical neural network applications.

Electrooptical and Data Systems Group (1985-1990)

High energy laser phased array beam transmission systems, conceptual design of satellite-borne high energy laser beam profile testing apparatus, part of system design team for space station/shuttle laser docking system.

Radar Systems Group (1984-1985)

Supported development of a synthetic aperture radar pseudo-image generator for testing of advanced SAR concepts, B-2 radar SAR module software specification.

Funding Summary (1992 – present)

Single-Investigator Contracts and Grants:	$4,902,742
Multi-Investigator Contracts and Grants as PI:	$10,104,981
Multi-Investigator Contracts and Grants as Co-PI:	$3,212,218
Total:	$18,219,941

(Note: in the following sections, current contracts and grants are highlighted with a blue background.)

Funding Details – Single-Investigator Contracts and Grants

Army/SED

“Investigations into the Excitation and Relaxation of Carriers, Exitons, and Phonons in Hetero- and Nanostructures” (9/6/05-12/31/05)

$51,505

Army Research Laboratory (as subcontractor to NC State University)

“Photonic MEMS Sensors” (8/1/04-7/31/05)

$236,100

DARPA (as subcontractor to Clemson University)

“Laboratory for Advanced Photonic Composites” (10/11/02-9/26/05)

$1,673,560

National Science Foundation/Central Intelligence Agency

“MEMS-Based Chemical and Biological Sensors” (07/01/05-06/30/05)

$187,000

National Science Foundation

“Stratified Volume Holographic Optical Elements for Volume Holographic Data Storage” (8/1/96 – 7/31/01), NSF CAREER Development Award

$310,000

FAA (as subcontractor to University of Alabama)

“Multi-Channel Fiber Optic Gyroscope” (1/1/00-5/15/05)

$1,018,563

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

“SEM Imaging Lithography” (10/1/02-3/31/03)

$4,999

Brother International Corporation (Memphis, TN)

“Vapor Deposition Service” (3/6/03-5/5/03)

$3,012

CFD Research Corporation (Huntsville, AL)

“Microfabrication of CFDRC Bead-Based Biochip Designs” (10/1/02-10/31/04)

$40,091

DRS Sensors & Targeting Systems, Inc (Anaheim, CA)

“Modeling of Fine-Line Lithography Performance” (8/28/01-3/31/02)

$15,500

ERIM/Veridian International (Ann Arbor, MI)

“Polarimetric Imaging” (4/17/00-8/31/00)

$9,970

“Polarimetric Enhanced Thermal Sensing System” (9/20/00-12/31/00)

$11,744

“Polarimetric Enhanced Thermal Sensing System II” (2/2/01-1/1/02)

$22,666

General Dynamics

“Wire Polarizer Analysis” (7/13/04-9/30/04)

$4,504

Goodrich (Danbury, CT)

“Wire Polarizer Fabrication” (5/8/02-3/31/03)

$135,882

MEMS-Optical, Inc. (Huntsville, AL)

“Reactive Ion Etching Service” (7/31/98-9/30/98)

$2,000

“Reactive Ion Etching Services” (8/25/98-9/25/98)

$2,500

“FDTD Software Program Development” (2/18/00-5/31/01)

$38,998

“Task Order Contract” (7/27/00-6/30/02)

$20,000

“Reactive Ion Etching” (9/18/00-3/31/01)

$60,567

“Materials and Supplies Funding” (2/20/01-3/31/01)

$1,433

“Reactive Ion Etching of Various Materials for Microfabrication” (5/11/01-2/19/02)

$60,575

“Fabricate Sample Antenna Structures Based on Bowtie Design” (11/8/01-11/20/01)

$1,425

“FDTD” (2/5/02-9/5/02)

$32,690

“Multiple Purchase Orders” (11/11/02-9/30/04)

$3,775

Morgan Research Corporation (Huntsville, AL)

“SOI DRIE Silicon Release Processing” (12/18/02-3/24/02)

$3,077

Nanochip, Inc. (San Jose, CA)

“SiO2 Nano-Feature Etch” (11/22/04-11/29/04)

$2,012

New Focus, Inc. (San Jose, CA)

“Liquid Crystal Device Research” (5/21/01-8/24/01)

$8,329

Nichols Research Corporation/CSC, Inc. (Huntsville, AL)

“Design & Fabrication of Micro-Optic Devices” (9/1/96-5/31/97)

$34,000

“Diffractive Optical Element Mid-IR Camera Development” (1/29/97-1/31/98)

$60,243

“Development & Fabrication of Micro-Optics for DEWAR Upgrade” (9/15/97-1/31/98)

$15,000

“Initiate Diffractive Optical Element Design for Pixel Array” (2/9/98-9/30/98)

$16,000

“Diffractive Optical Element Design for an Effective 256x256 Pixel Array” (2/9/98-9/30/98

$22,000

“Labor for Waveplate and Wire Grid Array Fabrication” (3/1/98-9/30/98)

$8,832

“Continuing Research Effort for Diffractive Optical Element Design” (4/1/98-6/30/99)

$194,399

“Diffractive Optical Element, continuation” (8/26/98-9/30/98)

$13,215

“Development of Full Polarimetric Micro-Optics” (10/9/98-4/30/99)

$20,000

“Development of Full Polarimetric Micro-Optics II” (8/25/98-5/15/99)

$53,883

“Continuation of Micro-Optics Development” (1/1/99-4/30/99)

$87,768

“Polarimetric Micro-Optics” (6/1/99-5/31/00)

$302,461

OPTS, Inc. (Huntsville, AL)

“Task Order Contract, Thin Film Stress” (9/1/00-4/16/02)

$60,000

Polaris Sensor Technologies, Inc. (Huntsville, AL)

“Diamond Etch Development” (3/3/04-4/30/04)

$7,299

“Diamond Diffractive Optical Element” (9/21/04-12/21/04)

$15,700

Rice Systems (Huntington Beach, CA)

“ZBLAN Waveguides” (8/2/02-12/15/02)

$23,000

SY Technology, Inc (Huntsville, AL)

“Reactive Ion Etching” (5/12/98-9/30/98)

$5,000

“Analysis of Lithography on Wafers” (8/29/01-10/15/01)

$1,500

Funding Details – Multi-Investigator Contracts and Grants as PI

National Science Foundation

“SIRG: Photonic Microcantilever Arrays for Chemical and Biological Sensing” (1/1/05-12/31/09), Nordin portion: $1,256,564Total: $1,575,000

“Integrated Research Environment for Intermeshed Optoelectronics” (5/15/98-9/30/01), NSF funds: $1,843,016 with Nordin portion: ~50%.Total with university match: $3,791,329

“Integrated MEMS Photonics for Computer and Communication Systems” (2/1/01-1/31/05), NSF funds: $2,250,000 with Nordin portion: ~50%.Total with university match: $4,738,652

Funding Details – Multi-Investigator Contracts and Grants as Co-PI

DARPA (as subcontractor to Clemson University) “Laboratory for Advanced Photonic Composites” (7/19/01-11/18/02), Nordin portion: ~$700,000	$765,500
MICOM/DARPA “ICVision 3-D Display: Extension to Full Color” (4/1/95-9/30/95), Nordin portion: ~$25,000	$100,000
NASA “Chemical and Biological Microelectromechanical Smart Sensor Arrays” (8/1/01-7/31/06), Nordin portion: ~$77,000	$1,059,963
National Science Foundation “Alabama Consortium for Optical Technology” (10/1/95-9/30/98), Nordin portion: ~$350,000	$1,254,408
MEMS-Optical, Inc. (Huntsville, AL)
“Investigation of Candidate Photoresist/Developer and Etch Chemistries for DOEs on CaF2” (10/1/01-3/19/02)	$18,484
“Ion Beam Milling Development for CaF2” (4/29/02-7/5/02)	$13,863

Donations

Feb. 2002, JDS-Uniphase, photonics equipment, $102,778

March 2002, $500,000 cash donation to LICOS from local benefactor in March, 2000 to purchase microfabrication equipment and expand cleanroom (UAH team that arranged for donation: Provost McManus, M. Abushagur, G. Nordin, Engineering Dean Aunon, and ECE Chair Adhami). G. Nordin in charge of use of all funds.

August 2000, $1,500,000 cash donation to LICOS from local benefactor to purchase micro/nanofabrication equipment and further expand cleanroom (UAH team that arranged for donation: Provost McManus, M. Abushagur, G. Nordin, Engineering Dean Aunon, and ECE Chair Adhami). G. Nordin in charge of use of all funds.

Fellowships

NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship, NASA

June 3, 1996 – August 9,1996. Summer salary for myself and one graduate student to work at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center developing new beam scanning techniques based on diffractive optical elements for space-borne laser radar systems.

Teaching - UAH

EE/OSE/PH 632 Coherent Optical Systems & Holography, Graduate Fourier optics.

Sp 94

EE/OSE/PH 542 Physical Optics, First year graduate physical optics.

Fa 94, Sp 95, Fa 95, Sp 96, Fa 96, Sp 97, Fa 97, Sp 98, Sp 99, Fa 99, Sp 00, Fa 00, Sp 01, Fa 01, Sp 02, Fa 02, Fa 03, Fa 04

EE/OSE/PH 541 Geometrical Optics, First year graduate geometrical optics.

Fa 95

OPE 451 Optoelectronics, Senior optical engineering course.

Fa 92, Fa 93

EE 197 Computer Methods in Engineering, Freshman computer programming.

W 93, Sp 93, Su 93, Sp 94, Su 94

Average course evaluation score for all classes taught: 93.8/100.
ECE Department average: 85.9/100

Professional Society Affiliations

Optical Society of America, Member
IEEE, Member
American Vacuum Society, Member
SPIE, Member

Professional Service

Proposal Reviewer	National Science Foundation NASA
Journal Reviewer	Applied Optics, Applied Physics Letters, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, JEOS—Pure and Applied Optics, Journal of Microlithography, Microfabrication, and Microsystems, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, Journal of X-Ray Science & TechnologyOptics Communications, Optical Engineering, Optics & Laser Technology, Optics Letters
Co-Editor:	J. Opt. Soc. Am. A special topic issue on nanophotonics.
Conference Co-Organizer:	Micromachining Technology for Microoptics and Nanooptics I, II, and III, SPIE Photonics West, 2002-2005. Optics in the Southeast, Huntsville, Alabama, Oct. 25-26, 2002.
Program Committee Chair	Nanophotonics, Integrated Photonics Research Topical Meeting, Optical Society of America, 2005.
Program Committee	Optics in the Southeast, Atlanta, Georgia, Oct. 6-7, 2005. Diffractive Optics and Microoptics Topical Meeting, Optical Society of America, 2002 and 2004. Photonics Materials Topical Conference, AVS 49th International Symposium, November 4-8, 2002. Application and Theory of Periodic Structures Conference, SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, July 29 – August 3, 2001. Wavelength Scale Optical Devices Conference, SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, July 29 – August 3, 2001. Micromachining Technology for Microoptics Conference, SPIE Micromachining and Micrfabrication Symposium, October 22-25, 2001.
Committee Member:	New Focus/Bookham Student Award Committee, Optical Society of America, 2005-2006. Modeling, Numerical Simulation and Theory Subcommittee, Integrated Photonics Research Topical Meeting, Optical Society of America, 2004. Steering Committee for SPIE’s Polarization Technical Group.

Workshops and Seminars

Invited panelist	“Nanotechnology: Funding the Next Growth Revolution,” at TopTech 2004: Revolution, sponsored by the North Carolina Electronics and Information Technology Association (NCEITA), Charlotte, North Carolina, May 25, 2004.
Invited exhibitor	5th annual Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) on May 19, 1999. This exhibit is held to educate members of Congress and their staff on research supported by the National Science Foundation
Participant	“Diffractive Optics Workshop” Sept. 14-17, 1993, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Educational Outreach Activities

5th Grade Science Demonstration and Discussion. One hour program focused on understanding basic concepts about heat, temperature, states of matter, and phase changes. Includes demonstrations with liquid nitrogen and dry ice. Approximately 325 students have participated in sessions conducted in 1994, 1997, 1998, and 1999.

High School Holography Day. On May 16, 1997, advance placement physics students from Huntsville’s Grissom High School came to my laboratories at The University of Alabama in Huntsville to learn principles of holography and holographic displays. As part of their activities they made their own white-light holograms to take home and experienced an example of a real-time holographic-like display developed by myself and several other UAH faculty members.

Laboratory tours and discussions conducted for Boy Scout troops.

Personal

Citizenship: USA
Age: 45, married, three children
Eagle scout

Publication List

Publications are listed on a separate page.