Research.
Our faculty members pursue research in a range of ECE subdisciplines and in multidisciplinary teams. We are actively involved in all of the Pratt School of Engineering Initiatives in photonics, sensing, biotechnology, materials and devices. Faculty members in the department work in a number of research centers. In addition, faculty are organized loosely into affinity groups as described below.
Research Centers
- Center for Advanced Remote Sensing
- Digital Microfluidics
- Duke Computer Architecture Group
- The Fitzpatrick Center
- Statistical Signal and Sensor Array Processing in Multipath Propagation Environments
- VLSI Research and Design Center
Research Groups
Sensing and Waves
Group Leader: Qing Liu
Description: short-pulse scattering, subsurface sensing and space physics, geophysics, wave-based signal processing, electromagnetic field and wave interactions and modeling, and metamaterials synthesis to achieve negative refractive index and subwavelength focusing
Group Members
- David Brady
- Lawrence Carin
- Leslie Collins
- Steven Cummer
- Rhett George
- William Joines
- Jeffrey Krolik
- Loren Nolte
- David Smith
- Gary Ybarra
Signal Processing and Communications
Group Leader: Jeffrey Krolik
Description: statistical signal processing for remote sensing including surveillance radars and microwave remote sensing, active and passive sonar, ocean acoustics and medical imaging; and auditory prostheses and pattern recognition
Group Members
- Lawrence Carin
- Leslie Collins
- Romit R. Choudhury
- Lisa Huettel
- Jeffrey Krolik
- Loren Nolte
- Stacy Tantum
- Rebecca Willett
Photonics
Group Leader: Jungsang Kim
Description: reference structure tomography, multimodal and raman spectroscopy, interferometric imaging, biometric human tracking networks; liquid crystal-on-silicon (LCOS) microdisplays, tunable optical filters, spatial light modulators, color separators, pattern recognition systems and sensors, nano-photonic devices, quantum information science, advanced semiconductor photonic devices, micro and nano fabrication, micro-electromechanial systems (MEMS), integrated optical systems
Group Members
- David Brady
- Martin Brooke
- Jeff Glass
- William Joines
- Nan Jokerst
- Jungsang Kim
- Qing Liu
- Nikos P. Pitsianis
- David Smith
- Adrienne Stiff-Roberts
- Tomoyuki Yoshie
Micro/Nanosystems
Group Leader: Martin Brooke
Description: droplet-based microfluidics; semiconductor materials, devices, processing and modeling; heterojunction and surface engineering for device applications and defect control; nanoscale device physics, modeling, simulation, and technology; carrier tunneling in deep-submicron ultrathin-oxide MOSFETs; gate tunneling considerations in static and dynamic MOS integrated circuits; ultrathin gate dielectrics; mixed-signal circuit testing and computer-aided analog circuit design; RF testing; hybrid optoelectronic integration and packaging of compound semiconductor devices with optical and electronic host substrates
Group Members
- April Brown
- Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Richard Fair
- Rhett George
- Jeff Glass
- Nan Jokerst
- Hisham Massoud
- James Morizio
- Sule Ozev
- Adrienne Stiff-Roberts
- Scott Wolter
- Tomoyuki Yoshie
Computer Engineering
Group Leader: Krishnendu Chakrabarty
Description: design and testing of integrated circuits and systems, high availability server design, memory system design, performance analysis, distributed sensor networks, fault-tolerant and real-time embedded systems, modeling, simulation and optimization of composite microsystems, self-assembling computer architecture and device fabrication, DNA-guided self-assembly, nanoscale system design and simulation, circuit design and visualization
Group Members