VINSE General News

Join VINSE for an exciting hands-on workshop “From Atoms to Quantum Computers” June 23, 2025 | 9:00 – 12:00 |  044 Engineering Science Building | Register here Are you curious about how quantum computers work—and ready to try programming one yourself? Don’t miss this exciting, hands-on workshop designed… Read More

VINSE welcomes Rahul Shah to the VINSE Superuser program. Rahul is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Interdisciplinary Materials Science Program, conducting research in the NanoOptics Lab under the supervision of Prof. Jason Valentine. His work focuses on the design of metasurfaces for imaging and detection, including a… Read More

The Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) is hosting a competition to feature images in the VINSE Facilities. If you’ve fabricated, characterized, or imaged materials or devices using VINSE equipment, we invite you to submit your entries by August 15. Image enhancement, false coloring,… Read More

We are proud to recognize VINSE faculty Justus Ndukaife being named to the 2025 cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. This honor recognizes scholarly excellence and supports the development of future academic leaders at Vanderbilt University. Justus Ndukaife is an internationally known expert in nanophotonics and optical nanotweezers. Since joining… Read More

Two former VINSE REU students have been awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. NSF Fellows receive a three-year annual stipend of $37,000, along with a $16,000 allowance for tuition and fees, to support research-based advanced degrees in NSF-supported STEM disciplines. The… Read More

05.20.25  |  8:30am-4:30pm  |  001 Engineering Science Building Lunch break from 12:20-1:40 Join us for a hand-on workshop on thin film deposition using the Angstrom Multimode and Angstrom Resistive deposition systems in the VINSE cleanroom.  The session will be led by Mike Miller, Ph.D., Director of Business Development at… Read More

On Monday, March 10, VINSE welcomed 11 students from Robertson County’s homeschool group, Life is a Field Trip, organized by Susan Halsam, for our Cleanroom Solar Cell Lab. Inside the VINSE cleanroom, home of the cleanest air in Middle Tennessee, students explored solar energy through hands-on activities. During the lab,… Read More

VINSE is pleased to share that Justus Ndukaife, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been selected as one of the 2025 Optica Ambassadors. This distinguished appointment recognizes Ndukaife for his exceptional contributions to the field of optics and photonics, as well as his commitment to… Read More

Yuankai Huo, assistant professor of computer science, and Jason Valentine, professor of mechanical engineering, along with their team, are recipients of the distinguished Charles E. Ives Award for collaborative imaging research. The award is given in recognition of an outstanding contribution in the area of basic or applied… Read More

The Ebrish Electron Devices Group (EEDG)  focuses on heterogeneously integrating emerging materials, such as 2D materials and wide-bandgap semiconductors, with Si-CMOS chips to unlock unprecedented capabilities for the Internet of Things (IoT) and beyond. EEDG investigates the interfacial properties of these materials to enhance device performance, enabling applications ranging from… Read More