Research Awards

Prof. Rogers is elected as Senior Member of the IEEE (2008)

Prof. Rogers is selected as the first holder of the Lee J. Flory - Founder Chair in Engineering Innovation (2008)

Simon Dunham Selected as a Recipient of Graduate Fellowships from Both NSF and NDSEG (2008)

Qing Cao Selected as the Winner of the ISTC2008 Best Student Paper Award competition, (2008)

Article featured on the cover of the February issue of Chemical Reviews -- "Nanostructured Plasmonic Sensors" (2008)

Prof. Rogers is elected to the inaugural class of Fellows of the Materials Research Society (2008)

Prof. Rogers is elected to Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study at University of Illinois (2007)

Cover feature article for the November issue of Journal of Physical Chemistry -- "Three-Dimensional Nanofabrication with Elastomeric Phase Masks" (2007)

Cover feature article for the October issue of Nature Materials -- "High-Resolution Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing" (2007)

Our 2004 Science paper cited as a Research Front paper, by Thomson Essential Science Indicators, (2007)

Prof. Rogers receives the Baekeland Award from the American Chemical Society. The award is conferred biennially upon an American chemist under 40 years of age in recognition of accomplishments in pure or industrial chemistry (2007)

Article featured on the cover of the April issue of Chemical Reviews -- "Micro and Nanopatterning Techniques for Organic Electronic and Optoelectronic Systems" (2007)

Cover feature article for a May issue of Applied Physics Letters -- "Bendable Integrated Circuits on Plastic Substrates by Use of Printed Ribbons of Single-Crystalline Silicon" (2007)

Cover feature article for the April issue of Nature Nanotechnology -- "High-performance Electronics Using Dense, Perfectly Aligned Arrays of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes" (2007)

Prof. Rogers receives the Drucker Eminent Faculty Award, the highest honor that the College of Engineering bestows on a member of its faculty (~450 total) for achievement in research and teaching (2007)

Cover feature article for the February issue of Journal of Materials Chemistry -- "Structural Forms of Single Crystal Inorganic Semiconductor Ribbons for Stretchable Electronics" (2007)

The Essential Science Indicators database and Thomson-ISI selected our APL article, "Bendable single crystal silicon thin film transistors formed by printing on plastic substrates”, as an Emerging Front paper for February, 2007

Cover feature article for the December issue of Advanced Functional Materials – “Bilayer Organic/Inorganic Gate Dielectrics for High Performance, Low-Voltage Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors, Complementary Logic Gates and p-n Diodes on Plastic Substrates” (2006)

Film on Stretchable Silicon Wins 3rd Place Prize at the MRS Scientific Film Competition" (2006)

Prof. Rogers named Fellow of the American Physical Society for "Contributions to the fields of flexible electronics, optical fiber devices, nanolithography and picosecond ultrasonics" (2006)

Inside Cover feature article for the November issue of Advanced Materials – "Buckled and Wavy Ribbons of GaAs for High-Performance Electronics on Elastomeric Substrates" (2006)

Prof. Rogers Selected as the 2006 Xerox Distinguished Lecturer, for work in the area of flexible electronics.

Stretchable Single-Crystal Silicon selected as one of the top 25 innovations for 2006 -- the MICRO/NANO 25 -- by MICRO/NANO Newsletter and R&D Magazine, June 2006.

Selected as a Distinguished Lecturer at University of Texas at Austin, 2006/2007.

Selected as one of the top 15 Innovators in Nanotechnology, by Nanotech Briefs, NASA Technology Briefs, 2006.

Inside Cover feature article for the June issue of Advanced Materials – “Nanoscale Surface Morphology and Rectifying Behavior of a Bulk Single-Crystal Organic Semiconductor" (2006)

Selected for one of the “Top 10 Emerging Technologies” by MIT’s Technology Review magazine, for stretchable silicon (2006)

Cover feature article for the January issue of Nature Materials – “Transfer printing by kinetic control of adhesion to an elastomeric stamp” (2006)

Innovation Discover Award from Champaign County Economic Development Council, for work in the area of flexible silicon electronics.

Prof. Rogers Selected as one of the 2005 Scientific American 50 research leaders, for work in the area of plastic electronics.

Cover feature article for the October issue of Small – “Guided Growth of Large Scale, Horizontally Aligned Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Their Use in Thin Film Transistors” (2005)

Cover feature article for the August issue of Applied Physics Letters – “Bendable GaAs Metal-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors Formed With Printed GaAs Wire Arrays on Plastic Substrates” (2005)

Cover feature article for the July issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE – “Macroelectronics: Perspectives on Technology and Applications” (2005)

Cover feature article for the February issue of Materials Today– “Recent progress in soft lithography” (2005)

Cover feature article for the January issue of Advanced Functional Materials – “Photolithographic route to the fabrication of micro/nanowires of III-V semiconductors” (2005)

Selected as runner-up for the 2004 Nanotechnology Researcher of the Year Award, sponsored by Small Times Magazine.

Prof. Rogers Selected as one of fifteen nominees for the 2004 World Technology Award in Communications Technology, for research in flexible electronics and fiber optics.

Single crystal organic transistor work featured on the cover of Physics Status Solidi A, May 6, 2004

Cover feature article for the June 28th issue of Applied Physics Letters – “A printable form of single crystal silicon for high performance thin film transistors” (2004)

Selected for one of “10 Technologies that Will Change the World” by MIT’s Technology Review magazine, for microfluidic photonic systems (2004)

Science magazine’s Editor’s Choice, “Complex Layered Construction,” (2003)

Cover feature article for the December 15th issue of Applied Physics Letters – “Tunable optical fiber devices based on broadband long period gratings and pumped microfluidics” (2003)

Selected for one of “6 Technologies that Will Change the World” by Business 2.0 magazine, for printing plastic electronics (2003)

Cover feature article for the February 24th issue of Applied Physics Letters – “Low cost, low loss microlens arrays fabricated by soft lithography process” (2003)

Excellence in Research Award of the Year from Frost and Sullivan for microfluidic photonic systems (2003)

Circle of Excellence Award from Photonics Spectra Magazine for the RightwaveTM tunable dispersion compensator (2003)

OFC Attendee’s Choice Award from Lightwave Magazine for the RightwaveTM tunable dispersion compensator (2002)

American Chemical Society Award for Team Innovation: Printed Plastic Electronics and Electronic Paper (2002)

Cover feature article for Journal of Polymer Science A – “Printed Plastic Electronics and Paperlike Displays” (2002)

Excellence in Technical Innovation from Laser Focus World Magazine for tunable microfluidic optical fiber (2002)

R&D100 Innovation Award from R&D Magazine for the RightwaveTM tunable dispersion compensator (2002)

R&D Magazine’s Editor’s Choice for the “Best of the Best” new technology for 2001: Printed Plastic Display Circuits (2001)

R&D100 Innovation Award from R&D Magazine: Printed Plastic Display Circuits (2001)

Cover feature article for Proceedings of the National Academy of Science – “Paper-like Electronic Displays: Large Area, Rubber Stamped Plastic Sheets of Electronics and Electrophoretic Inks” (2001)