OML Introduction

Our Research Group is working on several projects in the areas of MEMS, MOEMS, optical system design and microoptics. For more information about this projects follow the Research link.

^{Above, a wafer filled with several of our scanner designs (left) and a lens array mounted on a 2-D scanner (right)}

!! JOB POSTINGS !!

2 Postdoc Positions Available in Optics & MEMS!!! (updated: Jan 25, 2008)

Two postdoctoral positions are open for the following projects:

• Miniuaturized Optical MEMS System
  
  
• Optics and 3D Display

Graduate Research Assistantships Available Now !!! (updated: Jan 25, 2008)

Graduate Research Assistantships are Available for the Following Projects. All are externally sponsored and all the graduate and undergraduate researchers in our laboratory spend one summer or one semester abroad.

• High-sensitivity thermal imaging camera development (partial funding from National Science Foundation, USA and NEMO, Europe).

• Microscanner Development for Retinal Scanning Displays (Sponsor: Microvision Inc., Seattle-USA)

• Biological Sensor using MEMS Cantilevers and Optical Readout
  

• 3D display technology development (sponsored by 3DTV European network of excellence)
  
  Click to see other graduate and undergraduate projects in the group

Undergraduate, MS and Ph.D students and post-doctoral researchers who are interested in being part of this group are encouraged to contact with Dr.Hakan Urey.

Students are admitted to Koc University MS/PhD programs in Fall semester and Spring semester (limited numbers). Check our Engineering web site for application forms and more information about the graduate programs in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Computational Science. 

As the EU FP-7 program MINOS-EURONET reaches it's conclusion a press release about the efforts to integrate Eastern and Western European Micro- and Nanotechnology research is widely distributed. The press release can be found here.

Links for popular articles on MEMS Technology. Click to see articles ! ^{(Archive->Popular Articles on MEMS)}

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OML is part of KOC University Optoelectronics Research Center .

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Current sponsors and funded projects

	Microvision Inc., USA MEMS & FR4 Scanners, 2007-Continued.
	HELIUM3D EC-FP7 Grant, 3D Laser Display, 2008-2011
	MEMFIS EC-FP7 Grant, MEMS Spectrometer, 2008-2011
	Aselsan, Turkey MOEMS Thermal Camera, 2006-2009
	National Academy of Sciences, Turkey Outstanding Young Scientist Award 2006-2009
	TUBITAK (1) Duration: 2004-2006 (2) Duration 2005-2007

 

Funded Research Projects

FP7 projects

• Title: MEMFIS - Miniaturized MEMS Fourier Transform Spectrometer - FP7 STREP project.

• Title: HELIUM3D Multi-user 3D Display - FP7 STREP project.

Industrial projects

• Title: High performance MEMS and polymer scanners for displays and imaging applications - Sponsor: Microvision Inc., Seattle-USA

• Title: Fourier transform spectrometers. Sponsored and licensed by Fraunhofer IPMS – Dresden, Germany

• Title: MOEMS Uncooled Thermal Camera Development - Sponsored and licensed by Aselsan, Turkey

TÜBİTAK projects

• Title: Biological Sensor for protein and drug detection using MEMS Cantilevers and Optical Readout

• Title: Laser Scanning System Development for Endoscopic Imaging and DNA Synthesis

sponsor link

 What's  New at OML?

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• Kishore V.C joined the group as our new post doc. He was previously at Cochin University of Science and Technology in Cochin, India. ^{(Sep 2008)}

• Siva Kin and Srijita Patra worked in OML during the summer on cantilever based sensing in liquids.

• HELIUM3D and MEMFIS During 2008 three FP6 projects were finished, NEMO, 3DTV and MINOS. In place of those the FP7 projects HELIUM3D and MEMFIS start off.

• Caglar Ataman and Sven Holmstrom went to Chalmers University, Sweden for 16 weeks to use their clean room facilities. ^{(Nov, 2007)}

• Onur Ferhanoglu went to Georgia Institute of Technology to use their clean room facilities for 4 months. ^{(Oct, 2007)}d

• Serhan O. Isikman and M. Fatih Toy presented their projects in IEEE-LEOS Optical MEMS Conference in Florida, USA. ^{(Oct, 2007)}

• All OML members went to the National Photonics Conference in ASELSAN, Ankara and presented research posters. ^{(Sep, 2007)}

• Hakan Urey presented two papers in Optical MEMS Conference, Taiwan. ^{(Aug, 2007)}

• Aslihan Arslan went to Boston Univesity, USA for a month to work in a joint project. ^{(Aug, 2007)}

• Hakan Urey and Serhan O. Isikman went to Trivandrum, India for the technology transfer of a novel polymer scan engine. ^{(Jul, 2007)}

• Hakan Urey presented an invited paper in OASIS Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel. ^{(Mar, 2007)}

• Our clean room became operational. ^{(Sep, 2006)}

• Arda D. Yalcinkaya, Caglar Ataman, Ata Akatay and Onur Ferhanoglu presented their projects in the National Photonics Conference at Koc University.^{(Sep, 2006)}

• Hakan Urey presented an invited paper at Eurosensors XX Conference in Goteborg, Sweden. ^{(Sep, 2006)}

• Hakan Urey presented two invited papers at IEEE-LEOS Optical MEMS Conference in Philadelphia, USA. ^{(Aug, 2006)}

• Hakan Urey presented an invited paper at IEEE-LEOS Optical MEMS Conference in Philadelphia, USA. ^{(Aug, 2006)}

• Serhan O. Isikman, M. Fatih Toy and Aslihan Arslan joined the group as MS students. ^{(Dec, 2006)}

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