Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference 2009 September 21, 2009

2009 Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference

September 21-23, 2009

Doubletree Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon
MONDAY, September 21
7:00am – 7:00pm Registration and Check-In Holladay Foyer
8:00am – 5:00pm Solar Energy Symposium Holladay
(Organizer: Joe Janda, Portland State University
and Oregon Built Environment and Sustainable Technologies Center) –
AM Break, Lunch, PM Break included
Agenda & Faculty/Presenters:
• Session 1: Solar Now - Why the industry is taking off
• Session 2: Overview of Solar Materials
• Session 3: The Future of Solar in thin films/nano/micro materials
• Session 4: The Importance of Investing in New Materials Now

The full program for the Solar Materials Symposium may be found at:
http://oregonstate.edu/conferences/MNBC/solar.html
1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Business & Industry Expo Setup Multnomah
Poster Session Setup Holladay Foyer
1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Short Courses & Workshops – Parallel Sessions
PM Break included

Nanotechnology 101: What Technology, Business, Hawthorne/Sellwood
and Government Professionals Should Know (Organizer: Skip Rung, ONAMI)
Agenda & Faculty:
Paul Burrows, Reata Research
Clinton Ballinger, Evident Technologies
Skip Rung, Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute
Nanotechnology Commercialization: Intellectual Ross Island/Morrison
Property and Patent Reform
(Organizer: George Renzoni, Christensen O’Connor, Johnson and Kindness, PLLC)
Agenda & Faculty:
Rhys Lawson, PhD
George Renzoni, PhD
Pacific Northwest Micro/Nanoscale Engineering Broadway/Weidler
Workshop
(Organizer: Brian Paul, Oregon State University)
Agenda & Faculty:
5 p.m. –7 p.m. Opening Reception, Exhibits and Poster Preview Multnomah
TUESDAY, September 22
7 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Registration and Check-In Holladay Foyer
7 a.m. – 8 a.m. Continental Breakfast Holladay/Broadway/Weidler
8 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Opening Plenary Session, Keynotes Holladay/Broadway/Weidler
Welcome and Introduction: Lee Cheatham (Washington Technology Center)
and Skip Rung (ONAMI)
Keynote: Dr. Ray Stults - Associate Director, National Renewable
Energy Laboratory
Our Energy Future – Nanoscale Solutions to the Challenge
Keynote: Dr. James Roberto - Director of Strategic Capabilities,
Oakridge National Laboratory
New Tools for Nanoscale Research: Recent Developments
at Department of Energy National Laboratories
Keynote: Dr. Rosa Yang - Vice President for Innovation, Electric Power
Research Institute (EPRI)
The Promise of Nanotechnology in Power Generation and Delivery
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Break
Business & Industry Exposition Opens Multnomah
Technical Poster Session Opens Holladay Foyer
10:30 a.m. – Noon Parallel Sessions
» Red Track: Advanced Nanomaterials for Energy Storage Hawthorne/Sellwood
Session Chair: Rad Roberts, University of Washington
Engineering Nanomaterials for Electrical Energy Storage
Guozheng Cao, University of Washington
Multifunctional Materials from Self-Assembly for Energy Storage
Jun Liu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Nanotechnology in Energy Storage: Materials Science as the Next Big Thing
Chris Wheaton, EnerG2, Inc.
A Practical, Recyclable Liquid Chemical System for Hydrogen Storage and
Transportation
Carl Hensman, Asemblon Inc.
» Green Track: Sensor Systems Ross Island/Morrison
Session Chair: David Champion, Hewlett-Packard Company
Advanced Electronics and Sensors for Army Applications
Paul Amirtharaj, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Sensors and Electron Devices
Directorate
High Sensitivity Detection of Biomolecules Using Magnetic Nanobeads
Pallavi Dhagat, E. Chatterjee, V. Remcho, A. Jander, J. Akse, P. Chiang and J.
Atwater; Oregon State University
High Performance MEMS Accelerometers for Structural Health Monitoring
Michael O'Halloran, CH2M Hill; Don Milligan, Peter Hartwell, and David
Champion, Hewlett-Packard Company
Noon – 1:30 p.m. Light Luncheon Holladay/Broadway/Weidler
Keynote: Dr. Donald Tomalia – Director, National Dendrimer Center,
Distinguished Professor/Research Scientist, Central Michigan University
In Quest of a Systematic Framework for Unifying and Defining Nanoscience
1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m. Parallel Sessions
» Red Track: Microtechnology for Energy Applications Hawthorne/Sellwood
Session Chair: Ward TeGrotenhuis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Microchannel Reactors and Heat Exchangers for Solar Fuels Production
Bob Wegeng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Enhancement of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer using Nanostructured Surfaces on
Aluminum, Copper and Silicon
Terry J. Hendricks and Shankar Krishnan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory;
Chih-hung Chang and Brian Paul, Oregon State University
Moving a Microtech Product to Commercialization: The Infinia Stirling Engine
Story
Jason Modrell, Infinia Corporation
» Green Track: Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology, Ross Island/Morrison
Part I: Nanotechnologies for Proteomics
Session Co-Chair: Tania Vu, Oregon Health and Science University
Crystallography without crystals: Atomic structure determination from electron
diffraction of single molecules oriented in a laser field
Wei Kong, Oregon State University
Nearly Natural – A Structural Foundation for Viral-based DNA Delivery Vectors
Qing Xie1, Jason O’Donnell2, Thomas F. Lerch1, Kenneth A. Taylor2 & Michael S.
Chapman1 ; 1 Oregon Health & Science University; 2Florida State University
Advances in 3D Molecular and Cellular Imaging with Electron Microscopy
Matt Harris, FEI Company
3 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Break Multnomah
Business & Industry Expo Holladay Foyer
Technical Poster Session
3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Parallel Session
» Red Track: Electron and Ion Beam Nanofabrication Hawthorne/Sellwood
Session Chair: Keith Ritala, University of Washington
Manipulating light on the nanoscale
Michael Hochberg, University of Washington
Geometry assisted PEC for electron beam direct write nanolithography
Leonidas E. Ocola, Argonne National Laboratory
High current milling applications for sample preparation and MEMS using a
plasma ion source based FIB system
Sean Kellogg, T. Miller, A. Graupera, K. Mani, P. Carleson and R. Young; FEI
Company
» Green Track: Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology, Ross Island/Morrison
Part II: Bioconjugation at the Nanoscale
Session Chair: John Carruthers, Portland State University
Biofunctionalization of Nanoparticles for Bioassays
Yuehe Lin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Glycan arrays and glyconanoparticles for high-throughput screening and sensing
Mingdi Yan, Portland State University
Electrochemical Biosensors Based on Carbon Nanotubes
Dan Du, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Biofunctionalization of Graphene for Biosensing and Imaging
Zhiwen Tang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Exhibits and Posters Reception hosted by Stoel Rives, LLC Multnomah
Technical Poster Session Holladay Foyer
Business & Industry Exposition
Special presentation by Ken Abbott, Hewlett-Packard:
Sensing: Making the Earth Aware
Ken Abbott (HP, Corvallis, OR), Peter G. Hartwell and R. Stan Williams (HP Labs,
Palo Alto , CA)
WEDNESDAY, September 23
7 a.m. – Noon Registration and Check-In Holladay Foyer
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast Holladay/Broadway/Weidler
8 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Parallel Sessions
» Red Track: Microfabrication and MEMS Devices Hawthorne/Sellwood
Session Chair: Mike Hjelmstad, Washington Technology Center
MEMS and Microfabrication: Evolution and Promising Future
Mike Hjelmstad, Washington Technology Center
Microfluidic Devices Utilizing Biaxial Field-flow Fractionation for Nanoparticle
Sorting and Separation
Joseph Peach, Vikram Jandhyala, and Lih Lin; University of Washington
MEMS process characterization by deconstruction and manipulation using a
high-throughput focused ion beam (FIB)
Marc Castagna and Vinh Ngo; FEI Company
» Green Track: Nanotechnology for Disease Detection Ross Island/Morrison
and Drug Delivery
Session Chair: Cheryl Moody-Bartel, Life Technologies
Micro- and Nanotip Sensors for Rapid Screening of Tuberculosis
Woon-Hong Yeo, Fong-Li Chou, Kyong-Hoon Lee, and Jae-Hyun Chung; University
of Washington
Mesoporous Nanocompartment Films For Drug Delivery and Sensing
Katsuhiko Ariga, Japan National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Analytical Chemistry's Role in Quantum Dot Development: Key Steps in
Understanding Quantum Dot Toxicity
Rachel K. Smith and Joe Bartel, Life Technologies
9:30 a.m. – 10 a.m. Break Multnomah
Business & Industry Expo Holladay Foyer
Technical Poster Session
10 a.m. – Noon Parallel Sessions
» Red Track: Photonics Hawthorne/Sellwood
Session Chair: Dirk Weiss, Washington Technology Center
Bending, trapping, filtering: the manipulation of light waves through
nanostructures in nature and photovoltaic engineering
Dirk Weiss, Washington Technology Center
Solution-processed multilayer dielectric optical elements
Andriy Zakutayev, Kai Jiang, Jason Stowers, Michael D. Anderson, Janet Tate,
Douglas A. Keszler, *David C. Johnson, and David H. McIntyre; Oregon State
University and *University of Oregon
1-mm Diameter, Scanning Fiber Pico Projection Display
Brian Schowengerdt, University of Washington
BREGO: a Fabry-Perot based Optical MEMS color sensor
D.Champion, J.Wu, M.Valencia, S.Clark, *M.Palmieri; Hewlett-Packard, *ST
Microelectronics
» Green Track: High Peformance, Greener Ross Island/Morrison
Nanomaterials and Applications
Session Chair: Bettye Maddux, University of Oregon & ONAMI
State of the art green materials design and processing
Jim Hutchison, University of Oregon
Design of nano-structured misfit layer compounds and study on their properties
with potential application as thermoelectric materials
Ngoc Nguyen, Andrew Taylor, Colby Heideman, and David C. Johnson
Commercialization of Greener Nanomaterials:Opportunities and Challenges
John Miller, Dune Sciences, Inc.
Greener Displays: Solution Processed Multi-Component Oxides
Stephen Meyers1, Andrew Grenville1, Douglas Keszler1,2; Inpria Inc.1 and Oregon
State University2
Noon – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Holladay/Broadway/Weidler
Keynote: Dr. Jud Virden – Energy Sector Manager, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory
Climate Change, Energy and the Future Role of Nanotechnology
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Closing Plenary Panel: Hawthorne/Sellwood
The Changing Face of Technology Transfer and Early Stage Venture
Funding
Organizer: Pat Murphy, The University Funds
Today’s emphasis on delivering more value to society from the $billions invested
in research is both problematic and opportunistic for our institutions,
researchers, entrepreneurs and investors. While research budgets are generally
increasing in many areas, the capital markets mess and other economic factors
have caused venture capital sources to shrink significantly. Private (Angel)
startup investing is hard to find. The generally depressed economic activity
doesn’t bode well for new product entries. On the other hand, economic
downturns often stimulate a wave of new ventures.
So how does the aspiring inventor/entrepreneur best pursue commercialization
of their innovation? What are the decisions you must get right the first time?
What common business traps must they avoid? What resources are available to
provide guidance and assistance? How are changes in the IP/Patent
monetization arena impacting strategies for emerging businesses? Is the current
Venture Capital model “dead”, or just in need of re-tooling? How can startups
improve their odds of not only ‘surviving’, but thriving – and earning high returns
to themselves, as well as their early and late-stage investors?
This year’s end-of-conference plenary session brings together 7 regional experts
in the field of IP commercialization; Entrepreneurs, Technology Transfer Mgrs,
Venture Capital Partner, Startup Acceleration CEO, IP/Patent Attorney,
Corporate and Finance Attorney –all with deep experience, valuable expertise
and a diversity of viewpoints. The moderated panel session will be addressing
selected topical issues, pre-submitted Attendee questions, as well as questions
directly from the audience.
Please plan to attend this 1:30 pm Wednesday session, and then socialize with
the panelists at the Closing Reception immediately following.
Confirmed Panelists:
Dr. Fiona Wills, Director of UW TechTransfer, Technology Licensing at the
University of Washington in Seattle, WA.
Cheryl Cejka, Director of Technology Commercialization at Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, WA.
Jim Torina, President and CEO of The University Funds, LLC, a business
accelerator and seed-stage venture fund company based in Bellevue, WA.
Rick LeFaivre, Ph.D, a Partner at OVP Venture Partners (with offices in Seattle,
WA and Portland, OR), where he focuses on technology-based investments in
information technology, digital biology and digital energy.
Michael Hochberg Ph.D, a electrical engineering faculty member at the
University of Washington, who has co-founded two companies: Simulant, which
sold the first commercial distributed FDTD code, and Luxtera, a venture-funded
company working to commercialize silicon photonics.
Lewis Lee, co-founder of Lee & Hayes PLLC, and has developed expertise in many
diverse technologies and business processes. He is also the co-author of two
books, Intellectual Property for the Internet in 1997 and Managing Intellectual
Property Rights in 1993.
Chris Hurley, co-founder and Principal at Beacon Law Advisors in Seattle,
Washington and has been working with technology startups for over 16 years.
3:00 p.m. Concluding Hosted Reception with Panelists Ross Island/Morrison

Official Website: http://oregonstate.edu/conferences/MNBC/