1/26/2009
Jang-Ung Park and Robert Shepherd are among the eight finalists for the $30,000 Lemelson-Illinois Student Prize, which recognizes outstanding student inventors. Park and Prof. John Rogers have invented techniques for an electrohydrodynamic jet (e-jet) printing process that can produce patterns and functional devices that establish new resolution benchmarks for liquid printing which significantly exceed those of conventional inkjet technologies. Shepherd is currently working on creating a standard, less complicated, more flexible micro electrical-mechanical systems (MEMS) fabrication route which can generate these parts at rates of 100’s per second using low cost material feed stock. The market for MEMS is emergent and large; with devices encompassing microphones, implantable drug delivery systems, accelerometers, and lenses.