Donald Kellis

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Department of Biology

Donald has been a member of the Nanoscale Materials and Device Group since late fall of 2010. A non-traditional student currently working on a degree in Biology. Donald began with the nanofabrication team, creating and characterizing nanoscale devices for team research. As a member of the group he brings a desire and drive to learn from his team and to provide active leadership in the area of research. Fabrication techniques used include electron beam lithography, physical vapor deposition, photolithography, resist application, and wet wafer processes.

Currently Donald is with the DNA Nanotechnology Team working on Fluorescent Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) systems. FRET systems might one day be used in place of optical transistors and bio-sensors.

Instruments and Techniques

Equipment

LEO 1430-VP Scanning Electron Microscope
Veeco Dimension 3100 Atomic Force Microscope
Veeco MultiMode Atomic Force Microscope
Kyle R See custom built Physical Vapor Deposition Tool
Nanometrics 212 Thin Film Systems 7200-1453 REV1 nanospec
Varian Cary Eclipse Fluorescence Spectrophotometer
Alpha Innotech FluoroChem Q MultiImage III
Eppendorf

BioPhotometer plus
Mastercycler personal
5418 Centrifuge
543R Centrifuge

Hoefer Gel Electophoresis unit
Labconco Centrivap DNA Concentrator

Techniques

Electron Beam Lithography
Photolithography
Wafer Processing
Nano-pattern generation
AFM imaging
DNA Origami synthesis
Fluorescence kinetics
Fluorescence imaging
Gel Electrophoresis

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Publications

None at this time.

Conference Publications