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Articles Published in Refereed Journals

  1. Chen Y.-F., Serey, X., Sarkar, R., Chen, P., Erickson, D., “Controlled photonic manipulation of proteins and other nanomaterials” Nano Letters (Accepted 2012)
  2. Serey, X., Mandal, S., Chen, Y.-F., Erickson, D., “DNA Delivery and Transport in Thermal gradients near optofluidic resonators” Physical Review Letters 108, 048102 (2012).
  3. Mancuso, M., Goddard, J., Erickson, D., “Nanoporous Polymer Ring Resonators for Biosensing” Optics Express, 20(1) 245-255 (2012)
  4. Erickson, D., Sinton, D., Psaltis, D., “Optofluidic Opportunities in Energy” Nature Photonics 5, 583-590 (2011).
    Cornell Chronicle Story
  5. Choi, I., Huh, Y.S., Erickson, D., “Ultra-sensitive, label-free probing of the conformational characteristics of amyloid beta aggregates with a SERS active nanofluidic device” Journal of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics (Accepted 2011)
  6. Kang, P, Erickson, D. “High Resolution Reversible Color Images on Photonic Crystal Substrates" Langmuir 27, 9676-9680 (2011).
    Photonic crystal tablets - the future of iPads?
    Supporting Movie #1
    Supporting Movie #2
  7. Jiang, L., Erickson, D. “Directed self-assembly of microcomponents enabled by laser-activated bubble latching" Langmuir 27 (17), 11259-11264 (2011)
    Supplemental material
    Supporting Movie #1
    Supporting Movie #2
    Supporting Movie #3
    Supporting Movie #4
  8. Oncescu, V., Erickson, D. "A Microfabricated Low Cost Enzyme-Free Glucose Fuel Cell for Powering Low-Power Implantable Devices" Journal of Power Sources 196, 9169-9175 (2011).
  9. Moore, S., Sinton, D., Erickson, D. "A Plate-Frame Flow- through Microfluidic Fuel Cell Stack" Journal of Power Sources 196, 9481-9487 (2011).
  10. Mak, M., Reinhart-King, C., Erickson, D., “Cancer Cell Migration and Metastasis in the Microenvironment: A Tapered Microchannel Approach for Single Cell Studies” PLOS-One 6(6), e20825 (2011).
  11. Chung, A.J., Huh, Y.S., Erickson, D., “Large Area SERS Active Substrates using Engineered Plasmonic Nanostructures” Nanoscale 3, 2903-2908 (2011).
  12. Chung, A.J., Erickson, D. "Optofluidic Waveguides for Reconfigurable Photonic Systems” Optics Express 19(9) 8602-8609 (2011).
  13. Kennedy, M.J., Stelick, S.J., Erickson, D., Batt, C.A. “Hydrodynamic optical alignment for micro- flow cytometry” Lab on a Chip, 11, 1138-1143 (2011).
  14. Erickson, D., Serey, X., Chen, Y.-F., Mandal, S., “Review: Nanomanipulation using Near Field Photonics” Lab-on-a-Chip, 11, 995-1009 (2011)
  15. Choi, I., Huh, Y.S., Erickson, D., “Size-selective concentration and label-free characterization of protein aggregates using a Raman active nanofluidic device” Lab on a Chip, 11, 632 (2011)
  16. Cordovez, B., Chung, A.J., Mak, M., Erickson, D., “A Flexible and Multiplexed Polymer Drug Delivery System ” Journal of Microfluidics and Nanofluidcs, 10, 785-791 (2011).
  17. Park, S.-M., Huh, Y.S., Szeto, K., Joe, D.J., Kameoka, J., Coates, G.W., Edel, J.B., Erickson, D., Craighead, H.G. “Rapid prototyping of nanofluidic systems using size-reduced electrospun nanofibers for biomolecular analysis” Small, 6, 2420-2426 (2010).
  18. Serey, X., Mandal, S., Erickson, D., “Comparison of silicon photonic crystal resonator designs for optical trapping of nanomaterials” Nanotechnology, 21, 305202 (2010).
  19. Lowe, A., Huh, Y.S., Strickland, A., Erickson, D., Batt, C.A. “Multiplex Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Genotyping Utilizing Ligase Detection Reaction Coupled Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy” Analytical Chemistry, 82, 5810–5814 (2010).
  20. Jung, E., Chung, A.J., Erickson, D., “Analysis of liquid-to-solid coupling and other performance parameters for microfluidically reconfigurable photonic systems .” Optics Express, 18(11), 10973–10984 (2010).
  21. Tolley, M., Kalontarov, M., Neubert, J., Erickson, D., Lipson, H., "Stochastic Modular Robotic Systems: A Study of Fluidic Assembly Strategies" IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 26(3), 518-530 (2010)
  22. Kalontarov, M., Tolley, M., Lipson, H., Erickson, D. “Hydrodynamically Driven Docking of Blocks for 3D Fluidic Assembly” Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 9, 551–558 (2010)
    Movie Showing Block attraction, alignment, and rejection (MPG 2320 kb)
  23. Mandal, S., Serey, X., Erickson, D., “Nanomanipulation using Silicon Photonic Crystal Resonators” Nano Letters 10, 99-104 (2010).
    Supporting information on experimental methods and calculation techniques
    Movie showing trapping of 48nm particle in optical cavity (41 MB)
    Movie showing optically driven nano-assembly using photonic crystal resonator (22 MB)
  24. Yang, A.J.H., Erickson, D., “Optofluidic ring resonator switch for optical particle transport” Lab-on-a-Chip 10, 769-774 (2010).
    Movie showing the trapping and propulsion of 3 micrometre polystyrene beads on the optofluidic ring resonator switch.
  25. Goddard, J., Mandal, S., Nugen, S., Baeumner, A., Erickson, D. “Biopatterning for label-free detection” Colloids and Surfaces B 76, 375-380 (2010).
  26. Huh, Y.S., Erickson, D., “Aptamer based surface enhanced Raman scattering detection of vasopressin using multilayer nanotube arrays” Biosensors and Bioelectronics 25, 1240-1243 (2010).
  27. Cordovez, B., Psaltis, D., Erickson D., “Electroactive Micro and Nanowells for Optofluidic Storage” Optics Express 17(23), 21134-21148 (2009).
    Movie showing overview of system
    Movie showing reversible quantum dot storage in a 200nm well
    Movie showing storage in a larger microwell
  28. Park, S.M., Huh, Y.S., Craighead, H.G., Erickson, D., “A method for nanofluidic device prototyping using elastomeric collapse” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - USA 106, 15549-15554 (2009).
    Supplimental Material.
    Analytical Chemistry "Making the most of Collapse"
  29. Mandal, S., Goddard, J,., Erickson, D., “A Multiplexed Optofluidic Biomolecular Sensor for Low Mass Detection” Lab on a chip 9, 2924-2932 (2009)
    Additional data and experimental details.
  30. Krishnan, M., Park, J., Erickson, D., “Opto-thermorheological flow manipulation” Optics Letters 34, 1976-1978 (2009)
    Movie #1 - Movie showing Opto-Thermorheological effect.
  31. Chung, A.J., Huh, Y.S., Erickson, D., “A robust, electrochemically driven microwell drug delivery system for controlled vasopressin release” Biomedical Microdevices 11, 861-867 (2009).
    Movie #1 - Electrochemical transport of 15µl of vasopressin into air at 12 V.
    Movie #2 - Electrochemical transport of 15µl of vasopressin into PBS at 12 V.
    Additional Mass-Spec Image.
  32. Goddard, J., Erickson, D., “Bioconjugation Techniques for Microfluidic Biosensors” Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 394, 469-479 (2009).
    Supplemental information on chip used for experiments.
  33. Krishnan, M., Tolley, M., Lipson, H., Erickson, D., “Hydrodynamically Tunable Affinities for Fluidic Assembly” Langmuir 25, 3769-3744 (2009).
    Movie #1 - Reconfiguration of structure
    Movie #2 - Flow modulation using a thermorheological fluid
    Movie #3 - Targeted Assembly
    Movie #4 - Error Correction
    Supplemental information on calculation methods.
  34. Yang, A.H.J., Lerdsuchatawanich, T., Erickson, D., “Forces and Transport Velocities for a Particle in a Slotted Waveguide” Nano Letters 9, 1182-1188 (2009).
    Supplemental information on calculation methods.
  35. Chung, A.J., Erickson, D., “Engineering insect flight metabolics using immature stage implanted microfluidics.” Lab-on-a-Chip 9, 669-676 (2009).
    Movie #1 - An overview of the pupal stage implantation and emergence
    Movie #2 - Injection experiment
    Movie #3 - Control of insect flight metabolics using microfluidics
    Movie #4 - Custom made agitator used to mechanically stimulate flight response
    Movie #5 - Measurement of metabolic output in respirometry chamber.
    Supplemental figures on surgeries.
    Chemistry World Story
  36. Yang, A.H.J., Moore, S.D., Schmidt, B.S, Klug, M., Lipson, M., Erickson, D., “Optical Manipulation of Nanoparticles and Biomolecules in Sub-Wavelength Slot Waveguides” Nature 457, 71-75 (2009).
    Movie showing trapping of DNA
    Movie showing trapping and collection of nanoparticles
    Movie showing optical transport of nanoparticles in slot waveguide
    Movie showing trapping and release of nanoparticles
    Supplimental Information
    National Science Foundation Press Release
    Cornell chronicle Story
    Science Daily
    Lab-on-a-Chip Research Highlight
    Analytical Chemistry News
    Nature Methods News Article
  37. Huh, Y.S., Lowe, A., Strickland, S., Batt, C.A., Erickson, D., “A Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering based Ligase Detection Reaction” Journal of the American Chemical Society 131(6), 2208-2213 (2009).
  38. Huh, Y.S., Chung, A.J., Erickson, D., “Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Molecular and Cancer Diagnostics. Journal of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics 6, 285-297 (2009)
  39. Huh, Y.S., Chung, A.J., Cordovez, B., Erickson , D., “Enhanced on-chip SERS based biomolecular detection using electrokinetically active microwells.” Lab-on-a-Chip 9, 433-439 (2009).
  40. Tolley, M., Krishnan, M., Erickson, D., Lipson, H., “Dynamically Programmable Fluidic Assembly” Applied Physics Letters 93, 254105 (2008).
  41. Krishnan, M., Tolley, M., Lipson, H., Erickson, D., “Increased Robustness for Fluidic Self Assembly” Physics of Fluids, 20, 073304, (2008).
  42. Mandal, S., Erickson, D., “Nanoscale Optofluidic Sensor Arrays” Optics Express, 16, 1623-1631 (2008).
  43. Chung, A.J., Kim, D., Erickson, D., “Electrokinetic microfluidic devices for rapid, low power drug delivery in autonomous microsystems”, Lab on a Chip, 8, 330-338 (2008).
  44. Yang, A.H.J., Erickson D., “Stability analysis of optofluidic transport on solid-core waveguiding structures” Nanotechnology, 19, 045704 (2008).
    Nanotech Web Story
    Physics World Story
  45. Erickson, D., Mandal, S., Yang, A.H.J., Cordovez, B., “Nanobiosensors: Optofluidic, electrical and mechanical approaches to biomolecular detection at the nanoscale.” Journal of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 4, 33-52 (2008).
    Introduction to Special Issue on Optofluidics
  46. Schmidt, B.S., Yang, A.H.J., Erickson D., Lipson, M. “Optofluidic trapping and transport on solid core waveguides within a microfluidic device” Optics Express, 15 (22), 14322-14334 (2007).
    Multimedia
    Optical Society of America Press Release
    New Scientist Story
  47. Mandal, S., Erickson D., “Optofluidic Transport in Liquid Core Waveguiding Structures” Applied Physics Letters, 90, 184103 (2007).
    Multimedia
  48. Cordovez, B., Psaltis, D., Erickson D., “Trapping and Storage of Particles in Electroactive Microwells.” Applied Physics Letters, 90, 024102 (2007).
  49. Heng, X., Erickson, D., Baugh, L., Yaqoob, Z., Sternberg, P., Psaltis, D., Yang C., “Optofluidic microscopy - a method for implementing a high resolution optical microscope on a chip” Lab-on-a-Chip, 6, 1274-1276 (2006).
  50. Erickson, D., Rockwood, T., Emery, T., Scherer, A., Psaltis, D., “Nanofluidic Tuning of Photonic Crystal Circuits” Optics Letters, 31, 59-61 (2006).
  51. Erickson, D., “Towards Numerical Prototyping of Labs-on-Chip, Modeling for Integrated Microfluidic Devices” Journal of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics 1, 301–318 (2005).
  52. Erickson, D., Liu, X., Venditti, R., Li, D., Krull, D., “Electrokinetically-based approach for single nucleotide polymorphism discrimination using a microfluidic device.” Analytical Chemistry, 77, 4000-4007 (2005).
  53. Erickson, D., Li, D. “Integrated Microfluidic Devices” Analytica Chimica Acta. - Special Issue on Microfluidics 507, 11-26 (2004).
  54. Erickson, D., Liu, X., Krull, D., Li, D. “An electrokinetically controlled DNA hybridization microfluidic chip enabling rapid target analysis.” Analytical Chemistry, 76, 7269-7277 (2004).
  55. Lin, F.Y.H., Sabri, M., Erickson, D., Alirezaie, J., Li, D., Sherman, P.M. “Development of a novel microfluidic immunoassay for the detection of Helicobacter pylori infection” Analyst 129, 823-828 (2004).
  56. Biddiss, E., Erickson, D., Li, D. “Surface charge enhanced micro-mixing for electrokinetic flows.” Analytical Chemistry 76, 3208-3213 (2004).
  57. Zimmermann, R., Kratzmüller, T., Erickson, D., Li, D., Braun, H.-G., Werner, C. “Ionic Strength-Dependent pK-Shift in the Helix-Coil-Transition of Grafted Poly(L-glutamic acid) Layers Analysed by Electrokinetic and Ellipsometric Measurements” Langmuir 20, 2369-2374 (2004).
  58. Erickson, D., Sinton, D., Li, D. “A miniaturized high-voltage integrated power supply for portable microfluidic applications” Lab on a Chip 4, 87-90 (2004).
  59. Lui, X., Erickson, D., Li, D., Krull, U.J. “Cationic Polymer Coatings for Design of Electro-osmotic Flow and Control of DNA Adsorption.” Analytica Chimica Acta. - Special Issue on Microfluidics 507, 55-62 (2004).
  60. Erickson, D., Li, D. “Three-Dimensional Structure of Electroosmotic Flows over Heterogeneous Surfaces” Journal of Physical Chemistry B 107, 12212-12220 (2003).
  61. Erickson, D., Sinton, D., Li, D. “Joule Heating and Heat Transfer in Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Microfluidic Systems” Lab on a Chip 3(3) 141-149 (2003).
  62. Erickson, D., Li, D. “Analysis of AC Electroosmotic Flows in a Rectangular Microchannel” Langmuir 19 5421-5430 (2003).
  63. Sinton, D., Erickson, D., Li, D. “Micro-Bubble Lensing Induced Photobleaching (m-BLIP) with Application to Microflow Visualization.” Experiments in Fluids 35 178–187 (2003).
  64. Erickson, D., Li, D., Krull, U.J. “Dynamic Modeling of DNA Hybridization Kinetics for Spatially Resolved Biochips.” Analytical Biochemistry 317 186-200 (2003).
  65. Sze, A., Erickson, D., Ren, L., Li, D. “Zeta-Potential Measurement of Flat Solid Surfaces Using Electroosmotic Flow and the Slope of Current-Time Method” Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 261 402-410 (2003).
  66. Erickson, D., Li, D. "Microchannel Flow with Patch-Wise and Periodic Surface Heterogeneity." Langmuir 18 8949-8959 (2002).
  67. Sinton, D., Erickson, D., Li, D. "Photo-Injection Based Sample Design and Electroosmotic Transport in Microchannels." Journal of Micromechanics & Microengineering 12 898-904, (2002).
  68. Ye, C., Sinton, D., Erickson, D., Li, D. "Electrophoretic motion of a cylindrical particle in a cylindrical microchannel." Langmuir 18 9095-9101 (2002).
  69. Erickson, D., Li, D. "Numerical Simulations of Capillary Driven Flows in Non-Uniform Cross Sectional Capillaries." Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 250 422-430 (2002).
  70. Erickson, D., Li, D. "3D Numerical Simulations of a Microchannel Thermal Cycling Reactor." International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 45 3759-3770 (2002).
  71. Erickson, D., Li, D. "Influence of Surface Heterogeneity on Electrokinetically Driven Microfluidic Mixing." Langmuir 18 1883-1892 (2002).
  72. Erickson, D., Lu, F., Li, D., White, T. Gau, J. "An experimental investigation into the dimension sensitive viscosity of polymer containing lubricant oils in microchannels." International Journal of Experimental Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, and Fluid Mechanics 25, 623-630 (2002).
  73. Erickson, D., Li, D., White, T. Gao. J, "High shear-rate behavior of radial hydrogenated styrene-isoprene and block ethylene-propylene copolymer solutions." Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 40, 3523-3529 (2001).
  74. Erickson, D., Li, D., "Streaming Potential and Streaming Current Methods for Characterizing Heterogeneous Solid Surfaces." Journal of Colloid and Interfacial Science 237(2), 283-289 (2001).
  75. Erickson, D., Blackmore, B., Li, D. "An Energy Balance Approach to Modeling the Hydrodynamically Driven Spreading of a Liquid Drop." Colloids and Surfaces A. 182, 109-122 (2001).
  76. Erickson, D., Li, D., Werner, C. "An Improved Method for determining the Zeta-Potential and Surface Conductance." Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 232, 186-197 (2000).

Articles currently under review

  1. He, P., Choi, I., Erickson, D., “Electrochemical Monitoring of Vasopressin in Aptamer-Based Microfluidic Biosensors” Submitted
  2. Ooms, M., Sieben, V., Pierobon, S., Jung, E.E., Kalontarov,. M., Erickson, D., Sinton, D., “Evanescent Photosynthesis: Cultivating cyanobacteria in a surface-confined light field” Submitted
  3. Jain, A., Erickson, D., “Gel-based optical waveguides with live cell encapsulation and integrated microfluidics” Submitted
  4. Serey, X., Mandal, S., Chen, Y.-F., Erickson, D., “DNA Delivery and Transport in Thermal gradients near optofluidic resonators” Submitted
  5. Cordovez, B., Chung, A.J., Jasuja, N., Lee, D.J., Huang, X.T., Erickson, D. “Hybrid chemical, mechanical and electrical techniques for modulating insect flight activity” Submitted
  6. Chen, Y.-F., Serey, X., Sarkar, R., Chen, P., Erickson, D. “Controlled photonic manipulation of proteins and other nanomaterials” Submitted 2011

Invited Articles and Book Chapters

  1. Krishnan, M., Erickson, D. “Introduction to Microfluidic and Optofludic Transport” in Handbook of Optofluidics (H. Schmidt, A. Hawkins Eds.) Wiley (2009)
  2. Erickson, D., Yang, A.H.J. “Optofluidic Trapping and Transport Using Photonic Devices” in Optofluidics (S. Fainman, L. Lee, D. Psaltis, C. Yang Eds.) McGraw Hill (2008)
  3. Erickson, D., Krishnan. M. “Introduction to Electrokinetic Transport in Microfluidic Systems” in Lab-on-Chip Technologies and Applications (A. Rasooly, K. Herold Eds.) Horizon (2008)
  4. Goddard, J., Mandal, S., Erickson, D., “Optically Resonant Nanophotonic Devices for Label-Free Biomolecular Detection” in Innovative Photonic Structures for Bio/Chemical Detection (X. Fan Ed.) Springer (2008)
  5. Erickson, D., Yang, C., Psaltis, D., “Optofluidics Emerges from the Laboratory” Photonics Spectra 42, 74-78 (2008)
  6. Erickson, D., “Autonomous Microsystems” in 2008 Yearbook of Science and Technology, McGraw-Hill (2007).
  7. Erickson, D., Li, D., “Microscale Flow and Transport Simulation for Electrokinetic and Lab-on-Chip Applications” in Biomems and Biomedical Nanotechnology, Volume IV: Biomolecular Sensing, Processing and Analysis (R. Bashir and S. Wereley Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishing (2006).

Contributed Conference Publications

* Invited lectures not shown, for a complete listing please see on-line C.V.

  1. Serey, X., Erickson, D. "Advancements in photonic crystal resonators for optical trapping" 1st EOS conference on Optofluidics, Munich, Germany May 2011.
  2. Jung, E.E., Chung, A.J., Erickson, D. “Advancements in Microfluidically Reconfigurable Photonics” 1st EOS Conference on Optofluidics, Munich, Germany May 2011
  3. Mancuso, M., Goddard, J., Erickson, D. “Porous Polymer Waveguides and Ring Resonators.” CLEO: Science and Innovations, Baltimore, MD May 2011.
  4. Kalontarov, M., Cordovez, B., Jung, E., Sinton, D., Erickson, D. "Waveguide Enabled Photo-Bio-Energy Production" CLEO: Science and Innovations, Baltimore, MD May 2011.
  5. Krishnan, M., Erickson, D. "Optofluidically reconfigurable channel based microfluidics" CLEO: Science and Innovations, Baltimore, MD May 2011.
  6. Chen, Y.-F., Serey, X., Mandal, S., Erickson, D. "Nanomanipulation using silicon nitride photonic crystal resonators" IEEE Winter Topicals, Keystone, CO, Jan. 2011.
  7. Krishnan, M., Erickson, D. "Creating optically reconfigurable channel based microfluidic systems" IEEE Photonics Society Winter Topicals, Keystone, CO Jan. 2011.
  8. Moore, S., Sinton, D., Erickson, D. “Planar flow-through Vanadium Redox laminar flow fuel cell”ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Vancouver, B.C. Nov. 2010.
  9. Kalontarov, M., Cordovez, B., Jung, E.E., Sinton, D., Erickson, D. “Optofluidically Enabled Bio-Energy Production” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Vancouver, B.C. Nov. 2010.
  10. Mandal, S., Erickson, D., “Optofluidic approaches to protein folding analysis” Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science: Special Session on Optofluidics in the Near Field, Rochester, NY, October 2010.
  11. Krishnan, M., Erickson, D., “Optically Reconfigurable Microfluidics” Micro-Total Analysis Systems (µTAS), Groningen, The Netherlands, October 2010.
  12. Cordovez, B., Chung, A.J., Huang, T., Jasuja, N., Erickson, D.,“Fusing Chemical and Electrical Stimulation Mechanisms for Cyborg Air Vehicle Control” Micro-Total Analysis Systems (µTAS), Groningen, The Netherlands, October 2010.
  13. Choi, I., Huh, Y.S., Erickson, D.,“A Nanofluidic Device for Selective Concentration and Lable-Free Surface-Enhanced Raman Detection of Protein Aggregates” Micro-Total Analysis Systems (µTAS), Groningen, The Netherlands, October 2010.
  14. Mak, M., Reinhart-King, C., Erickson, D., “An Optofluidic Platform for Characterizing Mechanical Markers of Metastatic Cancer” Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Austin, TX, October 2010.
  15. Chung, A.J., Cordovez, B., Huh, Y.S., Erickson, D., “Autonomous Microfluidic Device for Quantification and Regulation of Vasopressin” Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Austin, TX, October 2010.
  16. Jung, E., Huh, Y.S., Erickson D., “Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) on-an-Optofluidic Chip Using Roof Collapse Method” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO), San Jose, May 2010.
  17. Chung, A.J., Jung, E., Erickson D., “Reconfigurable Photonics from Microfluidic Waveguides” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO), San Jose, May 2010.
  18. Serey, X., Mandal S., Erickson D., “Design and Experimental Demonstration of Optical Resonators for Nanotweezing” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO), San Jose, May 2010.
  19. Kalontarov, M., Krishnan, M., Erickson, D., “Fluid Dynamically Driven Assembly in 3D for Programmable Matter” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Orlando, FL, Nov. 2009.
  20. Cordovez, B., Erickson, D., “Optofluidic Data Storage” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Orlando, FL, Nov. 2009.
  21. Yang, A.H.J, Moore, S., Schmidt, B., Klug, M., Lipson, M., Erickson, D., “Biomolecular Optical Transport in Nanoscale Slot Waveguides” American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE) Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, Nov. 2009.
  22. Huh, Y., Lowe, A., Chung, A., Cordovez, B., Strickland, A., Batt, C.A., Erickson, D., “Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Based Biomolecular Sensing Techniques in Optofluidic Device” American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE) Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, Nov. 2009.
  23. Mandal, S., Goddard, J., Serey, X., Erickson, D., “Nanoscale Optofluidic Sensor Arrays for Multiplexed Label Free Biosensing and Biomolecular Trapping. Micro-Total Analysis Systems (µTAS), Korea, Nov. 2009
  24. Chung, A.J., Cordovez, B., Reissman, T., MacCurdy, R.B. Garcia, E., Erickson, D., “Chemically Controlled Insect Cyborgs Using Implantable Microfluidic Devices.” Micro-Total Analysis Systems (µTAS), Korea, Nov. 2009.
  25. Huh, Y., Lowe, A., Chung, A., Cordovez, B., Strickland, A., Batt, C.A., Erickson, D., “Optofluidic Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Based Detection of a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism.” Micro-Total Analysis Systems (µTAS), Korea, Nov. 2009
  26. Chung, A.J., Jung, E., Erickson, D., “A new form of reconfigurable photonic material using optofluidic waveguides.” Micro-Total Analysis Systems (µTAS), Korea, Nov. 2009.
  27. Mandal, S., Goddard, J., Erickson, D., “Optofluidic Sensor Arrays for Biomolecular Detections” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO) – Symposium on Optofluidics, Baltimore, May 2009.
  28. Park, J., Krishnan, M., Erickson, D., “Opto-thermorheologically reconfigurable microfluidics” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO) – Symposium on Optofluidics, Baltimore, May 2009.
  29. Yang, A.H.J, Moore, S., Schmidt, B., Klug, M., Lipson, M., Erickson, D., “Direct Manipulation of Nanoparticles and DNA in Sub-Wavelength Optical Nanochannels” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO) – Symposium on Optofluidics, Baltimore, May 2009.
  30. Krishnan, M., Tolley, M., Lipson, H., Erickson, D. “Dynamically Tunable Affinities for Fluidic Self Assembly” American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsilvania, Nov. 2008.
  31. Chung, A.J., Erickson, D. “Microfluidic Neuromuscular Control of Insect Micro-Air-Vehicles” American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsilvania, Nov. 2008.
  32. Chung, A.J., Erickson, D. “Microfluidic Control of Insect Locomotor Activity” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Boston, Massachusettes, Nov. 2008.
  33. Huh, Y.S., Chung, A.J., Cordovez, B., Erickson, D. “Optofluidic Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Chip for Detection of Dengue Virus" ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Boston, Massachusettes, Nov. 2008.
  34. Tolley, M.T., Krishnan, M., Lipson, H., Erickson, D., "Advances Towards Programmable Matter" Micro-Total Analysis Systems (uTAS), San Diego, CA, Oct. 2008.
  35. Goddard, J.M., Mandal, S., Erickson, D., "Targeted Patterning of Nucleic Acid Probes on Optical Nanostructures" Micro-Total Analysis Systems (uTAS), San Diego, CA, Oct. 2008.
  36. Erickson, D.,“Nanoscale Optofludic Transport” SPIE Optics and Photonics, San Diego, CA, August 2008.
  37. Moore, S,. Yang, A., Schmidt, B., Lipson, M., Erickson, D.,“Optofluidic Trapping in Exposed Mode Slot Waveguides” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO), San Jose, May 2008.
  38. Mandal, S., Goddard, J., Erickson, D.,“Nanoscale Optofluidic Sensor Arrays for Dengue Virus Detection.” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO), San Jose, May 2008.
  39. Schmidt, B., Manipatruni, S., Yang, A., Erickson, D., Lipson, M. “Optical Trapping Platform Based on Highly Confining Silicon Waveguiding Structures with Microfluidics.” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO), San Jose, May 2008.
  40. Mandal, S., Goddard, J., Erickson, D., “Biomolecular Detection using Nanoscale Optofluidic Sensor Arrays” IEEE MEMS, Tucson, AZ, Jan 2008.
  41. Tolley, M., Baisch, A., Erickson, D., Lipson, H., “Latching Mechanisms for Self-Assembled Planar Microcomponents” IEEE MEMS, Tucson, AZ, Jan 2008.
  42. Yang, A., Erickson, D., “Waveguide Based Particle Trapping in Integrated Microfluidic Devices” AICHE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 2007.
  43. Yang, A., Mandal, S., Erickson, D., “Optofluidic Transport – Optical Waveguides as Microfluidic “Train Tracks” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 2007.
  44. Krishnan, M., Tolley, M., Lipson, H., Erickson, D., “Directed Hierarchical Self Assembly - Active fluid mechanics at the micro and nanoscales.” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 2007.
  45. Chung, A., Kim, D., Chen, L., Akhmechet, R., Cordovez, B., Erickson, D., “Electroactive Microfluidic Devices for Control of Insect Cyborg Neuromuscular Systems.” Micro-Total Analysis Systems (?TAS), Paris, France, Oct. 2007.
  46. Mandal, S., Akhmechet, R., Chen, L., Nugen, S., Baeumner, A., Erickson, D. “Nanoscale optofluidic sensor arrays for Dengue virus detection” SPIE Optics and Photonics, Section on Optofluidics, San Diego, California, August 2007.
  47. Cordovez, B., Psaltis, D., Erickson, D. “Electroactive Nanowells for Spectrographic Fluidic Memory” SPIE Optics and Photonics, Section on Optofluidics, San Diego, California, August 2007.
  48. Mandal, S., Erickson, D., “Optofluidic Transport in Liquid Core Photonic Crystal Fibers.” 2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Baltimore, Maryland, May 2007.
  49. Yang, A., Mandal, S., Erickson, D., “Micro and Nanofluidic Transport Using Advanced Photonic Devices.” 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Chicago, Ill., Nov. 2006.
  50. Erickson, D., “Optofluidics: Emerging Technologies and Applications” 5th International Conference on Optics-photonics Design and Fabrication. Nara, Japan, December 2006. (Invited).
  51. Mandal, S., Yang, A., Erickson, D., “Micro- and Nanofluid Dynamics in Optofluidic and Nanophotonic Devices” Optical Society of America, Frontiers in Optics, Rochester, NY, October 2006. (Invited).
  52. Tolley, M., Zykov, V., Lipson, H., Erickson, D., "Directed Fluidic Self-Assembly of Microscale Tiles" Micro-Total Analysis Systems (uTAS) 2006, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2006.
  53. Mandal, S., Erickson, D., "Optical Chormatography in Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fibers" Micro-Total Analysis Systems (uTAS) 2006, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2006.
  54. Cordovez, B., Erickson, D., "Electroactive Nanowell Sensors for Parallel Particle Trapping and Detection" Micro-Total Analysis Systems (uTAS) 2006, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2006.
  55. Erickson, D., “Nanoscale Fluid Dynamics” Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics of Nanosystems, Chemnitz, Germany, August 2006. (Invited)
  56. Mandal, S., Yang, A.H.J., Erickson, D., Yang, A., “Optofluidically driven micro- and nanofluidic devices” SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference, August, 2006. (Invited)
  57. Mandal, S., Erickson, D., “Particle Transport in Liquid Core Photonic Crystal Fibers” IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical on Optofluidics, Quebec City, July 2006.
  58. Yang, A.H.J., Erickson, D., “Finite Element Analysis of Coupled Nanofludic Dynamics and Silicon-on-Insulator Particle Trapping” IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical on Optofluidics, Quebec City, July 2006.
  59. Cordovez, B., Tung, S., Erickson, D., “Optofluidic Particle Manipulation and Characterization in Individually Addressed Nanowell Sensors” IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical on Optofluidics, Quebec City, July 2006.
  60. Cordovez, B., Erickson, D., “Electro-active Nanowell Structures for Sensing and Optofluidic Applications” CLEO, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Long Beach, CA, May 2006.
  61. Erickson, D., Rockwood, T., Emery, T., Scherer, A., Psaltis, D., “Nanofluidic Tuning of Photonic Crystal Circuitry” CLEO, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Long Beach, CA, May 2006.
  62. Heng, X., Cui, X., Erickson, D., Psaltis, D., Yang, C. "Portable optical microscope-on-a-chip" Photonics West, San Jose, CA, Jan 2006.
  63. Heng, X., Erickson, D., Psaltis, D., Yang, C. "Optofluidic microscope and its applications in developmental biology" Photonics West, San Jose, CA, Jan 2006.
  64. Heng, X., Erickson, D., Psaltis, D., Yang, C.,"Opto-fluidic microscope: a novel imaging device on a biochip." 2005 SPIE Optics East. Boston, MA, October 2005.
  65. Erickson, D., Rockwood, T., Emery, T., Scherer, A., Psaltis, D., “Integration of Sub-Wavelength Nanofluidics with Photonic Crystals.” 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Orlando, Fl., Nov. 2005.
  66. Erickson, D., Emery, T., Rockwood, T., Scherer, A., Psaltis, D., “Nanofluidically Tunable Photonic Crystal Devices” Micro-Total Analysis Systems (mTAS) 2005, Boston, MA, Oct. 2005.
  67. Heng, X., Erickson, D., Psaltis, D., Yang, C “Optofluidic Microscope – A miniaturized microscope on a chip.” Micro-Total Analysis Systems (mTAS) 2005, Boston, MA, Oct. 2005.
  68. Erickson, D., Heng, X., Li, Z., Rockwood, T., Emery, T., Zhang, Z., Scherer, A., Yang, C., Psaltis, D., “Optofluidics” SPIE Optics and Photonics – Special Session on Optofluidics. San Diego, CA, Aug. 2005.
  69. Erickson, D., Li, B., Adleman, J., Vyawahare, S., Quake, S., Psaltis, D., "Spectographic Microfluidic Memory" 3rd International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels, Toronto, ON, June 2005
  70. Heng, X., Erickson, D., Psaltis, D., Yang, C., "Optofluidic Microscopy" 3rd International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels, Toronto, ON, June 2005
  71. Erickson, D., Adleman, J., Li, B., Pu, Y., Rockwood, T., Psaltis, D., “Optofluidics” Optical Society of America Topical Meeting on Information Photonics, June 2005.
  72. Erickson, D., Liu, X., Venditti, R. Krull, U., Li, D “Electrokinetics for control of on-chip chemical reactions” American Physical Society March Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 2005.
  73. Heng, X., Erickson, D., Psaltis, D., Yang C. “Optofluidic microscopy” Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Baltimore, MD, May 2005.
  74. Erickson, D., Liu, X., Krull, U., Li, D “A poly(dimethylsiloxane) based DNA Hybridization Chip with On-Line Sample Dispensing, Washing and Regeneration.” ASME Congress 2004, Anaheim, CA, Nov 2004.
  75. Erickson, D., Liu, X., Krull, U., Li, D. “An Electrokinetically Controlled DNA Hybridization Chip” 2nd International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels, Rochester, NY, June 2004.
  76. Biddiss, E., Erickson, D., Li, D. “Heterogeneous surface charge enhanced micro-mixer for electrokinetic flows” 2nd International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels, Rochester, NY, June 2004.
  77. Erickson, D., Sinton, D., Nikolic, V., Li, D. "Heat Transfer and Electrokinetic Flow Analysis in Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Microfluidic Systems" ASME Congress 2003, Microelectromechanical Systems, Washington D.C., Nov 2003.
  78. Sinton, D., Erickson, D., Li, D. "Molecular Tagging in Microchannels with Micro-Bubble Lensing Induced Photobleaching (micro-BLIP)" ASME Congress 2003, Microelectromechanical Systems, Washington D.C., Nov 2003.
  79. Krull, U.J., Park, S.H., Liu, X., Zeng, J., Li, D., Erickson, D. “Genomic target identification using distributed gradients of selective single-stranded oligonucleotide probes in conjunction with microfluidics” 39th International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists (IUPAC) Congress, Ottawa, August 2003.
  80. Lin, F.Y.H., Erickson, D. Li, D., Sherman, P.M. “Development of a Novel Microfluidics-based Biochip System for the Detection of Helicobacter pylori” 103rd General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Washington D.C., May 2003.
  81. Lin, F.Y.H., Erickson, D. Li, D., Sherman, P.M. “Development of a novel microfluidics based biochip system for the detection of microbial pathogens” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (CAG), Banff, Febuary 2003.
  82. Erickson, D., Li, D. "3D Numerical Simulations of Pressure Driven Flow over Electrokinetically Heterogeneous Surfaces." ELKIN 2002 Krakow, Poland, June 2002.
  83. Sinton, D., Erickson, D., Li, D. "Photo-Injection and Sample Transport in Microfluidic-Chip Applications." CSME Forum 2002 Kingston, Ontario, June 2002.
  84. Erickson, D., Li, D., and Werner, C. "Simultaneous Determination of the Zeta (z)-Potential and Surface Conductance using the Improved Slope Intercept Technique." 75th ACS Colloid and Surface Sciences Symposium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 2001.
  85. Erickson, D., and Li, D., "Modeling Electrokinetic Flow through Microchannels with Heterogeneous Surface Properties." 75th ACS Colloid and Surface Sciences Symposium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 2001.
  86. Wong, F.C. and Erickson, D., "Time-Temperature Independent Fracture Analysis of an Instrumented Solid Rocket Motor" 36th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, AIAA Paper 2000-3324. (2000)

Technical Publications and Encyclopedia Articles

  1. Mandal, S., Erickson, D., “Optofluidics: Applications” Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. Springer (2006).
  2. Akhmechet, R., Erickson, D., “Optofluidics: Techniques for Fabrication and Integration” Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. Springer (2006).
  3. Yang, A.H.J., Erickson, D., “Optofluidics: Optics enabling Fluidics” Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. Springer (2006).
  4. Erickson, D., “Electroosmotic Flow” Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. Springer (2006).
  5. Erickson, D., “Electroosmotic Flow over Heterogeneous Surfaces” Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. Springer (2006).
  6. Erickson, D., “SNP on Chip: Microfluidic Technologies for Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Analysis” Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. Springer (2006).
  7. Erickson, D., “Optofluidics: Fluidics enabling Optics” Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. Springer (2006).
  8. Erickson, D., and Wong, F.C., "Failure Prediction of Solid Rocket Motors on Thermal Cool-Down." DREV-TR-2000 025. 150 Pages. (2000)
  9. Erickson, D., et. al., "Development of the U of A Entry in the 1997 Propane Vehicle Challenge." 1997 Propane Vehicle Challenge, SAE SP-1360. (1998)

Patents/Inventions

More information on invention disclosures are availiable through the Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization.

  1. Erickson, D., Kang, P. “High Resolution Reversible Color Images on Photonic Crystal Substrates” Disclosed
  2. Erickson, D., Chen, Y.-C. “Molecular Tweezers” Disclosed
  3. Erickson, D, Sinton, D., “Thousand-fold Improvement in Solar Photobioreactors using Evanescent Wave Photonics” Disclosed
  4. Erickson, D., Choi, I., Huh, Y.S., “Size-selective Concentration and Label-free Characterization of Protein Aggregates using a Raman Active Nanofluidic Device” Disclosed
  5. Erickson, D., Craighead, H.G., Huh, Y.S., Park, S-M. “Fabrication of Nanofilter Devices Using Elastomeric Micro to Nanochannel Interfaces” Provisional Patent Filed (#61/236,074), August 2009.
  6. Erickson, D., Chung, A., “Optofluidic Switching Systems and Optofluidic Components Using Solid and Liquid Core Waveguides, and Methods for Using Same” Provisional Patent Filed (#61/256,756), November 2009.
  7. Erickson, D., Batt, C., Lowe, A., Huh, Y.S. “Enhanced On-Chip SERS Based Biomolecular Detection Using Electrokinetically Active Microwells” Patent Filed (PCT/US09/060675), October 2009.
  8. Erickson, D., Lipson, M., “Optical force based biomolecular analysis in slot waveguides” Patent Filed (PCT/US09/56731), August 2009.
  9. Erickson, D., Mandal, S., “Nanoscale Optofluidic Devices for Biomolecular Detection” Patent Filed (PCT/US08/75066), August 2008.
  10. Erickson, D., Mandal, S., “Optically driven separations in photonic crystal fibers” Patent Filed (12/143,952), November 2006.
  11. Wang F., Erickson, D., Yang C., “Combined electrostatic and optical waveguide based microfluidic chip systems for bio-molecule and bio-entity detection and processing.” US. 7,385,460
  12. Erickson, D., Sinton, D. and Li, D. “A miniature, battery powered, integrated power supply for microfluidic applications with punch-through polymer chip coupling.” University of Toronto Confidential Invention Disclosure, July 2003.
  13. Erickson, D., and Li, D., "Microchannel Thermal Cycling PCR Reactor Chip." University of Toronto Confidential Invention Disclosure, April 2001.