2025.08: Congratulations to Jamil and Jason for publishing their work in Additive Manufacturing!
2025.07: Congratulations to Neil on receiving the Heat Transfer Division K-9 Track (Nanoscale Thermal Transport) Best Presentation Award at the 2025 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference!
2025.03: Congratulations to Jason on receiving Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship.
2025.01: A press release of perfect nanoscale 3D printing incorporated with machine learning has been published on Purdue now!
2023.07: Mauricio A. Segovia Pacheco received the ASME Heat Transfer Division K-9 Track (Nanoscale Thermal Transport) Presentation Award at the 2023 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference.
2023.04: Shouyuan and Neil published their work in Nano Letters!
2019.09: Prof. Xu is invited to be the Russell Severance Springer Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley during the 2019-2020 academic year.
2019.07: Zhou Zeng defended his M.S. thesis and joined Schlumberger in Houston, TX
2019.01: Anurup Datta joined the University of Tromsø as a postdoc after defending his PhD thesis.
2018.08: Qian Cao defended his M.S. thesis and joined Hermes Microvision in San Jose, CA
2018.03: Roger Luo and Shouyuan Huang's work on "Large enhancement of thermal conductivity and Lorenz number in topological insulator thin films" is featured in Purdue News.
2018.01: At the SPIE 2018 Photonics West conference Paul Somers’ work on "Optical lithography using stimulated emission depletion" won the SPIE Applications of 3D Printing Best Paper Award. Authors on the work are Paul Somers, Sanjoy Mukherjee, Brandon Franz, Xiaolong He, Bryan Boudouris, Liang Pan, and Xianfan Xu.
2017.09: Anurup's work on Infrared Near-Field Transducer for HAMR has been featured in storagenewsletter.com
2017.08: Prof. Xu is appointed as an Associate Editor of Optics Express (OSA)
2014.07: James Mitchell defended his PHD thesis and joined Maxim Integrated, OR.
2013.01: Yaguo Wang joined UT Austin.
2012.06: Congratulations to Woongsik Nam for the Best Student Poster Award at the 13th International Symposium on Laser Precision Microfabrication. The title is "Laser Direct Growth of Silicon Nanowire and Graphene for Device Fabrication" and the authors are Woongsik Nam, James Mitchell, Dapeng Wei, Chookiat Tansarawiput, Minghao Qi and Xianfan Xu.
2011.12: Pornsak Srisungsitthisunti defended his PHD and joined King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand.
2011.10: Yaguo Wang defended her PHD thesis.
2011.06: Graduate student Piak (Pornsak Srisungsitthisunti)'s work has been awarded a patent for "Volume Fresnel zone plates fabricated by laser direct writing" (U.S. Patent No. 7,969,6544).
2010.12: Edward C. Kinzel defended his PHD thesis and will join Infrared Systems Laboratory in University of Central Florida, FL.
2010.08: Postdoc researcher Carl Liebig joined AFOSR Wright Patterson Laboratory .
2010.06: Postdoc researcher Se Jun Park joined Samsung.
2010.02: Sreemanth Uppuluri defended his PHD thesis and joined Intel.
2010.02: Congratulations to Piak (Pornsak Srisungsitthisunti) for the Student Award at the Conference on Laser Applications in Microelectronic and Optoelectronic Manufacturing (LAMOM) XV, part of Photonics West, 2010.
2009.09: Postdoc researcher Sinan Selcuk jointed Intel.
2008.05: Baratunde A. Cola defende his PHD thesis and will join Georgia Tech.
2008.03.24: Liang Wang defended his PHD thesis and will join Molecular Imprints, Inc. in Austin, TX.
2008.02.20: Alex Qihong Wu defended his PHD thesis and will join Seagate Technology Research Center in Pittsburgh, PA.
2007.11.21:Nicholas Dubay-Murphy successfully defended his dissertation and accepted a position at Harris Corporation.
2007.04.12: Congratulations to Qihong Wu (Alex) on the birth of his son Manning!