Jeff Catchmark

 

 

 

Jeff Catchmark

Assistant Professor
109 Agricultural Engineering
814-863-0414
Fax:814-863-1031
jcatchmark@engr.psu.edu


Degrees
B.S. Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University,1990
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1995

Areas of Interest
Cellulose synthesis and organization, cellulosic composites and coatings, and chemically powered microfluidic and biological devices and sensors.

Teaching
B E 303 Structural Systems in Agriculture

Links
Nanoscale Engineering

Publications
Jing Fu, Sanjay Joshi and Jeffrey Catchmark, “Sputtering yield of water ice with focused ion beam in a cryogenic environment”, Submitted to the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B.
 
Vivek Verma, Christopher Siedlecki, William O. Hancock and Jeffrey M. Catchmark*, The role of casein in supporting the operation of surface bound kinesin”, submitted to Journal of Biological Engineering.

V. Verma, W. O. Hancock and J. M. Catchmark, “Nanoscale Patterning of Kinesin Motor Proteins and its Role in Guiding Microtubule Motility,” submitted to Small.

Henryk Szmacinski, Joseph Lakowicz, Jeffrey Catchmark, Khalid Eid, Jon Anderson, and Lyle Middendorf, “Evaluation of Silver Particle Arrays Patterned on Glass Using Backscattering and Fluorescence Spectroscopy", submitted to Applied Spectroscopy.

Mustafa H. Chowdhury, Jeffrey M. Catchmark, Joseph R. Lakowicz, “Imaging three-dimensional light propagation through periodic nanohole arrays using scanning aperture microscopy”, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 91, 103118, 2007.

S. Subramanian and J. M. Catchmark, "Control of catalytically generated electroosmotic fluid flow through surface zeta potential engineering”, J. Phys. Chem. C, vol. 111, pp. 11959-11964, 2007.

S. Subramanian and J. M. Catchmark, "Molecular ruler lithography with sacrificial multilayer host structure patterned using electron beam lithography", Journal of Microlithography, Microfabrication and Microsystems, Volume 5, Issue 4, 049701, 2006.

V. Verma, W. O. Hancock and J. M. Catchmark, “Micro- and Nanofabrication Processes for Hybrid Synthetic and Biological System Fabrication”, IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging: A Special Section on Packaging for Micro/Nano-Scale Systems, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 584-593, 2005.

S. Subramanian, G. S. McCarty, and J. M. Catchmark, “Molecular Ruler Lithography Using Sacrificial Host Structures”, Journal of Microlithography, Microfabrication and Microsystems, Vol. 4, No. 4, p. 049701, 2005.

S. Janardhanan, J. Delalic, J. M. Catchmark, D. Saini, “Development of biocompatible MEMS wireless capacitive pressure sensor”, Journal of Microelectronics and Electronic Packaging, v 2, n 4, pp. 287-296, 2005.

J. M. Catchmark, G. P. Lavallee, M. Rogosky,  and Y. C. Lee, “Direct sub 100nm patterning of an organic low-k dielectric for electrical and optical interconnects”, Journal of Electronic Materials, vol. 34, No. 3, pp. L12-L15, 2005.

J. M. Catchmark, S. Subramanian and A. Sen, “Directed Rotational Motion of Microscale Objects Using Interfacial Tension Gradients Continually Generated via Catalytic Reactions”, Small, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 202-206, 2005.

“Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry: Vision and Technology Roadmap,” Rajai Atalla, James Beecher, Robert Caron, Jeffrey Catchmark, Yulin Deng, Wolfgang Glasser, Derek Gray, Candace Haigler, Philip Jones, Margaret Joyce, Jane Kohlman, Alexander Koukoulas, Peter Lancaster, Lori Perine, Augusto Rodrigues, Arthur Ragauskas, Theodore Wegner and Junyong Zhu, American Forest and Paper Association, 2005.