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Overview

Karl F. Böhringer is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within engineering and materials science, with a focus on areas related to optics and photonics.

They have contributed extensively to fields such as Engineering and Materials Science, with a large portion of their work concentrated in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, and Surfaces, Coatings and Films.

The main topics their work covers include:

  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications
  • Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies
  • Optical Coatings and Gratings
  • Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies
  • Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing

Karl F. Böhringer has published research papers in several prominent venues. Notable frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACS Photonics
  • Advanced Electronic Materials
  • Microsystems & Nanoengineering
  • Nature Communications

They have collaborated repeatedly with a number of coauthors, with some frequent collaborators including:

  • Arka Majumdar
  • Johannes E. Fröch
  • Zheyi Han
  • Quentin A. A. Tanguy
  • Luocheng Huang

Recent selected papers by Karl F. Böhringer demonstrate a focus on optical materials and imaging technologies:

  • Photolithographic Patterning of Perovskite Thin Films for Multicolor Display Applications, 2020, Nano Letters
  • Real time full-color imaging in a Meta-optical fiber endoscope, 2023, eLight
  • An active self-cleaning surface system for photovoltaic modules using anisotropic ratchet conveyors and mechanical vibration, 2020, Microsystems & Nanoengineering
  • Broadband thermal imaging using meta-optics, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Long wavelength infrared imaging under ambient thermal radiation via an all-silicon metalens, 2021, Optical Materials Express

Best Publications

  • A ferrofluidic magnetic micropump

    A. Hatch;A.E. Kamholz;G. Holman;P. Yager

  • Self-assembly from milli- to nanoscales: methods and applications

    M. Mastrangeli;S. Abbasi;C. Varel;C. Van Hoof

  • Directing droplets using microstructured surfaces.

    Ashutosh Shastry;Marianne J Case;Karl F Böhringer

  • Wearable and Flexible Textile Electrodes for Biopotential Signal Monitoring: A review

    Gizem Acar;Ozberk Ozturk;Ata Jedari Golparvar;Tamador Alkhidir Elboshra

  • Controlled multibatch self-assembly of microdevices

    Xiaorong Xiong;Y. Hanein;Jiandong Fang;Yanbing Wang

  • Parallel microassembly with electrostatic force fields

    K.-F. Bohringer;K. Goldberg;M. Cohn;R. Howe

  • A low cost point-of-care viscous sample preparation device for molecular diagnosis in the developing world; an example of microfluidic origami

    A. V. Govindarajan;S. Ramachandran;G. D. Vigil;P. Yager

  • Magnetically actuated fluid handling devices for microfluidic applications

    Andrew Kamholz;Anson Hatch;Karl Böhringer;Paul Yager

  • Mechanisms of Microtubule Guiding on Microfabricated Kinesin-Coated Surfaces: Chemical and Topographic Surface Patterns

    John Clemmens;Henry Hess;Ryan Lipscomb;Yael Hanein

  • Photolithographic Patterning of Perovskite Thin Films for Multicolor Display Applications.

    Chen Zou;Cheng Chang;Di Sun;Karl F Böhringer

  • Modeling and Controlling Parallel Tasks in Droplet-Based Microfluidic Systems

    K.F. Bohringer

  • MEMS-actuated metasurface Alvarez lens.

    Zheyi Han;Shane Colburn;Arka Majumdar;Karl F. Böhringer

  • Novel cell patterning using microheater-controlled thermoresponsive plasma films

    Xuanhong Cheng;Yanbing Wang;Yael Hanein;Karl F. Böhringer

  • CMOS integrated ciliary actuator array as a general-purpose micromanipulation tool for small objects

    J.W. Suh;R.B. Darling;K.-F. Bohringer;B.R. Donald

  • Sensorless manipulation using massively parallel microfabricated actuator arrays

    K.-F. Bohringer;B.R. Donald;R. Mihailovich;N.C. MacDonald

  • Modeling of capillary forces and binding sites for fluidic self-assembly

    K.F. Bohringer;U. Srinivasan;R.T. Howe

  • Using constraints to achieve stability in automatic graph layout algorithms

    Karl-Friedrich Böhringer;Frances Newbery Paulisch

  • Programmable Force Fields for Distributed Manipulation, with Applications to MEMS Actuator Arrays and Vibratory Parts Feeders

    Karl-Friedrich Bohringer;Bruce Randall Donald;Noel C. MacDonald

  • ViBE: a compressed video database structured for active browsing and search

    C. Taskiran;Jau-Yuen Chen;A. Albiol;L. Torres

  • Algorithms for Sensorless Manipulation Using a Vibrating Surface

    Karl-Friedrich Böhringer;Vivek Bhatt;Bruce Randall Donald;Kenneth Y. Goldberg

  • Single-crystal silicon actuator arrays for micro manipulation tasks

    K.-F. Bohringer;B.R. Donald;N.C. MacDonald

Frequent Co-Authors

Yael Hanein
Yael Hanein Tel Aviv University
Bruce R. Donald
Bruce R. Donald Duke University
Buddy D. Ratner
Buddy D. Ratner University of Washington
Hiroyuki Fujita
Hiroyuki Fujita Tokyo City University
Gregory T. A. Kovacs
Gregory T. A. Kovacs SRI International
Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg University of California, Berkeley
Noel C. MacDonald
Noel C. MacDonald University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael J. Sinclair
Michael J. Sinclair Microsoft (United States)
Dan Halperin
Dan Halperin Tel Aviv University
Arka Majumdar
Arka Majumdar University of Washington

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