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Research Highlights:
Dr.
Yao and his team in the
Manufacturing Research Laboratory (MRL)
are interested in multidisciplinary research in manufacturing and
design, nontraditional manufacturing, laser materials processing, laser
assisted material removal, shaping, and surface modification, laser
applications in industry and art restoration, robotics in industry and
health care industry.
Advanced
Laser Manufacturing Group
Current
research projects include
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 Laser
Forming and Laser Correction: Laser forming (LF) of sheet metal components and tube requires no
hard tooling and external forces and therefore suited for die-less rapid prototyping and low-volume, high-variety production of
sheet metal and tube components.
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 Microstructural
Modification of NiTi Shape Memory Alloys and Biodegradable Polymers:
By controlling the thermal evolution resulting from laser irradiation,
for both melt-mediated and solid phase processes, spatial control over
traditional properties such as mechanical, electrical and thermal, in
addition to so-called non-traditional material responses such as
biodegradability and shape memory responses may be realized. |
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 Ultrafast
laser processing of dielectrics: Femtosecond laser processing of
transparent non-crystalline solids employs non-linear absorption to
induce structural changes within the target material interior without
affecting its surface. The same laser source is used for sub-micron
size texturing of multicrystalline silicon which has potential
application in photovoltaics. |
Advanced Robotic Health Care Group
Current research projects include
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Robotic Preparation of cDNA from Single Cells:
Develop an instrument that
will couple the power of multidimensional microscopy with that
of DNA array technology (A joint research project with St.
Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center). |
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