Professional Preparation:

Professional Appointments

Associate Professor, ECE, University of Minnesota, 2006-present
McKnight Land-Grant Professor, UMN, 2003-2006
Assistant Professor, ECE, UMN, 2001-2006
Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry, Harvard University, 1999-2001
Visiting Scientist, Nanotechnology Inst., Physics, Tech. Uni. Karlsruhe, 1999

Selected Publications

C.R. Barry and H.O. Jacobs, "Fringing Field Directed Assembly of Nanomaterials", Nano Lett. 6, 2790 (2006)

Aaron M. Welle and Heiko O. Jacobs, "Electrospray and Coulomb force directed Printing of Organic and Inorganice Nanomaterials with 100 nm lateral resolution", Appl. Phys. Lett. 87(26), 263119, (2005)

H.O. Jacobs, S.A. Campbell, and M.G. Steward, "Approaching NanoXerography: The use of Electrostatic Forces to Position Nanoparticles with 100 Nanometer Scale Resolution", Advanced Materials 14, 1553 (2002).

H.O. Jacobs and G.M. Whitesides, "Submicrometer Patterning of Charge in Thin-Film Electrets", Science 291, 1763 (2001)

H.O. Jacobs and A. Stemmer, "Measuring and Modifying the Electric Surface Potential Distribution on a Nanometer Scale: A Powerful Tool in Science and Technology", Surface & Interface Analysis 27, 361 (1999).

Wei Zheng and Heiko O. Jacobs, "Self-Assembly Process To Assemble and Connect Semiconductor Dies On Surfaces with Single Angular Orientation and Contact Pad Registration", Advanced Materials 18, 1387 (2006)

Jae-Hoon Chung, W. Zheng, and H.O. Jacobs, "Programmable reconfigurable self-assembly: parallel heterogeneous integration of chip-scale components on planar and nonplanar surfaces", Journal of MEMS 15, 457 (2006)

Wei Zheng and Heiko O. Jacobs, "Fabrication of Multicomponent Microsystems by Directed Three-Dimensional Self-Assembly", Advanced Functional Materials 15, 732, (2005). (Cover)

W. Zheng, P. Buhlmann, and H.O. Jacobs, "Approaching Shape-and-Solder-Directed Self-Assembly of Functional Microsystems", Proc. Natl. Aced. Soc. PNAS 101, 12814 (2004)

H.O. Jacobs, A.R. Tao, A. Schwartz, D.H. Gracias, and G.M. Whitesides, "Fabrication of a Cylindrical Display by Patterned Assembly", Science 296, 323 (2002).