HEIKO O. JACOBS
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Contact Info: Phone: (612) 626-7193 Office: 5-163 EE/CSci Email: jacobs@ece.umn.edu		Professional Preparation University of Wuppertal, Germany, Electrical Engineering, B.S., 1993 University of Wuppertal, Germany, Electrical Engineering, M.S., 1995 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Ph.D., 1999 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Chemistry, 2001 Professional Appointments · Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, UMN, 2001-present Selected Publications · C.R. Barry, N.Z. Lwin, W. Zheng and H.O. Jacobs, "Printing Nanoparticle Building Blocks from the Gas-Phase Using Nanoxerography," Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 5527 (2003). [Cover picture] · C.R. Barry, M.G. Steward, N.Z. Lwin and H.O. Jacobs, "Printing Nanoparticles from the Liquid and Gas-Phase using Nanoxerography,” Nanotechnology 14, 1057 (2003) · 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) [Cover Picture] · M.L. Chabinyc, X. Chen, R.E. Holmlin, H.O. Jacobs, H. Skulason, C.D. Frisbie, V. Mujica, M.A. Ratner, M.A. Rampi and G.M. Whitesides, "Molecular Rectification in a Metal-Insulator-Metal Junction Based on Self-Assembled Monolayers," JACS 124, 11730 (2002) · M. Boncheva, D.H. Gracias, H.O. Jacobs and G.M. Whitesides, "Biomimetic Self-Assembly of a Functional Asymmetrical Electronic Device," Proc. Natl. Acad. Soc. U.S. 99, 4937 (2002) · 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) · J. Ch. Love, D.B. Wolfe, H.O. Jacobs and G.M. Whitesides, "Microscope Projection Photolithography for Rapid Prototyping of Masters with Micron-Scale Features for Use in Soft Lithography," Langmuir 17, 6005 (2001) · H.O. Jacobs and G.M. Whitesides, "Sub-Micron Patterning of Charge in Thin-Film Electrets," Science 291, 1763 (2001) · F. Robin, H. Jacobs, O. Homan, A. Stemmer and W. Bachtold, "Investigation of the Cleaved Surface of a p-i-n Laser using Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy and Two-Dimensional Physical Simulations," Appl. Phys. Lett. 76, 2907 (2000) · 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," Surf. Interface Anal. 27, 361 (1999) Selected Awards 3M Junior Faculty Award, April 2003 ......................................... National Science Foundation CAREER Award for work on the Directed Assembly of Nanoparticles to Enable the Fabrication of Nanoparticle Based Devices, February 2003 · Emmy Neother-Program, first electrical engineer awarded by this assistant professorship equivalent program from the German Science Foundation (DFG). Synergistic Activities · Investigator for Center of NanoEnergeResearch, U.S. Army and UMN