The US Air Force awarded RHK Phase II STTR funding to develop ground-breaking Nano-Analytical instruments crucial for American security and competitiveness. RHK is combining expertise with Dr. Lukas Novotny and University of Rochester Nano-Optics. The Nano-Spectroscopy platform will perform chemically-specific imaging with high spatial resolution well beyond what the market offers today. The RHK-Novotny team is the only group awarded Phase II funding. Adam Kollin, RHK President, said, “Non-destructively identifying both the ‘where’ and the ‘what’ of unknown compounds delivers huge advantages in materials science, nanotech, and catalysis. We call it Hyperspectral Imaging, or chemical fingerprinting at the nano-scale.” For Military-Security applications, it can screen for and reverse engineer high energy density materials, radar absorbing materials, biologically active nano-systems, and nuclear nanomaterials. The market demand and commercial potential for this capability are broad, multi-faceted, and growing rapidly.

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RHK welcomes Dr. Byoung Choi as the newest member of our Research and Development team. Dr. Byoung Choi received his PhD in Physics in 2006 in the group of Prof. Young Kuk with a topic of: "Chemical and Mechanical Manipulation of Azobenzene Molecules by STM" He later joined Dr. Miquel Salmeron's group at LBNL in 2006 as a Post Doc where he developed a cryogenic STM/AFM based on the qPlus sensor and studied various systems including water adsorbed on the Cu(110) surface.

His research interests included Atomic resolved imaging and manipulation of water adsorbed surfaces and water related reactions with STM and NC-AFM Surface chemical reactions and catalysis at the molecular level Photoreaction studies of photosensitive molecules Phonon and electron mediated surface dynamics of molecules and nanostructures

At RHK, Dr. Byoung Choi will utilize his expertise on projects including our PAN cryogenic STM/AFM and Quadraprobe systems.