Ping Kao

Graduate student

Room 26, Chemistry building

University Park, PA 16802

Email: pzk109@psu.edu

EDUCATION

M.S.: Materials Science, The Pennsylvania State University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Application of micro machined quartz resonator arrays and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for biochemical sensing.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Neppl, S., et al., Charge transfer dynamics in self-assembled monomolecular films. Chemical Physics Letters, 2007. 447: p. 227-231.

Kao, P., et al., SAMs and protein adsorption studies for the calibration of miniaturized quartz crystal microbalance arrays. Transducers '07 & Eurosensors Xxi, Digest of Technical Papers, Vols 1 and 2, 2007: p. U1164-U1165.

Kao, P., et al., Self assembled monolayer and protein adsorption studies on micromachined quartz crystal balances - art. no. 646405. MEMS/MOEMS Components and Their Applications IV, 2007. 6464: p. 46405-46405.

Kao, P., et al., Human serum albumin adsorption study on 62-MHz miniaturized quartz gravimetric sensors. Analytical Chemistry, 2008. 80(15): p. 5930-5936.

Kao, P., et al., Surface-enhanced Raman detection on metalized nanostructured poly(p-xylylene) films. Advanced Materials, 2008. 20(18): p. 3562-+.

Kao, P., et al., Multipixel quartz resonator gravimetric biosensor array. Eusrosensors XXII, Dresden, Germany, 2008: p. 1136-1139.

Kao, P. and S. Tadigadapa, Micromachined quartz resonator based infrared detector array. Sensors and Actuators a-Physical, 2009. 149(2): p. 189-192.

Kao, P., et al., A Micromachined Quartz Resonator Array for Biosensing Applications. Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 2009. 18(3): p. 522-530.

Kao, P., D. Allara, and S. Tadigadapa, Characterization of viscoelastic properties of adsorbed biomolecules and biomolecular assemblies with high frequency micromachined quartz resonators. Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical, 2009. 142(2): p. 406-411.

Kao, P., D. Allara, and S. Tadigadapa, Fabrication and performance characteristics of high-frequency micromachined bulk acoustic wave quartz resonator arrays. Measurement Science & Technology, 2009. 20(12).

Demirel, M.C., et al., Bio-organism sensing via surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy on controlled metal/polymer nanostructured substrates. Biointerphases, 2009. 4(2): p. 35-41.

Kao, P., et al., Characterization of Diffuse Double Layer Viscoelasticity in Electrochemical Atom Deposition using High Frequency Micromachined Quartz Crystal Resonators. Langmuir, 2009.

Demirel, G., et al., Molecular Probes for Viral Gene Detection using Highly Reproducible Substrates. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2009.