Jason Amsden | Scholars@Duke

Jason Amsden
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2017

Contact Information

jason.amsden@duke.edu

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Boston University 2008
Research
Selected Grants
- PFI:BIC - A Smart, Flexible, Large-Scale Sensing and Response Service System (LASSaRESS) for Monitoring and Management of Ground, Air and Waterborne Contaminants awarded by National Science Foundation 2016 - 2019
- Radiation survivability of MEMS microelectronic circuits with carbon nanotube field emitters awarded by Defense Threat Reduction Agency 2015 - 2019
- An Autonomous Coded Aperture Mini Mass Spectrometer (AUTOCANNS) Based Methane Sensing System awarded by Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy 2015 - 2019
- Investigation of anode embodiments for a field emission heat engine awarded by Modern Electron, Inc. 2014 - 2016
- Energy Harvesting Options to Enhance Energy Neutrality in an Enahnced Waste Management System for the Developing World awarded by Research Triangle Institute 2014 - 2015
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Amsden, JJ, Herr, PJ, Landry, DMW, Kim, W, Vyas, R, Parker, CB, Kirley, MP, Keil, AD, Gilchrist, KH, Radauscher, EJ, Hall, SD, Carlson, JB, Baldasaro, N, Stokes, D, Di Dona, ST, Russell, ZE, Grego, S, Edwards, SJ, Sperline, RP, Denton, MB, Stoner, BR, Gehm, ME, and Glass, JT. "Proof of Concept Coded Aperture Miniature Mass Spectrometer Using a Cycloidal Sector Mass Analyzer, a Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Field Emission Electron Ionization Source, and an Array Detector." Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 29, no. 2 (February 2018): 360-372. Full Text
  - Radauscher, EJ, Parker, CB, Gilchrist, KH, Di Dona, S, Russell, ZE, Hall, SD, Carlson, JB, Grego, S, Edwards, SJ, Sperline, RP, Denton, MB, Stoner, BR, Glass, JT, and Amsden, JJ. "A miniature electron ionization source fabricated using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) with integrated carbon nanotube (CNT) field emission cathodes and low-temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC)." International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 422 (November 2017): 162-169. Full Text
  - Kim, JY, Kim, J, Amsden, JJ, Roh, J, Park, I, Yoon, DY, Kim, H, and Lee, CH. "Temperature Dependence and Impedance Characteristics of Hybrid Solar Cells Based on Poly(phenylene vinylene): ZnO Nanoparticles With Added Surfactants." IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 7, no. 4 (July 2017): 1031-1035. Full Text
  - Amsden, JJ, Gehm, ME, Russell, ZE, Chen, EX, Di Dona, ST, Wolter, SD, Danell, RM, Kibelka, G, Parker, CB, Stoner, BR, Brady, DJ, and Glass, JT. "Coded Apertures in Mass Spectrometry." Annual review of analytical chemistry (Palo Alto, Calif.) 10, no. 1 (June 2017): 141-156. Full Text
  - Radauscher, EJ, Gilchrist, KH, Di Dona, ST, Russell, ZE, Piascik, JR, Amsden, JJ, Parker, CB, Stoner, BR, and Glass, JT. "Improved Performance of Field Emission Vacuum Microelectronic Devices for Integrated Circuits." IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 63, no. 9 (September 2016): 3753-3760. Full Text
  - Russell, ZE, DiDona, ST, Amsden, JJ, Parker, CB, Kibelka, G, Gehm, ME, and Glass, JT. "Compatibility of Spatially Coded Apertures with a Miniature Mattauch-Herzog Mass Spectrograph." Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 27, no. 4 (April 2016): 578-584. Full Text
  - Mitropoulos, AN, Marelli, B, Perotto, G, Amsden, J, Kaplan, DL, and Omenetto, FG. "Towards the fabrication of biohybrid silk fibroin materials: entrapment and preservation of chloroplast organelles in silk fibroin films." Rsc Advances 6, no. 76 (2016): 72366-72370. Full Text
  - Radauscher, EJ, Keil, AD, Wells, M, Amsden, JJ, Piascik, JR, Parker, CB, Stoner, BR, and Glass, JT. "Chemical ionization mass spectrometry using carbon nanotube field emission electron sources." Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 26, no. 11 (November 2015): 1903-1910. Full Text
  - Parker, CB, Amsden, JJ, Peng, Q, Stoner, BR, and Glass, JT. "Achieving Excellence in Graduate Research: A Guide for New Graduate Students." Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) 2, no. 10 (October 2015): 1500203-. Full Text
  - Chen, EX, Russell, ZE, Amsden, JJ, Wolter, SD, Danell, RM, Parker, CB, Stoner, BR, Gehm, ME, Glass, JT, and Brady, DJ. "Order of Magnitude Signal Gain in Magnetic Sector Mass Spectrometry Via Aperture Coding." Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 26, no. 9 (September 2015): 1633-1640. Full Text
  - Russell, ZE, Chen, EX, Amsden, JJ, Wolter, SD, Danell, RM, Parker, CB, Stoner, BR, Gehm, ME, Brady, DJ, and Glass, JT. "Two-dimensional aperture coding for magnetic sector mass spectrometry." Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 26, no. 2 (February 2015): 248-256. Full Text
  - Tao, H, Kainerstorfer, JM, Siebert, SM, Pritchard, EM, Sassaroli, A, Panilaitis, BJB, Brenckle, MA, Amsden, JJ, Levitt, J, Fantini, S, Kaplan, DL, and Omenetto, FG. "Implantable, multifunctional, bioresorbable optics." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109, no. 48 (November 12, 2012): 19584-19589. Full Text
  - Meister, M, Amsden, JJ, Howard, IA, Park, I, Lee, C, Yoon, DY, and Laquai, F. "Parallel Pool Analysis of Transient Spectroscopy Reveals Origins of and Perspectives for ZnO Hybrid Solar Cell Performance Enhancement Using Semiconducting Surfactants." The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 3, no. 18 (September 20, 2012): 2665-2670. Full Text
  - Toffanin, S, Kim, S, Cavallini, S, Natali, M, Benfenati, V, Amsden, JJ, Kaplan, DL, Zamboni, R, Muccini, M, and Omenetto, FG. "Low-threshold blue lasing from silk fibroin thin films." Applied Physics Letters 101, no. 9 (August 27, 2012): 091110-091110. Full Text
  - Kim, JY, Noh, S, Nam, YM, Kim, JY, Roh, J, Park, M, Amsden, JJ, Yoon, DY, Lee, C, and Jo, WH. "Effect of Nanoscale SubPc Interfacial Layer on the Performance of Inverted Polymer Solar Cells Based on P3HT/PC 71 BM." Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces 3, no. 11 (November 23, 2011): 4279-4285. Full Text
  - White, RD, Gray, C, Mandelup, E, Amsden, JJ, Kaplan, DL, and Omenetto, FG. "Rapid nano impact printing of silk biopolymer thin films." Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 21, no. 11 (November 1, 2011): 115014-115014. Full Text
  - Seunguk, N, Donggu, L, Jun, YK, Yongju, P, Changhee, L, and Jason, JA. "Area and Light Intensity Dependence of Buffer Layers on P3HT:PCBM Solar Cells." Journal of the Korean Physical Society 59, no. 2 (August 12, 2011): 207-207. Full Text
  - Capelli, R, Amsden, J, Generali, G, Toffanin, S, Benfenati, V, Muccini, M, Kaplan, D, Omenetto, F, and Zamboni, R. "Integration of silk protein in organic and light-emitting transistors." Organic Electronics 12, no. 7 (July 2011): 1146-1151. Full Text
  - Park, I, Lim, Y, Noh, S, Lee, D, Meister, M, Amsden, JJ, Laquai, F, Lee, C, and Yoon, DY. "Enhanced photovoltaic performance of ZnO nanoparticle/poly(phenylene vinylene) hybrid photovoltaic cells by semiconducting surfactant." Organic Electronics 12, no. 3 (March 2011): 424-428. Full Text
  - Mondia, JP, Amsden, JJ, Lin, D, Negro, LD, Kaplan, DL, and Omenetto, FG. "Rapid nanoimprinting of doped silk films for enhanced fluorescent emission." Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) 22, no. 41 (November 2010): 4596-4599. Full Text
  - Tao, H, Amsden, JJ, Strikwerda, AC, Fan, K, Kaplan, DL, Zhang, X, Averitt, RD, and Omenetto, FG. "Metamaterial silk composites at terahertz frequencies." Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) 22, no. 32 (August 2010): 3527-3531. Full Text
  - Boriskina, SV, Lee, SYK, Amsden, JJ, Omenetto, FG, and Negro, LD. "Formation of colorimetric fingerprints on nano-patterned deterministic aperiodic surfaces." Optics Express 18, no. 14 (July 5, 2010): 14568-14576. Full Text
  - Lee, SY, Amsden, JJ, Boriskina, SV, Gopinath, A, Mitropolous, A, Kaplan, DL, Omenetto, FG, and Dal Negro, L. "Spatial and spectral detection of protein monolayers with deterministic aperiodic arrays of metal nanoparticles." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107, no. 27 (July 2010): 12086-12090. Full Text
  - Kim, D-H, Viventi, J, Amsden, JJ, Xiao, J, Vigeland, L, Kim, Y-S, Blanco, JA, Panilaitis, B, Frechette, ES, Contreras, D, Kaplan, DL, Omenetto, FG, Huang, Y, Hwang, K-C, Zakin, MR, Litt, B, and Rogers, JA. "Dissolvable films of silk fibroin for ultrathin conformal bio-integrated electronics." Nature Materials 9, no. 6 (June 2010): 511-517. Full Text
  - Amsden, JJ, Domachuk, P, Gopinath, A, White, RD, Negro, LD, Kaplan, DL, and Omenetto, FG. "Rapid nanoimprinting of silk fibroin films for biophotonic applications." Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) 22, no. 15 (April 2010): 1746-1749. Full Text
  - Kim, DH, Viventi, J, Amsden, JJ, Xiao, J, Vigeland, L, Kim, YS, Blanco, JA, Panilaitis, B, Frechette, ES, Contreras, D, Kaplan, DL, Omenetto, FG, Huang, Y, Hwang, KC, Zakin, MR, Litt, B, and Rogers, JA. "Erratum: Dissolvable films of silk fibroin for ultrathin conformal bio-integrated electronics (Nature Materials (2010) DOI:10.1038/nmat2745)." Nature Materials 9, no. 6 (January 1, 2010): 8-. Full Text
  - Kim, DH, Viventi, J, Amsden, JJ, Xiao, J, Vigeland, L, Kim, YS, Blanco, JA, Panilaitis, B, Frechette, ES, Contreras, D, Kaplan, DL, Omenetto, FG, Huang, Y, Hwang, KC, Zakin, MR, Litt, B, and Rogers, JA. "Dissolvable films of silk fibroin for ultrathin conformal bio-integrated electronics." Nature Materials 9, no. 6 (January 1, 2010): 1-7. Full Text
  - Kim, D-H, Kim, Y-S, Amsden, J, Panilaitis, B, Kaplan, DL, Omenetto, FG, Zakin, MR, and Rogers, JA. "Erratum: “Silicon electronics on silk as a path to bioresorbable, implantable devices” [Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 133701 (2009)]." Applied Physics Letters 95, no. 26 (December 28, 2009): 269902-269902. Full Text
  - Domachuk, P, Perry, H, Amsden, JJ, Kaplan, DL, and Omenetto, FG. "Bioactive “self-sensing” optical systems." Applied Physics Letters 95, no. 25 (December 21, 2009): 253702-253702. Full Text
  - Adato, R, Yanik, AA, Amsden, JJ, Kaplan, DL, Omenetto, FG, Hong, MK, Erramilli, S, and Altug, H. "Ultra-sensitive vibrational spectroscopy of protein monolayers with plasmonic nanoantenna arrays." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106, no. 46 (November 2009): 19227-19232. Full Text
  - Amsden, JJ, Perry, H, Boriskina, SV, Gopinath, A, Kaplan, DL, Dal Negro, L, and Omenetto, FG. "Spectral analysis of induced color change on periodically nanopatterned silk films." Optics Express 17, no. 23 (November 2009): 21271-21279. Full Text
  - Kim, D-H, Kim, Y-S, Amsden, J, Panilaitis, B, Kaplan, DL, Omenetto, FG, Zakin, MR, and Rogers, JA. "Silicon electronics on silk as a path to bioresorbable, implantable devices." Applied Physics Letters 95, no. 13 (September 28, 2009): 133701-133701. Full Text
  - Parker, ST, Domachuk, P, Amsden, J, Bressner, J, Lewis, JA, Kaplan, DL, and Omenetto, FG. "Biocompatible Silk Printed Optical Waveguides." Advanced Materials 21, no. 23 (June 19, 2009): 2411-2415. Full Text
  - Amsden, JJ, Kralj, JM, Bergo, VB, Spudich, EN, Spudich, JL, and Rothschild, KJ. "Different structural changes occur in blue- and green-proteorhodopsins during the primary photoreaction." Biochemistry 47, no. 44 (November 2008): 11490-11498. Full Text
  - Chieffo, LR, Shattuck, JT, Pinnick, E, Amsden, JJ, Hong, MK, Wang, F, Erramilli, S, and Ziegler, LD. "Nitrous Oxide Vibrational Energy Relaxation Is a Probe of Interfacial Water in Lipid Bilayers." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 112, no. 40 (October 9, 2008): 12776-12782. Full Text
  - Kralj, JM, Bergo, VB, Amsden, JJ, Spudich, EN, Spudich, JL, and Rothschild, KJ. "Protonation state of Glu142 differs in the green- and blue-absorbing variants of proteorhodopsin." Biochemistry 47, no. 11 (March 2008): 3447-3453. Full Text
  - Chieffo, L, Shattuck, J, Amsden, J, Erramilli, S, and Ziegler, L. "Ultrafast vibrational relaxation of liquid H2O following librational combination band excitation." Chemical Physics 341, no. 1-3 (November 2007): 71-80. Full Text
  - Amsden, JJ, Kralj, JM, Chieffo, LR, Wang, X, Erramilli, S, Spudich, EN, Spudich, JL, Ziegler, LD, and Rothschild, KJ. "Subpicosecond Protein Backbone Changes Detected during the Green-Absorbing Proteorhodopsin Primary Photoreaction." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 111, no. 40 (October 2007): 11824-11831. Full Text
  - Bergo, VB, Ntefidou, M, Trivedi, VD, Amsden, JJ, Kralj, JM, Rothschild, KJ, and Spudich, JL. "Conformational changes in the photocycle of Anabaena sensory rhodopsin: absence of the Schiff base counterion protonation signal." The Journal of biological chemistry 281, no. 22 (June 2006): 15208-15214. Full Text
  - Maji, SK, Amsden, JJ, Rothschild, KJ, Condron, MM, and Teplow, DB. "Conformational dynamics of amyloid beta-protein assembly probed using intrinsic fluorescence." Biochemistry 44, no. 40 (October 2005): 13365-13376. Full Text
  - Bergo, V, Amsden, JJ, Spudich, EN, Spudich, JL, and Rothschild, KJ. "Structural changes in the photoactive site of proteorhodopsin during the primary photoreaction." Biochemistry 43, no. 28 (July 2004): 9075-9083. Full Text
  - Landry, DMW, Kim, W, Amsden, JJ, Di Dona, ST, Choi, H, Haley, L, Russell, ZE, Parker, CB, Glass, JT, and Gehm, ME. "Effects of Magnetic and Electric Field Uniformity on Coded Aperture Imaging Quality in a Cycloidal Mass Analyzer (Published online)." Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry . Full Text
- Conference Papers
  - Gilchrist, KH, Piascik, JR, Stoner, BR, Radauscher, EJ, Amsden, JJ, Parker, CB, and Glass, JT. "Platform for integrated vacuum microelectronic circuits." January 1, 2014. Full Text
  - Tao, H, Siebert, SM, Pritchard, EM, Sassaroli, A, Panilaitis, B, Brenckle, MA, Amsden, JJ, Levitt, JM, Fantini, S, Kaplan, DL, and Omenetto, FG. "Implantable resorbable micro-prism arrays for real-time drug release monitoring." December 6, 2012.
  - Tao, H, Siebert, SM, Pritchard, EM, Sassaroli, A, Panilaitis, B, Brenckle, MA, Amsden, JJ, Levitt, JM, Fantini, S, Kaplan, DL, and Omenetto, FG. "Implantable resorbable micro-prism arrays for real-time drug release monitoring." December 1, 2012.
  - Lee, C, Kim, JY, Amsden, JJ, Lee, D, and Yoon, DY. "Polymer-nanoparticle hybrid solar cell." October 23, 2012. Full Text
  - Adato, R, Yanik, AA, Amsden, JJ, Kaplan, DL, Omenetto, FG, Hong, MK, Erramilli, S, and Altug, H. "Ultra-sensitive infrared spectroscopy of proteins with collective excitations of nanoplasmonic arrays." December 1, 2010.
  - Adato, R, Yanik, AA, Amsden, JJ, Kaplan, DL, Omenetto, FG, Hong, MK, Erramilli, S, and Altug, H. "Radiative engineering of nanoantenna arrays for ultra-sensitive vibrational spectroscopy of proteins." December 1, 2010. Full Text
  - Lee, SY, Amsden, JJ, Boriskina, SV, Omenetto, FG, and Negro, LD. "Biosensing with colorimetric signatures of deterministic aperiodic metal nanoparticle arrays." December 1, 2010.
  - Adato, R, Yanik, AA, Amsden, JJ, Kaplan, DL, Omenetto, FG, Hong, MK, Erramilli, S, and Altug, H. "Ultra-sensitive infrared spectroscopy of proteins with collective excitations of nanoplasmonic arrays." October 11, 2010.
  - Amsden, JJ, Gopinath, A, Negro, LD, Kaplan, DL, and Omenetto, FG. "Silk fibroin biosensor based on imprinted periodic nanostructures." December 1, 2009.
  - Amsden, JJ, Gopinath, A, Dal Negro, L, Kaplan, DL, and Omenetto, FG. "Silk fibroin biosensor based on imprinted periodic nanostructures." November 16, 2009.

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