The Electronics and Natural Sciences Research Lab (ENSRL) is home to Prof. Campbell’s research in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Boise State University. Prof. Campbell enjoys applying electrical engineering solutions to biocentrically themed topics and systems through the integration of semiconductor technology, microelectronics, machine learning and signal processing. All of our research involves microfabrication of semiconductor-based devices to create and engineer new technologies in a diverse set of areas, ranging from neuromorphic computing, PFAS chemical sensing, and as selector devices that can be used to access electronic-based memory cells using light. Please email Dr. Campbell if you have questions or are interested in more information about her research: kriscampbell ‘at’ boisestate.edu.
Research Highlight: Flashback For the Month of November!
In November 2014, students from Dr. Campbell’s group were the first to demonstrate the neuron-like Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP) in actual Self-Directed Channel (SDC) memristor devices! Up to this point, researchers were producing only circuit simulation based evidence of STDP by memristors. Our research paper was published in Frontiers Bioengineering and Biotechnology as an open access article. You can download this article to read freely here.
Highlight: Currently Active Research Area!
For the past two years, Dr. Campbell’s students have been creating (in the Idaho Microfabrication Laboratory) novel semiconductor devices capable of detecting Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Tests performed using prototype devices based on this new device technology (patent pending) have been used to successfully detect PFOA in real-time! We are making huge strides in this area and hope to have more chemical detection success stories to tell you in a few weeks!
