• Dr. Dor Ben-Amotz
• Dr. Graham Cooks
• Dr. Milos Novotny
• Dr. James Reilly
• Dr. Vladimir Shalaev

Dr. Dor Ben-Amotz
http://www.chem.purdue.edu/bendor

Professor Ben-Amotz and his research group at Purdue University have created new optical technologies with applications ranging from plastic recycling and combinatorial chemistry, to biomedical diagnostics and cancer imaging. New hyper-spectral imaging instruments developed by the Ben-Amotz group include the Near-IR Raman Imaging Microscope (NIRM) and Portable Raman Imaging Microscope (PRIM), used by a wide variety of academic and industrial researchers. Furthermore, these innovations have contributed to commercial production of the RP-1 plastic identification system, which is manufactured and distributed worldwide by SpectraCode Inc. (a company which Prof. Ben-Amotz co-founded in 1995).

On the signal processing side, multivariate algorithms have been developed to more rapidly and accurately extract chemical information from Raman spectra and spectral images. This has led to the creation of optimized spectral image enhancement computer software for highlighting Raman spectral features and stripping interfering noise and background signals. In addition, patent pending software of unprecedented effectiveness has been developed to strip spike artifacts from CCD detector signals, and a detailed analysis has led to an improved understanding of the laser power distribution advantage, both of which play an important role in the design of chemical imaging instruments.

Honors:

• National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award
  
• Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
  
• Innovative Research Award, from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  
• “R & D 100” Award form R&D Magazine
  
• Tibbetts Award for SBIR research leading to new Raman based plastic recycling technology.

Selected publications by Dr. Ben-Amotz can be found under the publications section of the site