Adam Urness

Awards

• 2014 Best Paper Award at the SPIE Advanced Fabrication Technologies for Micro/Nano Optics and Photonics
• NSF Gradaute Research Fellowship
• 2010 Best Student Poster Award at the CPIA Photonics Research in Colorado annual meeting 
• 2008 NSF IGERT Fellowship in Computational Sensing and Imaging (COSI)

Publications

• A.C. Urness, K. Anderson, W. L. Wilson and R. R. McLeod, Arbitrary GRIN component fabrication in optically driven diffusive photopolymers, Optics Express 23, pp. 264–273, 2015.
• McLeod, R. R; Urness, A.; Cole, M.; Moore, E.; "Liquid deposition photolithography," US Patent 9,034,568 (2015)
• Benjamin A. Kowalski, Adam C. Urness, Martha-Elizabeth Baylor, Michael C. Cole, William L. Wilson, Robert R. McLeod, Quantitative modeling of the reaction/diffusion kinetics of two-component diffusive photopolymers,” Optics Materials Express 4, pp. 1668-1682, 2014.
• Urness, A. C, Cole, M. C, McLeod, R. R, "Liquid deposition photolithography for the fabrication of gradient index (GRIN) micro-optics," Advanced Fabrication Technologies for Micro/Nano Optics and Photonics VII, pp. 897402, 2014
• Urness, AC, Anderson, K., Wilson, W. L, McLeod, R. R, "Arbitrary 2D grin lens fabrication in diffusive photopolymers," Light Manipulating Organic Materials and Devices, pp. 91810G, 2014
• A.C. Urness, E.D. Moore, K.K. Kamysiak, M.C Cole and R.R McLeod, Liquid deposition photolithography for submicrometer resolution three-dimensional index structuring with large throughput,” Light: Science & Applications 2 (Nature Publishing Group) , e56, 2013
• Urness, A., McLeod, R., "Liquid deposition photolithography for photonic device fabrication," CLEO: Science and Innovations, pp. CTh3J. 2, 2013
• Adam Urness, Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, Liquid Deposition Photolithography for Efficient Three Dimensional Structuring , University of Colorado, 2013
• Moore, E., Urness, A., Mcleod, R., "Waveguide arrays in diffusive photopolymers," Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics, pp. ITu2B. 4, 2012
• Urness, A., McLeod, R. R.,  Lithographic Fabrication of Multi-Layered Optical Data Storage, Joint International Symposium on Optical Memory and Optical Data Storage, pp. OME2, 2011