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Joint IGERT/FNT Seminar: Title TBA. Speaker: Raymond Ashoori, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Date and Location: Noon, Wednesday, April 4, FNT 1.104. This is a trainee hosted seminar


The IGERT faculty and trainees hosted the fifth annual Summer Nanoscience Academy on July 7-9, 2011.


Joint IGERT/CQS Seminar: Atomically Defined Carbon Nanostructures. Speaker: Jiwoong Park, Cornell University. Date and Location: 3:30, Thursday, April 14, RLM 7.104.


Joint IGERT/FNT Seminar: High-efficiency thermoelectric materials: new design strategies, new applications Speaker: Joseph Heremans, Ohio State University. Date and Location: Noon, Wednesday, May 4, FNT 1.104. This is a trainee hosted seminar


Joint IGERT/CQS Seminar: Visualizing Helical Metals on the Surface of Topological Insulators. Speaker: Ali Yazdani, Princeton University. Date and Location: 3:30, Thursday, April 7, RLM 7.104.


IGERT hosted the 2010 Nano Night Poster Session. See the abstracts here.


Welcome to the final three trainees of the program: Karole Blythe, Dave Dillen and Julian Villarreal!


The IGERT faculty and trainees hosted the fourth annual Summer Nanoscience Academy on July 8-10, 2010.


The IGERT trainees hosted the 2010 Inter-IGERT Nanoscience and Professional Development Workshop, April 14-17, 2010. See the schedule here.


Welcome to our two newest IGERT Faculty Members: Assistant Professor Seth Bank, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor Edward Yu, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Assistant Professor Katherine A. (Kallie) Willets, Chemistry and Biochemistry.


Congratulations to IGERT Faculty Member Elaine Li, who has been selected as one of The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. Wow!


Journal Articles:  

"Dopant characterization of fin field-effect transistor structures using scanning capacitance microscopy," A. A. Khajetoorians, J. Li, C. K. Shih, X.-D. Wang, D. Garcia-Gutierrez, M. Jose-Yacaman, D. Pham, H. Celio, and A. Diebold; J. Appl. Phys. 101, 034505 (2007) [link] 

"Resonantly driven coherent oscillations in a solid-state quantum emitter," E. B. Flagg, A. Muller, J. W. Robertson, S. Founta, D. G. Deppe, M. Xiao, W. Ma, G. J. Salamo and C. K. Shih; Nature Physics 5, 203 (2009) [link] 

"Direct Evidence of Interlevel Exciton Transitions Mediated by Single Phonons in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot Using Resonance Fluorescence Spectroscopy ," E. B. Flagg, J. W. Robertson, S. Founta, W. Ma, M. Xiao, G. J. Salamo, and C. K. Shih; Physical Review Letters 102, 097402 (2009) [link]