TNANO Editorial Board
December 13, 2007
Editor-in-Chief
Ari Requicha
Appointment:
January 1, 2007
Bio: See http://www-lmr.usc.edu/~requicha
Editors
Daniel J. C. Herr
Appointment:
April 2007
Bio:
Dr. Herr is Semiconductor Research Corporation’s Director of
Nanomanufacturing Science Research. He
leads a team that provides vision, guidance, and leveraged support for
collaborative university research in emerging nanoelectronics related materials
and assembly methods, environmentally benign high performance manufacturing,
and future factory technologies. He
held senior engineering positions at Honeywell Corporation, during the VHSIC
program, and Shipley Company, in Japan, where he helped develop and commercialize
the SAL and DUV families of chemically amplified photoresists and related
developers. He also founded AR&D
Corporation, a product design-consulting firm.
Dr. Herr is a Fellow of the International Society for
Optical Engineering and an Adjunct Associate Professor in Materials Science and
Engineering at North Carolina
State University,
where he serves as a graduate thesis advisor and co-developed and teaches a
graduate level course on The
Materials Science of Nanoelectronics. He
also regularly teaches graduate level courses on Quality Engineering. Dr. Herr Co-Chairs Emerging Research
Materials Working Group of the International Technology Roadmap for
Semiconductors and provides ongoing
technical leadership for several of the Semiconductor Industry Association's
other Technology Working Groups, the EUV Consortium (concluded), SPIE’s
Metrology conference, as chair emeritus, and several other international
industry related technical organizations.
His publications cover topics from mechanistic chemistry and
fundamental technology limits to strategic industry trends in nanoelectronics.
He also served as editor for several technical conference proceedings. Dr. Herr
created a suite of product optimization software, more robust than Taguchi’s methodology,
and is the inventor on several foundational issued (12) and pending (11)
patents in defect tolerant patterning, controlled nanotube synthesis and
placement, deterministic semiconductor doping, and
ultimate CMOS devices.
Tel: 919-941-9431
(Wk), 919-656-5585(Cell)
E-mail: herr “at’
src.org
Bradley J. Nelson
Appointment:
January 2007
Bio:
Brad Nelson is the Professor
of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH-Zürich and is the co-director and
founder of the Institute
of Robotics and
Intelligent Systems where he leads the Multi-Scale Robotics Lab.
His primary research direction
lies in extending robotics research into emerging areas of science and
engineering. His current research is in microrobotics, biomicrorobotics, and
nanorobotics, including efforts in robotic micromanipulation, microassembly,
MEMS (sensors and actuators), mechanical manipulation of biological cells and
tissue, nanofabrication and NanoElectroMechanical Systems (NEMS). He has also
contributed to the fields of visual servoing, force control, sensor
integration, and web-based control and programming of robots.
Prof. Nelson received a B.S.
(Mechanical Engineering) from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in
1984, an M.S. (Mechanical Engineering) from the University
of Minnesota in 1987, and the Ph.D.
degree in Robotics (School of Computer Science) from Carnegie Mellon
University in 1995.
During these years he also worked as an engineer at Honeywell and Motorola, and
served as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Botswana,
Africa. In 1995 he became Assistant Professor
at the University of Illinois at Chicago,
Associate Professor at the University
of Minnesota in 1998, and
Professor at ETH in 2002.
He has been awarded a McKnight
Land-Grant Professorship and is a recipient of the Office of Naval Research
Young Investigator Award, the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career
Development (CAREER) Award, the McKnight Presidential Fellows Award, and the
Bronze Tablet. He was elected as a Robotics and Automation Society
Distinguished Lecturer in 2003 and received the Best Conference
Paper Award at the IEEE 2004 International Conference on Robotics and
Automation. He was named to the 2005 "Scientific
American 50," Scientific American magazine’s annual list
recognizing fifty outstanding acts of leadership in science and technology from
the past year.
Professor Nelson serves on or
has been a member of the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics,
the Journal of Micromechatronics, the Journal of Optomechatronics and the IEEE
Robotics and Automation Magazine. He has chaired several international
workshops and conferences.
He is currently the head of
the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (D-MAVT).
ETH Zurich
Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems
Tannenstrasse 3
CH-8092 Zürich
Switzerland
Tel: +41 44 632 55 29 Fax: +41 44
632 10 78
Email: bnelson “at’ ethz.ch
www.iris.ethz.ch
Elias Towe
Appointment:
January 2007
Bio:
Elias
Towe is the Albert and Ethel Grobstein Professor in the Departments of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
where he is also the Director of the Center for Nano-enabled Device and Energy
Technologies. His current research interests are in theareas of photonics,
sensors, nanotechnology, and biophotonics.
He is
the recipient of several awards that include the National Science Foundation
Young Investigator Award, the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award from the
Office of the US Secretary
of Defense, the Commonwealth of Virginia Scholar Award, and the Outstanding Young
Faculty Teaching Award (at the University
of Virginia). He is a
Fellow of the IEEE, the Optical Society of America, and the American Physical
Society.
Prof.
Towe earned all his degrees (S.B., S.M. and Ph.D.) from the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, where he was a Vinton Hayes Fellow.
towe “at’ cmu.edu
Kang L. Wang
Appointment: April
2007
Bio:
Kang L. Wang holds the
Raytheon Chair in Physical Science and is a UC Distinguished Professor in the
Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA.
He currently also serves as the Director of FCRP (Focus Center on
Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics) FENA, an interdisciplinary Research
Center, funded by the Semiconductor Industry Association and the Department of
Defense to address the need of information processing technology beyond scaled
CMOS. The Center involves 15
universities across the nation. He was
also named Director of the Western Institute of Nanoelectronics (WIN), a coordinated multi-project Research Institute
funded by NRI, Intel and the State of California. The on-going projects with UC Berkeley,
Stanford, UCSB, and UCLA are aimed at spintronics for low power applications. Dr. Wang was also the founding director of
the Nanoelectronics Research Facility at UCLA (established in 1989) with the
infrastructure to further research in nanotechnology. He serves on the
editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (American
Scientific Publishers), and as series editor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
for Artech, Boston.
He received the PhD degree in 1970 from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. In 1970 to 1972
he was an Assistant Professor at MIT.
From 1972 to 1979, he worked at the General Electric Corporate Research
and Development Center.
In 1979 he joined the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of California,
Los Angeles
(UCLA). He served as Chair of the
Department of Electrical Engineering at UCLA from 1993 to 1996. His research
activities include semiconductor nano devices and nano-technology;
self-assembly growth of quantum structures and cooperative assembly of quantum
dot arrays; Si-based Molecular Beam Epitaxy, quantum structures and devices; nano-epitaxy
of hetero-structures; spintronics materials and devices; electron spin and
coherence properties of SiGe and InAs quantum structures for implementation of
spin-based quantum information. He was
the inventor of the strained layer
MOSFET, quantum SRAM cell, and band-aligned superlattices. He holds more than 15 patents and has published
over 300 papers. He has received many
awards, including IBM Faculty Award; Guggenheim Fellow; IEEE Fellow; TSMC Honor
Lectureship Award; Honoris Causa at Politechnic
University, Torino, Italy;
Semiconductor Research Corporation Inventor Awards; European Material Research
Society Meeting Best Paper Award, and the Semiconductor Research Corporation
Technical Excellence Achievement Award.
In addition to his technical leadership and contributions, he has
provided academic leadership in engineering education. He was the Dean of Engineering from
2000 to 2002 at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
University
of California at Los Angeles
Email: wang “at’ ee.ucla.edu
Associate Editors
M. P. (Anant) Anantram
Appointment: April
2007
Primary Area: Computational
nanotechnology
Secondary Area:
Other Areas:
Bio:
M. P.
Anantram (Anant) has been a professor of electrical and computer engineering at
the University of
Waterloo since May 2006.
Before this, he was the group lead for Computational Nanoelectronics at the
UARC, NASA Ames Research
Center. Dr. Anantram is
well known for his work on quantum mechanical modeling of semiconductor and
molecular nanodevices. His group developed the world’s first two-dimensional quantum
simulator for nanotransistors, and he developed a recursive algorithm to
compute the charge and current density in nanodevices. His contribution in
modeling and prediction of electrical and electromechanical properties of
carbon nanotubes has been well-recognized. Algorithms and code developed by his
group are used by many other research groups. He has won best paper awards for
his work on nanotransistors and electromechanical properties of nanotubes. In
2003, he co-won CSC’s highest technical achievement in Applied Sciences. CSC is
a company with over seventy thousand employees. In 2004, he became a fellow of
the University Affiliated Research
Center. He serves as the
Education Chair of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council, and on the program and
organizing committees of numerous nanotechnology conferences. Dr. Anantram has
a broad educational background covering both science and engineering. He
obtained a B. Sc in Applied Sciences at PSG College of Technology, India, in
1986, a M. Sc in Physics at the University of Poona,
India, in 1989, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, US,
in 1995.
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University
of Waterloo
200 University
Avenue West
Waterloo,
Ontario, Canada
N2L 3G1
Tel: (519) 888-4567, ext 37260
E-mail: anant “at’ ecemail.uwaterloo.ca
Arijit Bose
Appointment: 2004
Primary Area: Nanorobotics
and nanoassembly
Secondary Area: Nanosensors
and nanoactuators
Other Areas: Nanosensors
emphasis
Bio:
Lixin Dong
Appointment: June 2007
Primary Area: Nanorobotics
and nanoassembly
Secondary Area: NanoElectroMechanical
Systems (NEMS)
Other Areas: Science and engineering of carbon nanotubes
and 3D helical nanostructures, nanofabrication, nanomechanochemistry, and
nanoelectronics
Bio:
Lixin
Dong is a Senior Research Scientist at ETH-Zurich,
where he leads the NanoRobotics Group in the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS). He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in
Mechanical Engineering from Xi’an University of Technology (XUT) in 1989 and
1992, respectively. He became Research Associate in 1992, Lecturer in 1995, and
Associate Professor in 1998 at XUT. He received his Ph.D. degree in Micro
Systems Engineering from Nagoya
University in 2003, and
became Assistant Professor there in 2003. In 2004 he joined ETH Zurich. He has been
awarded the Science and Technology Advancement Prize by the Shaanxi Province
Government in 1995 and 1999, by the Ministry of Education of China in 1999,
and by the Ministry of Machine-Building Industry in 1998. He received the IEEE
T-ASE Googol Best New Application Paper Award in 2007, Best Conference Paper
Award at ICCSE2003, and has been a finalist for best paper awards at ICRA2007,
IROS2005, and ICRA2001. He has chaired several international conferences and workshops.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS)
ETH Zentrum,
Tannenstrasse 3
CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel: +41 44 632
25 39 Fax: +41 44 632 10 78
E-mail: ldong “at’ethz.ch
David J. Frank
Retired: December 2006.
Mark Freeman
Retired: September 2007
Detlev Grützmacher
Resigned: December
2007
Toshiro Hiramoto
Appointment: January
2006
Primary Area: Nano
and molecular electronics
Secondary Area: None
Other Areas: Silicon
nanoelectronics, nano-CMOS, single-electron transistors
Bio:
He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D degrees in electronic
engineering from the University
of Tokyo in 1984, 1986,
and 1989, respectively. In 1989, he
joined Device Development Center, Hitachi Ltd., Ome, Japan,
where he was engaged in the device and circuit design of ultra-fast BiCMOS
SRAMs. In 1994, he joined Institute of Industrial
Science, University
of Tokyo, Japan,
as an Associate Professor. He was also
an Associate Professor in VLSI Design and Education
Center, University of Tokyo,
from 1996 to 2002. He has been a Professor
in Institute of Industrial
Science, University
of Tokyo since 2002. His research interests include low power and
low voltage design of advanced CMOS devices, SOI MOSFETs, device/circuit
cooperation scheme for low power VLSI, quantum effects in nano-scale MOSFETs,
and silicon single electron transistors. Dr. Hiramoto is a member of IEEE,
IEICE, and Japan Society of Applied Physics.
He has been an Elected AdCom Member of IEEE Electron Devices Society
since 2001. He served as the General
Chair of Silicon Nanoelectronics Workshop in 2003, and the Program Chair in
1997, 1999, and 2001. He also served on
Program Subcommittee on Integrated Circuits of IEEE International Electron
Devices Meeting (IEDM) in 1993 and 1994 and on Program Subcommittee on CMOS Devices
of IEDM in 2003 and 2004, and has served on Program Committee of Symposium on
VLSI Technology since 2001. He is the
Subcommittee Chair of CMOS Devices of IEDM in 2005.
Toshiro Hiramoto
Institute of Industrial Science
University of Tokyo
Tel/Fax: +81-3-5452-6263
Hiramoto “at’ nano.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Roger Lake
Appointment: Feb
2006
Primary Area: Computational
nanotech
Secondary Area: Nano
and molecular electronics
Other Areas: Non-equilibrium
Green functions, atomistic device modeling, quantum
electron transport, molecular electronics, carbon-nanotube and semiconductor
nanowire electronics
Bio:
Roger Lake (SM’01) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical
engineering from Purdue
University in 1992 and
joined the Nanoelectronics Branch of Central Research Labs, Texas Instruments, Dallas in 1993 to develop the theory for the Nanotechnology
Engineering Program which became known as NEMO. In 1997, the Nanoelectronics
Branch was acquired by Raytheon, where he developed theory and designs for
Si/SiGe MBE grown tunnel diodes. In 2000, he joined the Electrical Engineering
Department, University
of California Riverside
and started the laboratory for terahertz and terascale electronics (LATTE) for
investigating future electronic materials and devices. Further information can
be found online at http://www.ee.ucr.edu/latte/.
Jean-Pierre Leburton
Appointment:
September 2007
Primary Area: Computational
nanotechnology
Secondary Area:
Other Areas: Semiconductor
physics, quantum transport, spintronics.
Bio:
Jean-Pierre Leburton earned his “License” (B.S.) and
“Doctorat” (Ph.D.) in physics with the highest honors from the University of Liege, Belgium, in 1971 and 1978, respectively. Professor
Leburton joined the University of Illinois in 1981 from Germany
where he worked as a research scientist with the Siemens A.G. Research
Laboratory in Munich.
He is currently involved with research in semiconductor nanostructures and
quantum device simulation. At the frontiers of solid-state electronics, his
present research focuses on quantum wires and quantum dots for which he
predicted and interpreted a wide range of physical phenomena. Recently, he was
involved in the theoretical investigation of single electron charging effects
and spintronics in GaAs quantum dots and in silicon devices for quantum
information processing. His present research interest also encompasses
electronic and thermal transport in carbon nanotubes, and molecular and ionic
transport through semiconductor nanopores for applications in DNA sensing and
sequencing. Professor Leburton is author and co-author of more than 300
technical papers in international journals and books. He has an extended list
of invitations to international conferences and research institutions, and
served in numerous conference committees. In 1993 he was awarded the title of
“Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques” by the French Government. He is
a Fellow of the Institute
of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the American Physical Society (APS), the Optical
Society of America (OSA), the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS), and the Electrochemical Society (ECS). He is also a member of
the New York Academy of Science. He is the ISCS-2004 recipient of the Quantum
Device Award, and of the Gold medal for scientific achievement awarded for the
75th anniversary of the Alumnus association of his Alma mater, the University of Liege, Belgium in 2004.
Gregory Stillman Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering
University
of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Beckman Institute
405 North
Matthews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
Tel: (217) 333-6813
Fax: (217) 244-4333
E-mail: jleburto “at’ uiuc.edu
Jun Li
Appointment:
August 2007
Primary Area: Nanosensors
and nanoactuators
Secondary Area: Nanobiotechnology
and nanomedicine
Other Areas: Nanofabrication
and nanolithography, nanorobotics and nanoassembly
Bio:
Jun Li received
his B.S. in Chemistry from Wuhan University, China in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in Chemistry
from Princeton University in 1995. From 1994 to 1997,
he held a postdoctoral research associate position in the Chemistry Department
of Cornell University. He worked for Molecular Imaging Co. in scanning probe
microscope development from 1997 to 1998, and at the Institute
of Materials Research and Engineering
in Singapore
from 1998 to 2000. He was with the NASA
Ames Research
Center from September
2000 to July 2007, during which he led a group on nanobiotechnology research.
He moved to the Chemistry Department of Kansas State University in July 2007 to
take an associate professor position. He has coauthored over 70 papers and book
chapters and is the coinventor of over 10 nanotechnology patents. His research
interests are focused on the development of new methods to integrate
nanostructured materials, particularly one-dimensional nanowires and carbon
nanotubes, into micro- and nanodevices so that the unique properties of
individual nanoelements can be utilized to improve performance. His previous
work includes the development of
bottom-up processing solutions for carbon nanotube interconnect vias,
electrochemical biosensors based on inlaid carbon nanofiber nanoelectrode
arrays, vertically-aligned carbon nanofibers filled with Cu as thermal
interface composite materials, polypyrrole-coated carbon nanofiber arrays as multifunctional
neural electrical interfaces, and dielectrophoresis devices based on inlaid
carbon nanofiber nanoelectrode arrays for bacteria trapping. Dr. Li is a member
of the IEEE, American Vacuum Society, Electrochemical Society, Materials
Research Society, Americal Chemical Society, and a founding member of the American Academy of Nanomedicine. He received the
2005 Nano50 Innovator Award.
Jun Li,
Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Kansas State
University
111 Willard Hall
Manhattan KS
66506-3701
Phone: (785) 532-0955
Fax: (785) 532-6666
Web: http://www.ksu.edu/chem/people/faculty/li.html
Konstantin K. Likharev
Appointment: January
2006
Primary Area: Nano
and molecular electronics
Secondary Area: Circuits
and architectures
Other Areas: Nanofabrication,
nanolithography, computational nanotech
Bio:
He is a Distinguished Professor of Physics of the Stony Brook
University (State
University of New York). He received a Candidate (Ph.D.) degree in Physics from
Lomonosov Moscow State University,
Russia in 1969, and the habilitation degree of Doctor of Sciences from
the Higher Attestation Committee of the U.S.S.R. in 1979. From 1969 to 1988 Dr.
Likharev was a Staff Scientist of Moscow
State University, and from 1989 to 1991 the Head of the Laboratory of
Cryoelectronics of that university. In 1991 he assumed a Professorship at Stony
Brook (Distinguished Professor since 2002). During his research career, Dr.
Likharev worked in the fields of nonlinear classical dynamics, quantum dynamics
and statistics, and low-temperature solid-state physics and electronics,
notably including nanoelectronics. He is an author/co-author of 2 monographs,
more than 60 review papers and book chapters, 235+ original publications, and
several patents. Prof. Likharev is a Fellow of the American Physical Society
and a Member of IEEE. Additional information, including a publication list and
links to major recent papers, is available online at http://rsfq1.physics.sunysb.edu/~likharev/personal/.
Dmitri Litvinov
Appointment: April
2006.
Primary Area: Nanomagnetism and spintronics
Secondary Area: Nanofabrication and nanolithography
Other Areas: Materials
Bio: Dr. Litvinov
holds a joint appointment as an Associate Professor of Electrical &
Computer Engineering and of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston which he joined in the fall of
2003 after a successful career at Seagate Technology where he led the team of
researchers to implement so-called perpendicular recording. Perpendicular
magnetic recording is a nanomagnetic data storage technology that was widely
adopted by the $23B data storage industry as the next generation technology.
Dr. Litvinov is an inventor/co-inventor on 24 utility patents that he filed
while with Seagate Technology. For his contributions to Seagate, Dr. Litvinov
was presented with 30 Technological Achievement Awards and was delegated by
Seagate Technology to present at the 2001 Lake Arrowhead Conference – a meeting
of top 40 magnetics industry leaders.
Dr. Litvinov serves as the director of the Center for
Nanomagnetic Systems at the University
of Houston, an extensive
research and training program encompassing nanomagnetic devices and materials
for information storage and processing technologies, clinical diagnostics, high
throughput drug screening, magnetic field sensor applications. The
nanomagnetics research is supported by the National Science Foundation,
National Institute of Health, Office of Naval Research, Alliance for Nanohealth, Information Storage
Industry Consortium, and Texas
Center for
Superconductivity. Dr. Litvinov has more than 50 publications in the
peer-review journals, he has co-authored a textbook on magnetic recording and
several review articles on the subject. Dr. Litvinov has given many invited
presentations and numerous contributed presentations at national and
international conferences.
Dr. Litvinov co-founded two highly successful IEEE
conferences – North American Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference and
Conference on Nanoscale Devices and System Integration. He has served as a
guest editor in Nanotechnology and in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics and a
reviewer for many major scientific and engineering journals. Dr. Litvinov is a
Senior IEEE Member, Member of the Materials Research Society and of the
Electrochemical Society. He also serves as an Associate Member of Information
Storage Industry Consortium.
Yunfeng Lu
Retired: September 2007
Kazuhiko Matsumoto
Appointment:
August 2007
Primary
Area: Nanosensors
and nanoactuators
Secondary
Area: Nanofabrication and nanolithography
Other
Areas: Nano and molecular electronics
Bio:
Kazuhiko
Matsumoto has been a professor at the Institute of Scientific & Industrial
Research of Osaka University, and also a principal research scientist at the National
Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, since March
2003. He received the B.S. degree from
the Nagoya Institute of Technology, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Tokyo
Institute of Technology in 1976, 1978, and 1981, respectively, all in
Electronics Engineering. In 1981, he joined
the Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba,
Japan, where he
worked in the field of compound semiconductor devices. He invented several new
devices, such as an inversion base bipolar transistor, a complementary GaAs SIS
FET, etc. In 1988-1990, he was a research associate at Stanford University
in Prof. James S. Harris group. In 1992, he started research to build nanostructures
using an AFM nanooxidation process, and succeeded in operating a single
electron transistor at room temperature for the first time. From 1999, he has
been engaged in research on carbon nanotube devices for applications to
ultra-high sensitive biosensors. Dr.
Matsumoto was awarded the Pioneering Research Prize of the Science and
Technology Agency of Japan in 1996, the Best Paper Award of the 1996
International Conference on Solid State Devices & Materials, the 30th
Ichimura Prize in 1998, and the Pioneering Research Prize of the Agency of
Industrial Science and Technology of Japan in 1999 for his work on the room
temperature single electron transistor. In 2001, he was again awarded a Best Paper
Award at the 2001 International Conference on Solid State Devices & Materials
for his work on ultra low bias field emission from carbon nanotubes. He is a member of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics
Engineering, the Japan Society of Applied Physics, and the Institute of Electronics,
Information, and Communication Engineers.
k-matsumoto “at’ sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp
Hiroaki Misawa
Appointment: April
2007
Primary Area: Nanooptics,
nanooptoelectronics and nanophotonics
Secondary Area: ?
Other Areas: plasmonics,
photonic crystals, photochemistry, light-matter interactions, ultra-fast
processes in materials, and nanophotonics.
Bio:
Hiroaki Misawa is a Professor at the Research Institute for
Electronic Science at Hokkaido University and the Head of the Nanotechnology Center.
He is a graduate of Tsukuba
University, where he also
completed PhD
studies in the Chemistry Department in 1984. His postdoctoral research was carried
out at the Universities of Tsukuba and Texas.
He joined the Micro-photo-conversion project, ERATO, of the Japanese Science
and Technology Agency in 1988-93, and led research in the field of light-matter
interaction in small space and time domains. Afterwards he become
an Associate Professor (from 1993) and Professor (1995) at the University of Tokushima. Since 2003, he is with Hokkaido University.
His current research interests include plasmonics, photonic
crystals, photochemistry, light-matter interactions, ultra-fast processes in materials,
and the emerging field of nanophotonics. He has authored more than 200 papers.
E-mail: misawa “at’ es.hokudai.ac.jp
Wei-Xin Ni
Appointment:
August 2007
Primary Area: Nanofabrication
and nanolithography
Secondary Area: Nanooptics,
nanooptoelectronics and nanophotonics
Other Areas: Nano
and molecular electronics, and Nanosensors
Bio:
Professor Ni received his PhD in Feb. 1991 from the Department
of Physics (IFM), Linköping University,
Sweden, where
he also obtained the Docent (habilitation) in 1995, and became a full professor
in surface and semiconductor physics in 2003. He is recognized by the research
community as an established expert in molecular beam epitaxy, and has a long
experience working on Si-based low-dimensional heterostructure materials and
devices. Already in 1987, he successfully grew one of the world-earliest SiGe
HBTs in Linköping using solid source MBE. He has a high number of invited and
original publications on layered and nano-structured semiconductor materials
and devices for applications in photonics and high frequency electronics. He
has been active in several European consortium research programs in
nanotechnology, was the recipient of the best young researcher paper award of
ECS and MRS, as well as of a STAR fellowship of UNESCO, and was the main
organizer or a committee member in many international conferences. Since
October 2004, he has been the TSMS distinguished professor of nanoelectronics
and nanophotonics in connection to National
Chiao Tung
University, and the Director General
of the National Nano Device Laboratories (NDL), in Taiwan. His recent research
interests cover various aspects of integration of functional materials and
devices into CMOS-based Si chips using nanotechnology, in particular for the implementation
of electronic bio-sensing, i.e., biotronics.
Dr. Wei-Xin Ni
TSMC Distinguished
Professor
National Nano Device Laboratories (NDL)
26 Prosperity
Road I
Hsinchu 30078
Taiwan,
R.O.C
Tel: +886-3-5713079
E-mail: wxni “at’ mail.ndl.org.tw
wxn “at’ ifm.liu.se
John O’Brien
Retired: July
2007
Ganapathiraman Ramanath
Appointment:
October 2003
Primary Area: Nanofabrication
and nanolithography?
Secondary Area: Nanofabrication
and nanolithography?
Other Areas: Materials/interface
science and fabrication aspects of sensors, circuits, reliability
(electromigration, stress-induced and environmental effects. Directed synthesis, assembly and
properties of functional nanostructures and heterostructures, hybrid
nanostructures, nanowires, nanoparticles, nanoscopic building blocks,
core-shell and branched architectures of nanostructures, carbon nanotubes,
thermoelectric and magnetic nanostructures, nanostructures for photovoltaic
devices, mesoscale architectures for devices, nanoscale wiring (device
interconnects), lithographic and chemically directed nanotemplating and
manipulation, ion beam processing/ modification, microwave processing, molecularly
tailored surfaces and interfaces, molecular passivation and interlinking, thin
film and bulk forms of nanostructured assemblies, interface science, various
electron, X-ray, optical and ion beam spectroscopies, microscopies and
diffraction techniques. Chemical vapor deposition, Sputtering
(ion beam processing), wet-chemical synthesis and self-assembly.
Bio:
Prof. G. Ramanath
Materials Science and Engineering Department (111 MRC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 Eighth
Street
Troy, NY 12180.
USA
Tel.: (518) 276-6844
Fax: (518) 276-8554
Cell: (518 522-2720
Email: ramanath@rpi.edu
Web: www.rpi.edu/dept/materials/GR
John A. Rogers
Appointment:
August 2007
Primary Area: Nanofabrication
and nanolithography
Secondary Area:
Nanooptics, nanooptoelectronics and nanophotonics
Other Areas:
Bio:
John A. Rogers obtained BA and BS degrees in chemistry and
in physics from the University of Texas, Austin,
in 1989. From MIT, he received SM
degrees in physics and in chemistry in 1992 and the PhD degree in physical
chemistry in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, Rogers was a Junior Fellow
in the Harvard University Society of Fellows.
During this time he also served as a Director for Active Impulse
Systems, a company based on his PhD research in picosecond laser ultrasonics
that he co-founded in 1995 and which was acquired by a large company in
1998. He joined Bell Laboratories as a
Member of Technical Staff in the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department
in 1997, and served as Director of this department from 2000-2002. He is currently Founder Professor of
Engineering at University
of Illinois at
Urbana/Champaign, with appointments in the Departments of Materials Science and
Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Science and
Engineering and Chemistry. Rogers research includes
fundamental and applied aspects of nano and molecular scale fabrication,
materials and patterning techniques for large area electronics and unusual
photonic systems. He has published more
than ~180 papers and is co-inventor on ~70 patents, more than 40 of which are
licensed or in active use. His research
has been recognized with many awards including the Harvard University Robert B.
Woodward Scholar Award (2001), American Chemical Society's Team Innovation
Award (2002), and the Xerox Distinguished Lecturer Award (2006), the University of Illinois Daniel Drucker Eminent Faculty Award
(2007) and the American Chemical Society Baekeland Award (2007). He is a Fellow of the American Physical
Society, and has experience as a member of Editorial Boards for Applied Physics
Letters, Journal of Applied Physics and Nano Letters. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of
Microlithography, Microfabrication and Microsystems.
jrogers “at’ uiuc.edu
Michelle Simmons
Appointment: April
2007
Primary Area: Nanofabrication
and nanolithography
Secondary Area: Nano
and molecular electronics
Other Areas: nanomanipulation
and nanoassembly with scanning probes, silicon spintronics, nanowires,
modelling of surfaces, quantum electronics, molecular beam epitaxy and
crystalline growth of dielectrics.
Bio:
Professor Michelle Y. Simmons is an Australian Government
Federation Fellow in Physics. She is the Director of the Atomic Fabrication
Facility at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia
and leads a large research effort in silicon atomic electronics. Professor
Simmons has a double degree in physics and chemistry, and a PhD in solar cells
from Durham University, UK. In the 1990s, she spent 6 years
as a Research Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge working in quantum electronics
looking at fundamental studies of electron and hole
transport in GaAs based systems. In 1999, as a Queen Elizabeth II Research
Fellow she came to Australia,
where she co-founded the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology.
In 2003, she was awarded a Federation Fellowship by the Australian Government
for her work in atomic electronics. In 2005 she was awarded the Pawsey Medal by
the Australian Academy of Science and in 2006 became
the youngest elected Fellow of this academy. Professor Simmons is also a
past-Chair of the Australian Research Council's Expert Advisory Committee for
Physics, Chemistry and Geoscience and has served as a member of the Australian
Government's National Research Priorities Committee. Her research interests are
to build devices in silicon at the atomic-scale with the ultimate goal of
realising single atom electronics.
Professor Michelle Y. Simmons, FAA
Director of the Atomic Fabrication Facility,
Australian Government Federation Fellow,
School
of Physics,
University
of New South Wales,
Sydney NSW 2052, AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61-2-9385-6313 (with voicemail)
Fax: +1 815 333 2155
Email: Michelle.Simmons “at’ unsw.edu.au
http://www.qcaustralia.org/bio/staff_simmons.php
Paul Michael Solomon
Retired: September
2007
Fred L. Terry
Retired: 2007
James N. Turner
Retired: 2007
E. G. (Enge) WANG
Appointment: April
2007
Primary Area:
Computational nanotechnology
Secondary Area: Nanofabrication
and nanolithography
Other Areas:
Bio:
He received his PhD in Physics
from Peking University in 1990. After five years of
research at the Institut d’Electronique, Microelectronique et
Nanotechnologie (France) and the University of Houston (USA), he became a
professor in the Institute of Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, in Beijing in 1995, and its
director in 1999. Dr. Wang is the Committee Vice Chair
of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), and a Fellow of
the American Physical Society (APS) and of the Institute
of Physics (London, UK).
Since 2000, he is a honorary professor of the Hong
Kong University.
He has been a Symposium Co-Organizer for MRS, APS, and IUMRS, and a JSPS
professor at Tohoku University (Japan) (2001-2002). Dr. Wang received
a Humboldt Research award (2005), a Third World
Academy of Science award in Physics (2005), an IBM faculty award (2003-2004),
and an Achievement in Asia Award (AAA) of the Overseas Chinese Physics
Association (2002-2003). His current research interests are in surface physics;
the approach is a combination of atomistic simulations and chemical vapor
deposition of light-element nanomaterials.
Prof. Enge Wang
Professor and Director
Institute
of Physics
Chinese
Academy of Sciences and
Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter
Physics
P. O. Box
603, Zhongguancun
Beijing
100080 , P. R. China
Phone: (86-10) 82649469 ;
Fax: (86-10) 82649244
Email: egwang “at’ aphy.iphy.ac.cn
Web : http://www.iphy.ac.cn
Bin Yu
Appointment:
October 2007
Primary Area: nano and molecular electronics
Secondary Area:
nanofabrication and nanolithography
Other Areas: silicon/III-V nanoelectronics, nanoscale
CMOS, nanowires/nanotubes, logic/FET/memory, semiconductor nanotechnology
Bio:
Bin Yu received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering
from the University of California at Berkeley,
where he conducted research on solid-state device technology. One of his
inventions appeared as the cover story of the Electronic Design magazine
(1995). He was a pioneering researcher in Berkeley’s
program on ultra-scaled SOI technology that later became mainstream technology
in the semiconductor industry.
He is a Senior Research Scientist at UARC, NASA Ames Research Center.
His research interests range from self-assembly of nanostructures to emerging
applications in information processing, storage, and transmission. Before
joining NASA he managed Exploratory Device Research at Advanced Micro Devices
Inc., California,
with a research focus on exploratory devices/nanofabrication for high-speed
computing chips. His accomplishments include the world’s first 10-nm silicon
double-gate transistor (2002), the first 15-nm silicon transistor (2001), the
first Tera-Hz silicon transistor (2001), the record-breaking thin gate
dielectric nano-transistor (2000), the first use of a laser thermal process in
nano-CMOS (1999), among others. These breakthroughs, widely reported by public
media across the world, served as milestones in the global effort to push
silicon nanotechnology towards its fundamental limits.
He has authored or edited 6 book/book chapters and more than
80 papers, and delivered over 50 invited talks to conferences, societies,
industry, and universities. A prolific inventor in semiconductor
nanotechnology, he has over 200 awarded U.S. patents. He is an AdCom Member
of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council and an Ex-Officio AdCom Member of the IEEE
Electron Device Society. He served on technical committees, advisory
committees, and invited panels of many international conferences and
organizations, including NNI/SRC Consultative Working Group and International
Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS). He is an IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer,
Consulting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford
University, Guest Professor of
Microelectronics at Beijing University, Adjunct Professor at Santa Clara University,
and Guest Lecturer at Stanford University and University
of California, Berkeley. He served as consultant to
semiconductor chip companies, venture capital firms, and nanotechnology
startups. He is a Member of IEEE-NTC, IEEE-EDS, MRS, APS, AAAS, and MJSTA (as
Life Member). In 2006 he was named IEEE Fellow for internationally recognized
research accomplishments in nanoelectronics and semiconductor nanotechnology.
NASA Ames
Research Center
M/S 229-1, Mountain View,
CA 94305
Email: byu “at’ mail.arc.nasa.gov
Phone: (650) 604-5768
Edward T. Yu
Appointment:
November 2007
Primary Area: Nanometrology and characterization
Secondary Area: Nano and molecular electronics
Other Areas: Nanooptics,
nanooptoelectronics, nanophotonics; nanofabrication and nanolithography
Bio:
Edward Yu is currently Professor of Electrical &
Computer Engineering at the University
of California, San Diego.
He received his A.B. (summa cum laude) and A.M. degrees in
Physics from Harvard
University in 1986, and
his Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology
in 1991. In September 1992, following a
one-year postdoctoral appointment at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
in Yorktown Heights, NY, he joined the faculty of the University of California,
San Diego as Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was promoted to Associate Professor in
1996 and Professor in 1998. Professor Yu
has been the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award (1995), an ONR Young Investigator
Award (1995), an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (1995), and the UCSD ECE
Graduate Teaching Award (1997). He is an
alumnus of the 2000-01 Defense Sciences Study Group (DSSG),
and currently serves as a member of the DARPA Defense Sciences Research Council
(DSRC). At UCSD Professor Yu directs a research
laboratory concerned generally with the characterization, understanding, and
application of physical phenomena and of material and device properties at
nanometer to atomic length scales.
Current research interests in his group include new semiconductor
materials and semiconductor nanostructures; scanning probe
characterization of advanced electronic materials and devices; photovoltaics
and other technologies for energy generation; and III-V nitride heterostructure
materials and device physics. The
results of his research have been reported in over 120 refereed journal
publications and over 175 conference and seminar presentations.
Contact information:
Edward T. Yu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0407
La Jolla, CA 92093-0407
Tel:
+1.858.534.6619
Fax: +1.858.534.0556
ety@ece.ucsd.edu
http://nanolab.ucsd.edu
Min-Feng Yu
Appointment: June
2007
Primary Area: nanomechanics
and NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems)
Secondary Area: nanosensors
and nanoactuators
Other Areas: nanofabrication
and nanolithography, nanorobotics and
nanoassembly
Min-Feng Yu received his B.S., M.S and Ph.D. degrees in
Physics from University of Science and Technology of China in 1992, Fudan University
in 1997, and Washington University in St.
Louis in 2000, respectively. He joined, as a staff scientist, a research
company in Dallas, Texas in 2000, where he worked on the
development of multiprobe nanomanipulators for scanning electron microscopes, which
have since been commercialized. He
joined the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in
2002. He pioneered the development of
several key technologies that accelerated the experimental study of
nanomaterials and enabled the 3-D nanofabrication of nanostructures in ambient
environment, such as nanomanipulators for scanning electron microscopes and
meniscus-based 3-D nanofabrication techniques.
He contributed to the fundamental understanding of many mechanical and
electromechanical properties of nanomaterials, such as nanotubes and
nanowires. He is the author of over 40
peer-reviewed journal papers and many book chapters and conference proceedings,
and holds several patents. He is a member
of APS, MRS, ASME, and IEEE, and serves in several subcommittees in these
societies. His major research interest
is in the area of mechanics, electromechanics, actuation, sensing and robotics
as applied to nanoscale systems.
Min-Feng Yu
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
University
of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
1206 W. Green
Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Tel: 217-333-9246
Email:
mfyu@uiuc.edu
Web:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/mfyu/www/
Chongwu Zhou
Appointment: July
2006
Primary Area: Nano
and molecular electronics
Secondary Area: Nanosensors
and nanoctuators
Other Areas: Nanowires
and carbon nanotubes
Bio:
chongwuz “at’ usc.edu
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