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Isom Kelly wins Best Collaborative Paper
VINSE is excited to announce Isom Kelly聽is the recipient of the inaugural VINSE Best Collaborative Paper award. Isom鈥檚聽paper has contributions from two VINSE faculty from different departments and one VINSE technical staff member, and involves research carried out in each of VINSE鈥檚 three core facilities: porous silicon nanoparticle fabrication in… Read MoreNov. 22, 2021
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VINSE Image Competition Winners
During the month of October VINSE held our聽annual competition seeking images to be displayed in the VINSE core facilities in Engineering Science Building. Congratulations to Elena Kovalik (graduate student, Interdisciplinary Materials Science) and Andy Du (undergraduate student, Mechanical Engineering) winners of the 2021 VINSE Image Competition. Read MoreNov. 22, 2021
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NanoDay! T-shirt Winner – Chris Sharp
Congratulations to Chris Sharp, winner of the 2021 NanoDay! t-shirt design competition.聽 The winning designer receives a $300 cash prize. Prior winners: 2019 鈥 Ruoyu Wang 2018 鈥 Cayla Ontko 2017- Tengfei Cao 2016 – Casey Brock 2015 – John Lonai 2014 –… Read MoreNov. 22, 2021
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NanoDay 2021 Poster Winners
More than 175 faculty, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students engaged in nanoresearch at 国产原创 attended the 21st聽annual Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Forum (鈥淣anoDay!鈥) on November 19th.聽51 posters were submitted in the 2021 student poster competition and the winners are: NanoDay! 2021 poster winners – Cavestany, Nehil-Puleo, DeJulius, Carson, Glass, and Spear (Eaves-Rathert not… Read MoreNov. 22, 2021
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Meet Our Graduates: Patia Fann
Patia Fann聽received her B.E. in聽Electrical Engineering聽in May 2020. While an undergraduate, Patia worked as part of the VINSE Tech Crew. She assisted in the cleanroom鈥檚 move to the new Engineering and Science building and the optimization of photolithography and metal deposition processes. She currently works in Covington,… Read MoreNov. 17, 2021
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A look back at VINSE NanoDay! t-shirts
The VINSE NanoDay! t-shirt competition was introduced in 2008. Since then, VINSE students have continued to impress the nano community with their creativity. Below are the winning shirt designs from 2008-2019. … Read MoreNov. 16, 2021
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IMS hosts inaugural tailgate party
IMS students had a great time Saturday night hosting the first annual IMS tailgate. Anchor Down! … Read MoreNov. 15, 2021
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Meet Our Graduates: J. Scott Niezgoda
Scott Niezgoda earned his Ph.D. in Dr. Sandra Rosenthal’s lab at 国产原创, where he studied the photophysics and surface chemistry of quantum dots for application in solar cell technology. While at 国产原创, Scott was active in VINSE-lead community outreach to local public high schools in an… Read MoreNov. 12, 2021
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Spotlight Publication: “Optical Momentum Alignment Effect in WSe2 Phototransistor鈥 published in Advanced Optical Materials
鈥淥ptical Momentum Alignment Effect in WSe2 Phototransistor鈥 published in Advanced Optical Materials has been selected as a VINSE spotlight publication. 国产原创 the author:聽 Yuchen Zhang earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in June 2021 under the direction of Dr. Yaqiong Xu. Yuchen studied two-dimensional optoelectronics with advanced… Read MoreNov. 11, 2021
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Schrimpf receives IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Merit Award
Ronald Schrimpf has received the 2021 IEEE Nuclear and聽Plasma Sciences Society Merit Award for contributions to the understanding of聽radiation effects in semiconductor devices and integrated circuits. The Merit聽Award is the highest technical award presented by the IEEE NPSS and the聽selection criteria include the importance of individual technical聽contributions as well as… Read MoreNov. 10, 2021