Highlights

Sept. 15, 2009 — Albert Liao was awarded this year's SRC NRI Hans J. Coufal Fellowship, which includes full tuition and fees, a competitive stipend, and a $2,000 annual gift to the department. Tenure is for up to five years. Liao is a graduate student at the University of Illinois. He is pursuing his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering, studying the behavior of carbon nanotubes under high-field stress, avalanche, and Joule breakdown. His faculty advisor is Professor Eric Pop. The Fellowship was created in memory of Dr. Coufal, the founding director of NRI. [story > >]

Sept. 15, 2009 — Mohmmad Tanvir Alam received the “Best in Session” award for his presentation at Techcon 2009, held in Austin, Texas. Alam is a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame, working with Professor Gary Bernstein. In his presentation, entitled “Fabrication of On-Chip Clocking Structure for Nanomagnet QCA (MQCA),” Alam shared his recent experimental results of nanomagnet switching by current wire. He received his honor for the “Nano-Structures and Spin-based Devices” session.

May 2009 — Jeff Welser of the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative and Wolfgang Porod from the University of Notre Dame were interviewed for this article in Solid State Technology. [story > >]

Feb. 12, 2009 — The recently published research of University of Illinois professor Eric Pop and students Albert Liao and Yang Zhao is featured in a Science Daily article. [story > >] The featured research, "Avalanche-induced current enhancement in semiconducting carbon nanotubes," was published in Physical Review Letters (101, 256804) in December. [paper > >]

Feb. 9, 2009 — A paper by Notre Dame graduate student Qin Zhang entitled "Graphene nanoribbon tunnel transistors" was the top paper accessed in IEEE Electron Device Letters in December. [paper > >] A second paper by Qin, "Low-subthreshold-swing tunnel transistors," also made the IEEE EDL top-5 list in December.

Jan. 22, 2009 — University of Notre Dame professor Grace Xing received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. The title of her proposal was "CAREER: Graphene and graphene nanoribbon optoelectronic properties and devices." [more > >]

Oct. 17, 2008 — Prof. Grace Xing from the University of Notre Dame was one of 39 scientists and engineers awarded grants through the Young Investigators Research Program administered by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. In her research, Prof. Xing will focus on the quantum limits of nitride RF high-electron mobility transistors. [more > >]

July 10, 2008 — Prof. Eric Pop and his student Yang Zhao, from the University of Illinois, have developed and uploaded the nanoJoule simulator to the nanoHUB. NanoJoule is an electro-thermal simulator for carbon nanotubes. [more > >]

Job opportunities

MIND is currently seeking post docs to join the research team. [more > >]