Sarah Ross

January 27, 2016. Samuel Graham Rae S. and Frank H. Neely Professor Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology “Thermal Engineering of GaN Semiconductor Devices” 4:10 PM, 134 Featheringill Hall Refreshments served at 3:45 Abstract: The development of gallium… Read More

April 20, 2016. Paul Weiss UC Presidential Chair Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Professor of Materials Science & Engineering University of California, Los Angeles Director, California NanoSystems Institute “Precise Chemical, Physical, and Electronic Nanoscale Contacts” 4:10 PM, 134 Featheringill Hall… Read More

March 16, 2016. Xiuling Li Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory University of Illinois, Urbana “Nanowire and Nanomembrane Electronics: Performance and Scalability” 4:10 PM, 134 Featheringill Hall Refreshments served at 3:45 Abstract: This talk will focus on several platform nanotechnologies developed… Read More

January 13, 2016. Andrew Smith Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Fluorescent Quantum Dots for Single-Molecule Imaging of Living Cells and Tissues” 4:10 PM, 134 Featheringill Hall Refreshments served at 3:45 Abstract: Quantum dots are light-emitting nanocrystals with unique optical… Read More

If you add quantum dots – nanocrystals 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair – to a smartphone battery it will charge in 30 seconds, but the effect only lasts for a few recharge cycles. However, a group of researchers at Vanderbilt University … Read More

VINSE member Jason Valentine’s work published in Nature Communications was featured in Phys.org and Research News @ Vanderbilt 09/22/2015 “First circularly polarized light detector on a silicon chip” Invention of the first integrated circularly polarized light detector on a silicon chip opens the door for development of… Read More

Invention of the first integrated circularly polarized light detector on a silicon chip opens the door for development of small, portable sensors that could expand the use of polarized light for drug screening, surveillance, optical communications and quantum computing, among other potential applications. The new detector was developed by a… Read More

16th Annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum Wednesday, October 14, 2015 BUTTRICK HALL 1:10 – 1:25  Welcome Sandra Rosenthal, Chemistry 1:25 – 2:15 New tools in VINSE: Laser Writer, Leon Bellan, MERLIN Scanning Electron Microscope, Anthony Hmelo, Oxford Reaction Ion Etch,… Read More

A Vanderbilt PhD student in interdisciplinary materials science took home a first-place poster award at August’s Microscopy & Microanalysis conference, held last month in Portland, Oregon. Jake Benzing, whose adviser is Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering James Wittig, presented a research poster and abstract titled “Fe-25Mn-3Al-3Si TWIP-TRIP Steel… Read More

September 30, 2015. Ali Shakouri Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University “Superdiffusive Thermal Transport in Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials” 4:10 PM, 134 Featheringill Hall Refreshments served at 3:45 Abstract: Latest research on nanostructured thermoelectrics will be presented. A direct conversion of heat into electricity which has the potential… Read More