People In the News - Fall 2006
This page will list the people who were recently in the news for nano related events.
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New entries
  • Lists of Members of IEEE Nanotechnology Council (as of October 2, 2006).

    The following people were recently selected as new IEEE Fellow. Congratulations!

  • Ning Xi, Michigan State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    2120 Engineering Building, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
    Citation: for contributions to nano-robotic manipulation and assembly

  • Bin Yu, NASA Ames Research Center Center for Nanotechnology
    Mail Stop 229-1, Moffett Field, CA, 94035, USA
    Citation: for contributions to scaling of silicon common metal oxide semiconductor transistors

  • Yan-Kuin Su, National Cheng Kung University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
    1, University Road, Tainan City, 70101, Taiwan-6-2766
    Citation: for contributions to optoelectronics and nanophotonics research and education

  • Robert Shull, National Institute of Standards and Technology
    100 Bureau Drive, MS-8552, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899, USA
    Citation: for contributions to nanocomposites, superconductors, and magnetocaloric materials

  • Marc Cahay, ECS Department, University of Cincinnati
    Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0030
    Citation: for contributions to theory of charge and spin transport in nanostructures

    Old entries

    The keynote lecture at the IEEE Nano2006 meeting held in Cincinnati from July 17-20, 2006 was given by Prof. John Fenn
    from the Chemistry department at Virginia Commonwealth University. Prof. Fenn is co-recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The title of his presentation was
    "Electrospray Wings For Nanoscale Elephants" .
    Below are two pictures of Prof. Fenn during the meeting, courtesy of Prof. Fukuda from Nagoya University.


    During the IEEE Nano 2006 meeting of the Nanotechnology Council in Cincinnati, Jagadish Chennupati, from the Australian National University, was selected to be the next president of the Nanotechnology Council for a period of two years, following in the footsteps of the current president, Meyya Meyyappan of Nasa Ames research center. Congratulations Jagadish!