People In the News - Fall 2006
This page will list the people who were recently in the news for nano related events.
Please send your suggestions and provide the corresponding link. Send email to marc.cahay@uc.edu
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"
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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!