People In the News - 2007-2008
This page will list the people who were recently in the news for nano related issues.
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2007 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg
for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance
This information was provided by Jagadish Chennupati
The list of the recipients of 2008 IEEE NTC awards competition are
2008 Award winners
Congratulations to all of them!
The recipients will received their award during a ceremony to be held during the IEEE Nano2008 meeting in Texas.
Congratulations to Meyya Meyyappan (NASA Ames Research Center)
for receiving the 2007 IEEE Electron Device Society Award
Read more about it here.
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Attached is a document provided by Jagadish Chennupati
with a list of the recipients of 2006 IEEE NTC awards competition.
List of awardees
Congratulations to all of them!
The recipients will received their award during a ceremony to be held during the IEEE Nano2007 meeting.
Researchers at Georgia Technology Institute create a new AFM which is bound to revolutionize nano imaging
Nanowerk website: New magnetic polymers may advance spintronics technologies
University of Manchester researchers have created transistors from single graphene sheets
that work at room temperature!
Prof. Vladimir Shalaev from Purdue University and his group
have recently shown theoretically how to design
nanowires
to hide devices from visible light.
New anti-spin-relaxation technology discovered based on spin valves built
using self-assembled alumina templates.
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
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!