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The co-chairs of the conference:
Xiaoqin Elaine Li
from University of Texas-Austin
Xiaoqin Elaine Li is a professor of University of Texas at Austin. She received Ph.D. in physics in 2003 from University of Michigan. In 2003-2006, she was a postdoctoral associate at JILA, University of Colorado. From 2007 till now, she has been running a researh group focusing on light-matter interaction at the Physics department, University of Texas-Austin. Her research interests are mainly on understanding electron and spin dynamics in semiconductor, metallic, and magnetic nanostructures. Currently, her group focuses on understanding exciton and valley physics in atomically thin materials, interfacial interactions and magnon in multilayer magnetic thin films, and hybrid photonic materials involving metasurfacs.
Professor Li has won a number of awards including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), NSF Career award, ONR and AFOSR young investigator awards, and the O'Donnell award. She is also an APS fellow.
Chih Kang Shih
from University of Texas-Austin
Chih Kang Shih is a professor of University of Texas at Austin. He received Ph.D. in applied physics in 1988 from Stanford University. In 1998-1989, he was a postdoctoral researcher at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. In 1990-1996, he was an assistant professor of physics, and in 1996-2001, he was an associate professor of physics, both in the University of Texas at Austin. From 2001 till now, he’s been the professor of physics in the University of Texas at Austin and in 2004-present, the Jane & Roland Blumberg Professor of Physics. His current research interests lie on nanoscale electronic materials, quantum engineering of metallic nanostructures, fundamental electronic processes in semiconductor quantum dots and nanoscale mechanical properties of soft matters.
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Working group 1: Epitaxially Grown Materials
Diana Huffaker (Group Leader)
from UC-Los Angeles
Prior to teaching at UCLA, Professor Diana Huffaker was a faculty ember in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Her research interests cover nanodot-based optoelectronic devices including III-V/Si photonics, lasers, single-photon emitters, III-V nanotransistors, solar cells and electronic characterization of biomaterials. Her current research projects focus on device development, crystal growth (MBE and MOCVD) and characterization of patterned and self-assembled quantum dots in compound III-(As, P, N, Sb), modeling of self-assembled processes along with electronic characterization of biomaterials.
Alex Demkov
from University of Texas-Austin
Alex Demkov is a professor of Physics at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1995 from Arizona State University (ASU). In 1995-1997, he was a postdoctoral researcher at ASU. In 1997-2005, he was a principal staff scientist in Motorola.s R&D organization providing theoretical support for the development of low- and high-k dielectric materials. In 2005, he joined the faculty of the Physics Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Prof. Demkov has published over 100 research papers and has been awarded seven U.S. patents. He has contributed to several books and edited one, entitled "Materials Fundamentals of Gate Dielectrics," and has also co-authored the 2005 edition of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS). In 2002-2004, he served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B. He also served as Guest Editor for several issues of physica status solidi (b). He has organized numerous sessions and served on program committees of many national and international conferences. In 2009-2012 he served on the Executive Committee of the Forum of Industrial and Applied Physics of the American Physical Society (APS), and is currently serving on the APS Publication Oversight Committee. Demkov received the NSF CAREER award, 2011 IBM Faculty Award, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Randall Feenstra
from Carnegie Melon University
Randall Feenstra is a professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. in applied physics in 1982 from California Institute of Technology. In 1982-1995, he was a research staff member at IMB Corporation. In 1995-present, he joined the faculty of the Physics Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Feenstra has more than 230 publications in refereed journals and has been awarded 2 U.S. patents. He has contributed to 7 book chapters, over 70 seminars in academic, government or industrial institutions, and over 100 conference presentations. The publications have been cited more than 10,000 times in scientific journals, and they carry an h-index of 55 (Web of Science). He also served as Humboldt Visiting Professor at Technical University, Berlin where he later received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award in 2000. Feenstra also received the American Physical Society Outstanding Referee Award, Peter Mark Memorial Award of the American Vacuum Society, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and American Vacuum Society.
Glenn Solomon
from NIST
Glenn Solomon is the current adjunct professor of physics at the University of Maryland and Joint Quantum Institute Fellow. He received his Ph.D. in material science and engineering in 1997 from Stanford University. Since 1997, he has been the president and CEO of CBL Technologies, Inc. in Redwood City, CA. Professor Solomon has more than 80 publications in refereed journals, has been awarded 14 U.S. patents and is author of The Optics of Semiconductor Quantum Wires and Dots. Current areas of interests include semiconductor based quantum optics with a focus on cavity QED with discrete quantum dot states and microcavities and optical processes in single quantum dots and crystal growth and fabrication in III-IV compound semiconductors. Solomon also received the IBM Faculty Partnership Award in 2001.
Amy Liu
from IQE PLc.
Chris Palmstrøm
from UCSB
Professor Chris Palmstrom, one of the world's leading researchers of electronic materials, joined the ECE faculty at UCSB in the Fall of '07. Born in Norway, Palmstrom received his PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Leeds (England) in 1979. After five years of research on semiconductor materials and contact technologies at Cornell, he joined Bellcore in 1985. There, he did groundbreaking research on semiconductor surfaces, semiconductor doping, polymer/polymer diffusion and the molecular beam epitaxial growth of metal/semiconductor heterostructures. In 1994, Dr.Palmstrom went to the University of Minnesota, where he soon became a leading researcher in several fields, including new spintronic materials that combine the functions of electronic and magnetic manipulation and storage on information. Professor Palmstrom fits well into UCSB's research programs where he has significant collaborations with Professors Gossard, Brown, Rodwell, Stemmer, and Van de Walle.
Kris Bertness
from NIST
Dr. Bertness is the project leader for the Semiconductor Metrology for Energy Conversion project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado. She serves as the NIST liaison to the National Signature Initiative on Nanotechnology for Solar Energy Collection and Conversion. Her research interests include III-V semiconductor crystal growth, characterization, and device design, with specialization in GaN nanowires, quantum dots and solar cells.
The current focus of the project’s work is on metrology of nanomaterials and development of new instrumentation for characterizing nanomaterials and photovoltaic materials, including multifunction scanning probes, precision imaging, atom probe tomography and novel solar simulators. The GaN nanowire work at NIST has produced over 80 publications including collaborative papers with researchers around the world. Their 2012 paper on nanowire electrical contacts was selected as a Publisher’s Pick and Cover article by the journal Nanotechnology. In 2006 this team’s work was recognized with an R&D Micro/Nano 25 award.
Prior to joining NIST in 1995, Dr. Bertness developed record-efficiency solar cells at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO) and at the Varian Research Center (Palo Alto, CA). She received her Ph. D. in physics from Stanford University in 1987 and her B. A. degree from Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, in 1981.
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Working group 2: Van der Waals Materials
Lincoln Lauhon (Group Leader)
from Northwestern University
Lincoln Lauhon is a professor and associate chair in the department of materials science and engineering from Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. in physics in 2000 from Cornell University. In 2000 – 03, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University. In 2003, he joined the faculty of the department of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University. Professor Lauhon has published over 130 research papers and has been invited to numerous academic seminars including most recently the “Novel behaviors in mixed-dimensional heterostructures”, Nano Korea 2017, Seoul. Lauhon is co-leader of the MRSEC IRG-1 program and faculty director of the Research Experience for Teachers Program and has been awarded the Morris E Fine Junior Chair in Materials and Manufacturing, NSF CAREER Award, and Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Honor.
Tony Heinz
from Stanford University
Tony Heinz is a Professor of Applied Physics and Photon Science at Stanford University and the Director of the Chemical Sciences Division at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Heinz received a BS degree in Physics from Stanford University and a PhD degree, also in Physics, from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982. Heinz was subsequently at the IBM Research Division in Yorktown Heights, NY until he joined Columbia University in 1995 as a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics. At Columbia, he served as the Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering from 2003 until 2007. He has also served as a Scientific Director of the Columbia Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) and of the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC). He was the President of the Optical Society of America in 2012. Heinz joined Stanford University in 2015.
Heinz's research has centered on the elucidation of the properties and dynamics of nanoscale materials through the application of a wide range of optical spectroscopies. His research on surfaces, interfaces, and nanoscale materials, such as carbon nanotubes, graphene and other 2D materials, has been recognized by Optics Prize of the International Commission for Optics, a Research Award of the von Humboldt Foundation, the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics, and the Isakson Prize of the American Physical Society.
Robert Kaindl
from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Joan Redwing
from Penn State University
Joan M. Redwing received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After receiving her Ph.D., she was employed as a research engineer at Advanced Technology Materials, Inc. where she worked on the development of group III-nitride materials and devices. Dr. Redwing joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State University in 2000. She holds appointments in the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering at Penn State and is a member of the Materials Research Institute. Dr. Redwing’s research interests are in the general area of electronic materials synthesis and characterization with a specific emphasis on semiconductor thin film, nanowire and 2D materials fabrication by chemical vapor deposition. She currently serves as secretary of the American Association for Crystal Growth and is an associate editor for the Journal of Crystal Growth and the Journal of Materials Research. She is a co-author on over 250 publications in refereed journals and holds 8 U.S. patents
from University of Texas-Austin
Chih-Kang Shih is a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in applied physics at Stanford University in 1988. From 1988-1989, he was a postdoctoral researcher at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. In 2001, he joined the faculty of the Physics Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Shih has published over 100 research papers and his current interests include: structural, electronic, and optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures, quantum information processing and coherence/decoherence in semiconductor quantum dots, and nanomechanical properties of soft condensed matter systems. Shih is currently a member of The American Physical Society, The American Vacuum Society, and the Materials Research Society.
Vincent Meunier
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Vincent Meunier is the Head of the Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he holds the Gail and Jeffrey L. Kodosky ’70 Constellation Chair.
Meunier earned a PhD from the University of Namur in Belgium in 1999 under the supervision of Professor Philippe Lambin. He was a Senior R&D staff member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory until 2010 when he joined Rensselaer. He has published approximately 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Meunier leads the Innovative Computational Material Physics (ICMP) group at Rensselaer. His research uses computation to examine the atom-level details of materials. He is particularly interested in low-dimensional materials and domains where he can collaboratively work with engineers and experimentalists to optimize these materials, starting at the atomic level and targeting functionality.
Meunier's teaching focuses on Computational Physics education; he has been teaching Computational Physics at the senior undergraduate level at Rensselaer since 2010. He also teaches "Introduction to Density Functional Theory" and "Advanced Computational Physics" at the graduate level. He strives to bring modern computational approaches to the classroom, including state-of-the-art algorithms and the practical use of parallel and GPU computing.
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Working group 3: Organic and Flexible Materials
Natalie Stingelin (Group Leader)
from Georgia Tech
Prof. Stingelin is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C, received a €1.2 Million ERC Starting Independent Researcher Award in 2011 (http://erc.europa.eu/) and is, among other things, a Co-I of the newly established EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Large Area Electronics (http://www-large-area-electronics.eng.cam.ac.uk/). She is leading the €4 Million EC Marie-Curie Training Network 'INFORM' that involves 11 European partners.
She was awarded the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining's Rosenhain Medal and Prize (2014) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) Award for Visiting Scientists (2015) and will be Chair of the 2016 Gordon Conference on 'Electronic Processes in Organic Materials'.
Her current research interests encompass the broad field of organic functional materials, including organic electronics; multifunctional inorganic/organic hybrids; smart, advanced optical systems based on organic matter; and bioelectronics
Jean-Luc Bredas
from Georgia Tech
Jean-Luc Brédas is a Belgian chemist and currently Regents’ Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Vasser-Woolley and Georgia Research Alliance Chair in Molecular Design and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology. He was at the KAUST, and at the Université de Mons-Hainaut (Belgium). He studied chemistry (B.S. 1976) and obtained a PhD in 1979 at the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (University of Namur), Belgium under the direction of Professor Jean-Marie André. His research deals with the structural, electronic, and optical properties of novel organic and nanomaterials with promising characteristics in the field of electronics, photonics, and information technology.Brédas is among the top 100 most cited chemists in the world, and is included in the list of the Highly Cited Researchers for Chemistry [2]. He is the Director of International Programs at the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics at Georgia Tech. He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (2011).[He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, and the Optical Society of America.
The research activities of the group deal with the structural, electronic, optical and interfacial properties of novel organic (nano) materials with promising characteristics in the field of electronics, photonics, and information technology. Our work is devoted to theoretical investigations based on powerful computational techniques derived from quantum chemistry and condensed-matter physics. With such an approach, we are able to model compounds and materials reliably in order to understand and/or predict their electronic and optical properties. The major part of our studies involves polymer and oligomer materials (plastics) with a π-conjugated backbone. Our goal is to determine the nature of the physico-chemical mechanisms leading, for instance, to: high charge-carrier mobilities in the semiconducting or metallic regime; strong luminescence or photovoltaic response; outstanding nonlinear optical properties; specific surface interactions with other materials, such as metals or conducting oxides.
Stephen Forrest
from University of Michigan
B. A. Physics, 1972, University of California, MSc and PhD Physics in 1974 and 1979, University of Michigan.
At Bell Labs, he investigated photodetectors for optical communications. In 1985, Prof. Forrest joined the Electrical Engineering and Materials Science Departments at USC where worked on optoelectronic integrated circuits, and organic semiconductors. In 1992, Prof. Forrest became the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. He served as director of the National Center for Integrated Photonic Technology, and as Director of Princeton's Center for Photonics and Optoelectronic Materials (POEM), and from 1997-2001, he chaired Princeton’s Electrical Engineering Department. In 2006, he rejoined the University of Michigan as Vice President for Research, and is the Paul G. Goebel Professor in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Physics. A Fellow of the APS, IEEE and OSA and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, he received the IEEE/LEOS Distinguished Lecturer Award in 1996-97, and in 1998 he was co-recipient of the IPO National Distinguished Inventor Award as well as the Thomas Alva Edison Award for innovations in organic LEDs. In 1999, Prof. Forrest received the MRS Medal for work on organic thin films. In 2001, he was awarded the IEEE/LEOS William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award for advances made on photodetectors for optical communications systems. In 2006 he received the Jan Rajchman Prize from the Society for Information Display for invention of phosphorescent OLEDs, and is the recipient of the 2007 IEEE Daniel Nobel Award for innovations in OLEDs. Prof. Forrest has been honored by Princeton University establishing the Stephen R. Forrest Endowed Faculty Chair in Electrical Engineering in 2012. He was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors in 2014. Prof. Forrest has authored ~565 papers in refereed journals, and has 267 patents, with an h-index of 114. He is co-founder or founding participant in several companies, including Sensors Unlimited, Epitaxx, Inc., NanoFlex Power Corp. (OTC: OPVS), Universal Display Corp. (NASDAQ: OLED) and Apogee Photonics, Inc., and is on the Board of Directors of Applied Materials and PD-LD, Inc. He has also served from 2009-2012 as Chairman of the Board of Ann Arbor SPARK, the regional economic development organization, and serves on the Board of Governors of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He is Vice Chairman of the Board of the University Musical Society and is on the Executive Committee of the Michigan Economic Development Corp.
Neal Armstrong
from University of Arizona
Neal Armstrong is a regents professor of chemistry/biochemistry/optical sciences and associate vice president of research, discovery, and innovation at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of New Mexico in 1974. From 1974-75 he was a postdoctoral researcher at Ohio State University. Currently, his group is focused on developing new measurement science required to understand and control the chemical, physical and electrical properties of interfaces between electrical contacts and now electro/optical materials at nanometer length scales. Professor Armstrong’s current research interests include energy science, materials and polymer chemistry, and surface and solid state. Recent awards and honors include University of Arizona At The Leading Edge Award, Galileo Circle Fellow, and Alexander von Humboldt Sr. Research Prize.
Kevin Yager
from Brookhaven National Lab
Kevin is the group leader for the Electronic Nanomaterials group in the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory. His work focuses on self-assembled nanostructures, and structural characterization using x-ray and neutron techniques (small-angle scattering, reflectivity, GISAXS, etc.). He manages the CFN x-ray scattering user program, including managing a nanoscience user program on the X9 beamline at Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS). He is now involved in developing next-generation synchrotron scattering instruments at NSLS-II.
He obtained his Ph.D. from McGill University, Department of Chemistry, in 2006. He then spent 3 years as a guest researcher in the Polymers Division at NIST.
His research focuses on materials science and nanotechnology. Currently he is most interested in non-equilibrium self-assembly. In particular, he studies how non-equilibrium processing can be used to control the ordering of block-copolymer materials. He has recently demonstrated a suite of techniques that can be used to induce these self-assembling materials to form nanostructures beyond those known at equilibrium. He is also actively developing improved x-ray scattering techniques; especially with regard to exploiting machine-learning to enable autonomous scientific experiments.
Alberto Salleo
from Stanford University
Albert Salleo is an assistant professor of the department of materials science and engineering at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from UC Berkeley in 2001. From 2001-2005, Salleo was a postdoctoral researcher and member of the research staff at Palo Alto Research Center. He joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering as an Assistant Professor in 2005. Since then he has been awarded the 3M Untenured Faculty Award, NSF Career Award, and Intel Equipment Grant. The Salleo group’s research focuses on novel materials and processing technologies for large-area and flexible electronic photonic devices.
Chris Bettinger
from Carnegie Mellon University
Prof. Christopher Bettinger is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. Prof. Bettinger received an S.B. in Chemical Engineering in 2003, an M.Eng. in Biomedical Engineering in 2004, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2008 as a Charles Stark Draper Fellow, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University in the Department of Chemical Engineering as an NIH Ruth Kirschstein Fellow in 2010. He has received many honors including the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering Award for “Outstanding PhD Thesis”, the ACS AkzoNobel Award for Polymer Chemistry, and the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society Young Investigator Award. Prof. Bettinger is also a co-inventor on several patents and was a finalist in the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.
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Working group 4: Meta Materials
Andrea Alù (Group Leader)
from University of Texas-Austin
Andrea Alù is a Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at The University of Texas at Austin and holds the Temple Foundation Endowed Professorship No. 3.
Dr. Alù received his Ph.D. (2007), M.S. (2003) and Laurea (2001) degrees from the University of Roma Tre (Italy), and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007-2008. Dr. Alù is the co-author of over 400 scientific contributions published in international books, journals, transactions and peer-reviewed conference proceedings and is the co-inventor of three US Patents related to his research. His papers have received over 2,500 citations (until Aug. 2011), with an h-index of 24. Some of his research achievements have raised worldwide attention in the scientific and news press, like in the case of metamaterial cloaking and optical nanocircuits and nanoantennas.
Over the last few years, he has won several international research awards, among which the prestigious URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal (2011), an NSF CAREER award (2010), the AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2010), the Leopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics (2008), the SUMMA Graduate Fellowship in Advanced Electromagnetics (2004), Young Scientist Awards from URSI General Assembly (2005) and URSI Commission B (2007 and 2004), IEEE AP-S Student Paper award (2003) and the Raj Mittra Travel Grant Award (2004). He serves as OSA Traveling Lecturer since 2010, as associate editor of Optics Express and IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, as a guest editor for several special issues in the areas of metamaterials and plasmonics.
Nader Engheta
from University of Pennsylvania
Nader Engheta is the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, with affiliation in the Departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Bioengineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Materials Science and Engineering. He received the BS degree (with highest rank) in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, the MS degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California. After spending one year as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Caltech and four years as a Senior Research Scientist at Kaman Sciences Corporation's Dikewood Division in Santa Monica, California, he joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where he rose through the ranks and is currently H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor. He was the graduate group chair of electrical engineering from July 1993 to June 1997. He has received numerous awards for his research including the 2017 William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award from the IEEE Photonics Society (to be presented October 2, 2017), the 2017 Photonics Media Industry Beacons Award, the 2015 Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the 2015 Gold Medal from SPIE (the international society for optics and photonics), the 2015 National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow (NSSEFF) Award (also known as Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow Award) from US Department of Defense, the 2015 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Achievement Award, the 2015 Wheatstone Lecture at the King’s College London, the 2014 Balthasar van der Pol Gold Medal from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), the 2013 Inaugural SINA (“Spirit of Iranian Noted Achiever”) Award in Engineering, the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Key Award from the IEEE Philadelphia Section, the 2012 IEEE Electromagnetics Award, the 2008 George H. Heilmeier Award for Excellence in Research, the Fulbright Naples Chair Award, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) award, the UPS Foundation Distinguished Educator term Chair, the Scientific American Magazine 50 Leaders in Science and Technology in 2006, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and he IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He is a Fellow of seven international scientific and technical societies, i.e., IEEE, American Physical Society (APS), Optical Society of America (OSA), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), SPIE, Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale (URSI), and Materials Research Society (MRS). He has also received several teaching awards including the Christian F. and Mary R. Lindback Foundation Award, the S. Reid Warren, Jr. Award (two times), and the W. M. Keck Foundation’s Engineering Teaching Excellence Award.
Cherie Kagan
from University of Pennsylvania
Cherie earned both a B.S.E. in Materials Science and Engineering and a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. In 1996, she received her Ph.D. in Electronic Materials from MIT. In 1996, Cherie went to Bell Laboratories as a Postdoctoral Fellow. In 1998 she joined IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center where she most recently managed the “Molecular Assemblies and Devices Group.”
In January, 2007 Cherie joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. She served as the Director of the University’s Nanofabrication facility from 2007 to 2009 and the University of Pennsylvania’s Director to the Energy Commercialization Initiative, a multi-institutional partnership funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to accelerate commercialization of clean, alternative energy technologies from 2009 to 2011. Cherie is a co-founding director of Pennergy: The Penn Center for Energy Innovation (2009-present).
Cherie is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2013), was selected to give Stanford University’s Distinguished Women in Science Colloquium (2009), recipient of IBM’s Outstanding Technical Achievement award (2005), was selected by the American Chemical Society as one of 12 “Outstanding Young Woman Scientists who is expected to make a substantial impact in chemistry during this century (2002),” featured by the American Physical Society in Physics in Your Future (2002), and was chosen to the MIT Technology Review TR10 (2000).
She is an associate editor of the American Chemical Society’s journal ACS Nano and on the editorial boards of the journals “Nano Letters” and “NanoToday.” She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council on Emerging Technologies, the DOE Basic Energy Science Materials Council, and on the NSF advisory board for the US Summer School in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. She served on the Materials Research Society’s Board of Directors from 2007 to 2009 and the editorial board of the journal “Applied Materials and Interfaces.”
Haiyan Wang
from Purdue University
Professor Haiyan Wang is the Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering with a joint appointment between the Schools of Materials Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering. Professor Wang's expertise is in electronic materials and covers processing and characterization of oxide- and nitride-based thin films in nanocomposite form for microelectronics, photonics, optoelectronics, ferroelectric and multiferroics, superconductors, solid oxide fuel cells, and batteries, flash sintering, and in situ TEM. She has published more than 400 journal papers (total citation over 12000, H-Factor 53), and is a Fellow of ASM International, ACerS, AAAS and APS.
Jason Valentine
from Vanderbilt University
Professor Valentine received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in 2004 and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley in 2010. In 2010 he joined the faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Vanderbilt University where hs is currently an Associate Professor.
Prof. Valentine's past and current work includes the development of bulk plasmonic optical metamaterials, transformation inspired devices such as optical cloaks, dielectric metamaterials at optical frequencies, and hot electron devices. His work was selected by Time Magazine as one of the "Top 10 Scientific Discoveries in 2008". At Vanderbilt he has received an NSF CAREER Award and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award for research on dielectric metamaterials.
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Working group 5: Industrial Collaborations and National Initiatives
An Chen
from Semiconductor Research Corporation
Dr. An Chen is on assignment from the IBM Corporation to serve as the Executive Director of the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI), and is based at the Almaden Research Laboratories in San Jose, California. The NRI supports university-based research on future nanoscale logic devices to replace the CMOS transistor in the 2020 timeframe.
An Chen received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 2004. An started working on emerging memory technologies at Spansion LLC. In 2007, he joined AMD as a full-time assignee to the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI) program with SRC. He continued working on beyond-CMOS devices with the NRI and STARnet programs at GLOBALFOUNDRIES, which separated from AMD in 2009. He is also a memory Tech Lead responsible for research collaborations with industry consortia and partners on emerging memories. Since 2011, An has been the chair of the Emerging Research Device (ERD) group of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS). An has published 38 first-author and 7 co-author papers in peer-review journal and conference proceedings. He holds 16 issued U.S. patents and 4 pending applications. He has presented over 20 contributed talks and over 30 invited talks and panel discussions in conferences. He is the lead editor of “Emerging Nanoelectronic Devices” (Wiley, 2015) and has contributed chapters to four books. He is on the Advisory Boards of U. Nebraska Lincoln MRSEC center and U. Florida Nanoscale Security MURI program, and has also served in the Technical Advisory Board of several SRC programs and thrusts. An is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Jessica Torres
from Intel
James B Hannon
from IBM
James Hannon received a PhD in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994, under the supervision of Ward Plummer. His thesis work focused on the atomic structure and lattice dynamics of beryllium surfaces. He then spent two years as a Humboldt Fellow with Harald Ibach at the Forschungszentrum Juelich where he studied alloying mechanisms with electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). In 1996 he moved to Sandia National Labs, working as a postdoc with Gary Kellogg on low energy electron microscopy (LEEM). He performed real-time in situ measurements on silicon surfaces, investigating key processes such as boron segregation and oxygen etching. In 1998 he joined the Physics Department at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2000 Hannon joined IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, continuing research on surfaces using LEEM. His research activities at IBM are centered on surface phenomena, including strain-driven self-assembly, novel growth mechanisms, nanowire growth, and graphene synthesis. He now manages a research group focused on the purification and integration of carbon nanotubes for applications in high-performance logic. He also manages the materials effort in earth-abundant photovoltaics. He is the author of over 50 refereed publications, including articles in Science and Nature. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Mansour Moinpour
from EMD Performance Materials
Ralph Dammel
from EMD Performance Materials
Ralph R. Dammel (*April 29, 1954) received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt/FRG in 1986. He joined Hoechst AG’s Central Research Laboratory in Frankfurt/FRG in the same year to work on chemically amplified X-ray and e-beam resists, and has since then worked on the design and characterization of photoresists and antireflective coatings for micro- and nanolithography at almost every wavelength used by the industry. Dr. Dammel is the author of over 200 scientific papers in chemistry and microlithography and is an inventor on over 100 patent families in the field. His monograph “Diazonaphthoquinone-based Resists” is generally recognized as the definitive book on the subject. In spring 2009, Dr. Dammel was elected as SPIE Fellow. He received the Photopolymer Science and Technology Outstanding Achievement Award in June 2011, and SPIE’s Frits Zernicke Award for Microlithography in February 2015.