Stanford Materials Science and Engineering Colloquium
Spring 2005-2006 Schedule
April 14th Prof. Arthur J. Nozik, Center for Basic Sciences, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Third Generation Solar Photon Conversion: Multiple Exciton Generation in Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Quantum Dot Arrays
April 21st Dr. Chuck Cummingham, Stanford University, Positive Contrast MRI of Cells Labeled with Magnetic Nanoparticles
April 28th Dr. Hans Stork, Texas Instruments, Perfecting Materials and Interfaces for Advanced CMOS Integration
May 5th Dr. Toyohiko J. Konno, Osaka Prefecture University, Recent Progress in the TEM Observation on Age-Hardened Alloys
May 12th Dr. Jeffrey B.-H. Tok, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, High-Sensitivity Multiplexed Biodetection via Multi-Metallic Striped Nanowires
May 19th Dr. Alex Zunger, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, High-Sensitivity Multiplexed Biodetection via Multi-Metallic Striped Nanowires
May 26th Dr. Anderi Istratov, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Transition Metal Impurities in Silicon Solar Cells: from Understanding to Defect Engineering
Winter 2005-2006 Schedule
January 13th Prof. Steven Quake, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Biological Large Scale Integration
January 20th Dr. Jim Bentley, Metal and Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, Nanoscale Composition Mapping in the Transmission Electron Microscope by EELS and EFTEM
January 27th Prof. Robert Sinclair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, In Situ High Resolution Electron Microscopy of Materials
February 3rd Prof. Roger T. Howe, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Materials and Processes for MEMS: Some New Research Opportunities
February 10th Prof. Brad F. Chmelka, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Hierarchically Ordered Inorganic-Organic Materials
February 17th Prof. Matthew R. Begley, Department of Civil Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering, University of Virginia, Chemo-Mechanical Interactions Implications for Micro-Device Design
February 24th Dr. Calvin Chow, Chief Executive Officer, Nanosys, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, Commercializing the Promise of Nanotechnology
March 3rd Prof. Wei Lu, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Self-Organized Nanostructures and Guided Self-Assembly
March 10th Prof. Kevin Healy, Department of Bioengineering and Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Biomaterials
March 17th Prof. Daniel A. Fletcher, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Grace Under Pressure: Mechanics of the Actin Cytoskeleton
Spring 2005-2006 Schedule
April 14th Prof. Arthur J. Nozik, Center for Basic Sciences, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Third Generation Solar Photon Conversion: Multiple Exciton Generation in Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Quantum Dot Arrays
April 21st Dr. Chuck Cummingham, Stanford University, Positive Contrast MRI of Cells Labeled with Magnetic Nanoparticles
April 28th Dr. Hans Stork, Texas Instruments, Perfecting Materials and Interfaces for Advanced CMOS Integration
May 5th Dr. Toyohiko J. Konno, Osaka Prefecture University, Recent Progress in the TEM Observation on Age-Hardened Alloys
May 12th Dr. Jeffrey B.-H. Tok, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, High-Sensitivity Multiplexed Biodetection via Multi-Metallic Striped Nanowires
May 19th Dr. Alex Zunger, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, High-Sensitivity Multiplexed Biodetection via Multi-Metallic Striped Nanowires
May 26th Dr. Anderi Istratov, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Transition Metal Impurities in Silicon Solar Cells: from Understanding to Defect Engineering
Winter 2005-2006 Schedule
January 13th Prof. Steven Quake, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Biological Large Scale Integration
January 20th Dr. Jim Bentley, Metal and Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, Nanoscale Composition Mapping in the Transmission Electron Microscope by EELS and EFTEM
January 27th Prof. Robert Sinclair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, In Situ High Resolution Electron Microscopy of Materials
February 3rd Prof. Roger T. Howe, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Materials and Processes for MEMS: Some New Research Opportunities
February 10th Prof. Brad F. Chmelka, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Hierarchically Ordered Inorganic-Organic Materials
February 17th Prof. Matthew R. Begley, Department of Civil Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering, University of Virginia, Chemo-Mechanical Interactions Implications for Micro-Device Design
February 24th Dr. Calvin Chow, Chief Executive Officer, Nanosys, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, Commercializing the Promise of Nanotechnology
March 3rd Prof. Wei Lu, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Self-Organized Nanostructures and Guided Self-Assembly
March 10th Prof. Kevin Healy, Department of Bioengineering and Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Biomaterials
March 17th Prof. Daniel A. Fletcher, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Grace Under Pressure: Mechanics of the Actin Cytoskeleton
Autumn 2005-2006 Schedule
October 7th Dr. Robert E. Fontana, Jr., San Jose Research Center – Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Moore's Law and Magnetic Recording Areal Density – A Nano Processing Perspective
October 14th Dr. Christian Kisielowski, National Center for Electron Microscopy – Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Aberration Corrected Electron Microscopy: What are the New Perspectives for Materials Science?
October 21st Prof. Nicola Spaldin, Materials Department – UC Santa Barbara, Why Are There So Few Magnetic Ferroelectrics?
October 28th Prof. Yi Cui, Department of Materials Science & Engineering – Stanford University, Nanocrystal Electrical Transport and Self-Assembly
November 4th Prof. Chia-Ling Chien, Department of Physics & Astronomy – The Johns Hopkins University, Half Metals, Spin Torques and Nanorings
November 11th Prof. Alberto Salleo, Department of Materials Science & Engineering – Stanford University, From Nanometers to Meters: New Materials and Processing Technologies for Large-Area Multi-Functional Systems
Autumn 2005-06 Archived Abstracts
Winter 2004-2005 Schedule
January 14th Prof. Robert Sinclair, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, Stanford University, "Nano-Characterization of Materials".
January 21st Prof. Eva Olsson, Physics Dept., Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, "Active Interfaces and Local Probing of Properties and Structure".
January 28th Prof. Gordon Brown, Jr., Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Dept. of Geological & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, "X-Ray Spectroscopy and Microscopy Studies of Chemical and Biological Processes at Environmental Interfaces".
February 18th Dr. Bhakta B. Rath, Associate Director of Research, Naval Research Laboratory Washington, D.C., "Energy Crisis: Mankind's Future After Oil?"
Winter 2004-05 Archived Abstracts
Fall 2004-2005 Schedule
October 8th Dr. Jeff Kortright, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, "Resonant X-Ray Scattering Studies of Nanoscale Magnetism" (Joint with Frontiers in X-Ray Science seminar series)
October 15th Dr. Jerome Hastings, Assistant Director, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, "The Whys and Hows of Ultrafast X-ray Science" (Joint with Frontiers in X-Ray Science seminar series)
October 22nd Prof. R. Ramesh, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering and Dept. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, "Multifunctional Complex Oxide Heterostructures"
October 29th Dr. Glen Wilk Executive Scientist, ASM America, Inc., "Application of Atomic Layer Deposition in the Semiconductor Industry"
November 5th Dr. Sadasivan Shankar, Intel Corp., "Nanomaterials - Challenges and Opportunities"
November 12th Dr. Stephen R. Gilbert, Agilent Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, "Ferroelectric Thin Films for RF Devices"
November 19th Prof. Zhenan Bao, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, "Designing Organic Semiconductors for Thin Film Electronics"
Autumn 2004-05 Archived Abstracts
Spring 2003-2004 Schedule
April 9 Prof. Krishna C. Saraswat, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, "Performance Limitations of Devices and Interconnects and Possible Alternatives for Nanoelectronics"
April 16 Anders Nilsson, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory,"X-ray spectroscopy studies of interfaces"
April 21 (Joint with Mechanics & Computation) Michael Ortiz, Caltech,"Capturing singular sets in solids: From crystallographic slip to faults in the earth crust"
April 30 Jeff Brinker, Sandia,"Self-Assembly of Porous and Composite Nanostructures and Arrays"
May 7 Richard King, Spectralabs, "Partitioning the Sun's Spectrum with Novel Materials in High-Efficiency III-V Multijunction Solar Cells"
May 14 Dean Samara-Rubio, Intel, "Materials Challenges in Designs of Gigahertz Silicon Optical Modulators Based on a Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Capacitor"
May 21 Alberto Salleo, Palo Alto Research Center,"Printed polymer electronics: from materials properties to display backplanes"
May 28 Peter Peumans, Stanford, "Efficiency limits of organic solar cells - how do we get there?"
Spring 2003-04 Archived Abstracts
Winter 2003-2004 Schedule
Jan 16 Prof. Albert Polman, FOM-Institue for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,"Plasmons, excitons, and 4f shells in nanophotonic integrated circuits"
Jan 30 Dave Eaglesham, Chief Technologist, Chemistry and Materials, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, "Nanoscience for Chem- and Bio-Sensors"
Feb 6 Dr. Dieter Weller, Seagate Research Center, Seagate Technology, "1 Terabit per Square Inch and Beyond'
Feb 13 Prof. Paul C. McIntyre, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University,"Materials Science of Novel Semiconductors and High-k Dielectrics for Nano-Scale Transistors"
Feb 20 Prof. Lydia Sohn, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, "An Artificial Nanopore for Molecular Sensing"
Feb 27 Dr. Alex Hamza, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, "Slow Highly Charged Ion-Surface Collisions"
Mar 5 Dr. Jimmy Zhu, Carnegie Mellon University, "Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory: The Path to Competitiveness"
Fall 2003-2004 Schedule
Oct 3 Dr. Regina Ragan, Hewlett-Packard,"Self-Assembled Nanostructures: Synthesis, Charaterization and Control!"
Oct 10 Prof. Peidong Yang, UC Berkeley, "Chemistry and Physics of Semiconductor Nanowires"
Oct 17 Dr. Chris G. Van de Walle, Palo Alto Research Center, "Hydrogen in Semiconductors, Insulators and Solutions"
Oct 24 Prof. Jon-Paul Maria, North Carolina State University), "Engineered Dielectrics for Embedded Applications"
Oct 31 Dr. Max Shtein, Princeton University, "Closing the Loop on Device Growth, Molecular Order, Patterning and Electrical Performance"
Nov 7 Prof. Nick Melosh, Stanford University, "Active Molecular Devices: Molecular Electronics, Biodetection and Future Directions"
Nov 14 Dr. Zvonimir Z. Bandic, Hitachi San Jose Research Center San Jose, CA, "Flexible Magnetics: Magnetic Nanostructures, Magnetic Lithography and Novel Hybrid Systems on Thin Plastic Substrates"
Nov 21 Prof. Nigel Browning, UC Davis & Lawrence Berkeley Lab, "The Properties of Interfaces and Defects in Nanoscale Materials Systems"
Dec 9 Dr. Mladen Barbic, California Institute of Technology, "Nanomagnets and Plasmons in Atomic Resolution MRI, NEMS, and Microfluidic Applications"
Dec 11 Dr. Xiangfeng Duan, Harvard University, "Semiconductor Nanowires: from Nanoelectronics to Macroelectronics A Bottom-up Paradigm"