DOWN UNDER!

There's a tremendous amount of work being done at the Australian National University (ANU) in the area of nanotechnology. However, the leading group in the Electronic Material Engineering department is Chennupati Jagadish group. One of their ongoing accomplishments is the area of solid state lasers and detectors by Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (MOCVD). This ANU group uses "golden seeds" to grow nanowire lasers. The golden seeds are suspended in solution and stick electrostatically to the surface of the specially prepared wafer in a similar way to toner on photocopy paper due to their inherent electrical charge.

With the right conditions, these seeds grow perfect straight wires!

So, what I'm I doing here?

I won a NSF-EAPSI fellowship to do research abroad and here I am - on the land down under! I've been growing quantum dot solar cells by MOCVD, performing optical measurements such as microPL and I-V measurements. Thus far, it has been an awesome experience!!!

WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

THESE ARE RESPONSES FROM SCIENTISTS AND MATHEMATICIANS!
Archimedes:
She was buoyant and excited at the thought of new adventures.

Ampere:
To keep up with current events.

Aristotle:
A1: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
A2: The other side of the road was its natural place.

Copernicus:
Despite the evidence of your senses, I can show that it is mathematically simpler to describe it as the road passing under the chicken.

Schroedinger:

(1) She had to get to the farm, or did she? (2) Since the wording of the question implies the absence of an observer (else the fowl's motivation might easily be deduced), it is evident that the chicken simultaneously did and did not cross the road. In the face of this, any speculation as to the bird's purpose must be viewed as meresophistry and as such is beyond the bounds of this discussion. (3) Chicken? Chicken!? Where's my cat? (4) Until the actual act or non-act of crossing the road was observed,the act remained a cloud of probabilities.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

VCIAN: The best conference ever!

The villa conference on the interactions among nano-
structures was held in Orlando, Florida from February 3rd-7th. This conference was both enjoyable and scientifically stimulating! The committee members could not have asked for a better group of participants... With this said, there will be another VCIAN next year! I'll reveal the location later.

Meanwhile, imagine Las Vegas, Hawaii or Paradise Island, Bahamas!

I can imagine you're screaming, "stop torturing me Kim!" LOL

A MUST READ!

This book, edited by Zhiming Wang of the University of Arkansas, presents recent research on the growth, characterization and applications of quantum dots. It particularly highlights energy transfer and structural interactions among nanostructures as well as quantum dot lasers and detectors.

A great christmas gift!

NANO-ART!

It feels great to be so powerful in the nanoworld!
I'm the creator of artificial lips, rods, quad-molecules and hexa-molecules!

A PROFESSOR!

One day a college professor of Psychology was greeting his new college class.He stood up in front of the class and said, "Would everyone who thinks he or she is stupid please stand up?"After a minute or so of silence, a young man stood up."Well, hello there sir. So you actually think you`re a moron?" the professor asked.The kid replied, "No sir, I just didn`t want to see you standing there all by yourself."

VC-NST: A GREAT SUCCESS!

The VC-NST was the first ever of its kind! A true historic event with invigorating talks from 20 countries around the globe. This conference, held in Fayetteville, Arkansas was a success. In fact approximately 200 people visited the conference via webinar to witness this event. Among these people were two committee members from the Material Research Society (MRS) - Prof. Michael J. Aziz from Harvard (Program Planning Subcommittee Chair) and Dr. Kenneth P. Rodbell (Virtual Meeting Project coordinator and Subcommittee Member) from IBM T.J. Watson Research Ctr. The virtual participants were certainly satisfied and look forward to participating in more conferences of this kind. View more pictures - 1, 2, 3, 4.

VC-NST 2008 will be held in Qingdao, China from October 12th-16th.

The participants from various countries will travel to Beijing where they will join the organizing committee for a social event. Thereafter, they will travel to the Qingdao, which is the main site of the conference.

Among the invited speakers are:

Dieter Bimberg, Alexander Govorov, Mingyong Han, Chennupati Jagadish, Pierre Petroff, Armando Rastelli, Mark Reed, and Harry Ruda.

DON'T MISS IT!