Prof. Mark Reed's advisee is national winner, gets $100,000

 

The high school student who developed a project in Prof. Mark

Reed's, EE, lab this past summer and fall was named on Dec. 11, 2000,

the national winner in the individual category of the Siemens

Westinghouse Science & Technology Competition. Mariangela

Lisanti will receive a $100,000 scholarship for her original project

"Conductance Quantization in Au Nanocontact." The 17-year old

senior from Westport, CT, developed a novel technique for measuring

conductance quantization in metallic nanowires and was able to

observe conductance quantization for higher multiples of the

conductance quantum, never observed previously. The results

of the project results have "immense implications in many fields

of science, including physics, medicine and technology," according

to one of the judges.