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IN THE NEWS
18 May 2007
IEEE Nanotechnology Council Announces 2007 Award Winners
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc) Nanotechnology Council Awards Committee announced that Mark A. Reed will reiceve the 2007 IEEE Nanotechnology Pioneer Award for contributions to “nano and molecular electronics.” The award will be presented at IEEE NANO 2007 in Hong Kong in August 2007.
1 February 2007
Breakthrough in Nanodevice Synthesis Revolutionizes Biological Sensors
"A novel approach to synthesizing nanowires (NWs) allows their direct integration with microelectronic systems for the first time, as well as their ability to act as highly sensitive biomolecule detectors that could revolutionize biological diagnostic applications, according to a report in Nature.
'We electronically plugged into the biochemical system of cells,' said senior author Mark Reed, Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering & Applied Science. 'These developments have profound implications both for application of nanoscience technologies and for the speed and sensitivity they bring to the future of diagnostics.'" Read more.
Graduate student Eric Stern was published in the February 2007 issue of Nature as the lead author of "Label-free immunodetection with CMOS-compatible semiconducting nanowires." The article presents a novel approach to designing and fabricating nanoscale chemical and biological sensors, also the focus of Stern's Ph. D. thesis. Other authors include J.F. Klemic, D.A. Routenberg, P.N. Wyrembak, D.B. Turner-Evans, A.D. Hamilton, D.A. LaVan, T.M. Fahmy, and M.A. Reed. Read the full article.
26 October 2006
"Yale University today announced the establishment of the Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering, which will unite and expand Yale’s existing efforts in this rapidly developing science and technological frontier.
An initial investment of $5.5 million will bolster the Institute’s infrastructure and initiate seed projects adding to the more than $100 million of funding already focused on these areas of investigation at Yale. The initiative is a part of Yale’s commitment of over $1 billion to research infrastructure and science and engineering programs in the coming decade." Read more.
The aim of the Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering (YINQE) is to build on existing research strengths in Yale sciences and engineering, and to broaden the interdisciplinary activity among faculty and students across the university, specifically in the fields of molecular electronics, quantum information processing, chemistry of soft materials, nanoparticles, photonics, and nanoscale biomedical engineering. President Richard Levin named Paul Fleury, Dean of Engineering, the new Director of YINQE, as well as associate directors Mark A. Reed and Steven Girvin, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Applied Physics.
