Drndic Lab

News from our lab

OPEN POSITIONS: We are currently searching for several postdocs with experience in nanoparticle synthesis or nanoscale electronic measurements!

Invited lecture on TEBAL: Nanosculpting devices with electrons in a transmission electron microscope by Marija Drndic at the APS March Meeting 2008, Focus session Nanotechnology II, in New Orleans, March 10-14, 2008. (Abstract)

Graduate student Michael Fischbein was awarded the 2007 Graduate Student Research Excellence Award from the Nano/Bio Interface Center. The associated 15-minutes presentation will preceed this year's keynote lecture by Charles Lieber during the NanoDay@Penn on October 24, 2007.

Interdisciplinary Workshop Excited state processes in electronic and bio nanomaterials (ESP2007)
Los Alamos National Laboratory, October 1-4, 2007

Graduate student Michael Fischbein was awarded the Elias Burstein Prize in Condensed Matter Physics
for his creative and prolific work on nanolithography and its technological applications.

Graduate student Lauren Willis was awarded the NSF-IGERT graduate fellowship.

Selected press releases about TEBAL nanofabrication technique:
      IEEE Spectrum: Power tools for making nanoscale objects, July 2007.
      Nature Nanotechnology research highlight: Electron beam lithography: Body-sculpting, May 2007.
      PhysOrg.com: Scientists Hand-Make Devices Smaller than 10 Nanometers, April 2007.

Selected previous events:

Werner B. Teutsch Prize awarded to Lauren Willis (2006).
PECASE Award (Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers) awarded to Marija Drndic (2005).
NSF-IGERT graduate fellowship awarded to Michael Fischbein (2004-2007).
Arnold M. Denenstein Prize awarded to Michael Fischbein (2004).

Group meetings:

Tuesdays, 9 am, DRL 2N36.

Upcoming presentations:

2007, Marija Drndic