Feb 17, 3-4 pm: CEM to host teaching panel for post doctoral fellows and graduate students

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The Center for Emergent Materials is hosting a teaching panel for the OSU STEM Post Doctoral Fellows and Graduate Students on Thursday, February 17 from 3-4PM in 1080 PRB.

The panel will consist of two faculty members from Kenyon College, one faculty member from Columbus State and one faculty member from Metro High School. Topics to be discussed include: life as a faculty member at a liberal arts college vs. a large public research university, types of resources and support available for conducting research in a small college environment, requirements for tenure and promotion and other topics.

Please RSVP to Michelle McCombs at mccombs.75@osu.edu

International Team Develops First High-Temperature Spin-Field-Effect Transistor

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An international team of researchers featuring CEM IRG-1 member and Texas A&M University physicist Dr. Jairo Sinova has announced a breakthrough that gives a new spin to semiconductor nanoelectronics and the world of information technology.

The team has developed an electrically controllable device whose functionality is based on an electron’s spin. Their results, the culmination of a 20-year scientific quest involving many international researchers and groups, are published in the current issue of “Science.”

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Technique Turns Computer Chip Defects into an Advantage

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CEM researchers Jay Gupta and Donghun Lee have published an article titled “Tunable Field-Control over the Binding Energy of Single Dopants by a Charged Vacancy in GaAs” in Science Magazine explaining how tiny defects inside a computer chip can be used to tune the properties of key atoms in the chip.

Though the technique is currently limited to the laboratory, it could prove valuable to industry in the future, as the continued miniaturization of cell phone and computer chips makes the performance of individual atoms in a semiconductor more important.

Full text available at the Science Magazine website.

Full press release available at http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/holetune.htm

CEM accepting proposals for the 2011 International Internship Award

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The Center for Emergent Materials (CEM) is now accepting proposals for the 2011 CEM International Internship Award.

The aim of the CEM Internship Award Program is to expand and advance collaborative projects. This year the award is designed specifically to advance the developing partnership between the CEM and the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW Dresden).

Successful applicants will receive up to $5,000 toward allowable costs of research on‐site in the partner institution facility. Allowable costs include travel‐related expenses (airfare, housing, etc), materials and supplies, and facility fees. Internships must be for a minimum of 4 weeks in duration.

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