IBM team
Zhihong Chen received her B.S. degree in physics from Fudan University in Shanghai, China in 1998, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Florida in 2002 and 2003, respectively. Her Ph.D. studies investigated the chemical and optical properties of carbon nanotubes. She joined IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center as a postdoc fellow in 2004 and is employed as a Research Staff Member since 2006. Her current research involves the investigation of nanotube based electronic devices and the study of nanoelectronic circuits.
Joerg Appenzeller received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the Technical University of Aachen, Aachen, Germany in 1991 and 1995. His Ph.D. dissertation investigated quantum transport phenomena in low-dimensional systems based on III/V heterostructures. He worked for one year as a Research Scientist in the Research Center, Juelich, Germany, before he became an Assistant Professor with the Technical University of Aachen in 1996. During his professorship he explored mesoscopic electron transport in different materials including CNs and superconductor/semiconductor-hybrid devices. From 1998 to 1999, he was with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, as a Visiting Scientist, exploring the ultimate scaling limits of silicon MOSFET devices. Since 2001, he has been with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, as a Research Staff Member mainly involved in the investigation of the potential of CNs for a future nanoelectronics.
Paul Michael Solomon was born in Cape Town South Africa, and did undergraduate Electrical Engineering at the University of Cape Town and Graduate studies at the Israel Inst. of Technology receiving a PhD in 1975. From 1975 he has been a Research Staff Member at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center where he has worked on aspects of MOS, Bipolar and III-V device physics and device design.
Yu-Ming Lin received the B.S. degree in physics from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1996, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, in 2000 and 2003, respectively. His Ph.D. study focused on experimental and theoretical studies of thermoelectric properties of Bi-based nanowires fabricated using a non-lithographic self-assembly process. After postdoctoral work at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, he joined the Research Department of IBM as a Research Staff Member in 2005. His current work involved in the electrical characterization and the optimization of carbon nanotube transistors.
Phaedon Avouris is an IBM Fellow and manager of Nanometer Scale Science and Technology at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. He received his B.S. degree from the Aristotelian University in Greece, and his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from Michigan State University in 1974. After postdoctoral work at UCLA and AT&T Bell Laboratories, he joined the Research Division of IBM in 1978. Over the years, his research has involved a wide variety of subjects ranging from laser spectroscopy, surface physics and chemistry, scanning tunneling microscopy, atom manipulation, to nanoelectronics. His current research is focused on experimental and theoretical studies of the electrical properties and transport mechanisms in carbon nanotubes, molecules and nanowires. The work includes the design, fabrication and study of model nanoelectronic devices and circuits. Dr. Avouris has published over 300 scientific papers. He has been Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University and Adjunct Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics of the U.K., the Academy of Athens, the IBM Academy of Technology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Vacuum Society and the New York Academy of Sciences. He received the Irving Langmuir Prize of the American Physical Society, the Medard W. Welch Award of the American Vacuum Society, the Feynman Prize for Molecular Nanotechnology, the ACSIN Nanoscience Prize, the Raper Award of IEEE, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Michigan State University, and a number of IBM Corporation “Outstanding Technical Achievement” awards. He is co-editor of the Springer-Verlag book series on Nanoscience and is currently serving on the Advisory Editorial Boards of Nano Letters, Nanotechnology, Intl. Journal of Nanoscience, Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanosystems, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Surface Review and Letters, and the Journal of Electron Spectroscopy.
Technical support:
Bruce Ek joined IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York in 1983. His work involved the fabrication of Josephson junctions in 1983 and 1984. From 1985 to 1992, he was involved in setting up various MBE systems and fabricating silicon germanium devices. In 1993, he joined the Nanometer Scale Science and Technology group and provides the team with technical support involving AFM and STM measurements, e-beam evaporation and nano-device fabrication.
Collaborators:
Jennifer Sippel-Oakley received her Ph.D. in physics in 2005 and studied under Andrew Rinzler at the University of Florida. Her research included studies of charge-induced dimensional changes in carbon nanotubes and also explored nanotubes in gas sensor applications. She currently works as a characterization engineer at IBM’s 300mm Fab in Hopewell Junction, NY.
Andrew G. Rinzler received his Ph.D. in physics in 1991 from the University of Connecticut, followed by a NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the US ARMY ARDEC in Dover New Jersey. In 1994 he took a research position in the laboratory of Richard Smalley at Rice University. His 4 years there, during the early years of nanotube research, were a very exciting time when much scientific fruit practically jumped from the vine. In 1998 he took a faculty position in the Physics Department at the University of Florida where he has been since. His research continues its focus on carbon nanotubes with recent successes in nanotube based atomic force microscopy probe tips and the pioneering development of pure nanotube films as a new class of transparent conductive materials.
Jinyao Tang received his B.S. degree in Chemical Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, P.R.China. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University. His thesis work within the NSF-funded Center for Electron Transport in Molecular Nanostructures involves the fabrication and study of single-molecule transistors using self-aligned lithographic patterning and chemical self-assembly.
Shalom J. Wind received his B.A. degree in Physics from Yeshiva University and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Yale University. He joined IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1987, following his doctoral studies. His work there focused primarily on the fabrication and study of nanostructures and nanodevices. Wind joined the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University in 2003. He is also a member of the NSF-funded Center for Electron Transport in Molecular Nanostructures and the NIH-funded NanoMedicine Center for Mechanical Biology at Columbia. His present research focuses on molecular scale electronic systems as well as the application of nanofabrication to address key problems in biology.