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Graduate Student Awards
Finalists Talk Presentations

The Society presented Gold and Silver Awards at the 2002 Spring Meeting to graduate students who authored or co-authored symposium papers which exemplified significant and timely research. The Graduate Student Award Finalists' Special Talk Sessions were held on Tuesday, April 2, 2002, beginning at noon. On Wednesday evening, all finalists were presented with either Gold or Silver Awards during the Award Ceremony.

2002 GSA Winners

Gold Award Winners

Sumit Agarwal, University of California-Santa Barbara
A1.2: Interactions of Atomic Deuterium with Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Thin Films-An In Situ Study Using Multiple Total Reflection Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
A25.5: Atomic-Scale Analysis of the H-Induced Disorder-to-Order Transition in Plasma-Deposited Silicon Thin Films

 

Michael E. Groenert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
K6.2: Room-Temperature CW GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Well Lasers on Si

 

Christy L. Haynes, Northwestern University
S10.7: Plasmon Scanned Surfaced-Enhanced Raman Scattering Excitation Profiles

 

Michael Lufaso, Ohio State University
D4.2: Evaluation and Prediction of the Crystal Structures of Single/Ordered/Disordered Octahedral Cation Perovskites Using the Software Program SPuDS

 

Hendrik Ohldag, Stanford University
E6.2: Understanding Magnetic Coupling at Antiferromagnetic/ Ferromagnetic Interfaces-A Spectromicroscopy Study

 

Job Rijssenbeek, Northwestern University
D1.3: Synthesis and Characterization of the First 1:2 Ordered Perovskite Ruthenate

 

Matthew Robinson, University of California-Santa Barbara
P1.1: High-Efficiency Polymer-Based Electrophosphorescent Devices
P2.2: High-Performance LEDs Using Newly Designed Iridium Complexes as Dopants in Conducting Polymers

 

Erik D. Spoerke, Northwestern University
N6.3: Metal-Bone Biohybrids

 

Saravanapriyan Sriraman, University of California-Santa Barbara
A1.2: Interactions of Atomic Deuterium with Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Thin Films-An In Situ Study Using Multiple Total Reflection Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
A25.5: Atomic-Scale Analysis of the H-Induced Disorder-to-Order Transition in Plasma-Deposited Silicon Thin Films

Silver Award Winners

Vadim Adamovich, University of Southern California
K2.2: New Charge-Carrier Blocking Materials for High Efficiency OLEDs

 

Mark E. Byrne, Purdue University
N9.3: Biomimetic Materials for Selective Recognition of Biologically Significant Molecules

 

Lara A. Estroff, Yale University
N7.10: An Organic Matrix for Inorganic Crystal Growth

 

Amanda J. Haes, Northwestern University
O3.1: A Highly Sensitive and Selective Surface-Enhanced Nanobiosensor

 

So-Jung Park, Northwestern University
O3.2: Massively Parallel Electrical Detection of DNA Using Oligonucleotide-Modified Au Nanoparticle Materials

 

Eric W. Seelig, Northwestern University
L7.5: Photonic Crystals from Monodisperse ZnO Colloidal Spheres

 

Haoquan Yan, University of California-Berkeley
K10.6: Room-Temperature Ultraviolet Nanolasers

 

Rhett Brewer, California Institute of Technology
J5.4: Rapid Low-Coverage Biaxial Texture Development in MgO Films During Growth on Amorphous Substrates by Ion-Beam-Assisted Deposition

 

Stefano Curtarolo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
W4.4: Dynamics of a Non-Homogeneously Coarse-Grained System

 

Melik C. Demirel, Los Alamos National Laboratory
W6.10: Large-Scale Statistics for Computational Verification of Grain Growth Simulations with Experiments

 

Xiaogang Liu, Northwestern University
E1.2: Arrays of Magnetic Nanoparticles Patterned via "Dip-Pen" Nanolithography

 

Guofeng Wang, California Institute of Technology
W4.5: The Role of the Atomistic Simulation in a Multiscale Approach for Modeling Crystalline Solids

 

Eli D. Sone, Northwestern University
S2.2: Cadmium Sulfide Helices Templated by Self-Assembled Nanoribbons

 

Yu Huang, Harvard University
S3.6: Nanowire Building Blocks-Assembly and Functional Device Arrays

 

Jason Lee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
B5.5: Molecular Layer Deposition of Ultrathin Zirconia Films on Silicon Using Polynuclear Metal Alkoxide Precursors

 

Hong Meng, University of California-Los Angeles
S5.4: Characteristics of Nanoscale Field Effect Transistors via Structure Modifications of Self-Assembled Molecules

 

Leila Rezaee, University of Tehran, Iran
A22.2: Low-Temperature Lateral Crystallization of Amorphous Silicon on Glass
A22.10: Metal-Free Germanium-Induced Crystallization of Amorphous-Si on Glass

 

Yayoi Takamura, Stanford University
C3.5: Dopant Deactivation in Heavily Sb Doped Si (001)-A High-Resolution X-Ray Diffraction Study
C3.6: The Local Structure of Antimony in High-Dose Antimony Implants in Silicon by XAFS and SIMS

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