2013

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FALL 2013

Bioinspired Solar Fuels: The Only Real Option for Photovoltaics? – Krishnan Rajeshwar, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington

Friday, December 13, 2013
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.


Oxide and II-VI Materials Enabling Novel Devices for Flexible and Large Area Electronics – Dr. Manuel Quevedo, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,University of Texas at Dallas

Friday, November 22, 2013
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.


Student Seminar Series: “Mechanically-adaptive, Low-voltage-driven, Organic Thin-film Transistors for Implantable Electronics with Acute In Vivo Stability” by Jonathan Reeder (Dr. Voit’s Group)

Friday, November 15, 2013
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.


Photonic and Electronic Materials and Devices Based on III-V Compound Semiconductors for Green Energy Systems – Jae-Hyun Ryou, Ph.D., University of Houston

Friday, November 8, 2013
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.


Student Seminar Series: “Microwave-Assisted Synthesis and Properties of Superparamagnetic Iron Nanoparticles” by Kaiyuan Luo (Dr. Hsu’s Group)

Friday, November 1, 2013
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.


Organic electronics, photo-voltaics and the problem of exciton diffusion – Prof. Vitaly Podzorov, Rutgers University

Friday, October 25, 2013
11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.


Dallas Metroplex AVS Student Chapter Presents “GaN on SiC: From a Lab Promise to a Market Reality”

Tuesday, October 22, 2013
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.


Student Seminar Series: “Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Metal-MoS2 Contact” by Cheng Gong (Dr. Chabal’s and Dr. Cho’s Groups)

Friday, October 18, 2013
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.


Student Seminar Series: “Atomic imaging and In Situ Exfoliation of MoS2” by Juan Pablo Oviedo Robles (Dr. Moon Kim’s Group)

Friday, October 4, 2013
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.


Graphene interfaces – Matthias Batzill, Dept. of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa

Friday, September 27, 2013
10:45 a.m. – 12 p.m.


Student Seminar Series: “Phase Separated YbSi and PtSi for Simultaneous Reduction of Hole and Electron Schottky Barrier Height” by Creighton Buie (Dr. Hinkle’s Group)

Friday, September 20, 2013
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.


MSE Colloquium presented by Dr. Robert L. Rennaker II – Department Head of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas

Friday, September 13, 2013
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.


SPRING 2013

The impact of carbon nanotube alignment on transparent electrode performance and other topics in organic electronics – Ranulfo Allen – Stanford University

Friday, May 10, 2013
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.


2013 Metro Math Contest

Saturday, April 13, 2013
12 a.m. – 11:59 p.m.


Ultra-lightweight, imperceptible plastic electronics -Presented by Dr. Martin Kaltenbrunner

Thursday, April 11, 2013
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.


MSE Colloquium: Not a molecule, not a polymer, not a substrate…the many faces of graphene as chemical platform.

Friday, March 8, 2013
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.


MSE COLLOQUIUM: FeRAMs, ReRAMs, MRAMs AND CeRAMs, THE NEW ERA OF NONVOLATILE MEMORIES DEVICES, TECHNOLOGIES AND MATERIALS SCIENCE

Thursday, March 7, 2013
10:45 a.m. – 12 p.m.


Surface functionalization of Graphene and Magnetic-Fluorescent Bimodal Core-shell Nanoparticles

Thursday, February 21, 2013
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.


MSE Colloquium: Synthesis and Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles: From Transformers to Cancer Detection

Thursday, February 7, 2013
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.


MSE Colloquium: Design optimization – a tool to make something better and even new: Applications in design of rigid-link mechanisms, phononic crystals and others

Thursday, January 31, 2013
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.


SUMMER 2013

Atomic layer deposition of platinum: from reaction mechanisms to direct-write nanopatterning – A.J.M. Mackus, Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Monday, August 5, 2013
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.


MERCURY OXIDATION ACROSS THE SCR UNIT: FIRST PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS AND LAB-SCALE EXPERIMENTS – Ana Suarez Negreira, PhD Student, Department of Chemical Engineering – Stanford University

Thursday, July 25, 2013
2 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.


Integrated Nanotechnology for Sustainable Future and Smart Living – Dr. Muhammad Mustafa Hussain – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Tuesday, July 23, 2013
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.


2013 LEAST Preview Meeting

Monday, June 3, 2013 – Tuesday, June 4, 2013
12 a.m. – 11:59 p.m.


2013 SiWEDS Spring Review Meeting

Thursday, May 30, 2013 – Friday, May 31, 2013
12 a.m. – 11:59 p.m.