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Landon's 2011 Thesis Defense Talk

Philip Kim's 2011 OSU lecture: "quantum mech., relativity and graphene"

Paul McEuen's 2009 OSU lecture: "future of technology"

TJ Ha's 2010 OSU lecture: "nano metrology for biology"

biosensor research

education programs

Previous Postdoc

Ethan Minot: left-align Landon Prisbrey, Nov 2011 - Dec 2012
Project: Nanoelectronic devices for single-molecule sensing
- Now at Intel (Hillsboro, OR)

Previous Grad Students

Ethan Minot: left-align Grant Saltzgaber, Sept 2011 - Sept 2012
MS Thesis: "Comparison of carbon nanotube and graphene field-effect transistor biosensors" (pdf)
- Now at Jireh Semiconductor (Hillsboro, Oregon).
Ethan Minot: left-align Pete Wojcik, Jan 2012 - Aug 2012
MS Project: "Fabrication and Characterization of a Label Free Graphene Field Effect Transistor Biosensor" (pdf)
- Now at University of Idaho, Physics Graduate Program
Ethan Minot: left-align Landon Prisbrey, Sept 2007 - Nov 2011
PhD Thesis:Carbon Nanotube Devices Engineered by Atomic Force Microscopy (pdf)
- Now at Intel (Hillsboro, OR)
Ethan Minot: left-align Matt Leyden, Mar 2007 - Jun 2011
PhD Thesis:Label-free Biosensing with Carbon Nanotube Transistors, (pdf)
- Now at Nanotechnology Biomachines.

Previous Undergrad Researchers

Ethan Minot: left-align Will Gibson, June 2011 - June 2012
Project: Conjugation of proteins to carbon nanotubes
- Now at Rockefeller University working in Nina Papavasiliou's lab.
Ethan Minot: left-align Canan Schuman (Pharmacy)
Project: CNT functionalization chemistry
- Currently in the Pharmacy Program at OSU
Ethan Minot: left-align Rachel Burton, Jan 2010 - Aug 2010
Project: Chemical vapor deposition growth of carbon nanotubes
- Currently at Eastern Oregon University (Math Major, Physics Minor)
- Recently won an MAA award and COMAP "Outstanding"
Josh Kevek, Jan 2008 - Aug 2011
Project: Aligned growth and transfer of carbon nanotubes. Photolithography processing. Instrumentation.
- Runs the business Kevek Innovations selling CNT and graphene growth systems.
- Now a research support specialist in the McEuen Group at Cornell University.

Michael Paul, Sept 2008 - June 2009
Project: "Scanning laser microscopy for nanometrology"
-Now a Physics PhD candidate studying THz imaging and spectroscopy at OSU

Colin Podelnyk, Sept 2008 - June 2009
Project: "Single molecule fluorescence techniques for studying biological systems"
- Now studying nuclear engineering for the Navy.
Ramsi Hawkins, Sept 2008 - June 2009
Project: "Development of nanophysics activities for introductory physics"
Ethan Minot: left-align Jörg Bochterle
Sept 2007 - May 2008
Project: "Fabricating graphene devices by scanning probe lithography"
- Oregon/Baden-Wurttemberg exchange program.
-Now a Physics PhD Candidate at University of Heidelberg.
Ethan Minot: left-align Daniel Harada
Sept 2007 - Sept 2008
Project: "1/f noise in liquid-gated CNT FET biosensors", URISC project.
-Masters in Physics from Prof. Janet Tate's group at OSU.
-Currently a process engineer at WaferTech, Camas, WA.

Previous Senior Thesis Projects