2011 Colloquium Winners
ORAL PRESENTATION AWARDS
Schlumberger Prize - $500
Brent Carey - “Interphasic Evolution as a Mechanism of Stiffness Improvement in Compliant Polymer Nanocomposites" with Kevin G. Yager, Meng Qu, Andrew Gouldstone, Prabir K. Patra, and Pulickel M. Ajayan
Shell Prize - $500
Saunab Ghosh - “Oxygen Doping Modifies New Infrared Band Gaps in Fluorescent Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes" with Sergei M. Bachillo, Rebecca A. Simonette, Kathleen M. Backingham, and R. Bruce Weisman
Micron Technologies Prize - $500
Heidar S. Khakestar - “Hot Electron-Hole Pair Arising from Plasmon Decay" with Mark W. Knight, Peter Nordlander, and Naomi J. Halas
UNDERGRADUATE POSTER SESSION AWARDS
Kuraray Prize - $500
Rohini R. Sigireddi - “Quantitative Dark-Field Microscopy of Gold Nanoshells in Cells" with Ryan M. Huschka, Mark W. Knight, and Naomi J. Halas
Texas Instruments Prize - $250
Minh Nguyen - “Using AFM to Investigate the Effect of Size, Pressure, Temperature, and the Contact Surface Conditions on the Collapse of Carbon Nanotubes" with Chenguang Zhang, Varun Shenoy, Gangoli, and Robert H. Hauge
National Instruments Prize - myDAQ Student Kit
Rena Chen - “Optimized Synthesis by Chemical Vapor Depositions of Atomic Layer Hexagonal Boron Nitride" with Zheng Liu, Ken Hackenberg, and Pulickel M. Ajayan
GRADUATE & POSTDOC POSTER SESSION AWARDS
Texas Instruments Prize - $500
Fangfang Wen - “Plasmonic Trapping of a Single Nanoparticle" with Yu Zhang and Naomi J. Halas
RQI Prize - $250
Erik H. Haroz - “The Colors of Armchair Carbon Nanotubes" with W. D. Rice, B. Y. Lu, J. G. Duque, S. K. Doorn, P. Nikolaev, S. Arepalli, R. H. Hauge, and J. Kono
SPIE Prize - $150
Tim Noe - “Time-Resolved Evidence for Superfluorescent Radiation from Quantum Wells in Strong Magnetic Fields" with J. Kim, J. Lee, A. McGill, A. A. Belyanin, G. S. Solomon, D. H. Reitze, and J. Kono
National Instruments Prize - myDAQ Student Kit
Britain Willingham - “Energy Transport in Metal Nanoparticle Chains via Sub-radiant Plasmon Modes" with Stephan Link