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Semiconductor Nanomembranes: Sheet Science and Technology

Max G. Lagally is the Erwin W. Mueller Professor of Materials Science and Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  His research focusses on growth and structure-properties relationships of materials at the nanoscale, primarily semiconductors. He received his B.S. degree from the Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D. degree from Wisconsin, both in physics. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and a Humboldt Fellow at the Forschungszentrum, Jülich, Germany. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the German National Academy of Sciences - Leopoldina, and has received numerous other awards, including the AVS Welch Award, the MRS Medal, and the APS Davisson-Germer Prize and David Adler Lectureship Award.  He is a Fellow of the AAAS, APS, MRS, and AVS, and was selected as 1996 Outstanding Science Alumnus of the Pennsylvania State University. He has founded two companies, nPoint, Inc. and SonoPlot, Inc., based on technologies developed in his laboratories.  He has almost 400 publications, which have been cited over 13,000 times, and 17 patents, several of which are licensed. 

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Shaping Space for Light

Vladimir (Vlad) M. Shalaev Robert and Anne Burnett Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, specializes in nanophotonics, plasmonics, and optical metamaterials. Vlad Shalaev received several awards for his research in the field of nanophotonics and metamaterials, including the Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America for his pioneering contributions to the field of optical metamaterials and the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, APS, SPIE, and OSA. Prof. Shalaev authored three books, twenty one book chapters and over 300 research publications.

The new iron based high temperature superconductors: a brief review and some recent results

Elbio Dagotto is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Tennessee and Distinguished Scientist at the Materials Science and Technology Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1985 at the Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina. Dagotto specializes in the study of model Hamiltonians for systems where strong correlations among the electrons play a fundamental role, mainly using computational techniques. Dagotto is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society, and he was member of the Solid State Sciences Committee of the National Academy of Sciences and divisional editor of the Physical Review Letters.

Manipulating low-dimensional superconductivity in oxide heterostructures

Harold Y. Hwang is a Professor of Applied Physics and Photon Science (SLAC) at Stanford University. He received a B.S. in Physics, B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT (1993), and a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University (1997). He was formerly a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs (1996-2003), Associate Professor and Professor at the University of Tokyo (2003-2010). His current research focuses on atomic-scale synthesis of thin film complex oxide heterostructures; control of the electronic structure at interfaces and in confined geometries; low-dimensional superconductivity; and novel devices based on interface and surface states in oxides. Awards include the MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award (2005) and the IBM Japan Science Prize (Physics, 2008).