Ever wonder if a cm³ of material would behave the same if the size were made a million times smaller in all directions?
Well, how would you make such a small structure?
Even if you did, how would you examine it (to get yourself out of your state of perpetual wondering)?
Ah! What use would knowing be anyway?

    We are an inter-disciplinary group of curious people exploring some of the mysteries and applications of quantum nanostructures. We exploit Nature's ways, dubbed self-assembly, to create 3-dimensionally confined nanoscale semiconductor volumes called quantum dots (QDs) and hybrid abiotic (semiconductor)-biotic (peptide, protein, cell)-quantum dot integrated structures. And we study their electronic properties.

    Such nanostructures are at the core of the emerging nanotechnology at the intersection of the information and biological sciences. Our applications interests range from electronic and optoelectronic devices (transistors,resonant tunneling diodes, light emitting diodes, lasers,and detectors) for information processing, communication,and computing to biochemical sensors and intelligent bio-mimetic coatings for neural prostheses.

     To paraphrase the Marines, we are constantly on the look out for "a few good students". If you have a strong undergraduate degree in science (including biochemistry and chemical biology) or engineering (including bio- and biomedical engineering), are self-driven, communicative, committed to PhD, enjoy good food and conversation, and your passion to learn greater than fear of walking unknown territory, then contact us. We are the place for you!

    Major interdisciplinary projects involving multi-faculty/institution collaboration are funded by the DURINT (Defense Universtiy Research Initiative in Nanotechnology) program of the NNI (National nanotechnology Initiative), MURI ( Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative), and the BMES ERC (Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems Engineering Research Center) program of the NSF (National Science Foundation).

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