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Annual Review: The FENA 4th Annual Review will be held on January 29th and 30th at the Luxe Hotel in Los Angeles. Mark your calendar, and please make sure to register before January 23rd.

FENA Investigators Awarded DoD Grant on Biologically Assembled Quantum Systems: FENA theme leader for Nano-Architectures, Richard Kiehl, and FENA investigators Yu Huang and Kang Wang will play key roles in the study of biological routes to precision assembly of quantum electronic systems that could significantly impact future computing architectures. (See http://www.ece.umn.edu/groups/muri/index.htm )

Press: On May 7th, UCLA Professor, Fraser Stoddart was interviewed on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer about molecular electronics as part of a larger story about Intel's HfO2 gate breakthrough, to see the inteview click here

FENA Student Manu Shamsa Awarded Silver Medal of the Materials Research Society: Electrical Engineering PhD candidate Manu Shamsa, who works in Professor Balandin’s Nano-Device Laboratory (NDL) [http://www.ndl.ee.ucr.edu] at the UCR, received the Silver Medal Award for his research presentation at the annual meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS) in San Francisco, more...

Student Internships: GSRC, one of FENA's sister centers, has a new link called "Student Internships" for information and industries participating in summer internship opportunities

Tutorial: FENA Student-hosted Tutorial, featuring Xiaobin Niu, "Level Set Simulations of Directed Self-Assembly during Epitaxial Growth", Thursday, March 31st at 12pm (lunch served at 11:30am), in the UCLA Boelter hall Penthouse,on-site attendance details, remote attendance details...

PI Retreat: At the Hilton La Jolla, Torrey Pines on Friday May 11th. Click here for agenda and hotel information. Please contact Katie Christensen at katie@fena.org with questions.

Workshop: IFC, C2S2 and FENA Joint Workshop on Advances in Chip Level Power and Thermal Management, Monday, May 7, 2007 at the Klaus Advanced Computer Building on the GA Tech campus. Please email Katie Christensen at katie@fena.org in order to register, more...

Tutorial: Thursday, April 27,12pm (Lunch starting at 11:30 AM) at the UCLA Boelter Hall Penthouse, featuring Jing Zhou (UCLA),“ Nanoscale Assembly of Microtubule-Templated Au Nanowires" and Hyun Cheol Lee (UCLA), "The Binding of Magnetic Nanoparticles to Biological Templates," flyer and abstracts, remote attendance details...

Live Meeting: Featuring Marc Riedel on "The Analysis and Synthesis of Stochastic Logic for Nanoscale Computation," Thursday, April 19th at 11am (Pacific), attendance details...

Tutorial: Theme 1 featuring Christina Baker, "Polyaniline Gold Nanocomposites for Non-volatile Memory Device," and Scott Gilje, "Deposition of Graphene Platelets for Nanoelectronic Applications," 3/29 @ 12pm (PT), details for on-site attendance, details for remote attendance..

Seminar: A forum on the Frontiers in Computational Nanoelectronics, February 20-21, Indianapolis, IN, more...

Press: December 30, 2006 – UCLA professor Fraser Stoddart, director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), who holds UCLA's Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences, has been appointed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as Knight Bachelor, more...

January 17, 2007 – UCLA professor Fraser Stoddart awarded the King Faisal International Prize for Science, more...

Professor Philip Kim of Columbia University has has been selected by the Board of Editors of Scientific American magazine for inclusion in the fifth annual SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN50. This award honors 50 individuals, teams, companies and other organizations whose accomplishments in research, business or policymaking during 2005-2006 demonstrate outstanding technological leadership. Along with Andre Geim of the University of Manchester, Prof. Kim was selected as a winner for his research contributions to the development of graphene.

Research: UCLA Professor Fraser Stoddart's Nature paper describing the 160 Kbit memory was highlighted by the New York Times, the AP wire, Scientific American, and Technology Review, and was featured on the front page of National Science Foundation website. The NYT and AP stories were picked up by almost 200 newspapers and media outlets worldwide.

UCLA Professor Fraser Stoddart's FENA-supported paper: (Dichtel, W. R.; Miljanić, O. Š.; Spruell, J. M.; Heath, J. R.; Stoddart, J. F. “Efficient Templated Synthesis of Donor-Acceptor Rotaxanes Using Click Chemistry.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 10388-10390) was highlighted as one of the ten most-accessed communications in JACS from July – September 2006.

UCR Professor Alexander Balandin was featured on PhysOrg.com for his group's research on electron mobility in Si/diamond nanowires (supported by FENA project) in its editorial “For Better Nanowires, Just Add Diamond," more...

UCSB Professor Glenn Fredrickson's research on block copolymer lithography along with his co-authors Kramer and Hawker was highlighted in an article in Convergence Magazine, Winter 2006, V6, more...

Press: Article titled "Giant enhancement of the carrier mobility in silicon nanowires" highlights recent work of Professor Alex Balandin at UCR, more...

FENA Student wins Best in Session Award at the 2006 SRC student symposium: Yan Zhu of UC Riverside was recognized with this award for her paper entitled "Aligned Silicide/Si Hetero-Nanocrystal Floating Gate Nonvolatile Memory”

Annual Review : FENA's 3rd Annual Review, January 16th & 17th, 2007, Luxe Hotel - Los Angeles

Workshop: " Metrology for beyond CMOS", December 14th & 15th, 2006, San Francisco Hilton & Towers

Seminar: UCLA EE & FENA will host Dr. Matthew Gilbert on Tuesday, 11/21 @ 3pm Pacific, more...

Tutorial: "Phonon Engineering in Heterogeneously Integrated Silicon/Carbon-Based Nanostructures," Prof. Alex Balandin and Manu Shamsa, 10/26 @12pm (PT), on-site attendance, remote attendance

Data: Ion Implantation Data now uploaded, kindly provided by the Army Research Office. Files located in the "Downloads" - public page.

PRESS: FENA PI David Goldhaber-Gordon of Stanford University was presented with the 2006 Award for Initiatives in Research by the National Academy of Sciences for his fundamental studies of electron correlations in mesoscopic structures. See the following link for more information: http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_initiatives

FENA student wins MRS Spring Meeting Best Poster Award: FENA graduate student Manu Shamsa received the Best Graduate Student Poster award at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting in San Francisco. Manu, who works in Professor Alexander Balandin’s Nano-Device Laboratory (NDL) at UC-Riverside, presented a poster entitled Modeling of the Thermal Conduction Mechanisms in Amorphous Inter-Layer Dielectrics (ILDs). This work has been done in collaboration with the researchers from Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon. It was initiated during Manu’s summer internship at Intel. The research has been presented in the Symposium on Materials, Technology, and Reliability of Low-k Dielectrics and Copper Interconnects.

e-WORKSHOP: FCRP Live Meeting Series hosted by FENA, featuring Roger Lake of UC Riverside, Thursday, June 15th at 11AM (Pacific), more...

Undergraduate Research Assistants Program ($6000), sponsored by the SRC, announcement

Conference: INC2 --NSF-NNI 2006 Conference, on May 15-17 in Arlington VA, more...

NANOSYSTEMS SEMINAR SERIES : " The Magnetic Race Track: A storage-class memory using current driven motion of domain walls in magnetic nano-wires", Stuart Parkin of the IBM Almaden Research Center, Tuesday, March 7th, more...

e-WORKSHOP: FCRP Live Meeting Series hosted by FENA, featuring H.-S. Philip Wong of Stanford University, Thursday, January 26th at 3PM (Pacific), more...

WORKSHOP: Computation in Nanoscale Dynamical Systems, January 19th and 20th, Santa Fe, NM:

WORKSHOP: Self-Assembly of Nanoscale Structures, November 8th and 9th, UCLA Campus, email Katie Christensen at katie@fena.org if you are interested in attending, more...

PRESS: FENA student, Jiaxing Huang, will receive the 2005 "Prize for Young Chemists, an award for the best Ph.D. thesis in the chemical sciences" from The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). http://www.iupac.org/news/prize/2005_winners.html

FENA Welcomes 3 NEW PI's:
1) Philip Wong, Nanodevice Array for Digital Logic - Stanford (Theme 4)
2) David Goldhaber-Gordon, Spin Switch using electric fields in semiconductors - Stanford (Theme 4)
3) Yong Cheng, Nanoscale Self-Assembled Patterns Generated by Electric Lithography - UCLA (Theme 2)

INTEL DAY : Come see what Intel has to offer students and faculty with events from 10am to 5pm, November 1st, UCLA Campus, more...

NANOSYSTEMS SEMINAR SERIES : " The search for alternative logic devices beyond CMOS in the 2020 timeframe," Featuring Dr. George Bourianoff from Intel Corporation, November 1st, more...

STUDENT SEMINAR: "Stay Sharp" seminar, October 17th, Register through FENA's home page by 10/14, more...

TUTORIAL: Theme 1, "Semiconductor Quantum Dots Fabrication Via Epitaxy," October 13th, more...

FENA Student Lead Tutorial Series: THEME 5, September 15th, e-workshop, more...

Undergraduate Research Assistants Program ($6000), sponsored by the SRC, announcement

Thursday, August 18th: FCRP Live Meeting Series hosted by FENA, featuring Cengiz Ozkan, please email fena@fena.org if you are interested in attending, more...

FENA Student Lead Tutorial Series: THEME 4, August 4th, UCLA Campus more...

FENA Student Lead Tutorial Series: THEME 3, July 14th, UCLA Campus more...

FENA/CNSI Seminar, May 10th, Dr. Ahmed Busnaina (Chair Professor, Northeastern University) on "Nanomanufacturing Using Nanotemplates for Directed Assembly of Nanoelements", more...

FENA Student Lead Tutorial Series: THEME 1, May 3rd, more...

Undergraduate Summer Research Assistants ($6000), sponsored by the SRC.
Send your doc.* resume and one page cover letter to fena@fena.org by 1st of April, they will then be passed onto PI's in your interest area.

FENA/MARCO Seminar, March 17th, Dr.Likharev on CMOL: A new concept for Nanoelectronics, more...

FENA/UCLA-EE Seminar, March 3rd, Dr Botros (Intel) presents "Process Control Systems", more....

FENA/CNSI Seminar, February 22nd, Dr Alexander Balandin, "Nano-Photonics", more...

FENA/MARCO Seminar, Feb 17th, Dr.Ali Javey, Stanford,"Ballistic Nanotube Transistors", more...

Workshop on Nano-Scale Reversible Computing, MIT Campus February 14th, more ...

PRESS: M.Ozkan obtains exposure with recent fluoresence of CNT's with QD's, reported in Analytical Chemistry , more...

PRESS: A.Balandin invited and writes review paper on phonon engineering for SRC , more...

PRESS: Stoddart's group make advances in molecular electronics, reported in Science, more...

FENA Workshop, December 7th, Industry speakers including Dr Robert Chau (Intel) sponsored by UC Discovery Opportunity Award & CNSI
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FENA/UCLA-EE Seminar, December 1st, Dr Nikonov (Intel) presents "Spintronic Devices", more....

FENA/CNSI Seminar, November 23rd, Dr Supriyo Datta, "Current Flow through Nanoscale Conductors".

PRESS: Mihri Ozkan's group (UCR) on "Fluorescence microscopy spies on nanotubes", report from nanotechweb.org, more...

INTEL & FENA present "Intel Day", November 5th, Interviews & Presentations at UCLA, more...

FENA Monthly Seminar, November 3rd, Prof Kang Wang (Theme 4) on "Novel Heterogeneous Devices", more...

FENA/CNSI Seminar, October 26th, Prof Priya Vashishta on "Simulations ..", more...

FENA Website Launch, October 25th, FENA launches www.fena.org, feel free to explore.