Revolutionary New Solution for Semiconductor; Nano Materials

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Category: Research News

Published: Thursday, March 25 2010 16:22

University of Maryland researchers have created a completely new way to produce high quality semiconductor materials critical for advanced microelectronics and nanotechnology. Published in the March 26 issue of Science, their research is a fundamental step forward in nanomaterials science that could lead to significant advances in computer chips, photovoltaic cells, biomarkers and other applications, according to the authors and other experts.

Led by Min Ouyang, an assistant professor in the department of physics, the University of Maryland team has created a process that uses chemical thermodynamics to produce a broad range of different combination materials, each with a shell of structurally perfect mono-crystal semiconductor around a metal core.

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Marching the iron-pnictides across the periodic table

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Category: Department News

Published: Friday, March 12 2010 13:45

Jonhpierre Paglione's research group has shown yet another manner by which the ubiquitous superconducting state in the intermetallic '122' iron-arsenide materials can be stabilized.

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International Masterclasses Expose High School Students to Particle Physics

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Published: Monday, February 22 2010 16:30

The University of Maryland QuarkNet Science Education Center will host a Particle Physics Masterclass for area high school students, on Wednesday, February 24. Maryland is one of 23 QuarkNet sites hosting a Masterclass, which will give students a chance to deal directly with sophisticated physics data involved in critical research at the CERN collider in Europe.

The Masterclass students will work with particle physicists to analyze measurements from the Large Electron Positron Collider, the predecessor of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in a tunnel at the French-Swiss border, to determine how the Z-boson decays into other particles. Although scientists conducted the original analysis, the high school students will actually conduct their own independent analysis.

More information about the Masterclass is available at: www.science.nd.edu/masterclass.
Contact: Kara Hoffman, (301) 405-7263

NIST Awards UM $15.5 Million in Stimulus Funds for Fellowships

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Published: Sunday, February 21 2010 23:00

College Park, Md. -- The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced Friday that it is awarding $15.5 million to the University of Maryland to develop and implement a national NIST measurement science and engineering fellowship program. The new fellowship program was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

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