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Graduate Awards
Computational and Experimental Materials Science
Grand Prize
Udai Bhanu (UCF)
“NANOFISSURE FORMATION DURING SELECTIVE BREAKDOWN OF M-SWNT IN AN ALIGNED ARRAY”
Second Prize
Biddut Sarker (UCF)
“CHARGE INJECTION MECHANISM AT CARBON NANOTUBE-ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR INTERFACE”
Third Prize
Kathryn O'Brien (UF)
“ABSORPTION FROM PLASMONIC ANTENNA ARRAYS”
Honorable Mention
Kaeha Joung (UCF)
“REDUCTION EFFICIENCY DEPENDENT EFROS-SHKLOVSKII VARIABLE RANGE HOPPING IN CHEMICALLY
DERIVEDGRAPHENE OXIDE SHEETS”
Neha Nayyar (UCF)
“TRANSITION METAL IMPURITY INDUCED PLASMONS IN Au CHAINS”
Tsung-Sheng Kang (UF)
“SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ArF 193nm LASER LIFT-OFF AlGaN/GaN HIGH ELECTRON
MOBILITY TRANSISTORS”
Energy-Related Materials
Grand Prize
Edward Wrzesniewski (UF)
“ENHANCING LIGHT EXTRACTION IN TOP-EMITTING ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES USING MOLDED
POLYMER MICROLENS ARRAYS”
Second Prize
Weiran Cao (UF)
“TRANSPARENT QUANTUM-DOT LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES USING OXIDE/METAL/OXIDE TRILAYER
ELECTRODE”
Third Prize
Nate Shewmon (UF)
“TERNARY SOLVENT INKS FOR ULTRASONIC SPRAY DEPOSITION OF THIN-FILM ORGANIC
PHOTOVOLTAICS”
Honorable Mention
Feras Alzubi (UCF)
“PLANAR ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS FOR MORE OPPORTUNITIES OF EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT AND
PARAMETERS CONTROLLING”
Renjia Zhou (UF)
“SOLUTION-PROCESSED HYBRID ORGANIC-INORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS BASED ON SPHERICAL
CdSe NANOCRYSTALS”
Narendra Shiradkar (UCF)
“ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF DISTORTED J-V CURVES IN a-Si/c-Si HETEROJUNCTION AND THINFILM CIGS SOLAR CELLS”
Materials Characterization
Grand Prize
Tanmy Bera (UCF)
“TAILORING THE SURFACE OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DROPLETS TOWARDS A NEW TYPE OF SENSOR”
Second Prize
Chien-Fong Lo (UF)
“CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTION SENSITIVITY OF ZnO NANOROD-GATED AlGaN/GaN HIGH ELECTRON
MOBILITY TRANSISTORS IN DIFFERENT TEMPERATURE ENVIRONMENTS”
Third Prize
Takat Rawal (UCF)
“OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF BENZYLPIPERAZINE/CuI (111) SYSTEM”
Honorable Mention
Minseong Lee (FSU)
“GROWTH AND CHARACTERIZATION OF RUDDLESDEN-POPPER MANGANITE PHASES”
Zhiwei Xiao (FSU)
“IN-SITU STRUCURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES IN DISPERSION”
Jyoti Katoch (UCF)
“DIRECT DETERMINATION OF THE DOMINANT SCATTERER IN GRAPHENE ON SILICON OXIDE”
Materials Processing
Grand Prize
Edwards Jimenez (UCF)
“N-TYPE ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR USING DENSELY ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBE ARRAY
ELECTRODES”
Second Prize
Pedro Figueiredo (UCF)
“UCF PHYSICS DEPARTMENT WAFER FABRICATION FACILITY”
Third Prize
Hai H. Van (FSU)
“ORIGINAL STRUCTURE OF CARBON NANOTUBE SHEET FOR FIELD EMISSION”
Honorable Mention
Imen Rezadad (UCF)
“THERMAL BENDING, HEAT FLOW, AND ELECTROSTATIC FORCES FOR MEMS CANTILEVERS”
Wenlang Liang (UCF)
“PRINTING POLYMER-DISPERSED LIQUID CRYSTALS INTO TWO-DIMENSIONAL ORDERED ARRAYS WITH
SOFT LITHOGRAPHY FOR GAS SENSOR APPLICATION”
Farnood Rezaie (UF)
“SILICON PHOTONIC WAVEGUIDES AT 3.4 MICRON IR WAVELENGTH”
Undergraduate Awards
Grand Prize
Jeronimo Matos (UCF)
“ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF SIZE-SELECTED METAL NANOPARTICLES SUPPORTED ON OXIDES”
Second Prize
Samuel Roberts (UCF)
“STRUCTURE, VIBRATIONAL DYNAMICS AND THERMODYNAMICS OF SILVER THIN-FILMS ON Cu(100)”
Third Prize
Katherine McAlpine (NCF)
“REAL–TIME OPTICAL MONITORING OF PLASMONIC Ag PARTICLES OXIDATION IN SiO2 THIN FILMS”
Honorable Mention
Kristy Kormondy (UCF)
“HIGH YIELD ASSEMBLY AND ELECTRON TRANSPORT INVESTIGATION OF SEMICONDUCTING-RICH
LOCAL-GATED SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS”
James Borrelli (UCF)
“A STUDY OF THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF THE INTERFACE BETWEEN A NANOPARTICLE AND A
SURFACE: THE CASE OF Cu AND Ag”