Update: July 17, 2009

Update: May 29, 2009

Our paper "GaAs MESFET With a High-Mobility Self-Assembled Planar Nanowire Channel" has been published in IEEE Electron Device Letters [pdf].

Update: May 1, 2009

Congratulations to Kevin Bassett, Ik Su Chun, and Ryan Dowdy for passing their PhD qualifying examinations.
Our work on transistors made with planar GaAs nanowires has been featured on several technology news websites:
CompoundSemiconductor.net / AZom.com / e! Science News / Embedded Technology / Innovations Report / Nanotech Now / Nanowerk News / Photonics.com / PhysOrg.com / Product Design & Development / R&D Magazine / RedOrbit.com / Science Centric / Science Daily / Scientist Live / Semiconductor Online /

Update: February 4, 2009

Our research on semiconductor nanotubes is headlined in the Univ. of Illinois ECE Department News.

Update: January 11, 2009

Our paper (I.S. Chun and X. Li) on "Metal-Semiconductor Hybrid Micro- and Nanotubes" presented at the 2008 MRS Fall Meeting Symposium JJ has been identified as an Outstanding Symposium Paper.

Update: November 14, 2008

Seth Fortuna, Jianguo Wen (FS-MRL), Ik Su Chun and Prof. Li's work on Planar GaAs nanowires has been published in Nano Letters [pdf].

Update: October 16, 2008

Seth Fortuna has been chosen as a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at the 2008 IEEE LEOS Conference for the paper "MOCVD Grown III-V Nanowires: In-Plane, Self-Aligned and Transfer-Printable".

Update: September 23, 2008

Our work on semiconductor nanotubes is featured in an article by Dean Adesida, "Compound Semiconductors: Illinois Contributions and Perspective" [pdf], published in the 2008 CS MANTECH Conference digest.
Prof. Li's review paper on strain induced semiconductor nanotubes has been published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics [pdf]

Update: August 19, 2008

Ik Su Chun's work on large area assembly and dispersion of semiconductor nanotubes has been published in IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology [pdf].
Ik Su Chun and Edmond Chow's (MNTL staff) work on 3D nanoscale patterned porous silicon has been published in Applied Physics Letters and selected by the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology [pdf].
Seth Fortuna's work on planar nanowires has been filed for a patent.
Ik Su Chun and Varun Verma's (Semiconductor Laser Lab) work on semiconductor nanotube formation has been published in Journal of Crystal Growth [pdf].
Prof. Li won the NSF CAREER award.