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Customized nanoconductors and nanolasers from
the lab Julius Springer Prize for
Applied Physics 2004 honors pioneering scientific achievement in
the nanosciences
This year's Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics will be jointly bestowed upon the American professors Hongjie Dai of Stanford University and Peidong Yang of UC Berkeley for their pioneering research in the nanosciences and the applications in the field of nanotechnology derived from their findings. The award ceremony will be held at 12 noon on October 6 in the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco. The nanosciences focus on the composition of atomic- and molecular-scale building blocks just one one-thousandth of a micrometer in size. The innovative discoveries by this year's award recipients will be of enormous importance for manufacturers of optoelectronic components and silicon chips. Thanks to Dai's findings, it will in future be possible to purposefully grow carbon nanotubes on a chip as well as to precisely measure their electronic properties. Yang's work will permit production of customized nanolasers made of nanowires, which will in turn open the door to entirely new methods of manufacturing optoelectronic components. This is the dawn of a revolution in laser and sensor technology enabling the development of even smaller, faster components. A chemistry professor at Stanford University in California since 2003, Hongjie Dai specializes in the chemistry, physics and molecular electronics of carbon nanotubes as well as the solid state chemistry and physics of nanowires. Peidong Yang is a chemistry professor at UC Berkeley and devotes his scientific attentions to the synthesis of new types of nanostructured materials. The Julius Springer Prize recognizes
scientists who have made an outstanding and innovative contribution
to the discipline of applied physics. It has been awarded every
year since 1998 by the editors of the Springer magazines Applied
Physics A - Materials Science & Processing and Applied Physics
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