Grad Student Recognized for Nanowire Work
May 16, 2007 — For his work on how semiconducting nanowires grow and behave, Shadi A. Dayeh, a University of California, San Diego graduate student and PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering, has recently earned several awards. Nanowires -- crystalline fibers about one thousandth the width of a human hair -- hold promise as LEDs, photovoltaics, biological and chemical sensors, nanopipes for optical communications, and other applications, once...