Ph.D.

1.  Mr. Suresh Gubbala finished his Ph.D in November 2008 and joined Intel.

    Ph.D. dissertation title: “Nanowire based dye sensitized solar cells and electrochromic devices”

2.  Mr. Hari ChandraSekaran finished his Ph.D. in May 2006 and joined Intel. Ph.D. dissertation title: “Rationalizing Nucleation and Growth of Nanowires in Vapor Liquid-Solid Methods”.

3.  Mr. Sreeram Vaddiraju finished Ph.D in October 2006 and joined MIT as a Post-doctoral Associate, Ph.D. dissetation title: “Chemical and Reactive Vapor Transport Methods for Bulk Nanowires and Nanowire Arrays”.

4.  Mr. Gopinath Bhimarasetti, Finished Ph.D. in 2005 and joined Intel Corp., Hillsdale, OR.

Ph.D. thesis title: “Multi-Scale Experimental Studies on Diamond Crystal and Carbon Tubular Growth”.

5.  Mr. Hongwei Li, Finished Ph.D. in 2005 and joined Lehigh University as a Post-Doc.

Ph.D. thesis title: “Novel Processes for Large Size Gallium Nitride Single Crystal and Controlled Nanowire Growth”

6.  Ms. Radhika C. Mani, Finished Ph.D. thesis in 2004 and joined UC Santa Barbara as a Post-doctoral fellow under Prof. Eray Aydil and is currently at Applied Materials

      Ph.D. thesis title: “Nucleation and Growth Studies of Crystalline Carbon Phases at Nanoscale”

7.   Mr. Shashank Sharma, Finished his Ph.D. in 2003 and joined HPLabs in Palo Alto, CA.

        Ph.D. thesis title: “Bulk Nucleation and Growth of Inorganic Nanowires and Nanotubes”.

    

M.Eng/M.S

1.  Mr. Ryan Thurman, Finished M. Eng. thesis in 2006 and joined Dow-Corning.

M. Eng. thesis title: “Scale-up of Metal Oxide Nanowire Production”

2.  Mr. Randall Lowe, Finished M.Eng thesis in 2005 and joined Stanford University to pursue PhD in Chemical Engineering.

M.Eng. thesis title: “Nanoelectrode Ensembles Using Conical Carbon Nanopipettes for Electrochemical Sensing”

3.  Ms. Rahel Bogale, Finished M.Eng. in 2005 and Joined Lexmark.

M.Eng. thesis title:  “Dispersion Behavior of Nanowires Compared to Nanoparticles for Metal Oxides”

4.  Mr. Kevin Krogman, Finished M.Eng thesis in 2004 and joined MIT to pursue Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering..

M.Eng. thesis title: “Anti-Reflective Coatings Incorporating Nanoparticles”

5.  Ms. Jieru Xie, Finished M.S. thesis in 2004 and joined the graduate program in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at UofL.

     M.S. thesis title: “Crevice Corrosion Monitoring and Mitigation”

6.  Mr. Timothy Learn, Finished M.Eng thesis in Dec 2003 and joined Lexmark.

M.Eng. thesis title: “Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond-Like Carbon

Films”

7.  Mr. Hari Chandrasekaran, Finished M.S. thesis in 2002 and joined as a Ph.D. student pursuing research on self-oriented growth of GaN films.

     M.S. thesis title: “Substrate Independent Oriented Crystal Growth of Gallium Nitride”

8.  Mr. Russell Stroud finished M.Eng. in August1998 and joined Technimet, Inc., CT.

M. Eng. thesis title: “Microwave Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond Films Onto

Quartz Substrates”,

9.  Mr. Michael Bensing finished M.Eng. in 1998 and joined Lexmark.

M.Eng. thesis title: “Selective Metallization of Chemical Vapor Deposited Diamond Films”

10.     Ms. Sally C. Eaton finished M. Eng. in 1999 and joined CWRU to pursue PhD in Chemical Engineering. She finished PhD and joined NRL as a NRC postdoctoral fellow.

M.Eng. thesis title: “Role of Oxygen in CVD Diamond Growth”, August 1999.

11. Mr. Prabhakar Koduri finished M.S. in 1999 and joined Lexmark.

M.S. thesis title: “Structural and Electrochemical Studies of Metal Doped Diamondlike Carbon Films”

12. Ms. Mayumi Ueno finished M.S. in 2000 and is currently working at EPSON, Japan.

M.S. thesis title: “Electron Cyclotron Resonnance Chemical Vapor Deposition of Precious Metal

    Doped Diamondlike Carbon Films”.

13. Mr. Shashank Sharma finished M.S. in 2000 and joined UofL for PhD (finished in 2003). M.S. thesis title: “Selective Nitridation of Silicon Substrates Using Microwave Nitrogen Plasma”