Department: Physics

Project A:Student will learn to synthesize graphene structures by both the mechanical exfoliation and the reduction of graphene oxide method.  The great interest in studying graphene arises from the exceptional properties of this one-atom-thick planar materials.  Graphene has one of the highest charge mobility, thermoconductivity, and Young's elastic modulus known.  It is a conductive material that is lightweight, flexible, and strong.  Therefore, graphene has been proposed to be used to make electronics and mechanical devices lighter, stronger, more powerful.

Project B:Student will take part in a project to build sensor chips that provide highly sensitive and highly selective real time chemical detection.  The sensor chips are based on novel integration of nanowire technologies and standard micro-fabrication techniques.  At the core of the sensor chips are arrays of molecular monolayer containing nanowires (MMCNs).  The student's project will be in finding the optimal method to fabricate these MMCNs.

Students are required to have taken: PHYS2110 and PHYS2120

Starting Date: Sept 7, 2010