Lagally Group Honors and Awards

• Susan D. Gillmor was awarded a Silver Award as part of the Graduate Student Awards at the 2001 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting.
• Max G. Lagally was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001. 
• Mark Friesen was awarded a travel grant to attend the "Workshop on Opportunities in Materials Theory 2000" held at the National Science Foundation.
• John Kelly won an AVS Dorothy and Earl S. Hoffman Travel Scholarship for the AVS 47th International Symposium in Boston, MA, October 2 - 6, 2000
• Max G. Lagally is one of four UW-Madison faculty members named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a distinction accorded to individuals who have distinguished themselves in science and engineering.
• Staff scientist Dr. Feng Liu has received a $473,985 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to explore a novel approach for the growth and fabrication of semiconductor and metallic quantum wires on a "step-bunched" semiconductor substrate. Using state-of-the-art theoretical techniques, modeling and simulations at different length scales will be carried out to investigate growth mechanisms of quantum wires. The goal of the theoretical work is not only to elucidate the existing experimental results, but also to predict new geometries, structures, or materials combinations for quantum-wire synthesis that might be explored experimentally. Liu, who will be the principal investigator on the project, is associated with the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) IRG #1. He also recently received the Collaborative Grant for Outstanding Young Scientists Abroad from the National Science Foundation of China to support his collaboration with the Semiconductor Institute of the Chinese Academy of Science.
• Troy Larsen has been selected to present his research in an oral presentation at the Undergraduate Research Symposium 2000.
• Dr. Y.W. Mo's STM image of a SiGe 'hut' microcrystal grown on Si(001) was chosen in 1999 as the new permanent cover design for Progress in Surface Science.
• Dr. Feng Liu received an Outstanding Young Scientist Grant from the National Science Foundation of China, through collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Science.
• Prof. Max Lagally was elected a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher - Leopoldina (the German National Academy of Science) in 1999.
• Dr. Xiaorong Qin's image of a stepped Si(001) surface was chosen for inclusion in Physics in the 20th Century, American Physical Society Commemorative
  volume, pg. 105, in 1998.
• Jeffrey Sullivan won the Nanometerscale Science and Technology Division Best Student Paper Award for his work on SiGe huts at the 45th National
  Symposium of the American Vacuum Society in Baltimore on November 2-6, 1998. Jeff determined the effects of deposition rate, alloy composition, and
  substrate temperature during growth on the number density of the huts on a Si(001) surface.
• Jeffrey Sullivan was named a Graduate Student Gold Medal Award Winner at the Materials Research Society Fall Symposium in Boston on Nov 30 - Dec 4,
  1998, for his report on the Si{105} surface. Jeff found that the reconstruction of the Si{105} surface undergoes an order-disorder transition. This surface is
  the same as the facets of huts. Counter-intuitively, the temperature of this transition increases when the Si surface is covered with monolayer quantities of Ge. Jeff discussed possible effects of this transition on the growth and encapsulation of huts.

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