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WELCOME |
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Welcome to
Fischer group at the University
of Pennsylvania, Department
of Materials Science and Engineering. Our primary research covers the
novel nanomaterial systems such as carbon nanotubes and semiconductor nanowires.
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Focused
ion beam (FIB) deposited Pt contact on GaN nanowire and its structural and electrical
characterization. LEFT TOP: GaN nanowire
device fabricated by FIB-Pt deposition, LEFT MIDDLE: TEM sample prepared by
FIB milling and lift-off technique by micromanipulator from the FIB-Pt
contact area, LEFT BOTTOM: TEM image revealing the structure of FIB-Pt and
FIB-induced disorder in GaN nanowire.
RIGHT: I-V-T characteristics of FIB-Pt contact for large and small diameter.
Back-to-back Schottky junction and Mott variable
range hopping conduction explain the behavior. Device fabrication and
electrical characterization done by |
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Graphs showing hydrogen uptake vs
pressure for various carbide derived carbons (CDC) and carbon nanotubes: “Burning” metal carbides in chlorine provides
a versatile and growing family of pure, noncrystalline
porous carbon in which the average pore size, size distribution and total
pore volume can be controlled with great sensitivity by choice of precursor
carbide and chlorination reaction conditions (Nature
Materials 2, 591 (2003)). These materials show promise to
break the hydrogen storage impasse, which blocks development of clean-burning
fuel cell cars and trucks. Please refer to our recent publication; “Tailoring
of nanoscale porosity in carbide-derived carbons
for hydrogen storage”, Y. Gogotsi, R.K. Dash, G. Yushin, T. Yildirim, G. Laudisio, J.E. Fischer, Journal of American Chemical Society 127, 16006 (2005) |
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images of x-ray scattering of single-wall carbon nanotube
(SWNT) fibers. LEFT: As-received SWNT fibers; MIDDLE: SWNT fibers doped by
sulfuric acid; RIGHT: Swollen SWNT fibers immersed in sulfuric acid. Measured
by Wei Zhou, published in Science
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