STUDENT NEWS
Senior Ninrat Datiri was awarded
the 2006 Erroll B. Davis Achievement Award. The award honors scholarship
and community service of minority undergraduates in their final year
of a business or engineering degree. Datiri is also a Leaders in Engineering
Excellence and Diversity (LEED) scholar, president of the UW-Madison
branch of the National Society of Black Engineers, and a multicultural
resident consultant for University Housing.
Electrical and Computer Engineering student Magesh
Thiyagarajan and his Business School teammate Ben Collier won
the third-place, $4,000 award in the UW-Madison G. Steven Burrill Technology
Business Plan Competition for their business plan based on a plasma
reactor that decontaminates mail and packages.
Graduate student Hao-Chih Yuan received
the Best Student Presentation Award (Devices) at the International Semiconductor
Device Research Symposium (ISDRS), held in Bethesda, Maryland, on December
7-9, 2005. Yuan’s co-authors include Materials Science and Engineering
(MS&E) graduate student Michelle M. Roberts, MS&E Associate
Scientist Donald E. Savage, Erwin W. Mueller Professor and Bascom Professor
of Surface Science Max Lagally, and ECE Assistant Professor Zhenqiang
(Jack) Ma. The paper describes the team’s demonstration of the
first thin-film transistor fabricated on released and transferred strain-shared
Si/SiGe membranes. A couple of patent applications based on film release
and the device’s fabrication are being filed through the Wisconsin
Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).
