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Press Release 07-053
Berkeley Nanotechnology Pioneer to Receive $500,000 Waterman Award
Annual prize from NSF recognizes outstanding young individual who is revolutionizing research
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Chemist Peidong Yang, of the University of California, Berkeley, is the 2007 winner of the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award.
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Chemist Peidong Yang, the winner of the National Science Foundation's 2007 Alan T. Waterman award, led the development of a nanowire laser that fires ultraviolet light. Yang and his colleagues grew the wire as part of an array using novel, efficient techniques.
Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation
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Yang and his colleagues have grown arrays of zinc oxide and gallium nitride nanowires.
Credit: Peidong Yang, University of California, Berkeley |
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One of Peidong Yang's achievements was the development of a nanowire laser.
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Peidong Yang on the research that lead to the Waterman Award.
View video 2 - Nanostructure solar cells versus silicon-based solar cells.
View video 3 - Public benefits of research.
View video 4 - Impact of the Waterman Award.
View video 5 - Further research.
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