Gregory Rutter, a visiting researcher at NIST’s
Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) is the
winner of a prestigious student award from the AVS.
The AVS is an international science and technology
organization focused on materials, interfaces, and processing.
The society recognized Rutter with the Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Award for continuing excellence in
graduate studies in the sciences and technologies of interest to AVS. He received the award on October 22, 2008
at the AVS 55th International Symposium in Boston, MA. Rutter, graduate student with
Professor Phillip First in the
Physics Department at
the Georgia Institute of Technology, has performed most of his doctoral research in collaboration with
Dr. Joseph Stroscio in the CNST’s Electron Physics Group.
Rutter is currently completing his thesis research at the CNST studying the dynamics of atom manipulation,
the properties of dilute magnetic semiconductors, and the electronic properties of epitaxial graphene, a
fascinating new material with great potential for use in future electronics. Upon receiving his doctoral
degree this fall, Rutter will continue his research at the CNST as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow.
Online: October 2008
Last Updated: November 2008
Website comments: epgwebmaster@nist.gov