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Virginia Ayres

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering

Engr Rsch Complex, 1449 Engineering Research Ct Room C135

Biography

Investigates both inorganic and organic nanostructures. The small physical dimensions of nanostructures result in new and fascinating localized and sometimes quantized interactions. At the nano (10-9 m) level, the distinction between organic and inorganic behavior can be reduced to fundamental interactions common to both. However, very different applications are enabled by different combinations of the same fundamentals! Our group investigates two combinations, biocompatibility between organic a

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Education

Ph.D., Physics, Purdue University 1985

M.S., Physics, Purdue University 1982

B.A., Physics and Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University 1977

Awards

Outsanding Alumnus Award

Publications

Benjamin W. Jacobs, Virginia M. Ayres, Mihail P. Petkov, Joshua B. Halpern, MaoQe He, Andrew Baczewski, Kaylee McElroy, Martin A. Crimp, Jiaming Zhang, Harry C. Shaw, "Electronic and Structural Characteristics of Zinc-Blende Wurtzite Biphasic Homostructure GaN Nanowires," Nano Lett., Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 1435-1438, 2007.

B W Jacobs, V M Ayres, R E Stallcup, A Hartman, M A Tupta, A D Baczewski, M A Crimp, J B Halpern, M He and H C Shaw, "Electron Transport in Zinc-Blende Wurtzite Biphasic Gallium Nitride Nanowires and GaNFETs", Nanotech., Vol.18, 475710 (6 pp) (2007)

Y Fan, Q Chen, V M Ayres, A D Baczewski, L Udpa and S Kumar, "Scanning Probe Recognition Microscopy Investigation of Tissue Scaffold Properties," Vol 2, Issue 4, pp. 651-661, Int. J. Nanomedicine (2007)

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