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Song Han
Research Scientist                                                                          
MARCO Center on Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics (FENA)    
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles, CA 90095 
Email: songh@ee.ucla.edu 
Mobile: (213) 591-0580 
Office: (310) 206-3725 
Fax: (310) 825-8621


EDUCATION

     PhD:    Electrical Engineering - Electrophysics, University of Southern California (2005)
                                   
     MS:     Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California (2003)
                            
     BS:     Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China (2000)      


RESEARCH EXPERIENCE  

    Research Scientist, FENA, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 03/06-present  

        Lead the research on carbon based high performance electronics 

        Diluted Magnetic Semiconducting (DMS) nanowire studies

    Technical Co-op, Silicon Science & Technology Department, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 05/05-08/05    

        Developed the synthetic methods of Silicon and Germanium Nanowires on III-V group materials 

        Initiated the growth of predominately single-crystalline Ge film on SiO2 at low temperature (Pattern was submitted by IBM)

    Research Assistant, Nanotechnology Research Laboratory, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 05/01- 12/05   

        Synthesis and characterization of 1-D nanostructure including nanowires and carbon nanotubes

        Fabrication and fundamental physics studies of nanoscale electronic devices

        Nanoelectronic integration and sensing application studies

             
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1.	S. Han, D. Zhang and C. Zhou, "Synthesis and Electronic Properties of ZnO/CoZnO Core-Shell Nanowires", Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 133109 (2006). 

2.	X. Liu, S. Han and C. Zhou, "A Novel Nanotube-on-Insulator (NOI) Approach toward Nanotube Devices", Nano Lett. 6, 34 (2006). [Reported by Scientific American]

3.	S. Han, X. Liu and C. Zhou, "Template-Free Directional Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on a- and r-Plane Sapphire", J. Am. Chem. Soc.127, 5294 (2005). [Reported by Materials Today, et al.]

4.	X. Liu, J. Ly, S. Han, D. Zhang, M. Thompson and C. Zhou, "Synthesis and Electronic Properties of Individual Carbon Nanotube / Polypyrrole Nanocables", Adv. Mater. 17, 2727 (2005).

5.	Z. Liu, D. Zhang, S. Han, C. Li, B. Lei, W. Lu, J. Feng and C. Zhou, "Single Crystalline Magnetite Nanotubes", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 6 (2005). 

6.	S. Han, C. Li, Z Liu, B. Lei, D. Zhang, W. Jin, X. Liu, T. Tang and C. Zhou, "Generic Synthesis of Transition Metal Oxide Core-shell Nanowires", Nano Lett. 4, 1241 (2004). [Reported by Materials Today, Micro / Nano, et al.]

7.	S. Han, W. Jin, D. Zhang, T. Tang, C. Li, X. Liu, Z. Liu, B. Lei and C. Zhou, "Ultraviolet Light Sensor Made of Single Crystal Gallium Nitride Nanowires", Chem. Phys. Lett. 398, 176 (2004).

8.	Y. Du, S. Han, W. Jin, C. Zhou and A.F.J. Levi, "Polarization dependent reflectivity from dielectric nanowires", Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 996 (2003).

9.	S. Han, W. Jin, T. Tang, C. Li, D. Zhang, X. Liu, J. Han and C. Zhou, "Controlled Growth of Gallium Nitride Single-Crystal GaN Nanowires Using a Chemical Vapor Deposition Method", J. Mater. Res. 18, 245 (2003). [Reported by MRS Bulletin]

10.	S. Han, X. Liu, J. Han and C. Zhou, "Polymer thin-film transistors with high dielectric-constant gate insulators", Appl. Phys. A 77, 873 (2003).

11.	T. Tang, S. Han, W. Jin, X. Liu, C. Li, D. Zhang, and C. Zhou, "Synthesis and Electronic Properties of Single-Crystalline Indium Nitride Nanowires", J. of Mater. Res. 19, 423 (2004).


INVITED PRESENTATIONS

1.	Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, November 18th, 2004. Title: Nano Talk - Introduction of Nanotechnology.

2.	IEEE-BuenaVentura Section, Electron Devices/Circuits and Systems Chapter, Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation, Camarillo, CA, June 24th, 2004. Title: Building Blocks for the Nano-World.


SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS

1.	"Directional Growth of Carbon Nanotubes on Insulators and Their Applications", MARCO-FENA 2nd Year Annual Review, Los Angeles, January 2006.

2.	"Magnetite (Fe3O4) One-Dimensional Nanowires and Nanotubes", MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, March 2005.

3.	"A Generic Synthesis of Transition Metal Oxide Core-Shell Nanowires", APS Meeting, Los Angeles, March 2005.

4.	"Directional Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Nanotube-on-Insulator Applications", MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, December 2004.

5.	"Synthesis and Application of Nitride Semiconductor Nanowires", MARCO kickoff meeting, Los Angeles, March 2004.

6.	"Synthesis and Optoelectronic Properties of Gallium Nitride Nanowires", IEEE nano conference, San Francisco, August 2003.

7.	"Controlled Growth and Electronic Properties of Gallium Nitride Nanowires", MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, April 2003.

8.	"High-Performance Organic Field-Effect Transistors On Ferroelectric Insulator Film", the 1st International Conference-Nanoscale/Molecular Mechanics, Maui, Hawaii, May 2001.


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

    Member, Materials Research Society 

    Member, American Physical Society  

    Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 


SCIENTIFIC REFEREEING OF PUBLICATIONS

1.	Nanotechnology

2.	Journal of Chemical Physics

3.	Applied Physics letters

4.	IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

songh@ee.ucla.edu