Dr. Chongwu Zhou

                                                Associate Professor
                                      
         Ming Hsieh Department Of Electrical Engineering

                                                     Viterbi School Of Engineering
                                                     University of Southern California
                                                    
chongwuz@usc.edu

 

Recent Achievement

 

Transparent Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode displays Driven by Nanowire Transistor Circuitry

 

Recent Projects

 

1.  Carbon nanotubes: devices and circuits

2.  Nanowire: synthesis and applications in chemical sensing, transparent electronics, energy storage and conversion

3.  Biosensing and drug delivery

 

Recent Publications

Carbon Nanotubes:

 

90. “Small wander – The exciting world of carbon nanotubes”,

C. Zhou, A. Kumar and K. Ryu,

IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, 1, 13-17(2008).

 

89.  “Transfer Printing of Massively Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

for Flexible Electronics and Smart Textiles”,

K. Ryu, F. N. Ishikawa,  N. Patil, A. Lin, A. Badmaev, L. Gomez, A. Kumar, P. Chen, S. Mitra, H.-    S. P. Wong and C. Zhou, submitted

 

88. “Device study, chemical doping, and logic circuits based on transferred aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes”,

C. Wang, K. Ryu, A. Badmaev, N. Patil, A. Lin, S. Mitra, H.-S. P. Wong and C. Zhou, submitted

 

87. “Resonant micro Raman spectroscopy of aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes on a-plane sapphire”,

L. Gomez, B. Lei, S. Cronin, C. Zhou, submitted

 

86. “Diameter dependence of aligned growth of carbon nanotubes on a-plane sapphire substrate”

X. Liu, K. Ryu, S. Hang, A. Badmaev, and C. Zhou, in preparation

 

85. “In-depth Raman study of massively Aligned Nanotubes and Polarity

control of nanotube transistors”

B. Lei, K. Ryu, S. Han, L. G. De-Arco, A. Badmaev, J. Ravichandran, D. Farmer, K. Kim, R. Gordon, K. L. Wang, and C. Zhou, in preparation

 

84. “Light-Induced Charge Transfer in Pyrene/CdSe-SWNT Hybrids”

L. Hu, Y. Zhao, K. Ryu, C. Zhou, J. F. Stoddart, and G. Grüner,

Advanced Materials, in press.

 

83. “High-throughput transfer printing of large scale chemical derived graphene sheets”

M. Allen, V. Tung, L. Gomez, Z. Xu, L. Chen, G. Yang, C. Zhou, R. Kaner, Y. Yang,

Submitted.

 

 

Nanowires:

 

82. “High-performance metal oxide nanowire chemical sensors with integrated micromachined hotplates”,

K. Ryu, D. Zhang, and C. Zhou,

Applied Physics Letters, 92, 93111-93113 (2008). (PDF)

 

81. “Transparent Active Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode Displays Driven by Nanowire Transistor Circuitry”,

S. Ju, J. Li, J. Liu, P. Chen, Y. Ha, F. Ishikawa, H. Chang , C. Zhou, A. Facchetti, D. B. Janes and T. J. Marks,

Nano Letters, 8, 997-1004 (2008) (PDF).

 

 

80. “High performance In2O3 nanowire transistors using organic gate nanodielectrics”,

S. Ju, F. Ishikawa, P. Chen, H. Chang, C. Zhou, Y. Ha, J. Liu, A. Facchetti, T. Marks, D. Janes,

Applied Physics Letters, in press (2008). (PDF)

 

79. “Nano Electronic Nose: A Hybrid Nanowire / Carbon Nanotube Sensor Array with Integrated Micromachined Hotplates for Sensitive Gas Discrimination”,

P. Chen, F. N. Ishikawa, H. Chang, K. Ryu, and C. Zhou, submitted.

 

78. “Pearl-like ZnS-decorated InP nanowires heterostructures”,

G. Z. Shen, P. C. Chen, Y. Bando, D. Golberg, and C. Zhou, submitted.

 

77. “Bicrystalline Zn3P2 and Cd3P2 nanobelts and their electric transport”,

G. Z. Shen, P. C. Chen, Y. Bando, D. Golberg, and C. Zhou, submitted.

 

76. “Zigzag Zn3P2 nanowires and their electrical transport properties”,

G. Z. Shen, P. C. Chen, Y. Bando, D. Golberg, and C. Zhou, submitted.

 

Biosensing:

 

75.  “Rapid and Label-Free Cell Detection by Metal-Cluster-Decorated Carbon Nanotube Biosensors”,

F. N. Ishikawa, B. Stauffer, D. Caron, and C. Zhou, submitted.

 


 

1.      We have several openings for PhD students who are interested in nanowire and nanotube research.  Applications are invited from students with background in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, and Materials Science. Please send your resume to chongwuz@usc.edu if you would like to do research with us.

     

 

In The News

 

Transparent Computer Monitors? Engineers Make First ‘Active Matrix’ Display Using Nanowires
(April 2008)

 

See Through Transistors
(June 2007)

 

 

USC scientist invents technique to grow superconducting and magnetic 'nanocables'
(July 2004)

 

Stacked, packed nanowires hold triplexed megadata
(April 2004)

Multilevel molecular memory
(April 2004)

Stacked, packed nanowires hold triplexed megadata
(April 2004)

USC Scientist Invents Technique To Grow Superconducting And Magnetic 'Nanocables'
(July 2004)

Molecular-scale nanowire memory cells promises unprecedented data storage
(April 2004)

USC scientist invents technique to grow superconducting and magnetic 'nanocables'
(July 2004)

Herstellung von supraleitenden und magnetischen Nanokabeln durch PLD möglich
(July 2004)

MMolekularspeicher aus In2O3-Nanodrähten mit 40 Gigabit pro Quadratzentimeter
(April 2004)

USC scientist invents technique to grow superconducting and magnetic 'nanocables'
(July 2004)

To see the message, just add noise
(December 2003)

To see the message, just add noise
(December 2003)

Stacked, packed nanowires hold triplexed megadata
(April 2004)

USC scientist invents technique to grow superconducting and magnetic 'nanocables'
(July 2004)

NSF CAREER Award Winner Demonstrates A Breakthrough Approach for Fabricating Molecular Memory Arrays
(July 2003)

USC Scientist Invents Technique To Grow Superconducting And Magnetic 'Nanocables'
(July 2004)

Stacked, Packed Nanowires Hold Triplexed Megadata
(April 2004)

Technique grows superconducting, magnetic 'nanocables'
(July 2004)

USC scientist invents technique to grow superconducting and magnetic 'nanocables'
(July 2004)

USC Scientist Invents Way To Grow Superconducting, Magnetic 'Nanocables'
(July 2004)

Novel Transistor Architecture Promises Dense Storage
(April 2004)

Nanowire Memory Cells: Compact Data Storage
(April 2004)

Stacked, Packed Nanowires Hold Tripliexed Megadata
(April 2004)


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