Veeco Announces Winners of Veeco Labs Energy Innovation Research Grants
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Author: CompoundSemi News Staff

May 4, 2010... Veeco of Plainview, New York, a provider of scanning probe microscopes (SPM), announced the winners of the second phase of the Veeco Labs Research Grant Program, “Energy Innovation", which was created to facilitate Veeco's collaboration with leading SPM community scientists. The second phase solicited development and validation proposals for using an SPM to speed the characterization of, facilitate the development of, improve the yield/efficiency of, or enhance the fundamental understanding of energy generation, storage , or conservation. A panel of Veeco scientists judged the proposals.

The winners received Veeco’s Electronics Module Packages (worth up to $27,500 retail) for their universities.           Brooke Beam of the University of Arizona, won with the proposal, “Mapping the Interfacial Electrical Properties of Organic Photovoltaic Devices”. Qiao Chen of the University of Sussex won with the proposal, “In-situ Mapping of Electronic Property of Active Anode for Water Splitting with C-AFM”.     Rolf Crook, Simon Connell, and Stephen Evans of the University of Leeds won with their proposal, “Scanning Capacitance Microscopy/Photovoltaic Generation”.   Palash Gangopadhyay, Jayan Thomas, and Robert A. Norwood of the University of Arizona won with the proposal, “Conducting AFM Modulator”.   Gajendra Shekhawat of Northwestern University won with the proposal, “SPM-Based Nanopatterning of Piezoactuators and Nanorods for Photovoltaics”.   Adam Stieg of the University of California, Los Angeles won with his proposal, “Pyroelectricity for Energy Harvesting”. Christopher M. Yip and Timothy P. Bender of the University of Toronto had a proposal entitled, “Combinatorial Microscopies for the Characterization of Photovoltaic Materials”.

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