Nanowire Week 2023 is just around the corner!

Registration for Nanowire Week 2023 is now open: https://www.nanowireweek2023.info

Nanowire Week 2023 promises an engaging lineup of activities including invited and contributed talks, a student poster competition, expert panel discussions, and equipment vendor booths. There will also be an afternoon excursion and a conference banquet.

Registration covers access to all conference activities and includes daily continental breakfast, hot lunch, coffee breaks, and all-day snacks. Conference attendees can choose between two enticing excursions: marveling at the rich marine life of the Georgia Aquarium or exploring the natural beauty of the Atlanta Botanical Garden. The conference banquet will be held in the city center, offering a spectacular view of Centennial Olympic Park, a centerpiece of the 1996 Olympic Games.

Prof. Filler is conference chair for Nanowire Week 2023.

Amy Brummer earns her Ph.D.

Congratulations to Dr. Amy Brummer for successfully defending her thesis titled “Engineering a Self-Aligned Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Gate Stack for Nanomodular Device Fabrication.” In her work, she developed and understood methods to fully bottom-up fabricate a key component of a transistor — the gate stack. She won an NDSEG fellowship and was a student award finalist at ALD 2022. She was co-advised with Dr. Eric Vogel. Onward and upward!

Filler Lab participates in Nanowire Week 2022

Graduate student Daniel Aziz and Prof. Filler participated in Nanowire Week 2022 from April 25-29, 2022 in beautiful Chamonix, France. Daniel presented a poster titled “Bottom-up Nanoscale Patterning and Selective Deposition on Semiconductor Nanowires” and Prof. Filler gave an invited talk titled “Processes to Hyper-Scale Nanowire Device Manufacturing”. They also found time to explore the very steep mountains in the area.


Prof. Filler co-organizes the Workshop on On-Demand Integrated Circuits

The Workshop for On-Demand Integrated Circuits was held March 23-25, 2022 in Miami, FL. Experts in electronics, additive manufacturing, nanotechnology, tool design, cybersecurity, public policy, and more engaged in a deep dive into the opportunities for on-demand integrated circuits. They also began developing a roadmap to achieve such a technology. Thanks to Schmidt Futures, Convergent Ventures, and PARPA for generously supporting this event!

Sub-100 nm nanowire programming via the Geode Process

Maritza’s paper showing that it is possible to program the composition in semiconductor nanowires with sub-100 nm precision using the Geode Process is now published in Nano Letters!

The Geode Process is a scalable route to single-crystal semiconductor nanowires. Reactant gases diffuse through the porous microcapsule wall, decompose at the metallic nanoparticles that line the interior, and drive nanowire growth. Microcapsules are converted into microgeodes!

The microcapsules serve as a high surface area substrate, offering productivity increases of several orders-of-magnitude.

In this work, we take an important step forward: we show that nanowire composition can be encoded with a precision equivalent to traditional flat substrates. Thus, we’ve gone from a world where you could have either scale or nanoscale control to one where you can have both.

Prof. Filler is named Associate Director for Research Programs

Prof. Filler is the new Associate Director for Research Programs at Georgia Tech’s Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN). As Associate Director, Prof. Filler will help execute the IEN mission to explore research opportunities aligned with Georgia Tech’s Strategic Plan and the Research Next missions and goals; catalyze new interdisciplinary research communities in the area of electronics and nanotechnology; manage the portfolio of interdisciplinary research centers and programs associated with IEN; and develop strategies for industry engagement with IEN and its centers and programs.