Damon Smith


EDUCATION

Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2009

M.S., Applied Physics, University of New Orleans, 2005

B.S., Physics, University of New Orleans, 2003


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Semiconductor nanowire-based electronic and optoelectronic devices

Mechanical properties of nanowires

Solution-liquid-solid synthesis of semiconductor nanowire heterostructures


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Smith, Damon A.; Holmberg, Vincent; Lee, Doh C. and Korgel, Brian A., Young's Modulus and Size-Dependent Mechanical Quality Factor of Nanoelectromechanical Germanium Nanowire Resonators. Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2008), 112(29), 10725-10729. [link]

Smith, Damon A.; Stokes, Kevin L., Discrete dipole approximation for magneto-optical scattering calculations. Optics Express (2006), 14(12), 5746-5754.

Smith, Damon A.; Barnakov, Yu. A.; Scott, B. L.; White, S. A.; Stokes, K. L., Magneto-optical spectra of closely spaced magnetite nanoparticles. Journal of Applied Physics (2005), 97, 10M504

Jung, J.-S.; Lim, J.-H.; Choi, K.-H.; Oh, S.-L.; Kim, Y.-R.; Lee, S.-H.; Smith, D. A.; Stokes, K. L.; Malkinski, L.; O'Connor, C. J., CoFe2O4 nanostructures with high coercivity. Journal of Applied Physics (2005), 97, 10F306


RELATED IMAGES


SEM image of a CdS nanowire device fabricated by transferring a film of nanowires onto interdigitated Au electrodes using a Langmuir-Blodgett trough.
SEM image of a Ge nanowire cantilever: the nanowire is glued to the Cu substrate with Pt deposited by electron beam-induced deposition in the SEM/FIB tool.
SEM image of a Ge nanowire vibrating in response to a sinusoidal potential applied by the nearby tungsten probe. (Inset) Device schematic.


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