EDUCATION

 

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

M.S., Physics and Astronomy, June 2004.

 

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, New York City, New York:

B.A., Physics, June 2002.  

 

 

RESEARCH

 

NANOFABRICATION & QUANTUM DOT ELECTRONICS

 

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS

 

Elias Burstein Prize in Condensed Matter Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy (2007). 

Arnold M. Denenstein Prize, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy (2004).

NSF-IGERT Graduate Fellow, University of Pennsylvania (2004-2007).

Samuel B. Morse Gold Medal, New York University, Department of Physics (2002).

George Granger Brown Scholar, New York University, Department of Physics (2002).

Farras P. Mattar Scholar, New York University, Department of Physics (2001).

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

1.   Fischbein, M.D. & Drndić, M., Sub-10 nm device fabrication in a transmission electron microscope  Nano. Lett. 2007, 7, 1329.  cond-mat/0611032.

 

2.   Hu, Z.; Fischbein, M.D.; Querner, C.; Drndić, M. Electric field driven accumulation and alignment of CdSe and CdTe nanorods in nanoscale devices  Nano. Lett. 2006, 6, 2585.

 

3.   Strachan, D.R.; Smith, D.E.; Fischbein, M.D.; Johnston, D.E.; Guiton, B.S.; Drndić, M.; Bonnell, D.A.; Johnson, A.T., Clean electromigrated nanogaps imaged by transmission electron microscopy Nano. Lett. 2006, 6, 441.

 

4.   Fischbein, M.D. & Drndić, M., Nanogaps by direct lithography for high-resolution imaging and electronic characterization of nanostructures Appl. Phys. Lett. 2006, 88, 063116.  cond-mat/0512128.

    

5.   Hu, Z.; Fischbein, M.D.; Drndić, M., Local charge transport in two-dimensional PbSe nanocrystal arrays studied by electrostatic force microscopy Nano Lett. 2005, 5, 1463.

 

6.   Fischbein, M.D. & Drndić, M., CdSe nanocrystal quantum-dot memory Appl. Phys. Lett. 2005, 86, 193106.

 

  1. Qi, D.; Fischbein, M.D.; Selmić, S.; Drndić, M., Efficient polymer-nanocrystal quantum-dot photodetectors Appl. Phys. Lett. 2005, 86, 093103.

 

PATENTS

 

1.      Fischbein, M.D. & Drndić, M., Nanogaps: Methods and devices containing the same WO2006102292 (priority date: September 28, 2006).

2.      Fischbein, M.D. & Drndić, M., Nanostructure assemblies, methods and devices thereof WO2006076036 (priority date: July 20, 2006).

3.      Fischbein, M.D. & Drndić, M., Nanocrystal quantum dot memory devices US2006221672 (priority date: October 10, 2005).