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Biosketch

• PhD Candidate in Materials Science and Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
  Minor: Entrepreneurship
• Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2001.
  Ceramics Specialty
• Specialty Glass, Inc., Oldsmar, FL. January through June 2002. Designed Processing equipment and supervised quality control.
• Global Nuclear Fuel (GE-Nuclear) Processing Engineer, Wilmington, NC. May through August 2001.
• DuPont Research Consultant, Wilmington, DE. September through December 2000.
  Worked for Central Research and Development (CR&D) in the Particle Science and Technology Group (PARSAT).

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Research Area

• Primary research focus is in the design and fabrication of electromechanical sensors, resonators and filters for electronic and biological applications using piezoelectric ZnO nanobelts.
• Secondary projects in self-assembly and bulk alignment of 1-D nanostructures.

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Publications

1. "Bridged ZnO nanowires across trenched electrodes", P.X. Gao, J. Liu, B.A. Buchine, B. Weintraub, Z.L. Wang and J.L. LeeAppl. Phys. Lett., 91 (2007) 142108.
2. "Sonochemical Synthesis of Ferromagnetic Core-shell Fe3O4-FeP Nanoparticles and FeP Nanoshells", C.G. Hu, Y. Li, J.P. Liu, Y.Y. Zhang, G. Bao, B. Buchine, Z.L. Wang Chem. Phys. Lett.,, 428 (2006) 343-347
3. "Bulk Acoustic Resonator Based on Piezoelectric ZnO Belts", B.A. Buchine, W.L. Hughes, F.L. Degertekin and Z.L. Wang Nano Lett., 6 (2006) 1155-1159.
4. "A New Atomic Force Microscope Probe with Force Sensing Integrated Readout and Active Tip", A.G. Onaran, M. Balantekin, W. Lee, W.L. Hughes, B.A. Buchine, R.O. Guldiken, Z. Parlak, C.F. Quate, and F.L. Degertekin Review of Scientific Instruments, 77 (2006) 023501.
5. "H₂ and NO₂ Gas Sensors with ZnO Nanobelts Layer on 36^o LiTaO₃ and 64^o LiNbO₃ SAW Transducers", A.Z. Sadek, W. Wlodarski, K. Kalantar-Zadeh, D.A. Powell, W.L. Hughes, B.A. Buchine, Z.L. Wang IEEE Sensors, Oct. (2005) 1343-1346.

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Research Highlights

• Scanning Electron Microscopy (LEO 1530, LEO 1550, JEOL JSM-5910, Hitachi S-800).
• Focused Ion Beam Microscopy (FEI Nova, FEI Quanta)
• Clean Room Experience
• Photolithography
• CMOS and MEMS processing
• E-Beam Lithography (Nanometer Pattern Generation System)
• High Vacuum and Ultra High Vacuum systems
• Network Analysis
• Synthesis of 1-D nanostructures
• Self-Assembled Monolayer (SAM) Formation

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Honors & Awards

• Nanoscience and Technology Graduate Fellowship (NaST), 2005-2006.
• First Prize Poster competition, Winner of First Place award at a poster presentation Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF)
• International Research Scholarship, May 2000. Recipient of scholarship that funded summer research at Delft Technical University, the Netherlands.
• Undergraduate Research Award, January 2000. Recipient of NSF funded Engineering Research Center (ERC) award.

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