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Rensselaer Professor Kim Lewis Receives NSF CAREER Award
Young Physicist To Investigate Electronics at the Molecular Level
Kim Lewis, assistant professor of physics, applied physics, and astronomy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Lewis will use the five-year, approximately $575,000 award to study electronics at the molecular level. The research seeks to better understand how molecules are transported through advanced electronic systems.
Lewis’ CAREER program, titled “From Self-Assembled Monolayers to Molecular Multilayers: The Electronic Properties of Molecular Junctions,” holds promise to stimulate the advancement of electronics used in areas as diverse as medicine and toxic sensing technology. Lewis’ goal is to better understand and improve the movement of molecules through electronic systems. Such knowledge would increase the functionality and efficiency of new devices.
Along with educating undergraduates and graduate students in the areas of molecular and nano electronics and advanced atomic force microscopy, Lewis will use this funding to cultivate broader participation by underrepresented groups in science. Lewis will develop an educational summer program for students from historically black colleges and universities to participate in leading-edge research at Rensselaer.
She received her bachelor’s degree in physics from Dillard University (an HBCU), her master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, and her doctoral degree in applied physics also from the University of Michigan.
Young Physicist To Investigate Electronics at the Molecular Level
Kim Lewis, assistant professor of physics, applied physics, and astronomy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Lewis will use the five-year, approximately $575,000 award to study electronics at the molecular level. The research seeks to better understand how molecules are transported through advanced electronic systems.
Lewis’ CAREER program, titled “From Self-Assembled Monolayers to Molecular Multilayers: The Electronic Properties of Molecular Junctions,” holds promise to stimulate the advancement of electronics used in areas as diverse as medicine and toxic sensing technology. Lewis’ goal is to better understand and improve the movement of molecules through electronic systems. Such knowledge would increase the functionality and efficiency of new devices.
Along with educating undergraduates and graduate students in the areas of molecular and nano electronics and advanced atomic force microscopy, Lewis will use this funding to cultivate broader participation by underrepresented groups in science. Lewis will develop an educational summer program for students from historically black colleges and universities to participate in leading-edge research at Rensselaer.
She received her bachelor’s degree in physics from Dillard University (an HBCU), her master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, and her doctoral degree in applied physics also from the University of Michigan.
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