{"id":682,"date":"2019-02-11T20:19:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T20:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/?p=682"},"modified":"2019-02-11T20:19:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T20:19:13","slug":"prof-ethan-minot-receives-the-2018-milton-harris-award-in-basic-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/2019\/02\/11\/prof-ethan-minot-receives-the-2018-milton-harris-award-in-basic-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Ethan Minot receives the 2018 Milton Harris Award in Basic Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A belated post from last Fall:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/minotlab.physics.oregonstate.edu\">Ethan Minot<\/a>, associate professor of physics, received the <strong>Milton Harris Award in Basic Research<\/strong> for his impressive accomplishments as a scientist. At Oregon State, Minot has built a world-class materials physics laboratory for the study of the structure and properties of carbon nanomaterials and devices for nanoelectronics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_683\" class=\"wp-caption thumbnail alignright\" style=\"width: 300px;\">\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2019\/02\/EthanMinot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-683\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2019\/02\/EthanMinot-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2019\/02\/EthanMinot-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2019\/02\/EthanMinot.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n    <figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ethan Minot (center) receiving the award with Prof. Janet Tate (left) and Dean Roy Haggerty (right).<\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>His research at Oregon State has pushed the limit of fundamental properties of nanoelectronic devices, which have a broad range of applications to biosensing and solar energy harvesting. Some of his achievements are: identifying the fundamental noise mechanism that limits the performance of graphene biosensors in liquid environments; becoming the first to electrically generate and detect single point defects; reaching a new level of control over point defect chemistry; and other pioneering advances in the development of high-quality nanodevices and biosensors.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reposted from <a href=\"http:\/\/impact.oregonstate.edu\/2018\/10\/recognizing-research-and-administrative-excellence\/\">http:\/\/impact.oregonstate.edu\/2018\/10\/recognizing-research-<\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/impact.oregonstate.edu\/2018\/10\/recognizing-research-and-administrative-excellence\/\">and-administrative-excellence\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_686\" class=\"wp-caption thumbnail alignright\" style=\"width: 549px;\">\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2019\/02\/suspended_CNT_2400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-686\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2019\/02\/suspended_CNT_2400-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2019\/02\/suspended_CNT_2400-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2019\/02\/suspended_CNT_2400-768x361.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2019\/02\/suspended_CNT_2400-1024x481.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/a>\n    <figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scanning electron micrograph of a carbon nanotube (white filament) connecting metal electrodes (shaded yellow).<\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A belated post from last Fall: Ethan Minot, associate professor of physics, received the Milton Harris Award in Basic Research for his impressive accomplishments as a scientist. At Oregon State, Minot has built a world-class materials physics laboratory for the study of the structure and properties of carbon nanomaterials and devices for nanoelectronics. His research&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/2019\/02\/11\/prof-ethan-minot-receives-the-2018-milton-harris-award-in-basic-research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6866,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2027,2368,523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-faculty","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}