{"324771":{"#nid":"324771","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Professor Levent Degertekin and Graduate Student Toby Xu Receive Honors at the 2014 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology at the Georgia Tech would like to congratulate Toby Xu and his advisor, F. Levent Degertekin, of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology at Georgia Tech. Both scholars received research awards at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, held September 3-6, 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Degertekin was awarded the \u00222014 Carl Hellmuth Hertz Ultrasonic Achievement Award\u0022 for contributions to micromachined ultrasonic and opto-mechanical transducers, and high speed Atomic Force Microscopy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDegertekin\u0027s research focuses on capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) focuses on development of new CMUT structures with improved performance using the advantages of microfabrication technology, and design and implementation of catheter based imaging arrays for intravascular and intracardiac ultrasound imaging for interventional cardiology applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMr. Xu, a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering, received the \u0022Best Student Paper Award\u0022 for\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E Improved Performance CMUT-on-CMOS Devices Using ALD Hafnium Oxide Insulation Layer,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eco-authored by\u0026nbsp;Coskun Tekes, and F. Levent Degertekin.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMr. Xu stated, \u0022I just want to thank all of the IEN staff\/interns\/co-ops for helping\/supporting my research throughout the past few years. I could not have done this without you. I am very grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many great minds and a world class facility.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations to Mr. Xu and Professor Degertekin for their achievements!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E~ Christa Ernst, IEN Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Toby Xu and his advisor, F. Levent Degertekin, of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology at Georgia Tech were both honored at the IEEE Int. Ultrasonics Symposium, held September 3-6, 2014."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2014-09-15 10:00:21","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:04","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-09-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-09-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"324741":{"id":"324741","type":"image","title":"TXu SM","body":null,"created":"1449245041","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:04:01","changed":"1475895037","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:37","alt":"TXu SM","file":{"fid":"201800","name":"t_xu-_sm.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/t_xu-_sm.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/t_xu-_sm.png","mime":"image\/png","size":148665,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/t_xu-_sm.png?itok=WcHpx2pM"}}},"media_ids":["324741"],"groups":[{"id":"1271","name":"NanoTECH"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"103141","name":"Best Paper Award"},{"id":"103151","name":"CMUT-on-CMOS Devices"},{"id":"14545","name":"George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering"},{"id":"103171","name":"IEEE Carl Hellmuth Hertz Ultrasonics Achievement Award"},{"id":"12701","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"17041","name":"Levent Degertekin"},{"id":"103161","name":"Ultrasonics"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["christa.ernst@ien.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}