Weiwei Zhou Email & Phone Number

Irvine, Ca

• Led a project of CVD growth of high-density semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) for high-performance RF transistors and transistor-based gas sensors• Developed a fabrication process for SWNT-based RF FETs using E-beam lithography (EBL) and photolithography• Developed a self-assembly technique for synthesizing monodisperse nanoparticles with diameters in the sub-nanometer range on a silicon wafer

Eecs/Inrf

• Utilized top-down fabricated silicon nanoribbons as an artificial nanoelectrode array to integrate with ion channel proteins and measure the gating activities of ion channels including alamethicin and gramicidin A• Developed a multiplexed sensing platform for detecting single ion channel activities on-chip using SWNT transistor arrays with PDMS microfluidic channels• Established a bottom-up surface functionalization approach to grow tethered bilayer lipid membranes on silicon chips and glass slides for ion-channel biosensor applications• Developed a solution-based SWNT deposition process for high-performance SWNT thin-film transistors• Assisted Prof. Peter Burke to manage multidisciplinary university research Initiative (MURI) program within seven universities

• Developed a CVD process of growing horizontally aligned, high-density SWNT arrays on quartz or silicon wafers for RF applications• Enhanced the purity and density of semiconducting SWNTs grown on substrates by investigating the selective growth mechanism targeting specific structure and electronic property of SWNTs• Designed and optimized the fabrication process of SWNT array-based RF FETs with nm scale channel length by E-beam lithography• Developed a SWNT sensing platform for label-free, real time-multiplexed detection of cancer biomarkers• Developed a CVD process for the synthesis of graphene sheets on copper films