Material Sciences Division

Seminars & Conferences

News and Highlights

Join Us!

Home

Yu Shi

Atomic scale imaging, manipulation, and spectroscopy Mechanical and electrical properties of molecules in self-assembled films Ambient pressure photoelectron spectroscopy for environnemental sciences Studies of friction, adhesion, and wear at the nanometer scale Electronic, mechanical, and chemical properties of nanoclusters Structure of thin liquid films and wetting Nanoscale material imaging and manipulation (Molecular Foundry) Catalytic and chemical properties of surfaces

Updated by Franck, October 09 2007

Yu Shi
Student

Materials Sciences Division
Mail stop 66RO200
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720 USA

Phone: +1-510-486-7478
FAX: +1-510-486-7268
Email:yshi*lbl.gov (replace * by @)
Webpage: http://www.mse.berkeley.edu/~yshi

I’m a graduate student from Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley. My research involves the construction of a low-temperature non-contact atomic force microscopy (AFM) with atomic resolution and the study of the physical and chemical properties of single water molecules and small carbon hydrate molecules on conductor/semiconductor/insulator surfaces at low temperature (~4K), in collaboration with Dr. Byoung Y. Choi.

Education
M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (2007)
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (2005)

Professional Experience
Research Assistant
Beijing National Center for Electron Microscopy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (2004-2007)

Honors
Honored Graduate, Tsinghua University (2005)
Honored Graduate, Beijing Municipal Education Committee (2005)
Scholarships for Academic Excellence, Tsinghua University (2002-2004)
Scholarship for Outstanding Entering Students, Tsinghua University (2001)

Selected Publications
Y. Shi, C. Q. Chen, Y. S. Zhang, J. Zhu and Y. J. Yan. Determination of the natural frequency of a cantilevered ZnO nanowire resonantly excited by a sinusoidal electric field. Nanotechnology, 18, 075709 (2007)
C. Q. Chen, Y. Shi, Y. S. Zhang, J Zhu and Y. J. Yan. Size dependence of Young’s modulus in ZnO nanowires. Phys. Rev. Lett., 96, 075505 (2006)

Research Interests
Physical and chemical properties in individual nano-materials
Low-temperature physical and chemical properties of single molecules and atoms
In situ manipulation of nano-scale materials by microscopy techniques