Student Profile

Peter Allen "Always believe you are capable of competing at the absolute top of your field."

class of 2006

What CCS Meant for Me:

CCS introduced me to the world of academic research.  It turned my professors into very influential mentors, and even friends.  CCS transforms UCSB from a place where you take classes, to a world where you learn to achieve at the highest level in your area of study.

Future Plans

Undecided, but I would like to return to UCSB at some time in my career.

Awards

Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award Merck Index Award

Research

Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010.  Advisor, Moungi G. Bawendi

Dissertation "Semiconductor Nanocrystals: From Mechanisms of Formation to Applications in Biology and Technology"

Publications

1. Harris DK, Allen PM, Han HS, Walker BJ, and Bawendi MG. “Synthesis of Cadmium Arsenide Quantum Dots Luminescent in the Infrared”Journal of the American Chemical Society, submitted.
   
   
2. Baek J, Allen PM, Jensen KF, and Bawendi MG.   “Investigation of InP Nanocrystal Synthesis Using a Continuous Flow Microreactor” Angewandte Chemie,2010, online.
   
   
3. Geyer SM, Allen PM, Chang LY, Wong CR, Osedach TP, Zhao N, Bulovic V, and Bawendi MG. “Control of Carrier Type in InAs Nanocrystal Films by Pre-Deposition Incorporation of Cd”ACS Nano, 2010, online.
   
   
4. Allen PM, Liu W, Chauhan VP, Lee J, Ting AY, Fukumura D, Jain RK, and Bawendi MG.  “InAs(ZnCdS) Quantum Dots Optimized for Biological Imaging in the Near-Infrared” Journal of the American Chemical Society,2010, 132, 470-471.
   
   
5. Allen PM, Walker BJ, and Bawendi MG. “Mechanistic Insights into the Formation of InP Quantum Dots”Angewandte Chemie, 2010, 49, 760-762.
   
   
6. Dorn A, Allen PM, Harris DK, and Bawendi MG. “In Situ Monitoring of Cation Exchange in Nanowires” Nano Letters, 2010, 10, 3948-3951.
   
   
7. Dorn A, Allen PM, and Bawendi MG.“Electrically Controlling and Monitoring InP Nanowire Growth from Solution” ACS Nano, 2009, 3, 3260-3265.
   
   
8. Allen PM and Bawendi MG. “Ternary I-III-VI Quantum Dots Luminescent in the Red to Near-Infrared’’ Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2008, 130, 9240-9241.