Tino Hofmann, Research Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, has been invited to serve on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Review of Scientific Instruments.

Daniel Schmidt receives the 2010 Applied Surface Science Division Student Award at the 57th AVS meeting in Albuquerque.

The CMO is part of a group at several Nebraska Universities funded by NSF with $20Mill for infrastructure development over the next 5 years. A $7.5Million subgrant will provide infrastructure for new Center research facilities located within the CMO laboratories foccusing on nanostructured hybrid functional materials and development of new chemical, biological and biochemical sensing principles. News releases: Lincoln Journal Star Oct 4, 2010. more ...

Tino Hofmann, Research Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, receives the 2010 Paul Drude Award. The Paul Drude Award is given at each International Conference of Spectroscopic Ellipsometry (ICSE) to a young scientist for exceptional contributions to the development and application of spectroscopic ellipsometry. more ...

During the annual UNL College of Engineering's "E-Week" Daniel Schmidt received the Outstanding Graduate Research Award. He also received the Best Research Presentation "Best of Show" award for his Graduate Student Research Symposium contribution. more ...

We welcome our new PhD students Philipp K�hne and Stefan Sch�che from University Leipzig.