Nam Nguyen
nnam@u.washington.edu

Education

Honors

• NSF East Asia Pacific Summer Institute Fellowship 2005
• NSF IGERT Fellowship

• Thermoelectric Properties of Compositionally Graded Co:TiO2 Thin Films Growth by Pulsed Laser Deposition.
• Thermoelectric Properties of V2O5 and V2O5-based Thin Films Obtained from Solution Techniques

Conference: AVS 53rd International Symposium, Nov 12-17, 2006, San Francisco, CA. Title: Thermoelectric Properties of Graded Co doped TiO2 grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition

Conference: AVS 54rd International Symposium, Oct 14-19, Seattle, WA Title: Comparison of Thermoelectric properties of Bulk and Thin Film TiO2

Conference: AVS 55rd International Symposium, Oct 19-24, 2008, Boston, MA Title: Electrical Conductivity and Thermopower of TiO2-x thin films grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition

“Relationship between electronic and crystal structure in Cu–Ni–Co–Mn–O spinels: Part A: Temperature-induced structural transformation; Dmitry A. Kukuruznyak, Jerome G. Moyer, Nam T. Nguyen, Edward A. Stern and Fumio S. Ohuchi, Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, 150 (2-3) 275-281 (2006)

“Relationship between electronic and crystal structure in Cu–Ni–Co–Mn–O spinels: Part B: Binding energy anomaly in Cu1+ photoemission spectrum”; Dmitry A. Kukuruznyak, Jerome G. Moyer, Michael S. Prowse, Nam Nguyen, John. J. Rehr and Fumio S. Ohuchi, Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, 150 (2-3) 282-287 (2006)

Highlights

• TA’ed for the freshmen honors course (ENGR-100), a collaboration between the University of Washington, Tohoku University, Tsinghua and Sichuan University, for Autumn 2004 and 2005.
• Conducted research on thermoelectric oxide materials by using a newly developed experimental technique called “Combinatorial Materials Search” at National Institute for Materials and Science (NIMS) and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Tsukuba, Japan