F a c u l t y M e n t o r Research has given Michael Thompson an understanding of the life of a research chemist, and helped him decide to work toward becoming one. He first became involved in research, under the guidance of Professor Penner, during winter 2004. Michael has been working on developing a unique method for synthesizing nanowires out of antimony. He had the opportunity to present h...

We show that unintentional hydrogen doping of ZnO during the electrodeposition process can impact the material's carrier concentration as significantly as others have reported for intentional extrinsic doping. Mott-Schottky analyses on the natively n-type electrodeposits show a decrease in the carrier concentrations from 10(21) to 10(18) cm(-3) with increasing overpotential. A strong link exist...