2003 - 2007            Oklahoma State University      Stillwater , OK

Photonics/Ph.D.

2000 - 2003            Oklahoma State University     Stillwater , OK

Photonics/M.Sc.

1998 - 1999             Bogazici University           Istanbul , Turkey

Teaching Physics Certificate

1994 - 1999             Bogazici University           Istanbul , Turkey

Physics/B.Sc.

2007- 2008               Brookhaven National Laboratory             Upton , NY

Postdoctoral Research Associate

2004- 2007               Oklahoma State University             Stillwater , OK

Research Assistant

• Directed electrochemical formation and low-contact resistance interfacing of diameter-tunable, crystalline, metallic nanowires.  

• Dielectrophoretic interconnect formation from nanostructures.

• Controlled interfacing of metallic nanowires with live cells.

• Room temperature and low temperature (10K) charge transport characterization of nanowires.

• LabView programming for computer controlled formation and characterization of nanowires.

• SEM/TEM/AFM/MFM imaging of nanostructures and nanowires.

• Optical characterization of nanowires.

•  Synthesis of semiconducting (CdS, CdSe)/metallic (Au, Ag) nanoparticles, gold nanorods using wet chemical methods.

•  Measurement of pressure-area isotherms of nanoparticle monolayers at the air-water interface using a Langmuir trough.

2004-2006          Oklahoma State University     Stillwater , OK

Teaching Assistant

• Taught general physics recitation & laboratory classes.

2001 -2003         Oklahoma State University      Stillwater , OK

Research Assistant

• Synthesis of semiconducting (CdTe) nanoparticles and preparation of CdTe nanowires.

•  Steady State/Time Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy of nanoparticles/nanochains/nanowires/bioconjugated nanostructures.

•  Magnetic Field Alignment of nanowires.

•  Low temperature (8 K) Fluorescence Spectroscopy.

• Surface topography of nanoparticle/nanowire thin films with Atomic Force Microscopy.

• Experience in operation and maintenance of solid state and dye lasers, spectrometers.

• Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy

2000 – 2001         Oklahoma State University        Stillwater , OK

Teaching Assistant

• Teaching general physics laboratory classes.

1999 – 2000         Gebze Institute of Technology  Kocaeli , Turkey

Research Assistant

• Preparation and electrical characterization of metal-semiconductor junctions.

•  LabView programming of characterization devices.

•  Preparation of Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) samples using photolithography.

1998 - 1999           Bogazici University           Istanbul , Turkey

Undergraduate Research Experience

•  Parallel computing.

1- Tang, Zhiyong; Kotov, Nicholas A.; Magonov, Sergei; Ozturk, Birol. “Nanostructured artificial nacre.” Nature Materials (2003), 2(6), 413-418.

2- Tang, Zhiyong; Ozturk, Birol; Wang, Ying; Kotov, Nicholas A. “Simple Preparation Strategy and One-Dimensional Energy Transfer in CdTe Nanoparticle Chains.” Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2004), 108(22), 6927-6931.

3- Ozturk, Birol; Behin-Aein, Ghazal; Flanders , Bret. N.
“Hard-disk behavior and beyond in Langmuir films of CdSe Nanoparticles.” Langmuir, 21, 4452-4457 (2005). 

4- Ozturk, Birol; Talukdar, Ishan; Flanders , Bret. N. “The Directed-Assembly of CdS Interconnects between Targeted Points in a Circuit.” Appl. Phys. Lett., 86, 183105 (2005).

5- Ozturk, Birol; Blackledge, Charles; Grischkowsky Daniel G.; and Flanders , Bret N. “Reproducible interconnects assembled from gold nanorods.”, Appl. Phys. Lett, 88, 040607 (2006).

6- Talukdar, Ishan; Ozturk, Birol; Mishima Tetsuya D.; Flanders Bret N., “The Directed Growth of Crystalline Indium Wires.”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 221907 (2006).

7- Ozturk, Birol; Mishima, Tetsuya D.; Grischkowsky, Daniel R.; Flanders , Bret N. “ Single-Step Growth and Low Resistance Interfacing of Gold Nanowires”, Nanotechnology, 18, 175707 (2007)

8- Talukdar, Ishan; Ozturk, Birol; Flanders , Bret N. “Dendritic Growth of Diameter Tunable Nanowires”, Nanotechnology, 18, 365302 (2007)  

1 week training at Digital Instruments, Santa Barbara on single molecule imaging with AFM.

Electron Microscopy class – Hands-on experience with SEM, TEM, Confocal Microscopy, tissue processing for TEM.

English – Advanced  
German – Intermediate
Turkish-Advanced

•  2002 ACS National Fall Meeting, Boston , MA . Poster Presentation, “Anti-stokes photoluminescence of II-VI nanoparticles”

•   2003 APS March Meeting, Austin , TX . Poster Presentation, “Photophysical Processes in the Anti-Stokes luminescence of CdTe Nanoparticles”  

• 2005 APS March Meeting, Los Angeles , CA , Oral Presentation, “Charge
  Transport Studies of Dielectrophoretic Interconnects Composed of Gold Nanoparticles”

• 2006 APS March Meeting, Baltimore , MD , Oral Presentation, “Structural and Transport Properties of Directly Assembled Interconnects”

• 2007 APS March Meeting, Denver , CO, Oral Presentation, “Low-contact resistance Interfacing of Single-Crystal Gold Nanowires”

Merit based graduate student travel award to 2003 APS March meeting.

Outstanding Research Assistant Award- Physics Department , Oklahoma State University, 2006.