A Brief Bio:  Professor Carroll's primary research interests are: growth, assembly, and characterization of novel nanostructures, nano-photonics and the quantum-functional properties of nanophase blends, organic nanocomposite devices including organic photovoltaics, lighting systems, and IR sensors, biomedical-nanotechnology including nano-enabled hyperthermia based approaches to cancer treatment, advanced/responsive tissue scaffolding technology, and biology-technology signal transduction.

(1985) BS in physics from NC State University (Raleigh, NC).

(1993) PhD in physics from Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) under the supervision of Dr. Dale Doering.  His thesis work involved charged defects in complex oxide materials. 

(1993 - 1994) Postdoctoral Associate for Professor Dawn Bonnell at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA), Dr. Carroll worked on the application of scanning probes to size and dimension related phenomena in oxide supported metal nanoclusters. 

(1994 - 1997) Research Associate at the Max-Planck-Insitut für Metallforschung in Stuttgart Germany under the direction of Professor Manfred Rühle.  Dr. Carroll's primary research focus was nanoscale phenomena at metal-ceramic interfaces using a combination of microscopy techniques.  It was at the MPI that Dr. Carroll first began working on carbon nanotubes and specifically was the first to identify the signature for one dimensional behavior in such systems as well as defect states for those systems. 

In 1997 Professor Carroll established the Laboratory for Nanotechnology at Clemson University (SC) where he received promotion and tenure in (2001/2002) from the department of physics.  At Clemson he established a program in organic devices based on carbon nanotube nanocomposites demonstrating enhanced lifetime and performance in OLEDs for the first time. 

In 2003, Professor Carroll's group moved to Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem NC to establish the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials.  This move allowed the research team to expand its work into the fields of biomedical nanotechnologies and to continue their work in nanocomposite organic devices such as photovoltaics.  Professor Carroll's team continues to push the state-of-the-art in performance of organic solar cells, having set performance records twice in recent years. 

Since becoming  faculty, Professor Carroll has published over 200 articles in scholarly journals such as PRL, APL, Advanced Materials, and NanoLetters with an h-index of 32.  He has published 1 text book: One Dimensional Metals, edited two books, written three book chapters, and holds 7 patents with 8 more patent filings.  Dr. Carroll is a frequent speaker at international conferences with more than 75 invited talks in the past few years.  He is also a reviewer for 23 different journals, a regular panelist at NSF, SFI, DFG, AFOSR, ARO, and NASA, and is a frequent consultant to a number of industrial interests.  He has been actively involved in two spin-off companies utilizing technologies from his labs.  Professor Carroll continues to maintain strong ties to the Max-Planck-Insitut für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart Germany, the Department of Physics at Trinity College in Dublin Ireland, and the Department of Materials Science at Rice University. To read more about Professor Carroll's research work:   The Carroll Research Group web pages