Dylan Yurgionas with Dan Akerib and Tom ShuttModeling Gamma Ray Background from LUX Characterization of background is important for finding WIMP recoil events. Based on their cross sections, WIMPs will only scatter once inside the two phase xenon detector, LUX. Incident gamma rays from trace radioactive impurities in detector...
Adviser Affiliation
Guiseppe Strangi Joined the faculty July 1, 2013
Jake Arwe with Xuan Gao
Incorporation of plasma into CVD graphene growth
Graphene is a 2D crystalline sheet of Carbon bonded together in a hexagonal lattice. Its unique structure gives it valuable optical and electrical properties that could be used in nanoelectronics or other fields. Current methods for graphene production do...
Mason Eastman with Harsh Mathur
Conductors as a model for elliptical coffee stains
In electrostatics, conductors exhibit a number of interesting properties. Among these is the ‘lightning rod’ effect, whereby electric fields are significantly greater near areas of high curvature. In 1997, Nagel et al. published a paper likening the behavior...
Emily Griffin with Ken Singer
Aluminum zinc oxide transparent conductors for optical cavity enhanced polymer photovoltaics
Indium tin oxide is the ubiquitous transparent conductor used in all liquid crystal displays and thin film photovoltaic devices. Indium, however, is a rare and relatively expensive material, leading to intense research to replace it...
Terence Southard with Roger Quinn, Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Design, fabrication and testing of a new limiting oxygen index device
The Limiting Oxygen Index (LOI) is one of an array of commonly used metrics for the rating of material flammability. Although devices to measure this value are commercially available,...
Integrated Optical CavitesTadeus Liska with Jesse BerezovskyLiska Berezovsky 2013Spintronics is an emerging field with numerous applications including quantum computing of which a key component is the ability to monitor the spin state of a system. Such monitoring can be achieved optically using spin-photon interactions such as the Faraday rotation....
Jesse Berezovsky joined the physics department July 1, 2010