Michael Kelley with Volodimyr Duzhko
Spectroscopic Studies of Charge and Energy Transfer Processes in Self-Organizing Heterogeneous Photovoltaic Materials
In response to growing needs for renewable and pollutant-free energy resources, conversion of sunlight into electricity by solar cells is one of the most promising alternatives. Utilization of organic photovoltaic materials allows for...
2010
Guozhi (Joe) Liang with Corbin Covault
Prototype Cherenkov Detector Design & Deployment
The High Energy Astrophysics lab at the university focuses much of its efforts in the Pierre Auger Observatory collaboration. As a new observatory, set to be deployed in Colorado, progresses through the design and development stage, one task, which...
Michael Macdonald with Xuan GaoLarge Scale Graphene Transistor Arrays(started in fall 2009 and will be resumed and completed in spring 2011)Graphene, a single atomic sheet of carbon atoms, was recently isolated by separating single layers of graphite and received tremendous interest in electronic applications. The widely used mechanical exfoliation...
Benjamin McCabe with Rolfe PetschekAnimating Tessellations of the Plane with Statistical Models(started in spring 2009 and will be resumed and completed in spring 2010)Artists, particularly M.C. Escher, have made many attractive tessellations of the plane, incidentally illustrating many of the two dimensional space groups. Such pictures may have different...
David McCauley with Alexis Abramson (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering)Seebeck Coefficient of a Biologically Inspired Electrolytic Solution(started in spring 2010 and finishing in fall 2010)The seebeck coefficient is a measurement of the ability of a material to turn a temperature differential into a voltage differential. This has many applications including...
Seraina Murphy with Robert Brown & Fraser Robb (GE Healthcare)Going Beyond Protons for MR StudyAlthough high-field MRI coil testing has been a popular research subject for years, the use of carbon-13 in imaging is relatively new. The potential market for 13C dual-tuned coils has also increased due to the...
Daniel Parks with Tanmay Vachaspati & Harsh MathurAnalytic Derivation of the Distribution of Dark Matter(started in spring 2010 and finishing in fall 2010)The distribution of dark matter in the cosmos is not currently known by any analytically derived formula. Previous investigators have been unable to derive such a formula,...
Nicholas Reinsvold with Charles RosenblattSurface Orientation of Chiral Liquid CrystalsIt is well documented that placing chiral liquid crystal molecules on an achiral surface causes the molecular orientation to twist locally due to the chirality of molecules. This experiment will use two distinct chiral molecular species in a mixture. One...
Andrew Rosenberger with Kathleen KashSTM Study of Self Arranging Hexagonal Nano-latticesHexagonal lattices of Benzene rings doped with sulfonic acid groups attached to substituted biphenyl units are promising, new structures being produced by Macromolecular Science and Engineering. When deposited on surfaces, these molecules can form stacked hexagonal arrays with a...
Joshua Rubin with Justin Sydnor (Dept. of Economics)Projection of the Solar Tech Industry as Motivated by Underlying PrinciplesWithin the United States, and elsewhere in the world, there is a growing concern over the limited resources that are useable as energy sources. Technologies such as mono-crystalline and poly-crystalline solar cells,...