Benjamin Davidson with Joel Langer, Mathematics, & Harsh MathurCircle Geometry and Time-Resolved CrystallographyTime-resolved crystallography has the ability to show the structure of reactants, intermediates, and products of a reaction. The images that arise often have patterns of circles in them. It may be possible to establish a link between...
Academic Year
Matt Finnerty with Robert BrownOn New Methods to Improve the Way We Learn and Their Relationship to NeuroscienceOver the past decade, there have been many developments in the methods used to present the subject of physics to students. Some examples of the latest techniques include interactive lecture demonstrations focusing...
Jeremiah Garretson with Philip TaylorFeasibility of DC Transmission of Electricity In today's world, alternating current (AC) is the norm for transmission of electrical power. This has been true since the days of Westinghouse and Edison. However, new discoveries have made the possibility of direct current (DC) transmission of electricity much...
Benjamin Johnson with Cyrus TaylorAdvanced Hydrofoil SystemsIn standard boating design, the hull of the boat is pushed through the water by the propulsion system. The result of this is that most of the energy is used to displace this water. Hydrofoils seek to overcome this drag by lifting the...
Sam Khamis with John RuhlDesign, Fabrication and Testing of a Superconducting Transition Edge BolometerBolometers provide the most accurate measurements of electro-magnetic radiation in the range from 200µm to 3mm. This range is of particular interest to the study of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Superconducting Bolometers provide an enticing...
Brian Kubera with Jie ShanVibrational Circular Dichroism in the Far-InfraredExtending the ability to measure circular dichroism spectra into the far-infrared will allow for observation of lower frequency modes in chiral materials. Vibrational CD spectra contain not only the chirality of the sample, but, also sufficient information to predict the...
Nathan Kundtz with Corbin CovaultEvent reconstruction analysis of hybrid ground array and fluorescence detector data for the Auger projectThe Auger High Energy Astro-physics experiment seeks to detect high energy particles entering the earth’s atmosphere through the detection of a Chrenkov shower. These events have a cross section with the...
Bryan Linkous with John RuhlThermo-electric Model of a Superconducting BolometerBolometers have often been used as detectors of low energy radiation, but there has always been a choice to make between speed and sensitivity. A new design of superconducting bolometers promises to deliver increases in both speed and sensitivity over...
David Miller with Tanmay VachaspatiFrom Inverse Scattering To Field TheoryIn a general quantum mechanical problem, one can reconstruct an analytic potential from the spectrum of eigenvalues for the system using symmetric reflectionless potentials. This technique works well for reconstructing potentials in simple 1-dimensional problems. We are interested in the...
Mike Minar with Kathy KashThe Growth of Single Crystal InSb via Electrochemical DepositionA “bottom-up” approach to device fabrication is generally regarded as cumbersome when creating device quality semiconductor material; however, certain device geometries cannot be constructed from conventional “top-down” methods. If electrochemical growth of device quality material is possible...