Tadeas Liska with Jesse Berezovsky
Fabrication and characterization of integrated optical cavities for enhanced spin measurements
Spintronics 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...
Academic Year
Jacob Marx with Xuan Gao
The epitaxial growth of topological insulator thin films using chemical vapor deposition
Topological insulators are a class of quantum materials with metallic surface states existing inside the bulk band gap. Current method of producing thin films of topological insulator is mainly based on molecular beam epitaxy. The...
Corey Mason with Jesse BerezovskyMapping interactions in hybrid systems with active scanning probesNanosystems have large potential in many future applications, but constructing these systems can be difficult or imprecise. In order to circumvent the difficulties and imprecision, we plan to fabricate the components needed for the nanosystem separately: one...
Richard Metzger with Ken SingerLiquid crystal semiconductor nanostructuresOrganic semiconductors are the subject of much study, especially for organic light emitting diodes and photovoltaics. Charge transfer and transport processes are important in this context, and optical spectroscopy on molecular aggregates can yield important information. We will study self-assembly of discotic...
Dane Pittock with Claudia de RahmModified gravity on solar system scalesDuring his senior project, Dane Pittock will explore effects of Modified Gravity on Solar System scales. Infrared modifications of gravity are typically expected to modify Newton’s law and on very large distance scales, but such theories usually come hand...
Max Service with Paul Harding, Dept. of AstronomyAsteroseismology using KeplerRecent advances in asteroseismology allow ages of individual stars to be measured. The ages of the stars allow us to trace the formation history of the galaxy. We are interested the and the formation of the galactic stellar halo, which...
Mathew Solomon with Mike MartensWorking towards the ideal nanoparticle for Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI)The performance of magnetic particle imaging (MPI) depends on the properties of magnetic nanoparticles with diameters in the range of 10 to 100 nanometers. The response of the nanoparticles to an externally applied time-varying magnetic field...
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,...
Jason Tabachnik with Andrew TolleyExploring the dualities between fluids, strings, and gravityRecently, high-energy physicists have discovered and developed powerful new tools known as “dualities.” Dualities are deep correspondences between naively different theories, allowing one to examine the same phenomena in two seemingly divergent lights. Essentially, they are like two...
Robert Badea with Jesse Berezovsky
Fabrication and characterization of ferromagnetic vortices for spintronics
Poster Paper
The proposed project involves creating thin ferromagnetic films which behave with reduced dimensionality to create concentrated localized magnetic fields. The initial part of the project is to create thin ferromagnetic disks with a thickness of approximately 50nm...