Andrew Oriani with Kathleen Kash
A Novel Route to Synthesis of Sn3N4 and ZnSnN2 Thin Films
III-Nitride direct band-gap materials have long been used in opto-electronic applications ranging from consumer high density optical storage devices and LED’s to ultraviolet research lasers.1-2 By replacing the group-III sublattice with an II-IV ordered pair...
Condensed Matter Experiment
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....