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Summer of 2005

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REU Research Participants, Projects and Mentors

 

Front Row, from Left to Right: Barry Long (Juniata College), Paul Canepa (Linfield College), Tim Calver (Northern Arizona University), Colin Gurganus (Eastern Michigan University), Jerry He (Williams College), Kelty Allen (Oberlin College), Ajani Ross (Wright State University), Back Row, from Left to Right: Paula Miller (Wright State University), Lindsey Perry (Sinclair Community College), Cara Campbell (University of Mary Washington), Katherine Yeager (Wright State University), Debbie Cox (Ohio Northern University), and Andrea Herrick (Ohio Northern University).

 

An Undergraduate Research in Physics Poster Session that was hosted by the Department of Physics at Wright State University and the Center for Directed Energy at Air Force Institute of Technology was held in the Wright State University Student Union Endeavor Room (E156) on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 from 12:30 – 3:00 PM.  The following posters were presented:

 

HELEEOS Lite

Kelty Allen (Oberlin College) and Richard Bartell (AFIT Department of Engineering Physics)

 

Optical Monitoring of Pulsed Laser Deposition of Super-Conducting YBa2Cu3O7-x Films

Timothy Ireland Calver (Northern Arizona University), Glen Perram and Carl Druffner (AFIT Department of Engineering Physics)

 

Active Terahertz Imaging

Cara A. Campbell (University of Mary Washington) and Doug Petkie (WSU Department of Physics)

 

Exploring the Effects of Elixir (CeO2) on the Properties of YBCO Thin Film Superconductors

Paul Canepa (Linfield College), Gregory Kozlowski (Wright State University), S. Apt, R. Biggers, R. Kerns, I. Maartense and T. Peterson (U.S. Air Force Research Laboratories)

 

Automated Calibration and Control of Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulators

Julie Chapman (Case Western Reserve University), Matthew Goda (AFIT Department of Electrical Engineering) and Jason Schmidt (University of Dayton)

 

Simulation of Atmospheric Effects on Laser Light

Debra Cox (Ohio Northern University) and LtCol Steven Fiorino (AFIT Department of Engineering Physics)

 

Optimization and Modeling of Multimode Raman Fiber Laser

Kevin Engel (Case Western Reserve University), Capt. Nathan Terry and Dr. Won Roh (AFIT Department of Engineering Physics)

 

Investigation of Lower Atmosphere Propagation of a High Energy Laser Operating at 1.31525 μm Using the Atmospheric Compensation Simulation Wave Optics Code

Amanda Fellows (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), Dr. John O. Miller, Richard Bartell and Maj Scott Long (AFIT Department of Engineering Physics)

 

Atomic Spectroscopy of Oxygen Emissions in the Visible Spectrum

Sara Golub (University of Missouri), Matt Lange, Dr. Glen P. Perram and Greg Pitz (AFIT Department of Engineering Physics)

 

Organic Solar Cells from Functionalized Donor-Acceptor Molecules

Colin W. Gurganus (Eastern Michigan University), Michael F. Durstock, Rachel R. Smith, Adam P. Smith, Barney E. Taylor and Long Y. Chiang (AFRL/MLBP)

 

Detailed Stochastic Simulation of Transcription

Xiang Jerry He (Williams College) and Brent Foy (WSU Department of Physics)

 

Laser Diagnostics of Energized Atmospheric Air

Andrea Herrick (Ohio Northern University) and Steven F. Adams, (AFRL PRPE)

 

Fiber Optic High Pressure Sensor

Barry Long (Juniata College) and John Ferguson (AFRL MLPB)

 

Mathematica Vs. FEMLAB

Paula Miller (Wright State University) and Lok C. Lew Yan Voon (WSU Department of Physics)

 

Michelson Interferometer and Fourier Transform Spectroscopy

Lindsey Perry (Sinclair Community College) and Douglas T. Petkie (Wright State University)

 

Instrumentation for obtaining Catodaluminescence Spectra

Ajani Ross (Wright State University),  Gary Farlow and Jerry Clark (WSU Department of Physics)

 

Analysis of the Mars Global Surveyor Radial Occultation Data

Katherine Yeager (Wright State University) and Jane Fox (WSU Department of Physics)

 

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0353963 with funding support from the Department of Defense.  Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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REU Contact for any additional questions:

Dr. Doug Petkie
Department of Physics
248 Fawcett Hall
Wright State University

3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy
Dayton OH 45435-0001

Email: doug.petkie@wright.edu
Telephone: (937) 775-3124  Fax: (937) 775-2222

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