Projects

Each REU student is listed below, along with the title of the student's summer project and the name of the faculty research mentor. A link is provided to each student's final report unless the results are to be included in a future publication.

Taryn Bailey, Goucher College
Identifying and Investigating Superconductivity in the RE3MX5 Compounds Ce3TiBi5, Ce3NbSb5, La3TiBi5 and La3NbSb5,
(with Prof. James Hamlin): Report.

Christopher Banks, Norfolk State University
Quantum Turbulence with an Internal Linear Motor and an External Linear Motor in He4
(with Prof. Gary Ihas): Report.

Addie Barron, Centenary College of Louisiana
The Effect of Magnetic Fields on the Quorum Sensing-Regulated Luminescence of Vibrio fischeri
(with Prof. Stephen Hagen): Report.

Nicholas Cunningham, University of Florida
Testing Organic Semiconducting Polymers for Use as the Channel Layer in VFETs
(with Prof. Andrew Rinzler): to be included in a future publication.

Cleod Daoud, Bowdoin College
Study of the Mechanical Properties of the Interface of the High-Temperature Coating TiN/Ti using Density-Functional Theory
(with Prof. Susan Sinnott): to be included in a future publication.

Maxwell Leonard, Illinois Wesleyan
Magnetization of a spin 1⁄2 Geometrically Frustrated Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet
(with Prof. Yasumasa Takano): to be included in a future publication.

Joseph Thomas McNeil, East Tennessee State Univ.
Relativistic Charged Particle Simulations in Homogeneous Magnetic Fields within the Barrel of the Phase II CMS Detector's Level-1 Silicon Tracker
(with Prof. Ivan Furic): to be included in a future publication.

Aaron Mohammed, University of South Florida
Phase Boundaries of the Pseudogap Anderson Impurity Model
(with Prof. Kevin Ingersent): Report.

Jesus Moreno, Massechusetts Institute of Technology
Optically Pumped Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Strained GaAs and InP Single Crystals
(with Prof. Russell Bowers): to be included in a future publication.

Joel Reid*, University of Florida
Frequency Dependence of AC Transport Properties of Films of Cobalt Iron Prussian Blue Analogues
(with Prof. Mark Meisel): Report.
* Funded through Prof. Mark Meisel.

Alex Schachtner, University of Oregon
Investigation of Solution Processed Channel Layer Materials in Carbon-Nanotube Enabled Vertical Field Effect Transistors
(with Prof. Andrew Rinzler): to be included in a future publication.

Lauren Schatz, University of California Santa Cruz
Development of a Vibrating Reed Technique to Measure Young’s Modulus of Janus Materials
(with Prof. Mark Meisel): Report.

Sarah Toth, University of Florida
Strain Tuning of Transport and Magnetism of La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 thin films
(with Prof. Amlan Biswas): Report.