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.

Claire Baum, University of Illinois
Intrinsic Mirror Birefringence Measurements for the Any Light Particle Search (ALPS)
(with Profs. David Tanner and Guido Mueller).

Matt Brown,Hastings College
Characterizing the Boundary Condition for a Water-Solid Interface Under Applied Shear
(with Kamran Mohseni).

Brandon Freudenstein,University of Michigan
Preparing the Components for Testing Superconductivity in ThFeAsN
(with Greg Stewart).

Cadee Hall,University of Florida
A parametric Amplification Measurement Scheme for MEMS in Highly Damped Media
(with Yoonseok Lee).

Maegan Idrogo,Texas Lutheran University
Synthesis and Characterization of Intermetallic Compounds in RE3TX5: Ce3ZrSb5, Pr3TiSb5, Ce3TiSb5
(with James Hamlin).

Leonard Jacques,University of Maryland Baltimore County
Single-wall Carbon Nanotube Thin Films for Vertical Field Effect Transistor Applications
(with Andrew Rinzler).

Jordan Leek,College of William and Mary
In-Situ Acoustic Spectroscopy of Thin Film Hafnium Dioxide (HfO2)
(with Roozbeh Tabrizian).

Jeremiah Moskal,Colorado Mesa University
Differential Conductance of Magnetic Impurities on a Metal Surface
(with Kevin Ingersent).

Michael Pun,Bowdoin College
Computational Prediction and Characterization of M-X3-enes
(with Richard Hennig).

Courtney Titus,Wagner College
Using Surface Disorder to Reduce Thermal Conductance and Enhance Thermoelectric Properties of Nanowires
(with Selman Hershfield).