MEMBERS

 

Director :   MARK ARNOLD (Chemistry): Optical sensors for biomedical diagnostics.

Faculty :

• DAVID ANDERSEN (Electrical and Computer Engineering , Physics and Astronomy): Nonlinear propagation, optical properties of semiconductors, plasma and semiconductor transport.

• THOMAS BOGGESS (Physics and Astronomy, Electrical and Computer Engineering): Ultrafast laser development, nonlinear optics, optical and electronic properties of semiconductors.

• CHRISTOPHER CHEATUM (Chemistry):  Femtosecond infrared spectroscopy of enzymes, proton-transfer reactions, molecular mechanisms of enzymatic catalysis, reaction dynamics in proteins, vibrational spectroscopy and dynamics, nonlinear spectroscopy.

• BILL EICHINGER (Civil and Environmental Engineering): Hyrdrology and fluid mechanics in the environment, atmoshpheril pollution control and remediation, optical technology for remote sensing.

• MICHAEL FLATTÉ (Physics and Astronomy): Theory of semiconductor hetereostructures including optical properties and carrier lifetimes, many-body effects in semiconductors.

• LEI GENG (Chemistry): Detection and spectroscopy of single molecules, time-resolved spectroscopy, chiroptical techniques, nonlinear spectroscopy; DNA sequencing; structure and dynamics of proteins; capillary electrophoresis

• EDWARD GILLAN (Chemistry): Materials synthesis via controlled decomposition of single-source organometallic precursors; synthesis of metastable carbon nitrides; use of high pressure/temperature non-aqueous solutions in semiconductor crystal growth

• JOHN GOREE (Physics and Astronomy): Experimental and theoretical plasma physics, dusty plasmas, plasma processing discharges, and laser diagnostics of plasmas.

• VICKI GRASSIAN (Chemistry): Surface science studies as related to environmental, atmospheric and materials chemistry.

• ALLAN GUYMON (Chemical & Biochemical Engineering): Polymer Reaction Engineering; UV Curable Coatings, Polymer/Liquid Crystal Composites, Controlled Release, Templated and Ordered Polymerizations.

• AMANDA HAES (Chemistry): Microscopic and spectroscopic characterization of luminescent and plasmonic nanostructures as well as the integration of these materials with microfabricated devices.
• JULIE JESSOP (Chemical & Biochemical Engineering): Polymers, microlithography, spectroscopy.

• ALAN KAY (Biological Sciences): Imaging neuronal activity and the role of metals in the CNS.

• PAUL KLEIBER (Physics and Astronomy): Chemical physics, laser spectroscopy and photochemistry, structure and dynamics of molecular clusters.

• SARAH LARSEN (Chemistry): Magnetic resonance techniques; solid state NMR and EPR; in situ studies of catalytic systems, in particular environmental catalysts based on zeolites.

• LEN MACGILLIVRAY (Chemistry):  Molecular recognition; solid state organic and inorganic chemistry; crystal photochemistry; nanotechnology.

• JOHN PRINEAS (Physics & Astronomy):  Semiconductor nanostructures; optics and photonics; III-V MBE growth; ultrafast spectroscopy.

• CRAIG PRYOR (Physics & Astronomy): Theory of semiconductor nanostructures, and the application of nanostructures to optical and THz devies, spin based devices, and quantum information processing.

• DAVID RETHWISCH (Chemical Engineering): Polymer science, photoresponsive polymer membranes polymer diffusion, and NMR.
  
  
• JOHN SCHWEITZER (Physics and Astronomy): Theoretical and experimental solid-state physics, electronic and magnetic properties of ternary layered transition-metal sulfides.
  
  
• ALEC SCRANTON (Chemical & Biochemical Engineering): Photopolymerization, microlithography, reversible emulsifiers, polymerization kinetics.

• GARY SMALL (Chemistry): Clincial and environmental sensing based on infrared spectroscopy; biomedical applications of infrared imaging; signal processing, pattern recognition and multivariate calibration methods for analysis of chemical data.

• MARKUS WOHLGENANNT (Physics & Astronomy): Spectroscopy of organic, p conjugated semiconductors, organic electronic and spintronics devices, photonic crystals

• MARK YOUNG (Chemistry): Physical chemistry; laser photochemistry and spectroscopy; photoionization mass spectroscopy; kinetics and dynamics; chemistry in molecular clusters; ion-molecule chemistry; atmospheric chemistry.

Researchers :

• CHRIS CORETSOPOULOS - Director Microfabrication Facility.  Also working with non-invasive sensor projects.

• JONATHON OLESBERG- Research Scientist working on non-invasive blood glucose measurments

 

Staff :

• JILL HARTZ - Project Assistant for The Optical Science and Technology Center.