PHY 5846 -- Fall 1998

STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
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Jorge Bolivar:
Dielectric function measurementss

Trevor Brooks:
Reflective High Energy Electron Diffraction (RHEED), theory and operation

Pavel Ivanov:
Methods of surface analysis: SIMS

Damon Jackson:
Zone melting (centering on the optical float zone technique for crystal growth)

Robert Laird:
High purity germanium detectors and large gamma-ray arrays (e.g. PITT-FSU Array,
Gammasphere, GRETA)

Ann McCarty:
EMR

Jamey Pelt:
Argon ion lasers 

Edward Poindexter:
Raman spectroscopy

Jeremy Qualls:
Experimental methods to determine Fermi surfaces of materials
(including transport techniques such as magnetoresistance and AMRO)

Matt Ramsey:
ESCA (Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis).
(used to analyze the chemical composition of the
thin films grown using PLD)

Michael Torelli:
Crystal growth by inductive melting

Thomas Walter Trelenberg:
Surface characterization techniques: He atom scattering

Gregory Triplett:
Anion exchange

Steven Watts:
Hall effect measurement in metallic thin films, and the
pathological case of chromium dioxide.