Recent REU Program Project Titles

Content Over 90% of our undergraduate scientists have presented papers at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, the CLEO Conference, and the APS Conference. We also encourage the students to present at their home institutions.

A selection of recent project titles completed by our REU students are listed below:

Ab Initio Study of a Hypothesized Trinitrotoluene Degradation Reaction Pathway
Calculation of Coupling Strength Between Whispering Gallery Modes in a Dual Microsphere System
Fabrication of Matching Optical Delay Lines with 820nm Single Mode Fiber
Optical Delay Using Resonant Optical Scanners
Theoretical Elastic Properties of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Optical Properties of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
The Formation of Three Dimensional Bud-Like Structures in Various Tri-Octyl Phosphine Oxide and 1,2-Dipalmitoyl–sn-Glycero-3-Phosphocholine Mixtures
Hydrogen Bonding Interactions Between Amino Acid Side Chains and Isotopic Labeling of Tyrosine for Infrared Spectroscopy
Photorefractive Evaluation of LiNbO3 Co-doped with Fe and Ni
Force Measurement with Optical Tweezers
Frequency Stabilizing using the DAVLL Technique
Experimental Investigation of Diffraction by Multiple Gratings for use in Quantum Chaos Experiments
Porphyrins and Photoconductivity: A Study of TPPS and the Effects of Light on its Photoconductivity.
The Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Undoped and Pr-doped Aluminosilicate glass.
Observing the Thermal Conductivity of Air with the Whispering-Gallery Modes of Microspheres.
Czochralski Growth and Characterization of Single-Crystal LiF.
Optical Properties of Bismuth Titanium Oxide Alloy Crystals.
Stability Analysis for a Laser with Injected Signal.
Design and Construction of a Rotating Sample Holder for an FTIR Spectrometer.
XPS and UPS Spectra of Cyanogen Chloride Deposited on Silicon (100).
Low Temperature Luminescence of Hydrothermally Grown and Czochralski Grown Bi₁₂GeO₂₀.
Double-Walled Chiral Carbon Nanatubes.
Photoluminescence and lifetime measurements of native defects in GaN.
Photorefractive effect in hydrothermal and top-seeded solution growth Bi₁₂TiO₂₀.
Use of thermoluminescence to determine energy trap depths.
High temperature acoustic loss in AT-cut quartz.
Stimulated emission and photoluminescence of GaAs/Al_xGa_l-xAs waveguide samples using pulsed and cw lasers.
Feed-back analysis of semiconductor laser with feedback loop.
Controlling chaotic dynamical systems.
Non-Linear Thermal Effects In Microsphere Whispering-Gallery Modes
Laser Induced Heating of Porcine Liver Tissue: A Heat Conduction Study
Properties Influencing a Water Splitting Photocatalytic Electron Generator Reaction

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