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Summer Internship 2003

pic: Summer Scholars 2003
Pictured: (back row, from left: Alexey, Stephanie, Emily, Jeremy, Adam, Rachel, Ariel; front row, from right: Sean, Nishi, Wen, Jessie, Jason, Becky, Sara; not pictured: James)


James Baker: (Hamilton College) Low-Temperature, Ultra-high Vacuum STM Setup. Advisor: Eric Hudson

Sean Colbert-Kelly: (U. of Maryland, Baltimore Cty.) Mathematical Description of Conducting Polymers. Advisor: Ian Hunter

Jason Cutrera: (Rutgers Univ.) Fiber Photodetectors Based on the Seebeck Effect in Chalcogenide Glasses. Advisor: Yoel Fink

Rebecca Gerard: (Carnegie-Mellon) Vessicle Generation Using Microfluidic Devices. Advisor: Alexander van Oudenaarden

Alexey Gorshkov: (Harvard) Quantum Information Processing: Engineering Quantum Control with Liquid-State NMR. Advisor: David Cory

Jeremy Graham: (Univ. of Oklahoma) Design and Modeling of High-Efficiency AlGaAs/Si/Ge Tandem Solar Cell. Advisor: Lionel Kimerling

Wenhao Liu: (Northwestern) Solid-State Solvation in Organic Thin Films. Advisor: Vladimir Bulovic

Adam Lorenzetti: (Tufts) Hydrogen-bonded Polyelectrolyte Multilayers for Antibacterial Coatings and Microfluidic Devices. Advisor: Michael Rubner

Stephanie Popp: (Univ. of Wyoming) AFM Deformation Study of a Near Single Crystal Triblock Copolymer. Advisor: Edwin Thomas

Nishi Rochelle: (Univ. of Louisiana) Controlling the Dielectric Constant Around Metal Nanoparticles. Advisor: Francesco Stellacci

Jessie Rosenberg: (Bryn Mawr) Fabricating Scattering Layers for Enhancing External Extraction Efficiency of OLEDs. Advisor: Vladimir Bulovic

Rachel Rye: (Univ. of Minnesota) Superconducing Sodium Cobalt Oxide. Advisor: Young Lee

Ariel Virshup: (Univ. of Pittsburgh) Adhesion of Silica Particles to a Sapphire Substrate during Electrophoretic Deposition due to a Local pH Change. Advisor: Michael Cima

Emily Walton: (Cornell) Searching for Order in the Rare Earth Oxides. Advisor: Bernard Wuensch

Sara Yazdi: (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst) Synthesis and Characterization of Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles and Applications in Microfluidic Systems. Advisor: Klavs Jensen

Students held a poster session, open to the entire university, at which they presented their summer's work. Papers describing several of the students� work will be submitted for journal publication over the next few months.