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Fabrication Of Multilayered Structure For Coherent Random Lasing, John Rauchenstein, Young L. Kim Oct 2013

Fabrication Of Multilayered Structure For Coherent Random Lasing, John Rauchenstein, Young L. Kim

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium

High powered lasers have many applications, including medical treatment and surgery. However, these lasers are extremely expensive and are therefore not widely available. The aim of this study was to demonstrate a method to create such a laser with significantly decreased overall cost and increased efficiency. In order to do this, we explored a phenomenon called random lasing which is a light amplification process. To start with, a low-cost pumping laser is directed at normal incidence toward a multi-layered sample with two alternating layers. At first pearl, a naturally found material that has many organic nano-scale layers (similar to the …


Size-Based Separation Of Bioparticles Using Planar Nanofluidic Devices, Jie Xuan Sep 2013

Size-Based Separation Of Bioparticles Using Planar Nanofluidic Devices, Jie Xuan

Theses and Dissertations

Nanofluidic devices are structures having at least one dimension in the submicron range, which is of the same order of magnitude as the sizes of biomolecules and bioparticles such as proteins and viruses. As a result, size-selective separations are important applications for nanofluidics. Well-defined micro or nano device structures fabricated via micromachining have greatly reduced sample consumption and enabled separations in a parallel fashion, promising significant speed and resolution advantages over conventional size separation techniques, such as gel electrophoresis and size exclusion chromatography. In collaboration with others, I have developed a size separation method using nanofluidic devices consisting of an …


Fabrication Of Polyaniline-Based Gas Sensors Using Piezoelectric Inkjet And Screen Printing For The Detection Of Hydrogen Sulfide, Karl H. Crowley, Aoife Morrin, Roderick L. Shepherd, Marc In Het Panhuis, Gordon G. Wallace, Malcolm R. Smyth, Anthony J. Killard Mar 2013

Fabrication Of Polyaniline-Based Gas Sensors Using Piezoelectric Inkjet And Screen Printing For The Detection Of Hydrogen Sulfide, Karl H. Crowley, Aoife Morrin, Roderick L. Shepherd, Marc In Het Panhuis, Gordon G. Wallace, Malcolm R. Smyth, Anthony J. Killard

Gordon Wallace

This work describes a fully printable polyaniline-copper (II) chloride sensor for the detection of hydrogen sulfide gas. The sensing device is composed of screen printed silver interdigitated electrode (IDE) on a flexible PET substrate with inkjet printed layers of polyaniline and copper (II) chloride. The sensor is employed as a chemiresistor with changes in measured current being correlated with concentration. On exposure to hydrogen sulfide, 2.5 ppmv (parts per million by volume) is clearly detectable with a linear relationship between measured current and concentration over the 10-100 ppmv region. The detection mechanism is discussed with respect to the hydrogen sulfide …


Fabrication Of Chemical Sensors Using Inkjet Printing And Application To Gas Detection, Karl H. Crowley, Aoife Morrin, Malcolm R. Smyth, Anthony J. Killard, Roderick Shepherd, Marc In Het Panhuis, Gordon G. Wallace Mar 2013

Fabrication Of Chemical Sensors Using Inkjet Printing And Application To Gas Detection, Karl H. Crowley, Aoife Morrin, Malcolm R. Smyth, Anthony J. Killard, Roderick Shepherd, Marc In Het Panhuis, Gordon G. Wallace

Gordon Wallace

This work describes the fabrication of gas sensors using inkjet printing. Sensors were constructed by building up a film of sensing material, such as polyaniline, from aqueous nanoparticulate dispersions. These films were printed over patterned silver interdigitated array designs for the purposes of conductimetric analysis. Unlike screen printing or lithography, inkjet printing does not require stencils or masks, therefore allowing rapid design and prototyping. For this study, polyaniline and modified polyaniline sensors were inkjet printed and assessed for the purposes of gas sensing applications, specifically hydrogen sulfide monitoring.


Fabrication Of Graphene Electrodes By Electrophoretic Deposition And Their Synergistic Effects With Pedot And Platinum, Widsanusan Chartarrayawadee, Simon E. Moulton, Chee O. Too, Gordon G. Wallace Jan 2013

Fabrication Of Graphene Electrodes By Electrophoretic Deposition And Their Synergistic Effects With Pedot And Platinum, Widsanusan Chartarrayawadee, Simon E. Moulton, Chee O. Too, Gordon G. Wallace

Australian Institute for Innovative Materials - Papers

This research presents a useful electrophoretic deposition (EPD) technique for electrode fabrication from an aqueous colloidal solution of graphene to produce graphene electrodes by the deposition of graphene on to indium-tin oxide (ITO) coated glass. Resultant graphene electrodes are composited with conducting polymer (PEDOT), and platinum nanoparticles, to investigate their synergistic effects. Firstly, PEDOT is composited with graphene by electropolymerization on to the graphene layer. The graphene/PEDOT electrodes demonstrate an improvement in electrochemical response in tetrabutylammonium perchlorate/ acetonitrile solution. Secondly, graphene electrodes are composited with platinum by EPD of platinum nanoparticles on to the graphene layer. The resultant graphene/platinum electrodes …


Superconducting Rf-Dipole Deflecting And Crabbing Cavities, Subashini De Silva, Jean R. Delayen Jan 2013

Superconducting Rf-Dipole Deflecting And Crabbing Cavities, Subashini De Silva, Jean R. Delayen

Physics Faculty Publications

Recent interests in compact deflecting and crabbing structures for future accelerators and colliders have initiated the development of novel rf structures. The superconducting rf-dipole cavity is one of the first compact designs with attractive properties such as high gradients, high shunt impedance, the absence of lower order modes, and widely separated higher order modes. Two rf-dipole cavities at 400 MHz and 499 MHz have been designed, fabricated and tested as proof-of-principle designs of compact deflecting and crabbing cavities for the LHC high luminosity upgrade and Jefferson Lab 12 GeV upgrade. The first rf tests have been performed on the rf-dipole …