Spring 2010 Physics Seminar Schedule of Speakers and Topics
Wednesdays, 4-5 pm in McMaster Hall 4009
Date Speaker Title or Topic
01/13/2010 Mark Simon Long-Term Data Retention in Phase-Change Memory
01/20/2010 Yevgen Kryukov Invisibility: Sci-Fi or Reality?
01/27/2010 Amruta Nawarange Optical Emission Spectroscopy on CuTe
02/03/2010 Paul Roland Si Nanowire-based MOSFET Device
02/10/2010 Zhiquan Huang SE of a-Si:H Multi-junction Solar Cells
02/17/2010 Constantinos Makrides The Race to Build the First Quantum Computer: Theoretical and Experimental Implementations of a Quantum Gate
02/24/2010 Jason Roehl Ab-initio Investigation of Diffusion Barriers on the GaAs(001)-c(4x4) Surface Reconstruction
03/03/2010 Ming Li Quantum Information and Entanglement
03/17/2010 Hasitha Mahabaduge Influence of the High Resistance Transparent (HRT) Layer on the Performance of CdTe Solar Cells
03/24/2010 Aryal Puruswottam Infrared Analysis of Hydrogenated Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Silicon Thin Films
03/24/2010 Yao Xie The X-Ray Free-Electron Laser
03/31/2010 Prakash Koirala Optical Properties of a CdTe Photovoltaic Device Studied by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry
03/31/2010 Neale Ole Haugen Heteroepitaxial Chemical Vapor Deposition Diamond Growth
04/07/2010 Khagendra Bhandari Surface Chemistry of Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals
04/07/2010 Zhaoning Song Optical Properties of GaN LEDs
04/14/2010 Anuja Parikh Optical Modelling of Thin Film Solar Cells
04/14/2010 Meghan Mapes Through-the-Glass Spectroscopic Ellipsometry
04/21/2010 Sara Rother Supergiant Stars
04/21/2010 Puja Pradhan Raman Spectroscopy
04/28/2010 Craig Koontz Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
04/28/2010 Xinxuan Tan Corrosion Resistance of Magnesium-Manganese Alloy