NEMRG

○ Research Projects

Epitaxial growth and plasmonics

○ Main Research Tools

(1) Low energy electron diffraction (LEED) chamber with capabilities for small-scale epitaxial growth under ultra high vacuum (UHV) conditions

(2) Home-built molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system (under construction)

○ Publications

Fanting Kong, Liping Liu, Charlotte Sanders, Y. C. Chen, and Kotik K. Lee, "Phase locking of nanosecond pulses in a passively Q-switched two-element fiber laser array," Applied Physics Letters, 90, 151110 (2007).

Fanting Kong, Liping Liu, Charlotte Sanders, Y. C. Chen, and Kotik K. Lee, "Phase locking of nanosecond pulses of stimulated Brillouin scattering in a two element fiber laser array," Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, May 2007, Proceedings.

Thomas C. Henderson, Mohamed Dekhil, Scott Morris, and Charlotte Sanders, "Geometric Constraints in Shape Representation," Workshop on Geometric Constraint Solving and Applications, Ilmenau, Germany, September 1997. Proceedings, 120-131.

○ Interests

Experimental condensed matter: low-dimensional systems, optical and electronic properties of semiconductors, etc.

○ Description of research projects:

My main project at present is the establishment of a new home-built molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system for growing single-crystal metal films on semiconductors. This will further our study of novel types of thin film growth, which is an effort already well established in our scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) research. It will also allow us to push forward our group's new efforts in plasmonic studies on single crystal structures.