MSEN REU Research

Welcome to MSEN REU Research!

Dr. Salvador Barraza-Lopez
- Jaylan Dawson – Theoretical Study of 2D Materials Using Zone Folding Approximation
Dr. Jingyi Chen
- Nazar Orishchin – Controlling the Coating Thickness of Polydopamine on Nanoparticle Surface
Dr. Zhong Chen
- Anthony Di Mauro – Ohmic Contact for SiC CMOS Devices
- Camara Johnson – High Temperature Characterizations for GaN-based LED Devices
- Sarah York – Deposition of Ni-Fe Core-Shell Nanoparticles on Various Substrates for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Dr. Hugh Churchill
- Joseph Matson – 2D Phase Transition in Monolayer Germanium Selenide
- Salem Wright – Toward strain control of magnetism in few-layer CrI₃
- Katie Welch – Fabrication of Gate Defined Quantum Dots in Tellurium Nanowires
Dr. Robert Coridan
- Blake Trickey – Photopatterned Noble Metal Functional Surfaces Via Galvanic Replacement Reaction on Cu₂O Thin Films
- Elizabeth Johnson – Localized Electrodeposition of Gold Using Photodoped Cuprous Oxide
Dr. Martin Edwards
- Nicholas Jones – Building and Testing a Scanning Electrochemical Probe Microscope
Dr. Magda El-Shenawee
- Anthony Malloy – Characterization of Integrated Circuits Via Terahertz Radiation
- Roberto Quezada – THz-Jets High Resolution Transmission Imaging
Dr. Ingrid Fritsch
- Devin Benson – Applications and Materials for Magnetohydrodynamic Microfluidics
- Moriah York – Investigating the Electrochemical Behavior of Silver Nanoparticles at Short Time Scales
Dr. Lauren Greenlee
- Jahmelia Atkinson – Characterization of FeNi catalyst through TPR and Pulse Chemisorption
Dr. Joseph Herzog
- Grant Patrick Abbey – Structural Characteristics of Au-GaAs Nanostructures for Increased Plasmonic Enhancement
- Chandler Bernard – Photoluminescence and Photobleaching Studies of Colloidal CdSe Quantum Dots
- Chris Klenke – Dataset for SERS Plasmonic Array: Width, Spacing, and Thin Film Oxide thickness optimization
Dr. Jamie Hestekin
- Chase C. Smith – The Impact of Sodium Concentrations on Reverse Electrodialysis Designs
Dr. Adam Huang
- Alessandro Console – Mounting Protocol Development for Photovoltaic Cells for CubeSat on PCBs
Dr. David Huitink
- Jon Matutes – Studying Thermal Roughness in Induction Heated Iron Nanoparticle Laced Sorbitol Films
Dr. Morten Jensen
- Dymonn Johnson – Biomedical Engineering in Cardiovascular Disease: Heart Attack In Vitro
- Ryan Plemmons – Programmable Controls for a Cardiac Pulsatile Flow Pump
Dr. Alan Mantooth
- Maxwell L. Merget – Integrated Protection Circuit Testing for an NMOS Silicon Carbide Gate Driver
- Alaina Sharp – Data Acquisition System in Silicon Carbide
Dr. Timothy Muldoon
- Alyssa M. Anderson – Semi-Automated, Low Cost Image-Based Leukocyte Classification using a Raspberry Pi
Dr. Keith Roper
- Carter Bodinger – Characterizing the Optical Absorbance of PVP Thin Films Containing Gold Nanoparticles with Effective Medium Theory
- Tyler Howard – Thermoplasmonic Decay of Metal-Polymer Nanocomposites
Dr. Gregory Salamo
- Jess Ray – Potential Use of Lysenin Channels in Drug Release from Liposomes
- Justin Rudie – Determination of Energy Band-Offsets of Ga₂O₃ for Device Modeling
- Zach Kauffman – Atomic-Level Friction: Adhesion and Shear Force Analysis
Dr. Shannon Servoss
- Benjamin Howell – Peptoid Functionalized Nanoparticles for In-Line Contaminant Sensing
Dr. Uche Wejinya
- Brad Martsching – Functionalizing CVD Graphene using SDS to Enable Deposition of Nanoparticles
- Anthony Dorhauer – Electrical Transport Measurements of Graphene on CdPS3
Dr. Fisher Yu
- Eleni-James Becton – Optical Characterization of GeSn Thin Films
- Lucas Blake – Dynamic Strain and Composition Study of GeSn by 632 nm and 523 nm by Raman Spectroscopy
- Randy Quinde – Growth and Characterization of GeSn for Infrared Imaging
- Nicholas Saunders – Electrically Injected GeSn Lasers towards Room Temperature
Dr. Wenchao Zhou
- Kahlil Wade – An Exciting New 3D Material
- Ian C. Wahlquist –Low Cost, Multi-Material 3-D Inkjet Printer
- Samuel Gunter – Development of Bases and Floor Connection for Swarm 3D Printers