2004 NSEC REU SUMMER PROGRAM RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

Thursday, August 7, 2004
Davis Auditorium, Schapiro CEPSR
Columbia University

SESSION I
DEVICES AND STRUCTURES

9:30 am – Jessie Erwin, Amherst College
“Design and Fabrication of Silicon Carbide Cantilevers for Use in Biological Applications”
Professor James Hone, mentor

9:50 am – Christopher Bosco, Seton Hall University
“Electric Field Poling of Thin Films of Lithium Niobate”
Professor Richard Osgood Jr., mentor

10:10 am – Jean Kongpinda, Wabash College
“Small Diameter Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors"
Dr. Shalom Wind, mentor

10:30 am - Jennifer Woodby, Princeton University
“Electric Field Effect in Charge Transfer Organic Salts”
Professor Philip Kim, mentor

10:50 am - BREAK

SESSION II
ORGANIC MOLECULE LAYERS

11:00 am – Franklin Wong, Cornell University
“Optical Studies Investigating the Polymorphism of Nanoscale Pentacene Films”
Professor Aron Pinczuk, mentor

11:20 am – Andrew Caughey, Rice University
“Comparative Study of Crystalline Pentacene and Diazapentacene Intramolecular Vibrational Modes”
Dr. Mark Hybertsen, mentor

11:40 am – Michelle Pasamba, Barnard College
“Structure, Self-Assembly, and Domain Dynamics: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Bis-Oxazoles on Graphite”
Professor George Flynn, mentor

12:00 pm noon - FINAL PRESENTATIONS END AND LUNCH

REU Fellows
Christopher Bosco
Andrew Caughey
Jessie Erwin
Jean Kongpinda
Michelle Pasamba
Franklin Wong
Jennifer Woodby
REU Faculty Mentors
Richard Osgood Jr, Electrical Engineering/Applied Physics
Mark Hybertsen, Applied Physics & Applied Math
James Hone, Mechanical Engineering
Shalom Wind, Applied Physics & Applied Math
George Flynn, Chemistry/Chemical Engineering
Aron Pinczuk, Applied Physics & Applied Math, Physics
Philip Kim, Physics
REU Mentors
Michael Purewal
Ryan Roth
X.M. Henry Huang
Josh Small Gina Florio
Rui He
Alex Henderson