Group
Members
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Kim -Ngan Hua is a Materials Science (MATS) PhD graduate student. Her research project investigates exciton coherence in small molecule semiconductors. She has also served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for undergraduate Physics labs. Kim has received a BS in Chemistry from the San Jose Institute of Technology and an MS in Chemistry from the UMass Amherst, prior to joining our group |
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Katrina (Katy) Czar is a Physics major at the Univ. of Vermont. Now in her senior year, Katy is working on imaging grain boundaries in organic thin films for her Honors Thesis. Katy was the recipient of a Summer Research award from the Honors College in the Summer following her junior year. |
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Libin Liang is a Materials Science PhD student. His project investigates the effect of alloy disorder on excitonic states in crystalline small molecule semiconductors. He has also served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for undergraduate Physics labs. Libin joined us after graduating from the Materials Science and Engineering program at South China Institute of Technology. |
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Prof. Madalina Furis graduated with a PhD in Physics from Univ. at Buffalo, SUNY in 2004. She spent the following two and a half years postdoc-ing at the Los Alamos National Laboratory site of the National Magnetic Field Lab (NHMFL-LANL) before joining the UVM Physics Department in 2006. She is the director of the Materials Science Program since 2013. Throughout her career she studies optical and magneto-optical properties of semiconductors and nanostructures.
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Past Members of Our Team
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Matt DiMario, Physics Graduate B.S., 2014, now a graduate student at the University of New Mexico. |
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Cody Lamarche, Physics graduate 2013, working on the 5 tesla MCD experiment of magnetic organic semiconductors. Cody is now a graduate student at Cornell University. |
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Chris Libby, Physics graduate 2012, working on a flash simulation of spin transport in GaAs spin transistors |
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Zhenwen Pan, Material
Science PhD, 2012, thesis entitled Exciton States Symmetries and Magnetic Exchange in Crystalline Organic Thin Films." Zhenwen is now with CGG in Texas |
 | Lane Manning, Materials Science PhD 2016, worked on excitons in organic alloys Prior to beginning his doctorate in 2009, Lane graduated from the University of Vermont with a double major in Physics and Mathematics. He is originally from Buffalo, NY, where he was born and raised. He has joined AVR Optics in Rochester, NY shortly after graduation |
 | Naveen Rawat, Materials Science PhD 2015 aligning the photoluminescence experiment in Cell 5 (Helix Magnet) at the National High Magnetic Field Lab. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Material Sciences, Naveen worked on magnetism in oriented organic molecular structures. He now teaches physics in India. |
 | Victoria Ainsworth, Physics Graduate 2016, has worked on imaging grain boundaries in organic semiconductors. She is now a graduate student in Medical Physics at UMass Lowell. |
Former REU Students
 | Nick Gould, Engineering Major (Cornell University, Summer 2013) |
 | Alice Perrin, Physics Major (College of William and Mary Summer 2014) Now a grad student at Carnegie Mellon |
| Lauren Paladino &Cody Lamarche, Summer 2012 | |
| Roy Anderson Summer 2011 (UVM Physics) |