Laboratory of Materials Physics

Franklin & Marshall College

We are currently pursuing five main lines of experiments. Some details on these four projects are given below.

Text Box: We use cerium ion centers to study the interactions of lanthanide impurities with host bands in layered dicyanide crystals (this is a joint project with Prof. Larochelle at F&M). Text Box: We probe the macroscopic and local structural changes affecting ferroelectric films under laser annealing, Text Box: We make organic-inorganic (silica) hybrid materials for coating studies on microresonantors.

We observe the interactions between optical impurities in yttrium oxide nanophosphors with the gases surrounding them

Cerium Probes of Layered Crystals

Optically Active Coatings

Laser Annealing of Ferroelectric Films

Lanthanide to Surface Adherent Coupling

Project List
Text Box: We probe the macroscopic and local structural changes during the ion exchange process in bioactive glasses.

Optical Probes of Bioactive Glasses