 Christopher Moore
recieved his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Virginia Commonwealth
University, where he studied the local electronic behavior of wide
band-gap semiconductor systems. He is an Assistant Professor of physics
at Longwood
University.
He lives in Farmville, VA with his wife (Kelly), his son (Balin),
his
daughter (Rory) and his two dogs (Ainsley and Vinnie). He runs the
relatively popular website ilovephysics.com,
which receives over 50,000 unique visitors each month. |
 Mario Jones
is
a physics major working in the lab during the summer and fall of 2009.
He is currently using the sputter deposition system to grow thin
Zn-metal films. He then heats the films in a high temperature oven,
resulting in thin ZnO films. We are characterizing the morphology,
structure, and optical properties of these films as a function of
thickness and temperature. He's shown in the image to the right working
with the sputter deposition chamber. |
 Scidney Morris
is a physics major spending his summer of 2009 working in the lab of
one of our collaborators, Dr. Alison Baski. He is using atomic force
microscopy to characterize the morphology of the ZnO films Mario is
growing. He is also working on a project where we are investigating
charge manipulation on GaN surfaces. He's shown in the image to the
left working with the AFM at Longwood. |
 Sean Kenny
graduated with a B.S. in physics in May 2009. Sean spent the summer of
2008
working in the research lab of Dr. Alison Baski at VCU on our joint
project to study the role of the surface on the electrical properties
of ZnO and GaN. He contributed to some of our work on ZnO, resulting in
co-authorship of an article published in the Journal
of Applied Physics.
He has also worked with our new technique called electronic pump-probe
AFM. Sean is now in graduate school for physics.
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| Daniel Songer
worked in the lab during the fall 2008
semester. Daniel assembled our sputter deposition system for a project
to characterize the growth of thin aluminum films using DC sputter
deposition and atomic force
microscopy. |
 Donald Moffett
was a physics major
in the dual-degree program at Longwood University. He received his B.S.
in physics May 2009.
Donald is seen here working on the mill during the construction of the
mechanical pieces necessary for the scanning tunneling microscope. He
achieved successful quantum tunneling with his microscope in April
2008. He is currently completing the requirements for his
engineering degree
at Old Dominion University. |
| Andy Wofford
graduated with a B.S. in Physics from Longwood
University during the summer of 2008. During the spring 2008 semester,
Andy began construction of our sputter deposition chamber.
Specifically, Andy put together the ultra-high-vacuumchamber and
designed and fabricated a support and cart system for the chamber. |
This
lab is supported
by the