Last semester I had a student working with me on building a sputter deposition chamber. We spent a lot of time waiting for parts, but we did manage to get some very necessary pieces together. Andy and I designed and fabricated a collar system for supporting the weight of the rather large 6-way cross we [...]
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Tags: aluminum oxide, high vacuum, semiconductor, sputter deposition
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It appears that the press release issued by Longwood concerning the grant I was recently awarded was picked up by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Farmville A Longwood University physics professor and two colleagues from Virginia Commonwealth University recently received a National Science Foundation grant for a research project that could help improve technology for high-density optical discs [...]
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Tags: grant proposal, grants, NSF, semiconductor, zinc oxide
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