Dr. ‘Sam’ Sumant Sarker, who successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation this past October, has been awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Student in the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science. Sam’s Ph.D. research focused on the fabrication and analysis of nanohelical structures that exhibit chiral optical properties under the guidance of Prof. John Gibbs. His work was highlighted in The NAU Review earlier this year. Sam is the first student to graduate from NAU’s… Read more
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APMS Ph.D. student receives $12,000 to pursue research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
APMS Ph.D. student Maria Bolar is one of the first two NAU students to receive the prestigious Science Graduate Student Research Award from the Dept. of Energy. Maria and her fellow award recipient, Megan Foley from Biological Sciences, are two of the 65 students nationwide that received the award. NAU is one of 47 nationwide universities and the only Arizona university to receive the award. The award will enable her to spend several months performing neutron scattering experiments at… Read more
Professor Gerrick Lindberg awarded a $666,000 NASA grant to study the hydrocarbon oceans on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.
Through a $666,000 grant, NASA is supporting a collaborative research project between Northern Arizona University and Lowell Observatory, “Investigating the Stability of Trace Species in Titan’s Lakes and Seas.” NAU will receive $349,000 over three years to conduct experiments that examine the behavior of various chemical interactions. Co-principal investigator on the project, Gerrick Lindberg, is an associate professor in NAU’s Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science. He is leading the effort to understand Titan’s lakes from the molecular… Read more
Professor Bertrand Cambou publishes paper, “Cryptography with Analog Scheme Using Memristors”
Professor Cambou recently published the paper, “Cryptography with Analog Scheme Using Memristors” in the ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems.
Abstract: Networks of low-power Internet of Things do not have always access to enough computing power to support mainstream cryptographic schemes; such schemes also consume computing power that can be exposed to side channel attacks. This article describes a method, that we call “cryptography with analog scheme using memristors,” leveraging the physical properties of… Read more
Professor Miguel José Yacamán publishes book chapter in Nanoalloys From Fundamentals to Emergent Applications
Professor Miguel José Yacamán is the co-author of the chapter, “Transmission Electron Microscopy of Multimetallic Nanoparticles,” in the recently published Nanoalloys From Fundamentals to Emergent Applications. The chapter covers the following topics:
- TEM of Nanostructures: Imaging, Diffraction, and Spectrometry
- Electron Holography
- Bimetallic Nanoparticles
- Trimetallic Nanoparticles
- In Situ Study of Bimetallic Nanoparticles
NAU ¡MIRA!/APMS scientists partner with ASU for NSF-funded Nanotechnology Collaborative Infrastructure Southwest (NCI-SW)
Funded through a National Science Foundation grant of more than $4 million, ¡MIRA!/APMS are teaming up with Arizona State University and other regional partners in a five-year effort to expand the reach of the Nanotechnology Collaborative Infrastructure Southwest (NCI-SW) to the communities of northern Arizona and the Four Corners region. NCI-SW is the southwest regional node of the Read more