Projects

Summer 1999 projects

Ongoing research at the observatory

Chaos in a transistor circuit

Optical cooling of Rubidium atoms

nanoindenters and AFM tips

Calibration of amorphous germanium films as thermistors

Astronomical observation using a CCD camera

Detecting superconducting transitions via magnetic screening

Investigation of optical diffraction and spatial filtering phenomena

High-powered nitrogen laser

Design and construction of a scanning tunneling microscope

Applications of Mathematica