Advanced Experimental Physics Projects

Lucas Jorgensen and Adam Culberson with their wireless power transmission system.

2011-12

• John Klingner, Sean McKenna, and Suzannah Wood created a quantum logic gate using C-13 chloroform and an NMR machine.
• Mandip Sibakoti and Joey Hambleton developed a wireless power transmission system capable of transmitting several watts of electrical power.
• Will Schumacher and Kristofer Andresen built a metamaterial with a negative index of refraction.
• Mark Novak built an exoskeleton arm controlled by an EMG signal.

2010-11

• Nathan Jepsen, Tom Speulda, and Alex Yeagle made a high resolution scanning tunneling microscope.
• Talon Holmes and Aaron Zaubi used holographic interferometry to study vibrational patterns of musical instruments.

2009-10

• Valerie Collins, Fadzai Fungura, and Zach Zasada studied solar cells based on quantum dots.  Link to a video that shows Valerie Collins in the process of creating a series of quantum dots each with a slightly different size.
• Raghav Kunnawalkam built his own detectors to study cosmic ray muons.

2007-08

• Julia Kamenetzky studied extrasolar planets by observing planet transits.
• Adam Culberson and Lucas Jorgensen built and studied a system to wirelessly transfer electric power using magnetic resonance.
• Andrew Reindel studied copper fractals by electrochemically depositing copper on a copper wire.

2005-06

• Logan Squiers and Zoe Downing built a ruby laser for the purpose of making pulsed laser holograms.
• Sarah Collins and Esther Chapman built and studied solar cells using raspberry juice.
• Tim Harrington-Taber built a device for studying sonoluminescence which uses ultrasound to produce light.
• Julie Jozwiak and Ian Dees constructed a Foucault pendulum which demonstrates that the Earth is rotating.
• Chad Compton built a TEA laser which produced extremely short (ns) pulses of ultraviolet light using air at atmospheric pressure as the lasing medium.