NSF-REU Site for Research in Physics

9322073圣何塞州立大学物理系现有的REU网站将扩大，以包括圣荷西州立大学物理系其他活跃的研究领域。这个REU网站提议的一个新的和创新的组成部分将包括对产学研合作中的学生的支持。四个小组将组成，每个小组包括一名物理学教员，一名来自校园附近工业或政府实验室的物理学家，以及一名NSF-REU学生参与者。虽然这些项目中有11个仍然在光学领域，但剩下的两个项目是凝聚态和计算物理。所有这些项目都是对物理系正式认可的“激光和光学中的浓度”、“凝聚态中的浓度”和“计算物理中的浓度”的补充。这三个领域代表了围绕我们大学的高科技“硅谷”的主要科学焦点。这些正在进行的研究项目将为物理学本科生提供实验和理论研究经验。本科生将被安排在13个项目中学习，这些项目包括二氧化碳中稳定同位素的实验二极管激光光谱学，量子井半导体的电学和光学性质的理论研究，稀土光谱学，氧化物绝缘体中温度诱导的折射率变化，以及光学材料的中子激活分析。拟议中的项目的主要目标是让本科生，特别是少数族裔学生，参与研究，否则他们可能没有机会。***

9322073 Becker The existing REU Site in the Physics Department of San Jose State University will be expanded to include the other active research areas in the SJSU Physics Department. A proposed new and innovative component of this REU Site will include support for students in industry-university collaborations. Four teams will be formed, each consisting of a Physics faculty member, a physicist from an industrial or government laboratory located close to the campus, and an NSF-REU student participant. Although eleven of these projects are still in the area of optics, the remaining two are in condensed matter and computational physics. All these projects complement the Physics Department's officially recognized "Concentration in Lasers and Optics", "Concentration in Condensed Matter", and the "Concentration in Computational Physics". These three areas represent the major scientific focus in the high-tech "Silicon Valley" surrounding our University. These on-going research projects will provide both experimental and theoretical research experience for undergraduates in Physics. Undergraduate students will be placed in thirteen projects which range from experimental diode laser spectroscopy of stable isotopes in carbon dioxide to theoretical studies of electrical and optical properties of quantum well semiconductors, to rare- earth spectroscopy, to temperature-induced refractive index changes in oxide insulators, to neutron activation analysis of optical materials. The proposed program's major goal is to involve undergraduate students, especially minorities, in research who might not otherwise have the opportunity. ***