CAREER: Laser Spectroscopy for Real World Applications

该学院早期职业发展(CALEAR)项目由分析和表面化学计划支持，专注于开发基于激光的单波长检测光谱，作为一种高灵敏度和选择性的检测方案。陈教授和他在斯佩尔曼学院的本科生将在实验上确定该检测方案应用于拉曼光谱和共振拉曼光谱的能力。其目的是表征由荧光和吸收效应引起的不需要的光谱干扰可以从被测量的分析信号中消除的程度。这个职业研究项目将通过动手实验让非裔美国女性学生接触到新开发的激光实验室体验。作为美国历史上两所黑人女性学院和大学之一，斯派曼学院的少数族裔学生群体将有机会使用这个新的激光实验室，并受到激励，考虑将他们在科学和工程领域的机会作为职业选择。基于激光的方法在广泛的科学领域用于定量分析的开发和表征是这一职业研究项目的重点。单波长探测光谱学将由斯派曼学院的陈教授和他的学生在已经开发的新的激光实验室中进行研究。在这所女性历史悠久的黑人学院和大学的本科生将获得在最先进的分析测量中操作和使用激光的实践经验。一门集激光、光学和光谱学于一体的创新课程正通过化学、物理和数学系的合作，使用这个实验室设备来教授。

This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project, supported in the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program, focusses on the development of laser based single wavelength detection spectroscopy as a highly sensitive and selective detection scheme. Professor Chen and his undergraduate students at Spellman College will experimentally determine the capabilities of this detection scheme as applied to Raman and resonance Raman spectroscopy. The objective is to characterize the extent to which unwanted spectral interferences caused by fluorescence and absorption effects can be eliminated from the analytical signals being measured. This CAREER research project will expose African American women students to a newly developed laser laboratory experience through hands-on experiments. As one of the nation's two Historically Black Colleges and Universities for women, this underrepresented minority student population at Spellman College will have the opportunity to use this new laser laboratory and be stimulated to consider the opportunities for them in science and engineering as career options. The development and characterization of laser based methods for quantitative analysis in a broad range of scientific areas is the focus of this CAREER research project. Single wavelength detection spectroscopy will be studied by Professor Chen and his students at Spellman College in the new laser based laboratory that has already been developed. Undergraduate students in this women's Historically Black College and University institution will gain hands-on experience in the operation and use of lasers in state-of-the-art analytical measurements. An innovative course integrating lasers, optics, and spectroscopy is being taught using this laboratory facility through a cooperative effort by chemistry, physics, and mathematics faculty.