Acquisition of Instrumentation to Establish an Optical and Electrical Materials Characterization Facility for Undergraduate Research

有了这个主要研究仪器项目的奖励，安吉洛州立大学将能够获得所需的研究仪器，以建立一个先进的、现代化的设施，能够支持教师合作者的专业研究活动和本科生的基本研究培训。该设备将能够研究在温度、光激发以及磁场和电场变化下的材料性质。学生和教师将在标准和新型半导体材料、异质结构和新型超导材料的考试中进行高级电学和光学测量，如光致发光光谱、光致发光激发光谱、光吸收、拉曼散射光谱、光电导和霍尔效应测量。新仪器将为高级研究建立一个新的可能性领域，在进行相关和有趣的科学研究的同时，为本科生提供适当的具有挑战性的、令人兴奋的和教育性的研究培训。有了主要研究仪器计划的这个奖项，安吉洛州立大学将获得所需的研究仪器，以建立一个先进的、现代化的设施，能够支持教师合作者的专业研究活动和本科生的基本研究培训。该设施旨在研究材料性质，将为教师赞助的本科生研究项目提供机会，完成大学使命的组成部分，即将有意义的高级研究融入物理、应用物理和工程预科专业的教育经验。新的仪器将为高级研究建立一个新的可能性领域，在进行相关和有趣的科学研究的同时，为本科生提供适当的具有挑战性、激动人心的教育研究培训。

With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation Program, Angelo State University will be able to acquire research instruments required to establish an advanced, modern facility capable of supporting professional research activity for faculty collaborators and essential research training for undergraduate students. The facility will enable the study of material properties under the variations of temperature, optical excitation, and magnetic and electric fields. Students, along with faculty mentors, will perform advanced electrical and optical measurements, such as photoluminescence spectroscopy, photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy, optical absorption, Raman scattering spectroscopy, photoconductivity, and Hall-effect measurements in the examination of standard and novel semiconductor materials and heterostructures and novel superconductor materials. The new instrumentation will establish a new realm of possibilities for advanced research, offering undergraduate students appropriately challenging, exciting and educational research training while conducting relevant and interesting scientific investigations.With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation Program, Angelo State University will acquire research instruments required to establish an advanced, modern facility capable of supporting professional research activity for faculty collaborators and essential research training for undergraduate students. The facility, aimed at the study of material properties, will support opportunities for faculty-sponsored undergraduate research projects, fulfilling an integral part of the university mission of integrating meaningful advanced research into the educational experience of physics, applied physics, and pre-engineering majors. The new instrumentation will establish a new realm of possibilities for advanced research, offering undergraduate students appropriately challenging, exciting and educational research training while conducting relevant and interesting scientific investigations.