CAREER: Laser Spectroscopy for Real World Applications

这个由分析和表面化学项目支持的教师早期职业发展（Career）项目，侧重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。陈教授和他在斯派曼学院的本科生将通过实验确定该检测方案应用于拉曼和共振拉曼光谱的能力。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，向非洲裔美国女学生展示新开发的激光实验室体验。作为美国历史上两所面向女性的黑人学院和大学之一，斯派曼学院的少数族裔学生将有机会使用这个新的激光实验室，并受到激励，将科学和工程领域的机会作为职业选择。在广泛的科学领域中发展和表征基于激光的定量分析方法是这个CAREER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激光实验室中进行研究。这所历史悠久的黑人女子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。通过化学、物理和数学学院的合作，利用该实验室设施教授一门整合激光、光学和光谱学的创新课程。

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.