AVS presentation

Bobby Harl (Chemical Engineering PhD candidate and LumRad group member) will be presenting a poster and will be giving a talk at the 2012 AVS 59th International Symposium and Exhibition in Tampa Florida that is taking place this week. The title of his work is "Synthesis and characterization of yttrium aluminum garnet and lanthanum zirconate particles" (Poster: SS-TuP5; Talk: SS+OX-WeM4). Congratulations to Bobby and his co-authors (S. L Gollub, D.G. Walker and B.R. Rogers).

Presentation at RADECS

Ph.D. student Stephanie Weeden-Wright (of the Radiation Effects and Reliability group at Vanderbilt) has been collaborating on a project to show how the luminescence of a heterogeneous substance can be used to indicate radiation damage through photoluminescence.  The article "Radiation Effects on the Photoluminescence of Rare-earth Doped Pyrochlore Powders" is part of our LumRad project (funded by DTRA).  She recently returned from France where she presented her work at RADECS.  Here is a pre-print of the conference proceedings.

Congratulations to Stephanie.