New NCC article

Terry Musho (now an Assistant Professor at West Virginia University) got a new article published in Micro-Nanoscale Thermophysical Engineering.  The article is titled "Quantum Simulation of Nanocrystalline Composite Thermoelectric Properties" and shows how nanocrystalline composites are advantageous to thermoelectric materials compared to superlattice materials structures.  The paper considers electronic effects using a Green's function quantum solution. Congratulations to Terry.

Zack Defends

Zack Coppens successfully defended his Master's thesis on November 29, 2012. He has been on loan from Sandia National Lab to conduct thermal studies on metamaterials. The title of his thesis is ``Probing and Controlling Photothermal Heat Generation in Plasmonic Nanostructures.'' His contribution included a demonstration of how a nanoantenna can be optimized for localized heat generation. He also pioneered a novel temperature measurement technique using thin layers (100 nm) thermographic phosphors (ruby to be exact). A link to his work will be provided as soon as we get the URL from the grad school. We wish him the best as he transitions back to Albuquerque.

Zack after his defense