facetimetag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2009:/sciref/facetime//96782009-02-16T18:40:06ZMovable Type 4.25Kortshagen, Uwetag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2009:/sciref/facetime//9678.1669012009-02-16T18:18:09Z2009-02-16T18:40:06Z "Developing clean and environmentally friendly energy is one of the biggest challenges facing science and technology this century." Visit My Website Professor Kortshagen was named head of the Mechanical Engineering Department in the summer of 2008. SciFinder Scholar Chemical... U of M Lib Science and Engineering Lib
"Developing clean and environmentally friendly energy is one of the biggest challenges facing science and technology this century."
Main focus: Plasma Processes for Advanced Technological Applications.
What I do: I look for ways to use ionized gases to create new materials to produce lower cost solar cells for alternative energy applications.
The low cost solar cells would eventually be used in solar panels that could help power buildings cleanly.
Solar power must be reduced to a tenth of its current cost to be a viable energy alternative.
Jon Jeffryes: Mechanical Engineering Librarian
Wayne L. Gladfelter: Chemistry Dept.,
IGERT Nanoparticle
And Science Engineering
Steven Girshick: Mechanical Engineering,
High Temperature and Plasma Lab
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Doping efficiency, dopant location, and oxidation of Si nanocrystals,� X. D. Pi and R. Gresback, R. W. Liptak ,S. A. Campbell, U. Kortshagen,
Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 123102 (2008).
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Size-dependent intrinsic radiative decay rates of silicon nanocrystals at large confinement energies,� Milan Sykora, Lorenzo Mangolini, Richard D. Schaller, Uwe Kortshagen, David Jurbergs, and Victor I. Klimov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 067401 (2008).
“Plasma-Assisted Synthesis of Silicon Nanocrystal Inks ,� Lorenzo Mangolini and Uwe Kortshagen, Advanced Materials 19, 2513 (2007).
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Fox, David L.tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2009:/sciref/facetime//9678.1622882009-01-01T15:17:36Z2009-02-16T18:17:50Z "Getting data is the easy part – interpreting it is what gets interesting" Visit My Website Professor Fox helped to start a new open access journal in 1997 that is accessible to everyone online called Palaeontologia Electronica Earth History... U of M Lib Science and Engineering Lib
"Getting data is the easy part – interpreting it is what gets interesting"
What I do: I investigate the chemical isotopes in ancient animal teeth and bones, namely Carbon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen.
These isotopes give off “paleoclimate signals� that tells us what the environment was like 40 million years ago. By tracking those
signals through time, patterns emerge in the ecosystem of herbivore animals due to a changing climate.
My second focus is exploring how species evolved by creating computer simulated evolutionary histories. The anatomical “gaps� that
exist in the evolution of different species can be filled with stratigraphic data. In other words, geologic time-keeping is applied.
On-going simulation studies help visualize the evolutionary tree of life.
The third focus of my research is on the ecological biogeography of animals. The body size and dietary categories of modern mammals
shows striking correlations with climatic variables. Continuing work will include comparisons between continents with quite different
faunal and climatic histories over the last several million years.
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