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2005 Participant: Danelle Wright


Project Title: Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
Investigation of Single-and Two-Phase Nanoparticles
in the GaAs-GaSb Pseudo-Binary System

Faculty Advisor: Bill Jesser

 


Danelle using a 6700 field-emission SEM to view (and photograph)
GaAs on a copper grid. In the monitor is a close-up of the copper grid itself.


Project Summary:

In order to create a phase diagram of gallium-arsenide (GaAs) and gallium-timinide (GaSb), the scanning electron microscope will be used in the analysis of the nanoparticles as lens position, power of laser beam, the distribution of power to the samples, and the number of laser pulses is varied. SEM photography will be used to further study samples grown by ablation, and the dispersion of density of the material will be analyzed through a particle count created by the program Image. The attempted alloy of gallium-arsenide and gallium teminide would be a highly efficient semiconductor with potential applications in the creation of lasers, EM Radiation detectors, and fiber optics.



SEM close-up of an "ice cream cone" nanoparticle of GaAs,
recently discovered for the first time in the Jesser lab
by PhD candidate and mentor to Danelle, Tom Schamp.
 
 
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