The Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies (COMSET) announces an internal request for proposals to purchase equipment. For the present fiscal year, COMSET has budgeted approximately $300,000 for this infrastructural investment program. Proposals will be considered from ANY and ALL Clemson faculty and staff with the intent to assist Clemson in attaining its Top-20 goal by supporting COMSET in its vision to be the internationally recognized academic leader in optical materials.
S. Foulger, A. Lattam, P. Jiang, J. Ballato, D. Dausch, S. Grego, and B. Stoner, "Integration of Photonic Bandgap Composites with Piezoelectric Actuators for Rejection Wavelength Tuning," Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 4809, "Nanoscale Optics and Applications," in press (2002).
J. Ballato, J. DiMaio, E. Gulliver, D. Carroll, D-G. Han, and R. Riman, "A Simple A Priori Determination of Optical Transmission Gaps in Photonic Crystals of Weak Symmetry," Optical Materials 20, 51 - 55 2002.
S. Foulger, A. Lattam, P. Jiang, D. Smith, and J. Ballato, "Optical and Mechanical Properties of Poly(ethylene glycol) Methacrylate Hydrogel Encapsulated Crystalline Colloidal Arrays," Langmuir 17, 6023-6026 (2001).
S. Foulger, S. Kotha, B. Sweryda-Krawiec, T. Baughman, P. Jiang, J. Ballato, and D. Smith, "Robust Polymer Colloidal Crystal Photonic Bandgap Structures," Optics Letters 25, 1300-1303 (2000).
. Giesber, J. Ballato, M. Dejneka, G. Chumanov, and J. Kolis, "Spectroscopic Properties of Er3+ and Eu3+ Doped Acentric LaBO3 and GdBO3," submitted to Journal of Applied Physics (June 2002).
J. Ballato, M. Dejneka, R. Esmacher, and R. Schwartz, "Phonon Sideband Spectroscopy and 1550 nm Luminescence from Eu3+ and Er3+ doped Ferroelectric PLZT for Active Electro-Optic Applications," Journal of Luminescence 86, 101-105 (2000).