The National Science Foundation awards a grant to Dr. Mathias Schubert for support of the project "Effects of Polarization Fields and Surface Charge Layers on p-type Conductivity in In(Ga)N". The award is effective July 1, 2009, and expires June 30, 2012.

Ann Kjerstad and Daniel Schmidt received Best Graduate Research Presentation Awards at the annual Engineering E-Week in the College of Engineering at UNL. more ...

Olle Inganäs, Professor of Biomolecular and Organic Electronics and Director of the Center of Organic Electronics at the Deptartment of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University , Sweden visits the CMO network, and presents a lecture on Biological macromolecules and electronic polymers in nanostructured organics.

The Nebraska EPSCoR Office awards a University-Industry R&D Partnership Grant to the CMO network and the J.A.Woollam Co., Inc. of Lincoln Nebraska. The award will support research on new combinatorial approaches of optical and mechanical techniques for the investigation of growth of thin organic films in aqueous environments on nano-structured surfaces.

The CMO group receives an industry award from Proctor & Gamble, Cincinnati Ohio. The objective of this research is to evaluate the feasibility of using Spectroscopic Ellipsometry simultaneously with Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation as an analytical technique to measure the formation and properties of films formed on surfaces.

The Nebraska Research Initiative has funded 2 years of investigations proposed by interdepartmental collabroation team Jeffrey Shield, Zhaoyan Zhang, and Mathias Schubert to develop arrays of nanorods/pillars or nanowires by selective phase dissolution. The research will investigate electrical, magnetic and photonic properties for sensors or wave guides.

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The Complex Materials Optics Network (CMON) activities are currently funded by National Science Foundation within Materials Research Science and Engineering Center QSPIN, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering and Technology, John A. Woollam Foundation, J.A.Woollam Co.,Inc., EMCORE Corporation, INO Canada, and OSRAM Opto- semiconductors GmbH (Germany).

The Complex Materials Optics Network (CMON) comprises active research groups within the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The primary focus is optical materials preparation, characterization, and instrumentation development for solving contemporary experimental and theoretical problems in materials sciences and engineering bridging Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Engineering applications. The cluster currently is sectioned into Materials Preparation, Instrumentation, Optical Physics, Photonic Crystals, and Biomaterials groups. Instrumentation developments address Terahertz Ellipsometry, Generalized Ellipsometry, and field-dependent linear and nonlinear spatial- and time-resolving optical probes. Active research areas address magnetic, ferroelectric and multiferroic materials, and nanoscience, nanostructure preparation, charge transport in quantum regime systems, and biointerface properties, for example.