The CMO network receives a U.S. Army Research Office STTR phase II contract together with J.A.Woollam Co. for design and application research of a new prototype commercial Terahertz Ellipsometer system.

The National Science Foundation awards a grant to Dr. Mathias Schubert and 8 UNL co-PIs for support of the project "MRI: Development of an Optical Hall Effect Instrumentation for non-contact Nanostructure Electrical Characterization". The award is effective Oct 1, 2009, and expires Sept 30, 2011.

We welcome our new PhD student Alexander Boosalis from UNL Electrical Engineering. Alexander is collaborating with Res. Prof. Dr. Tino Hofmann on materials research using THz ellipsometry.

We welcome our new PhD student Brian Keith Rodenhausen from UNL Chemical Engineering. Brian will be investigating in-situ protein and biomolecular materials interaction with spatially-coherent nanostructured surfaces using ellipsometry and QCM-D techniques.

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.

We welcome our summer intern researcher Mike Guericke from Doan College.

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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.