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.