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Henry Moseley

Welcome to the web page for the Bridges group at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

  Led by Professor Frank Bridges, physics students at the undergraduate and graduate level pursue research in condensed matter physics, probing the structure of various materials by the XAFS method of X-Ray spectroscopy, and exploring the properties of ice mixtures at low temperatures in order to understand better the formation of comets, the outer planets, and Saturn's rings. 

Simulations
Crystal Structures

The Group
Frank "Bud" Bridges
EXAFS
Current Students
Graduate Students Undergraduate Students
  • Cooper Downs
  • Geza Kurczveil
Alumni
  • Travis O'Brien , BS June 2005, "A Temperature Dependent EXAFS Investigation Of Local Distortion Within The 40% SR-Doped Bilayer Manganate"
  • Danae Havice-Hull
  • Arian Solberg, BS August 2004, "Study of the Local Structure of Skutterudite Materials"
  • Matt Warkentin, BS June 2004, "Exafs Study of ZnS:Cu and ZnS:Cu,Mn Electroluminescence Materials"
  • Daliang Cao, PhD September 2002, "Study of the Local Structure of Materials with Novel Properties"
  • Ryan Baumbach, BS August 2002, "Probing Phonon Scattering Sites in the Thermoelectric Clathrates Eu8Ga16Ge30 and Sr8Ga16Ge30"
  • Mark Anderson, BS December 2001, "Mn K-Edge XANES Study of the Colossal Magnetoresistive Material (La,Ca)MnO3"
  • Graham Brown, BS August 2001, "Non-Homogeneous Magnetic-Field-Induced Local Distortions Observed in La1-xCaxMnO3 using Modulated Exafs"
  • Zev Kvitky, BS January 1997, "Using Exafs Spectroscopy to Probe Interatomic Potentials in Ag, Au, Pb, and RbBr"
  • Corwin Booth, PhD December 1996, "Local Structure, Distortions and Disorder in Advanced Perovskite Materials"
  • Eric Bauer, BS March 1996, "Local Structure Study of two High Temperature Superconductors, HgBa2CuO4+d and YBa2(Cu 1-xCox)3O7-d, using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy"
  • Guoguang Li, PhD December 1994, "X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Local Structure Studies of Some High Tc Superconductors"

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Last Modified:  September 23, 2005