Dr. Raymond Cao Professor and Director of the Nuclear Engineering Program Ohio State University Abstract Silicon carbide (SiC) is a wide-bandgap semiconductor that has been extensively developed for high-power electronic devices. Continued advances in crystal growth have significantly improved SiC material quality, which, in turn, enables its emerging use as a radiation detector. The wide…

Steven ShannonProfessor and Interim Department HeadNC State Nuclear Engineering Abstract You would be amazed at how reliant our high technology economy relies on a process that at first glance sounds very straight forward… drilling holes in glass.  Of course, this description simplifies things.  These holes are as small as several hundred atoms in diameter and are…

Abstract John T. McCarter Jr. Graduate Fellowship was established this academic year to support outstanding Ph.D. students in Nuclear Engineering through a stipend supplement provided by the fellowship funds. The graduate program requested the faculty to nominate up to 1 eligible student from their group, and the final recipients were selected from those nominations. This special…