Joint Meeting:

 

1st Annual Review on MURI Project

Consortium for Laser Cooling in Solids (CLCS)

 

and

 

4th Annual Workshop on

Laser Cooling of Solids

Friday,  June 17 ,  2005    8:30 am - 5:00 pm

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

 

 

Location:  UNM Student Union Building (SUB), Lobo Room A&B

Map & Lodging Information

 

 Sponsored by UNM's Center for Advanced Studies (CAS)

 

  

 

2004 Presentations

 

Scheduled Speakers:                                                                

Time

Speaker (Authors)

Title

8:30-9:00

Kent Miller (AFOSR) & M. Sheik-Bahae (UNM)

Welcome &  Report on MURI Project (CLCS)

9:00-9:30

M. Sheik-Bahae (UNM)

Laser Cooling in Semiconductors

9:30-10:00

Rolf Binder (Univ. of Arizona)

Theory of semiconductor laser cooling at low temperatures

10:00-10:30

Kevin Malloy (UNM)

Heterostructure Growth for Laser Cooling at CHTM

10:30-10:45

Coffee Break

10:45-11:15

Jacob Khurgin (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

Engineering of Density of States for Laser Cooling

11:15-11:45

Richard Epstein (LANL/ UNM)

Report on Laser Cooling in Rare-Earth Doped Solids

11:45-12:15

Gary Mills (Ball Aerospace Inc.)

Modeling the Performance of Optical Refrigerators

12:15-2:00

 

Lunch (Buffet) and  Poster Session

 

2:00-2:30

Yong-Hang Zhang (Arizona State Univ.) Electroluminescence refrigeration in semiconductors

2:30-3:00

Lute Maleki (JPL)

Miniature, highly efficient optical refrigerator based on recirculation

3:00-3:30

David Emin (UNM)

Novel Materials for Cryogenic Thermoelectric Cooling  

3:30-4:00

Tzveta Apostolova (AFRL)

Theoretical study of laser cooling in semiconductors and semiconductor quantum wells

4:00-4:30

Zameer Hasan (Temple University)

Upconversion processes in Er-doped materials and their relevance to laser cooling

4:30-5:00

Group Discussion (Refreshments) 

NOTE TO PRESENTERS:

*Oral Presentations are not to exceed 25 minutes followed by 5 minutes discussion

*Presenters may e-mail their powerpoint or pdf presentations (Windows) to nima@unm.edu in advance or bring it along with themselves.

 

Poster Presentations (SUB Upper Lobby) 12:15-2:00 pm:

NOTE TO PRESENTERS:

Poster boards  (white sturdy foam boards on an A-frame easel) with dimensions of 40"(H)x 60"(W) will be available for each poster.

 

 

Presenter / Authors

Title

1

    Greg Rupper, Nai H. Kwong, Rolf Binder

    (U. of Arizona)

Microscopic Theory of Luminescence From Partially Ionized Electron-Hole Plasmas

2

    Babak Imangholi et al

    (UNM Group)

Measurement of External Quantum Efficiency Using Differential Luminescence Thermometry

3

    Denis Seletskiy et. al.  

    (UNM Group)

Cavity Enhanced Cooling in  Rare Earth Doped Systems

4

    Anca Mocofanescu,et. al.

    (UNM Group)

Comparative Study of  Optical Refrigeration in Tm-doped ZBLAN glass and BaYF crystal

5

    Mike Hasselbeck, et. al.

    (UNM Group)

Carrier Density Effects in Laser Cooling  in Semiconductors

6

    Venkat Vankipuram et. al

    (UNM Group)

Nanogap Fabrication for Laser Cooling

7

    Richard Epstein et. al.

    (LANL/UNM)

Integrated Nanogap Fabrication

8

    Scott Greenfield, et. al. 

    (LANL Group)

Diagnostics of Parasitic Heating in Dielectric Mirrors

9

    Markus Hehlen

    (LANL Group)

Ultrapure Glass Fabrication for Optical Refrigeration

10

    Jared Thiede, et. al.  

    (LANL Group)

Prototype of Rare-Earth Based Optical Refrigerators

11

    Noppadon Nuntawong et al

    (UNM-CHTM Group)

Heterostructure Growth for Laser Cooling at CHTM

12

    S.R. Johnson, D. Ding, J.-B. Wang, S.-Q. Yu, Y.-H. Zhang

    (ASU Group)

Basic thermodynamics of optical refrigeration

13

    D.Ding, S. R. Johnson, J.-B. Wang, S.-Q. Yu, Y.-H. Zhang

    (ASU Group)

Thermodynamics of optical refrigeration in semiconductors

14

    J.-B. Wang, D. Ding, S.-Q. Yu, S.R. Johnson, Y.-H. Zhang

    (ASU Group)

Cooling efficiency and cooling power of semiconductor electroluminescence refrigeration

15

    J.-B. Wang, D. Ding, S.-Q. Yu, S. R. Johnson, Y.-H. Zhang

    (ASU Group)

Impact of photon recycling on photoluminescence refrigeration in semiconductors

16

    S.-Q. Yu, D. Ding, J-B. Wang, S. R. Johnson, D. Vasileska, Y.-H. Zhang  (ASU Group)

Interplay of thermoelectric cooling and electric luminescence cooling in LEDs

                                                Contact: M. Sheik-Bahae   msb@unm.edu  (505-277-2080)

                                                                 Jennie Peer   jpeer@panda1.phys.unm.edu  (505-277-8602)