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Stephen Remillard's Research

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Current Research Topics:

Microwave Superconductivity

Photonic Crystals
Microwave Discharges in Gases
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All of my research is done in the Microwave Lab in Vander Werf Hall.

Job Openings

An immediate opportunity exists for a student to work on funded research in microwave superconducting devices. The suitable candidate is a physics or an engineering major with good current or past performance in General Physics II, and the intention to take PHYS/ENGS 342 in the future. This work will carry into Summer 2010 as a paid full-time position and you will need to be available for it. Other opportunities exist as well. Please inquire now. Students are involved in the microwave lab both part-time during the school year and full time for eleven weeks during the summer. Students who do research during the school year are in a much better position to receive a summer research assistantship. Research is a multi-year commitment. You will be asked to make a commitment as a condition for a research opportunity. Those who sign on to work in the microwave lab are extremely productive, as should be clear from the list below.

Student*	Year(s)	Research Title	Publications and External Presentations
Von Andrew Bunnell	2009-	Die attach process for high temperature superconducting chips
Candace Goodson	2009-	Doping dependent microwave nonlinearity of Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8	Candace Goodson, "Doping dependent microwave nonlinearity of Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8," West Michigan Undergraduate research Conference, Grand Rapids, Oct 31, 2009.
Cameron Recknagel	2009-	Spectral emissions from plasmas in the collisional/collisionless transition	Christopher Ploch and Cameron Recknagel,"Collisional-to-Collisionless Transition of a Microwave Induced Plasma," Regional Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Notre Dame, July 31, 2009.
Evan K. Pease	2009	Time reversal symmetry breaking in the nonlinear distortion in superconducting circuits	Evan Pease and Stephen Remillard, "Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in the Nonlinear Distortion from Superconducting Circuits," American Physical Society March Meeting, Portland, OR, March 15-19, 2010.
Christopher Ploch	2009-	Breakdown kinetics at the transition between collisional and collisionless plasma	(1) Christopher Ploch and Cameron Recknagel, "Collisional-to-Collisionless Transition of a Microwave Induced Plasma" West Michigan Undergraduate research Conference, Grand Rapids, Oct 31, 2009. (2) Christopher Ploch and Cameron Recknagel,"Collisional-to-Collisionless Transition of a Microwave Induced Plasma," Regional Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Notre Dame, July 31, 2009.
Kyle McLellan	2009-	Anomalous dispersion and impurity states in the forbidden band of periodic transmission lines	K.R. McLellan, C.I. Angert, and S.K. Remillard, "Experimental Observation and Control of Wave Dispersion", AAPT Advanced Labs Topical Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, July 23-25, 2009. (Presented by advisor)
Jay Gibbs	2008- 2009	Ionization products from microwave induced discharges	(1) S.K. Remillard, A. Hardaway, B. Mork, J. Gilliland, and J. Gibbs, "Using a re-entrant microwave resonator to measure and model the dielectric breakdown electric field of gases," Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, Vol. 15, pp. 175-195 (2009). (2) “Dielectric Breakdown in Air Components at Microwave Frequencies under Stratospheric Conditions”, West Michigan Undergraduate research Conference, Grand Rapids, Nov. 1, 2008
Jake Gilliland	2008- 2009	Physical conditions for microwave breakdown of gases	(1) S.K. Remillard, A. Hardaway, B. Mork, J. Gilliland, and J. Gibbs, "Using a re-entrant microwave resonator to measure and model the dielectric breakdown electric field of gases," Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, Vol. 15, pp. 175-195 (2009). (2) “Dielectric Breakdown in Air Components at Microwave Frequencies under Stratospheric Conditions”, West Michigan Undergraduate research Conference, Grand Rapids, Nov. 1, 2008 (3) “Dielectric Breakdown in Air Components at Microwave Frequencies under Stratospheric Conditions”, Michigan Space Grant Consortium Annual Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, Oct 18, 2008 (presented by advisor.)
Alejandro Hardaway	2007- 2009	Instrumentation for microwave induced breakdown in gases	(1) S.K. Remillard, A. Hardaway, B. Mork, J. Gilliland, and J. Gibbs, "Using a re-entrant microwave resonator to measure and model the dielectric breakdown electric field of gases," Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, Vol. 15, pp. 175-195 (2009). (2) “Dielectric Breakdown in Air Components at Microwave Frequencies under Stratospheric Conditions”, West Michigan Undergraduate research Conference, Grand Rapids, Nov. 1, 2008 (3) “Dielectric Breakdown in Air Components at Microwave Frequencies under Stratospheric Conditions”, Michigan Space Grant Consortium Annual Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, Oct 18, 2008
Brad Dober	2008	Nonlinear electrodynamics in high temperature superconducting thin films and devices	Bradley Dober and S.K. Remillard, “Harmonic and Intermodulation Distortion in a Superconducting Microwave Resonator”, American Physical Society March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 13-20, 2009
Isaac Angert	2008	Design, fabrication and microwave characterization of periodic transmission lines	(1) C. Isaac Angert and S.K. Remillard, "Dispersion in One-Dimensional Photonic Band Gap Periodic Transmission Lines," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 51, no. 4, 1010-1013 (2009) (2) K.R. McLellan, C.I. Angert, and S.K. Remillard, "Experimental Observation and Control of Wave Dispersion", AAPT Advanced Labs Topical Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, July 23-25, 2009. (Presented by advisor)
Ron Radcliff	2007	Measurement of resonant modes in a sapphire dielectric resonator

*Prospective students should know that by working in the Microwave Lab, they agree to be acknowledged on this web site by name and by picture.

Collaborators Wanted

Collaborators are sought for microwave superconductivity research. We have facilities and HTS materials to carry out such research including network and spectrum analyzers to 22 GHz, broadband power amplifiers, furnaces, cryogenic cooling, wire bonding, die attachment, and a large supply of HTS wafers and patterned resonator and filter samples.

We also have large inventory of 2" diameter TBCCO-2212 wafers and patterned HTS microwave resonators available for use in collaborative research. Proposals are welcome!