Physics Research

CEMN supports the micro- and nanotechnology research activities and collaborations of more than 200 faculty, post-doc, and graduate and undergraduate student researchers at Oregon's universities, including nanomaterials synthesis, nanodevice fabrication and nanometrology development.

Members of the Nadeau lab come from physics, chemistry, and biology. Current projects are both theoretical and experimental and include ELVIS microscope for the International Space Station, plumes of Enceladus, encapsulation and microbial motility.

The group maintains an open-access crystallography website, providing interactive 3D visualizations of crystal structures and morphologies in order to help educate future materials scientists and engineers worldwide.

Focusing on the development and implementation of nano-scale imaging techniques, our lab studies the optical interaction of light and nanometric objects to generate enhanced fields for fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy / microscopy and determine new applications for Focused Ion/Electron Beam systems.

We are developing and assessing innovative curriculum for introductory physics for the life science (IPLS) with a particular focus on pre-health students.

Our research focuses on understanding the drivers of climate change. Current areas of interest include isotopic atmospheric methane, emissions from rice agriculture, the role of trees in the methane budget, methyl halide emissions from estuaries, carbon flux from cities and method development.