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Robert Peale

Institution
University of Central Florida

Projects

Remote photoluminescence characterization of subsurface contamination

Lead Institution
University of Central Florida
Principal Investigator
Robert Peale
Project type
Exploratory Research
Characterization of subsurface contamination on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is expensive because of sample collection for offsite analysis, which itself is unacceptably slow. Excavation…

Surface Plasmon Polariton Dependence on Metal Surface Morphology

Lead Institution
University of Central Florida
Principal Investigator
Robert Peale
Project type
Exploratory Research
Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPP) are inhomogeneous electromagnetic plane waves bound to the surface of a conductor. Knowledge of SPP characteristics is of timely and critical interest to the rapidly…

Surface Plasmon Polariton Dependence on Metal Surface Nano-Structure

Lead Institution
University of Central Florida
Principal Investigator
Robert Peale
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The project will focus initially on films of nano-structured gold metal particles. A motivation for this is that so-called nano-structured "gold black" is currently under investigation at…

Metal-blacks for plasmonic enhancement of solar-cell efficiency

Lead Institution
University of Central Florida
Principal Investigator
Robert Peale
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Metal-blacks are nano-structured porous metal films that have potential to enhance the efficiency of thin film solar cells via transverse scattering and concentration of the incident electromagnetic…