Barrett Potter Jr.
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor of Optical Sciences
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MSE 141
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
The University of Arizona
1235 E. North Campus Dr.
P.O. Box 210012
Tucson, AZ 85721-0012
Specific Research Interests:
- Synthesis and study of glass, ceramic and molecular hybrid materials for photonic and electronic applications.
- Optically driven molecular assembly strategies.
- Nanostructured photovoltaic energy conversion materials.
- Photoactivated phenomena in glass and hybrid thin films.
- Solution and physical vapor phase deposition of thin films and nanocomposites (oxides, inorganic-organic hybrids).
- Thermal stability of complex oxide optical materials.
- Environmental sensing.
- Optical behavior of rare-earth-doped matrices.
- Semiconductor quantum-dot ensembles.
- Optical spectroscopy.
Degree(s)
- Ph.D., University of Florida, 1991
- M.S., University of Florida, 1987
- B.S., New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, 1985