ALPACA

Institutions
University of Minnesota
Earth & Space Science - University of Washington
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Ice

Hello, and thanks for viewing our poster from the 2024 Ice Core Open Science Meeting. (If you didn’t, thanks even more for taking the trouble to find this page.) Here you’ll find a few videos, extra images, and other good stuff that we couldn’t put on a poster.

ALPACA in AR

Missed the live show-and-tell? Want to see what ALPACA would look like in your lab? Now you can enjoy seeing ALPACA in 3D anytime! Fancy ski goggles are optional; an iPhone or iPad will also do, except you’ll have to keep on holding it.
An example of the images collected by ALPACA. Note that six different sample orientations are shown here, instead of four, due to the inclusion of alternate opposite-angles.
Another thin section of Allan Hills ice shows off its colors—from thin-film interference—and its intensity variations as it’s rotated with respect to the polarizers. This measurement also includes two extra orientations, although the last few frames begin glitching together.

Poster

Click here for your very own copy of the limited-edition poster. (Because unless someone else prints some more, there’s only one of them in existence!)

Other Research

Laser Damage

Optical Materials and Laser Damage

Infrared

Spectrally-Selective Uncooled Infrared Bolometers

Ice

Optical Characterization of Glacial Ice

Thermoluminescence

Thermoluminescent Extreme-Environment Temperature Sensors

Quantum Tuning

Tuning the Semiconductor Bandgap: Nanomechanical Control of Electron States

About (TL;DR)

We are the ECE research group of Professor Joey Talghader at the University of Minnesota.

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