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Environmental Health & Safety

  • REQUIRED: Laser Safety Orienatation and Comprehensive Safety Training,
    Lab room specific training (e.g. any Class IV laser user requires specific in-person training and/or testing as well).
  • Chemical Inventories: update here , safety officer forms & info
  • Oregon State Laser Radiation EH&S
  • Oregon State EH&S
  • EH&S Safety Forms , Dept. Forms and hazardous waste pickup request
  • Academic anxiety in graduate school resources & various web opinions (1, 2, 3, 4 , 5)
  • Resoureces to get help OSU Employee Assistance Program
  • Find your laser lab glasses: Kentek laser eyewear , also try Thorlabs eyewear and occassionally ebay.
  • Laser Lab Construction and Safety Guide (LBNL)

    Basic Resources

  • Google Journal Metrics: Physics, Spectroscopy, Materials Science
  • Ultrafast quick unit consversions
  • ufE Group internal web page

    External Facilities

  • OSU Cleanroom Wiki
  • MASC Facility - MASC Facility
  • OSU Imaging Facility
  • OU CAMCOR Facility Atomic resolution TEM and SEM lithography
  • Portland State Electron Microscopy/Nanofab
  • Horiba Fluor Resource

    Online Equipment and Methods Links

  • from the horse's mouth: Hamamatsu: Chooing the right detector
  • Thorlabs quick tutorials
  • Photodiodes, a complete resource
  • Trebino(Gerogia Tech): ultrafast optics course notes
  • Vaugthey (Geneva): ultrafast methods

    (free) Software

  • OSU software , ufE members please get access to MatLab, OriginLab Plot, Transform, Adobe Suite, LabView
  • Free citation tools, Zotero and Mendeley
  • MiKTeX, and Overleaf
  • PyMOL; anytime you need to render a press quality (Python) nanomaterial/molecule graphics
  • povray when the Adobe Suite doesn't cut it (source code graphics)
  • Ninithi; draw carbon nanostrcutures fast (export and render in PyMol)
  • Matplotlib; if you don't like Matlab
  • ImageJ good Java program to process CCD images
  • Blender: make 3D animations
  • MolView - quick pymol sketches
  • 3DOptix
  • Please log into the lab wiki to get our .vi, .m, C-based codes for your specific analytical needs

    Useful Vendors One Tends to Forget

  • Chroma Tech
  • Spach Optics
  • Spectra Services - used micro stuff
  • Semrock
  • Quater Research - electrical probes
  • Altos Photonics

    Travel Resources

    All ufE PhD students and postdocs are required to present their at leading, competitive conferences. If you have a very strong paper/abstract, lab funding is available. See a good list (and carbon focused list of upcoming conferences). If your abstract has been accepted for an oral presentation at a National or International Conference, your travel expenses may be fully or partially reimbursed by the ufE lab.
  • OSU Travel Awards- Graduate School (registration only)
  • College of Science Student Travel Awards (upto $1000, international conferences only)
  • Postdoc Travel Awards (upto $500)

    Graduate Fellowships

  • Resources for Minority Students: fellowships, advice and articles.
  • NSF - Due mid-November
  • NDSEG - National Defense, >2 yrs grad study
  • non-academic postdoc positions
  • DOE Lab Grad Student Research Program
  • DOE Computional Fellowship- physicists welcome, must apply 1st year

    Undergraduate fellowships:

  • Space grant scholarship in Oregon

  • OSSI Space grant scholarships