Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology (EUV)

Summer Internships and Joint Projects with Industry Broaden the Experience of EUV Center Students

The Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology (EUV), an Engineering Research Center (ERC) headquartered at Colorado State University (CSU) and the University of Colorado, has close relations with its industrial members, which provides graduate and undergraduate students with diverse opportunities to gain engineering experience interacting with industry. The degree of involvement can range from attending technical seminars by industry engineers and scientists organized by the Center's Student Leadership Council, to working on projects in collaboration with the Center's corporate members. An example of the latter is Andrew Aquila, a Center graduate student from Berkeley who has been collaborating with Energetiq, a Center corporate member company in Boston, on the development of a soft x-ray microscope based on Energetiq's incoherent discharge source. During the academic year Andrew developed and tested EUV optics for the project and in summer 2005 he traveled to Energetiq with the optics to image the plasma source size and measure the photon flux. The results are helping the company to develop a soft x-ray microscope for biological applications, with new NIH support, in collaboration with Center researchers.

Center student Courtney Brewer joined Center corporate member Intel for the summer of 2005 after graduating in Electrical and Computer Engineer from Colorado State University (CSU). Prior to her internship at Intel she completed a year-round Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) program at the EUV ERC, working on an EUV microscope based on a table-top 13.2 nm wavelength laser. At the Santa Clara Intel facility, Courtney made use of her experience to work on technical issues related to Intel's EUV lithography effort. After completing the internship Courtney returned to CSU to begin graduate studies in EUV. Herman Bravo, who as an undergraduate student completed two summer REUs at two EUV Center laboratories (CSU and University of California Berkeley) during 2004 and 2005, has now joined the Center as a graduate student to work on a thesis project that involves the development of an EUV laser-based nanoprobe, a project in collaboration with Center corporate member JMAR.

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Last modified: April 13, 2007