Matt D. Cooper
 

Matt worked as an undergraduate summer student in our group in 2005. His project was to measure the modification of the photoluminescence emission of CdS quantum dots by nanoholes in a gold film. Matt setup a laser system coupled to a microscope for both static and dynamic fluorescence measurements. His results showed a coupling between the quantum dot's photoluminescence and the surface plasmon modes of the nanostructure. This work was published in the J. Phys. Chem. B. Matt also wrote a program to predict the surface IR and the Raman spectra of adsorbed molecules in metallic surfaces. The program reads the molecular information from the output of a Gaussian calculation and applies the surface selection rules to predict the spectra at several orientations. Matt presented this work in the CSC 2006 in Halifax and won second prize overall in the undergraduate competition in analytical chemistry.  He then returned to our group and developed a senior research project for his honours thesis. Matt is now in Medical school at UBC