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Bella Hunt’s graduate research into chalcogenides, a class of materials used for memory storage, has gotten a big boost, thanks to a $100,000 award from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hunt is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering<\/a>. Her project amorphizes, or crystallizes, chalcogenides to create meta-optics: a new kind of lens technology with sensing and imaging capability. She is working to create an amorphous optic that can then crystallize different areas, changing the meta-optic\u2019s functionality. The project has various potential applications, including use in space to change the focal length of a lens using a laser, thereby lessening the need for multiple lenses to view points at different distances.<\/p>\n

\u201cThink like CDs. You laser write CDs by amorphizing or crystallizing that material. We are using that same method to create a meta-optic. This is done by selectively transitioning regions either to an amorphous state or to a crystalline state by tuning different parameters, such as which regions are crystallized,\u201d says Hunt, who works part-time at APL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bella Hunt’s graduate research into chalcogenides, a class of materials used for memory storage, has gotten a big boost, thanks to a $100,000 award from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Hunt is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. 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