In high school, I spent some time helping to study systematically strained nanometer-scale films of cadmium arsenide grown in ultrahigh vacuum, one of the recently uncovered class of topological Dirac semimetals.
ViewThe smelliest project I've worked on so far. For a couple months, I overhauled the data acquisition system for an experimental reactor designed to make biochar in the field.
ViewIt turns out the best known way to safely shut down a large fusion reactor that's lost plasma stability is to shove in a bunch of ice. Sort of. It also turns out this is a very hard thing to do in a controlled way. I studied this process, and to that end developed this monstrosity.
ViewThis one's exciting, because I'm starting off with "absolutely no idea" what I'm doing. Stay tuned.
Coming soon!