Moira Miller Email & Phone Number

Golden, CO, US

Golden, Colorado, United States

• National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Brook Tellekamp's group. Molecular Beam Epitaxy growth for green light LED solid state lighting project. Experience with high vacuum systems and sample prep/characterization.
• Colorado School of Mines: Eric Toberer’s thermoelectric group. Synthesizing and characterizing novel thermoelectrics; validating connection between theory and experiment, focus on high-throughput techniques.

Golden, Colorado, United States

• Worked with Adele Tamboli and Celeste Melamed in their group researching an alternative material to traditional silicon solar panels, ZnSnN2. Theoretical calculations have predicted that the optical and electronic.
• Characterized using 4 point probe, Hall effect instrument, UV-Vis spectroscopy, ellipsometry, X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, Rutherford Back Scattering, and Auger spectroscopy. o Independently did all.
• Incorporated oxygen into the growth to tune the material’s electronic properties, and see if these changes agreed with the current theoretical calculations.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Fabricated two-dimensional van der Waals structures in David Cobden’s group to investigate the electrical properties of WTe2, and then gathered and analyzed data (including Atomic Force Microscopy) o Discovered.
• Mentored and taught other students how to make these devices and received machine shop certification.Published in Nature with over 630 citations.

Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

• Worked with Giti Khodaparast and graduate students from the physics department in her experimental condensed matter laboratory. Helped design and set up pump-probe laser system and gather data. Studied multiferroic.
• Worked with Duncan Farrah from the astronomy department to use an N-body particle simulator, Enzo, to study the influence of dark matter on early galaxy development.
• Investigated galaxy evolution, focusing on infrared galaxies, and created a website for the extragalactic research group, led by Sara Petty.

Davis, California, United States

• Worked with Valentin Taufour in the physics department. His group focuses on the synthesis and characterization of new materials with unconventional physical properties.
• Grew crystals and studied their topological and magnetic properties. Sealed elements under vacuum in quartz tubes with a natural gas/oxygen torch and using furnace and vapor transport techniques to grow single.
• Reported detailed band structure of Hf2Te2P and provided experimental evidence for a predicted strong topological surface state above the Fermi level, a which had never before been observed experimentally.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Materials Science

Graduate Student Government August 2020-May 2022 Materials Science program representative. Helped organize graduate student conference in.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics

Activities and Societies: College of Science Dean’s Leadership Council Fall 2015–Spring 2018 Served as an ambassador for the College of.