Oral Presentations

• "Mechanisms of fluorescence enhancement in rare earth solgel glass containing Al3+," Ann Silversmith, DPC10, Chicago, June, 2010.
• "Fluorescence Yield in Rare Earth Doped Sol-gel Silicate Glasses," Ann Silversmith, ICL'08, Lyon, July, 2008.
• "Effects of Aluminum and N,N-dimethylformamide additives on Tb³⁺ fluorescence in Sol-Gel glasses," Dwight Swift, Physics 496: Independent Research departmental presentation.
• "Controlling rehydration in sol-gel glasses," C.P Ortiz and D.M. Boye, Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society Meeting, Nashville, November, 2007.
• "Rare-earth ion distribution in sol-gel silicate glasses," D.M. Boye, C.P. Ortiz, A.J. Silversmith, N.T.T.Nguyen, K.R. Hoffman, DPC 2007, Segovia , Spain, June, 2007.
• "Effective local concentration of terbium ions in sol-gel silicate glass," C.P Ortiz and D.M. Boye, Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society Meeting, Williamsburg, November, 2006.
• "Upconversion Spectroscopy of Tm³⁺ Doped Sol-Gel Glasses," C.P. Ortiz & D.M. Boye, Optics in the Southeast, Charlotte, 2006.
• "Enhanced fluorescence in rare earth doped sol-gel glasses containing Al^{3+ "} G.L. Armstrong*, A.J. Silversmith, D.M. Boye. American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, March, 2006.
• "Al³⁺ concentration dependence of Tb³⁺ fluorescence in sol gel glasses," Jonathan Baker, Davidson Physics Student Research Seminar, May, 2006.
• "Sol-Gel Glasses, Rare Earths and Phonon Emission,” Rob Correll, Davidson Physics Student Research Seminar, September, 2005.
• "Energy transfer from Gd³⁺ to Tb³⁺ in SiO₂ sol-gel glasses," Colleen Gillespie, Davidson Physics Student Research Seminar, September, 2005.

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