Summary
- Major: Physics
- Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas White
- Research Topic: The Forgotten Equation
- New Scholar: 2025 Cohort
- Graduating with a Baccalaureate Degree: Spring 2027
Abstract
As the demand for clean, renewable energy persists, our road to sustainable carbon free power is through inertial confinement fusion (ICF). However, in order to achieve this system, we would have to have a sustainable energy transfer during the process. Currently, within high energy density systems, this has been an issue. This issue continues to persist because of the role played by interfacial thermal resistance (ITR). Although this boundary has been observed immensely within traditional materials, it has been neglected within high energy density matter. The presence of this boundary has been proven for the 1st time experimentally by Dr. Thomas White and his team with two distinct pieces of high energy density matter. The experiment called for a heated tungsten wire (18eV,209,000K) and a neighboring plastic layer that was cooler. With this groundbreaking discovery, our research now works to discover the theoretical shell of ITR in order to describe and quantify Dr. White’s experimental findings.