Thilini Ekanayaka, a graduate student in researcher Peter Dowben's group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, applied for and earned a grant from the Grants in Aid of Research (GIAR) program of Sigma Xi, the scientific research honor society.
Ekanayaka will be setting up an N2 laser with the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience to do optically activated transport measurements in collaboration with researcher Christian Binek's group.
