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Patrick G. O'SheaDirector & ProfessorInstitute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering |
Land mail: Phone: (301) 405-4977 |
Professor O'Shea was born in Cork, Ireland where he received his
secondary education at Colaiste Chriost Ri, and his B.Sc. degree in experimental
physics from University College Cork. His M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees in physics are from the University of Maryland. His early
research was at Los Alamos National Laboratory, on the Beam Experiment Aboard
Rocket Project (BEAR), and the APEX Free-Electron Laser Project; and later at
the Duke University Free-Electron Laser Laboratory.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
Professor O'Shea's experimental and theoretical research is in the area of
charged particle beam physics and technology, and applications.
Free-Electron
lasers: Creating coherent light where there is darkness in the
electromagnetic spectrum.
Development of free-electron light sources and enabling technologies:
Coherent, short-pulse (fs) x-ray probes for Nanoscale
Science and Technology;
Photocathodes; High power IR & THz sources
Review article: Free-Electron Lasers
Nonlinear dynamics of electron swarms: Space charge
dominated beams for advanced accelerators, high energy physics, fusion energy, and applications to
galactic dynamics (University of
Maryland Electron Ring Project - UMER)
See The Perfect Swarm here
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