Mr. Michael W. Porambo

Professional Information

Graduate Student: Physical Chemistry
Project: SCRIBES
B.S., Lebanon Valley College, 2009

Papers

4	M. W. Porambo, B. M. Siller, J. M. Pearson, and B. J. McCall "Broadly Tunable Mid-Infrared Noise-Immune Cavity-Enhanced Optical Heterodyne Molecular Spectrometer" Optics Letters (2012), 37, 4422-4424.
3	A. A. Mills, B. M. Siller, M. W. Porambo, M. Perera, H. Kreckel, and B. J. McCall "Ultra-Sensitive High-Precision Spectroscopy of a Fast Molecular Ion Beam" Journal of Chemical Physics (2011), 135, 224201.
2	B. M. Siller, M. W. Porambo, A. A. Mills, and B. J. McCall "Noise Immune Cavity Enhanced Optical Heterodyne Velocity Modulation Spectroscopy" Optics Express (2011), 19, 24822–24827.
1	M. Perera, B. A. Tom, Y. Miyamoto, M. W. Porambo, L. E. Moore, W. R. Evans, T. Momose and B. J. McCall "Refractive Index Measurements of Solid Parahydrogen" Optics Letters (2011), 36, 840-842.

Talks

9	B. M. Siller, M. W. Porambo and B. J.McCall "Mid-IR Direct Absorption/Dispersion Spectroscopy of a Fast Ion Beam" Sixty-Seventh International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2012.
8	M. W. Porambo, B. M. Siller, A. A. Mills, M. Perera, H. Kreckel and B. J. McCall "Initial Development of High Precision, High Resolution Ion Beam Spectrometer in the Near-Infrared" Sixty-Seventh International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2012.
7	B. M. Siller, M. W. Porambo and B. J. McCall "Cavity Enhanced Velocity Modulation Spectroscopy" Workshop on Chemical Sensing and Quantum Manipulation with Molecular Ions, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2012.
6	M. W. Porambo, H. Kreckel, A. Mills, M. Perera, B. M. Siller and B. J. McCall "High Precision, Sensitive, Near-IR Spectroscopy in a Fast Ion Beam" Midwest Astrochemistry Meeting, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 2011.
5	B. M. Siller, A. A. Mills, M. W. Porambo and B. J. McCall "Cavity Enhanced Velocity Modulation Spectroscopy" Cavity Enhanced Spectroscopy User Meeting, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 2011.
4	B. M. Siller, A. A. Mills, M. W. Porambo and B. J. McCall "Noise Immune Cavity Enhanced Optical Heterodyne Velocity Modulation Spectroscopy" Sixty-Sixth International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2011.
3	A. A. Mills, M. W. Porambo, B. M. Siller, B. J. McCall "Lineshape and Sensitivity of Spectroscopic Signals of N2+ in a Positive Column Collected Using NICE-OHVMS" Sixty-Sixth International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, The Ohio State University,Columbus, OH, 2011.
2	M. W. Porambo, A. A. Mills, B. M. Siller, H. Kreckel, M. Perera and B. J. McCall "Progress and Recent Developments in Sensitive, Cooled, Resolved Ion Beam Spectroscopy (SCRIBES)" Sixty-Sixth International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2011.
1	B. M. Siller, A. A. Mills, M. W. Porambo and B. J. McCall "Cavity Enhanced Velocity Modulation Spectroscopy" Midwest Astrochemistry Meeting, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 2010.

Posters

4	J. N. Hodges, K. N. Crabtree, B. M. Siller, M. W. Porambo, A. A. Mills, and B. J. McCall "Indirect THz Spectroscopy of Molecular Ions" Midwest Astrochemistry Meeting, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 2011.
3	M. W. Porambo, H. Kreckel, A. A. Mills, M. Perera, B. M. Siller and B. J. McCall "Sensitive, Cooled, Resolved, Ion BEam Spectroscopy: SCRIBES" Midwest Astrochemistry Meeting, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 2010.
2	A. A. Mills, B. M. Siller, H. Kreckel, M. Perera, M. W. Porambo and B. J. McCall "New Approaches to Molecular Ion Spectroscopy" Spectroscopy of Molecular Ions in the Laboratory and in Space, Kos, Greece, 2010.
1	L. E. Moore, M. Perera, B. A. Tom, Y. Miyamoto, M. W. Porambo, T. Momose and B. J. McCall "Index of Refraction of Solid para-Hydrogen" 2010 WCC Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Illinois, 2010.

Other Publications

M. W. Porambo
"Molecular Ion Spectroscopy: New Methods and the Proposed Study of H₂CO⁺"
Research Prospectus for Preliminary Examination, University of Illinois, 2011.

Pre-McCall Group Publications

M. W. Porambo and A. L. Marsh "Synthesis and Photoluminescent Properties of Doped ZnS Nanocrystals Capped by Poly(vinylpyrrolidone)" Optical Materials (2009), 31, 1631-1635.

M. W. Porambo, H. R. Howard, and A. L. Marsh "Dopant Effects on the Photocatalytic Activity of Colloidal Zinc Sulfide Semiconductor Nanocrystals for the Oxidation of 2-Chlorophenol" Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2010), 114, 1580-1585.

C. A. Kauffman, A. L. Muza, M. W. Porambo, and A. L. Marsh "Use of a Commercial Silver-Silver Chloride Electrode for the Measurement of Cell Potentials to Determine Mean Ionic Activity Coefficients" The Chemical Educator (2010), 15, 178-180.