McCall Research Group Illinois

Mr. Michael W. Porambo

Professional Information

Tenure: June 2009 - July 2015
Current Position: National Security Analyst, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015
B.S., Lebanon Valley College, 2009

porambo1@illinois.edu

Mr. Michael W. Porambo

Papers

5 C. N. Talicska, M. W. Porambo, A. J. Perry, and B. J. McCall
"Mid-infrared concentration-modulated noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical heterodyne molecular spectroscopy of a continuous supersonic expansion discharge source"
Review of Scientific Instruments (2016), 87, 063111.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Talks

12 C. N. Talicska, M. W. Porambo and B. J. McCall
"Continuous Supersonic Expansion Discharge Source for High-Precision Spectroscopy of Cold Molecular Ions"
Seventieth International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015.
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11 M. W. Porambo, J. M. Pearson, C. N. Talicska, and B. J. McCall
"Mid-Infrared NICE-OHMS Spectrometer for the Study of Cold Molecular Ions"
Sixty-Ninth International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2014.
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10 M. W. Porambo, J. M. Pearson, C. M. Riccardo, and B. J. McCall
"Expansion Discharge Source for Ion Beam Laser Spectroscopy of Cold Molecular Ions"
Sixty-Eighth International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2013.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Posters

5 C. N. Talicska, M. W. Porambo and B. J. McCall
"A continuous supersonic expansion discharge source for high-precision mid-infrared spectroscopy of cold molecular ions"
Midwest Astrochemistry Meeting, The University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, 2015.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Other Publications

2 M. W. Porambo
"Development of a sensitive mid-infrared spectrometer for the study of cooled molecular ions "
Ph.D Thesis, University of Illinois, 2015.
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1 M. W. Porambo
"Molecular Ion Spectroscopy: New Methods and the Proposed Study of H2CO+"
Research Prospectus for Preliminary Examination, University of Illinois, 2011.
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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.