The Si3 project is the result of the creative and dedicated work of over 70 physicists, engineers and technicians from Albany, Cornell, Harvard, Kansas, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Purdue.

List of contributors to the Si3 project from Purdue is given below:

Kirk Arndt (Development Engineer)

Jack Barnes (Machinist, Central Machine Shop)

Ernie Beard (Mechanical Technician)

Chris Burnside (Undergraduate Student, Mech. Eng.)

Shenjian Chen (Graduate Student, physics)

Steve Cornelison (Undergraduate Student, Technology)

Charlie Crow (Machinist, Central machine Shop)

Amy Crowe (Undergraduate Student, Technology)

Kris Davis (Mechanical Engineer and Manager Central Machine Shop)

Amol Dev (Undergraduate student, Mech. Eng.)

Paul De Bonte (Undergraduate Student, Technology)

Adam DeGrush (Undergraduate Student, Physics, now at MIT)

Becki Farley (Secretary)

Al Fisher (Machinist, Central Machine Shop)

Jim Fast (Senior Scientist)

Scott Hartford (Undergraduate Student, Mech.Eng.)

Steve Kane (Undergraduate Student, Physics)

Lara Kazkaz (Undergraduate Student, Mech.Eng./Physics)

Jenna Kellar (Secretary)

Brian Knapp (Laboratory Technician, now at Samsung)

Toby Lamb (Machinist, Central Machine Shop)

Jik Lee (Research Scientist)

Jeff Lynch (Welder, Central Machine Shop)

Jeff Melsheimer (Mechanical Technician, now at Purdue Central Machine Shop)

Naresh Menon (Graduate student physics, now at Corning Optical )

Harold Martin (Machinist, Central Machine Shop)

David Miller (Professor)

Dan Minear (Purchasing Agent)

Jun Miyamoto (Research Scientist)

Martha Neustadt (Undergraduate Student Applied Physics, now at Intel)

Pat Patterson (Technical Drawing, Central Machine Shop)

Victor Pavlunin (Graduate Student, physics)

John Quinn (Undergraduate Student, Mech. Eng.)

Jenni Radecki (Secretary, now graduate student School of Education, Purdue)

Eric Reber (Undergraduate Student, physics)

Tim Selby (Mechanical Technician, now at Purdue Chemistry Instrument Shop)

Hans Schmitter (Undergraduate Student, Mech. Eng.)

Ian Shipsey (Professor)

Tom Smith (Mechanical Technician)

Derek Tournear (Undergraduate Student, physics, now at Stanford)

Alex Walter (Laboratory Technician, now at Samsung)

Susan White (Secretary, Central Machine Shop)

Qun Zhang (Electrical Engineer, now Professor, Institute of Ceramics, Shanghai, China)

The Purdue team also wishes to acknowledge the essential contributions to the mechanical design and fabrication of Si3 made by the following individuals and organizations:

Jeff Cherwinka (CLEO Head Engineer, Cornell)

Bill Miller (Mechanical Engineer and President HYTEC Inc.)

The Si3 Group

CTS Automotive, Elkhart, IN

Cornell Nanofabrication Facility, Ithaca, NY

Diamonex, Allentown, PA

Lafayette Quality Products, Lafayette, IN

The Ohio State University Machine Shop and technicians Jim Burns and Bob Wells

The Physical Sciences Laboratory of the University of Wisconsin

Programmed Composites Inc. Anaheim, CA

The School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University

The School of Materials Science, Purdue University

Group of Prof. David Thompson, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University

We also acknowledge funding from the following sources :

U.S. Department of Energy

National Science Foundation

Professors Arnold Tubis and Andy Hirsch, Heads, The Department of Physics, Purdue University

Dean Harry Morrison, The School of Science, Purdue University

Dr. Louis Proenza former Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, Purdue University

Professor Robert Ringel, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Purdue University

Apologies to those who names have been inadvertently omitted.

Ian Shipsey

For the Purdue Si3 team