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Allen P. Mills, Jr.
Professor of Physics
Ph.D. 1967, Brandeis University
Experimental Solid State and Atomic Physics
E-mail: allen.mills@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-6469
Fax: (951) 827-4529
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Goals: To make the first Bose-Einstein condensed positronium
annihilation gamma ray laser; To make a DNA neural network computer
ten thousand times bigger than a human brain
Prof. Mills has pioneered several techniques in the field of positron
physics including the single crystal negative affinity positron
moderator (1978,9), brightness enhancement of slow positron beams
(1980) and the rare gas solid moderator (1986). He is currently
working on applying these techniques to the problem of obtaining a
Bose-Einstein condensed gas of positronium atoms. He is also
interested in defect spectroscopy, is preparing with Prof. Tom to
study the dynamics of laser exploded thin foils using a newly
assembled microprobe funded by the National Science Foundation under
grant DMR-0216927.
Prof. Mills has worked on various experimental aspects of DNA
computation since 1996. Most recently he was part of the team lead by
Bernard Yurke of Bell Laboratories that developed a molecular-size
machine made from DNA molecules that operates using DNA as a fuel.
Prof Mills is also interested in certain aspects of semiconductor
physics and is currently involved with Prof. Yarmoff and Prof. Haddon
in implementing the idea of Contactless Organic Semiconductor devices
for low-cost high speed laminated electronics with support from UCR's
Center for Nanoscale Innovation for Defense (CNID) and DOD/DARPA/DMEA
under Award No. DMEA90-02-2-0216.
Selected Publications
B. Yurke, A. J. Turberfield, A. P. Mills, Jr., F. C. Simmel
and J. L. Neumann, "A DNA-fuelled molecular machine made of DNA",
Nature 406, 605-608 (2000).
A. P. Mills, Jr., L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West and C. W. Magee, "Mechanisms
for Si dopant migration in molecular beam epitaxy
AlxGa1-xAs",
J. Appl. Phys. 88, 4056-4060 (2000).
A. P. Mills, Jr., "Gene expression profiling diagnosis through DNA molecular
computation", Trends in Biotechnology 20, 137-140 (2001).
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