Matthew Campbell
Ph.D., P.E.
Curriculum Vitae
projects
interests
- Micromanufacturing: Applications in propulsion, energy conversion, and healthcare
- Solid-state energy conversion: Electricity production from thermal, radiative, or chemical sources using no moving parts
- Design: Innovation, engineering, testing, predictive analysis
experience at the university of pennsylvania
- Mentor: Prof. Igor Bargatin
- Thermionic energy conversion
- Developed, microfabricated, and tested thin spacer films for thermionic energy converters
- Wrote review article on thermionic energy conversion
- Relativistic light sail with Breakthrough Starshot Project
- Developed model to analyze mechanical stress in light sail during acceleration to relativistic velocities
- Fabricated prototype portions of sail for optical and mechanical testing
- Duration: August 2019 - present
experience at sandia national laboratory
- Mentor: Prof. Hope Michelsen (now at the University of Colorado at Boulder)
- Synchrotron X-ray diagnostics
- Developed X-ray Raman scattering diagnostic for probing incipient soot molecules at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)
- Designed small angle X-ray scattering diagnostic for examining the size and morphology of mature soot particles at the Lawrence Berkeley Advanced Light Source (ALS)
- Used vacuum ultraviolet time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometry to study soot particles extracted from flames
- Soot formation chemistry
- Designed miniature premixed burner and diffusion burner for use in constrained spaces at synchrotron light sources
- Employed rapid-insertion technique to sample soot from flames and examined these particles using transmission electron microscopy
- Duration: July 2014 - December 2016
experience at stanford university
- Advisor: Prof. Ronald K. Hanson
- Biodiesel oxidation chemistry
- Conducted shock-tube testing on biodiesel molecules to determine ignition delay times and study combustion product species time histories
- Spectroscopy of fatty acid methyl esters
- Redesigned gas mixing manifold and high-temperature/pressure test cell for experimentation
- Developed model for extrapolating cross section values to larger molecules and higher temperatures
- Shock tube design and operation
- Designed and installed the following components:
- Circular, 20-port, stainless steel, variable-length test section for gas-phase constrained-volume high-temperature/pressure experimentation
- Stainless steel gas mixing tank for high-pressure, high-purity mixture preparation
- Circular, water-cooled, stainless steel, 16-port test section for high-temperature/pressure aerosol experimentation
- Stainless steel tank for aerosol generation and equivalence ratio control
- Custom gate valves for shock tube flow control and fuel loading
- Three-pump ultra-low-pressure vacuum system for gas mixing tank
- Three-pump ultra-low-pressure vacuum system for shock tube
- 14-connection stainless steel mixing manifold for gas mixture preparation
- 40-button, relay-controlled, interlocked analog control system for valves and pumps
- Oversaw installation of one-ton, 20-foot crane for easy component interchanges
- Programmed LabVIEW Virtual Interfaces (VIs) for data acquisition on 16-channel computer system
- Designed and installed the following components:
- Duration: April 2009 - July 2014
experience at duke university
- Solar energy concentrator
- Advisor: Prof. Josiah Knight
- Optimized the fluid flow parameters and mechanical orienting mechanism for a solar energy concentrator
- Duration: August 2007 - December 2007
- Jet engine program analysis
- Advisor: Prof. Robert Kielb
- Contributed toward development of MATLAB graphical user interface-based program to analyze jet engine turbine aeroelasticity
- Duration: May 2006 - August 2006