Jasmine Hinton

My research journey began as an undergraduate in Dr. Shanti Deemyad’s group, exploring high-pressure superconductivity through electrical resistivity and AC magnetic susceptibility measurements. Because my research there mainly involved low-temperature studies, I was excited to join Dr. Ashkan Salamat’s team of high-temperature experts. Since joining as a graduate student in 2016, I’ve grown the resistive heating branch of our group for high-stability temperature measurements at high-pressure in a diamond anvil cell between ~300-1000K. I’ve implemented this instrumentation for our experiments over various spectroscopic techniques, including Raman spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction, and x-ray absorption. Using this infrastructure, I study lattice dynamics and electronic properties of anisotropic metals and calculate their mode Grüneisen Tensors with increasing temperature. This study leads to questions concerning the anharmonicity of a system and the onset of melt, and how this might change with electronic or other structural changes. The temperature range of resistive heating is ideal for this area of study that requires fine control and stability of thermodynamic parameters.

Expertise

Diamond anvil cell; Raman spectroscopy and thermometry; resistive heating; basic machining; electronics; optics

Education

M.Sc., Physics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV

B.Sc., Physics, University of Utah, UT

A.Sc., General, Utah Valley University, UT