Kameron Fazel: Creating At-Home Skin Cancer Treatments

Kamron Fazel, nuclear engineering major, for his project titled “Electron Emission of Pyroelectric Crystals.” Associate Professor Yaron Danon from Mechanical, Aeronautical and Nuclear Engineering supervised the project.

Applied Category: First Place
Kamron Fazel, nuclear engineering major, for his project titled "Electron Emission of Pyroelectric Crystals." Associate Professor Yaron Danon from Mechanical, Aeronautical and Nuclear Engineering supervised the project.

At-home skin cancer treatments and homeland security applications are just two of the potential applications pryoelectric crystals accelerators.

This accelerator uses small pyroelectric crystals that become electrically polarized when heated. The 120,000 volt potential formed on the crystal face is used to accelerate electrons that can then deliver their energy to the skin.

Kameron Fazel, a senior majoring in nuclear engineering, had two specific goals for his undergraduate research project, the first was to observe and characterize the focusing properties of the crystal's electron emission.

The second was to calculate and simulate the skin dose that a pyroelectric crystal could inflict on a cancerous region.

His project, "Electron Emission of Pyroelectric Crystals" won first place in the applied category of the 2007 Undergraduate Research Forum and Awards. He was supervised by Yaron Danon, associate professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering.

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2007 Program

2007 Undergraduate Research Forum & Awards

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

DCC Great Hall :: 5-6 pm

(reception immediately following)

(program -- pdf)