Andrew D. Palla

Senior Physicist
CU Aerospace, L.L.C.

217.333.3225 (office)
217.333.4726 (fax)
apalla@cuaerospace.com

Business Mailing Address
2100 South Oak Street

Suite 206
Champaign, IL 61820

Education

• M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois, December 2004.
• A.B., Physics, University of Chicago, June 2002.
• A.B., Mathematics, University of Chicago, June 2002.

Awards

• 2005 AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference Best Paper Award for AIAA Paper 2005-5365, “Simulation of Time-Dependent Oscillations in a cw HF Chemical Laser Confocal Unstable Resonator.” PAPER PDF (1082 KB), ANNOUNCEMENT PDF (96 KB)

Publications

• A. D. Palla, J. W. Zimmerman, B. S. Woodard, D. L. Carroll, J. T. Verdeyen, T. C. Lim, and W. C. Solomon, "Oxygen Discharge and Post-Discharge Kinetics Experiments and Modeling for the Electric Oxygen-Iodine Laser System," Jour. Phys. Chemistry A, jp069003, 2007.  PDF (294 KB)

• A. D. Palla, J. W. Zimmerman, B. S. Woodard, D. L. Carroll, J. T. Verdeyen, T. C. Lim, W. T. Rawlins, S. Lee, S. J. Davis, and W. C. Solomon, "ElectricOIL Discharge and Post-Discharge Kinetics Experiments and Modeling," Proc. SPIE, 6454, 645401, 2007.  PDF (1653 KB)

• A. D. Palla, D. L. Carroll, J. T. Verdeyen, and W. C. Solomon, "Mixing Effects in Post-Discharge Modeling of Electric Discharge Oxygen-Iodine Laser Experiments," Jour. Physics D, 100, 023117, 2006.  PDF (208 KB)

• A. D. Palla, D. L. Carroll, J. T. Verdeyen, and W. C. Solomon, "Effects of Mixing on Post-Discharge Modeling of ElectricOIL Experiments," Proc. SPIE,, 6101, 610125, 2006. PDF (364 KB)

• A. D. Palla, D. L. Carroll, J. T. Verdeyen, and W. C. Solomon, “Post-Discharge Modeling of Recent ElectricOIL Experiments,” AIAA Paper 2005-4919, 2005. PDF (302 KB)

• A. D. Palla, L. H. Sentman, and D. L. Carroll, “Simulation of Time-Dependent Oscillations in a cw HF Chemical Laser Confocal Unstable Resonator,” AIAA Paper 2005-5365, 2005. PDF (1082 KB)

Additional Publications

• B. S. Woodard, J. W. Zimmerman, G. F. Benavides, D. L. Carroll, J. T. Verdeyen, A. D. Palla, T. H. Field, W. C. Solomon, S. J. Davis, W. T. Rawlins, and S. Lee, “Gain and continuous-wave laser oscillation on the 1315 nm atomic transition pumped by an air-helium electric discharge,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 93, 021104, 2008. PDF (208 KB)

• G. F. Benavides, A. D. Palla, D. M. King, D. L. Carroll, J. T. Verdeyen, J. K. Laystrom, T. H. Field, J. W. Zimmerman, B. S. Woodard, and W. C. Solomon, “Hybrid ElectricOIL Discharge, Gain, and Power Enhancements,” AIAA Paper 2007-4623 2007. PDF (630 KB)

• D. L. Carroll, J. T. Verdeyen, D. M. King, A. D. Palla, J. K. Laystrom, G. F. Benavides, J. W. Zimmerman, B. S. Woodard, and W. C. Solomon, "Development of the Electric Discharge Oxygen-Iodine Laser," Proc. SPIE, 6346, 63460H, 2007. PDF (415 KB)

• J. W. Zimmerman, D. M. King, A. D. Palla, J. T. Verdeyen, D. L. Carroll, J. K. Laystrom, G. F. Benavides, B. S. Woodard, W. C. Solomon, W. T. Rawlins, S. J. Davis, and M. C. Heaven, "Important Kinetic Effects in the Hybrid ElectricOIL System," Proc. SPIE, 6261, 62611R, 2006. PDF (388 KB)

• D. L. Carroll, J. T. Verdeyen, D. M. King, J. W. Zimmerman, J. K. Laystrom, A. D. Palla, B. S. Woodard, G. F. Benavides, K. Kittell, and W. C. Solomon, "Recent Experiments and Post-Discharge Modeling of the ElectricOIL Laser System," Proc. SPIE, 6053, 605302-10, 2006. PDF (510 KB)

• S. J. Mayer, A. D. Palla, L. H. Sentman, and D. L. Carroll, “Experimental Study of Time-Dependent Oscillations in a cw HF Chemical Laser Confocal Unstable Resonator,” AIAA Paper 2005-5364, 2005. PDF (1408 KB)

Employment

• 2004 - Present: Senior Physicist, CU Aerospace.
• 2002 - 2004: Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Research

• Numerical simulation of cw HF chemical lasers (UIUC cw HF Laser), electrically assisted oxygen-iodine lasers (ElectriCOIL), and rf flowing electric discharges / cold plasmas.

Links

• Pictures from past and present work (University of Chicago Cosmic Ray Telescope & University of Illinois HF Laser).

        updated: Jul., 2008.