Our research group emphasizes the use of millimeter and submillimeter radiation to study the properties of small, fundamental molecular species. Some of this work is motivated by questions basic to chemical physics; and some by astrophysical, atmospheric, and quantum electronic considerations. Examples of research include: the development and use of a new technique which allows the study of gas phase collisions between molecules at very low temperature (a subject of both basic and astrophysical interest), the rotational spectroscopy of molecules with complex spectra such as methanol, the study of collisional energy transfer in molecular lasers, and the use of femto second laser technology to generate millimeter and submillimeter waves.
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