New material for gravitational wave detection.
The world is standing at a juncture, when today, we can detect and read gravitational waves. Thus Nicholas Demos a student from the MIT’s Kavli Institute, is inclined towards producing new type of mirrors that would produce the least thermal noise and help in deducing gravitational waves. And also engineer a device that tests mirrors entirely and not just the few upper coated layers. The only such existing apparatus in the world was developed by Matthew Evans, who is the MIT MathWorks professor of Physics and also Demos’ advisor, along with the Research Scientist Slawomir Gras. The apparatus would help researchers and scientists, measure thermal noise through the entire sample.