Graduate Program

Graduate Research, Awards, & Activities

Conference Activity

Many of our graduate students gave presentations at the 2009 American Physical Society March Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. View the list of 2009 talks here >> (.pdf)

Awards and Recognitions

Yiming Xu and Marco Almeida received Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Awards for 2007-2008. 

Chang-Sheng Mei and Lucas Lindsay won Boston College Teaching Excellence Awards in May 2006.

Recent Publications

H. Tao, C. M. Bingham, A. C. Strikwerda, D. Pilon, D. Shrekenhamer, N. I. Landy, K. Fan, X. Zhang, W. J. Padilla, and R. D. Averitt, "Highly-Flexible Wide Angle of Incidence Terahertz Metamaterial Absorber," Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communications) 78, 241103R (2008).

J.-H. Ma, Z.-H. Pan, F. C. Niestemski, M. Neupane, Y.-M. Xu, P. Richard, K. Nakayama, T. Sato, T. Takahashi, H.-Q. Luo, L. Fang, H.-H. Wen, Z. Wang, H. Ding, V. Madhavan, "Coexistence of Competing Orders with Two Energy Gaps in Real and Momentum Space in the High Temperature Superconductor Bi2Sr2-xLaxCuO6+," Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 207002 (2008).

"High-Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys," B. Poudel, Q. Hao, Y. Ma, Y. Lan, A. Minnich, B. Yu, X. Yan, D. Wang, A. Muto, D. Vashaee, X. Chen, J. Liu, M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, Z. Ren. Science 320, 634 (2008).

"Three-Phonon Phase Space and Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Semiconductors," L. Lindsay, and D. A. Broido, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 20, 165209 (2008).

"Intrinsic Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Si/Ge and GaAs/AlAs Superlattices," A. Ward, and D. A. Broido, Phys. Rev. B 77, 245328 (2008).

"Experimental Demonstration of Frequency-Agile Terahertz Metamaterials," H-T. Chen, J. F. O'Hara, A. K. Azad, A. J. Taylor, R. D. Averitt, D. B. Shrekenhamer, and W. J. Padilla. Nat. Photonics 2, 295 (2008).

"Ground State of Magnetic Dipoles on a Two-Dimensional Lattice:
Structural Phases in Complex Plasmas," J. D. Feldmann, G. J. Kalman, P. Hartmann, and M. Rosenberg. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 085001 (2008).

"Subwavelength Waveguide for Visible Light," J. Rybczynski, K. Kempa, A. Herczynski, Y. Wang, M. J. Naughton, Z. F. Ren, Z. P. Huang, D. Cai, and M. Giersig. Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 021104 (2007).

"Acoustic Attenuation Probe for Fermion Superfluidity in Ultracold Atom Gases," S. Gaudio, B. Mihaila, K. B. Blagoev, K.S. Bedell, and E. Timmermans. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 110407 (2007).

"Visible Light Diffraction Studies on Periodically Aligned Arrays of Carbon Nanotubes: Experimental and Theoretical Comparison," J. Rybczynski, K. Kempa, Y. Wang, Z. F. Ren, J. B. Carlson, B. R. Kimball, and G. Benham. Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 203122 (2006).

"Kink Formation and Motion in Carbon Nanotubes at High Temperatures," J.Y. Huang, S. Chen, Z. F. Ren, Z. Q. Wang, D. Z. Wang, M. Vaziri, Z. Suo, G. Chen, and M. S. Dresselhaus. Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 075501 (2006).