Graduate Program

Graduate Research, Awards, & Activities

Conference Activity
Many of our graduate students gave presentations at the 2008 American Physical Society March Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. View the list of 2008 talks here >> (.pdf)

View the list of 2007 talks at the 2007 APS March Meeting in Denver, Colorado here>>

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.

Selected Publications

"High-Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys," Bed Poudel, Qing Hao, Yi Ma, Yucheng Lan, Austin Minnich, Bo Yu, Xiao Yan, Dezhi Wang, Andrew Muto, Daryoosh Vashaee, Xiaoyuan Chen, Junming Liu, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Gang Chen, Zhifeng Ren. Science (published online: March 20, 2008) .

"Experimental demonstration of frequency-agile terahertz metamaterials," Hou-Tong Chen, John F. O'Hara, Abul K. Azad, Antoinette J. Taylor, Richard D. Averitt, David B. Shrekenhamer & Willie J. Padilla. Nature Photonics
(published online: 13 April 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. Letters 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).