Graduate Program

Graduate Research & Activities (Previous Years)

Conference Activity
Several of our graduate students gave presentations at the 2007 American Physical Society March Meeting in Denver, Colorado:
“Test for superconductivity in individual end-bonded MWNTs,”
Y. Sun with  Profs. Naughton and  Ren; "Absence of Wigner Crystallization in Graphene,”  H. Dahal with Prof. Bedell; “Electronic specific heat enhancement in the half-metallic ferromagnet CrO2 explained by Fermi Liquid Theory,” R. Chura with Prof. Bedell; “Three-Phonon Phase Space as an Indicator of the Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Semiconductors,” L.Lindsay with Prof. Broido; “STM Spectroscopy of Electron Doped Pr(1-x)LaCexCuO(4-δ),” F. Niestemski and S. Kunwar with Prof. Madhavan; “Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Superlattices from an Adiabatic Bond Charge Model,” A. Ward with Prof. Broido; “Correlating off-stoichiometric doping and nanoscale electronic inhomogeneity in high-Tc superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O(8+delta),” S. Zhou with Profs. Wang and Ding; “Thermoelectric properties of SiGe nanoparticle composites,” D. Wang with Prof. Ren.