Physics Department Personnel

Dr. David Broido

Professor of Physics

617-552-3348
Higgins Hall 230C
broido@bc.edu

Education

• Ph.D. Physics, University of California at San Diego, 1985
  
• M.S. Physics, University of California at San Diego, 1982
  
• B.S. Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1980

Areas of Research
Theoretical solid state physics with emphasis on the electronic, optical and transport properties of lower dimensional semiconductor systems.

Selected Publications

• "Three-Phonon Phase Space and Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Semiconductors," L. Lindsay, and D. A. Broido, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 20, 165209 (2008).
• "Phonon Transmission Through Defects in Carbon Nanotubes from First Principles," N. Mingo, D. A. Stewart, D. A. Broido, and D. Strivastava, Phys. Rev. B 77, 033418 (2008).
• "Intrinsic Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Si/Ge and GaAs/AlAs Superlattices," A. Ward, and D. A. Broido, Phys. Rev. B 77, 245328 (2008).
• "Intrinsic Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Semiconductors from First Principles," D. A. Broido, M. Malorny, G. Birner, N. Mingo, and D. A. Stewart, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 231922 (2007).
• "Theory of Thermoelectric Power Factor of Nanowire-Nanocomposite Matrix Structures," D. A. Broido, and N. Mingo, Phys. Rev. B 74, 195325 (2006).
• "Carbon Nanotube Ballistic Thermal Conductance and Its Limits," N. Mingo, and D. A. Broido, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 096105 (2005).
• "Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Silicon from Empirical Interatomic Potentials," D. A. Broido, A. Ward, and N. Mingo, Phys. Rev. B 72, 014308 (2005).
• "Length Dependence of Carbon Nanotube Thermal Conductivity and the ”Problem of Long Waves,” N. Mingo, and D. A. Broido, Nano Lett. 5, 1221 (2005).
• "Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Superlattice Structures," D. A. Broido, and T. L. Reinecke, Phys. Rev. B 70, Rapid Communications, 081310 (2004).
• "Lattice Thermal Conductivity Crossovers in Semiconductor Nanowires," N. Mingo, and D. A. Broido, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 246106 (2004).
• "Thermoelectric Transport in Superlattices," D. A. Broido, and T. L. Reinecke, in Semiconductors and Semimetals 71: Overview of Current Advances in Thermoelectric Materials, Chapter 2, ed. T. Tritt (2001).
• "Theory of Thermoelectric Power Factor in Quantum Well and Quantum Wire Superlattices," D. A. Broido, and T. L. Reinecke, Phys. Rev. B 64, (2001).
• "Internal Transitions of Confined Neutral Magnetoexcitons in GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs Quantum Wells," H. A. Nickel, G. Kioseoglou, T. Yeo, H. Cheong, A. Petrou, B. D. McCombe, D. A. Broido, K. K. Bajaj, and R. A. Lewis, Phys. Rev. B 62, 2773 (2000).
• "Thermoelectric Power Factor in Superlattice Systems," D. A. Broido, and T. L. Reinecke, Appl. Phys. Lett. 77, 705 (2000).
• "Far Infrared Response of InAs-GaSb Type II Quantum Dots," D. A. Broido, K. Kempa, and U. Rössler, Physica E 6, 466 (2000).
• "Phonon Thermal Conductivity of Quantum Wires," S. G. Walkauskas, D. A. Broido, K. Kempa, and T. L. Reinecke, J. Appl. Phys. 85, 2579 (1999).
• "Self Polarization of Quantum Dots," P. Bakshi, D. A. Broido, and K. Kempa, Superlattices Microstruct. 23, 521 (1998).
• "Internal Transitions of Neutral and Charged Magneto-Excitons in GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Wells," A. Nickel, G. S. Herold, T. Yeo, G. Kioseoglou, Z. X. Jiang, B. D. McCombe, D. A. Broido, and W. Schaff, Phys. Stat. Solidi 210, 341, (1998).
• "Thermoelectric Transport in Quantum Well Superlattices," D. A. Broido, and T. L. Reinecke, Appl. Phys. Lett. 70, 2834 (1997).
• "Temperature Dependence of the Spin Polarization of a Quantum Ferromagnet," M. J. Manfra, E. H. Aifer, B. B. Goldberg, D. A. Broido, L. Pfieffer and K. West, Phys. Rev. B 54, Rapid Communications, 17327 (1996).
• "Hole Magnetoplasmons in Quantum Dots," T. Darnhofer, U. Rössler, and D. A. Broido, Phys. Rev. B 53, 3631 (1996).
• "Evidence of Skyrmion Excitations About v=1 in n-Modulation-Doped Single Quantum Wells by Interband Optical Transmission," E. H Aifer, B. B. Goldberg, and D. A. Broido, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 680 (1996) .
• "Far-Infrared Response of Holes in Quantum Dots: Band Structure Effects and the Generalized Kohn’s Theorem," T. Darnhofer, U. Rössler, and D. A. Broido, Phys. Rev. B 52, Rapid Communications, 14376 (1995).
• "Thermoelectric Figure of Merit of Quantum Wire Superlattices," D. A. Broido, and T. L. Reinecke, Appl. Phys. Lett. 67, 100 (1995).
• "Effect of Superlattice Structure on the Thermoelectric Figure of Merit," D. A. Broido, and T. L. Reinecke, Phys. Rev. B 51, 13797 (1995).
• "Electronic and Optical Properties of Lower-Dimensional Systems," D. A. Broido, in Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Solids: Advances and Applications, p. 415, 1994 (ed. B. DiBartolo, Plenum).
• "Dipole Spectra of Holes in Quantum Dots," T. Darnhofer, D. A. Broido, and U. Rössler, Phys. Rev. B 50, 14975 (1994).
• "Polarization of Electrons in Quantum Dashes in Magnetic Field," K. Kempa, P. Bakshi, and D. A. Broido, Solid State Commun. 91, 231 (1994).
• "Fine-Structure of Excitons and Polariton dispersion in Quantum Wells," S. Jorda, U. Rössler, and D. A. Broido, Phys. Rev. B 48, 1669 (1993).
• "Effects of Nonparabolicity on Collective Intersubband Excitations," G. Brozak, B. V. Shanabrook, D. Gammon, D. A. Broido, R. Beresford, and W. I. Wang, Phys. Rev. B 45, 11399 (1992).
• "Theory of Holes in Quantum Dots," D. A. Broido, A. Cros, and U. Rössler, Phys. Rev. B 45, 11395 (1992).
• "Electronic Energy Levels in Nanostructures," U. Rössler, D. A. Broido, and F. Bolton, in Springer Tracts in Solid State Sciences (1992).
• "Intersubband Transitions in Piezoelectric Superlattices," G. Brozak, B. V. Shanabrook, D. Gammon, D. A. Broido, R. Beresford, and W. I. Wang, Surf. Sci. 267, 120 (1992).
• "Spontaneous Polarization of Electrons in Quantum Dashes," P. Bakshi, D. A. Broido, and K. Kempa, J. Appl. Phys. 70, 3268 (1991).
• "Spontaneous Polarization in Quantum Dot Systems," K. Kempa, D. A. Broido, and P. Bakshi, Phys. Rev. B 43, 9343 (1991).
• "Self-Consistent Far Infrared Response of Quantum Dot Structures," D. A. Broido, K. Kempa, and P. Bakshi, Phys. Rev. B 42, 11400 (1990).
• "Mixing of Excitons and Continuum States in Quantum Wells," D. A. Broido, and S.-R. E. Yang, Phys. Rev. B 42, 11051 (1990).

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