Faculty Scholarship 2014
School of Physics and Astronomy
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Associate Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
2014 Submissions
Journal Paper
Barton, L. S., R. T. Lazott, and E. R. Marsten. "Magnetic Properties of Full Heusler Alloys Ni2MnGa1-xZx with Z= Sn or Zn." Journal of Applied Physics 115. (2014): 17A908-1 17A908-3. Print. «
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Barton, Linda S. "Mentoring Undergraduate Projects: The Hardest Part is Before They Start." American Association of Physics Teachers - Winter Meeting. American Assoc. Physics Teachers. Orlando, FL. 7 Jan. 2014. Guest Lecture.
Mishkatul Bhattacharya
Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
2014 Submissions
Journal Paper
Bhattacharya, M. and M. Kleinert. "Chiral Symmetries Associated with Angular Momentum." European Journal of Physics 35. (2014): 25007. Print. *
Bhattacharya, M., S. Marin, and M. Kleinert. "Coherent Cancellation of Geometric Phase for the OH Molecule in External Fields." Physical Review A 89. (2014): 52503. Print. *
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Bhattacharya, M. "Chiral Symmetries and Angular Momentum." Physics colloquium. Indian Institute of Technology. Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. 10 Jan. 2014. Lecture.
Bhattacharya, M. "Chiral Symmetries and Angular Momentum." Physics colloquium. Indian Institute of Technology. New Delhi, New Delhi. 15 Jan. 2014. Lecture.
Bhattacharya, M. "Chiral Symmetries and Angular Momentum." Physics colloquium. Indian Institute of Science Education and Research. Chandigarh, Haryana. 21 Jan. 2014. Lecture.
Bhattacharya, M. "Optomechanics with Photons Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum." Optics Colloquium. University of Rochester. Rochester, NY. 30 Jan. 2014. Lecture.
Bhattacharya, M. "Life in Eight Dimensions: Mathematical Adventures with a Cold Molecule." COAM. Rochester Institute of Technology. Rochester, NY. 18 Mar. 2014. Lecture.
Bhattacharya, M. "Redrawing the Quantum-classical Boundary." Physics colloquium. Brookhaven National Laboratory. Upton, NY. 29 Apr. 2014. Lecture.
Bhattacharya, M. "The Ground State OH Molecule in Combined Electric and Magnetic Fields." Division of Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, American Physical Society. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI. 3 Jun. 2014. Conference Presentation.
Bhattacharya, M. "The Ground State OH Molecule in Combined Electric and Magnetic Fields." Physics Colloquium. Institute of Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. 15 Aug. 2014. Lecture.
Moumita Das
Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
2014 Submissions
Journal Paper
Silverberg, J.L., et al. "Structure-function relations and rigidity percolation in the shear properties of neonatal bovine articular cartilage." Biophysical Journal 107. (2014): 1721. Print. *
Scott Franklin
Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
2014 Submissions
Journal Paper
Franklin, Scott V. "Extensional Rheology of Entangled Granular Materials." Europhysics Letters 106. 5 (2014): 58004. Print. *
Franklin, Scott V., Eleanor C. Sayre, and Jessica W. Clark. "Traditionally Taught Students Learn; Actively Engaged Students Remember." American Journal of Physics 82. (2014): 798. Print. * £ ≠
Franklin, Scott V. and Lisa M. Hermsen. "Real-time Capture of Student Reasoning While Writing." Physical Review Special Topics -Physics Education Research 10. (2014): 20121. Web. * £
Dehui Hu
Lecturer
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
2014 Submissions
Journal Paper
Hu, Dehui and N. Sanjay Rebello. "Shifting College Students¡ - Epistemological Framing Using Hypothetical Debate Problems." Physical Review ST Physics Education Research 10. 10117 (2014): 1-11. Web. *
Seth Hubbard
Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
2014 Submissions
Journal Paper
Bittner, Z. S., et al. "Investigation of Optical Transitions in InAs/GaAs(Sb)/AlAsSb Quantum dots Using Modulation Spectroscopy." Applied Physics Letters 105. (2014): 253903. Print. *
Sellers, D. G., et al. "Analyzing Carrier Escape Mechanisms in InAs/GaAs Quantum dot p-i-n Junction Photovoltaic Cells." Applied Physics Letters 104. (2014): 223903. Print. *
Driscoll, K., et al. "Effect of Quantum dot Position and Background Doping on the Performance of Quantum dot Enhanced GaAs Solar Cells." Applied Physics Letters 104. (2014): 23119. Print. *
Kerestes, C., et al. "Strain Effects on Radiation Tolerance of Triple-Junction Solar Cells With InAs Quantum Dots in the GaAs Junction." Photovoltaics, IEEE Journal of 4. (2014): 224-232. Print. *
Published Conference Proceedings
Bailey, C. G., et al. "Radiation Effects on InAlGaAs / InGaAs Quantum Well Solar Cells." Proceedings of the Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th, 2014, pp. 2871-2874. Ed. A. Smets. Denver, CO: n.p., 2014. Web. £
Bittner, Z. S., et al. "Experimental Examination of an InAs/GaAs(Sb)/AlAsSb Quantum Dot Approach to the Intermediate Band Solar Cell." Proceedings of the Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th, 2014, pp. 3488-3491. Ed. A. Smets. Denver, CO: n.p., 2014. Web. £
Smith, Brittany L., et al. "Characterization of InAlAs Solar Cells Grown by OMVPE." Proceedings of the Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th, 2014, pp. 3488-3491. Ed. A. Smets. Denver, CO: n.p., 2014. Web. £
Ericksen, P. S., et al. "Thermal Survivability Characterization of Quantum Dot Multi-Junction Photovoltaic Cells." Proceedings of the Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th, 2014, pp. 3488-3491. Ed. A. Smets. Denver, CO: n.p., 2014. Web. £
Forbes, D. V., et al. "The Effect of Barrier Composition on Quantum Dot Solar Cell Performance." Proceedings of the Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th, 2014, pp. 3488-3491. Ed. A. Smets. Denver, CO: n.p., 2014. Web. £
Hellstroem, S. and S. M. Hubbard. "Drift-diffusion Simulations of InAs/AlAsSb Quantum Dot Intermediate-band Solar Cells." Proceedings of the Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th, 2014, pp. 0491-0494. Ed. A. Smets. Denver, CO: n.p., 2014. Web. £
Hubbard, S. M., et al. "Impact of Nanostructures and Radiation Environment on Defect Levels in III-V Solar Cells." Proceedings of the Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th, 2014, pp. 0491-0494. Ed. A. Smets. Denver, CO: n.p., 2014. Web. £
Lumb, M. P., et al. "Development of InGaAs Solar Cells for >44% Efficient Transfer-Printed Multi-junctions." Proceedings of the Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th, 2014, pp. 0491-0494. Ed. A. Smets. Denver, CO: n.p., 2014. Web. £
Nelson, G. T., et al. "Study of Deep Levels in InAlAsSb Grown via MOCVD." Proceedings of the Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th, 2014, pp. 1168-1173. Ed. A. Smets. Denver, CO: n.p., 2014. Web. £
Polly, S. J., et al. "Effects of Doping on Carrier Confinement in InAs QD Solar Cells." Proceedings of the Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th, 2014, pp. 1089-1091. Ed. A. Smets. Denver, CO: n.p., 2014. Web. £
Schmieder, K. J., et al. "Analysis of GaAs Solar Cells at High MOCVD Growth Rates." Proceedings of the Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th, 2014, pp. 2130-2133. Ed. A. Smets. Denver, CO: n.p., 2014. Web. £
Slocum, M. A., et al. "Improving Epitaxial Regrowth Interfaces as a Means of Improving Doping Superlattice Solar Cell Performance." Proceedings of the Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th, 2014, pp. 0102-0106. Ed. A. Smets. Denver, CO: n.p., 2014. Web. £
Dai, Y., et al. "Electric Field Effect on Carrier Escape from InAs/GaAs Quantum Dots Solar Cells." Proceedings of the Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th, 2014, pp. 3492-3497. Ed. A. Smets. Denver, CO: n.p., 2014. Web. £
Slocum, M. A., D. V. Forbes, and S. M. Hubbard. "Enhancement of Radiation Tolerance with the use of a Doping Superlattice Solar Cell." Proceedings of the Proc. SPIE 8981, Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices III, 2014, pp. 89810V-7. Ed. A. Freundlich and J. Guillemoles. San Fransisco, CA: n.p., 2014. Web. £
Invited Paper
Strong, W. H., D. V. Forbes, and S. M. Hubbard. "Investigation of Deep Level Defects in Electron Irradiated Indium Arsenide Quantum dots Embedded in a Gallium Arsenide Matrix." Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing. (2014). Print. *
Nicola Lanata
Assistant Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
2014 Submissions
Journal Paper
Lanatà, Nicola, et al. "Principle of Maximum Entanglement Entropy and local physics of Strongly Correlated Materials." Phys. Rev. Lett. 113. (2014): 36402. Print. *
Lanatà, Nicola, et al. "Interplay of spin-orbit and entropic effects in Cerium." Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communications) 90. (2014): 161104(R). Print. *
Aaron McGowan
Principal Lecturer
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
2014 Submissions
Journal Paper
Aliaga, L. and et al. (MINERvA Collaboration). "Design, Calibration, and Performance of the MINERvA Detector." Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A 743. (2014): 130-159. Print. *
Tice, B.G. and et al. (MINERvA Collaboration). "Measurement of Ratios of νμ Charged-Current Cross Sections on C, Fe, and Pb to CH at Neutrino Energies 2-20 GeV." Physical Review Letters 112. 23 (2014): 231801. Print. *
Higuera, A. and et al. (MINERvA Collaboration). "Measurement of Coherent Production of π± in Neutrino and Antineutrino Beams on Carbon from Eν of 1.5 to 20 GeV." Physical Review Letters 113. (2014): 261802. Print. *
David Merritt
Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
2014 Submissions
Journal Paper
Pawlowski, Marcel, et al. "Co-orbiting Satellite Galaxy Structures are Still in Conflict with the Distribution of Primordial Dwarf Galaxies." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 442. (2014): 2362-2380. Print. £
Hamers, Adrian S., Simon Portegies Zwart, and David Merritt. "Relativistic Dynamics of Stars Near a Supermassive Black Hole." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 443. (2014): 355-387. Print. £
Lena, Davide, et al. "Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes: A Search in the Nearby Universe." The Astrophysical Journal 795. (2014): 146-177. Print. £
Christopher ODea
Research Professor
Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
2014 Submissions
Journal Paper
Hamer, S., et al. "Cold Gas Dynamics in Hydra-A: Evidence for a Rotating Disk." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 437. (2014): 862-878. Print. £
Bogdan, A., et al. "Young AGN Outburst Running Over Older X-ray Cavities." Astrophysical Journal Letters 782. (2014): L19-24. Print. £
Russell, H., et al. "Massive Molecular Gas flows in the Abell 1664 Brightest Cluster Galaxy." Astrophysical Journal 784. (2014): 78-86. Print. £
McNamara, B. R. and et al. "A Ten Billion Solar Mass Outflow of Molecular Gas Launched by Radio Bubbles in the Abell 1835 Brightest Cluster Galaxy." Astrophysical Journal 785. (2014): 44-53. Print. £
Kharb, P., et al. "VLBA Observations of Mrk 6: Probing the Jet-Lobe Connection." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 440. (2014): 2976-2987. Print. £
Tremblay, G., et al. "A Thirty Kiloparsec Chain of 'Beads on a String' Star Formation between Two Merging Early Type Galaxies in the Core of a Strong Lensing Galaxy Cluster." Astrophysical Journal Letters 790. (2014): L26-31. Print. £
Russell, H., et al. "The Bow Shock, Cold Fronts and Disintegrating Cool Core in the Merging Galaxy Group RX J0751.3+5012." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 444. (2014): 629-641. Print. £
O'Dea, C P., et al. "A Ten Billion Solar Mass Outflow of Molecular Gas Launched by Radio Bubbles in the Abell 1835 Brightest Cluster Galaxy." . (2014) Print. *
O'Dea, C P., et al. "Chandra and ROSAT Observations of Abell 194: Detection of an X-Ray CAvity and Mapping the Dynamics of the Cluster." Astrophysical Journal. 743 (2014): 59-70. Print. *
O'Dea, C P., et al. "Cold Gas Dynamics in Hydra-A: Evidence for a Rotating Disk." Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society. 437 (2014): 862-878. Print. *
O'Dea, C P., et al. "Massive Molecular Gas Flows in the Abell 1664 Brightest Cluster Galaxy." The Astrophysical Journal 748. 1 (2014) Print. *
Published Conference Proceedings
Sales, D., et al. "The Multi-wavelength Study of OH Megamaser Galaxy IRAS16399-0937." Proceedings of the XIV Latin American Regional IAU Meeting. Ed. A. Mateus, J. Gregorio-Hetem, and R. Cid Fernandes. Mexico City, Mexico: Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, 2014. Print.
Sebring, T., et al. "Progress on the New York State Observatory: A New 12-Meter Astronomical Telescope." Proceedings of the SPIE 9145, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V. Ed. Larry M. Stepp; Roberto Gilmozzi; Helen J. Hall. Montreal, Quebec: SPIE, 2014. Web.
Shima Parsa Moghaddam
Assistant Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
2014 Submissions
Journal Paper
Marcus, Guy G, et al. "Measurements of the solid-body rotation of anisotropic particles in 3D turbulence." New Journal of Physics 16. (2014): 102001. Print. *
Parsa, Shima and Greg A Voth. "Inertial Range Scaling in Rotations of Long Rods in Turbulence." Phy Rev Letters 112. (2014): 24501. Print. *
Carroll, Nick J, et al. "Measurement of Flow Velocity and Inference of Liquid Viscosity in a Microfluidic Channel by Fluorescence Photobleaching." Langmuir 30. 16 (2014): 4868–4874. Print. *
Michael Pierce
Associate Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
2014 Submissions
Journal Paper
Komanicky, Vladimir, et al. "Growth of Arrays of Oriented Epitaxial Platinum Nanoparticles with Controlled Size and Shape by Natural Colloidal Lithography." Nanoscale Research Letters 9. (2014): 336. Print. * £
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Karl, Robert, et al. "Charge Induced Dynamics of the Ag (001) Surface." Coherence 2014. Northwestern University, Argonne National Laboratory. Evanston, IL. 2 Sep. 2014. Conference Presentation.
Michael Richmond
Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
2014 Submissions
Journal Paper
Taichi, Kato,. "Survey of Period Variations of Superhumps in SU UMa-Type Dwarf Novae. V: The Fifth Year (2012-2013)." Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 66. (2014): 30-113. Print. *
Kato, Taichi. "Survey of Period Variations of Superhumps in SU UMa-type Dwarf Novae. VI. The Sixth Year (2013–2014)." Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 66. (2014): 90-153. Print. *
Principe, David A. "Star Formation in Orion's L1630 Cloud: An Infrared and Multi-epoch X-Ray Study." Astrophysical Journal Supplement 213. (2014): 4-35. Print. *
Betoule, M. "Improved Cosmological Constraints from a Joint Analysis of the SDSS-II and SNLS Supernova Samples." Astronomy and Astrophysics 568. (2014): 22-54. Print. *
M., Taylor,. "The Core Collapse Supernova Rate from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey." Astrophysical Journal 792. (2014): 135-147. Print. *
Tanaka, M. "Discovery of Dramatic Optical Variability in SDSS J1100+4421: A Peculiar Radio-loud Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxy?" Astrophysical Journal 793. (2014): 26-32. Print. *
Richmond, M. "BVRI Photometry of SN 2013ej in M74." Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers 42. (2014): 333-343. Print. *
Andrew Robinson
Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
2014 Submissions
Journal Paper
Allan, Schnorr-Muller, et al. "Feeding and Feedback in the Inner Kiloparsec of the Active Galaxy NGC 2110." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 437. 2 (2014): 1708-1724. Print. £
Dicken, D., et al. "Spitzer Mid-IR Spectroscopy of Powerful 2Jy and 3CRR Radio Galaxies. II. AGN Power Indicators and Unification." The Astrophysical Journal 788. 2 (2014): 98-119. Print. £
Lena, D., et al. "Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes: A Search in the Nearby Universe." The Astrophysical Journal 795. 2 (2014): 146-176. Print. £
Published Conference Proceedings
Sales, D. A., et al. "Multi-wavelength Study of OH Megamaser Galaxy IRAS16399-0937." Proceedings of the XIV Latin American Regional IAU Meeting. Ed. A. Mateus, J. Gregorio-Hetem, and R. Cid Fernandes. Florianópolis, SC, Brazil: Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 44, pp. 103-103 (2014), 2014. Print.
Brum, C., et al. "Two-dimensional Kinematics of the Central Region of NGC4501 from GMOS/Gemini Integral Field Spectroscopy." Proceedings of the XIV Latin American Regional IAU Meeting. Ed. A. Mateus, J. Gregorio-Hetem, and R. Cid Fernandes. Florianópolis, SC, Brazil: Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 44, pp. 190-191, 2014. Print.
Couto, G. S., et al. "Kinematics and Excitation of the Nuclear Spiral in the Active Galaxy Arp 102B." Proceedings of the XIV Latin American Regional IAU Meeting. Ed. A. Mateus, J. Gregorio-Hetem and R. Cid Fernandes. Florianópolis, SC, Brazil: Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 44, pp. 191-192, 2014. Print.
Robert Teese
Research Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
2014 Submissions
Published Conference Proceedings
Laws, Priscilla W., et al. "Using Online Interactive Physics-based Video Analysis Exercises to Enhance Learning." Proceedings of the International Conference on Physics Education, ICPE 2013, Prague. Ed. Leoš Dvo and Koudelková. Prague, Czech Republic: Charles University in Prague, MATFYZPRESS publisher, 2014. Web. £
George Thurston
Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
2014 Submissions
Journal Paper
Foffi, Giuseppe, et al. "Hard Sphere-Like Glass Transition in Eye Lens α-Crystallin Solutions." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 111. 47 (2014): 16748–16753. Print. *
Benjamin Zwickl
Associate Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
2014 Submissions
Journal Paper
Hoskinson, Anne-Marie, et al. "Bridging Physics and Biology Teaching through Modeling." American Journal of Physics 82. 5 (2014): 434-441. Print. *
Zwickl, Benjamin M., et al. "Epistemology and Expectations Survey About Experimental Physics: Development and Initial Results." Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research 10. (2014): 10120. Web. *
Zwickl, Benjamin M., Noah Finkelstein, and H. J. Lewandowski. "Incorporating Learning Goals About Modeling Into an Upper-division Physics Laboratory Experiment." American Journal of Physics 82. 9 (2014): 876-882. Print. *