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Department News
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Jan 20, 2023
Small Satellite Research Laboratory Applications Now Open
Applications are open until January 27
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Dec 9, 2022
Assistant Professor in Physics Education Research
University of Georgia Department of Physics and Astronomy
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Oct 4, 2022Tenure-Track Faculty in Advanced/Quantum Materials
University of Georgia Department of Physics and Astronomy
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Jul 6, 2022The National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program awards a total of $3M Collaborative Grant for Quantum Networks Training and Research Alliance in the Southeast to the University of Georgia and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Yohannes Abate (Physics) is the Principal Investigator and at UGA Co-Principal Investigators are Michael Geller (Physics), Peter Kner (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering), Tina Salguero (Chemistry), and Xianqiao Wang (College of Engineering)
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Jun 14, 2022Prof. Nandana Weliweriya receives UGA's Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Learning Technologies Grant for second consecutive year
This grant supports his Virtual Reality collaborative project with the college of engineering and the transformation of the PHYS 1251 course labs (Introductory Studio Physics for Engineers I).
Recent Publications
The Long Tails of the Pegasus-Pisces Arch Intermediate Velocity Cloud
Shelton, R. L., Williams, M. E., Parker, M. C., Galyardt, J. E., Fukui, Y., & Tachihara, K. (2022), ApJ 925 190.
Plasmonic coupling
Wang Yanfeng, Shen Ao, Fei Yang, Zhengjun Zhang, Zhengjun, and Yiping Zhao, “Coupling between Surface Plasmon Modes of Single-Layer Complex Silver Nanohole Array and Enhancing Index Sensing,” ACS Applied Nano Materials 5, 9761 - 9770 (2022).
Simulation of fibrous network
Nichola Filla, Yiping Zhao, Xianqiao Wang, “A Tractable, Transferable, and Empirically Consistent Fibrous Biomaterial Model,” Polymers 14, 4437 (2022).
Smartphone determining the focal length of a lens
Yoong Sheng Phang and Yiping Zhao, “Determining the Focal Length of Converging and Diverging Lenses Using a Smartphone,” The Physics Teacher 60, 703 (2022).
Multiple virus detection
Yanjun Yang, Beibei Xu, Jackelyn Murray, James Haverstick, Xianyan Chen, Ralph A. Tripp, and Yiping Zhao, “Rapid and quantitative detection of respiratory viruses using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and machine learning,” Biosensors and Bioelectronics 217, 114721 (2022).
Excited state properties of porphyrins
L. Hanna, E. Movsesian, M. Orozco, A. R. Bernot Jr., M. Asadinamin, L. Shenje, S. Ullrich, Y. Zhao, N. Marshall, J. A. Weeks, M. B. Thomas, J. A. Teprovich Jr., P. A. Ward: Spectroscopic Investigation of the Electronic and Excited State Properties of Para-Substituted Tetraphenyl Porphyrins and Their Electrochemically Generated Ions, Spectrochimica Acta Part A 2022, 278, 121300.
FSRS of photo-ODIBO
L. Shenje, Y. Qu, V. Popik, S. Ullrich: Femtosecond Photodecarbonylation of photo-Oxadibenzocyclooctyne Studied by Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2021, 23, 25637-25648.
