Department News
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May 1, 2020Physics Faculty Yohannes Abate Conducts Coronavirus-Related Research
Cell Membrane Penetration Mechanism Revealed at Nanoscale
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Apr 27, 2020Mackenzie Joy Receives Presidential Award of Excellence
Joy is among 12 Franklin College students honored with the Award
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Apr 22, 20202020 Undergraduate Award Winners Announced
The five awards go to six of our outstanding undergraduates
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Apr 21, 2020Winners of 2020 Graduate Awards Announced
Please join us in congratulating this year's award winners! Each award comes with a certificate, a monetary prize, and an engraved nameplate displaying the recipients name on a plaque in the Physics building lobby.
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Mar 5, 2020Inaugural Chhabra-Landau Lecture Series Kicks Off
The first lecture in this annual series was given by Dr. Sharon Glotzer, recipient of the 2019 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics.
Recent Publications
Correlation between the width and the magnitude of magnetoconductance response in π-conjugated polymer-based diodes
R Geng, MT Pham, HM Luong, A Short, TD Nguyen, " Correlation between the width and the magnitude of magnetoconductance response in π-conjugated polymer-based diodes", Journal of Photonics for Energy 8 (3), 032222 (2018)
Simulated and Experimental Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectra of the Intersystem Crossing Dynamics in 2-Thiouracil
S. Mai, A. Mohamadzade, P. Marquetand, L. Gonzalez, S. Ullrich. Molecules 2018, 23(11), 2836. Invited article for special issue "Theoretical Excited-State Chemistry: New Developments and Cutting-Edge Applications".
Ultraviolet Line Intensities of Intermediate and High Ions Predicted from Non-equilibrium Ionization Simulations
Robin L. Shelton and Kyujin Kwak, the Astrophysical Journal, 2018, vol 866, article id. 34 (15pp)
Full-dimensional Quantum Dynamics of SiO in Collision with H2
Benhui Yang, P. Zhang, Chen Qu, X. H. Wang, P. C. Stancil, J. M. Bowman, N. Balakrishnan, B. M. McLaughlin, and R. C. Forrey, "Full-dimensional Quantum Dynamics of SiO in Collision with H2", J. Phys. Chem. A, 2018, 122(6), pp 1511-1520.
Intersystem crossing photodynamics of 4-thiouracil studied by time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy
A. Mohamadzade, S. Bai, M. Barbatti, S. Ullrich, 2018, DOI:10.1016/j.chemphys.2018.08.011, Chemical Physics, invited article special issue “Ultrafast Photoinduced Processes in Polyatomic Molecules: Electronic Structure, Dynamics and Spectroscopy”.
Internal conversion and intersystem crossing pathways in UV excited, isolated uracils and their implications in prebiotic chemistry
H. Yu, J. A. Sanchez-Rodriguez, M. Pollum, C. E. Crespo-Hernández, S. Mai, P. Marquetand, L. González, S. Ullrich, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 20168-20176. Invited article themed issue “Prebiotic chemistry and the molecular origins of life“.
2-Thiouracil intersystem crossing photodynamics studied by wavelength-dependent photoelectron and transient absorption spectroscopies
J. A. Sánchez-Rodríguez, A. Mohamadzade, S. Mai, B. Ashwood, M. Pollum, P. Marquetand, L. González, C. E. Crespo-Hernández, S. Ullrich, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017,19, 19756-19766. Invited article themed issue “XUV/X-ray light and fast ions for ultrafast chemistry”.
