2005 Physics & Astronomy Graduate Student Publications

A selection of referred publications.

Deepshikha Choudhury, Daniel R. Phillips
Predictions for polarized-beam and/or vector-polarized-target observables in elastic Compton scattering on the deuteron
Physical Review C71, 044002 (2005).

Muhammad B. Haider, Costel Constantin , Hamad Al-Brithen, Haiqiang Yang, Eugen Trifan, David Ingram, and Arthur R. Smith, C.V. Kelly and Y. Ijiri,
Ga/N flux ratio influence on Mn incorporation, surface morphology,and lattice polarity during radio frequency molecular-beam epitaxy of(Ga,Mn)N, J.
Appl. Phys. 93, 5274, (2003)

Muhammad B. Haider, Costel Constantin, Hamad Al-Brithen , Gabriel Caruntu, Charles J. O'Connor, and Arthur R. Smith
Dependence of Magnetic Properties on the Growth Conditions of MnGaN Grown by rf N Plasma Molecular Beam Epitaxy.
Physica Status Solidi(a) 202, 1135, (2005).

De Nyago Tafen, David A. Drabold, and M. Mitkova,
Direct ab initio simulation of silver ion dynamics in chalcogenide glasses
Phys. Stat. Sol. (b) 242, No. 7, R55-R57 (2005) (Featured Rapid Research Letter).

P. Biswas, D.N. Tafen, and D.A. Drabold,
Experimentally constrained molecular relaxation: the case of glassy GeSe_2
Phys. Rev. B 71, 054204 (2005).

De Nyago Tafen and David A. Drabold,
Models and modeling schemes for binary IV-VI glasses
Phys. Rev. B 71, 054206 (2005).

P. Biswas, D.N. Tafen, R. Atta-Fynn, and D.A. Drabold,
The inclusionof experimental information in first principles modeling of materials
J. Phys. Condens. Matter 16, S5173 (2004).

P. Biswas, D.N. Tafen, R. Atta-Fynn,and D.A. Drabold
Recent Developments in Computer Modeling of Amorphous Materials, In Non-Crystalline Materials for Optoelectronics, edited by G. Lucovsky and M. Popescu,
INOE, Bucharest pp 441-467 (2004).

De Nyago Tafen and David A. Drabold,
Realistic models of binary glasses from models of tetrahedral amorphous semiconductors
Phys. Rev. B 68, 165208 (2003).

Jun Li, De Nyago Tafen, and David A. Drabold
Simulations of arsenic selenide glasses
J. Phys. Condens. Matter 15, S1529 (2003).

Constantin, A., Shields, J. C., Hamann, F., Foltz, G. B., and Chaffee, F. H.,
Emission-line Properties of z > 4 Quasars
The Astrophysical Journal 50, 565 (2002)

Warner, C., Hamann, F., Shields, J. C.,Constantin, A., Foltz, G. B., and Chaffee, F. H.,
The metallicity of the Redshift 4.16 Quasar BR2248-1242
The Astrophysical Journal 68, 567 (2002)

Dietrich, M., Hamann, F., Shields, J. C., Constantin, A., Vestergaard, M., Chaffee, F., Foltz, C.B., and Junkkarinen, V.T.,
Continuum and Emission Line Strength Relations for a large Active Galactic Nuclei Sample
The Astrophysical Journal 912, 581 (2002)

AL-Brithen, HAH, Trifan EM, Ingram DC, Smith AR, Gall D,
Phase stability, nitrogen vacancies, growth mode, and surface structure of ScN(001) under Sc-rich conditions
Journal of Crystal Growth 68, 567 (2002)

M. Duranduru , D. A. Drabold
Simulation of pressure-induced polyamorphism in a chalcogenide glass GeSe2
Phys. Rev. B 65 104208 (2002)

M. Duranduru, D. A. Drabold,
Ab initio simulation of high pressure phases of GaAs,
Phys. Rev. B 66 045209 (2002)

M. Duranduru, D. A. Drabold,
First order pressure-induced polyamorphism in germanium,
Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Com.) 66 041201 (2002)

M. Duranduru, D. A. Drabold,
Ab initio simulation of pressure-induced low-energy excitations in amorphous silicon,
Phys. Rev. B 66 155205 (2002)

M. Duranduru, D. A. Drabold,
Pressure-induced structural phase transition of paracrystalline silicon,
Phys. Rev B 66 205204 (2002)

E.A. Pashitskii, V.I. Vakaryuk
Pinning of Abrikosov vortices on dislocations and the critical current in high-temperature superconductors
Low Temp. Phys. 2 8, 11 (2002)

Yu.V. Fedotov, S.M. Ryabchenko, E.A. Pashitskii, A.V. Semenov, V.I. Vakaryuk, V.M. Pan, V.S. Flis,
Magnetic-field and temperature dependence of the critical current in thin epitaxial films of the high-temperature superconductor YbaCuO
Low Temp. Phys. 28, 172 (2002)

Yu.V. Fedotov, S.M. Ryabchenko, E.A. Pashitskii, A.V. Semenov, V.I. Vakaryuk, V.S. Flis, V.M. Pan,
Magnetic field dependence of the critical current density in thin epitaxial HTS YBaCuO films with dislocation low-angle domain boundaries
Physica C, 372-376, 1091 (2002)

G. Petculescu, L.A.Wilen,
Traveling-wave amplification in a variable standing wave ratio device
submitted to Acoustic Research Letters Online (ARLO) September 2001

D.P. Hansen, L.A.Wilen,
Performance and applications of an automated c-axis ice fabric analyser to be published in the Journal of Glaciology

A. Petculescu, L.A.Wilen,
Lumped-element technique for the measurement of complex density
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110, 1950 - 1957 (2001)

G. Petculescu, L.A.Wilen,
High-amplitude thermoacoustic effects in a single pore
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 942 - 948 (2001)

Constantin, A., Shields, J. C., Hamann, F., Foltz, G. B., and Chaffee, F. H.,
Emission-Line Properties of z > 4 Quasars
2001, ApJ, in press

M. Durandurdu, D. A. Drabold,
Ab initio simulations of first order amorphous to amorphous phase transition of Silicon
Phys. Rev.B 64 014101 (2001).

H.A. Al-Brithen, A.R. Smith,
Molecular Beam Epitaxial Growth of Atomically Smooth Scandium Nitride Films Appl. Phys. Lett. 77, 2485 (2000).

Salow, R. M., Statler, T. S.,
Eccentric Nuclear Disks with Self-Gravity: Predictions for the Double Nucleus of M31
Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL), Volume 551, p. L49 (2001).