Advanced Materials and Devices
Theory Group
Our group works on cutting edge problems in the broad areas of condensed matter and materials physics.
Computational methods based on atomistic and finite element methods are used and developed to investigate properties of novel materials and devices. We are also engaged with analytical theories for modeling novel quantum processes.
Our focus is on emerging problems in transport, light-matter phenomena, and energy applications.
New Book Published:
Contemporary Quantum Mechanics in Practice: Problems and Solutions,
L. M. Woods and P. Rodriguez Lopez (2024, Cambridge University Press)
Trail Blazers Event at USF
The Trail Blazers speaker series highlights leading faculty at the College of Arts and Sciences. This year, Prof. Woods was featured as a speaker presenting "The Quantum Leap: Unveiling the Future of Computing and its Potential Effects in Our Lives"
Paper in ACS Appl Mat & Interfaces
This paper shows a unique perspective of static frictional properties: Machine Learning helps us understand static frictional properties in two-dimensional materials with data-driven statistical models.
Paper in Advanced Materials
A collaborative paper demonstrating that high entropy alloys can improve hydrogen catalytic reaction.
Paper in Advanced Photonics Research
Collaborative work showing upcoversion of infrared light by graphitic systems - results are supported by a theoretical model.
Paper in Materials Research Bulletin
Quaternary chalcogenides continue with their surprises. A new spinel CuInSnS4 can host different types of disorder, and their peculiar properties may be attractive to thermoelectrics and photovoltaics.
Paper in Physical Review Research
Check out our new coupled nonlinear dipole approach showing that optical nonlinearities can be quite important for the ubiquitous van der Waals interactions in materials!
Paper in Physical Review B
A collaborative paper on complex Casimir phenomena in carbon nanotube metasurfaces - check it out!
Paper in J of Alloys and Compounds
Chalcogenide semiconductors continue to be of interest to various communities and in our paper we examine a series of new materials and their electronic and phonon properties computationally.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2023.172399
Paper in Inorganic Chemistry
Long Ma did a great job performing simulations on a new material made of earth-abundant constituents. Excellent collaborations with experimentalists!