Congratulations to the now Dr. Joseph May who defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “Theoretical Insight into the Manipulation of the Optical and Magnetic Properties of TM2+-doped II-VI Semiconductor Quantum Dots” on Tuesday. Joseph will be moving to Las Vegas shortly to teach high school chemistry and will be sorely missed.
Congratulations to Patrick Lestrange, a second-year graduate student, on the acceptance of his paper titled “Density of States Guided Møller-Plesset Perturbation Theory” in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. This paper describes a method designed to compute the correlation energy correction for large systems with high density of states, such as polymers and nanostructures. . . .
Congratulations to Josh Goings, who has been awarded a 2014 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship to support his Ph.D. work. Josh is a second year graduate student whose research involves the development of new post-SCF methods for large molecular systems.
Feizhi Ding’s paper published early last year titled “An efficient method for calculating dynamical hyperpolarizabilities using real-time time-dependent density functional theory” was selected for the The Journal of Chemical Physics 2013 Editors’ Choice Collection. From the JCP’s website: The Editors at The Journal of Chemical Physics facilitate publication of the most innovative and influential articles . . .
Ongoing collaborative work with Professors Daniel R. Gamelin and David S. Ginger at the University of Washington have resulted in two new publications: “Direct Measurement of Acceptor Group Localization on Donor–Acceptor Polymers Using Resonant Auger Spectroscopy” and “Ferromagnetic excited-state Mn2+ dimers in Zn1−xMnxSe quantum dots observed by time-resolved magnetophotoluminescence“. In the first publication, Phu Nguyen . . .
Bo Peng’s paper titled “Effects of Crystallographic and Shape Anisotropies on Dopant-Carrier Exchange Interactions in Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Dots” is now available online in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. This paper examines the role of nanocrystal shape and crystalline anisotropy on carrier-mediated magnetism in diluted magnetic semiconductor nanocrystals using density functional theory and analytical . . .
Congratulations to Josh Goings, a second-year graduate student, who passed his departmental second-year exam today! Josh presented on his research titled “Equation of Motion Coupled Cluster for Excited States”. The exam involved a public presentation of Josh’s ongoing graduate research followed by a closed-door presentation of his research proposal with his exam committee.
David Lingerfelt’s paper titled “Dynamical Investigations of Inhomogenous Vibrational Broadening in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Nanocrystals” was just accepted for publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C. This is David’s first publication in the Li group and his first-ever publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Congratulations David! The paper presents a method for simulating finite-temperature, inhomogenously . . .