• Contact Information

  • Office: 443 Meyer Hall
  • Telephone: (303) 273-3068
  • Fax: (303) 273-3919
  • Email: zhiwu@mines.edu
 
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Prof. Zhigang Wu

Education

Employment History

Teaching

Office Hours (Fall 2009)

  • Wednesday 9-11:30; Friday 9-11:30

Research Interests

  • Nano-materials: electronic structures and synthesis
  • Excitation properties: photoemission and optical absorption
  • Surface and interface
  • Energy conversion: photovoltaics based on nano-materials
  • Energy storage: H-storage in metal clusters and clathrates
  • Materials under extreme conditions: thermodynamics and superconductivity
  • Ferroelectrics and multi-ferroic materials
  • Computational methods:
         Density Functional Theory, TDDFT
         QMC, GW/BSE, Quantum Chemistry
         Classical/ab initio MD, kMC

Research Group

  • Undergraduate Students:
         William Oswald (Nano-PV)
         Marc Devorak (High-pressure physics)
  • Graduate Students:
  • Postdoc:

Positions

  • A PhD position is immediately available
  • A Postdoc position is expected for summer 2010

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Last update: September 2009.