Amlan Basak
Graduate Student
Office: OEH-223
Phone: (412)624-6226
Email: amb9@pitt.edu
Education
MS: Univ of Pittsburgh, USA(2004)
MS: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India(2002)
BS: Malda College, University of North Bengal, India(1999)
Research Activities
Ultrafast carrier and phonon dynamics in GaAs:
Carriers and phonons are excited in GaAs by ultrashort laser pulses of the order of 10 fs and subsequent dynamics is observed by analysing the reflected probe signal in a pump probe set up. The excitation leads to the change in transient reflectivity which is observed by reflective electro optic sampling. Studying the signal in time and frequency domain allows us to understand the dynamics and different physical phenomena involved in them in first few picoseconds.
Tong Chen
Graduate Student
Office: OEH-224
Phone: (412)624-7506
Email: toc2@pitt.edu
Education
BS in Physics, Nanjing University, China, 2002
Research Activities
Femtosecond Ti:Sapphire oscillator construction and Carrier-Envelope Phase Control.
Anca-Monia Constantinescu
Graduate Student
Office: OEH-224
Phone: (412)624-7506
Email: angetmar@hotmail.com
anc2598@pitt.edu
Education
MS: Photonics, Physics Department, Politehnica University of Bucharest, 1998.
BS: Physics Department, University of Bucharest, 1997
Research Activities
Ultrafast phonon and carrier dynamics in Si.
Mahmut Demir
Graduate Student
Office: OEH-224
Phone: (412)624-7506
Email: mad91@pitt.edu
m.demir@yahoo.com
Education
BS: Bilkent University, 2005
Research Activities
The research interest mainly focuses on the interaction between the organic molecule/metal (semiconductor) interface. With the help of two-photo-photo-emission (2PPE) and the scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), it is possible to detect the basic electronic structure of the ground-state molecules, the excited states and the decaying process of the excited molecules. The ultimate purpose for this study is to know some basic steps in chemical reaction, especially the energy conversion processes in photochemistry.
Kyuwan Lee
Graduate Student
Office: OEH-223
Phone: (412)624-6226
Email: kwl7@pitt.edu
Education
B.S.: Physics, Korea University (Seoul, Korea 2003)
Research Activities
My research interests are based upon novel phenomena coming from nanostructures. Using PEEM(photo Emission Electron Microscopy) I observe the SPP resonance directly.My recent research is focused on finding both the best condition for surface Plasmon resonance (SPR) and the relationship between SPR and new structure parameters.
Bin Li
Graduate Student
Office: G1 Allen Hall
Phone: (412)624-9577
Email: bilst2@pitt.edu
libin1995@yahoo.com
Education
MS: Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh 07/2000
BS: Peking University, China, 07/1999
Research Activities
Time-Resolved 2PPE study of Molecule/TiO2 system
Vahit Sametoglu
Graduate Student
Office: OEH-223
Phone: (412)624-6226 or -9804
Email: vas6@pitt.edu
vsametoglu24@hotmail.com
Education
MS in Physics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 12/2001
BS in Physics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 06/2000
Research Activities
We employ ultrafast lasers to probe surfaces of noble metals such as Cu(111) and Ag(111) by a technique called “two-photon photoemission” (2PPE).