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Jinke Tang
Professor
Department of
Physics and Astronomy, University of Wyoming,
Phone: (307) 766-4392, Fax: (307)
766-2652, E-mail: jtang2@uwyo.edu
Current Research Interest
My
research interest is in the areas of experimental condensed matter physics and
materials science. One area of my
research focuses on materials for spintronic applications including magnetic
semiconductors and half-metals. Our
research group investigates the magnetic and electronic transport properties of
nanostructured oxides and thin films.
Various thin film preparation techniques are used in the labs, including
pulsed laser deposition and magnetron sputtering. A second area of our current research
interest is novel thermoelectric materials that can be used for energy
conversion, for example, generating electricity from car exhaust, waste heat
and geothermal energy. We investigate
the electronic and phonon transport in both nanostructured bulk and thin
films. We are also working on energy
efficient white light emitting diodes (LEDs) that will most certainly replace
incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs in the future. Other research
activities include x-ray studies of electronic, magnetic and crystalline
structures of nanomaterials; spin-dependent transport; tunneling
magnetoresistance and giant magnetoresistance; dielectrics, magnetic oxides and
nanoparticles; highly correlated electron systems; electronic, magnetic,
optical properties of transition metal/rare earth compounds/alloys.
Links
Physics Department
If you have comments or suggestions, email me at jtang2@uwyo.edu