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Principal Investigator

D.N. Basov
Department of Physics
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California
dbasov@physics.ucsd.edu
(858) 822-1211

Ph.D. 1991 Lebedev Physics Inst, Academy of Sciences of Russia; postdoctoral research associate McMaster University 1992-96; assistant physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory 1996; assistant, associate professor, University of California, San Diego 1997-2001. Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego 2001 – present. NSF Career Award 1998, Alfred P. Sloan Fellow 1997, Cottrell Fellow 1998. The Ludwig Genzel Prize 2004. Fellow, American Physical Society 2005.

Research interests:
Electronic and magnetic properties of novel materials

Selected publications:
D.N. Basov and T. Timusk, “Electrodynamics of high-Tc superconductors”, Reviews of Modern Physics 77, 721 (2005). PDF

Z.Q. Li, G.M. Wang, N. Sai, D. Moses, M.C. Martin, M. DiVEntra, A.J. Heeger, D.N. Basov, “Infrared Imaging of the Nanometer-Thick Accumulation Layer in Organic Field-Effect Transistors”, Nano Letters 6, 224-228 (2006). PDF

S. V. Dordevic, K. S. D. Beach, N.Takeda, Y. J. Wang, M. B. Maple, and D. N. Basov “Heavy Fermion, Fluid in High Magnetic Fields: An Infrared Study of CeRu₄Sb₁₂” Physics Review Letters 96, 17403 (2006) PDF

Y. S. Lee, K. Segawa, Z. Q. Li, W. J. Padilla, M. Dummm, S. V. Dordevic, C. C. Homes, Y. Ando, and D. N. Basov, “Electrodynamics of the nodal metal state in weakly doped high- T_c cuprates” Phys. Rev. B 72, 054529 (2005) PDF

K. S. Burch, A. Schafgans, N. P. Butch, T. A. Sayles, M. B. Maple, B.C. Sales, D. Mandrus, and D. N. Basov, “Optical Study of Interactions in a d -Electron Kondo Lattice with Ferromagnetism”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 046401 (2005), PDF

Y.-S. Lee, K. Segawa, Y. Ando, D. N. Basov, “Coherence and Superconductivity in Coupled One-Dimensional Chains: A Case Study of YBa₂Cu₃O_y”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 137004 (2005) PDF

C. C. Homes, S. V. Dordevic, M. Strongin, D. A. Bonn, Ruixing Liang, W. N. Hardy, Seiki Koymia, Yoichi Ando, G. Yu, X. Zhao, M. Greven, D. N. Basov, and T.Timusk, “Universal scaling relation in high-temperature superconductors”, Nature 430, 539 (2004). PDF

Ta-Jen Yen, W.J. Padilla, Nicholas Fang, D.N. Basov, D. Vier, D. R. Smith, J.B. Pendry, and Xiang Zhang, “THz magnetic response from artificial materials” Science 303, 1494 (2004). PDF

D.N. Basov, S.I. Woods, A.S.Katz, E.J. Singley, R.C. Dynes, M. Xu, D.G. Hinks, C.C. Homes, M. Strongin, “Sum rules and interlayer conductivity of high-Tc cuprates”, Science 283, p.49-52, (1999). PDF