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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

Recent Reviews:

K.S. Burch, D.D. Awschalom, and D.N. Basov, "Optical properties of III-Mn-V ferromagnetic semiconductors", Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 320, 3207 (2008).PDF

W.J. Padilla, D.N. Basov, and D.R. Smith, “Negative refractive index materials,” Materials Today 9, 28 (2006). PDF

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

Selected Articles:

A.D. LaForge, W.J. Padilla, K.S. Burch, Z.Q. Li, A.A. Schafgans, Kouji Segawa, Yoichi Ando, and D.N. Basov, "Sum rules and interlayer infrared response of the high-Tc YBCO superconductor in an external magnetic field", Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 097008 (2008).PDF

M.M. Qazilbash, M. Brehm, Byung-Gyu Chae, P.-C. Ho, G.O. Andreev, Bong-Jun Kim, Sun Jin Yun, A.V. Balatsky, M.B. Maple, F. Keilmann, Hyun-Tak Kim, D.N. Basov, "Mott Transition in VO_2 Revealed by Infrared Spectroscopy and Nano-Imaging," Science 318, 1750 (2007). PDF

Z.Q. Li, V. Podzorov, N. Sai, M.C. Martin, M.E. Gershenson, M. Di Ventra, and D.N. Basov, "Light Quasiparticles Dominate Electronic Transport in Molecular Crystal Field-Effect Transistors," Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 016403 (2007). PDF

K. S. Burch, D. B. Shrekenhamer, E. J. Singley, J. Stephens, B. L. Sheu, R. K. Kawakami, P. Schiffer, N. Samarth, D. D. Awschalom, and D. N. Basov, “Impurity Band Conduction in a High Temperature Ferromagnetic Semiconductor,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 87208 (2006). 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

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

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