Anna K Swan
Joint Faculty
(Associate Professor)
Office: Photonics, Room 827
Phone: 617-353-1712
Email: swan@bu.edu
Website: http://ultra.bu.edu/
Research Interests:
- Interactions of bio-material with nanostructures (Mucin-Nanotubes)
- Optical properties of low-dimensional systems (carbon nanotubes and graphene)
- Biological imaging and detection using interference techniques (4Pi microscopy and spectral fluorescence microsopy)
Selected papers:
- 07/02/07 Scaling of exciton binding energy with external dielectric function in carbon nanotubes
- 05/09/07 Screening of Excitons in Single, Suspended Carbon Nanotubes
- 01/07/07 Optical Determination of Electron-Phonon Coupling in Carbon Nanotubes
- 11/03/06 Exciton-mediated one-phonon resonant Raman scattering from one-dimensional systems
- 11/01/06 Tunable Resonant Raman Scattering From Singly Resonant Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes
- 03/31/06 Temperature Dependence of the Optical Transition Energies of Carbon Nanotubes: The Role of Electron-Phonon Coupling and Thermal Expansion
Education:
Ph.D., 1993 Boston University
Undergraduate research opportunity: several projects available
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