The Interplay of Music and Physics - Laurie McNeil
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LAURIE ELIZABETH McNEIL
Education
Ph.D., Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982.
M.S., Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1979.
A.M., Physics, Harvard University, 1977.
A.B., Chemistry and Physics, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, 1977.
Professional History (since Ph.D.)
Chair, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004 - present.
Assistant Chair for Advancement, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999 - 2004.
Visiting Research Scientist, DuPont Central Research and Development, 1998 - 99
Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy and Curriculum in Applied and Materials Sciences, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996 - present.
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Curriculum in Applied and Materials Sciences, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995 - 98.
Faculty Research Participant, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 1990.
Assistant, then Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy and Curriculum in Applied Sciences, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1984 - 96.
Postdoctoral Associate and I.B.M. Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983 - 84.
Honors and Awards
Lecturer, AAAS Latin American Series on Women in Science and Engineering 2004
Chapman Family Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC-CH
Academic Leadership Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC-CH
Fellow, American Physical Society
Kathryn A. McCarthy Lectureship in Physics, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts Univ., 2000
Member, Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars, UNC-CH, 2000 - present.
Bowman and Gordon Gray Professorship, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996 - 1999.
Recent Professional Activities
APS DCMP Executive Committee 2001 - 2004
Member, U.S. delegation, IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics (Paris 2002)
Chair, APS Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award Selection Committee 2000
APS/CSWP "Climate for Women" Site Visit Program 1994 - present
Chair, APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics, 1997
APS/AAPT/AIP National Task Force on Undergraduate Physics 2000 - 2005
NSF NIRT, IGERT, MWN review panels, Electronic Materials 2001, 2004, 2006
Chair, La. Board of Regents Enhancement Prog. review panel (Phys. & Astro.) 2005
National Academies Research Associateship Program review panel (Physical Sciences) 2005-06
Current research interests
Structure-property relations in semiconductors; vibrational spectroscopy of carbon nanotubes, optical properties of organic semiconductors, Raman scattering in magnetic semiconductors
PUBLICATIONS--LAURIE E. McNEIL
J. R. Weinberg-Wolf, L. E. McNeil, Shubin Liu and Christian Kloc, " Evaluation of the ?-electron overlap in rubrene single crystals by Raman spectroscopy" (submitted to Phys. Rev. B)
66. Ch. Zgheib, L.E. McNeil, M. Kazan, P. Masri F.M. Morales, O. Ambacher and J. Pezoldt, "Raman studies of Ge promoted stress modulation in 3C-SiC grown on Si(111)" Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 041905 (2005).
65. A.Y. Polyakov, N.B. Smirnov, A.V. Govorkov, A.A. Shlensky, K. McGuire,E. Harley, L.E. McNeil, R. Khanna, S.J. Pearton and J.M. Zavada, "Properties and annealing stability of Fe doped semi-insulating GaN structures," phys. stat. sol. c 2, 2476- 2479 (2005).
64. V.V. Brazhkin, L.E. McNeil, M. Grimsditch, N.A. Bendeliani, T.I. Dyuzheva and L.M. Lityagina, "Elastic constants of stishovite up to its amorphization temperature," J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 17, 1869 (2005).
63. L.E. McNeil, H. Park, J.P. Lu and M.J. Peters, "Effect of residual catalyst on the vibrational modes of single-walled carbon nanotubes," J. Appl. Phys. 96, 5158 (2004).
62. E.C.T. Harley and L.E. McNeil, "The effect of a large SWNT diameter distribution on cesium intercalation," J. Phys. Chem. Solids 65, 1711 (2004).
61. J.R. Weinberg-Wolf and L.E. McNeil, "Resonant Raman spectroscopy on alpha-hexathiophene single crystals," Phys. Rev. B 69, 125202 (2004).
60. L.E. McNeil, M.H. Grimsditch, R.C. Birtcher and N. Abrosimov, "Elastic instability in GeSi alloys under heavy ion irradiation," Phil. Mag. Lett. 84, 93 (2004).
59. Daxing Han, J. D. Lorentzen, J.R. Weinberg-Wolf and L.E. McNeil, "Raman study of thin films from amorphous-to-microcrystalline silicon prepared by hot-wire chemical vapor deposition," J. Appl. Phys. 94, 2930 (2003).
58. L. An, J.M. Owens, L.E. McNeil and J. Liu, "Synthesis of nearly uniform single-walled carbon nanotubes using identical metal-containing molecular nanoclusters as catalysts," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 13688 (2002).
57. H. Shimoda, S.J. Oh, H.Z. Geng, R.J. Walker, X.B. Zhang, L.E. McNeil and O. Zhou, "Self-assembly of carbon nanotubes," Adv. Mat. 14, 899 (2002).
56. L.E. McNeil, R.H. French and A.R. Hanuska, "Orientation dependence in near-field scattering from TiO2 particles," Appl. Optics 40, 3726 (2001).
55. L.E. McNeil, R.H. French and A.R. Hanuska, "Near-field scattering from red pigment particles: absorption and spectral dependence" J. Appl. Phys. 89, 1898 (2001).
54. L.E. McNeil and R.H. French, "Light scattering from red pigment particles: multiple scattering in a strongly-absorbing system" J. Appl. Phys. 89, 283 (2001).
53. L.E. McNeil and R.H. French, "Multiple scattering from Rutile TiO2 particles," Acta Materialia 48, 4571 (2000).
52. Guozhen Yue, Daxing Han, L.E. McNeil, and Qi Wang, "Characteristics of the low energy photoluminescence in µc-Si films" J. Appl. Phys. 88, 4904 (2000).
51. B. Gao, C. Bower, J.D. Lorentzen, L. Fleming, A. Kleinhammes, X.P. Tang, L.E. McNeil, Y. Wu and O. Zhou, "Enhanced saturation lithium composition in ball-milled single-walled carbon nanotubes," Chem. Phys. Lett. 327, 69 (2000)
50. S.Y. Lehman, L.E. McNeil and R.J. Albalak, "Use of a cooperative-motion domain model to analyze Brillouin light scattering measurements of dynamic modulus in triblock copolymers," J. Polymer Science: Part B: Polymer Physics 38, 2170 (2000).
49. M.J. Peters, L.E. McNeil, Jian Ping Lu and Daniel Kahn, "Structural phase transition in carbon nanotube bundles under pressure," Phys. Rev. B 61, 5939 (2000).
48. K.J. Price, L.R. Sharpe, L.E. McNeil and E.A. Irene, "Electroluminescence in silicon oxynitride films," J. Appl. Phys. 86, 2638 (1999).
47. K.J. Price, L.E. McNeil, A. Suvkanov, E.A. Irene, P.J. MacFarlane and M.E. Zvanut, "Characterization of the luminescence center in photo- and electroluminescent amorphous silicon oxynitride films," J. Appl. Phys. 86, 2628 (1999).
46. L.E. McNeil and M. Sher, "The dual-career couple problem," Physics Today 52 (7), 32 (July 1999).
45. Q. Meng, T. Daniels-Race, Z. Luo and L.E. McNeil, "The polarization sensitivity of optical absorption in tensile strained GaAs/InAlAs double quantum wells," Superlattices and Microstructures 25, 583 (1999).
44. M. Grimsditch, L.E. McNeil and D.J. Lockwood, "Unexpected behavior of the antiferromagnetic mode of NiO," Phys. Rev. B 58, 14462 (1998).
43. V. Balan, T. Daniels-Race and L.E. McNeil, "Photoluminescence study of highly doped, tensile-strained GaAs/In0.07Al0.93As quantum wells," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters 16, 7 (1997).
42. L.J. Blue, T. Daniels-Race, C.-N. Yeh and L.E. McNeil, "Effect of well width variation on type-I/type-II photoluminescence in GaAs/AlAs single quantum wells" Superlattices and Microstructures 21, 187 (1997).
41. L.E. McNeil and D. Holmgren, "An elliptical polarization machine" Am. J. Phys. 64, 1078 (1996).
40. C.-N. Yeh, L.E. McNeil, T. Daniels-Race and L.J. Blue, "PL measurements of tensile-strained GaAs/In0.07Al0.93As quantum wells " J. Appl. Phys. 79, 3192 (1996).
39. M.J. Peters, L.E. McNeil and K. Dy, "Resonance Raman scattering in HgS" Solid State Commun. 97, 1095 (1996).
38. B.H. Augustine, Y.-Z. Hu, E.A. Irene and L.E. McNeil, "Annealing study of luminescent amorphous silicon-rich silicon oxynitride thin films" Appl. Phys. Lett. 67, 3694 (1995).
37. C.-N. Yeh, L.E. McNeil, R.E. Nahory, R. Bhat, "Measurement of the In0.52Al0.48As valence-band hydrostatic deformation potential and the hydrostatic-pressure dependence of the In0.52Al0.48As/InP band offset" Phys. Rev. B 52, 14682 (1995).
36. L.E. McNeil, "Challenges for teaching in introductory science classes" National Teaching and Learning Forum 4, 4 (1995).
35. C.-N. Yeh, D. Han, K.D. Wang and L.E. McNeil, "Carrier recombination in a-Si:H p-i-n devices studied by PL and EL spectroscopies," in Amorphous Silicon Technology, ed. by M. Hack, E.A. Schiff, M. Powell, A. Matsuda and A. Madan (MRS Symposium Proceedings, San Francisco, CA 1995).
34. B.H. Augustine, E.A. Irene, Y. He, L.E. McNeil, K. Christensen and D.E. Maher, "Visible light emission from thin films containing Si, O, N, and H" J. Appl. Phys. 78, 4020 (1995).
33. C.-N. Yeh, L. McNeil, L. Blue and T. Daniels-Race, "Measurement of the GaAs/AlAs valence-band offset from a single quantum well near the _-X crossover" J. Appl. Phys. 77, 4541 (1995).
32. L.E. McNeil, "General remarks on Raman and IR spectroscopy of group III nitrides", "Raman and IR reflection spectra of AlN", "Raman and IR reflection spectra of GaN" and "Raman and IR reflection spectra of InN and ternary group III nitrides", in Properties of Group-III Nitrides, ed. by J.H. Edgar (EMIS Datareviews Series, INSPEC, London, 1994).
31. R.C. Birtcher, M. Grimsditch and L.E. McNeil, "Correlation between structural and elastic properties of Ge after Kr ion irradiation at room temperature" Phys. Rev. B 50, 8990 (1994).
30. L.E. McNeil and M. Grimsditch, "Comment on 'New high-pressure transformation in ___quartz'", Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 1301 (1994).
29. A.D. Alvarenga, M.-L. Saboungi, L.A. Curtiss, M. Grimsditch and L.E. McNeil, "Structure and dynamics of molten aluminum and gallium trihalides. II: Raman spectroscopy and ab-initio calculations", Molecular Physics 81, 409 (1994).
28. L. McNeil and M. Grimsditch, "Elastic moduli of muscovite mica", J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 5, 1681 (1993).
27. L. McNeil, M. Grimsditch and R.H. French, "Vibrational spectroscopy of AlN", J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 76, 1132 (1993).
26. R.H. French, R. Abou-Rahme, D.J. Jones and L.E. McNeil, "Absorption edge and band gap of SiO2 fused silica glass", in Solid State Optical Materials, ed. by A.J. Bruce and B. Hiremath, Ceramic Transactions 28, pp. 63-8 (Am. Ceram. Soc., Westerville, OH 1992).
25. L.E. McNeil and M. Grimsditch, "Pressure-amorphized SiO2: An anisotropic amorphous solid", Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 83 (1992).
24. E. Zouboulis, Sudha Kumar, U. Welp, S.K. Chan, M. Grimsditch and L.E. McNeil, "Surface waves on the a, b, and c faces of untwinned single crystals of YBa2Cu3O7-x", Physica C 190, 329 (1992).
23. M.J. Peters and L.E. McNeil, "Evidence of distinct structural clusters in amorphous Ge1-xSnxSe2", J. Non-Crystalline Solids 139, 231 (1992).
22. L.E. McNeil and M. Grimsditch, "Elastic constants of As2S3", Phys. Rev. B 44, 4174 (1991).
21. L.W. Martin, L.E. McNeil and J.M. Mikrut, "Index of refraction and optical absorption in amorphous Ge1-xSnxSe2", Phil. Mag. B 61, 957 (1990).
20. M.J. Peters and L.E. McNeil, "High pressure Mössbauer study of SnSe", Phys. Rev. B 41, 5893 (1990).
19. L.E. McNeil and M.J. Peters, "Intercluster and intracluster interactions in Ge1-xSnxSe2", J. Non-Crystalline Solids 114, 64 (1989).
18. J.M. Mikrut and L.E. McNeil, "Photostructural changes in bulk amorphous Ge1-xSnxSe2", J. Non-Crystalline Solids 114, 127 (1989).
17. J.M. Mikrut and L.E. McNeil, "Fragmentation of the molecular cluster network of amorphous Ge1-xSnxSe2", J. Non-Crystalline Solids 109, 237 (1989).
16. G.B. Turpin and L.E. McNeil, "Photodarkening in Ge1-xSnxSe2 films", Phys. Rev. B 39, 8750 (1989).
15. W.K. Chu, G.S. Sandhu, N.R. Parikh, M.L. Swanson, C. Childs, J.M. Mikrut and L.E. McNeil, "Characterization of diamond films", Proc. of SPIE Conf. on Diamond Optics , SPIE vol. 969 (1988).
14. L.E. McNeil, J.M. Mikrut and M.J. Peters, "Phase separation in Ge1-xSnxSe2 glasses", Solid State Commun. 62, 101 (1987).
13. M.I. Suero, L.E. McNeil and F. Márquez, "15N isotopic effects on the Raman spectra of tribromoacetonitrile", J. Raman Spec. 18, 273 (1987).
12. L.E. McNeil, J. Steinbeck, L. Salamanca-Riba and G. Dresselhaus, "Raman microscopy studies of intercalated graphite fibers", Carbon 24, 73 (1986).
11. Y. Iye, L.E. McNeil, G. Dresselhaus , G. Boebinger and P.M. Berglund, "The electronic phase transition in graphite under strong magnetic field", Proc. of the 17th Inter. Conf. on the Physics of Semiconductors, ed. by J.D. Chadi and W.A. Harrison (Springer-Verlag, New York 1985) p. 981.
10. L.E. McNeil, J. Steinbeck, L. Salamanca-Riba and G. Dresselhaus, "Raman microprobe observations of intercalate contraction in graphite intercalation compounds", Phys. Rev. B 31, 2451 (1985).
9. Y. Iye, L.E. McNeil and G. Dresselhaus, "The effect of impurities on the electronic phase transition in graphite under strong magnetic fields", Phys. Rev. B 30, 7009 (1984).
8. Y. Iye, P.M. Berglund and L.E. McNeil, "The magnetic field dependence of the critical temperature for the electronic phase transition in graphite in the quantum limit", Solid State Commun. 52, 975 (1984).
7. L.E. McNeil, J. Steinbeck, L. Salamanca-Riba and G. Dresselhaus, "Raman microprobe studies of intercalated graphite fibers", Proc. of the Materials Research Society Symposium on Graphite Intercalation Compounds ed. by M.S. Dresselhaus and P.C. Eklund (Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh 1984).
6. N.-C. Yeh, G. Roth, L.E. McNeil, L. Salamanca-Riba and G. Dresselhaus, "Raman characterization of potassium-hydrogen intercalated highly ordered graphite fibers", Proc. of the Materials Research Society Symposium on Graphite Intercalation Compounds ed. by M.S. Dresselhaus and P.C. Eklund (Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh 1984).
5. H. Menjo, G. Braunstein, B.S. Elman, L.E. McNeil and M.S. Dresselhaus, "Enhanced intercalation induced by ion implantation", Proc. of the Materials Research Society Symposium on Graphite Intercalation Compounds ed. by M.S. Dresselhaus and P.C. Eklund (Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh 1984).
4. L.E. McNeil, B.S. Elman, M.S. Dresselhaus, G. Dresselhaus and T. Venkatesan, "Magnetoreflection in ion-implanted graphite", Proc. of the Materials Research Society Symposium on Ion Implantation and Ion Beam Processing of Materials ed. by G.K. Hubler, C.W. White, O.W. Holland and C.R. Clayton (Elsevier, North-Holland, New York 1984) vol. 27.
3. B.S. Elman, L.E. McNeil, C. Nicolini, T.C. Chieu, M.S. Dresselhaus and G. Dresselhaus, "Electronic structure of ion-implanted graphite", Phys. Rev. B 28, 7201 (1983).
2. L.E. McNeil and D. Lazarus, "The effect of pressure on the resistivity and Hall coefficient of amorphous metallic alloys", Phys. Rev. B 27, 6007 (1983).
1. G.C. Baldwin and L.E. McNeil, "Kinetics of stimulated Mössbauer emission in neutron-pumped 83Kr", Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Informal Report LA-7004-MS, November 1977.