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Research
Finding chemical reaction pathways*, molecular
motors*, semiconductor nanostructures, mesoscopic systems,
nonequilibrium statistical physics, surface diffusion,
and computational physics.
*Supported currently by NIH (MBRS/SCORE).
Teaching^
General physics, Classical Mechanics, Thermal
Statistical Physics, Electromagnetism, Electrodynamics,
Solid State Physics, and Quantum
Mechanics.
^Honored four times in Who's Who among
America's Teachers by his former students as "someone who made a
difference".
Selected Papers
- Efficient transition path sampling for systems
with multiple reaction pathways, L. Y. Chen, P. L.
Nash, and N. J. M. Horing, Journal of Chemical
Physics, 123, 1 (2005).
- Determination of the Na/Cu(001)
potential energy surface from Helium scattering
studies of the surface dynamics, A. P. Graham, F. Hofmann, J. P.
Toennies, L. Y.
Chen, and S. C. Ying, Physical Review
Letters 78, 3900 (1997).
- Nonequilibrium Green's
function approach to transport characteristics of
resonant-tunneling double-barrier junctions, L. Y. Chen and C. S. Ting,
International Journal Modern Physics B6, 1099 (1992).
A complete publication list and the PDF files of some
papers can be found in http://jilll.utsa.edu/physics/Publications.html
Last
update: Monday September 19, 2005 |
