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Scott Paulson Assistant Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy 540.568.4567 paulsosa@jmu.edu Research Page

Education, Honors, Awards

• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. - Ph.D. in physics, 2001.
• Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA - B.S. in physics, 1994.

Research Interests

• Electrical and mechanical properties of nanoscale systems       

Research Description

The Paulson research group specializes in fabricating electrical and electromechanical devices for studies of nanometer sized systems. They are particularly interested in using these devices to study fundamental properties of reduced dimensional systems, such as carbon nanotubes.        

Selected Recent Publications

• Satishkumar BC, Paulson S, Johnson AT, et al. “Electron beam induced structural transformations of SWNTs and DWNTs grown on Si3N4/Si substrates” Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 6 (5): 1350-1356 (2006)
• Milkie DE, Staii C, Paulson S, et al. ”Controlled switching of optical emission energies in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes”  Nano Lett. 5 (6): 1135-1138 (2005)
• S. B. Chikkannanavar, S. Paulson, A. T. Johnson, and D. E. Luzzi.  “Synthesis of Peapods using substrate grown SWNTs and DWNTs: An enabling step towards peapod devices.” Nano. Lett., 5, 151-155 (2005)
• Paulson, S., Helser, A., Buongiorno Nardelli, M.,  Taylor II, R.M., Falvo, M., Superfine, R., and Washburn, S. “Tunable Resistance of a Carbon Nanotube-Graphite Interface”.  Science 290 pp. 1742-1744 (2000)
• Paulson, S., Falvo, M.R., Snider, N., Helser, A., Seeger, A., Taylor II, R.M. Superfine, R., and Washburn, S.“In Situ Resistance Measurements of Strained Carbon Nanotubes”.  Applied Physics Letters 75 pp.2936-2938 (1999)

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