Lucia Palova
Email: lp2457-at-columbia-dot-edu
Research Interests
- Multi-exciton generation
- Ferroelectric and multiferroic perovskite materials
- Ab-initio calculations
Education
- Ph.D. in Physics, Rutgers University, USA, 2010 (Advisor: Premala Chandra)
- Mgr. in Physics, Comenius University, Slovakia, 2004 (Advisor: Marek Mihalkovic)
My CV.
Honors and Awards
- Graduate Assistantship at Rutgers University, July 2007 -- June 2010.
- Comenius University President Award for Excellent Diploma Thesis, June 2004.
- Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University Award for Excellent Study Performance and Academic Achievement, June 2004.
- The "Red Diploma" - similar to Summa Cum Laude, June 2004.
Publications
- L. Zhao, R. He, K. T. Rim, K. S. Kim, H. Zhou, C. Gutirrez, S. Chockalingam, C. Arguello, L. Palova, M. S. Hybertsen, D. R. Reichman, T. F. Heinz, P. Kim, A. Pinczuk, G. W. Flynn, and A. N. Pasupathy, Visualizing individual nitrogen dopants in monolayer graphene. Science 333, 999 (2011).
- D. Kan, L. Palova, V. Anbusathaiah, C. J. Cheng, S. Fujino, V. Nagarajan, K. M. Rabe, and I. Takeuchi, Universal behavior and electric-field-induced structural transition in rare-earth-substituted BiFeO3. Adv. Funct. Mater. 20, 1108 (2010).
- L. Palova, P. Chandra, and K. M. Rabe, Magnetostructural effect in the multiferroic BiFeO3-BiMnO3 checkerboard from first principles. Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 037202 (2010); Phys. Rev. B 82, 075432 (2010).
- L. Palova, P. Chandra, and P. Coleman, The Casimir effect from a condensed matter perspective. Am. J. Phys. 77, 1055 (2009).
- L. Palova, P. Chandra, and P. Coleman, Quantum critical paraelectrics and the Casimir effect in time. Phys. Rev. B 79, 075101 (2009).
- L. Palova, P. Chandra, and K. M. Rabe, Modeling the dependence of properties of ferroelectric thin film on thickness. Phys. Rev. B 76, 014112 (2007).
- L. Palova, Anomalous atomic dynamics of the Al10 V crystal. Diploma Thesis, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia (2004).