Ben Yu-Kuang Hu
Title: Professor
Dept/Program: Physics
Office: Central Hower 316D
Phone: 330-972-8093
Fax: 330-972-6918
Email: byhu@uakron.edu
Website: http://nebula.physics.uakron.edu/dept/faculty/byh.htm
Biography
Positions
- 2002 - Present: Associate Professor, University of Akron, Akron, OH
- 2008 August: Visiting Professor, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland
- 2006 - 2007: Visiting Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
- 1998 - 2002: Assistant Professor, University of Akron, Akron, OH
- 1996 - 1998: Associate Research Professor, Danmarks Teksniske Universitet, Lyngby, Denmark
- 1993 - 1996: Assistant Research Professor, Danmarks Teksniske Universitet, Lyngby, Denmark
- 1990 - 1993: Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Education
- Ph.D., Physics, Cornell University, 1990 (advisor: John W. Wilkins)
- M.S., Physics, Cornell University, 1987
- B.A., Physics, Swarthmore College, 1984
Research Interests
- Electronic Properties of Graphene
- Frictional Drag in Coupled Quantum Wells
Selected Publications
- Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, "Spherical volume averages of static electric and magnetic fields using Coulomb and Biot.Savart laws" Eur. J. Phys. 30 L29-L34 (2009).
Pdf Reprint - Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, "Relativistic momentum and kinetic energy, and E = mc2" Eur. J. Phys. 30, 325-330 (2009).
Pdf Reprint - Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, E. H. Hwang and S. Das Sarma, "Density of States of Disordered Graphene," Phys. Rev. B 78 , 165411 (2008).
Pdf Reprint - Wang-Kong Tse, Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, and S. Das Sarma, "Chirality-Induced Dynamic Kohn Anomalies in Graphene," Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 , 066401 (2008).
Pdf Reprint - Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, "Relativistic transformation of perpendicular velocity components from the constancy of the speed of light," Amer. J. Phys. 76, 691 (2008).
Pdf Reprint - E. H. Hwang, Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, and S. Das Sarma, "Many-body exchange-correlation effects in graphene," Physica E 40, 1653 (2008).
Pdf Reprint - E. H. Hwang, Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, and S. Das Sarma, "Density Dependent Exchange Contribution to ∂μ/∂n and Compressibility in Graphene," Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 226801 (2007).
Pdf Reprint - E. H. Hwang, Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, and S. Das Sarma, "Inelastic carrier lifetime in graphene," Phys. Rev. B 76, 115434 (2007).
Pdf Reprint - Wang-Kong Tse, Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, and S. Das Sarma, "Theory of Coulomb drag in graphene," Phys. Rev. B 76, 081401(R) (2007).
Pdf Reprint - Audrius Alkauskas, Karsten Flensberg, Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, and Antti-Pekka Jauho, "Sign reversal of drag in bilayer systems with in-plane periodic potential modulation," Phys. Rev. B 66, 201304(R) (2002).
Pdf Reprint - Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, "Solving boundary-value electrostatics problems using Green's reciprocity theorem," American J. Phys. 69, 280 (2001).
Pdf preprint - Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, "Averages of static electric and magnetic fields over a spherical region: a derivation based on the mean-value theorem," American J. Phys. 68, 1058 (2000).
Pdf preprint - Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, "Prospecting for the superfluid transition in electron--hole coupled quantum wells using Coulomb drag." Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 820 (2000)
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