Faculty and Staff

Madeleine E. Msall

Department of Physics and Astronomy
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME 04011
Telephone: 207-725-3818
FAX: 207-725-3638
email: mmsall@bowdoin.edu

Education:

Publications

M.E. Msall, A. Klimashov, S. Kronmüller, H. Kostial, W. Dietsche and K. Friedland, Ballistic Phonon Transmission across Wafer-bonded Crystals, Applied Physics Letters 74, 821 (1999).
M.E. Msall, A. Klimashov, W. Dietsche, and K. Friedland, Direct Phonon Transmission across Wafer-bonded Crystals, in Phonons 98, the Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter, Lancaster, England in print, Physica B (1998).
M.E. Msall and J.P. Wolfe, Phonon Production in Weakly Photoexcited Semiconductors: Quasidiffusion in Ge, GaAs and Si, Physical Review B 56, 9557 (1997).
M.E. Msall, S.E. Esipov and J.P. Wolfe, Photoproduced Phonons in Semiconductors, in Phonons 95, the Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Phonon Physics and the Eighth International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter, Sapporo, Japan 1995 Physica B 219 & 220 (1996).
M.E. Msall, S. Tamura, S.E. Esipov and J.P. Wolfe, Quasidiffusion and the localized phonon source, Physical Review Letters 70, 3463 (1993).
S.E. Esipov, M.E. Msall and J.P. Wolfe, Acoustic phonon emission due to localized photoexcitation of Si; Electron-hole droplets vs. the phonon hot spot, Physical Review B 47, 13330 (1993).
J.A. Shields, M.E. Msall, M.S. Carroll, and J.P. Wolfe, Propagation of optically generated acoustic phonons in Si, Physical Review B 47, 12510 (1993).
M.A. Weilert, M.E. Msall, A.C. Anderson and J.P. Wolfe, Phonon scattering from ferroelectric domain walls: Results of phonon imaging in KDP, Physical Review Letters 71, 735 (1993).
M. A. Weilert, M. E. Msall, J. P. Wolfe and A. C. Anderson, Mode dependent scattering of phonons by domain walls in ferroelectric KDP. Zeit. Physik. B 91, 179-188 (1993).
S. E. Esipov, M. E. Msall, B. Cabrera and J. P. Wolfe, Ballistic phonon emission from electron-hole droplets - application to the nuclear recoil problem. J. Low Temp. Phys. 93, 377-385 (1993).
M. E. Msall, M. S. Carroll, J. A. Shields and J. P. Wolfe, Observation of quasidiffusive phonon propagation in silicon. Proc. of the 7th Intl. Conf. on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter (Ithaca, NY; Aug, 1992) Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter VII eds. M. Meissner, and R. O. Pohl (Springer-Verlag) (1993).
M. A. Weilert, M. A. Msall, A. C. Anderson and J. P. Wolfe, Specular phonon scattering from ferroelectric domain walls in KDP, ibid.

Courses Taught at Bowdoin:

Physics 050 or 019: Science Fiction, Science Fact, spring 1997, spring 1999

Physics 103: Introductory Physics I, spring 1997, fall 1998, fall 1999

Physics 104: Introductory Physics II, spring 1999

Physics 227: Waves and Quanta (lecture & laboratory), fall 1995, fall 1996

Physics 228: Modern Physics (laboratory work only), spring 1996

Physics 250: Acoustics, fall 1998

Physics 250: The Physics of Solids, spring 1996

Physics 320: Electromagnetic Theory, fall 1999

Physics 350: Introduction to Solid State Physics, spring 1995

Independent Studies Supervised at Bowdoin:

Bill Griggs: Holography, spring 1999.
Joanna Hass: Improved Focusing Optics for Phonon Imaging, spring 1997.
Timothy Aron: Computer Models of Phonon Interactions, fall 1995 and spring 1996.
Paul Lewis: Experimental Studies of Ballistic Phonons, fall 1995 and spring 1996.

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