Madeleine E. Msall

Associate Professor of Physics, Chair of Physics Department

Spring 2008

  • Statistical Physics (PHYS 229)
  • Physics of Solids (PHYS 251)
Phone (207) 725-3818
Title Associate Professor
Department PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
2nd Title Chair
2nd Department PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
Work Location 303 Searles Science Building
E-Mail mmsall@bowdoin.edu

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Research Fellowship:

Max Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart Germany, 1997-1998 Academic Year, Summer 1999, January 2001 and Summer 2003.

Education:

PhD in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994.
MA in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989.
BA in Physics, Oberlin College, 1987.

Publications

  • M.E. Msall and J.P. Wolfe, Ballistic Phonon Production in Photoexcited Ge, GaAs, and Si, Physical Review B 65, 195205 (2002).
  • M.E. Msall, W. Dietsche, K.-J. Friedland, Q.-Y. Tong and B. Mohr, New Angles of Phonon Refraction, Physica B 316-7, 366 (2002).
  • Guest Editor, Physica B 316-7 (2002), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter, August 12-17, 2001, Dartmouth College, USA, with M.N. Wybourne, M.P. Blencowe, and W.E. Lawrence III.
  • M.E. Msall, W. Dietsche, K.J. Friedland, and Q.-Y. Tong, Images of the Phonon Propagation acoss Twist-Bonded Crystals, Physical Review Letters, 85, 598-601 (2000). Featured in Science Magazine’s Editors' Choice: Highlights of the recent literature, Science 289, 1109 (2000).
  • 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.