Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-2770 United States
402-472-7886
pdowben@unl.edu
2008
Electronic Structure Evidence for All-Trans Poly(methylvinylidene cyanide), Jie Xiao, Matt Poulsen, D. Sahadeva Reddy, James M. Takacs, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, and Peter A. Dowben
2007
Epitaxial growth and surface properties of half-metal NiMnSb films, C. N. Borca, D. Ristoiu, H.-K. Jeong, Takashi Komesu, A. N. Caruso, J. Pierre, L. Ranno, J. P. Nozieres, and Peter A. Dowben
Epitaxial growth and surface properties of half-metal NiMnSb films, C. N. Borca, D. Ristoiu, Takashi Komesu, A. N. Caruso, J. Pierre, L. Ranno, J. P. Nozieres, and Peter A. Dowben
Energetics of the dipole flip-flop motion in a ferroelectric polymer chain, Lei Cai, Xuewen Wang, Yesim Darici, Jiandi Zhang, and Peter A. Dowben
Half Metallic Ferromagnets, Peter A. Dowben
Electronic, magnetic and transport properties of rare-earth monopnictides, Chun-Gang Duan, Ildar F. Sabiryanov, Wai-Ning Mei, Peter A. Dowben, Sitaram Jaswal, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal
Identification of the Possible Defect States in Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Thin Films, D.-Q. Feng, A. N. Caruso, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, D. L. Schulz, and Peter A. Dowben
Pairwise cobalt doping of boron carbides with cobaltocene, A. Yu. Ignatov, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, L. Carlson, D. LaGraffe, Jennifer I. Brand, and Peter A. Dowben
Polyvinylidene fluoride–trifluoroethylene as a reservoir for absorbed water, P.A. Jacobson, Luis G. Rosa, Kristin Kraemer, Stephen Ducharme, and Peter A. Dowben
The n-type Gd-doped HfO2 to silicon heterojunction diode, Ihor Ketsman, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, Andrei Sokolov, J. Tang, Z. Wang, Kirill D. Belashchenko, and Peter A. Dowben
Optimization of the 3 m TGM beamline, at CAMD, for constant initial state spectroscopy, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, Ihor Ketsman, Eizi Morikawa, Zhenjun Wang, Jinke Tang, and Peter A. Dowben
The electronic structure change with Gd doping of HfO2 on silicon, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, Ihor Ketsman, Andrei Sokolov, Kirill D. Belashchenko, Peter A. Dowben, Jinke Tang, and Zhenjun Wang
High-resolution photoemission study of organic systems at the CAMD 3 m NIM beamline, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, Kevin Morris, Luis G. Rosa, John D. Scott, and Peter A. Dowben
Correlation effects and electronic structure of Gd@C60, Renat F. Sabirianov, Wai-Ning Mei, Jing Lu, Yi Gao, Xiao Cheng Zeng, R. D. Bolskar, P. Jeppson, Ning Wu, A. N. Caruso, and Peter A. Dowben
Electronic Structure of a Metal-Organic Copper Spin-½ Molecule: Bis(4-cyano-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-3,5-heptanedionato)copper(II), David Wisbey, Danqin Feng, Marshall T. Bremer, Camelia N. Borca, Anthony N. Caruso, Carter M. Silvernail, John Belot, Elio Vescovo, Laurent Ranno, and Peter A. Dowben
The electronic band structure of CoS2, Ning Wu, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, David Wisbey, Kirill D. Belashchenko, M. Manno, L. Wang, C. Leighton, and Peter A. Dowben
Changing band offsets in copper phthalocyanine to copolymer poly(vinylidene fluoride with trifluoroethylene) heterojunctions, Jie Xiao, Andrei Sokolov, and Peter A. Dowben
Corrigendum, Re: The structure of the CoS2 (100)-(1×1) surface, Z. X. Yu, M. A. Van Hove, S. Y. Tong, David Wisbey, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, Ning Wu, M. Manno, L. Wang, C. Leighton, Wai-Ning Mei, and Peter A. Dowben
The structure of the CoS2 (100)-(1 × 1) surface, Z. X. Yu, M. A. Van Hove, S. Y. Tong, David Wisbey, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, Ning Wu, M. Manno, L. Wang, C. Leighton, Wai-Ning Mei, and Peter A. Dowben
2006
The electronic structure of 1,2-PCB10H11 molecular films: a precursor to a novel semiconductor, Snjezana Balaz, D.I. Dimov, N.M. Boag, K. Nelson, B. Montag, Jennifer I. Brand, and Peter A. Dowben
The all boron carbide diode neutron detector: Comparison with theory, A. N. Caruso, Peter A. Dowben, S. Balkir, Nathan Schemm, Kevin Osberg, R.W. Fairchild, Oscar Barrios Flores, Snjezana Balaz, A.D. Harken, Brian W. Robertson, and Jennifer I. Brand
Defect contributions to conductivity in poly(3-hexylthiophene)?, A. N. Caruso, D.-Q. Feng, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, D. L. Schulz, Snjezana Balaz, Luis G. Rosa, Andrei Sokolov, Bernard Doudin, and Peter A. Dowben
The interface electronic structure of thiol terminated molecules on cobalt and gold surfaces, A. N. Caruso, Ligen Wang, Sitaram Jaswal, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, and Peter A. Dowben
Cobaltocene adsorption and dissociation on Cu(1 1 1), Jaewu Choi and Peter A. Dowben
Surface Segregation in Multicomponent Clusters, Peter A. Dowben, Ning Wu, Natalie Palina, R. Müller, J. Hormes, and Yaroslav B. Losovyj
Magnetic ordering in Gd monopnictides: Indirect exchange versus superexchange interaction, Chun-gang Duan, Renat F. Sabiryanov, Wai-Ning Mei, Peter A. Dowben, Sitaram Jaswal, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal
Erratum: Strain Induced Half-Metal to Semiconductor Transition in GdN, Chun-gang Duan, R.F. Sabiryanov, Jianjun Liu, Wai-Ning Mei, Peter A. Dowben, and J.R. Hardy
Electronic structure and polymerization of a self-assembled monolayer with multiple arene rings, D.Q. Feng, David Wisbey, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, Y. Tai, M. Zharnikov, and Peter A. Dowben
Polyvinylidene fluoride–trifluoroethylene as a reservoir for absorbed water, P.A. Jacobson, Luis G. Rosa, Kristin Kraemer, Stephen Ducharme, and Peter A. Dowben
A Handheld Neutron-Detection Sensor System Utilizing a New Class of Boron Carbide Diode, Kevin Osberg, Nathan Schemm, M. Susan Hallbeck, Sina Balkir, Peter A. Dowben, Jennifer I. Brand, and Michael W. Hoffman
A hand-held neutron detection sensor systems, K. Osberg, N. Schemm, S. Balkir, Jennifer I. Brand, M. Susan Hallbeck, and Peter A. Dowben
The electronic structure and band hybridization of Co/Ti doped BaFe12O19, Natalie Palina, H. Modrow, R. Müller, J. Hormes, Peter A. Dowben, and Yaroslav B. Losovyj
Electronic structure and vibrational spectra of C2B10-based clusters and films, Kyungwha Park, M. R. Pederson, L. L. Boyer, Wai-Ning Mei, Renat F. Sabirianov, Xiao Cheng Zeng, Satya S. Bulusu, Seamus Curran, James Dewald, Ellen Day, Shireen Adenwalla, Manuel Diaz, Luis G. Rosa, Snjezana Balaz, and Peter A. Dowben
Comparison of the electronic structure of two polymers with strong dipole ordering, Jie Xiao, Luis G. Rosa, Matt Poulsen, Danqin Feng, D. Sahadeva Reddy, James M. Takacs, Lei Cai, Jiandi Zhang, Stephen Ducharme, and Peter A. Dowben
2005
Metal hybridization and electronic structure of Tris(8-hydroxyquinolato)aluminum (Alq3), Anthony N. Caruso, D. L. Schulz, and Peter A. Dowben
The electronic structure of oriented poly [2-methoxy-5-(2’-ethyl-hexyloxy)-1,4-phenylene-vinylene], D.K. Chambers, S. Karanam, D. Qi, Sandra Zivanovic Selmic, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, Luis G. Rosa, and Peter A. Dowben
Comparison of crystalline thin poly(vinylidene (70%)–trifluoroethylene (30%)) copolymer films with short chain poly(vinylidene fluoride) films, Jaewu Choi, Eizi Morikawa, Stephen Ducharme, and Peter A. Dowben
Strain Induced Half-Metal to Semiconductor Transition in GdN, Chun-gang Duan, Renat F. Sabirianov, Jianjun Liu, Wai-Ning Mei, Peter A. Dowben, and J. R. Hardy
The anomalous "stiffness" of biphenydimethyldithiol, D.Q. Feng, Peter A. Dowben, R. Rajesh, and Jody G. Redepenning
Mercury and C2B10 Icosahedra Interaction, Carolina C. Ilie, Petru Lunca-Popa, Jiandi Zhang, Bernard Doudin, and Peter A. Dowben
The coadsorption and interaction of molecular icosahedra with mercury, C.C. Ilie, Snjezana Balaz, Luis G. Rosa, Jun Zhang, P. Lunca-Popa, C. Bianchetti, R. Tittsworth, Jennifer I. Brand, B. Doudon, and Peter A. Dowben
Strain and strain relief in gd[0001] thin films on mo[112], T. Komesu, C. Waldfried, and Peter A. Dowben
Evidence for Multiple Polytypes of Semiconducting Boron Carbide (C2B10) From Electronic Structure, Petru Lunca-Popa, Jennifer I. Brand, Snjezana Balaz, Luis G. Rosa, Neil M. Boag, Mengjun Bai, Brian W. Robertson, and Peter A. Dowben
Evidence for Multiple Polytypes of Semiconducting Boron Carbide (C2B10) from Electronic Structure, Petru Lunca-Popa, Jennifer I. Brand, Snjezana Balaz, Luis G. Rosa, Neil M. Boag, Mengjun Bai, Brian W. Robertson, and Peter A. Dowben
Intra-atomic aspects of magnon-plasmon interactions, Ralph Skomski and Peter A. Dowben
2004
Surface structure of ultrathin copolymer films of ferroelectric vinylidene fluoride (70%) with trifluoroethylene (30%) on graphite, Lei Cai, Hongwei Qu, Chenxi Lu, Stephen Ducharme, Peter A. Dowben, and Jiandi Zhang
Surface photovoltage effects on the isomeric semiconductors of boron-carbide, A. N. Caruso, Snjezana Balaz, Bo Xu, Peter A. Dowben, A.S. McMullen-Gunn, Jennifer I. Brand, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, and D.N. McIlroy
Orientation and bonding of biphenyldimethyldithiol, A. N. Caruso, R. Rajesh, Gordon A. Gallup, Jody G. Redepenning, and Peter A. Dowben
BORON-CARBIDE SOLID STATE NEUTRON DETECTOR AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME, Peter A. Dowben, Shireen Adenwalla, Brian W. Robertson, and Mengjun Bai
N-Type Boron-Carbide Semiconductor Polytype and Method of Fabricating the Same, Peter A. Dowben, Anthony N. Caruso, and Yaroslav B. Losovyj
Are half-metallic ferromagnets half metals? (invited), Peter A. Dowben and Ralph Skomski
Theoretical study of the magnetic ordering in rare-earth compounds with face-centered-cubic structure, Chun-gang Duan, Renat F. Sabirianov, Jianjun Liu, Wai-Ning Mei, Peter A. Dowben, and John R. Hardy
Water absorption and dielectric changes in crystalline poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) copolymer films, P.A. Jacobson, Luis G. Rosa, Christina M. Othon, Kristin L. Kraemer, A.V. Sorokin, Stephen Ducharme, and Peter A. Dowben
The surface band structure of W(112), Yaroslav B. Losovyj, I. N. Yakovkin, Hae-Kyung Jeong, and Peter A. Dowben
The elimination of the influence of ambient environmental effects on the structure of `inert' polymers, Luis G. Rosa, P.A. Jacobson, Raymond Lemoine, and Peter A. Dowben
Noncollinear spin states and competing interactions in half-metals, Ralph Skomski, Jian Zhou, Peter A. Dowben, and David J. Sellmyer
2003
The adsorption of orthocarborane on cobalt, L. Bernard, A. N. Caruso, Bo Xu, Bernard Doudin, and Peter A. Dowben
Magnetoresistance in boron carbide junctions, L. Bernard, J. Monson, Andrei Sokolov, Zong-Yuan Liu, C.S. Yang, Peter A. Dowben, Bermard Doudin, A. Harken, P. Welsch, and B. W. Robertson
Surface structure of ultrathin copolymer films of ferroelectric vinylidene fluoride (70%) with trifluoroethylene (30%) on graphite, Lei Cai, Hongwei Qu, Chenxi Lu, Stephen Ducharme, Peter A. Dowben, and Jiandi Zhang
Substrate Dependent Bonding of Chemisorbed 1,1’-Biphenyl-4,4’-Dimethanethiol, A. N. Caruso, R. Rajesekaran, Jody G. Redepenning, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, and Peter A. Dowben
Magnetic coupling in Co/Cr2O3/CrO2 "trilayer" films, Ruihau Cheng, A. N. Caruso, Lu Yuan, Sy_Hwang Liou, and Peter A. Dowben
Boron-Carbide and Boron Rich Rhobohedral Based Transistors and Tunnel Diodes, Peter A. Dowben
Finite-temperature spin polarization in half-metallic ferromagnets, Peter A. Dowben and Ralph Skomski
Comparison of the theoretical and experimental band structure of poly(vinylidene fluoride) crystal, Chun-gang Duan, Wai-Ning Mei, J.R. Hardy, Stephen Ducharme, Jaewu Choi, and Peter A. Dowben
Electronic structure of ErAs(100), Takashi Komesu, Hae-Kyung Jeong, Jaewu Choi, C.N. Borca, Peter A. Dowben, A.G. Petukhov, B.D. Schultz, and C.J. Palmstrom
Consideration of possible mass and velocity corrections to magnetic cluster experiments, Z.Y. Liu, Peter A. Dowben, A.P. Popov, and David P. Pappas
Nanoscale polarization manipulation and conductance switching in ultrathin films of a ferroelectric copolymer, Hongwei Qu, Wei Yao, T. Garcia, Jiandi Zhang, A.V. Sorokin, Stephen Ducharme, Peter A. Dowben, and V.M. Fridkin
2002
Neutron Powder Diffraction Studies of the La0.65Pb0.35MnO3 Perovskite, Camelia Borca, Shireen Adenwalla, Sy-Hwang Liou, Q.L. Xu, J. L. Robertson, and Peter A. Dowben
Electronic-structure modifications induced by surface segregation in La0.65Pb0.35MnO3 thin films, C.N. Borca, B. Xu, T. Komesu, H.-K. Jeong, M.T. Liu, Sy_Hwang Liou, Shane Stadler, Y. Idzerda, and Peter A. Dowben
Oxidation of metals at the chromium oxide interface, Ruihua Cheng, C.N. Borca, N. Pilet, Bo Xu, Lu Yuan, Bernard Doudin, Sy_Hwang Liou, and Peter A. Dowben
Boron-Carbide and Boron Rich Rhobohedral Based Transistors and Tunnel Diodes, Peter A. Dowben
The surface composition and spin polarization of NiMnSb epitaxial thin films, D. Ristoiu, J.P. Nozières , C.N. Borca, T. Komesu, H.-K. Jeong, and Peter A. Dowben
A class of boron-rich solid-state neutron detectors, B. W. Robertson, Shireen Adenwalla, A. Harken, P. Welsch, Jennifer I. Brand, Peter A. Dowben, and J.P. Claassen
The finite-temperature densities of states for half-metallic ferromagnets, Ralph Skomski and Peter A. Dowben
Zero-bias anomaly in CrO2 junctions, Andrei Sokolov, C.-S. Yang, Lu Yuan, Sy_Hwang Liou, Ruihua Cheng, H.-K. Jeong, T. Komesu, B. Xu, C.N. Borca, Peter A. Dowben, and Bernard Doudin
Spin blockade effects in chromium oxide intergrain magnetoresistance, Andrei Sokolov, C.S. Yang, Lu Yuan, Sy_Hwang Liou, Ruihua Cheng, B. Xu, C.N. Borca, Peter A. Dowben, and Bernard Doudin
Band filling and depletion through the doping of polyaniline thin films, B. Xu, Jaewu Choi, A. N. Caruso, and Peter A. Dowben
Preferential orientation of short chain vapor deposited polyaniline thin films on gold, B. Xu, Jaewu Choi, and Peter A. Dowben
Heterojunction diode fabrication from polyaniline and a ferroelectric polymer, B Xu, Y. Ovchenkov, Mengjun Bai, A. N. Caruso, A.V. Sorokin, Stephen Ducharme, Bermard Doudin, and Peter A. Dowben
Band structure of strained Gd(0001) films, I. N. Yakovkin, Takashi Komesu, and Peter A. Dowben
2001
Changes in Electron-Phonon Coupling Across a Bulk Phase Transition in Copolymer Films of Vinylidene Fluoride (70%) with Trifluoroethylene (30%), C.N. Borca, Shireen Adenwalla, Jaewu Choi, Lee Robertson, H. You, V.M. Fridkin, S.P. Palto, N. Petukhova, and Peter A. Dowben
Evidence for temperature dependent moments ordering in ferromagnetic NiMnSb(100), C.N. Borca, Takashi Komesu, Hae-Kyung Jeong, Peter A. Dowben, Delia Ristoiu, Ch. Hordequin, J. P. Nozie`res, J. Pierre, Shane Stadler, and Y. U. Idzerda
A Surface Insulator-to-Conductor Phase Transition in Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganese Perovskites Thin Films, C.N. Borca, Bo Xu, Takashi Komesu, Hae-Kyung Jeong, Sy-Hwang Liou, and Peter A. Dowben
Potential phase control of chromium oxide thin films prepared by laser-initiated organometallic chemical vapor deposition, Ruihua Cheng, C.N. Borca, Peter A. Dowben, Shane Stadler, and Y.U. Idzerda
Characterization of the native Cr2O3 oxide surface of CrO2, Ruihua Cheng, B. Xu, C.N. Borca, Andrei Sokolov, C.S. Yang, Lu Yuan, Sy_Hwang Liou, Bernard Doudin, and Peter A. Dowben
HIGH RESOLUTION CHARGED PARTICLE-ENERGY DETECTING, MULTIPLE SEQUENTIAL STAGE, COMPACT, SMALL DIAMETER, RETRACTABLE CYLINDRICAL MIRROR ANALYZER SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF USE, Peter A. Dowben, Carlo Waldfried, Tara J. McAvoy, and David N. McIlroy
Self-assembled Fe nanowires using organometallic chemical vapor deposition and CaF2 masks on stepped Si(111), J.-L. Lin, D.Y. Petrovykh, A. Kirakosian, H. Rauscher, F.J. Himpsel, and Peter A. Dowben
Layer-resolved spin polarization in Sb overlayers on NiMnSb, Ralph Skomski, T. Komesu, C.N. Borca, H.-K. Jeong, Peter A. Dowben, D. Ristoiu, and J.P. Nozie´res
A LANDAU-GINZBURG DESCRIPTION OF Sb OVERLAYERS, Ralph Skomski, T. Komesu, H.-K. Jeong, C.N. Borca, Peter A. Dowben, D. Ristoiu, and J.P. Nozieres
Aluminum doping of poly(vinylidene fluoride with trifluoroethylene) copolymer, B. Xu, C.N. Borca, Stephen Ducharme, A.V. Sorokin, Peter A. Dowben, V.M. Fridkin, S.P. Palto, N.N. Petukhova, and S.G. Yudin
Comparison of aluminum and sodium doped poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) copolymers by x-ray photoemission spectroscopy, B. Xu, Jaewu Choi, C.N. Borca, Peter A. Dowben, A.V. Sorokin, S.P. Palto, N.N. Petukhova, and S.G. Yudin
Interplay between plasmons and the band structure for the Mo(112) surface, I. N. Yakovkin, Jiandi Zhang, and Peter A. Dowben
2000
Changes in Electron-Phonon Coupling Across a Bulk Phase Transition in Copolymer Films of Vinylidene Fluoride (70%) with Trifluoroethylene (30%), C. N. Borca, Shireen Adenwalla, Jaewu Choi, Lee Robertson, H. You, V. M. Fridkin, S. P. Palto, N. Petukhova, Stephen Ducharme, and Peter A. Dowben
Changes in Electron-Phonon Coupling Across a Bulk Phase Transition in Copolymer Films of Vinylidene Fluoride (70%) with Trifluoroethylene (30%), C. N. Borca, Shireen Adenwalla, Jaewu Choi, Lee Robertson, H. You, V. M. Fridkin, S. P. Palto, N. Petukhova, Stephen Ducharme, and Peter A. Dowben
Origin of the magnetic moments in La0.65Pb0.35MnO3 epitaxial thin films, C.N. Borca, R.H. Cheng, Q.L. Xu, Sy_Hwang Liou, Shane Stadler, Y.U. Idzerda, and Peter A. Dowben
Effective surface Debye temperature for NiMnSb.100. epitaxial films, C.N. Borca, Takashi Komesu, Hae-kyung Jeong, Peter A. Dowben, D. Ristoiu, Ch. Hordequin, J. Pierre, and J. P. Nozie`res
The surface terminal layer and composition of the colossal magnetoresistance perovskite: La0.65Pb0.35MnO3, C.N. Borca, Delia Ristoiu, Q.L. Xu, Sy_Hwang Liou, Shireen Adenwalla, and Peter A. Dowben
SELECTIVE AREA CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF CHROMIUM OXIDES, Ruihua Cheng, C.N. Borca, and Peter A. Dowben
Magnetic spectroscopy and characterization of La0.65Pb0.35MnO3, M. I. Chipara, Shireen Adenwalla, Peter A. Dowben, Qin Lan Xu, Sy_Hwang Liou, and R. Shoemaker
ESR investigations on Ca perovskite, M. Chipara, Sy-Hwang Liou, C.N. Borca, R. Shoemaker, Shireen Adenwalla, and Peter A. Dowben