Dr. Peihong Zhang

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Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Pennsylvania State (2001)

Office: 307 Fronczak,   (716) 645-2017 ext 144
Email: pzhang3@buffalo.edu
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Education

  Ph.D. -- Physics, Pennsylvania State University (2001)
Ph.D. minor -- High Performance Computing, Pennsylvania State University (2001)
M.S. -- AMO, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (1996)
B.S. -- Physics, Xiamen (Amoy) University, China (1993)

Research Interests

 
  • Ab initio calculations of electronic, structural, and magnetic properties of materials
  • Nanostructured materials and their applications
  • Electron-phonon coupling and phonon renormalization in metals
  • Quasi-particle properties in strongly correlated systems
  • High performance computing

  My long-term research objectives are unified around the theme of understanding and predicting materials properties from first principles, with emphases on nanostructured and other novel materials, computational materials design, and development of new theoretical and computational techniques.

Selected Publications

  1. "Defect-induced intrinsic magnetism in wide-gap nitrides",
    P. Dev, Y. Xue, and P. Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett., 100, (2008).
  2. "Electron-phonon renormalization in cuprates",
    P. Zhang, S. G. Louie, and M. L. Cohen , Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 067005 (2007)
  3. "Nonlocal screening, electron-phonon coupling, and phonon renormalization in metals",
    P. Zhang, S. G. Louie, and M. L. Cohen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 225502 (2005).
  4. "Fermi surface of NaxCoO2",
    P. Zhang, W. Luo, S. G. Louie, and M. L. Cohen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 236402 (2004).
  5. "Theory of B2O and BeB2 nanotubes",
    P. Zhang and V. H. Crespi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 56403 (2002).
  6. "Computational design of direct bandgap semiconductors that lattice match silicon",
    P. Zhang, V. H. Crespi, E. Chang, S. G. Louie, and M. L. Cohen, Nature 409, 69 (2001).
  7. "Nucleation of carbon nanotubes without pentagonal rings",
    P. Zhang and V. H. Crespi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1791 (1999).
  8. "Plastic deformations of carbon nanotubes",
    P. Zhang, P. E. Lammert, and V. H. Crespi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5346 (1998).