Undergraduate student Fabrizio Giovanni Oliviero will present his Bachelor’s thesis today (01.12.2017) at 10:50 am, in the seminar room #1 of the Physics Department (DFTE). The thesis, entitled “Electronic structure of carbon nanotubes”, employed analytical and numerical approaches to investigate the…

The event “Encontro Potiguar de Física 2017” will take place on 05 and 06 of December, in the city of Caicó. This is a regional meeting  aiming to gather physicist working in Rio Grande do Norte and neighboring states, organized in…

Our latest work “Tuning the Fano factor of graphene via Fermi velocity modulation” has just been accepted for publication in Physica E: Low-dimensional systems and nanostructures. In this work we investigate the influence of a Fermi velocity modulation on the Fano…

This week we welcome a new member of the Transport in Nanostructures Group: Dr. Ana Claudia Kipper will work with us a postdoctoral associate, telecommuting from Recife. Dr. Kipper completed her Doctorate at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, where she…

Our sixth publication of 2017 “Bimodal grain-size scaling of thermal transport in polycrystalline graphene from large-scale molecular dynamics simulations” has just been accepted in Nano Letters. In this work we investigate the effect of grain boundaries in the thermal conductivity of…

Our fifth paper of 2017 “Light propagation in quasiperiodic dielectric multilayers separated by graphene” has just been accepted for publication in Physical Review B. This is officially our most productive year so far. In this publication we investigate photonic crystals,…

Today we kick-off the ninth edition of the Brazilian Meeting on Simulational Physics. This year we celebrate 20 years of this event, which started small and keeps growing in every edition. It has now become a traditional event in the…

Our second graduate student, Mr. Louis Gustavo da Costa Sobral e Sá, will present his Master’s thesis on Monday (24.07.2017) at 10:00 am, in the auditorium of the Physics Department (DFTE). The thesis, entitled “Thermal and mechanical properties of  NHG under…

Our fourth paper of 2017 “ Electronic, optical and thermal properties of highly stretchable 2D carbon Ene-yne graphyne” has just been accepted for publication in Carbon. A new carbon-based two-dimensional (2D) material “carbon Ene-yne” (CEY), was successfully synthesized recently. In…

We are organizing the “IX Brazilian Meeting on Simulational Physics”, which will take place at the International Institute of Physics – UFRN. The event will happen from  Monday, August 21, to Friday, August 25, 2017. In this ninth edition of the BMSP, celebrating…