Publications

(* Bold, & Underline indicates Physics REU student, bold underline indicates Undergraduate Students)

  1. Diksha Shrestha, Kishan Mahmud, Sam Mortenson*, Mary Savin, Wen Zhang, and Yong Wang, “Bacterial Motility in Aqueous Micro-Environment with Natural Soil Particles,” Biointerphases 20, 041001 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0004380 
  2. Pradhan H, Poudel A, Shrestha D, Rogers A, Stewart M, Jereb A, Harper J , Li M, Zhang W, Chen J, Wang Y. "Concentration-dependent responses of C. reinhardtii to silver ions: hormetic response in growth and reduction of motility," The European Physical Journal E , 2025; 48(8):56. https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/s10189-025-00521-3.
  3. K. Bullard,  D. Okyere, S. J. Foster*, A. A. Sadoon, J. Li, J. Chen, and Y. Wang. “Understanding the Mechanism of Bent DNA Amplifying Sensors using All-Atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations,” Biosensors, 15(5):272 (2025). https://doi.org/10.3390/bios15050272
  4. Apoorva Bisht, Nathan Murillo*, Reeta Vyas, and Surendra Singh, ““Experimental Confirmation of Phase Profile of Hermite-Gauss Beams,” of Optical Society of America (JOSA) A, 41, 2023 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.535197
  5. Shaohui Qiu, Steven Rhodes*, and Huaxiang Fu, “Giant hyperferroelectricity in LiZnSb and its origin” Phys. Rev. B 107, 094108, (2023). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.107.094108  
  6. A. Rogers*, Niyonshuti II, J. Ou, D. Shrestha, D. Okyere, J. Chen, Y. Wang, “The Shape Modulation of Laser-Induced Nanowelded Microstructures Using Two Colors,” Colloids and Interfaces, 7:67 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/colloids7040067
  7. B. Russell, A. Rogers*, R. Yoder*, M. Kurilich*, V. R. Krishnamurthi, J. Chen, Y. Wang, “Silver Ions Inhibit Bacterial Movement and Stall Flagellar Motor,” International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023;24:11704. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms241411704
  8. A. Rogers*, Z. He, Y. Wang, “Exploring the potential of tesla valve for filtering and sorting microscale active swimmers: A computational study,” Applications in Engineering Science, 16, 100159, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apples.2023.100159
  9. D. Shrestha, J. Ou, A. Rogers*, A. Jereb A, D. Okyere, J. Chen, Y. Wang, “Bacterial mobility and motility in porous media mimicked by microspheres,”  Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2023, 222:113128.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2023.113128
  10. A. Rogers*,K. B. Bullard, A. C. Dod, Y. Wang,  “Bacterial Growth Curve Measurements with a Multimode Microplate Reader,” Bio-Protocol, 2022; 12, no. 9: e4410-e4410. doi: https://doi.org/10.21769/BioProtoc.4410
  11. Rabindra Basnet, Dawn Ford*, Kaylee TenBarge*, Joshua Lochala, Jin Hu, “Emergence of Ferrimagnetism in Li-intercalated NiPS3”, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, (2022).  https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ac8a81.
  12. V.R. Krishnamurthi, N. Harris, A. Rogers*, M. Zou, Y. Wang, “Interactions of E. Coli with Cylindrical Micro-Pillars of Different Geometric Modifications.” Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2022; 209, 112190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2021.112190
  13. Oluwatobi Olorunsola, Abdulla Said, Solomon Ojo, Hryhorii Stanchu, Grey Abernathy, Sylvester Amoah, Samir Saha, Emmanuel Wangila, Joshua Grant, Sudip Acharya, Lucas Miller*, Kyle Rosler, Yue-Tong Jheng, Guo-En Chang, Baohua Li, Gregory Salamo, Shui-Qing Yu and Wei Du, “SiGeSn quantum well for photonics integrated circuits on Si photonics platform: a review,” Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Volume 55, 44300, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/ac8d14              
  14. Li, P.A. Kells, A.C. Osgood*, S.H. Gautam, W.L. Shew, 2021, “Collapse of complexity of brain and body activity due to excessive inhibition and MeCP2 disruption,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, vol. 118, no. 43, p. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2106378118
  15. A. Rogers *, Niyoshuti II, Cai A, Wang F, Benamara M, Chen J, Wang Y. Real-time imaging of laser-induced nanowelding of silver nanoparticles in solution. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2021; 125(19). doi:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c00184
  16. Hryhorii Stanchu., Andrian V Kuchuk, Yuriy I Mazur, Joe Margetis, John Tolle, Jake Richter*, Shui-Qing Yu, and Gregory J Salamo, “X-ray diffraction study of strain relaxation, spontaneous compositional gradient, and dislocation density in GeSn/Ge/Si (100) heterostructures,” Semiconductor Science and Technology, 35(7), 075009. DOI1088/1361-6641/ab883c
  17. R.Krishnamurthi, A. Rogers*, J. Peifer* , Niyonshuti II, J. Chen, Y. Wang, “Microampere Electric Current Causes Bacterial Membrane Damage and Two-Way Leakage in a Short Period of Time,” Appl Environ Microbiol. 2020 Aug 3;86(16). https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01015-20.
  18. Albert Du*, Zachary Pendergrast, Salvador Barraza-Lopez, “Tuning energy barriers by doping 2D group-IV monochalcogenides,” Journal of Applied Physics, 127, 234103 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0008502
  19. P. Thompson, M. H. Doha, P. Murphy*, J. Hu, and H. O. H. Churchill, “Exfoliation and analysis of large-area, air-sensitive two-dimensional materials,” Journal of Visualized Experiments, e58693 (2019). https://app.jove.com/t/58693 
  20. Anindya Ambuj, Emily Walla*, Sophia Andaloro*, Sean Nomoto, Reeta Vyas, Surendra Singh, “Symmetry in the Diffraction of Orbital Angular Momentum Carrying Beams,” Phys. Rev. A 99, 013846 (2019). https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.99.013846
  21. Emily Wala*, Chitra Shaji, Reeta Vyas, Surendra Singh, "Degeneracy in the diffraction of orbital angular momentum carrying beams,” Optics Letters 43, 5833-5836, (2018). https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.43
     
     
     
  22. Hyrum Richardson*, Charlotte Welch*, Sean Nomoto, Reeta Vyas, and Surendra Singh, “New method for detecting nonlinearity of Pancharatnam's phase” Comm 451, 62 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2019.06.018 
  23. J. Bauman, Z. T. Brawley*, A. A. Darweesh, J. B. Herzog, "Substrate Oxide Layer Thickness Optimization for a Dual-Width Plasmonic Grating for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) Biosensor Applications", Sensors 17(7), 1530 (2017).
  24. Zachary T. Brawley*, Stephen J. Bauman, Ahmad A. Darweesh, Desalegn T. Debu, Faezeh T. Ladani, Joseph B. Herzog. Plasmonic Au Array SERS Substrate with Optimized Thin Film Oxide Substrate Layer. Materials, 11(6), 942 (2018). https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/11/6/942 
  25. Ahmad A. Darweesh, Stephen J. Bauman, Zachary T. Brawley*, J. B. Herzog, “Dual-width Plasmonic Nanogap Gratings Electrodes for GaAs Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Photodetectors Enhancement”, OSA Technical Digest, (online) (Optical Society of America, 2017), paper FM4A.3 https://doi.org/10.1364/FIO.2017.FM4A.3 
  26. Ahmad A. Darweesh, Stephen J. Bauman, Zachary T. Brawley*, J. B. Herzog, “Improved optical enhancement in binary plasmonic gratings with nanogap spacing”, Proc. SPIE, vol. 9927, 99270Z (2016), https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2237197
  27. S. J. Bauman,Z. T. Brawley*, A. A. Darweesh, J. B. Herzog, "Substrate Oxide Layer Thickness Optimization for a Dual-Width Plasmonic Grating for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) Biosensor Applications", Sensors 17(7), 1530 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2237197
  28. Z. T. Brawley*, S. J. Bauman, G. P. Abbey, A. A. Darweesh, A. I. Nusir, O. Manasreh, and J. B. Herzog, "Modeling and optimization of Au-GaAs plasmonic nanoslit array structures for enhanced near-infrared photodetector applications", Journal of Nanophotonics 11(1), 016017 (2017). https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-nanophotonics/volume-11/issue-1/016017/Modeling-and-optimization-of-Au-GaAs-plasmonic-nanoslit-array-structures/10.1117/1.JNP.11.016017.full
  29. Sattar Al-Kabi, Seyed Ghetmiri, Joe Margetis, Thach Pham, Yiyin Zhou, Bria Collier*, Randy Quinde, Wei Du, Aboozar Mosleh, Jifeng Liu, Greg Sun, Richard Soref, John Tolle, Baohua Li, Mansour Mortazavi, Hameed Naseem, andShui-Qing Yu, “An optically pumped 2.5 µm GeSn laser on Si operating at 110 K”, Applied Physics Letters 109, 171105 (2016); doi: 10.1063/1.4966141. This work was highlighted bythe following media (see the link in below).  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170207110239.htmhttp://esciencenews.com/sources/newswise.scinews/2017/02/07/germanium.tin.laser.could.increase.processing.speed.computer.chips     http://www.hitechdays.com/news/166494/germanium-tin-laser-could-increase-processing-speed-of-computer-chips/   http://www.novuslight.com/silicon-photonics-germanium-tin-laser-promises-faster-chips_N6609.html
  30. Gabrielle Abraham*, Alejandro Tejerina, H. Churchill,   Pooja Bajwa,  Collin Heyes, H. Churchill, J. B. Herzog, (2016). “Plasmonically-enhanced photoluminescence of two-dimensional MoS2”, SPIE 9758-22, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2218170
  31. Orion Guan*, J. Kamwa, J.Li. “Photoelectrical Characterization of Bacteriorhodopsin suspended in a lipid bilayer membrane”. Invited student talk. INBRE conference, Fayetteville AR 72701. Oct. 21, 2016
  32. Mehrshad Mehboudi, Alex M. Dorio*, Wenjuan Zhu, Arend van der Zande, Hugh O. H. Churchill, Alejandro A. Pacheco-Sanjuan, Edmund O. Harriss, Pradeep Kumar, and Salvador Barraza-Lopez. “Two-dimensional disorder in black phosphorus and monochalcogenide monolayers”, Nano Letters. 16, 1704, (2016).http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04613 Gabrielle Abraham*, D. A. French, P. Bajwa, C. D. Heyes, J. B. Herzog, (2015). “Optical Enhancement of Photoluminescence with Collodial Quantum Dots,”. SPIE, 9556 1C, (2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2188362
  33. Gabrielle Abraham*, Churchill, J. B. Herzog, (2016). “Plasmonically-enhanced photoluminescence of two-dimensional MoS2”, SPIE 9758-22, 2016.
  34. Mehrshad Mehboudi, Alex M. Dorio*, Wenjuan Zhu, Arend van der Zande, Hugh O. H. Churchill, Alejandro A. Pacheco-Sanjuan, Edmund O. Harriss, Pradeep Kumar, and Salvador Barraza-Lopez. “Two-dimensional disorder in black phosphorus and monochalcogenide monolayers”, Nano Letters. 16, 1704, (2016).http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04613
  35. Gabrielle Abraham*, D. A. French, P. Bajwa, C. D. Heyes, J. B. Herzog, (2015). “Optical Enhancement of Photoluminescence with Collodial Quantum Dots,”. SPIE, 9556 1C, (2015).