Stephanie Reich

Visiting Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

BS Technische Universitat, Berlin, 1993
MS Technische Universitat, Berlin, 1998
PhD Technische Universitat, Berlin, 2001

Prior to joining DMSE in October, 2005, Prof. Reich was a post-doc at the Institute de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona, a research fellow at Newnham College in Cambridge, UK, and, most recently, an Oppenheimer Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her work on carbon nanotubes and carbon-based materials is recognized internationally, as is her book, Carbon Nanotubes: Basic Concepts and Physical Properties.

Professor Reich’s research interests are in nanoscience and nanotechnology. She aims at understanding how materials change when making them smaller and smaller and how to use this for tailoring materials to our needs. To achieve this goal she uses optical spectroscopy such as photoluminescence and Raman scattering and first-principles calculations. Optical spectroscopy allows not only to study the optical properties of nanomaterials, but also to measure vibrations and hardness and to investigate how electrical currents and heat flow in nanostructures. The experimental work is complemented by modeling and predicting materials behavior with computer simulations. Current projects concentrate on carbon and other nanotubes as well as semiconductor nanowires. These one-dimensional nanosystems can be used, for example, in nanoelectronics and as linear and non-linear nanooptical devices such as color-sensitive single-photon detectors.

Selected Publications

Carbon Nanotubes: Basic Concepts and Physical Properties. Wiley-VCH, March 2004 (with Christian Thomsen and Janina Maultzsch).