Fields of Research Activity: Semiconductor physics: electronic properties of low-dimensional semiconductor structures, growth of III-V compounds by molecular beam epitaxy.
Experience: Thirteen years of teaching. Fifteen years of research in solid state physics.
Biography: Mansour Shayegan received his B.S. (1979), M.S. and E.E. (1981) and Ph.D. (1983) degrees in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. He spent two years as a Research Associate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD before joining the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1985. In 1986, he received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award and an IBM Faculty Development Award, in 1989 an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, in 1993 a Fulbright Fellowship for lecturing and research in Germany and in 1997 an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for research in Germany.

Membership in Societies: American Physical Society

Typical Publications:

1. D. Shahar, D.C. Tsui, M. Shayegan, J.E. Cunningham, E. Shimshomi, and S.L. Sondhi, "The Nature of the Hall Insulator," Solid State Commun. 102, 817-821 (1997).
2. L.W. Engel, C-C. Li, D. Shahar, D.C. Tsui, and M. Shayegan, "Microwave Resonances in Low-filling Insulating Phase of Two-dimensional Electron Systems," Solid State Commun. 104, 167-171 (1997).
3. C-C. Li, L.W. Engel, D. Shahar, D.C. Tsui, and M. Shayegan, "Microwave Conductivity Resonance of Two-dimensional Hole System," Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 1353-1356 (1997).
4. D. Shahar, D.C. Tsui, M. Shayegan, E. Shimshoni, and S.L. Sondhi, "A Different View of the Quantum Hall Plateau-to-Plateau Transitions," Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 479-482 (1997).
5. S.J. Papadakis, J.P. Lu, M. Shayegan, S.R. Parihar, and S.A. Lyon, "Interlayer Charge Transfer in Double-Quantum Well Systems," Phys. Rev. B 55, 9294-9297 (1997).
6. T.S. Lay, T. Jungwirth, L. Smrcka, and M. Shayegan, "One-component to Two-component Transition of the v=2/3 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in a Wide Quantum Well Induced by Tilted Magnetic Fields," Phys. Rev. B 56, R7092-R7095 (1997).
7. T. Jungwirth, T.S. Lay, L. Smrcka, and M. Shayegan, "Resistance Oscillation in Wide Single Quantum Wells Subject to In-plane Magnetic Fields," Phys. Rev. B 56, 1029-1032 (1997).
8. M. Shayegan, "Incompressible, Metallic, and Insulating States of Two-dimensional Systems: Recent Experiments," (invited review article) "Highlights in Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science" Special Issue of Solid State Commun. 102, 155-163 (1997).
9. C.-C. Li, L.W. Engel, D. Shahar, D.C. Tsui, and M. Shayegan, "Microwave Resonance of 2D Holes in the Wigner Solid Regime," in Proc. of the 12th International Conf. on the Application of High Magnetic Fields, Edited by G. Landwehr and W. Ossau (World Scientific, Singapore, 1997), pp. 119-122.
10. V. Bayot, E. Grivei, S. Melinte, M.B. Santos, and M. Shayegan, "Low Temperature Heat Capacity of GaAs Quantum Wells near v=1," ibid, pp. 281-284.
11. E. Chow, H.P. Wei, S.M. Girvin, and M. Shayegan, "Phonon Emisson from a 2DEG: Evidence of Transition to the Hydrodynamic Regime," ibid, pp. 371-374.
12. V. Bayot, E. Grivei, J.-M. Beuken, S. Melinte, and M. Shayegan, "Critical Behavior of Nuclear-spin Diffusion in GaAs/AlGaAs Heterostructures near Landau Level Filling v=1," Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 1718-1721 (1997).
13. H.C. Manoharan, Y.W. Suen, T.S. Lay, M.B. Santos, and M. Shayegan, "Spontaneous Interlayer Charge Transfer near the Magnetic Quantum Limit," Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 2722-2725 (1997).