Lucia Pálová PhD Student Department of Physics and Astronomy Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 136 Frelinghuysen Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019 USA Office: Serin E279 Telephone: (732) 445-5500 ext. 4735

Academics

Research interests

PhD Thesis Work

• Modeling the Dependence of Properties of Ferroelectric Thin Film on Thickness.
  Lucia Pálová, Premala Chandra, and Karin M. Rabe, Phys. Rev. B 76, 014112 (2007).
  • Poster presentation at the Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics Workshop, Williamsburg, VA, Feb 2007 (pdf).


• Quantum Critical Paraelectrics and the Casimir Effect in Time.
  Lucia Pálová, Premala Chandra, and Piers Coleman, Phys. Rev. B 79, 075101 (2009).
  • Poster presentation at the Gordon Research Conference on Correlated Electron Systems, Biddeford, ME, June 2008 (pdf).
  • Seminar at the Techniche Universitat in Vienna, Austria, April 2008.
  • Seminar at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, April 2008.
  • Presentation at the annual American Physical Society March Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 2008.
  • Poster presentation at the ICAM Summer School, From BCS to Exotic Superconductivity, Cargese, France, July 2007.


• The Casimir Effect Revisited with the Matsubara Approach (0.1 MB).
  Lucia Pálová, Premala Chandra, and Piers Coleman, submitted to Amer. J. Phys., Feb 2009.


• Ideal Nanocheckerboard BiFeO3-BiMnO3 From First Principles.
  Lucia Pálová, Karin M. Rabe and Premala Chandra, manuscript 2009.
  • Presentation at the annual American Physical Society March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2009.
  • Poster presentation at the ICMR Summer School on Multiferroics and Beyond, Santa Barbara, CA, July 2008 (pdf).
  • Poster presentation at the Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics Workshop, Williamsburg, VA, Feb 2008.


• Metastable Antiferroelectric Phases of BiFeO3 From First Principles.
  Lucia Pálová and Karin M. Rabe, work in progress.
  • Poster presentation at the Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics Workshop, Williamsburg, VA, Feb 2009 (pdf).

Master's Thesis

• Anomalous Atomic Dynamics of the Al10V Crystal (7 MB).
  Lucia Pálová, Diploma thesis, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2004.
  Advisor: Marek Mihalkovič, Slovak Academy of Sciences.

Teaching and Service

• Fall 2004 and Spring 2005: PHY 110: Astronomy and Cosmology
• Fall 2005 and Spring 2006: PHY 202 and 201: Extended General Physics
• Fall 2006 and Spring 2007: PHY 202 and 201: Extended General Physics

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