Janice Musfeldt Professor Physical and Materials       Chemistry Spectroscopy of low-dimensional solids; electronic and magnetic materials B.S., University of Illinois (1987) Ph.D., University of Florida (1992) NSF CAREER Awardee
E-mail: musfeldt@utk.edu 615 Buehler Hall   ·   Telephone: 865-974-3392 Representative publications   ·   Group Web page

Dr. Musfeldt maintains her own Web page.

Representative publications

Microscopic Evidence for Molecular Level Negative Thermal Expansion in Fullerenes, S. Brown, J. Cao, J.L. Musfeldt, N. Dragoe, F. Cimpoesu, S. Ito, H. Takagi, and R.J. Cross, Phys. Rev. B. 73, 125446 (2006). Reprinted in the 17 April, 2006 edition of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology.

Strong Anisotropy of the Far Infrared Absorption Spectra of Stretch-Aligned Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes, N. Akima, Y. Iwasa, S. Brown, A.M. Barbour, J. Cao, J.L. Musfeldt, H. Matsui, N. Toyota, M. Shiraishi, H. Shimoda, and O. Zhou, Adv. Mater. 18, 1166 (2006).

Optical Properties and Electronic Structure of Spinel ZnRh₂O₄, D.J. Singh, R.C. Rai, J.L.Musfeldt, S. Auluck, N. Singh, P. Khalifah, S. McClure, and D.G. Mandrus, Chem. Mater. 18, 2696 (2006).

Magneto-Optical Investigation of the Field-Induced Spin-Glass Insulator to Ferromagnetic Metallic Transition of the Bilayer Manganite (La_0.4Pr_0.6) _1.2Sr_1.8Mn₂O₇, J. Cao, J.T. Haraldsen, R.C. Rai, S. Brown, J.L. Musfeldt, Y.J. Wang, X. Wei, M. Apostu, R. Suryanarayanan, and A. Revcolevschi, Phys. Rev. B. 74, 045113 (2006).

Understanding the Gap in Polyoxovanadate Molecule-Based Magnets, A. Barbour, R.D. Luttrell, J. Choi, J.L. Musfeldt, D. Zipse, N.S. Dalal, D.W. Boukhvalov, V.V. Dobrobitski, M.I. Katsnelson, A.I. Lichtenstein, B.N. Harmon, and P. K¨ogerler, Phys. Rev. B. 74, 014411 (2006).

Optical Properties and Magnetic Field-Induced Phase Transitions in the Ferroelectric State of Ni₃V₂O₈, R.C. Rai, J. Cao, S. Brown, J.L. Musfeldt, D. Kasinathan, D.J. Singh, G. Lawes, N. Rogado, R.J. Cava, and X. Wei, Phys. Rev. B. 74, 235101 (2006).

Spin-Charge Coupling and the High Energy Magneto-Dielectric Effect in HoMnO₃, R.C. Rai, J. Cao, J.L. Musfeldt, S.B. Kim, S.-W. Cheong, and X. Wei, Phys. Rev. B. 75, 184414 (2007).

Observation of 300 K High Energy MagnetoDielectric Contrast in the Bilayer Manganite (La_0.4Pr_0.6) _1.2Sr_1.8Mn₂O₇, J. Cao, R.C. Rai, S. Brown, J.L. Musfeldt, R. Tackett, G. Lawes, Y.J. Wang, X. Wei, M. Apostu, R. Suryanarayanan, and A. Revcolevschi, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 021913 (2007).

Pinned Low Energy Excitation in Metal Exchanged Vanadium Oxide Nanoscrolls, J. Cao, J.L. Musfeldt, S. Mazumdar, N. Chernova, and M.S. Whittingham, Nano. Lett. 7, 2351 (2007).

Bulk vs. Nanoscale WS₂: Finite Length Scale Effects and Solid State Lubrication, S. Brown, J.L. Musfeldt, I Mihut, J.B. Betts, A. Migliori, A. Zak, and R. Tenne, Nano. Lett. 7, 2365 (2007).

Hydrogen Bonding and MultiPhonon Structure in Copper Pyrazine Coordination Polymers, S. Brown, J. Cao, J.L. Musfeldt, M.M. Conner, A.C. McConnell, H.I. Southerland, J.L. Manson, J.A. Schlueter, M.D. Phillips, M.M. Turnbull, and C.P. Landee, accepted, Inorg. Chem.