Dr. Charles Hanna joined the faculty of the Department of Physics at Boise State University in 1996 after doing postdoctoral research at IBM and Indiana University. His doctorate in physics is from Stanford University, and his B.S. and M.S. degrees were earned at Yale University. Dr. Hanna's research interests are primarily in theory, computation, and modeling. They include interactions in quantum and biophysical systems, Bose-Einstein condensates, quantum effects in low-dimensional, nanoscale electron and boson systems, the effects of interactions between electrons in semiconductor structures, the Quantum Hall effect (especially in multicomponent systems), and many-body and statistical physics. He serves as a reviewer for the National Science Foundation and the Canadian Research Council, and a referee for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Physical Review A, and Physical Review E.
Articles & Conference Proceedings
Nanoscale Characteristics of Triacylglycerol Oils: Phase Separation and Binding Energies of Two-Component Oils to Crystalline Nanoplatelets (with Colin J. MacDougall, M. Shajahan Razul, Erzsebet Papp-Szabo, Fernanda Peyronel, Alejandro G. Marangoni, and David A. Pink), Faraday Discussions (2012)
Fats are elastoplastic materials with a defined yield stress and flow behavior and the plasticity...
Improving the Selective Cancer Killing Ability of ZnO Nanoparticles Using Fe Doping (with Aaron Thurber, Denise G. Wingett, John W. Rasmussen, Janet Layne, Lydia Johnson, Dmitri A. Tenne, Jianhui Zhang, and Alex Punnoose), Nanotoxicology (2012)
This work reports a new method to improve our recent demonstration of zinc oxide (ZnO)...
Concentration Dependence of Magnetic Moment in Ce1-xFexO2 (with Geoffrey L. Beausoleil II, Aaron Thurber, S. S. Rao, Gordon A. Alanko, and Alex Punnoose), Journal of Applied Physics (2012)
In this study, we examined the impact of iron doping on the structural, chemical, and...
Size, Surface Structure, and Doping Effects on Ferromagnetism in SnO2 (with Gordon A. Alanko, Aaron Thurber, and Alex Punnoose), Journal of Applied Physics (2012)
The effects of crystallite size, surface structure, and dopants on the magnetic properties of semiconducting...
Unusual Crystallite Growth and Modification of Ferromagnetism Due to Aging in Pure and Doped Zno Nanoparticles (with Aaron Thurber, Gordon A. Alanko, Geoffrey L. Beausoleil II, Kelsey Dodge, and Alex Punnoose), Journal of Applied Physics (2012)
We report the unusual growth of pure and Fe-doped ZnO nanoparticles prepared by forced hydrolysis...
Presentations
Continuum Mean-Field Theories for Molecular Fluids, and Their Validity at the Nanoscale (with F. Peyronel, C. MacDougall, A. Marangoni, and D. A. Pink), American Physical Society, APS March Meeting (2011)
We present a calculation of the physical properties of solid triglyceride particles dispersed in an...
Electrostatics of Membrane-Water Interfaces (Invited Talk), Porin Summit, Department of Biology, University of Guelph (2007)
Bose-Einstein Condensation of Rapidly Rotating Atoms (Invited Talk), Physics Seminar Series, Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University (2006)
Dilute gaseous Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), predicted in 1924 by Albert Einstein, were first realized experimentally...