Faculty

Brent Koplitz

Professor
Ph.D., 1985, Princeton

Office: 5079 Percival Stern Building
Email: brent@tulane.edu
Phone: (504) 862-3555
Website: Koplitz Group Website

Discipline

Physical Chemistry

Areas of current interest

Research efforts in our group revolve around using lasers to initiate and study chemistry. A variety of lasers are employed to investigate problems in areas ranging from gas-phase Doppler spectroscopy to laser-assisted thin-film growth. Mass spectrometers are used extensively for product detection, but materials characterization methods such as x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) are enjoying increasing popularity within our group.

Selected Publications

Cahill, J.J., Panayotov, V.G., Cowen, K.A., Harris, E., Koplitz, L.V., Birdwhistell, K., Koplitz, B. Development of a method for investigating carbon removal processes during photoassisted film growth using organometallic precursors: Application to platinum (2007) Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces and Films, 25 (1), pp. 104-109 (2007).

M Lynch, A Demchuk, S Simpson, and B Koplitz, On the Reactivity of Trimethylgallium with H2O, CH3OH, CH3OCH3, and NH3 in a Multiple Nozzle Environment, Chem. Phys. Lett, 388, 12-7 (2004).

MC Kelly, G Gomlak, VG Panayotov, and B Koplitz, Toward Making Layered Films Using Selective Ionization in InSb and GaSb Laser Ablation Plumes, J. App. Phy. 95, 4483-7 (2004).

M Johnson, L Pringle, X Zhang, KT Lorenz, and B Koplitz, Nuclear Hyperfine Populations for DI Atoms Generated by the 266 nm Photolysis of DI J. Phys. Chem. A 107, 8134-8 (2003).

A Demchuk, S Simpson, and B Koplitz, Exploration of the Laser-Assisted Reactivity and Clustering of Trimethylaluminum with and without NH3 , J. Phys. Chem. A 107, 1727-33 (2003).

A Demchuk, JJ Cahill, S Simpson, and B Koplitz, On the Fate of Laser-Produced NH2 in a Constrained Pulsed Expansion of Trimethylamine Alane and NH3, Chem. Phys. Lett. 348, 217-22 (2001).

A Demchuk, JJ Cahill, and B Koplitz, Laser-Assisted Room Temperature Film Growth Using a Constrained Pulsed Nozzle Expansion, Chem. Mater. 12, 3192-6 (2000).