The Homepage of Joseph Pingenot
Theoretical Investigations of Semiconductor Nanostructures

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oklahoma in the Center for Semiconductor Physics in Nanostructures. Together with Professors Mullen, Murphy, and Santos, I examine spin and charge properties of electrons in InSb quantum well structures. Professor Mullen and I also work with groups in the Departments of Physics and Chemistry at the University of Arkansas on nanocrystal properties. For my doctoral work at the University of Iowa, I studied electron and hole spin properties and g-tensors in quantum dots (specifically, InAs/GaAs and InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots).

I perform my calculations on a desktop PC using a variety of codes including nextnano and a number of programs which I developed. I am working on codes to leverage the power of the Sooner supercomputer in order to perform larger, more detailed calculations. In my dissertation work, I used a cluster of Mac or Linux computers using a strain-dependent k-dot-p theory which was developed by Bahder and implemented numerically by Craig Pryor.

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