.: Contact Info Department of Physics and Astronomy James Madison University 901 Carrier Drive, MSC 4502 Harrisonburg, VA 22801 Ph: +1 (540) 568-4991 Fax: +1 (540) 568-2800 emails: constacx@jmu.edu             doctorcsquared@gmail.com

Caricature by Angie Jordan 2009

.: Short Bio

I am an assistant professor in Physics and Astronomy department here at JMU. I arrived here in September 2010 from Seton Hall University where I was an assistant professor in the Physics department. I previously worked as a postdoc in the group of Randall Feenstra from Carnegie Mellon University. I received my MS and PhD from Ohio University in 2005 and my BS from University Politehnica of Bucharest in 1999.

I am a scientist interested a handful of nanoscience projects. Undergraduate students from JMU help me construct an atomic layer deposition reactor with which we plan to synthesize nanolayers of high-k dielectric constant rare earth insulating oxides that will have unique new functionalities. We are also interested to understand the heterostructure growth between inorganic nanostructures and organic conductive polymers. We measure all of our samples with in-house x-ray diffraction, ellipsometry, atomic force microscopy, and scanning electron microscopy instruments.








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