BRENT KOPLITZ
Professor 
PhD Princeton, 1985
Phone: 504-862-3555
E-mail: brent@tulane.edu

Physical Chemistry

Koplitz Group Page

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.
 
The figure below shows a TEM image of a large carbon-based toroid generated from fullerenes.
 
Selected Publications
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).


Chevalier, October 2004