James M. MacLaren, Ph.D.

Professor

Dean - Newcomb-Tulane College

 

Office: Cudd Hall

Office Phone: (504) 865-5720

 

Lab(s): 5044 Percival Stern Hall

Lab Phone:

 

Fax: (504) 862-8702

 

Email: maclaren@tulane.edu

Research Interests:

Theoretical Solid State Physics

 

Recent Courses:

PHYS 131 – General Physics I

 

Education:

Ph.D., Imperial College, London (1986)

 

Recent Publications:

T. M. Schuler, R. A. Stern, R. McNorton, S. D. Willoughby, J. M. MacLaren, D. L. Ederer, V. Perez-Dieste, F. J. Himpsel, S. A. Lopez-Rivera, T. A. Callcott, "Electronic Structure of the dilute magnetic semiconductor Zn0.90Mn0.10S measured by soft x-ray spectroscopy and first principles calculations", Physical Review B, Vol. 72, Page 045211 (2005).

S.D. Willoughby, R.A. Stern, R. Duplessis and J.M. MacLaren, "Electronic structure calculations of cubic and hexagonal phases of Co3Pt", Journal of Applied Physics 93, 7145 (2003).

R.A. Stern, J.M. MacLaren, T. Charlton, and D. Lederman, "First principles calculation of the anisotropic magnetoresistance in layered Co-Re heterostructures", to be published in Journal of Applied Physics, June 2004.

R.A. Stern, S.D. Willoughby, A. Ramirez, J.M. MacLaren, J. Cu, Q. Pan and R.D. James, "Electronic and structural properties of Fe3Pd/Pt shape memory alloys", Journal of applied Physics 91, 7818 (2002).

R.A. Stern, S.D. Willoughby, J.M. MacLaren, J. Cui, Q. Pan, and R.D. James, "Fe3Pd ferromagnetic shape memory alloys", Journal of Applied Physics 93, 8644 (2003).