ATOMIC and MOLECULAR PHYSICS

Major Graduate Level Research Activities

• Autoionization in atoms
• Energy transfer in molecular collisions
• Atom-solid surface scattering
• Electronic structure of microclusters
• Molecular-dynamics (MD) simulation of clusters
• Monte-Carlo (MC) simulation of clusters
• Development of empirical interatomic potentials
• Electronic and structural properties of nanosystems
• Structure activity relationships of bioactive molecules
• Ion-atom collisions

Group Members and Field of Interest

Sakir Erkoc

Electronic structure of atoms, molecules, clusters; Nanoscience; MD and MC simulations; Interatomic interactions

Cuneyt Can

Ion-atom collisions.

Graduate Students

Emine Deniz Çalışır, PhD

Structural and electronic properties of bioactive molecules

Osman Barış Malcıoğlu, PhD

Structural and electronic properties of nanosystems

Rengin Peköz, PhD

MD-Simulations of Li ion doped nanosystems

Emre Taşçı, PhD

Structural properties of nanojunctions and nanogears

Nazım Dugan, MSc

MC-Simulations of nanoparticles