Vanessa Preisler

University of La Verne
Department of Physics

909-593-3511 ext.4679
vpreisler@ulv.edu

EDUCATION

Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France - attended 2003-2006 

Ph.D. in Physics
Thesis : "Carrier LO-Phonon Interaction in InAs/GaAs Self-Assembled Quantum Dots"

Universite Paris-Sud (Paris XI), France - attended 2002-2003 

M.S. in Solid State Physics

University of California, San Diego - attended 1998-2002 

B.S. in Physics
Recipient of John Holmes Malberg Award 2002 (given annually to a graduating physics student)
Minor: French Literature 
 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor of Physics - employed 2007-present 

Department of Physics, University of La Verne, La Verne, California.

Postdoc - employed 2006-2007 

Device Research Laboratory (DRL), Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles
- Study of spintronic devices and diluted magnetic semiconductors.
- Magnetotransport measurements at low temperatures.

Research Assistant - employed 2003-2006 

Ecole Normale Superieure, Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Paris.
- Study the interaction between carriers (holes, electrons or excitons) trapped in InAs/GaAs quantum dots and the surrounding lattice.
- Perform FIR (50-700cm-1) magneto-spectroscopy experiments in magnetic fields up to 15T (Paris).
- Perform magneto-PLE, RPL and PL experiments in magnetic fields up to 30T (High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Grenoble).
- Developed an algorithm to calculate the coupling of the mixed carrier-LO phonon states using the Frohlich Hamiltonian.

Teacher Assistant - employed 2003-2006 

Department of Physics, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI).

Research Assistant - employed 2002-2003 

Universite Paris Pierre et Marie Curie- Groupe de Physique des Solides.
- Studied the magnetic and optical properties of semi-magnetic doped quantum wells (CdMnTe/CdMgTe). 
- Performed absorption and photoluminescence measurements of the quantum wells in a cryostat with applied magnetic fields up to 7T.
 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 
V. Preisler, T. Grange, R. Ferreira, L.A. de Vaulchier,Y. Guldner, F.J. Teran, M. Potemski, and A. Lemaître, 
“Evidence for excitonic polarons in InAs/GaAs quantum dots”, Phys. Rev. B 73 075320 (2006).
 
V. Preisler, R. Ferreira, S. Hameau, L.A. de Vaulchier, Y. Guldner, M.L. Sadowski, and A. Lemaître, 
“Hole-LO phonon interaction in InAs/GaAs quantum dots ”, Phys. Rev. B 72 115309 (2005).
 
B.L. Zink, V. Preisler, D.R. Queen, and F. Hellman, 
“Magnetic moments and interactions near the metal-insulator transition in amorphous magnetic semiconductors”, Phys. Rev. B. 66 195208 (2002).
 
V. Preisler, T. Grange, R. Ferreira, L.A. de Vaulchier,Y. Guldner, F.J. Teran, M. Potemski, and A. Lemaître, 
“Evidence for excitonic polarons in InAs/GaAs quantum dots”, Physica Status Solidi (c) 3 11 3881 (2006).
 

 

INVITED TALKS

 
Department of Electrical Engineering UCLA, Visitor Seminar, October 2006.
“Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy of Quantum Dots”
 
Science in High Magnetic Fields, Grenoble, France, June 2005.
“Magneto-Optical Properties of Semi-Conductor Quantum Dots”
 
Journées d’Ecole Doctorale Physique, Paris, France, October 2005.
“Magnéto-spectroscopie dans des boîtes quantiques semi-conductrices” 
 

 

CONFERENCES

 

International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, Vienna, July 2006.

“Magneto-optical interband transitions in semiconductor quantum dots”

 

Fourth International Conference on Semiconductor Quantum Dots, Chamonix,  May 2006.

“Evidence for excitonic polarons in InAs/GaAs quantum dots”

 

American Physical Society March Meeting, Los Angeles, 2005, two contributed talks.

“Hole-LO phonon interaction in InAs/GaAs quantum dots”

                               and

  “Investigation of interband magneto-optical transitions in a quantum dot ensemble”

 

Journées de la Matière Condensée, Nancy, France, September 2004.

“ Interaction trou-phonon LO dans les boites quantiques InAs/GaAs ”