Jigang Wang

Assistant Professor - Department of Physics and Astronomy
Associate Scientists - Ames Laboratory - USDOE

A311 Zaffarano
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011
Phone: 515-294-5630
Fax: 515-294-6027
Email: jwang@ameslab.gov

Education

  • Physicist Postdoctoral Fellow – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, 2005-2008
  • Ph.D. – Rice University, Houston, TX, 2005
  • M.S. – Rice University, Houston, TX, 2002
  • B.S. – Jilin University, Changchun, P. R. China, 2000

Professional Appointments

  • 2008-present, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University
  • 2008-present, Associate Scientist, Ames laboratory of US-DoE

Professional Society Service/Activities

  • Member, American Physical Society (since 2000)
  • Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society (since 2007)

Research Interests

  • Quantum Processes and Collective Phenomena in Condensed Matter
  • Light-Matter Interaction in Nanoscale and Complex Materials
  • Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Nonlinear Optics from THz to Ultraviolet
  • Spin Dynamics, Coherence, Magneto-Optics and High Magnetic Field Phenomena

Selected Publications

  1. K. M. Dani, I. Cotoros, J. Wang, J. Tignon, D. S. Chemla, E. G. Kavousanaki, and I. E. Perakis, “Observation of Inter-Landau-Level Quantum Coherence in Semiconductor Quantum Wells,” Physical Review B: rapid communication, 74, 041301 (2008)
  2. J. Wang, L. Cywinski, C. Sun, J. Kono, A. Oiwa, H. Munekata and L. J. Sham, “Femtosecond Demagnetization and Hot Hole Relaxation in Ferromagnetic GaMnAs,” Physical Review B, 77, 235308 (2008)
  3. J. Wang, I. Cotoros, K. M. Dani, X. Liu, J. K. Furdyna, and D. S. Chemla, “Ultrafast Enhancement of Ferromagnetism via Transient Holes in GaMnAs”, Physical Review Letters, 98, 217401(2007).
  4. J. Wang, C. Sun, J. Kono, A. Oiwa, H. Munekata, L. Cywinski, and L. J. Sham, “Ultrafast Quenching of Ferromagnetism in InMnAs Induced by Intense Laser Radiation,” Physical Review Letters, 95, 167401 (2005).
  5. J. Wang, Y. Hashimoto, J. Kono, A. Oiwa, H. Munekata, G. D. Sanders, and C. J. Stanton, “Propagating Coherent Acoustic Phonon Wave Packets in InMnAs/GaSb,” Physical Review B, 72, 153311 (2005).
  6. A. Srivastava, R. Srivastava, J. Wang, and J. Kono, “Laser Induced Above-Bandgap Transparency in GaAs,” Physical Review Letters, 93, 157401 (2004).