Nicholas Brawand

Graduate student

Areas of Interest

• First-principles simulations of nanostructures, surface and interfaces
• Energy transport in semiconductors

Experience

• Summer 2012, Colorado School of Mines Physics Dept : Research Assistant: ion transport within novel architecture silicon
• 2010-2011, CSM Physics Dept. Undergraduate Researcher: remote landmine detection system, non-invasive BCI prosthetics
• Summer 2008-2011, Boeing Systems Engineer Intern, Software Engineer Intern

Publications

• Nicholas P. Brawand, Mark T. Lusk
  Silicon Clathrate Quantum Dots and the Allotropic Dependence of Quantum Confinement
  J. Phys. Chem. C, Just Accepted Manuscript (2014)
• Nicholas P. Brawand, Márton Vörös, and Giulia Galli
  Surface Dangling Bonds Are a Cause of Type-II Blinking in Si Nanoparticles
  Nanoscale 7, 3737 (2015)

Proceedings Articles

• Lakshmi Krishna, Aaron D. Martinez, Lauryn L. Baranowski, Nicholas P. Brawand, Carolyn A. Koh, Vladan Stevanović, Mark T. Lusk, Eric S. Toberer, Adele C. Tamboli
  Group IV clathrates: synthesis, optoelectonic properties, and photovoltaic applications
  Proc. SPIE 8981 (2014)