Vassilios Fessatidis

Vassilios Fessatidis
Professor and department chair

Freeman Hall B07
Tel: (718) 817-4188
Fax: (718) 817-4167
fessatidis@fordham.edu

PhD Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology
BA Physics, Queens College, CUNY
BA Math, Queens College, CUNY

spring 2013 Teaching

Phys 1602: Introductory Physics II

RESEARCH INTEREST
My primary area of research is transport properties of novel semiconductor systems in confined geometries (zero-, one-, and two-dimensions). I also do research on the physics of nanostructures in solid-state devices and quantum field theory methods in condensed matter physics.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/CONFERENCES

J.D. Mancini, V. Fessatidis and S.P. Bowen, “GMX Approximation for the Linear EÄe Jahn-Teller Effect”, accepted for publication by Chemical Physics Letters.
J.D. Mancini, R.K. Murawski, V. Fessatidis and S.P. Bowen, “Generalized Moments Expansion Applied to the Two Dimensional S=1/2 Heisenberg Model”, accepted for publication by Physical Review B.
V. Fessatidis, J.D. Mancini, R. Murawski and S.P. Bowen, “A Generalized Moments Expansion”, accepted for publication by Physics Letters A.
J D. Mancini, V. Fessatidis and S.P. Bowen, “Correction Energy of Water and Hydrogen Fluoride”, Physics Letters A 343, 159-164 (2005).
V. Fessatidis, J.D. Mancini, S.P. Bowen and W.J. Massano, “A Canonical Sequence Approach to the EÄe Jahn-Teller Effect”, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 103, 792-797 (2005).
V. Fessatidis and N.J.M. Horing, “Hybridization of Optical Phonons With Double-Quantum-Wire Plasmons Including Drift Instabilities”, Physica E 27, 487-494 (2005).
V. Fessatidis and N.J.M. Horing, “Splitting of Drift Instability Region for Current-Carrying Double Quantum Wire Plasmons by Coupling to Optical Phonons”, accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, 2005.
N.J.M. Horing, V. Fessatidis, and Y. Ayaz, “Interface Effects on the Dielectric Response of a Multiple-Quantum-Wire Lattice and Current-Driven Plasmon Instability”, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 16, 2215-2230 (2004).
K. Sabeeh, N. J. M. Horing and V. Fessatidis, “Longitudinal dielectric behavior of a harmonically bound two-dimensional electron gas in a uniform magnetic field”, Physica E 22, 843-851 (2004).
S.P. Bowen, J.C. Richard, J.D. Mancini, V. Fessatidis and B. Crooker, “Microseism and Infrasound Generation by Cyclones”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 113, 2562-2573 (2003).
V. Fessatidis, J.D. Mancini, W.J. Massano, and S.P. Bowen, “Ground-State of the Single Impurity Anderson Model with Correlated Conduction Electrons”, Physics Letters A 303, 97-103 (2002).
V. Fessatidis, J.D. Mancini, R.K. Murawski, S.P. Bowen, and W.J. Massano,
V. Fessatidis, J.D. Mancini and S.P. Bowen,
Y. Ayaz, N.J.M. Horing, V. Fessatidis and J.D. Mancini, “Coupling of N-Quantum-Wire Plasmons with Surface and Bulk Collective Modes of the Host Semiconductor”, Microelectronic Engineering 51-52, 219-226 (2000).
V. Fessatidis, J.D. Mancini, W.J. Massano and S.P. Bowen, “Ground State of a Two-Level System with Phonon Coupling”, Physical Review B61, 3184-3187 (2000).
J.D. Mancini, V. Fessatidis, Q. Haider and S.P. Bowen, “An Improved Systematic Variational Method: Application to a Nuclear System”, Physics Letters A 274, 170-173 (2000).
V. Fessatidis, N.J.M. Horing and K. Sabeeh, “Retarded Green's Function For an Electron in a Parabolic Quantum Dot Subject to a Constant Uniform Magnetic Field and an Electric Field of Arbitrary Time Dependence and Orientation”, Philosophical Magazine B79, 77-82 (1999).
V. Fessatidis, J.D. Mancini, J.D. Prie, Y. Zhou and A. Majewski, “Further Application of An Improved Systematic Variational Method for Approximating Energy Levels”, Physical Review A60, 1713-1716 (1999).
J.L. Cohn, G.S. Nolas, V. Fessatidis, T.H. Metcalf and G.A. Slack, “Glasslike Heat Conduction in High-Mobility Crystalline Semiconductors”, Physical Review Letters 82, 779-782 (1999).
J.D. Mancini, V. Fessatidis and S.P. Bowen, “Moments Expansions for the Correlation Energy of an Exactly Solvable Problem”, Physics Letters A 259, 280-284 (1999).
V. Fessatidis, H.L. Cui, and P. Vasilopoulos, “Raman Scattering from a Magnetically Modulated 2DEG Subject to a Normal Magnetic Field”, Superlattices and Microstructures 23, 47 (1998).
N.J.M. Horing, K. Sabeeh, and V. Fessatidis, “Schrodinger Green's Function for an Electron in a Rotating Coordinate System with an Axial Magnetic Field”, Physics Letters A246, 459 (1998).
V. Fessatidis, J.D. Mancini, Q. Haider, Y. Zhou, and L. Greco, “Energy Eigenstates in a Static Screened Coulomb Potential”, Physics Letters 242 A, 74 (1998).
H.L. Cui, V. Fessatidis, and O. Kuhn, “Magnetoplasma Spectra of the Two-Dimensional Electron Rings”, Superlattices and Microstructures 17, 173 (1995).
O. Kuhn, V. Fessatidis, H.L. Cui and N.J.M. Horing, “Effects of Lanau Level Coupling on the Magnetic Band Structure for Electrons in a Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Lattice”, MRS Symp. Proc. 358, 1047 (1995).
H. L. Cui, V. Fessatidis and P. Vasilopoulos, “Inelastic Light Scattering From a Modulated Two-Dimensional Electron Gas In Magnetic Fields”, Phys. Rev. B52, 13765 (1995).
Y. Zhou, A. Majewski, J.D. Prie, V. Fessatidis, J.D. Mancini and P.F. Meier, “Application of the Coupled Cluster Method to the Periodic Anderson Model”, Phys. Rev. B51, 4128 (1995).