George K. Nkrumah-Buandoh (PhD (Ghana) ICTP Dip. (Trieste))

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION

• Condensed Matter Physics

RESEARCH INTEREST

Theoretical study of Electron-Phonon Interaction in Low-dimensional Systems (Superlattices, Quantum Dots and Quantum Wires, carbon nanotubes), thermoelectric effects in carbon nanotubes and graphenes

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1.    S.Y. Mensah, S. S. Abukari, N.G. Mensah, K.A Dompreh, F.K.A. Allotey and G.K. Nkrumah-Buandoh, “Amplification of acoustic phonons in superlattice”, Condensed Mat/arXiv: 1101.1854 (2011)

2.    S.Y. Mensah, A. Twum,  N.G. Mensah, K.A Dompreh, S. S. Abukari, and G.K. Nkrumah-Buandoh, “Effect of Laser on the Thermopower of Chiral Carbon Nanotube”, Condensed Mat/arXiv: 1104.1913 (2011)

3.    S. Y. Mensah, F. K. A. Allotey, N. G. Mensah, H. Akrobotu and G. Nkrumah, “The Influence of External Electric Field on Acoustoelectric Effect in a Superlattice”, Superlattices and Microstructures 37 87 – 97 (2005)

4.    S. Y. Mensah, F. K. A. Allotey, G. Nkrumah and N. G. Mensah, “High Electron Thermal Conductivity of Chiral Carbon Nanotubes”, Physica E, 23 152 – 158 (2004)

5.    N. G. Mensah, G. Nkrumah, S. Y. Mensah and F. K. A. Allotey, “Temperature Dependence of the Thermal Conductivity in Chiral Carbon Nanotubes”, Physics Letters A 329 369 – 378 (2004)

6.    S.Y. Mensah, F.K.A. Allotey, N.G. Mensah, and G. Nkrumah, “Giant Electrical Power Factor in Single-Walled Chiral Carbon Nanotube”, Superlattices and Microstructures, 33 173 – 180 (2003).

7.    S.Y. Mensah, F.K.A. Allotey, N.G. Mensah and G. Nkrumah, “Differential Thermopower of CNT Chiral Carbon Nanotube”, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 13 5653 – 5662 (2001)

8.    S.Y. Mensah, F.K.A. Allotey, G. Nkrumah and N.G. Mensah, “Ground State Energy of a Polaron in a Superlattice”, Superlattices and Microstructures, 29 335 – 345 (2001)