 | Charles Agosta, Ph.D.Professor and Chair of Physics Office: 231 BioPhysics Laboratory: 141 BioPhysics Active Learning and Research pages |
Agosta received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. from Duke University. He did post-doctoral work at Harvard University and at the Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and joined the Clark faculty in 1991. Agosta is the Chair of the 3/2 Engineering Program Committee. Current Research and TeachingCharles Agosta is a low temperature experimentalist who is interested in lower dimensional materials in very high magnetic fields. He and his students have developed a pulsed magnetic field laboratory where experiments are performed in the highest magnetic fields available at any university in the United States. His group, which is supported by grants from the NSF and PRF, is presently studying the properties of lower dimensional metals such as organic superconductors, materials that have the interesting property of being perfect conductors of electricity, even though they do not look like metals. The reason that these materials have superconducting properties is not well understood, although we know that the physical mechanism is quantum mechanical in nature. Agosta hopes that his research will lead to greater understanding of organic superconductivity and also give some insight into other types of correlated electron systems.
Agosta regularly teaches the Electronics Laboratory and always is willing to help students build their apparatus. For more information, visit his Research and Active Learning pages. Selected PublicationsI. Mihut, C. C. Agosta, C. Martin, L. de Veieros, Z. Bayindir, C. H.Mielke, and M. Tokumoto and M. Kurmoo, "New approach to calculate the magnetic breakdown field in the organic conductor &kappa-(ET) 2 Cu(NCS) 2," Will be posted shortly.
C. Martin, C. C. Agosta, S. W. Tozer, H. A. Radovan, E. C. Palm, T. P. T. Coffey, C. Martin, C. C. Agosta, and M. Tokumoto, "A bulk 2D Pauli C. Martin, C. C. Agosta, S. W. Tozer, H. A. Radovan, T. Kinoshota, and C. Mielke, J. Singleton, M-S. Nam, N. Harrison, C. C. Agosta, B.
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