Wai Ning Mei
Professor
Department of Physics (UNO)
60th and Dodge, Omaha, NE 68182-0266
Phone: (402) 554-3729
Email: physmei@unomaha.edu
Wai Ning Mei's Physics Web Page
Current Research
Dr. Wai-Ning Mei’s research areas include: molecular dynamics studies of alkali halides and molecular solids, total energy electronic calculation of the ferroelectric polymers and highly correlated systems, electron structures of the nano-structures, surface structure determination, multiple-scattering analysis of the low-energy and photoemission spectra, neutron scattering from flux lattice in the type-II superconductors, lattice dynamics of long chain polymers, rotation and vibration spectra of the adsorbed molecules, and application of variational methods to the anharmonic, weakly bounded, tightly bounded, and double-well potentials. Specific computation techniques include lattice dynamics, molecular dynamics, multiple-scattering method, first-principle full-potential linear-augment-plane-wave (FLAPW) method, and self-consistent atomic deformation (SCAD) method together with the SMODES symmetry-analysis software packages.
Recent Publications
C. G. Duan, W. N. Mei, J. J. Liu, W. G. Yin, L. L. Boyer, M. J. Mehl, R. W. Smith, and J. R. Hardy, “Electronic Properties of NaCdF3: a First-Principle Prediction”, Phys. Rev. B 69, 033102, (2004).
W. G. Yin and W. N. Mei, “Variational Monte Carlo Study of a Spin-1/2 Heisenberg Antiferromagnet in Magnetic Field”, AIP Proceedings CP 690 404, (2003).
W. G. Yin, W. N. Mei, C. G. Duan, J. J. Liu, R. W. Smith, and J. R. Hardy, “Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the Order-Disorder Phase Transition in the Solid NaNO2”, Phys. Rev. B 68, 174106, (2003).
W. G. Yin, W. N. Mei, C. G. Duan, H. Q. Lin, and J. R. Hardy, “Spectral Functions of Electronic Ferroelectrics Based on the Extended Falicov-Kimble Model”, Phys. Rev. B. 68, 075111, (2003).
W. G. Yin, W. N. Mei, R. W. Smith, and J. R. Hardy, “Dielectric Permittivity and Electric Modulus in Bi2Ti4O11”, J. J. Liu, C. G. Duan, J. of Chem. Phys 119, 2812, (2003).
C. G. Duan, W. N. Mei, M. J. Bai, S. Durcharme, J. J. Liu, W. G. Yin, and J. R. Hardy, “First-Principles Study on the Optical Properties of Poly(vinylidene fluoride) Crystals”, J. of Physics C15 , 3805, (2003).
C. G. Duan, W. N. Mei, J. R. Hardy, S. Durcharme, J. Choi, and P. A. Dowben, “Comparison of the Theoretical and Experimental Band Structure of Poly(vinylidene fluoride) Crystals”, Europ. J. of Physics C16, 81, (2003).
