Ricardo Lobo
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Short Vita
- 2008 - Awarded the Ludwig-Genzel-Prize for optical spectroscopy of superconductors and pump-probe experiemnts in the far-infrared.
- 2005 - Habilitation à Diriger des Recheches
- 2002 - CNRS staff scientist
- 2000-2002 - Post doc on optical properties of cuprate superconductors in the current research group.
- 1999-2000 - Post doc on pump-probe measurements at the free electron laser CLIO - Orsay - France
- 1997-1999 - Post doc on time resolved infrared spectroscopy at the National Synchrotron Light Source (Brookhaven Nat'l Lab.) - USA
- 1992-1996 - PhD on optical properties of conducting oxides - CRMHT-CNRS Orléans - France
- 1990-1992 - MsC on ferroelectric polymers and diffuse phase transitions - UFMG - Brazil
Latest papers (full list here)
- Exchange boson dynamics in cuprates: Optical conductivity of HgBa2CuO4+δ, J. Yang, J. Hwang, E. Schachinger, J.P. Carbotte, R.P.S.M. Lobo, D. Colson, A. Forget, and T. Timusk, Phys. Rev. Letters 102, 027003 (2009)
- Multiple bosonic mode coupling in the charge dynamics of the electron-doped superconductor (Pr2-xCex)CuO4, E. Schachinger, C.C. Homes, R.P.S.M. Lobo, and J.P. Carbotte, Phys. Rev. B 78, 134522 (10 pp.) (2008).
- Metallic Nature of Strained Single-Crystal La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 Films, A.M. Haghiri-Gosnet, M. Kouba, A.F. Santander-Syro, R.P.S.M. Lobo, P. Lecoeur, B. Mercey, Phys. Rev. B 78, 115118 (5 pp.) (2008).
My most significant papers
- Infrared phonon dynamics of multiferroic BiFeO3 single crystal, R.P.S.M. Lobo, R.L. Moreira, D. Lebeugle, and D. Colson, Phys. Rev. B 76, 172105 (4 pp.) (2007).
- Photoinduced time-resolved electrodynamics of superconducting metals and alloys, R.P.S.M. Lobo, J.D. LaVeigne, D.H. Reitze, D.B. Tanner, Z.H. Barber, E. Jacques, P. Bosland, M.J. Burns, and G.L. Carr, Phys. Rev. B 72, 024510 (10 pp.) (2005).
- Infrared properties of electron-doped cuprates: Tracking normal-state gaps and quantum critical behavior in Pr2−xCexCuO4, A. Zimmers, J.M. Tomczak, R.P.S.M. Lobo, N. Bontemps, C.P. Hill, M.C. Barr, Y. Dagan, R.L. Greene, A.J. Millis, and C.C. Homes, Europhys. Lett. 70, pp. 225-231 (2005).
- Absence of a loss of in-plane infrared spectral weight in the pseudo-gap regime of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ, A.F. Santander-Syro, R.P.S.M. Lobo, N. Bontemps, Z. Konstantinovic, Z.Z. Li and H. Raffy; Phys. Rev. Letters 88, 097005 (4 pp.) (2002).
- Pseudo-gap and superconducting condensate energies in the infrared spectra of Pr doped YBa2Cu3O7, R.P.S.M. Lobo, N. Bontemps, D. Racah, Y. Dagan and G. Deutscher, Europhys. Lett. 55, pp. 854-860 (2001).
- Bismuth disproportionation in BaBiO3 studied by infrared and visible reflectance spectra, R.P.S.M. Lobo, and F. Gervais; Phys. Rev. B 52, pp. 13294-13299 (1995).
- Grain-size effects on diffuse phase transitions of sol-gel prepared Barium Titanate ceramics, R.P.S.M. Lobo, N.D.S. Mohallem, and R.L. Moreira; J. Am. Ceramic Soc. 78, pp. 1343-1346 (1995).
Main research interests
- Lattice dynamics of muliferroic materials.
- The optical phase diagram of high-temperature superconductors.
- Non-equilibrium far infrared pump-probe on metallic superconductors.
- Optical response of metal-insulator transitions.
