Voicu Popescu - Postdoc

phone: 303-384-7619
email: Voicu_Popescu@nrel.gov
At NREL since 2007

Research Interests

Electronic structure calculations and computational materials science
Spin-orbit coupling influenced spectroscopies of magnetic solids
Electronic, magnetic, and transport properties of ferromagnet-semiconductor-ferromagnet heterostructures
Optical properties of nanostructures.

2007–Present	Research Associate, NREL, Solid State Theory Group
2006–2007	Guest Scientist, Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany
1995–2006	Research Scientist and Teaching Assistant, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
1993–1995	Research Scientist, Mining Research and Design Institute, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2000	Ph.D., Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
1993	M.S., Physics, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

O. Sipr, S. Bornemann, J. Minar, S. Polesya, V. Popescu, A. Simunek, H. Ebert, "Magnetic moments, exchange coupling and crossover temperatures of Co clusters on Pt(111) and Au(111)," J. Phys.: Cond. Matter 19, 096203 (2007).
V. Popescu, H. Ebert, N. Papanikolaou, P. H. Dederichs, R. Zeller, "Influence of spin-orbit coupling on the transport properties of magnetic tunnel junctions," Phys. Rev. B 72, 184427 (2005).
J. Minar, V. Popescu, and H. Ebert, "A relativistic theoretical description for spin-resolved CVV-Auger electron spectroscopy with application to Pd and Fe," Phys. Rev. B 62, 10051 (2000).
H. Ebert, V. Popescu, and D. Ahlers, "Fully Relativistic Theory For Magnetic EXAFS: Formalism and Applications," Phys. Rev. B 60, 7156 (1999).
H. Ebert and V. Popescu, "Theoretical description of spin-resolved appearance potential spectroscopy," Phys. Rev. B 56, 12884 (1997).