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In 2008 I received my B.S. degree from the mechanical engineering department of Bogazici University, Turkey and I have been a graduate student at the University of Iowa in the Department of Physics and Astronomy since 2008. Since I joined the research group of Prof. Michael E. Flatté in the summer of 2009 I have been working on the calculating electronic band structures, including spin-orbit interaction of solids with diamond and perovskite symmetry. In addition I am exploring new ways to express the spin-orbit interaction under applied external fields near the conduction band minima.
In addition to that I work on optoelectronic control of novel spin centers in diamond by using Koster-Slater type tight-binding approach which permits calculations of electronic structure, optical transition matrix elements, Stark shifts, etc. for extended spin center wave functions and within a fast and efficient code, as well as interactions among spin centers. The reason why I use tight-binding method instead of usual density functional theory techniques or symmetry-based low energy Hamiltonians is that it is not only a very elegant, fast and also accurate way of computing spin related properties for large region of materials but it can easily cope with broken symmetry through external effects, such as strain.
Briefly spin-related physical phenomenon is in the heart of my research. When calculating band structures I include spin-orbit coupling to understand how the spin of the carriers affects their dynamical properties (especially in transport) and I personally find spintronics a very interesting and exciting field of applied and basic physics.
If you'd like to explore the world of spintronics and want to go beyond
wikipedia, this might be one of most comprehensive sources one would find
Spintronics: Fundamentals and Applications.
