Steven H. Morgan, PhD Professor of Physics, Chair, Department of Life and Physical Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Business Education  PhD in Physics, Vanderbilt University, USA  Office 243 W.E.B. DuBois Hall  Email smorgan (at) fisk.edu  Address 1000 17th Ave. N., Nashville, TN, 37208, USA  Phone     (615) 329-8621

Bio

Dr Morgan serves as Chair of the Department of Life and Physical Sciences and also as a mentor in the in Fisk-Vanderbilt MS-PhD Bridge Program in material sciences. His own research interests are the linear and nonlinear optical properties of glasses, the optical properties of semi-conductors, and applications of vibrational spectroscopy to condensed matter physics. He is also expert in Infrared and Raman spectroscopy. He is a funded investigator of the Center for Physics and Chemistry of Materials, Fisk University.

Dr Morgan is responsible for the teaching of physics to undergraduate and graduate students.

Sample Publications

1. “Bulk Semiconductors for Infrared Applications,” A. Burger, J.-O.Ndap, K. Chattopadhyay and S. Morgan, in Photodetectors and Fiber Optics, H.S. Nalwa, editor, Academic Press (2001) 239-305. (Book Chapter)
2. “Studies of Er3+ doped germanate–oxyfluoride and tellurium–germanate–oxyfluoride transparent glass–ceramics”, Z. Pan, A. Ueda, M. Hays, R. Mu, and S.H. Morgan, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 352 (2006) 801–806.
3. “Core-suction technique for the fabrication of optical fiber preforms”, Nitin K. Goel, Roger H. Stolen, Steven Morgan, Jong-Kook Kim, Dan Kominsky, and Gary Pickrell, Optics Letters 31 (2006) 438-440.
4. “Nano-Raman mapping of porous glass ceramics with a scanning near-field optical microscope in collection mode”, A. Zavalin, A. Cricenti, R. Generosi, M. Luce, S. Morgan, D. Piston, Applied Physics Letters 88, (2006) 133126.
5. “Luminescence of Er3+ in oxyfluoride transparent glass-ceramics,” Zhengda Pan, Akira Ueda, Steven H. Morgan, and Richard Mu, Journal of Rare Earths 24 (2006) 699-705.
6. “Upconversion luminescence in Er3+-doped germanate-oxyfluoride and tellurium-germanate-oxyfluoride transparent glass-ceramics,” Z. Pan, A. Ueda, R. Mu, S.H. Morgan, Journal of Luminescence 126 (2007) 251–256.
7. “NanoRaman mapping of a porous glass-ceramic SERS substrate in collection mode,” A. Zavalin, A. Cricenti, R. Generosi, M. Luce, S. Morgan and D. Piston, Journal of Microscopy 229 (2008) 402-406.
8. “Kinetics of a Collagen-like Polypeptide Fragmentation after Mid-IR Free-Electron Laser Ablation,” AndreyZavalin, David L. Hachey, MunirathinamSundaramoorthy, Surajit Banerjee, Steven Morgan, Leonard Feldman, Norman Tolk, and David W. Piston, Biophysical Journal, 95 (2008) 1371-1381.
9. “Terbium-activated lithium–lanthanum–aluminosilicateoxyfluoride scintillating glass and glass-ceramic,” Z. Pan, K. James, Y. Cui, A. Burger, N. Cherepy, S.A. Payne , R. Mu, S.H. Morgan, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 594 (2008) 215–219.
10. “Enhanced 1.54 µm luminescence in Er-doped ZnO nanoparticle films via indirect excitation,” Z. Pan, S. H. Morgan, A. Ueda, R. Aga Jr., H. Y. Xu, S. K. Hark, and R. Mu, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 1111 (2009) 1111-D04-08.
11. “Spectroscopic studies of Er3+ doped Ge-Ga-S glass containing silver nanoparticles,” Z. Pan, A. Ueda, R. Aga Jr., A. Burger, R. Mu, S.H. Morgan, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids” (2010) jnoncrysol.