Misganaw Getaneh

 

Assistant Professor of Physics

Ph.D., Temple University, Philadelphia

 

Office: 222D EPS Building

Phone: (731)881-7433

Fax:     (731)881-7434

Email:  mgetaneh@utm.edu

 

 

Research Interests:

 

            I am working in the area of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, with particular emphasis on Particle Detectors. I have been developing a high resolution mass spectrometer in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, where I was a Faculty Fellow in the summers of 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003. I have also been working with undergraduate Physics students on experimental projects in Modern Physics, Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Condensed Matter Physics, and Thermodynamics.

 

 

Publications:

 

1.      M.Getaneh, D.L.Knies, K.S.Grabowski, C.Cetina, G.K.Hubler, and S.J.Tumey, “Applications of the Microchannel Plate for Isotope Spectrometry”   Proceedings of the Joint Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists (NSBP/NSHP), AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 991, pp. 82-89 (2008).  http://link.aip.org/link/?APCPCS/991/82/1

 

2.      M.Getaneh, D.L.Knies, K.S.Grabowski, C.Cetina, G.K.Hubler, and S.J.Tumey, “Application of the Microchannel Plate for Isotope Mass Spectrometry”, Bulletin of the Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, March 13-17, 2006

 

3.      M.Getaneh, D.L.Knies, K.S.Grabowski, C.Cetina, G.K.Hubler, and S.J.Tumey, “Application of the Microchannel Plate System for Mass Spectrometry Measurements”, Bulletin of the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the APS, November 10-12, 2005.

 

4.      D.L.Knies, K.S.Grabowski, C.Cetina, G.K.Hubler, M.Getaneh, and S.J.Tumey, “Status Report of the NRL TEAMS Facility”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B, Vol. 223, 72 (2004).

 

5.      C.Cetina, D.L.Knies, K.S.Grabowski, M. Getaneh, S.J.Tumey, R.Raffanti, O.H.W.Siegmund, J.V.Vallerga, “A Microchannel Plate System for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Measurements”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, Vol. 513, 403 (2003).

 

6.      X. X. Wang,  M. Getaneh, E. Kaczanowicz, C.J.Martoff, "Hot Electron Effects and Dynamic Behavior of Gold Doped Germanium Thin Films as Cryogenic Phonon Sensors", Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 85, #12, 8274 (1999)

 

7.      C.J.Martoff, A. Garzarella, M. Getaneh, E. Kaczanowicz, B. Neuhauser, D.Snowden-Ifft, X.X.Wang, Y. Zhang, "Prototype Direction-Sensitive Solid-State Detector for Dark Matter", Physical Review Letters, Vol. 76, #26, 4882 (1996).

 

8.      M. Getaneh, “Prototype Direction-Sensitive Solid-State Detector for Dark Matter”, Ph.D. Dissertation, UMI Dissertation Services, 1996.

 

 

Courses Information:

 

1.         Blackboard                (Syllabuses, Course

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2.         Mastering Physics     (Assignments and Tutorials - Click on the text book and log-in)