Brian Skinner

Research Associate

411 Tate, 626-0725, email bskinner @ physics.umn.edu
http://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com
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Activities

theory of strongly-correlated charged systems, with a focus on energy technologies; nanocrystal-based photovoltaics; supercapacitors; theoretical approaches to basketball analysis

Selected Publications

Brian Skinner and B. I. Shklovskii, Theory of the random potential and conductivity at the surface of a topological insulator, Physical Review B

Brian Skinner and B. I. Shklovskii, Giant capacitance of a plane capacitor with a two-dimensional electron gas in a magnetic field, Physical Review B

Brian Skinner, Tianran Chen, and B. I. Shklovskii, Why is the bulk resistivity of topological insulators so small?, Physical Review Letters

Tianran Chen, Brian Skinner, and B. I. Shklovskii, Coulomb Gap Triptych in a Periodic Array of Metal Nanocrystals, Physical Review Letters

Tianran Chen, Brian Skinner, and B. I. Shklovskii, Coulomb gap triptychs, √2 effective charge, and hopping transport in periodic arrays of superconductor grains, Physical Review B

Brian Skinner, Tianran Chen, and B. I. Shklovskii, Theory of hopping conduction in arrays of doped semiconductor nanocrystals, Physical Review B

Brian Skinner, The problem of shot selection in basketball, PLoS ONE

Tianran Chen, Brian Skinner, and B. I. Shklovskii , Cooperative charging in a nanocrystal assembly gated by ionic liquid, Physical Review B

Brian Skinner, M. M. Fogler, and B. I. Shklovskii, Model of large volumetric capacitance in graphene supercapacitors based on ion clustering, Physical Review B

Brian Skinner, Tianran Chen, M. S. Loth, and B. I. Shklovskii , Theory of volumetric capacitance of an electric double-layer supercapacitor, Physical Review E

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