Kyle P. McElroy

Assistant Proffessor
Physics Department, 390 UCB
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309
Phone: 303.492.5404
e-mail: kyle.mcelroy
My complete e-mail address ends with: @colorado.edu

Degrees:
      PhD. Physics, University of California at Berkeley, January 2005
      B.A. Physics, University of California at Berkeley, June 1998
Awards:
     Sloan Research Fellowship 2008
Professional Experience:
    Assistant Professor:
      University of Colorado Boulder since Aug 2006
    Postdoctoral researcher:
      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, A. Lanzara Group: Jan. 2005-Aug 2006
    Visiting Scientist:
      LASSP Cornell University, J.C. Davis Group: March 2003-Jan. 2005
    Research Assistant:
      UC Berkeley, J.C. Davis Group: June 2000-March 2003
    Research Assistant:
      Space Sciences Laboratory, C.H. Townes Group: Spring 1998-Fall 1999



Selected Publications:
  • “Interplay of electron-lattice interactions and superconductivity in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x” Jinho Lee, K. Fujita, K. McElroy, J. A. Slezak, M. Wang, Y. Aiura, H. Bando, M. Ishikado, T. Masui, J.-X. Zhu, A. V. Balatsky, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, J. C. Davis, Nature 442, 546 (2006).
  • “Fourier-Transformed Local Density of States and Tunneling into a d-Wave Superconductor with Bosonic Modes” J.-X. Zhu, A. V. Balatsky, T. P. Devereaux, Qimiao Si, J. Lee, K. McElroy, J. C. Davis, Phys. Rev. B 73, 014511 (2006).
  • “Elastic Scattering Susceptibility of the High Temperature Superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x: A Comparison between Real and Momentum Space Photoemission Spectroscopies” K. McElroy, S. Y. Zhou, G.-H. Gweon, J. Graf, S. Uchida, H. Eisaki,4 H. Takagi, T. Sasagawa, D.-H. Lee, and A. Lanzara, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 067005 (2006).
  • “Atomic-Scale Sources and Mechanism of Nanoscale Electronic Disorder in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x” K. McElroy, Jinho Lee, J. A. Slezak, D.-H. Lee, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, and J. C. Davis, Science 309, 1048 (2005).
  • “Coincidence of Checkerboard Charge Order and Antinodal State Decoherence in Strongly Underdoped Superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x” K. McElroy, D.-H. Lee, J. E. Hoffman, K. M. Lang, J. Lee, E. W. Hudson, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, and J. C. Davis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 197005 (2005).
  • “Relating atomic scale electronic phenomena to wave-like quasiparticle states in superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x” K. McElroy, R.W. Simmonds, J.E. Hoffman, D.-H. Lee, J. Orenstein, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, J.C. Davis, Nature 422, 592 (2003).
  • “Fourier Transform Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy Studies of the Electronic Structure of Superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x” K. McElroy, J. E. Hoffman, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, and J. C. Davis, AIP Conf. Proc. 696, 1 (2003).
  • “STM study of novel resonances in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x” E. W. Hudson, V. Madhavan, K. McElroy, J. E. Hoffman, K. M. Lang, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida and J. C. Davis, Physica B 329-333, 1365 (2003).
  • “Incommensurate, dispersive, density of states modulations in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x” K. McElroy, J. E. Hoffman, D. -H. Lee, K. M. Lang, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida and J. C. Davis, Physica C, 388-389, 225 (2003).
  • “Imaging Quasiparticle Inteference in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x” J.E. Hoffman, K. McElroy, D.-H. Lee, K. M. Lang, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, J. C. Davis, Science 297 1148, (2002).
  • “Proper Motions of Dust Shells Surrounding NML Cygni” W. C. Danchi, W. H. Green, D. D. S. Hale, K. McElroy, J. D. Monnier, P. G. Tuthill, C. H. Townes, The Astrophysical Journal, 555, 405 (2001).
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    Invited Talks (recent):
  • Aspen Winter Conference on High Temperature Superconductivity, January 2005 Aspen, USA
    Title: “Are the dopant atoms the source of disorder in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x”
  • 4th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Strongly Correlated Systems, May 2005, Beijing, China
    Title: “How individual dopant-atoms generate the quasiparticle scattering and nanoscale electronic disorder in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x”
  • Condensed matter Journal Club, May 2005, UCLA
    Title: “How dopant-atoms generate the quasiparticle scattering and nanoscale electronic disorder in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x”
  • SPIE, July 2005, San Diego, USA
    Title: “Oxygen dopant atoms are the cause of nanoscale electronic disorder in Bi-2212”
  • QUEST Summer Workshop, August 2005, Santa Fe, USA
    Title: “The uses and causes of nanoscale electronic disorder in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x.”
  • ALS/CXRO Seminars, October 2005, Berkeley, USA
    Title: “The uses and cause of disorder in the high Tc superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x”
  • Conference on Concepts in Electron Correlation, October 2005, Hvar, Croatia
    Title: “Autocorrelating ARPES: Bridging momentum and real space probes”
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