Keith A. Williams

Assistant Professor of Physics
Department of Physics
University of Virginia
382 McCormick Road
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904


Email: kwilliams@virginia.edu
Tel.: (434) 924-6136
Fax: (434) 924-4576 (shared)
Office: Physics Building Rm. 159

Lab: Physics Building Rm. 254

My Appointment Calendar

Graduate Education / Academics

  • Asst. Prof., Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia (2004-)
  • Postdoc, Molecular Biophysics Group, Delft University of Technology (2001-2004)
  • Ph.D. in Physics, Penn State University (2001)
  • M.S. in Physics, University of Kentucky (1998)

Courses Taught or in Progress

  • PHYS 582 / ECE 407 : Introduction to Nanophysics
  • PHYS 304 : Physics of the Human Body
  • PHYS 311 : Widely-Applied Physics (Energy Production & Storage I)
  • PHYS 142R : Calculus-Based Physics, for Rodman Scholars
  • PHYS 231 : Calculus-Based Physics
  • INST 263 : Intro. Traditional Black & White Photography*
  • INST 287 : Local Foods: From Garden to Table*
    * Short courses for Hereford College.

Current & Pending Projects

  • Surface-scattering field effect transistors, a.k.a. 'surfets' (Funded by NSF NIRT)
  • Lithography in the deep ultraviolet (Funded by UVa FEST)
  • Nanotube synthesis and devices (Funded by NSF)
  • Photovoltaics with Black Silicon (Funded by UVa Collaborative Sustainable Energy Seed Grant)
  • Carbon-based Ultracapacitors (Pending)
  • A Hands-On Introduction to Nanoscience (Funded by NSF NUE, supplemented by UVa SEAS and UVa CLAS)
  • Artificial Cilia for the Investigation of Cell Cooperativity in Wound Healing (Funded by UVa Nanostar Seed)
  • Tunable Quantum Interference in Silicon Nanodevices (CNMS, ORNL)
  • Nanotube Field Effect Devices for the Study of Quantum Interference (CNMS, ORNL)
  • Introduction to Nanoscience (Textbook Project, Springer)

Extracurricular

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Research Group Members

 

Seminars, Colloquia, and Conference Presentations (2007-2008)

 

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