Peter S. Pershan

Research.com Recognitions

• 1969 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)
• 1963 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Best Publications

• Unified Hydrodynamic Theory for Crystals, Liquid Crystals, and Normal Fluids

  P. C. Martin;O. Parodi;Peter S. Pershan

  1098
  Citations

• Nonlinear Optical Properties of Solids: Energy Considerations

  P. S. Pershan

  660
  Citations

• The structure of self-assembled monolayers of alkylsiloxanes on silicon: a comparison of results from ellipsometry and low-angle x-ray reflectivity

  Stephen R. Wasserman;George M. Whitesides;Ian M. Tidswell;Ben M. Ocko

  620
  Citations

• Optically-Induced Magnetization Resulting from the Inverse Faraday Effect

  J. P. van der Ziel;P. S. Pershan;L. D. Malmstrom

  617
  Citations

• Internal structure of layer-by-layer adsorbed polyelectrolyte films : a neutron and X-ray reflectivity study

  Johannes Schmitt;Torsten Gruenewald;Gero Decher;Peter S. Pershan

  597
  Citations

• Ultraviolet Magneto-Optical Properties of Single-Crystal Orthoferrites, Garnets, and Other Ferric Oxide Compounds

  Frederic J. Kahn;P. S. Pershan;J. P. Remeika

  470
  Citations

• X-Ray Specular Reflection Studies of Silicon Coated by Organic Monolayers (Alkylsiloxanes)

  I. M. Tidswell;B. M. Ocko;Peter S. Pershan;S. R. Wasserman

  467
  Citations

• X-ray reflectivity measurements of surface layering in liquid mercury.

  O. M. Magnussen;B. M. Ocko;M. J. Regan;K. Penanen

  421
  Citations

• Magneto‐Optical Effects

  P. S. Pershan

  414
  Citations

• Quantized Layer Growth at Liquid-Crystal Surfaces

  B. M. Ocko;A. Braslau;Peter S. Pershan;J. Als-Nielsen

  388
  Citations

• Structure of Liquid Crystal Phases

  P. S. Pershan

  388
  Citations

• X-ray study of the oxidation of liquid-gallium surfaces

  M. J. Regan;H. Tostmann;Peter S. Pershan;O. M. Magnussen

  383
  Citations

• Surface layering in liquid gallium: An X-ray reflectivity study.

  M. J. Regan;E. H. Kawamoto;S. Lee;Peter S. Pershan

  355
  Citations

• Polarized Raman Scattering Studies of Orientational Order in Uniaxial Liquid Crystalline Phases

  Shen Jen;Noel A. Clark;Peter S. Pershan;E. B. Priestley

  349
  Citations

• CHARGE CONVERSION OF IRRADIATED RARE-EARTH IONS IN CALCIUM FLUORIDE. I.

  J. L. Merz;P. S. Pershan

  321
  Citations

• Hydrodynamics of Liquid Crystals

  Dieter Forster;Tom C. Lubensky;Paul C. Martin;Jack Swift

  309
  Citations

• Thermal diffuse x-ray-scattering studies of the water-vapor interface

  D. K. Schwartz;M. L. Schlossman;E. H. Kawamoto;G. J. Kellogg

  262
  Citations

• X-ray reflectivity from the surface of a liquid crystal: surface structure and absolute value of critical fluctuations

  Peter S. Pershan;J. Als-Nielsen

  257
  Citations

• Surface Crystallization in a Liquid AuSi Alloy

  Oleg G. Shpyrko;Oleg G. Shpyrko;Reinhard Streitel;Venkatachalapathy S. K. Balagurusamy;Alexei Y. Grigoriev

  237
  Citations

• Smectic-A Order at the Surface of a Nematic Liquid Crystal: Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction

  Jens Aage Als-Nielsen;F. Christensen;P.S. Pershan

  233
  Citations