Dr. Emmanuel Rowe

Assistant Professor

Dr. Emmanuel Rowe
+1 (615) 898-54
Room 126, Davis Science Building (DSB)
MTSU Box 19, Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Office Hours

Virtual

 

Degree Information

  • PHD, Virginia Commonwealth University (2014)
  • BS, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (2004)
  • BS, Morehouse College (2002)

Areas of Expertise

  • Scintillator Device Fabrication
  • Ceramics Engineering
  • Hot Isostatic Press
  • Computational Material Science

Biography

Dr. Rowe is an Assistant professor of Mechatronics Engineering at Middle Tennessee State University. He earned his Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University, a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Morehouse College, and B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University as part of the dual degree program. Prior to attending graduate school, Dr. Rowe held the position of Process Engineer II at Cree Inc., where he worked on gallium nitride based b...

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Dr. Rowe is an Assistant professor of Mechatronics Engineering at Middle Tennessee State University. He earned his Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University, a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Morehouse College, and B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University as part of the dual degree program. Prior to attending graduate school, Dr. Rowe held the position of Process Engineer II at Cree Inc., where he worked on gallium nitride based blue and green Light Emitting Diode growth by Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition. His dissertation research focused on the growth and characterization of high-performance doped halides.  Dr. Rowe also worked on developing enriched lithium indium diselenide (LISe™) as a high-efficiency thermal neutron detector that yielded an R&D 100 Award.  In 2014, Dr. Rowe joined the Material Science and Application Group in the Physics Department at Fisk University as a Fisk-Vanderbilt Bridge Postdoctoral Fellow. He then joined the group as a Research Assistant Professor in 2017 and now holds adjunct status at both Fisk and Vanderbilt University. Dr. Rowe joined Middle Tennessee State University as a tenure track faculty in 2019 where his research is focused on developing novel halide and oxide-based bulk and ceramic scintillator materials for nuclear nonproliferation and medical use. Dr. Rowe teaches undergraduate courses in Electrical Power and Machinery, and Electrical Circuit Analysis. Dr. Rowe is currently on leave as an NRC Sr. Fellow for the Air Force Research Laboratory's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (RXAP)

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Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Publications

  1. E. Rowe, W. B. Goodwin, P. Bhattacharya, G. Cooper, N. Schley, M. Groza, N.J. Cherepy, S.A. Payne and A. Burger, "Preparation, Structure and Scintillation of Cesium Hafnium Chloride Bromide Crystals" J. Crystal Growth, Vol. 509, 1 March 2019, Pages 124-128
  2. E. Brown, Z. Fleischman, L. Merkle, E. Rowe, A. Burger, S. Payne, M. Dubinskii, "Optical Spectroscopy of H...
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Peer Reviewed Journal Publications

  1. E. Rowe, W. B. Goodwin, P. Bhattacharya, G. Cooper, N. Schley, M. Groza, N.J. Cherepy, S.A. Payne and A. Burger, "Preparation, Structure and Scintillation of Cesium Hafnium Chloride Bromide Crystals" J. Crystal Growth, Vol. 509, 1 March 2019, Pages 124-128
  2. E. Brown, Z. Fleischman, L. Merkle, E. Rowe, A. Burger, S. Payne, M. Dubinskii, "Optical Spectroscopy of Holmium doped K2LaCl5" Journal of Luminescence 196, Page 221-226 (2018)
  3. C. Cardenas, A. Burger, M.L. DiVacri, B. Goodwin, M. Groza, M. Laubenstein, S. Nagorny, S. Nisi, E. Rowe, “Internal contamination of the Cs2HfCl6 crystal scintillator,” Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A, Volume 872, 11 November 2017, Pages 23-27 (2017)
  4. C. Cardenas, A. Burger, B. Goodwin, M. Groza, M. Laubenstein, S. Nagorny, E. Rowe, “Pulse-Shape Discrimination with Cs2HfCl6 crystal scintillator,” Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A, Volume 872, 11 October 2017, Pages 63-67 (2017)
  5. D. Caudel, M. McCurdy, D.M. Fleetwood, R.A. Reed, R.A. Weller, B. Goodwin, E. Rowe, V. Buliga, M. Groza, K. Stassun, A. Burger, "Radiation damage of strontium iodide crystals due to irradiation by 137Cs gamma rays: a novel approach to altering nonproportionality”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Issue 835, page 117-181 (2016)
  6. A. Burger, E. Rowe, M. Groza, K.M. Figueroa, N.J. Cherepy, P.R. Beck, S. Hunter, S. A. Payne, "Cesium hafnium chloride: A high light yield, non-hygroscopic cubic crystal scintillator for gamma spectroscopy," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 107, Issue 14, Pages 143505 (2015)
  7. E. Rowe, E. Tupitsyn, P. Bhattacharya, Y. Cui, M. Groza, V. Buliga, G. Atkinson, A. Burger, "Growth of KPb2Cl5 and K2CeCl5 for Gamma Ray Detection Using Vertical Bridgman method" Journal of Crystal Growth, Volume 393, Pages 156–158 (2014)

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Presentations

Conference Presentations with Proceedings

  1. T.H. Prettyman, A. Burger, N. Yamashita, E. Rowe, J. Butler, M. Groza, K. Stassun, J.L. Lambert, J. C. Castillo-Rogez, C. A. Raymond, S. M. Feldman, P. R. Beck, N. J. Cherepy, S. A. Payne, "Planetary Gamma Ray Spectroscopy with Strontium Iodide" 3rd International Workshop on Instrumentation for Planetary Missions, Page 4105, (2016)
  2. T.H. Prettyman, E. Ro...
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Conference Presentations with Proceedings

  1. T.H. Prettyman, A. Burger, N. Yamashita, E. Rowe, J. Butler, M. Groza, K. Stassun, J.L. Lambert, J. C. Castillo-Rogez, C. A. Raymond, S. M. Feldman, P. R. Beck, N. J. Cherepy, S. A. Payne, "Planetary Gamma Ray Spectroscopy with Strontium Iodide" 3rd International Workshop on Instrumentation for Planetary Missions, Page 4105, (2016)
  2. T.H. Prettyman, E. Rowe, J. Butler, M. Groza, A.Burger, N. Yamashita, J.L. Lambert, K.G. Stassun, P.R. Beck, N.J. Cherepy, S.A. Payne, J.C. Castillo-Rogez, S.M. Feldman, C.A. Raymond, "Strontium iodide gamma ray spectrometers for planetary science", Proc. SPIE 9968, Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XVIII, 99680H (2016)
  3. D.R. Onken, S. Gridin, K.B. Ucer, J.L. Drewery, R.T. Williams, E. Rowe, E. Tupitsyn, M. Groza, P. Bhattacharya, A. Burger, "Observing dislocation motion induced by laser shock peening in KI," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), pages 1-3, (2015)
  4. L. A. Boatner, J. O. Ramey, J. A. Kolopus, J. S. Neal, N. J. Cherepy, S. A. Payne, A. Burger, E. Rowe, P. Bhattacharya "Advances in the growth of alkaline-Earth halide single crystals for scintillator detectors" Part of SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications (2014)

 

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Awards

NextProf: Science 2017

Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship 2016

R&D 100 Award: LISe™: A High-Efficiency Thermal Neutron Detector 2013

Research / Scholarly Activity

Dr. Rowe's research is focused on developing novel halide and oxide based ceramic scintillator materials for nuclear nonproliferation and medical use. We investigate the structural, optical and radioactive properties of transparent polycrystalline ceramics prepared by hot isostatic press.

Courses

ENGR 4520 - Electrical Power and Machinery

ENGR 3510 - Electrical Circuit Analysis II