Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Metal Thin Films

Presentations

• Effects of shadowing and steering in oblique incidence epitaxial growth

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 16, 2009, 11:15 AM – March 16, 2009, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Yunsic Shim

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo

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• Diffusion of two-dimensional Cu islets on Ag(111) studied with the Molecular Dynamics Method

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 11:51 AM – March 16, 2009, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Sadar S. Hayat

    • The Islamia University of Bahawalpur

  • Marisol Alcantara Ortigoza

    • University of Central Florida

  • Talat S. Rahman

    • University of Central Florida

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• Atomic structure determination of the (001) surface of the semimetal Bi by STM and LEED

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 12:03 PM – March 16, 2009, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • J. Sun

    • Dept. of Physics, Univ. of New Hampshire

  • J. Wang

    • Dept. of Physics, Univ. of New Hampshire

  • J. Wells

    • NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

  • Ph. Hofmann

    • Institute for Storage Ring Facilities, University of Aarhus, Denmark

  • K. Pohl

    • Dept. of Physics, Univ. of New Hampshire

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• Thermal-stability of Pd-Cu surface alloys investigated at the nanometer-scale by LEEM-IV analysis

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 12:15 PM – March 16, 2009, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • E. Bussmann

    • Sandia National Labs, NM

  • J. Sun

    • Univ. of New Hampshire

  • K. Pohl

    • Univ. of New Hampshire

  • G. L. Kellogg

    • Sandia National Labs, NM

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• Bistability of Nanoscale Ag Islands on Anisotropic Si(111)-(4x1)-In Surface Stress Template

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 12:27 PM – March 16, 2009, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Miao Liu

    • University of Utah

  • Yaoyi Li

    • Tsinghua University

  • Decai Yu

    • University of Utah

  • Jinfeng Jia

    • Tsinghua University

  • Qikun Xue

    • Tsinghua University
    • Inst. Phys., CAS and Tsinghua Univ.

  • Feng Liu

    • University of Utah
    • Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112
    • university of utah

  • Dayan Ma

    • Xi'an Jiaotong University

  • Xucun Ma

    • Chinese Academy of Sciences

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• Impurities in Vacuum Deposition: Effect on Island Nucleation and Surface Morphologies

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 12:39 PM – March 16, 2009, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Alberto Pimpinelli

    • UM \& U.B.P.–Clermont-2 \& Science Attache, French Consulate, Houston
    • Univ. of Maryland, College Park (UM) \& U.B.P.–Clermont-2 \& Science Attache, French Consulate, Houston

  • Ajmi Hammouda

    • Univ. of Maryland, College Park (UM) \& Univ. Monastir, Tunisia
    • UM \& Univ. Monastir, Tunisia
    • University of Maryland

  • T. L. Einstein

    • UM
    • Univ. of Maryland, College Park (UM)
    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • University of Maryland
    • Univ. Maryland, College Park

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• Interface evolution and cluster formation during de-wetting of thin solid films

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 12:51 PM – March 16, 2009, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Adi Constantinescu

    • West Virginia University

  • Leonardo Golubovic

    • West Virginia University

  • Artem Levandovsky

    • University of California, Riverside
    • University of California Riverside

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• First-passage time approach to kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of metal(100) growth

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 1:03 PM – March 16, 2009, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Giridhar Nandipati

    • University of Toledo

  • Yunsic Shim

    • University of Toledo

  • Jacques Amar

    • University of Toledo

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• Growth morphology of ultra-thin Ni films on Pd (100)

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 1:15 PM – March 16, 2009, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Patricio H\"{a}berle

    • UTFSM, Valparaiso

  • Carolina Parra

    • UTFSM, Valparaiso

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• Dynamical LEED analysis of a quasicrystalline Cu film using periodic approximant structure models

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 1:27 PM – March 16, 2009, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Renee Diehl

    • Penn State University, Department of Physics
    • The Pennsylvania State University
    • Physics Department, Penn State University
    • Penn State University

  • Katariina Pussi

    • Lappeenranta university of technology
    • Lappeenranta University of Technology

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• Theoretical Study of Adsorbates-induced Restructuring of Pb flat-top mesas in the Quantum Regime

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 1:39 PM – March 16, 2009, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Wenguang Zhu

    • U of Tennessee-Knoxville;Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    • University of Tennessee \& Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Alexander Khajetoorians

    • University of Texas at Austin \& University of Hamburg

  • Chih-Kang Shih

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Zhenyu Zhang

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory \& University of Tennessee

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• Stress development and relaxation during early stages of oxidation of metals and alloys

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 1:51 PM – March 16, 2009, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Guangwen Zhou

    • State University of New York, Binghamton

  • Changhong Ke

    • State University of New York, Binghamton

  • Judith Yang

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Jeffrey Eastman

    • Argonne National Laboratory
    • Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

  • John Pearson

    • Argonne National Laboratory
    • Materials Science Division and Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439 USA

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• Studies of oxidation of the Cu(100) surface using low energy positrons.

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 2:03 PM – March 16, 2009, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • W.B. Maddox

  • N.G. Fazleev

    • University of Texas at Arlington, USA
    • Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington

  • A.H. Weiss

    • Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington
    • University of Texas at Arlington
    • U. Texas at Arlington

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