Current Research

Title Project Members Group High-K dielectrics on Si Charlie Fulton John Waldrep Oxides & Nitrides Conducting Atomic Force Microscopy of Nanoscale Islands Joseph Tedesco Chethan Pandarinath Brian Rodriguez John Waldrep Heteroepitaxy Real-Time UV-FEL Photo-Electron Emission Microscopy of Silicide Nanostructure Coarsening Dynamics on Silicon Surfaces Matthew C. Zeman Heteroepitaxy High-Pressure Phase Transformations in Silicon, Germanium, and Silicon Nitride Jennifer Huening Heteroepitaxy Growth and Decay of DySi2 nanowires on Si(001) Anderson Sunda-Meya Matthew C. Zeman Heteroepitaxy Real-time PEEM observation of the growth dynamics of Ge islands on Si Anderson Sunda-Meya Marcel Himmerlich Woochul Yang Heteroepitaxy PEEM of Polarity Patterned Materials Brian Rodriguez Oxides & Nitrides Photoemission study of GaN-dielectric interfaces Charlie Fulton Oxides & Nitrides Metal Contacts for High-k Gate Dielectrics in Advanced Si Devices Charlie Fulton Oxides & Nitrides Scanning Probe Investigation of Mechanisms of Fatigue in PZT Thomas Blair Oxides & Nitrides Field emission of carbon based materials Meng Liang Carbon Nanostructures Temperature-dependent work function and energy distribution study of the N-doped diamond surface Yingjie Tang Franz A M Koeck Carbon Nanostructures Single electron tunneling through titanium silicide nanoislands on Si(111) Joseph Tedesco Heteroepitaxy Thermodynamically Stable Ti(Si1-yGey)2 Thin Films on Si1-xGex James Burnette Heteroepitaxy Titanium Interlayer Mediated Epitaxy of CoSi2 on Si1-xGex James Burnette Heteroepitaxy Self-organized nanoscale Ge dots and dashes on SiGe/Si superlattices Anderson Sunda-Meya Heteroepitaxy Characterization of Band bending on Al-face and N-face Al(Ga)N by Photoemission techniques Yingjie Tang Oxides & Nitrides Schottky contact and interface properties of TiN on wurtzite and cubic GaN Yingjie Tang Oxides & Nitrides Nanoscale investigation of polarity-patterned materials by PFM, EFM and SKPM Brian Rodriguez Oxides & Nitrides Albumin and Fibrinogen Adsorption on MWCVD Diamond Films Jacob Garguilo Carbon Nanostructures Vacuum Thermionic Energy Conversion Franz A M Koeck Eugene Bryan Joshua Smith Yingjie Tang Carbon Nanostructures Carbon nanotube growth and field emission Yunyu Wang Sanju Gupta Carbon Nanostructures Growth of Single- and Double- wall carbon nanotubes via MW CVD Sanju Gupta Yunyu Wang Carbon Nanostructures Temperature Dependent Field Emission Imaging (T-FEEM) from Carbon Nanotubes Sanju Gupta Yunyu Wang Carbon Nanostructures nanoscale scanning probe investigation of switching dynamics in ferroelectric crystals and thin films Brian Rodriguez Thomas Blair John Waldrep Oxides & Nitrides nanoscale scanning probe investigation of step-by-step switching of ferroelectric capacitors Brian Rodriguez Oxides & Nitrides selective deposition of charged molecules on domain patterned ferroelectrics Brian Rodriguez Jacqueline Hanson Oxides & Nitrides Selective Photothreshold Determination with the PEEM Jacob Garguilo Carbon Nanostructures Nanotribology of Nanocrystalline Diamond Films using Atomic Force Microscopy Sarah Reising Brian Rodriguez Carbon Nanostructures Nanocrystalline Diamond Films for MEMS and Coating Applications Leigh Winfrey Sarah Reising Carbon Nanostructures Electrical characterization of silicide nanowires and islands on Si(100) and Si(111) using UHV STM and STS Joseph Tedesco Heteroepitaxy