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Prof. Ron Reifenberger, our fearless leader. |
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Dr. Steve
Howell, former graduate student and current Post Doc.
Steve is currently studying biological proteins with our newest
SFM from Molecular Imaging. He's a Marine, too. Thesis: Electrostatic Force
Microscopy Studies of Nanoscale Systems (pdf, 24.5 MB) (gzipped PostScript file, 6.0MB) |
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Scott
Crittenden, graduate student. Scott is currently studying the
properties of monolayers of the protein bacteriorhodopsin. Prelim: Scanning Force Microscopy Studies of
Purple Membrane (gzipped pdf, 1.7MB) |
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Gabor Pszota
, graduate student. Gabor is learning STM on our new Omicron STM/SFM. |
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Laura Guirl
, graduate student. Laura is learning SFM under Steve's benevolent
tutelage. |
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Stephen Brown
, undergraduate student. Steve Brown is melting teflon. |
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Jay Gaillard
, graduate student. Jay works with nanotubes. |
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Dr. André
Labonté, our most recent graduate. André now works
for National Semiconductoar up in his home turf of Maine. Thesis:
Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy on
Organic Molecules (pdf 3.6MB) |
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Leszek Spalek
, undergraduate student from Krakow. Leszek worked on electro-depositing
bacterial membranes on indium tin oxide (ITO). |
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Dr. Oscar Custance
, visiting graduate student from Spain. Oscar helped design and build our
Omicron-based UHV STM/SFM. |
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Dr. Elton
Graugnard, former graduate student. Elton is now a post-doc
in John Weaver's group at
the University of Illinos in Urbana-Champaign. Thesis: The Electronic Properties of Multi-walled
Carbon Nanotubes.(pdf file, 21MB) (gzipped postscript file, 11.4MB)
Elton's dissertation defense slides |
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Laetitia Soukiassian, former french
exchange student. She worked on the conductance of Au break
junctions. Senior project title: Measuring the Conductance of
Gold Atomic Wires: Quantized Conductance of a Break Junction.
(pdf file, 580 kB). |
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Dr. Takhee
Lee, former graduate student. Takhee is working in Mark Reed's group at Yale
University. Thesis: Electronic
Properties of Au Nanoclusters/Semiconductor Structures with Low
Resistance Interfaces. (pdf file, 2.2MB) (zipped postscript file, 3.4MB) |
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Brian
Walsh, former graduate student of
Prof. David Janes. He is working at IBM Microelectronics in Hopwell
Junction, NY. Thesis: Kelvin Force
Microscopy of Carbon Nanotubes. (pdf file, 6.7MB)
(zipped postscript file,
6.5MB) |
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Dr. Pedro de Pablo, visiting graduate
student. Pedro is now at the Vrije Universiteit Ansterdam
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Dr. Seunghun Hong, former
graduate student, now an assistant professor at
Florida State University.
He worked on a UHV STM and debugged a lot of the new STM
control software. Thesis: Electric
Transport Through Nanostructures: Quantum Dots, Molecular Nanowires
and Carbon Nanotubes. |
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Dr. Dan Lovall, former graduate student, now works for Xontech, Inc. in sunny California.
He built most of our FIM/FEM
chamber and was responsible for much of the look of our homepage.
Thesis: Field-Ion Microscopy of
Supported Nanometer Size Au Clusters and Carbon Nanotubes. (pdf
file, 4.21MB) (zipped
postscript file, 4.8MB) |
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Dr. Barrett Gady,
former graduate student, now working at Xerox. thesis:
Measurement of Interaction Forces Between Micrometer-sized
Particles and Flat Surfaces Using an Atomic Force Microscope.(pdf
file, 1.18MB) (zipped
postscript file, 1.4MB) |
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Dave Schleef, now a graduate student at UC Berkeley, writes
computer programs, answers questions, and solves other people's
problems. |
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Dr. Matt Dorogi, former graduate student, works for Applied
Materials, Inc.. Built and operated a UHV STM. Thesis: Scanning
Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy Study of Single Electron
Tunneling in Self-Assembled Molecular Nanostructures |
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Dr. Mario Paniccia, former graduate student, now works at Intel. Thesis: Scanning
Probe Studies of Electromigration in Gold Films . |
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Dr. Julio Gomez, former post-doctoral researcher, is now a
professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in the (New Microscopies Lab). |
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Dr. Tom Miller, former graduate student, now works for
Keithley Instruments, Inc.. Thesis: Studies
in Layered High Temperature Superconductors with a Low Temperature
Scanning Tunneling Microscope . |
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Dr. Dave Schaefer, former graduate student, now an assistant
professor at Towson State
University in Maryland. His current projects include being the
faculty supervisor of the Nanotechnology
Center. Thesis: Elastic
Properties and Cluster-Substrate Interactions of Preformed
Nanometer-size Gold Clusters Measured Using Atomic Force
Microscopy. |
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Dr. Richard Piner, former graduate student, now working at Northwestern University
Thesis: A
Scanning Tunneling Microscope Study of Polymer Surface Morphology
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Dr. Yun-Zhong (Peter) Li, former graduate student,
graduated in December 1989. He built the first STM
at Purdue in late 1985 and used it to study nanometer-size clusters on
substrates. He is now working with a bio-tech company in the Boston
area. Last known email: peterli@mediaone.net
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