Research Interests

General

In general my research is concentrated at surface chemical reactions and determination of the surface atomic and electronic structure.

Objects

• Thin single crystalline films of almost all of lanthanide metals on Si(111) and W(110)
• Silicon thin films on single crystalline films of various lanthanide metals like Si/Yb(111), Si/Gd(0001), Si/La(0001).
• Oxidation of single crystalline films of lanthanide metals like Oxide/Gd(0001).
• Surface of liquid pure metals like K and Sn.
• Surface of liquid eutectic alloys like BiSn, AuGe and AuSi.
• Oxidation of liquid metals and metallic alloys like SnO/Sn and Oxide/AuSi.

Methods

• Liquid surface x-ray scattering including: liquid surface specular x-ray reflectivity, off-specular diffuse scattering, grazing incidence diffraction (GID)
• Solid surface x-ray scattering including: specular x-ray reflectivity, magnetic x-ray reflectivity, soft magnetic resonant x-ray reflectivity
• Photoelectron emission spectroscopy (PES) including: ultraviolet PES, angle resolved PES, x-ray photoelectron emission spectroscopy.
• Auger electron spectroscopy, low energy electron diffraction, electron energy loss spectroscopy.