Much of what I do relies on the photoelectric effect, a phenomenon codified in Einstein’s Nobel Prize winning work, in which electrons of a sample can be liberated from their parent atoms by shining the right type of light on the sample.  This is called direct photoemission, but the process works backward as well.

The sections in my research interests heading provide a brief overview of where I’ve been and where I’d like to go in physics, and most use photoemission in some form.  I’m always interested in taking on students for semester-long, and ideally longer, projects.  Come see me or drop me an email through the contact page.

Research Interests Links:

Student Research
Surface Electronic States
Ion Bombardment (sputtering, etching, milling, etc.)
Low Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED)
Inverse Photoemission Spectroscopy (IPES)
Monte-Carlo Simulation
Li-Ion Batteries
Hard X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HAXPES)
Dissertation Abstract