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Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) Rutgers University Menu Home About People Facilities Seminars News Links Contact Home The mission of the Laboratory for Surface Modification is to provide a focus for research in basic and applied studies of high technology surfaces and interfaces. Seminars TMD and Topological Insulator Heterostructures Grown by van der Waals Epitaxy for New Logic and Memory Devices March 12, 2020 Christopher Hinkle Department of Electrical Engineering University of Notre Dame 12:00 Noon CHEM 260 Close Encounters: Dislocation Interactions and Their Consequences March 26, 2020 Ryan Sills Rutgers University Department of Materials Science and Engineering 12:00 Noon CHEM 260 Boris Yakshinskiy, 1948 - 2015 Boris, a long term member of our department, suffered a devastating heart attack last Thursday. He was found unconscious in a parking lot close to the Werblin center, never regained consciousness and died at St. Peter's hospital on Saturday. Boris was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1948. He obtained his M.S. (1972) and Ph. D. (1986) degrees from the Ioffe Institute in his hometown, where we subsequently held several research positions. His thesis work involved stimulated desorption experiments from tungsten surfaces. This led to his coming to Rutgers in 1996, first as a post- doc to work with Ted Madey. While most of his time then was concerned with UHV based surface science, his best known work is a Nature paper on alkali desorption from moon rocks, as part of a project to probe how alkali atoms are produced in tenuous planetary atmospheres. After Madey passed away, he worked with Bob Bartynski studying resist materials and photon- and electron-induced chemistry on mirror surfaces for EUV lithography applications. Later, he was in charge of the Rutgers Tandem lab and performed elemental analysis for many different groups, at Rutgers and elsewhere. His most recent notable achievement was the development, with Len Feldman and others, of a technique to detect and quantify hydrogen content in ultrathin films, with a sensitivity of a hundredth of a monolayer, orders of magnitude better than competing techniques. Boris was an experimentalists experimentalist, with superb "hands" and an ability to make experiments work, and work correctly. He guided the research of many graduate students and post-docs, and made sure they exerted the same rigorous standards to their data as he did. His wife, daughter and granddaughter survive him. Leszek Wielunski, 1943 - 2015 It is with great sadness that we share the news that a Director of the Tandem accelerator in the NanoPhysics Laboratory for more than a decade, died in a hospital in Sydney, Australia, last Friday, April 3. Leszek was born in Lublin, Poland, in 1943, got his Masters degree in Moscow in 1968 and his doctoral degree in Applied Physics in Warsaw in 1972. He then began a successful career in ion beam interactions in solids, resulting in more than a hundred publications and many conference presentations. He held positions in, among other places, CalTech, the State University of New York in Albany, NY, NUS in Singapore, and CSIRO in Sydney, Australia before coming to Rutgers in 2002. He was diagnosed with ALS two years ago, but did not let that interfere with his duties here, although moving around became more and more difficult. Last spring, when his illness entered a final stage, he resigned and returned to Sydney, where he had maintained a home. He kept in email contact with us and as late as two weeks ago, long after he could no longer speak, provided us with interpretation of some recent data from the Tandem. Leszek leaves behind his wife Alexandra, his son Andrzej (both in Sydney) and his daughter Alicia (London, UK). The funeral will take place on Monday. We will remember Leszek not just for his professional skills, but for his good humor, his deep interest in all aspects of science (his colloquium attendance record is a model for us all!) and his kindness. Leszek took a special interest in graduate students and was a wonderful support person for several generations of them (and for faculty!), always helpful, always patient, always supportive and always, always with a warm smile. In recognition of Leszek's many great contributions to the LSM and his very special relationship to our graduate students, the annual prize at the LSM symposium for best poster will now be known as The Leszek Wielunski Prize for best poster presentation. Thirty-First Annual LSM/IAMDN Symposium Tuesday, March 7, 2017 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Life Sciences Center Busch Campus The Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) and the Institute for Advanced Materials Devices and Nanotechnology (IAMDN) will host the Thirty-First Annual LSM/IAMDN Symposium on Tuesday, March 7, 2017. The symposium will focus on experimental and theoretical studies of surfaces, interfaces, thin films and their applications, as well as nanoscale phenomena. We will include both oral and poster presentations; contributed talks will be 15 minutes long (including a short discussion). The program will include two "Highlight Presentations", this year given by two prominent invited speakers: Professor Adam Hall, Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, will speak about: "Helium Ion-Milled Solid-State Nanopores and Their Applications in Biological Sensing." Professor Christopher B. Murray, University of Pennsylvania, will talk about: "Shape and Surface Engineering of Monodisperse Nanocrystals for Photocatalysis and Electrocatalysis." The final program can be viewed at the following link: Program available here (pdf format) David C. Langreth, 1937 - 2011 It is with great sadness that we share the news that one of the founding members of the Laboratory for Surface Modification, Prof. David C. Langreth, passed away on May, 27, 2011. David was a member of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University since 1967 and, in conjunction with Prof. Eric Garfunkel and Dr. Venky Venkatesan, led the efforts to establish what was then called the Laboratory for Surface Modification and Interface Dynamics (or SMID-Lab). David was a visionary, guiding the direction of the Lab though his constantly vibrant and innovative research, uncompromising high standards, keen insights, and boundless good humor. He will be greatly missed. More information is available at the Physics Department web page. Thirtieth Annual LSM Symposium Thursday April 4, 2016 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Fiber Optics Auditorium Busch Campus The Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) will host the Thirtieth Annual LSM Symposium on Monday, April 4, 2016. The symposium will focus on experimental and theoretical studies of surfaces, interfaces, thin films and their applications, as well as nanoscale phenomena. We will include both oral and poster presentations; contributed talks will be 15 minutes long (including a short discussion). The program will include two invited "Highlight Presentations", this year given by two exciting new additions to the Rutgers faculty: Professor Jak Chakalian, the Professor Claud Lovelace Chair of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics: Shining Light on the Flatland Professor Wei Dai, Center for Integrative Proteomics Research and Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience: Visualizing Molecular Assemblies Inside Cells by CryoEM and CryoET The final program can be viewed at the following link: Program available here (pdf format) This meeting is an excellent opportunity for graduate students and postdocs to present their work in a friendly atmosphere. Of course, faculty members are welcome to speak as well. We also encourage participants from other universities to attend and present their work. We will award two prizes for best student presentations. For the best oral presentation, the Theodore E. Madey Prize will be awarded, while the Leszek Wielunski Prize is to be given for the best poster presentation. The prize will b...