Dutta Research Group

Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University

SOFT THIN FILMS AND
SOFT-HARD INTERFACES

Recent papers

(many available as PDF files)

Group members

Former members

We use X-rays to look at phases and phase transitions in organic monolayers. We also study the nucleation of ‘hard’ inorganic crystals at these ‘soft’ organic templates (a process analogous to bone and shell growth). More information Support: DOE

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Dept. of Physics & Astronomy

APS (Advanced Photon Source)

NSLS

We look for changes in the structures of isotropic, nonmetallic liquids near their free surfaces, near interfaces with hard materials, and when under shear (e.g. during lubrication). More information Support: NSF

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We study the structures of acentric molecular multilayers that have been assembled for use in electro-optic devices, in collaboration with the Tobin Marks group (Chemistry Dept.). More information Support: NSF-MRL

Group members:

Guennadi Evmenenko	g-evmenenko@northwestern.edu
Sudeshna Bandyopadhyay	s-bandyopadhyay@northwestern.edu
Kyungil Kim	k-kim5@northwestern.edu
Benjamin Stripe	b-stripe@northwestern.edu
Ahmet Uysal	ahmet@northwestern.edu
Pulak Dutta	pdutta@northwestern.edu

Former members (list under construction)

Sumit Kewalramani, Research Associate, Brookhaven National Lab

Jan Kmetko, Assistant Professor, Kenyon College
Chungjong Yu, staff, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Korea
Andrew Richter, Assistant Professor, Valparaiso U
Alokmay Datta, Senior Professor, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
Mary Durbin, staff, ADAC Laboratories
Rajesh Ghaskadvi, staff, KLA-Tencor, San Diego, CA
Amit Malik, software engineer, Motorola
Thomas Bohanon, staff, General Atomics, San Diego, CA
Binhua Lin, Senior Research Associate, Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, U. Chicago
Mingchih Shih, Professor, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan.