The Search for the Flying Kondo Effect My research focuses on the neutralization of hyperthermal energy alkali and alkaline-earth atoms scattering from a metal surface at finite temperatures. In my talk, I will show how this predicted effect and recent data on the neutralization of alkali atoms can be qualitatively understood using two- state quantum mechanics.
Impurities make the job of growing good crystals more difficult.
I'll tell you about the role that the development of new materials plays in advancing this technology. Knowing how the solid grows into the liquid and controlling the microstructure can impact industrial applications, such as building stronger turbine blades. In our experiments, we control the growth conditions of an organic binary alloy to learn more about these more general questions on pattern formation and non-equilibrium growth. In continuum simulations we model the etching of a silicon surface in KOH using finite difference schemes and level set methods to study the effect of the anisotropy on the surface morphology. We want to study the formation of facets, the coarsening dynamics.