Nanoscale Subsurface Spectroscopy and Tomography

The 2nd MURI Workshop

The MURI research team held their second workshop during the fourth year of their research efforts, which are sponsored by the AFOSR. This collaboration of different research groups faces the challenges of all multi university research projects: How to overcome the physical and topical distance and to merge the efforts into valuable results. Therefore, the group has implemented the concept of regular workshops, sometimes on a smaller scale as in group meetings, sometimes on a larger scale as in this conference/workshop. Since the 1st MURI workshop in 2005 had been very successful, it was decided to hold a second MURI workshop in 2007 at the same location. Below you will find an overview of all participants as well as all the presented talks.

The Participants

The Principal Investigators

Prof. Lukas Novotny, MURI project coordinator from the University of Rochester, presents the latest results and publications of the MURI sponsored research as well as an overview on "Nanoscale Chemical Analysis"

Prof. Paul Weiss from Penn State presents on"Observation and manipulation of subsurface hydride in Pd{111}"

Prof. Bennett Goldberg talks about the latest activities at Boston University on "Long-Range Subsurface Imaging"

Prof. Scott Carney gives his updates on "Near-field Tomography" research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champlain

Prof. Kevin Kelly, PI at Rice University introduces the group to "Subsurface Imaging Using Solid Immersion Microscopy"

The Guest Speakers

Dr. George Lengel, scientist at RHK Technology

The Post Doc/Student Presentations

Dr. Mike Beversluis, NIST. "Super-Resolving Optical Microscopy for Chemical and Materials Characterization"	Dr. Jeroen Schoenmaker, NIST. "Si Stress Imaging and Toughness Measurement by Raman Scattering"
Albert Chang, Rice University . "Plasmon Coupling of Gold Colloid Above a Gold Film"	Rajiv Giridharagopal, Rice University . "Alternating Current Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Polymer Systems"
Hakan Koklu, Boston University . "Widefield and Confocal Subsurface Imaging with Numerical Aperture Increasing Lens Microscopy "	Nick Vamivakas, Boston University . "Solid Immersion Lens Assisted Differential Transmission on a Single Quantum Dot "
Bryn Davis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "Evanescently-excited Spectral Self-Interference Fluorescence Microcroscopy"	Jin Sun University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "Tip-sample Interaction and Tomorgraphy in NSOM"
Brad Deutsch, University of Rochester. "Amplitude and Phase of Resonant Optical Antennas"	Palash Bharadwaj, University of Rochester. "Antenna-based Microscopy of Single Molecules"
Amanda Moore, Penn State. "Alternating Current Scanning Tunneling Microscopy"	Barbara Schirmer, University of Rochester. MURI administrator and workshop coordinator

One Last Time - The Participants