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Marius Enachescu

Atomic scale imaging, manipulation, and spectroscopy Mechanical and electrical properties of molecules in self-assembled films Ambient pressure photoelectron spectroscopy for environnemental sciences Studies of friction, adhesion, and wear at the nanometer scale Electronic, mechanical, and chemical properties of nanoclusters Structure of thin liquid films and wetting Nanoscale material imaging and manipulation (Molecular Foundry) Catalytic and chemical properties of surfaces

Updated by Franck, March 20 2008

Marius Enachescu
Postdoctoral Fellow

Materials Sciences Division
Mail stop 67R0200-8256
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720 USA

Phone: +1-510-486-4213
FAX: +1-510-486-6044
Email: Menachescu*lbl.gov (replace * by @)

I am a Physicist and Visiting Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division, where I have been applying a few scanning probe microscopy techniques to problems in surface physics, surface chemistry and materials sciences. I collaborate with Dr. Miquel Salmeron and Dr. Frank Ogletree in the Atomic Scale Tribology program. My focus is centered on UHV-AFM-STM techniques while studying the atomic lubrication on diamond and metal surfaces. The measured forces are studied as a function of surface structure, adsorbate and coverage. We explore the elastic and plastic regimes that depend on the strength of the applied force, and the chemical nature of tip and surface. We aim at establishing the basis for an understanding of the concepts of contact, friction, adhesion and wear.

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Link to my research pages(pdf files):
1) Building a STM for UHV environment
2) Light-Emitting Porous Silicon
3) STM-Formed Electronic Nano-Device
4) Nanolithography onto Crystalline Silicon
5) High-Temperature Superconductors Grown onto Semiconductors
6) TiN, Diamond, CdS, W-films
7) Coulomb Blockade
8) Environmental AFM and SPFM Results
9) Building an Unique System STM-AFM-FIM