Serin Physics Laboratory
136 Frelinghuysen Road, Busch Campus
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019
Telephone: 732-445-5500, ext. 4004; Fax: 732-445-4991
http://lsm.rutgers.edu
Robert A. Bartynski, Director
The Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) provides a
focus for research in basic and applied studies of high-technology surfaces,
interfaces, thin films, and nanostructures. Its activities involve multidisciplinary
research in the disciplines of physics, chemistry, and materials
science as well as electrical,
chemical, and biomedical engineering. Surface modification encompasses a broad
spectrum of phenomena that occur at the atomic level on the surface of solids,
and advances in this technology have a fundamental impact on the fields of
telecommunications, petroleum, superconductivity, computer science, energy harvesting, and energy storage.
Research is supported with extensive, state-of-the-art, ultrahigh-vacuum
instrumentation, electronics, and computational facilities. In addition, the
laboratory operates a 1.7 MV Tandetron accelerator, complete with Rutherford
backscattering and ion channeling capabilities. Other LSM facilities include a
Thermo K-Alpha and a Thermo ESCALab 250 Xi system containing X-ray and
ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy, reflection inelastic electron energy
loss spectroscopy, and ion-scattering
spectroscopy.
