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Simon C. Moss
Professor

Honors and Awards
M.D. Anderson Distinguished Professor Von Hippel Award of the MRS
Humboldt Senior Scientist Award
David Adler Lectureship, Div. Mater. Phys.
Esther Farfel Award, University of Houston

Research Emphasis
X-ray and Neutron Diffraction

Materials Research Interests Materials Publications

Metal Oxides
Metal Oxides
X-ray truncation rod and grazing incidence diffraction studies of the surface, and near-surface, relaxations in single crystal oxides (see illustration for recent results in LaAlO
3). Studies of modulated structures in both superconducting, and insulating oxides. X-ray analysis of defect-induced atomic displacement in oxide solid solutions.

Semiconductors
Synchrotron X-ray studies of self-organized nanostructures in ternary and quaternary III-V semiconductor alloy films. Exploration of both ordering and composition modulation. Studies of novel metal semiconducting silicides grown on silicon.

Glasses
These include oxide and related glasses in both thin film and bulk forms. Current work includes thin SiO
2 over Si(001) and Ag ion correlations in the rapid ion conductor, AgI-AgPO3.

Structure of Molten Iron Chloride: Neutron Scattering and Modeling, Physical Review B, 57 (1998) 10496.

High Resolution Radial Distribution Function of Pure Amorphous Silicon, Phys. Rev. Lett., 82 (1999) 3460.

X-Ray Truncation Rod Analysis of the Reversible Temperature-Dependent Surface Structure of LaAlO3, Phys. Rev. B, 64 (2001) 235425.

Scattering Studies of Real Materials, 2001 von Hippel Award Presentation, MRS Bulletin, 27 (2002) 539.

Lateral Composition Modulation in (InAs)n/(AlAs)m Short-Period Superlattices Investigated by High-Resolution X-Ray Scattering, Phys. Rev. B, 66 (2002) 115312.