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J. Wayne Rabalais
Professor and Chairman

Honors and Awards
Cullen Professor
UH Research Excellence Award
Ester Farfel Award

Research Emphasis
Surface Science Ion-Surface Interactions

Materials Research Interests Materials Publications

Metal Oxides
Metal-dielectric nanoparticle composites and their linear-nonlinear optical properties produced by selective ion irradiation. Self-organized nanodot formation on metal oxides by high temperature ion irradiation. Non-steady state radiation enhanced diffusion of cations in metal oxides. This work explores the use of mass and energy selected ion beams for surface modification, nanostructuring, and metal quantum dot composites for fast optical response due to surface plasmon resonance.

Ion Scattering
Development of scattering and recoiling imaging spectro-metry (SARIS) for surface and adsorbate structure determinations. Development of coincidence-correlation techniques for interlinking of projectile trajectory, collision site, impact parameter, surface structure, recoiled atom position, electronic charge exchange. This work is crucial for progress in ion/atom-surface interactions such as heterogeneous catalysis, plasma wall interactions, film deposition, aeronautical and space engineering, surface reactivity, and electron density maps.

Radiation enhanced diffusion of Ti in Al2O3, J. Chem. Phys. 113, 5058-5064 (2000).

Modification of diffusion coefficients in MgO(100) through the chemical properties of implanted ions, J. Chem. Phys. 115, 446-452 (2001).

Self-organized nanodot formation on MgO(100) by ion Bombardment at high temperatures, Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 2096-2098 (2002).

Surface plasmon resonance induced absorption of a metal oxide nanoparticle composite, Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 3626- 3628 (2002).

Real space surface crystallography from ion scattering, J. Phys. Chem. B 104, 6340-6352 (2000).

Effects of postbombardment annealing on Ti diffusion in ion prebombarded MgO(100), J. Appl. Phys. 92, 3591-3598 (2002).