National Institute Of Materials Physics - Romania
Laboratory of Surface and Interface Science

Main research directions:

• Surface and interface analysis by photoelectron spectroscopies (XPS‒ESCA, ARUPS, spin-resolved PES, PED) in situ electron diffraction (LEED, RHEED), Auger electron spectroscopy (AES),  scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM‒STS), photoelectron spectromicroscopy, low energy and photoemission electron microscopy (LEEM‒PEEM);

• Surfaces, thin films and heterostructure preparation by molecular beam beam epitaxy (MBE) or other vacuum evaporation techniques.

New subjects:

• analysis of ferroelectric surfaces, band bending in heterostructures;
• molecular reactions at ferroelectric surfaces;
• in plane conduction properties of 2D systems on ferroelectric surfaces;
• ‘2D nanoreactors', molecular reactions with reactants stabilized between graphene layers and substrates;
• spin asymmetry in band structure of 2D systems;
• photocatalysts with internal junctions;
• multiferroic structures with indirect exchange or coupling through charge accumulation;
• theoretical developments in the area of ferroic thin films (ferroelectric, ferromagnetic);
• development of new devices operating in ultrahigh vacuum (effusion cells, evaporators, manipulators);
• development of software packages for data analysis.