Postdoctoral Fellow at California Institute of Technology

Ph.D. in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, June 1997

from the Low Temperature Materials Laboratory
in the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Advisor: Prof. Peter Taborek

Research Interests:

• Surface Thermodynamics

• Wetting and Adsorption Studies

• Dynamics of thin films on surfaces at low temperatures

• Phase Transitions

Research Projects

• Mobility of solid Hydrogen surfaces
  Hole Burning Technique
  [K.G. Sukhatme, J. E. Rutledge, and P. Taborek, J. Low Temp. Phys. V 103, p.301(1996)]

• Wetting Near The Triple Point
  Argon on Gold substrate and Methane on Gold substrate
  Quartz Microbalance Technique
  Layered Film structure
  [K.G. Sukhatme, J. E. Rutledge, and P. Taborek, Physical Review Letters, V 80,p. 129(1998)]

• Search for continuous wetting. (Xe on NaF surface)
  Method 1: Quartz Microbalance
  Mathod 2: Ellipsometry

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