Latest News MEMS, Liquid Lenses and Pulsed-laser Deposition research added. Go there...       Dr. Taborek      Publications      Students      Postdocs      Alumni      Current Research      Contact Us      Handbook      UCI      Physical Sciences      Physics Dept.   Eli Van Cleve Ph. D. Thesis: Helium Adsorption onto Intermdiate Binding Substrates (2011) Matt Aggleton Ph.D. Thesis: Cryogenic Friction of Molybdenum Disulfide and Titanium, Artificial Diamond and Superconducting Niobium (2010) Justin Burton Ph.D. Thesis: Capillary Pinch-off of Drops, Bubbles, and Liquid Lenses (2007) Richard Lazaroqitch Ph.D. Thesis: Helium phase diagram of porous media (2007) Timothy McMillan Ph.D. Thesis: Ellipsometric Study of Thin Helium Films (2005) Ellipsometry of Liquid Helium Films On Gold, Cesium, and Graphite (2005) A Low Drift High Resolution Cryogenic Null Ellipsometer (2004) Ellipsometric Study of Superfluid Onset in Thin Liquid 4Helium Films (2004) Jeffrey Phillips Ph.D. Thesis: Superfluid and wetting phase transitions on intermediate binding strength substrates (1999) Superfluid Onset and Prewetting of 4He on Rubidium (1998) Adsorption of 3He on cesium (1997) Kalyani Sukhatme Ph.D. Thesis: An experimental study of transport properties and phase transitions near a surface (1997) Wetting Near Triple Points (1998) Non diffusive mobility of solid hydrogen films (1996) Erik Maiken Ph.D. Thesis: Ion beam deposition of amorphous carbon from a discharge in fullerenes (1996) Amorphous carbon films deposited from carbon ions extracted from a discharge in fullerene vapor (2000) Dave Ross Ph.D. Thesis: Wetting properties of liquid helium on cesium (1996) Wetting behavior of H2 on cesium (1998) Superfluid Onset and Prewetting of 4He on Rubidium (1998) Contact Angle of Superfluid Helium Droplets on a Cesium Surface (1998) Superfluid droplets on a solid surface (1997) Adsorption of 3He on cesium (1997) Triple point dewetting transitions of helium mixtures on cesium (1997) Bound states of 3He at the helium-cesium interface (1995) The Solid-Liquid Surface Tension at a Helium/Cesium Interface (1995) Matt Khalil - 2008-2010 M.S. Thesis: Experimental Apparatus to Observe 1st Order Wetting Transitions in Water (2010) Dylan Rogerson - 2008-2010 M.S. Thesis: (2010) An Nguyenle - 2000-2002 M.S. Thesis: Supercooling in Cesiated Cells (2002) Warren Erath - 2000-2002 M.S. Thesis: Development of a High-Q Tortional Oscillator (2001) Michael Stone - 2000-2002 M.S. Thesis: An attempt to supercool 4He vapor in a cesiated cell (2001) Phil Presser - 1999-2001 M.S. Thesis: Large capacity 3He optical cryostat (2001) Ryan Renner - 1998-2000 M.S. Thesis: Pinning of solid adsorbed nitrogen to lead at 7.2 Kelvin (2000) Friction and pinning of nitrogen films on lead substrates near the superconducting transition (2001) Quartz Microbalance Studies of Superconductivity-Dependent Sliding Friction (1999) All material on this site is the intellectual property of the Taborek/Rutledge research group.