Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films, Electronic and Lattice Properties I

Presentations

• Smoluchowski Effect at a Sub-Å Step on Pb/Cu (111) Revealed by Field Emission Resonance Spectroscopy

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Poonam Borhade

    • Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica

  Authors

  • Poonam Borhade

    • Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica

  • Shin-Ming Lu

  • Wen-Yuan Chan

  • Ho-Hsiang Chang

  • Wei-Bin Su

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• Effect of greenhouse gases (CO₂ and NO₂) on the secondary electron yield of Cu (110) surfaces 

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:12 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:24 AM

  Publication: Simulation studies of secondary electron yield with electron transport from Cu (110) surfaces containing C2, N2, CO2, or NO2 adsorbates

  Presenters

  • Miranda Maille

    • Texas Tech University

  Authors

  • Miranda Maille

    • Texas Tech University

  • Avadh Saxena

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Robert Albers

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Mahdi Sanati

    • Texas Tech University

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• Ballistic transport in nanodevices based on single-crystalline Cu thin films

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:24 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Publication: Y. Cho et al. "Ballistic transport in nanodevices based on single-crystalline Cu thin films." (2025).

  Presenters

  • Yongjin Cho

    • POSTECH

  Authors

  • Yongjin Cho

    • POSTECH

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• Modeling and measuring nanoscale thermal transport in silicon membranes New Submission

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 16, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Publication: Beardo et al. npj Comput. Mater. 11, 172 (2025), Nelson et al. Phys. Rev. Applied. 22, 054007 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Theodore Culman

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  Authors

  • Theodore Culman

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • Albert Beardo

    • Autonomous University of Barcelona

  • Yunhao Li

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Emma Nelson

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Jiayi Liu

    • JILA

  • Joshua Knobloch

  • Brendan McBennett

    • JILA

  • Henry Kapteyn

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Margaret Murnane

    • JILA

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• Implications for SiGeSn growth from the surface science of Sn on Si

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Caitlin McCowan

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  Authors

  • Caitlin McCowan

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Shashank Misra

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Evan Anderson

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Ezra Bussmann

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Damien West

  • Yunfan Liang

  • Shengbai Zhang

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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• Gap opening of image potential state on reconstructed Ir(001) surface

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Chun-Liang Lin

    • National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

  Authors

  • Pratyay Amrit

  • Naoya Kawakami

    • National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

  • Noriaki Takagi

  • Hiroshi Ishida

    • Nihon University - Tokyo

  • Chun-Liang Lin

    • National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

  • Ryuichi Arafune

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• SPM-based quantum defect characterization in one- and two-dimensional materials

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Publication: Nat. Commun. 15, 3556 (2024); Small 20, 2400473 (2024); ACS Nano 19, 13029 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Peter Jacobse

    • Rice University

  Authors

  • Peter Jacobse

    • Rice University

  • Ziyi Wang

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • John Thomas

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Michael Crommie

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Geoffroy Hautier

  • Alexander Weber-Bargioni

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• Modelling an emergent quantum-well pair potential in SrTiO₃

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Varun Shah

    • University of Manchester

  Authors

  • Varun Shah

    • University of Manchester

  • Rodion Belosludov

  • Mohammad Saeed Bahramy

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• Tunable Transport in Pd,Pt-based Delafossites via B-site Substitution (Co → Al, Ga, In)

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Presenters

  • YoungJun Lee

    • Kyung Hee University - Seoul

  Authors

  • YoungJun Lee

    • Kyung Hee University - Seoul

  • Sangmin Lee

    • Seoul Natl Univ

  • Sangmoon Yoon

    • Gachon University

  • Young-Kyun Kwon

    • Kyung Hee University - Seoul

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• Manipulation of the electronic structure of β-Ga₂O₃by adsorbates

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Minhee Kang

    • Pusan National University

  Authors

  • Minhee Kang

    • Pusan National University

  • Hayoon Im

  • Byeong-Cheol Choi

  • Seungjae Hwang

  • Hyejin Ryu

    • Korea Institute of Science and Technology

  • MINJAE KIM

  • Zhibin Su

  • Jeong-Gyu Kim

  • Byeong Gyu Park

  • Jonathan Denlinger

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Sung-Kwan Mo

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Xuetao Zhu

    • Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Jiandong Guo

    • Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Jong Mok Ok

  • Jaekwang Lee

    • Pusan National University

  • Haeyong Kang

  • Choongyu Hwang

    • Pusan National University

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• Interface-Driven Electronic Structure Modulation in Epitaxial α-Bi Moiré Superlattices on BSCCO

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Publication: [1] C. Jin, E. C. Regan, A. Yan, M. I. B. Utama, D. Wang, S. Zhao, Y. Qin, S. Yang, Z. Zheng, S. Shi, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Tongay, A. Zettl, and F. Wang, Observation of moiré excitons in WSe₂/WS₂ heterostructure superlattices, Nature 567, 76 (2019).
  [2] C. Zheng and X. Liu, Superconductivity and topological quantum states in two-dimensional moiré superlattices, Quantum Frontiers 3, 17 (2024).

  Presenters

  • Cheng Zhang

    • University of Missouri

  Authors

  • Cheng Zhang

    • University of Missouri

  • Jacob Cook

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Guang Bian

    • University of Missouri

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• Multi scale chiral response in switchable local moment molecules.  

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Mohammad Zaz

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  Authors

  • Mohammad Zaz

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  • Sartaz Saqib

  • Wai Kiat Chin

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  • Gauthami Viswan

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  • Rebecca Lai

  • Alpha N'Daiye

  • Peter Dowben

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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• Higher-order epitaxy: A pathway to suppressing structural instability and emergent superconductivity

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Publication: Y. Sato et al., arXiv:2510.07947

  Presenters

  • Yuki Sato

    • RIKEN

  Authors

  • Yuki Sato

    • RIKEN

  • Soma Nagahama

    • The University of Tokyo

  • Shunsuke Kitou

  • Hajime Sagayama

  • Ilya Belopolski

  • Ryutaro Yoshimi

  • Minoru Kawamura

    • RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)

  • Atsushi Tsukazaki

    • Department of Applied Physics and Quantum-Phase Electronics Center (QPEC), The University of Tokyo

  • Naoya Kanazawa

    • Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo

  • Takuya Nomoto

  • Ryotaro Arita

    • Univ of Tokyo

  • Takahisa Arima

  • Masashi Kawasaki

    • RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Department of Applied Physics and Quantum-Phase Electronics Center (QPEC), The University of Tokyo

  • Yoshinori Tokura

    • Univ of Tokyo

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• Beyond Twisted Bilayers: Engineering Interfacial Quantum Well States in Twisted MoS₂ Bilayers on Bi(111)

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Ya-Ping Chiu

    • Department of Physics, National Taiwan University

  Authors

  • Ya-Ping Chiu

    • Department of Physics, National Taiwan University

  • Hao-Yu Chen

  • Hung-Chang Hsu

  • Yi-Feng Chen

  • Yan-Ruei Lin

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