Sue Melnik Mail Code 139-74, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125 Phone: +1 (626) 395-2723 Fax: +1 (626) 585-0918 Email: msm@wag.caltech.edu

Education
Ph.D. Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology
M.S. Aeronautics at Caltech
B.S. Fluid and Thermal Sciences at Case Western Reserve University

Research Interests
Semiconductor surface science

Diamond surface reactions with atomic and molecular hydrogen
Surface degradation in vacuum

Radical-surface reaction kinetics

Eley-Rideal and hot precursor mechanisms
Kinetic Monte-Carlo and Molecular dynamics simulations

Publications

Diamond Surfaces: Interactions with Hydrogen and Halogens
Ph.D. Thesis submitted May 21, 1997. Download the entire thesis or individual chapters:

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• Abstract
  Acknowledgements
  Detailed Table of Contents, List of Figures and Tables
• Ch. 1: Introduction
• Ch. 2: D(gas) Reaction with C(100), Ion-beam Scattering Experiment
• Ch. 3: Migration on the C(110) Surface, Ab-initio Computations
• Ap. A: SIMS profiles of hydrogen and deuterium in diamond
• Ap. B: Design of pelletron endstation for Elastic-Recoil Spectrometry
• Ap. C: Kinetic Monte-Carlo algorithm to simulate deuterium reaction with diamond (100) (2x1)
• Ap. D: Off-axis potential for hydrogen abstraction from constrained isobutane

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ab-initio Quantum Chemical Computations of Hydrogen and Halogen Migrations on the Diamond C(110) Surface M. S. Melnik, D. G. Goodwin, W. A. Goddard, III, Materials Research Society Proc. 317, pp. 354-359 (1994).

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