Pearl Group Output

Publications

1. Rational Design of Interfacial Structure: Adsorbate-Mediated Templating,
S. B. Darling, A. T. Hanbicki, T. P. Pearl, S. J. Sibener,  J. Phys. Chem. B 103, 9805-9808 (1999).
[Cover Story] PDF
Xe/H/Ni(977)

2. Proximity Heater for Elevated Temperature in situ Vacuum Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Metal Surfaces, T. P. Pearl and S. J. Sibener,
Rev. Sci. Instrum. 71, 124-127 (2000). PDF
3. Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Individual Step Merging Events on Ni(977) Measured by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy,
T. P. Pearl and S. J. Sibener, J. Phys. Chem. B. 105, 6300-6306 (2001). [Cover Story] PDF
Ni(977) Step Doubling

4. Oxygen Driven Reconstruction Dynamics of Ni(977) Measured by Time-Lapse Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, T. P. Pearl and S. J. Sibener, J. Chem. Phys. 115, 1916-1927 (2001). PDF

5. Step-modified Region of Phase Diagram of Chemisorbed Oxygen on Nickel, T. P. Pearl, S. B. Darling, and S. J. Sibener, Surf. Sci. 491, 140-148 (2001). PDF

6. Temperature Control of a Liquid Helium Cooled Eigler-Style Scanning Tunneling Microscope, H.-P. Rust, M. Doering, J. I. Pascual, T. P. Pearl, P. S. Weiss, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 72, 4393-4397 (2001). PDF

7. Mechanism and Energetics for Step Merging on a Metallic Surface Captured with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, T. P. Pearl and S. J. Sibener, Surf. Sci. Lett. 496, L29-L34 (2002). PDF

8. In Search of Nano-Perfection: Experiment and Monte Carlo Simulation of Nucleation-Controlled Step Doubling, Yi Wang, T. P. Pearl, S. B. Darling, J. L. Gimmell, and S .J. Sibener, J. Appl. Phys. 91, 10081-10087 (2002). PDF

9. Matrix-Mediated Control of Stochastic Single Molecule Conductance Switching, Z. J. Donhauser, B. A. Mantooth, T. P. Pearl, K. F. Kelly, S. U. Nanayakkara, and P. S. Weiss, Jap. J. of Appl. Phys. 41, 4871-4877 (2002). PDF

10. Influence of Dissolved Oxygen on Reconstruction Behavior of a Stepped Metal Surface, T. P. Pearl, S. B. Darling, L. Niu, D. D. Koleske, D. J. Gaspar, S. F. King and S. J. Sibener, Chem. Phys. Lett. 364, 284-289 (2002). PDF

11. A Double Lamellae Drop-off Etching Procedure for Tungsten Tips Attached to Tuning Fork AFM/STM Sensors, M. Kulawik, T. P. Pearl, M. Nowicki, G. Thielsch, L. Cramer, H. -P. Rust, P. S. Weiss, and H. -J. Freund, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 74, 1027-1030 (2003). PDF

12. A Comparative Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of Physisorbed Linear Quadrupolar Molecules: C2N2 and CS2 on Au{111} at 4 K, P. Han, E. C. H. Sykes, T. P. Pearl and P. S. Weiss, J. Phys. Chem. A 107, 8124-8129 (2003). PDF

13. Atomic Scale Imaging of Dynamic Surfaces, T. P. Pearl, in McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology 2005 (McGraw-Hill, New York, 2005), 23-25. Abstract and text link

14. Design and operation of a versatile, ultrahigh vacuum, low temperature scanning probe microscope, A. M. Lakhani, S. J. Kelly, and T. P. Pearl, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77, 043709 (2006). PDF

15. Spectral diffusion in the tunneling spectra of ligand-stabilized undecagold clusters, R. K. Smith, S. U. Nanayakkara, G. H. Woehrle, T. P. Pearl, M. M. Blake, J. E. Hutchison, and P. S. Weiss, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 9266-9267 (2006). PDF  Supporting Information

16. Persistence of chirality for a weakly bound adsorbate: (R,R)- and (S,S)-tartaric acid/Ag(111), A. M. Lakhani, D. J. DeWitt, N. M. Sant'Agata, and T. P. Pearl, J. Phys. Chem. C 111, 5750-5755 (2007). PDF

17. Liquid crystal deposition on poled, single crystalline lithium niobate, S. C. Bharath, K. R. Pimputkar, A. M. Pronschinske, and T. P. Pearl, Applied Surface Science 254, 2048-2053 (2008). PDF

18. Bumpy, sticky, and shaky: Nanoscale Science and the Curriculum, A. Taylor, M. G. Jones, and T. P. Pearl, Science Scope (NSTA journal) 31, 28-35 (2008).  Journal site (contact TPP for reprint)

19. Probing molecular-level organizational structure and electronic decoupling of tartaric acid domains supported on Ag(111), N. M. Santagata, A. M. Lakhani, D. J. DeWitt, P. Luo, and T. P. Pearl, Journal of Physics-Conference Series 100, 052066 (2008). PDF

20. Organizational structure and electronic decoupling of surface bound chiral domains and biomolecules, N. M. Santagata, P. S. Luo, A. M. Lakhani, D. J. DeWitt, B. S. Day, M. L. Norton, and T. P. Pearl, IEEE Sensors 8, 758-766 (2008). PDF

PDF links go directly to journal sites. Please contact T. P. Pearl if you have difficulties accessing these files and would like a copy of a manuscript.



Presentations

1. Gordon Research Conference, Chemical Reactions at Surfaces (Ventura, CA), March 1999, Step Dynamics and Reactivity of Ni(977) Measured by STM, T. P. Pearl and S. J. Sibener

2. Ninth Workshop on Surface Dynamics (Charlottesville, VA), June 1999, Step and Adsorbate Templating of Nanoscale Structure, S. B. Darling, A. T. Hanbicki, T. P. Pearl, S. J. Sibener

3. University of Chicago Chemistry Department Student Seminar, January 2000, The Interaction of Adsorbates with a Stepped Metal Surface Studied with LEED and STM, T. P. Pearl and S. J. Sibener

4. University of Maryland MRSEC Seminar, February 2000, Adsorbate Interactions with a Stepped Metal Surface Studied Using LEED and STM: Overlayer Templating and Reconstruction Dynamics, T. P. Pearl and S .J. Sibener

5. American Physical Society (Minneapolis, MN), March 2000, Oxygen-Driven Reconstruction Dynamics of Ni(977) Measured by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, T. P. Pearl and S .J. Sibener

6. James Franck Institute Symposium, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, May 2000, Watching Steps Dance, T. P. Pearl and S. J. Sibener

7. Physical Electronics Conference (Taos, NM), June 2001, Oxygen Driven Reconstruction Dynamics and Mechanistic Details of a Stepped Metallic Surface Measured by Time-Lapse Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, T. P. Pearl (Nottingham Competition) and S. J. Sibener

8. American Vacuum Society (Denver, CO), November 2002, Conductance Switching in Single Molecules, Z. J. Donhauser, T. P. Pearl, and P. S. Weiss

9. Haverford College, Department of Chemistry Colloquium (Haverford, PA), December 2002, Probing single molecules using low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, T. P. Pearl

10. Amherst College, Department of Chemistry Colloquium (Amherst, MA), December 2002, Probing single molecules using low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, T. P. Pearl

11. North Carolina State University, Department of Physics Seminar (Raleigh, NC), December 2002, Probing single molecules and nanoclusters using low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, T. P. Pearl

12. American Physical Society (Austin, TX), March 2003 A comparative scanning tunneling microscopy study of physisorbed linear quadrupolar molecules: C2N2 and CS2 on Au(111) at 4 K, Patrick Han, Charles Sykes, Thomas Pearl, and P. S. Weiss

13. Spring Materials Research Society Meeting (San Franscisco, CA), April 2003, Single Molecule Electronics, Z. J. Donhauser, T. P. Pearl, and P. S. Weiss

14. STM ’03, Eindhoven (the Netherlands), June 2003, Ordering, dynamics and spectroscopy of weakly bound molecules on Au{111} at 4 K, P. Han, E. C. H. Sykes, T. P. Pearl, P. S. Weiss

15. American Chemical Society (New York, NY), September 2003, Elucidation of the electronic properties of alkanethiolate-stabilized gold clusters and nanoparticles using scanning tunneling microscopy, R. K. Smith, S. U. Nanayakkara, B. A. Mantooth, G. Woehrle, T. P. Pearl, J. E. Hutchison, and P. S. Weiss

16. American Chemical Society (New York, NY), September 2003, Dynamics and conductance of conjugated molecules supported in monolayer matrices studied by low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, S. U. Nanayakkara, T. P. Pearl, P. S. Weiss, and J. M. Tour

17. American Chemical Society (New York, NY), September 2003, Ordering, dynamics, and spectroscopy of weakly bound molecules on Au(111) at 4 K, P. Han, E. C. H. Sykes, T. P. Pearl, and P. S. Weiss

18. American Vacuum Society (Baltimore, MD), November 2003, Elucidation of the electronic properties of isolated alkanethiolate-passivated undecagold clusters by low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, S. U. Nanayakkara, R. K. Smith, T. P. Pearl, B. A. Mantooth, G. Woehrle, J. E. Hutchison, and P. S. Weiss

19. Materials Research Society (Boston, MA), December 2003, Elucidation of the electronic properties of alkanethiolate-passivated gold clusters and nanoparticles using scanning tunneling microscopy, R. K. Smith, S. U. Nanayakkara, B. A. Mantooth, G. Woehrle, T. P. Pearl, J. E. Hutchison, and P. S. Weiss

20. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Physical Chemistry and Materials Chemistry Seminar (Chapel Hill, NC), February 2004, Probing single molecules and nanoclusters using low temperature STM, T. P. Pearl

21. American Physical Society (Montreal, Canada), March 2004, Elucidation of the electronic properties of alkanethiolate-passivated gold clusters and nanoparticles using scanning tunneling microscopy, T. P. Pearl, S. U. Nanayakkara, R. K. Smith, B. A. Mantooth, G. H. Woehrle, J. M. Hutchison, and P. S. Weiss

22. North Carolina State University Undergraduate Research Symposium, August 2005, Construction of an Atomic Force Microscope, A. M. Lakhani and T. P. Pearl

23. North Carolina State University Undergraduate Research Symposium, August 2005, Studies of Polarized Molecules on Selectively Polarized Domains, C. S. Mathews and T. P. Pearl

24. American Chemical Society (Washington D. C.), August 2005, Ultrastable conductance measurements of self assembled monolayer supported phenylene-ethylene oligomers, Sanjini U. Nanayakkara, Meaghan M. Blake, Arrelaine Dameron, Rong Zhang, Chris Pochas, Paul S. Weiss, Thomas P. Pearl, Sundar Uppili, David L. Allara, and James M. Tour

25. American Chemical Society, (Washington D. C.) August 2005, Tunneling spectroscopy of precise, ligand-stabilized nanoparticles and nanoparticle assemblies, Sanjini U. Nanayakkara, Rachel K. Smith, Paul S. Weiss, Thomas P. Pearl, Gerd Woehrle, and James E. Hutchison

26. NCSU MRS chapter meeting seminar, September 2005, Probing surface chemical reactions, interactions, and behavior of single molecules with atomic scale tools, T. P. Pearl

27. University of North Carolina-Wilmington, Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography Colloquium (Wilmington, NC), October 2005, Probing surface chemical reactions, interactions, and behavior of single molecules with atomic scale tools, T. P. Pearl

28. American Vacuum Society (Boston, MA), November 2005, Ultrastable conductance measurements of self assembled monolayer supported phenylene-ethylene oligomers, Sanjini U. Nanayakkara, Meaghan M. Blake, Arrelaine Dameron, Rong Zhang, Chris Pochas, Paul S. Weiss, Thomas P. Pearl, Sundar Uppili, David L. Allara, and James M. Tour

29. Army Research Office Workshop-Sensing Biomolecular Architectures (Edgewood, MD), December 2005, Local probing of alignment and organization of biomolecules in nanoscale electronic junctions for THz sensing, T. P. Pearl

30. American Physical Society (Baltimore, MD), March 2006, Spectral diffusion in the tunneling spectra of ligan-stabilized undecagold clusters, T. P. Pearl, R. K. Smith, S. U. Nanayakkara, P. S. Weiss, G. H. Woehrle, and J. E. Hutchison

31. National Science Foundation US-China Workshop on Nanotechnology (Washington D.C.), March 2006, Probing surface chemical reactions, interactions, and behavior of single molecules with atomic scale tools, T. P. Pearl

32. North Carolina State University Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2006, Adsorption of tartaric acid on Ag(111), A. M. Lakhani and T. P. Pearl

33. North Carolina State University Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2006, Preparation and Characterization of Atomically Flat Lithium Niobate Surfaces, K. R. Pimputkar and T. P. Pearl

34. North Carolina State University Undergraduate Research Symposium, August 2006, Study of Chiral Thin Films: Tartaric Acid Deposited on Ag(111), M. E. Koepke and T. P. Pearl

35. American Chemical Society (San Francisco, CA), September 2006, Observation of stereospecific domain formation: Adsorption of tartaric acid on Ag(111), A. M. Lakhani and T. P. Pearl

36. Materials Research Society (Boston, MA), November 2006, Liquid crystal deposition on poled, single crystalline lithium niobate, S. C. Bharath, K. R. Pimputkar, A. M. Pronschinske, T. P. Pearl

37. Army Research Office Midterm Program review-Advanced Architectures for Biological Agent Detection & Discrimination (Hoboken, NJ), January 2007, Local Probing of Alignment and Organization of Biomolecules in Nanoscale Electronic Junctions for THz sensing, T. P. Pearl

38. American Physical Society (Denver, CO) March 2007, STM studies of the molecular-level organization of chiral tartaric acid domains on Ag(111), N. M. Santagata, A. M. Lakhani, D. J. DeWitt, and T. P. Pearl

39. North Carolina State University Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2007, Investigation of chiral thin films of tartaric acid on Ag(111), A. M. Lakhani and T. P. Pearl

40. North Carolina State University Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2007, Adsorption of 8CB Liquid Crystals on Poled Lithium Niobate (001), A. M. Pronschinske and T. P. Pearl

41. Nanoelectronic Devices for Security and Defense (Crystal City, VA), June 2007, Probing organizational structure and electronic decoupling of surface bound biomolecules and chiral domains, T. P. Pearl

42. IVC-17/ICSS-13 and ICN+T2007 (Stockholm, Sweden), July 2007, Probing molecular-level organizational structure and electronic decoupling of tartaric acid domains supported on Ag(111), T. P. Pearl, N. M. Santagata, A. M. Lakhani, D. J. DeWitt, and Pengshun Luo

43. Department of Chemical Physics (Abteilung Chemische Physik), Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, (Berlin, Germany), July 2007, Probing molecular-level organizational structure and electronic decoupling of weakly surface bound chiral domains, T. P. Pearl

44. North Carolina State University Undergraduate Research Symposium, August 2007, Characterizing the electronic structure of a physisorbate utilizing scanning tunneling spectroscopy: Tartaric Acid/Ag(111), B. D. Kolditz, N. M. Santagata, and T. P. Pearl

45. Army Research Office Midterm Program review-Advanced Architectures for Biological Agent Detection & Discrimination (Duck Key, FL), December 2007, Local Probing of Alignment and Organization of Biomolecules in Nanoscale Electronic Junctions for THz sensing, T. P. Pearl

46. Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, Analytical Chemistry Seminar (University Park, PA), March 2008,
Probing molecular-level organizational structure and electronic decoupling of weakly surface bound chiral domains and biomolecular species, T. P. Pearl

47. North Carolina State University Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2008, Self-Assembly of (R,R)-, (S,S)- and Racemic Tartaric Acid Films on Ag(111), Bryce F. Davis, Nancy M. Santagata, and Thomas P. Pearl

48. James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL), May 2008, Probing molecular-level organizational structure and electronic decoupling of weakly surface bound metallic nanoparticles, chiral domains, and biomolecular species, T. P. Pearl

49. Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Lab (Argonne, IL), May 2008,
Probing molecular-level organizational structure and electronic properties of weakly surface bound metallic nanoparticles, chiral domains, and single biomolecules, T. P. Pearl

50. 2008 International Symposium on Spectral Sensing Research (ISSSR) (Hoboken, NJ), June 2008, Organizational structure and electronic properties of chiral molecular domains and single biomolecules, P. Luo, N. M. Santagata, B. F. Davis, N. L. Bemelmans, and T. P. Pearl

51. Physical Electronics Conference (Riverside, CA), June 2008,
Spatially resolved organizational structure and electronic signatures of weakly surface bound chiral domains, Thomas P. Pearl, Nancy M. Santagata, Pengshun Luo, and Bryce F. Davis

52. ICN+T 2008 (Keystone, CO), July 2008, Schockley-type Surface State Modification for Enantionpure vs. Racemic Tartaric Acid on Ag(111), N. M. Santagata, P. Luo, B. F. Davis, and T. P. Pearl


Links to relevant research groups

To learn more about experiments performed on stepped nickel surfaces, go to the Sibener Group at the University of Chicago

For more information on self-assembled monolayers, molecules inserted in alkanethiolate matrices, and STM development go to the Weiss Group at the Pennsylvania State University

Visit the low temperature SPM group led by Dr. Markus Heyde (formerly Dr. Hans-Peter Rust) as part of the Department of Chemical Physics in the Fritz-Haber-Institute in Berlin, Germany to learn more about the properties of molecules adsorbed on metals and metal oxides


6 June 2008

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