Resources

Safety

• Tufts Annual Safety Training
• Cryogen Safety
• Carbon Monoxide Safety
• CO Dose Checklist

Outreach

• Outreach Presentation
• High School STM Lesson Plan
• How STM Works Activity
• Graphite Step Edge Activity
• Model Surface Description

Instrumentation

• How to TPD
• TPD Lecture
• Lucas Carlson STM Presentation
• SEM Image of Tip
• Tip Etching
• Spectroscopic Techniques for Probing Solid Surfaces
• Pressures and Pumps
• Working in UHV
• Electrochemical STM
• LT-STM Do's and Don'ts

Theory

• How STM Works
• Particle in a Box
• Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Gas Adsorption on Surfaces
• Fourier Transform
• Alloying Basics
• Base Pressure Data

Surface Visualization

• Surface Explorer
• Herringbone Reconstruction (Symmetry and Elbows)
• Herringbone Reconstruction (Steps and Stacking)
• Herringbone Reconstruction (Brief)

Data Analysis

• Error Analysis
• Calculating and Applying Gains
• Making STM Movies

Writing

• Authorship Guidelines
• Tense Rules

Introductory Reading for New Students (increasing in order of content)

• "Surfaces" by Gary Attard and Colin Barnes
• "The Basis and Applications of Heterogenous Catalysis" by Michael Bowker
• "Surface Chemistry" by Elaine M. McCash
• "Surface Science" by Kurt W. Kolasinski
• Theory Review: "Density Functional Theory in Surface Chemistry and Catalysis"
• Catalysis Fundamentals Review: "The Bronsted胞vans鳳olanyi Relation and the Volcano Curve in Heterogeneous Catalysis"
• Surface Chirality Review: "Surface Chemistry for Enantioselective Catalysis"
• Molecular Motors Review: "Introduction to the Physics of Brownian Motors"
• Proposals on the N: Drive and the Refs there in