News
Dec 2023: Sivaraj Velusamy joins LabMontiTM. Welcome!
Nov 2023: Dylan's Bayesian study of bond breaking kinetics in single molecule junctions to appear in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
Nov 2023: Joohyung's Perspective on Proximitization to appear in Applied Physics Letters, and Anubhab's study on tailoring the Kondo effect to appear in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
Nov 2023: The nanoESCA flies back to Germany to receive an imaging spin filter!
Oct 2023: Welcome to Jaxon Goddard-Westland to LabMontiTM!
Aug 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Sara Zachritz on defending her PhD thesis "Investigation of the Electronic Structure of 2D Materials Using X-ray and UV Photoemission Techniques".
Aug 2023: Congratulations to Ayan and Madina on the birth of their LabMontiTM baby daughter Airis Batyrkhanova Ayankyzy!
Aug 2022: New paper on "Localized Interlayer Excitons in MoSe2-WSe2 Heterostructures without a Moiré Potential" accepted in Nature Communications.
Mar 2021: Congratulations to Nathan Bamberger on the Galileo Scholarship!
Dec 2020: Collaborative work on exciton hybridization in organic / 2D semiconductor heterostructures with Schaibley group published in J. Phys. Chem. C.
Nov 2020: Nathan's paper appears in special issue on Machine Learning, and our paper on 2D material / organic hybrid excitons with the Schaibley group (UA Physics) is accepted for publication in J. Phys. Chem. C.
Aug 2020: Our NanoESCA photoemission momentum microscope on path to become a movie star (here, and here)!
July 2020: Nathan Bamberger selected as Keck RA. Congratulations!
July 2020: LabMontiTM in the news: Temporarily turning experimentalists into theorists.
Apr 2020: Joohyung Park wins Institute of Energy Solutions Summer Fellowship. Congratulations!
Feb 2020: Angel Garlant's STM and nc-AFM work published in Surface Science.
Jan 2020: Prof. Torsten Fritz (Friedrich Schiller Universitat, Jena, Germany) appointed Visiting Professor in LabMonti at Arizona. Welcome!
Nov 2019: Dylan Dyer and Ayan Batyrkhanov join LabMonti. Welcome!
Jul 2019: Dr. Jeff Ivie accepts position at Sandia National Laboratories. Congrats, Jeff!
Jul 2019: Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Ivie (aka Dr. Vader) on defending his PhD thesis!
Jun 2019: Dylan Dyer joins LabMonti for the summer. Welcome!
Apr 2019: Discussion of energy levels with group of Torsten Fritz, Satoshi Kera and Toshiaki Munakata to appear as Perspective in PCCP.
Apr 2019: Jordan Fink to present at SAZACS.
Apr 2019: Oliver Monti gives Science Cafe at Sky Bar on using quantum mechanics for more efficient computing.
Apr 2019: Oliver Monti gives talk at Horizons in Chemical Physics in Oxford, UK.
Mar 2019: Nathan Bamberger and Oliver Monti present at APS March Meeting in Boston, on single molecule transport and on ultrafast dynamics in 2D materials.
Mar 2019: Angel Garlant wins Institute of Energy Solutions Summer Fellowship. Congratulations!
Mar 2019: Jordan Fink wins BECUR poster award. Congratulations!
Dec 2018: Samantha Jeffcoat joins LabMonti. Welcome!
Oct 2018: Anubhab Chakraborty and Joohyun Park join LabMonti. Welcome!
Oct 2018: Congratulations to Dr. Calley Eads on defending her PhD and moving to a postdoc at BNL!
Sep 2018: Bret Maughan's work on structural transitions at organic / metal interfaces to be published in Phys. Rev. B
May 2018: Shashank Harivyasi's paper with Nahid Ilyas and the Zojer group from Graz, Austria, to be published in J. Phys. Chem. C.
Apr 2018: Dr Bret Maughan accepts job at Space Dynamics Laboratory. Congratulations!
Apr 2018: Nathan Rundhaug joins LabMonti. Welcome!
Mar 2018: Prof. Torsten Fritz from Jena is visiting for 4 weeks. Welcome!
Mar 2018: Jordan Fink joins LabMonti. Welcome!
Feb 2018: Anesha Rodriguez joins LabMonti. Welcome!
Feb 2018: More news coverage on recent work in LabMonti here, here and here.
Jan 2018: LabMonti in the news!
Sep 2017: Bret Maughan's work on configuration-selective electronic structure at organic/metal interfaces to be published in Phys. Rev. B.
Sep 2017: Calley Eads' work on ultrafast dynamics in layered quasi-2D materials to be published in Nature Communications.
Jul 2017: Congratulations to Nathan Bamberger on winning 1st place in the Research Symposium!
Jul 2017: Congratulations to Nathan Bamberger on being selected as a 1st year Research Symposium finalist!
Jun 2017: Congratulations to Calley Eads on being selected as a Marvel Scholar finalist!
Jun 2017: Congratulations to Calley Eads on her nomination as HyerCube Scholar!
Jun 2017: Oliver Monti teaches on Advances in 2D Materials at PCAM ThinFace summer school.
Jun 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Bret Maughan on defending his PhD thesis!
May 2017: Review and introduction to hybrid interfaces to be published in Encyclopedia of Interfacial Chemistry.
May 2017: First single molecules sighted in LabMonti. Congratulations Jeff!
Apr 2017: Clustering software now available on GitHub.
Apr 2017: LabMonti International Collaboration with TU Kaiserslautern funded.
Apr 2017: Bret Maughan's research on ensemble tunable Kondo effect to appear in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
Mar 2017: Oliver Monti gives colloquium at UNLV.
Mar 2017: Bret Maughan and Oliver Monti to give talks at APS March Meeting in New Orleans.
Mar 2017: Tyler Johnson's new high-bandwidth fast amplifier design to appear in Rev. Sci. Inst.
Feb 2017: Christian Boettcher joins LabMonti. Welcome!
Feb 2017: Congratulations to Calley Eads on being awarded a Galileo Scholarship!
Feb 2017: Congratulations to Jeff Ivie on being awarded a Galileo Scholarship!
Jan 2017: Ben Wu's development of a single molecule statistical analysis analysis to appear in J. Chem. Phys.
Jan 2017: Bryce Tipton joins LabMonti. Welcome!
Nov 2016: Nathan Bamberger joins LabMonti. Welcome!
Nov 2016: Oliver Monti gives talk at AVS Symposium in Nashville, TN.
Sep 2016: Calley Eads wins TRIF SEOS Fellowship. Congratulations!
Aug 2016: Ben Wu to talk and present poster at the Beckman Symposium.
Jun 2016: Oliver Monti to talk at molCHsurf.
Jun 2016: Oliver Monti to talk at EMPA.
Jun 2016: Oliver Monti to talk at Universitaet Basel.
Jun 2016: Oliver Monti to talk at 32nd Symposium on Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics.
Jun 2016: Ben Wu featured in UA News.Congratulations!
May 2016: Oliver Monti to talk at University of Electro Communications in Chofu.
May 2016: Oliver Monti to talk at Institute of Molecular Sciences in Okazaki.
May 2016: Oliver Monti to talk at Osaka University.
May 2016: Former lab member Leah Kelly wins Carl Zeiss fellowship. Congratulations, Leah!
May 2016: Jeff Ivie wins GPCS Research grant. Congratulations!
May 2016: Jason Jaruvang joins LabRanti. Welcome!
Apr 2016: Congratulations to Ben Wu for being selected as a speaker at the Beckman Symposium 2016!
Apr 2016: Jeff Ivie promoted to ITMonkey®. Congratulations!
Apr 2016: Congratulations to Calley Eads on receiving the UA Renewable Energy Network Fellowship award!
Mar 2016: Congratulations to Jeff Ivie on receiving the CBC Graduate Student Award for Service!
Mar 2016: Nahid Ilyas' STM study on subphthalocyanine on Cu(111) to appear in J. Phys. Chem. C
Mar 2016: Bret Maughan wins Galileo Scholarship. Congratulations, Bret!
Mar 2016: Bret Maughan wins GPCS Travel Award. Congratulations!
Jan 2016: David Racke's 2PPE study of the bandstructure of the 2D metal dichalcogenide SnS2 to appear in Phys. Rev. B.
Jan 2016: Angel Garlant joins LabMonti. Welcome!
Dec 2015: LabMonti receives LT-STM time at Brookhaven National Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials.
Dec 2015: Michael Rabbani joins LabMonti. Welcome!
Nov 2015: Bret Maughan's STM study of nanoribbon growth to be published in J.Phys.Chem. C
Oct 2015: Sara Zachritz joins LabMonti. Welcome!
Oct 2015: Leah Kelly's 2PPE study on defects at the ZnO interface to be published in J. Phys.: Cond. Matter
Sep 2015: Leah Kelly's RPES study on ultrafast dynamics at the C60/ZnO interface to be published in Advanced Materials
Aug 2015: Our study on hybrid functionalization of topological insulators to be published in Nano Lett.!
Jul 2015: LabMonti will receive GIXS and RPES beamtime at SSRL.
Jul 2015: Congratulations to Dr. Leah Kelly on defending her thesis!
May 2015: LabMonti funded together with Prof. Erin Ratcliff to develop next-generation thermoelectrics!
May 2015: Bret Maughan receives TRIF Imaging Fellowship. Congratulations, Bret!
May 2015: David and Leah's paper on attosecond charge transfer at hybrid interfaces to be published in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
May 2015: David Racke defends his PhD. Congratulations, Dr. Racke!
Apr 2015: LabMonti is now both a Chemistry and a Physics group!
Apr 2015: Calley Eads passes her Oral Exam. Congratulations, Calley!
Mar 2015: Harrison Frisk gets NSF Honorable Mentions. Congratulations!
Mar 2015: David Racke's paper on gap states in SnS2 to be published in J. Elec. Spec. Rel. Phen.
Mar 2015: Oliver Monti gives inivited talk at DPG meeting in Berlin.
Mar 2015: Oliver Monti gives talk at APS March meeting.
Feb 2015: Tori Wilson is awarded a UBRP fellowship. Congratulations!
Feb 2015: Ben Wu is awarded a Beckmann Scholarship. Congratulations!
Feb 2015: Laura Schirra's paper in collaboration with Torsten Fritz (Jena, Germany) discussing interfacial charge transfer and hybridization to be published in J. Phys. Chem. C.
Nov 2014: Tyler Johnson joins LabMonti. Welcome!
Nov 2014: Oliver Monti wins international travel award.
Sep 2014: David Racke's paper in collaboration with Peter Sutter on the band structure and properties of SnS2 to be published in ACS Nano.
Sep 2014: Nahid Ilyas' paper on the effect of strongly coupling at an interface to be published in Phys. Rev. B.
Sep 2014: Oliver Monti receives the College of Science Distinguished Early Career Teaching Award.
Jul 2014: Leah Kelly's paper with Philip Schulz on tailoring ZnO interfaces to be published in Advanced Functional Materials.
Jul 2014: David Racke's paper on gap states at the SnS2 / organic interface to be published in Surface Science.
May 2014: Nahid Ilyas accepts job at Air Force Research Labs. Congratulations!
May 2014: Ben Wu and Victoria Wilson join LabMonti. Welcome!
May 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Nahid Ilyas on defending her PhD!
Apr 2014: Laura Schirra's paper on hybrid interface formation on ZnO to be published in Advanced Materials.
Apr 2014: Oliver Monti gives talk at Columbia University.
Mar 2014: Oliver Monti gives talk at APS March Meeting in Denver.
Feb 2014: Congratulations to Harrison Frisk and David Racke on their Galileo Circle Scholar Award!
Feb 2014: Harrison Frisk wins first place with his poster at BECUR. Congratulations!
Jan 2014: Three LabMonti proposals at the Center of Functional Nanomaterials are supported. Exciting!
Jan 2014: Congratulations to Kara Saaty on passing her MS exam!
Dec 2013: Calley Eads joins LabMonti. Welcome!
Dec 2013: Dima Bandak joins LabMonti. Welcome!
Nov 2013: Phil Befus joins LabMonti. Welcome!
Nov 2013: LabMonti receives LCLS time as part of a SLAC team. Exciting!
Nov 2013: Congratulations to Kara Saaty on her job at Intel!
Oct 2013: Oliver Monti gives Photon Science Colloquium at SLAC, Stanford.
Oct 2013: Oliver Monti gives colloquium at University of Delaware.
Oct 2013: Oliver Monti gives colloquium at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Jun 2013: Oliver Monti gives colloquium at Fritz Haber Institut, Berlin.
May 2013: Oliver Monti gives invited talk at Hybrid Photovoltaics, Berlin.
May 2013: Oliver Monti gives invited talk at ESPMI-VII in Rehovot, Israel, and colloquium in physics in Wurzburg.
Apr 2013: Harrison Frisk wins first place in CBC undergraduate poster fair. Congratulations!
Mar 2013: Nahid Ilyas' paper on Fano resonances at a Au (111) surface to be published in Mol. Phys.
Mar 2013: LabMonti in the News: Organic spintronics.
Mar 2013: Leah Kelly wins Galileo Circle Fellowship Congratulations!
Mar 2013: Oliver Monti gives talk at Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft Fruhjahrstagung in Regensburg.
Feb 2013: Oliver Monti gives seminar at nanoGUNE in Donostia, Spain.
Feb 2013: Oliver Monti gives talk in condensed matter physics at Zernike Institute in Groningen.
Jan 2013: LabMonti and its science in the news!
Jan 2013: Paper on organic spintronics with Martin Aeschlimann accepted in Nature Physics!
Dec 2012: Jeffrey Ivie and Bret Maughan join LabMonti. Welcome!
Dec 2012: Oliver Monti gives talks in Fachbereich Physik at Freie Universitaet Berlin and Philipps-Universitaet Marburg, Germany
Nov 2012: Oliver Monti gives talk in Fachbereich Physik, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Nov 2012: LabMonti featured in Arizona Daily Star on p. S10-11.
Sep 2012: Oliver Monti gives invited talk in Oxford and at SPINOS 2012 in London
Jul 2012: Perspective on electrostatic effects at organic semiconductors on cover of J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
Jun 2012: Laura Schirra coauthor on collabortive ZnO paper accepted for publication in Chem. Mater.
Jun 2012: Oliver Monti plenary speaker at PEC 2012 in Dallas.
May 2012: Oliver Monti gives seminar at CINT LANL.
Apr 2012: Oliver Monti gives condensed matter physics seminar in Rochester.
Mar 2012: Rebecca sings an ode to Chemistry!
Mar 2012: Nahid wins WEES Travel Fellowship to go to BNL! Congratulations!
Jan 2012: Congratulations to Dr Laura Schirra on her PhD thesis defense and her job at Intel!
Dec 2011: LabMonti receives instrument time at the Brookhaven low-temperature STM. Exciting!
Nov 2011: Kara Saaty joins LabMonti. Welcome!
Nov 2011: Congratulations to Dr. Mary Steele on defending her thesis!
Oct 2011: Harrison Frisk joins LabMonti. Welcome!
Sep 2011: Mary's UPS paper of VONc / Au (111) to be published in J. Phys. Chem. C
Aug 2011: Mary's AR-TPPE paper to be pubished in J. Chem. Phys.
Apr 2011: Silver nanoparticle paper appears in Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
Apr 2011: Christiana Bockisch joins LabMonti. Welcome!
Apr 2011: Oliver Monti gives colloquium in Arizona Optical Sciences.
Apr 2011: Oliver Monti speaks at Biosphere 2 during a UA DataBlitz.
Mar 2011: Oliver Monti gives talk at APS March Meeting in Dallas.
Nov 2010: Oliver Monti gives seminar at Cal State LA.
Nov 2010: LabMonti research featured in Inside Tucson Business!
Nov 2010: David Racke and Luis Torres-Figueroa join LabMonti. Welcome!
Oct 2010: Collaborative research with Pyun group (UA) to appear in Chem. Comm.
Oct 2010: Krista Parry and Evan Krepps join LabMonti. Welcome!
Sep 2010: Congratulations to Dr. Michael Blumenfeld on defending his thesis!
Sep 2010: Oliver Monti gives seminar at UT Austin and University of New Mexico
Aug 2010: Oliver Monti gives talk at Ultrafast Surface Dynamics 7 in Brijuni, Croatia
Jul 2010: LabMonti NSF project and results highlighted by NSF-CHE Committee of Visitors
Jul 2010: Mary's TPPE image state paper to be published in J. Chem. Phys.
Jul 2010: Mary and Oliver's Invited Perspective on Electrostatics in Organic Semiconductors to appear in PCCP
Jun 2010: Josh Sloane from the high school Sonoran Science Academy joins LabMonti - Welcome!
Jun 2010: Mary's TPPE excited state polarizability and dipole moment measurements published in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.; Mike's UPS growth study published in Surface Science
Apr 2010: Oliver Monti gives talk at UCSD
Apr 2010: Jason Tyler will join University of Washington for Grad School. Congrats!
Apr 2010: Oliver Monti gives seminar at Emory University
Apr 2010: Oliver Monti gives seminar at UC Davis
Mar 2010: Mary Steele gives a talk at ACS
Mar 2010: Oliver Monti organizes ACS Symposium on Photovoltaics
Mar 2010: Oliver Monti gives seminar at Colorado State and University of Wyoming
Feb 2010: Oliver Monti gives seminar at University of Washington
Feb 2010: Mike Blumenfeld receives 2 job offers. Congratulations! He has accepted an offer from Exxon Mobil.
Feb 2010: Oliver Monti gives PChem Seminar at Wayne State
Jan 2010: Oliver Monti gives Chemical Physics Seminar at CalTech
Dec 2009: Colin Richards, Leah Kelly, Dave Wooldridge and Nick Kearns join Lab Monti. Welcome!
Oct 2009: Mike's dipolar energy tuning at interfaces study published in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
Aug 2009: Single Molecule Charge Transfer Study to be published in J Chem. Phys.
Aug 2009: UHV Single Molecule Microscope to be published in Review of Scientific Instruments
Jul 2009: Congratulations to Dustin Harshmann for winning the Charles P. Lake/Rain for Rent Scholarship.
Jun 2009: Melissa Healey (Cornell, ChemE) and Logan Johnson (St Olaf, Chem) join LabMonti as REU students. Welcome!
May 2009: Dustin Harshman joins the group as an i-UBRP student. Welcome!
May 2009: Congratulations to Mary Steele for being select as an O'Brien Fellowship finalist
Apr 2009: Derek Holman wins Outstanding Senior award. Congratulations!
Dec 2008: LabMonti outreach featured in UANow. Check the Outreach link for more information.
Jun 2008: LabMonti joins Arizona Network in Solar Energy Research
May 2008: Mike Blumenfeld wins Proctor and Gamble Scholarship
Feb 2007: Brandon Tackett joins LabMonti as postdoctoral fellow
Jan 2007: Monti group awarded Department of Ed grant for outreach with native communities in Arizona
Jan 2007: Laura Schirra and Mary Steele join LabMonti
Apr 2006: Michael Blumenfeld wins NSF predoctoral fellowship