PEC 2022 Schedule and Program Book

Venue Map and Program Book

Program Book 2 June 2022.pdf

Monday, June 6, 2022

6:00pm

Welcome Reception

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

7:15am - 8:30am

Breakfast, Registration, and Setup of posters and exhibits

8:30am - 8:40am

Opening Remarks

8:40am - 9:20am

Keynote Talk [Kickoff]

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy on Topological Materials

Vidya Madhavan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

9:20am - 9:40am

Visualizing Electronic Fluid Flow at the Atomic Scale

Xiaolong Liu, Yi Xue Chong, Rahul Sharma, and J.C. Séamus Davis (University of Notre Dame)

9:40am - 10:00am

Numerical modeling of rarefied flows for vapor deposition

Suhas S. Jain, Eunseok Song, and Parviz Moin (Stanford University)

10:00am - 10:20am

Visualization of Correlated Phases in 2D Field Effect Transistors

Shaowei Li (University of California, San Diego)

10:20am - 10:40am

Coffee Break

10:40am - 11:00am

A Trapped-ion Surface Probe

Dustin A. Hite (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

11:00am - 11:20am

Dynamic control of structural phase transitions in layered materials for information applications

Jun Xiao (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

11:20am - 11:40am

Experimental Observation of Ferroelectric Switching in Two-Dimensional MoS2

A. Lipatov, P. Chaudhary, H. Lu, A. Sinitskii, and A. Gruverman (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

11:40am - 12:00pm

Epitaxial Solid Phase Lateral Overgrowth of Rotating Lattice Complex Oxides

Rui Liu, Samuel D Marks, Deepankar Sri Gyan, Peng Zuo, Donald E. Savage, Tao Zhou, Zhonghou Cai, Martin Holt, Serkan Butun, Shaoning Lu, Nasir Basit, Xiaobing Hu, Tirzah Abbott, Susan E. Babcock, Thomas F. Kuech, and Paul Evans (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

12:00pm - 1:40pm

Lunch

1:40pm - 2:20pm

Keynote Talk

New 2D with Atomically Thin Crystals

Jiwoong Park (University of Chicago)

2:20pm - 2:40pm

Atomic-Scale Chemical Probing of Chemically Modified Borophene Using Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Linfei Li, Jeremy F. Schultz, Sayantan Mahapatra, and Nan Jiang (University of Illinois Chicago)

2:40pm - 3:00pm

Synthesis of borophane polymorphs via hydrogenation of borophene

Qiucheng Li, Venkata Surya Chaitanya Kolluru, Matthew S. Rahn, Pierre Darancet, Maria K. Y. Chan, and Mark C. Hersam (Northwestern University)

3:00pm - 3:20pm

Theoretical Raman Spectroscopy and Machine-Learning-Enabled Thermal Properties of Pristine and Alloyed 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Juan M. Marmolejo-Tejada, J. Pierce Fix, Patrick Kung, Nicholas Borys, and Martín A. Mosquera (Montana State University)

3:20pm - 3:40pm

Direct Visualization of General Ferroelasticity in Lead Halide Perovskites

Bo Zhang, Shuo Sun, Yinglu Jia, Jun Dai, Dhanusha Rathnayake, Xi Huang, Jade Casasent, Gopi Adhikari, Temban Acha Billy, Yongfeng Lu, Xiao Cheng Zeng, and Yinsheng Guo (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

3:40pm - 4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Poster Session

6:00pm

Picnic

(weather permitting on West Quad)

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

7:15am - 8:40am

Breakfast

8:40am - 9:20am

Keynote Talk

A New Type of Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy with Pulsed Force Mode

Xiaoji G. Xu (Lehigh University)

Nottingham Prize Competition

9:20am - 9:40am

Evaluation of the effects of alloying Pd–Zn and its application for the catalytic reaction

M. Torimoto and Y. Sekine (Waseda University, Japan)

9:40am - 10:00am

Carbon dissolution via beam reflectivity measurements on nickel single crystal catalysts

D. G. Tinney and A. L. Utz (Tufts University)

10:00am - 10:20am

Atomic-scale Quantum Sensing Based on the Ultrafast Coherence of an H2 Molecule in an STM cavity

L. Wang and W. Ho (University of California, Irvine)

10:20am - 10:40am

Coffee Break

10:40am - 11:00am

Helical tunneling of Dirac electrons from topological Kondo insulator nanowire probe tips

Anuva Aishwarya and Vidya Madhavan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

11:00am - 11:20am

Design and Synthesis of Atomically Precise Nanoporous Graphenes

Mamun Sarker and Alexander Sinitskii (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

11:20am - 11:40am

Sample-dependent physics in bulk TaS2

J. V. Riffle and S. M. Hollen (University of New Hampshire)

11:40am - 12:00pm

Investigation of CO oxidation on Rh(111) with RAIRS

Elizabeth A Jamka and D. Killelea (Loyola University Chicago)

12:00pm - 1:40pm

Lunch

1:40pm - 2:00pm

Probing Sub-Nanoscale Photophysical and Photochemical Processes via Localized Surface Plasmons: Vibrational Nano-Spectroscopy

Sayantan Mahapatra and Nan Jiang (University of Illinois Chicago)

2:00pm - 2:20pm

Facet dependence of RhCu Single-atom alloy structure and reactivity

Yicheng Wang and Charles H. Sykes (Tufts University)

2:20pm - 2:40pm

What Happens When Transition Metal Trichalcogenides are Interfaced with Gold?

Archit Dhingra and Peter A. Dowben (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)

2:40pm - 3:00pm

Ångström-Scale Lightwave-Driven Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Graphene Nanoribbons

S. E. Ammerman and T. L. Cocker (Michigan State University)

3:00pm - 3:20pm

Coffee Break

3:20pm - 3:40pm

Condensed Phase Adsorption and Reactivity: Extraterrestrial Ices and Olefin Oxidation

Michelle R Brann and Steven J Sibener (University of Chicago)

3:40pm - 4:00pm

Explosive Nucleation and Growth of Pb Islands on Ge(111) at Low to Room Temperatures via Collective Diffusion

A. Kim and S. Chiang (University of California, Davis)

4:00pm - 4:20pm

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy (STM/S) Reveals Small Energy Gap in Mott Insulator-CrBr3

Dinesh Baral and TeYu Chien (University of Wyoming)

4:20pm - 4:40pm

Localized spin-orbit polaron in magnetic Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2

Yuqing Xing and Hong-Jun Gao (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

4:40pm - 6:00pm

Poster Session

6:00pm

Banquet

(Revolution Brewing Company, Brewer's Lounge) 2323 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL

Nottingham Prize Celebration

Thursday, June 9, 2022

7:15am - 8:40am

Breakfast

Prof. Karsten Pohl Memorial Session

8:40am - 9:00am

Quantitative Analysis of LEEM Images: the genesis of “LEEM-IV”

Jim Hannon (IBM Quantum)

9:00am - 9:20am

Remembering a mentor: from building community to solving lab mysteries

Shawna Hollen (University of New Hampshire)

9:20am - 9:40am

Crystal lattice of two dimensional quantum systems

Zhongwei Dai

9:40am - 10:00am

Surface Structure and Core Level Spectroscopy

Philip Hofmann (Aarhus University, Denmark)

10:00am - 10:20am

Coffee Break

Prof. Pat Thiel Memorial Session

10:20am - 10:40am

Formation and coarsening of metal nanoclusters at surfaces: Predictive modeling inspired by Thiel group experiments

Jim W Evans (Iowa State University)

10:40am - 11:00am

Unusual flat and extended morphology of encapsulated Cu under MoS2

Dapeng Jing (Iowa State University)

11:00am - 11:20am

Single-Atom Alloys: Surface Structure from Adsorbed CO and Selective Hydrogenation Reactions

Michael Trenary (University of Illinois Chicago)

11:20am - 11:40am

What I have learned from Thiel-sensei and single-molecule spectroscopy with STM

Yousoo Kim (RIKEN and University of Tokyo, Japan)

11:40am - 12:00pm

Closing Remarks and Lunch