Publications
Google Scholar link. Has most publications and should be up to date. Many papers are available on Research Gate.
Selected Publications
Prashant Shekhar, Sarang Pendharker, Harshad Sahasrabudhe, Douglas Vick, Marek Malac, Rajib Rahman and Zubin Jacob, Extreme ultraviolet plasmonics and Cherenkov radiation in silicon, Optica 5 (2018), p. 1590.
Simon Hettler, Jo Onoda, Robert Wolkow, Jason Pitters, Marek Malac, Charging of electron beam irradiated amorphous carbon thin films at liquid nitrogen temperature, Ultramicroscopy, 196 (2019) 161–166.
Misa Hayashida, Kai Cui, Amin Morteza Najarian, Richard McCreery, Neerushana Jehanathan, Chris Pawlowicz, Sohei Motoki, Masahiro Kawasaki, Yuji Konyuba, Marek Malac, Hole Free Phase Plate Tomography for Materials Sciences Samples, Micron 116 (2019). p. 54 – 60.
Simon Hettler, Lukas Grünewald, Marek Malac, Quasi non-diffractive electron Bessel beams using direct phase masks with applications in electron microscopy, New Journal of Physics, Accepted, 2019.
Darren Homeniuk, Misa Hayashida, Marek Malac, Wavelet Transform Description of Buried Interface Roughness Measured by Electron Tomography, Ultramicroscopy, 194 (2018), 64–77.
M Hayashida, K Cui, M Malac, R Egerton, Thermal Expansion Coefficient Measurement from Electron Diffraction of Amorphous Films in a TEM, Ultramicroscopy, 188 (2018), 8-12.
Misa Hayashida, Shinichi Ogawa, Marek Malac, Evaluation of electron tomography reconstruction methods for interface roughness measurement, Microscopy Research Technique (2018) p. 1-5.
Atsuhiro Kotani, Ken Harada, Marek Malac, Mark Salomons, Misa Hayashida, Shigeo Mori, Observation of FeGe Skyrmions by Hole-Free Phase Plate Electron Microscopy, AIP Advances 8 (2018), p. 055216, Editor's Choice in AIP advances.
S. Hettler, M. Dries, P. Hermann, M. Obermair, D. Gerthsen, L. Pfaffmann, M. Bruns, E. Kanou, M. Beleggia, M. Marko, M. Malac, Charging of carbon thin films in scanning and phase-plate transmission electron microscopy, Ultramicroscopy, 184 (2018), p. 252-266.
M. S. Moreno, J. J. Kas, C. Ma, F. Wang, J. J. Rehr, and M. Malac, Probing electronic structure of stoichiometric and defective SnO2, Phys. Rev. B, 95 (2017), 245206.
Prashant Shekhar, Marek Malac, Vaibhav Gaind, Neda Dalili, Al Meldrum, Zubin Jacob, Momentum-resolved Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy for Mapping the Photonic Density of States, ACS Photonics 4 (2017), 1009.
Simon Hettler, Manuel Dries, Peter Hermann, Martin Obermair, Dagmar Gerthsen, Marek Malac, Hydrocarbon contamination and its impact on phase plate transmission electron microscopy, Micron 96 (2017), p. 38.
Marek Malac, Simon Hettler, Misa Hayashida, Masahiro Kawasaki, Yuji Konyuba, Yoshi Okura, Hirofumi Iijima, Isamu Ishikawa, Marco Beleggia, Computer simulations analysis for determining the polarity of charge generated by high energy electron irradiation of a thin film, Micron 100 (2017), 10 – 22. Editor's choice in Micron.
Misa Hayashida, Marek Malac, 3D size measurements of polystyrene standard particles with 30, 50, 70 and 100 nm diameters on carbon by electron tomography, Measurement Science and Technology 28 (2017), p.087001.
Misa Hayashida, Shinichi Ogawa, Marek Malac, Evaluation of electron tomography reconstruction methods for roughness measurement, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B 33 (2016), 040605.
Misa Hayashida and Marek Malac, Practical electron tomography guide: recent progress and future opportunities, invited review for Micron, 91 (2016), p. 49 - 74.
Misa Hayashida, Kazuhiro Kumagai, Marek Malac, Three dimensional accurate morphology measurements of polystyrene standard particles on silicon substrate by electron tomography, Micron 79 (2015), p. 53-58.
Marek Malac, Tomography for Plasmonics, Nature Nanotechnology News and Views, 10 (5), 386-387, (2015).
Francisco Paraguay-Delgado, Marek Malac, Gabriel Alfonso-Nunez, Structure and composition of individual Pt-Ru nanoparticles supported on multiwall carbon nanotubes, Mater. Res. Express 1 (2014), 045026.
M. Hayashida, M. Malac, M. Bergen, P. Li, Nano-dot markers for electron tomography formed by electron beam-induced deposition: Nanoparticle agglomerates application, Ultramicroscopy, 144 (2014), 50.
M. Hayashida, M. Malac, M. Bergen, RF Egerton, P. Li, Accurate measurement of relative tilt and azimuth angles in electron tomography: a comparison of fiducial marker method with electron diffraction, Rev. Sci. Instruments, 85 (2014), 083704.
R.F Egerton, RA McLeod, M. Malac, Validity of the dipole approximation in TEM-EELS studies, Microscopy Research and Technique, 77 (2014), 773-778.
Robert A. McLeod, Michael Bergen, Marek Malac, Phase measurement error in summation of electron holography series, Ultramicroscopy, 141, (2014), p. 38 – 50.
Shawn Pollard, Marek Malac, Marco Beleggia, Masahiro Kawasaki, Yimei Zhu, Magnetic imaging with a Zernike-type phase plate in a Transmission Electron Microscope, (2013) Applied Physics Letters 102 (19), p. 192401.
Malac, M., Beleggia, M., Kawasaki, M., Li, P., Egerton, R.F. Convenient contrast enhancement by a hole-free phase plate, (2012) Ultramicroscopy, 118, pp. 77-89. link
Wang, X.Y., Lockwood, R., Malac, M., Furukawa, H., Li, P., Meldrum, A. Reconstruction and visualization of nanoparticle composites by transmission electron tomography, (2012) Ultramicroscopy, 113, pp. 96-105. link
Zhang, H.-R., Egerton, R.F., Malac, M. Local thickness measurement through scattering contrast and electron energy-loss spectroscopy, (2012) Micron, 43 (1), pp. 8-15. link
Wang, J., Li, Q., Peng, L.-M., Malac, M. The dielectric response of the H2Ti3O7 nanotube investigated by valence electron energy loss spectroscopy (2009) Applied Physics Letters, 94 (1), art. no. 011915. link
Wang, J., Wang, X.-J., Jiao, Y., Li, Q., Chu, M.-W., Malac, M. From nanoparticle to nanocable: Impact of size and geometrical constraints on the optical modes of Si/SiO2 core/shell nanostructures (2009) Applied Physics Letters, 95 (13), art. no. 133102. link
Moreno, M.S., Wang, F., Malac, M., Kasama, T., Gigola, C.E., Costilla, I., Sánchez, M.D. Electron microscopy study of CeOx -Pd/α -Al2O3 catalysts for methane dry reforming (2009) Journal of Applied Physics, 105 (8), art. no. 083531. link
Malac, M., Beleggia, M., Taniguchi, Y., Egerton, R.F., Zhu, Y. Low-dose performance of parallel-beam nanodiffraction, (2008) Ultramicroscopy, 109 (1), pp. 14-21. link
Malac, M., Beleggia, M., Egerton, R., Zhu, Y. Imaging of radiation-sensitive samples in transmission electron microscopes equipped with Zernike phase plates, (2008) Ultramicroscopy, 108 (2), pp. 126-140. link
Malac, M., Beleggia, M., Egerton, R., Zhu, Y. Bright-field TEM imaging of single molecules: Dream or near future? (2007) Ultramicroscopy, 107 (1), pp. 40-49. link
Egerton, R.F., Li, P., Malac, M. Radiation damage in the TEM and SEM, (2004) Micron, 35 (6), pp. 399-409. link
Malac, M. Egerton, R.F. Observations of the microscopic growth mechanism of pillars and helices formed by glancing-angle thin-film deposition, (2001) Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces and Films, 19 (1), pp. 158-166. link
Malac, M., Egerton, R.F., Brett, M.J., Dick, B. Fabrication of submicrometer regular arrays of pillars and helices, (1999) Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures, 17 (6), pp. 2671-2674.