Farid el Gabaly is now Dr. El Gabaly after successfully defending his PhD thesis. The full thesis in PDF written in english is now available for download (32Mb). [More]

Our work on Co/Ru has been selected as a Physical Review Focus story. [More]

We can use electron reflectivity at low energies (5eV) as a precise probe on adatom densities. Through its use, it is easy to determine the phase diagram of 2d-adatom gas and condensed islands. [More]

Is the hcp(0001) surface three-fold symmetric or six-fold? With LEEM we directly adquire the diffraction pattern from a single terrace, which is three-fold. Averaging over multiple terraces gives the commonly observed six-fold pattern. To see more, go to http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601475 [More]

We found two spin-reorientation transitions in the first three atomic layers of Co grown layer by layer on Ru(0001). [More]

Our work "The Importance of Threading Dislocations on the Motion of Domain Boundaries in Thin Films" is published in Science 308, 1303 (27 May 2005) [More]

2005/01/24 The STM is working UHV (1.6x 10-10 torr). Atomic resolution on O/Ru (2x2) have been observed.

2005/01/19 The STM is working nicely in vacuum (1.6x 10-10 torr). Steps of well cleaned Ru(0001) observed.

In October 2004, the STM has been finally working in air. Work is in progress to have it running in UHV (image is Ru) [More]