Presidential Young Investigator Award

德宾博士已被选为总统青年 调查员 他积极从事x射线的基础研究 分子束外延生长的超晶格。 研究中 他将为国家科学基金会进行的项目 研究包括x射线和电子的应用 动态衍射现象对晶体研究的影响 表面。 整个程序基于导出结构 来自散射X射线的信息和来自 晶体波场激发，在动力学的背景下， 衍射理论 通过了解裸露的晶体表面， 真空，然后通过缓慢加入 不同的原子种类， 可以得到外延生长。 这些知识对于 制造新材料的性能设计在一个 原子尺度

Dr. Durbin has been selected as a Presidential Young Investigator. He is active in fundamental research on x-ray superlattices grown by molecular beam epitaxy. In the research program for the National Science Foundation he will pursue studies to include the application of x-ray and electron dynamical diffraction phenomena to the investigation of crystal surfaces. The entire program is based on deriving structural information from the scattered x-ray and electron yields from crystal-wave field excitations, within the context of dynamical diffraction theory. By obtaining an understanding of bare crystal surfaces in vacuum, and then the structures obtained by slowly adding a different atomic species to that surface, the mechanics of epitaxial growth can be derived. This knowledge is essential for fabrication of new materials with properties engineered on an atomic scale.