U.S.-France Cooperative Research: Atomic Scale Studies of the Dissolution of Thin Metallic Films: Formation of Surface Alloy Phase

这项为期三年的美法材料科学合作研究奖涉及西北大学的David Seidman领导的一个研究小组和法国马赛地中海大学Guy Treglia的研究实验室。该奖项为塞德曼博士、他的同事和一名研究生提供旅费和生活费。这项研究的目的是在原子尺度上研究选定的金属薄膜的溶解动力学和表面合金相的形成。该项目利用了法国研究人员的理论模型，该模型展示了从电子结构得出的表面附近的浓度分布。研究人员建议通过应用原子探针场离子显微镜来研究这一物理现象。

This three-year award for U.S.-France cooperative research in materials science involves a research group led by David Seidman at Northwestern University and the research laboratory of Guy Treglia at the Universite de Mediterranee in Marseille, France. The award provides travel support and living expenses to Dr. Seidman, his associates, and a graduate student. The objective of the research is to investigate, on an atomic scale, the kinetics of the dissolution of selected thin metallic films and the formation of the surface alloy phase. The project takes advantage of the French investigators' theoretical model which demonstrates a concentration profile near a surface that is derived from the electronic structure. The investigators propose to study this physical phenomenon through the application of atom-probe field-ion microscopy.