Advanced Surface Analysis

While changing surfaces is, perhaps, the major activity at LSST, the ability to understand how those surfaces have been changed is equally important, and for this reason, we have developed a number of new surface-analytical approaches. These include the extended surface forces apparatus, an infrared method for in situ characterization of sliding, lubricated contacts, and approaches to nanochemical imaging, by means of atomic force microscopy.

References

  1. external page ToF-SIMS of Polyphosphate Glasses
    Maura Crobu, Antonella Rossi, Nicholas D. Spencer
    Surface and Interface Analysis; 2013; 45(1) pp 579-582
  2. external page Chain-Length-Identification Strategy in Zinc Polyphosphate Glasses by Means of XPS and ToF-SIMS
    Maura Crobu, Antonella Rossi, Filippo Mangolini, Nicholas D. Spencer
    Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry; 2012; 403(5) pp 1415-1432
  3. In Situ Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR/FT-IR) Tribometry: a Powerful Tool for Investigating Tribochemistry at the Lubricant-Substrate Interface
    Filippo Mangolini, Antonella Rossi, and Nicholas D. Spencer
    Tribology Letters; 2011; 45(1) pp 207-218
  4. external page Friction measurements on contact lenses in their operating environment
    M. Roba, E.G. Duncan, G.A. Hill, N.D. Spencer, S.G.P. Tosatti
    Tribology Letters; 2011; 44(3) pp 387-397