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
- external pageToF-SIMS of Polyphosphate Glassescall_made
Maura Crobu, Antonella Rossi, Nicholas D. Spencer
Surface and Interface Analysis; 2013; 45(1) pp 579-582 - external pageChain-Length-Identification Strategy in Zinc Polyphosphate Glasses by Means of XPS and ToF-SIMScall_made
Maura Crobu, Antonella Rossi, Filippo Mangolini, Nicholas D. Spencer
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry; 2012; 403(5) pp 1415-1432 - 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 - external pageFriction measurements on contact lenses in their operating environmentcall_made
M. Roba, E.G. Duncan, G.A. Hill, N.D. Spencer, S.G.P. Tosatti
Tribology Letters; 2011; 44(3) pp 387-397