Overview

I started working in the Kandel Lab at Notre Dame in June of 2010. I work primarily under Becky Q, a graduate student who assigns me work and answers any questions. At first, I worked on the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), but I have since shifted to the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). My work primarily consists of scanning samples of Au(III) before they are bombarded with alpha-particles from a Polonium-210 source, and then scanning them again after the bombardment. The goal is to identify the impact that the particles have on the surface layers of Au(III).