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Beamline 1.4 Staff

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Michael C. Martin	Staff Scientist	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	510-495-2231
Hans A. Bechtel	Senior Scientific Engineering Associate	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	510-486-7519

Beamline 1.4 Publications

Publications

See our complete list of publications from work done at the ALS infrared beamlines.

Here are a few recent selected publications:

"Controlling inelastic light scattering quantum pathways in graphene," Chi-Fan Chen, Cheol-Hwan Park, Bryan W. Boudouris, Jason Horng, Baisong Geng, Caglar Girit, Alex Zettl, Michael F. Crommie, Rachel A. Segalman, Steven G. Louie, Feng Wang, Nature, doi:10.1038/nature09866 (2011).

"Deep-Sea Oil Plume Enriches Indigenous Oil-Degrading Bacteria," Terry C. Hazen, Eric A. Dubinsky, Todd Z. DeSantis, Gary L. Andersen, Yvette M. Piceno, Navjeet Singh, Janet K. Jansson, Alexander Probst, Sharon C. Borglin, Julian L. Fortney, William T. Stringfellow, Markus Bill, M.E. Conrad, Lauren M. Tom, Krystle L. Chavarria, Thana R. Alusi, Regina Lamendella, Dominique C. Joyner, Chelsea Spier, Jacob Baelum, Manfred Auer, Marcin L. Zemla, Romy Chakraborty, Eric L. Sonnenthal, Patrik D-haeseleer, Hoi-Ying N. Holman, Shariff Osman, Zhenmei Lu, Joy D. Van Nostrand, Ye Deng, Jizhong Zhou, Olivia U. Mason, Science, 330(6001), 204-208 (2010).

"A tunable phonon–exciton Fano system in bilayer graphene," Tsung-Ta Tang, Yuanbo Zhang, Cheol-Hwan Park, Baisong Geng, Caglar Girit, Zhao Hao, Michael C. Martin, Alex Zettl, Michael F. Crommie, Steven G. Louie, Y. Ron Shen, Feng Wang, Nature Nanotechnology, 5, 32-36 (2010).

"Recent applications and current trends in analytical chemistry using synchrotron-based Fourier-transform infrared microspectroscopy," Michael C. Martin, Ulrich Schade, Philippe Lerch, Paul Dumas, Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 29(6), 453-463 (2010).

"Synchrotron IR Spectromicroscopy: Chemistry of Living Cells," Hoi-Ying N. Holman, Hans A. Bechtel, Zhao Hao, Michael C. Martin, Analytical Chemistry, 82(21), 8757-8765 (2010).

"Real-time molecular monitoring of chemical environment in obligate anaerobes during oxygen adaptive response," Hoi-Ying N. Holman, Eleanor Wozei, Zhang Lin, Luis R. Comolli, David A. Ball, Sharon C. Borglin, Matthew W. Fields, Terry C. Hazen, Kenneth H. Downing, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(31), 12599-12604 (2009).

"Direct observation of a widely tunable bandgap in bilayer graphene," Yuanbo Zhang, Tsung-Ta Tang, Caglar Girit, Zhao Hao, Michael C. Martin, Alex Zettl, Michael F. Crommie, Y. Ron Shen, Feng Wang, Nature, 459, 820-823 (2009).

"Band Structure Asymmetry of Bilayer Graphene Revealed by Infrared Spectroscopy," Zhiqiang Li, Eric A. Henriksen, Z. Jiang, Zhao Hao, Michael C. Martin, P. Kim, H.L. Stormer, Dimitri N. Basov, Physical Review Letters, 102, 037403 (2009).

"Helium and Neon Abundances and Compositions in Cometary Matter," Bernard Marty, Russell L. Palma, Robert O. Pepin, Laurent Zimmermann, Dennis J. Schlutter, Peter G. Burnard, Andrew J. Westphal, Sasa Bajt, Richard H. Becker, Jacob E. Simones, Science, 319(5859), 75-78 (2008).

"Mid-Infrared Reflectivity of Experimental Atheromas," Hoi-Ying N. Holman, Kathy Bjornstad, Michael C. Martin, Wayne R. McKinney, Eleanor A. Blakely, Francis G. Blankenberg, J. Biomedical Optics, 13, 030503 (2008).

"Three-dimensional optical metamaterial with a negative refractive index," Jason Valentine, Shuang Zhang, Thomas Zentgraf, Erick Ulin-Avila, Dentcho A. Genov, Guy Bartal, Xiang Zhang, Nature, 454(7206), 376-380 (2008).

"Extracellular Proteins Limit the Dispersal of Biogenic Nanoparticles," John W. Moreau, Peter K. Weber, Michael C. Martin, Benjamin Gilbert, Ian D. Hutcheon, Jillian F. Banfield, Science, 316, 1600-1603 (2007).

"Light quasiparticles dominate electronic transport in molecular crystal field-effect transistors," Zhiqiang Li, V. Podzorov, N. Sai, Michael C. Martin, M.E. Gershenson, M. Di Ventra, Dimitri N. Basov, Physical Review Letters, 99, 016403 (2007).

"Synchrotron Radiation Infrared Spectromicroscopy: A Non-Invasive Molecular Probe for Biogeochemical Processes," Hoi-Ying N. Holman, Michael C. Martin, Advances in Agronomy, 90, 79-127 (2006).

"Tailored terahertz pulses from a laser-modulated electron beam," John M. Byrd, Zhao Hao, Michael C. Martin, David S. Robin, Fernando Sannibale, Robert W. Schoenlein, A.A. Zholents, Max S. Zolotorev, Physical Review Letters, 96, 164801 (2006).