Lisa McElwee-White

Colonel Allen R. and Margaret G. Crow Professor of Chemistry, University of Florida

Ion-Induced Chemistry of Pt Precursors: Precursor Reactions and Spontaneous Formation of Multi-Layered PtCx Films

A UHV surface science approach employing in situ XPS and MS has been used to study how the identity of incident ions Z+ (Z = He, Ne, Ar, H2 or D2) influences ion-induced deposition from adsorbed MeCpPtMe3 and sputtering of the resulting PtCx films.

About Lisa McElwee-White

Lisa McElwee-White is the Colonel Allen R. and Margaret G. Crow Professor of Chemistry at the University of Florida. She completed her Ph.D. at Caltech and began her independent career at Stanford as an Assistant Professor in 1985. She moved to UF in 1993 and served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry 2017-2024. Her research interests center around mechanism-based design of organometallic precursors for the deposition of inorganic thin films and nanostructures by various techniques wherenprecursor decomposition is driven thermally, photochemically or by charged particle (electron or ion) beam irradiation.