Mary H. Upton

  I am a graduate student working with T.-C. Chiang in the physics department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  The focus of our group's research is the electronic and physical structure of thin films and surfaces. 
 

A brief and general research summary

  Curriculum Vita in pdf

Thesis in pdf

Defense in pdf

 

Publications:

M. H. Upton, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang, "Reply to Comment on 'Thermal Stability and Electronic Structure of Pb films on Si(111)'", Physical Review Letters 94, 079702 (2005).  pdf
M. H. Upton, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang, "Unusual Band Dispersion in Pb Films on Si", Physical Review B 71, 033403 (2005). pdf

M. H. Upton, C. M. Wei, M. Y. Chou, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang, "Thermal Stability and Electronic Structure of Pb films on Si(111)", Physical Review Letters 93, 026802 (2004).  pdf
M. H. Upton, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang, "Absolute Determination of Film Thickness from Photoemission: Application to Atomically Uniform Films of Pb on Si ", Applied Physics Letters 85, 1235 (2004). pdf
 

Selected Presentations:

M. H. Upton, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang, "Properties of Atomically Uniform Pb Films on Si", Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (2005). pdf
M. H. Upton and T.-C. Chiang, "Quantum Properties of Atomically Uniform Lead Films on Silicon", Physical Electronics Conference, Davis, CA (2004). pdf
 

Address:

Mary H. Upton
Department of Physics
1110 West Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801-3080
ph: 217.333.2751
fax: 217.244.2278
mupton@uiuc.edu