Dr. Santhana Eswara Moorthy

Postdoc

Contact

Santhana Eswara Moorthy Phone: +49 (0)731/50-22957  Room: N27 / 2.079

Research interest

• Electron Microscopy: Low-Voltage Microscopy, HR-TEM, STEM, EELS, in-situ experiments
• Materials Science: Chemistry and Physics of Inorganic Materials, Materials Technology

Research project

• Strom aus Luft und Li - Effiziente bifunktionelle Sauerstoffelektroden (BMBF)
• SALVE

Academic background

PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, 2008, University of Virginia, USA

Academic Honors:
Alan T. Gwathmey Award for Most Outstanding Dissertation Research among all physical sciences disciplines in the University of Virginia, 2008

Previous Affiliation:
Groupe STEM, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris Sud, Orsay, FRANCE

Publications

1. S. K. Eswara Moorthy, M. I. Mendelev and J. M. Howe: The Influence of Spatial and Temporal Averaging on Interpretation of HRTEM Images of Solid-Liquid Interfaces, Ultramicroscopy, 124, 40–45 (2013)
2. S. K. Eswara Moorthy, O. Rousseau, M. Viret and M. Kociak: Nanoscale Chemical and Structural Characterization of Transient Metallic Nanowires using Aberration-Corrected STEM-EELS, Nano Letters 12, 2732-2739 (2012)
3. S. K. Eswara Moorthy and J. M. Howe: Temperature Dependence of Plasmon Energy in Liquid and Solid Phases of Pure Al and of an Al-Si alloy Using Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy, J. App. Phys., 110, 043515 (2011)
4. S. K. Eswara Moorthy and J. M. Howe: Kinetic Analyses of the Growth and Dissolution Phenomena of Primary Si and α-Al in Partially Molten Al-Si (-Cu-Mg) Alloy Particles Using In-situ TEM, Metall. Mat. Trans. A., 42A, 1667-74, 2010
5. Y. Liao, S.K. Eswara Moorthy and L.D. Marks: Direct Observation of Tribological Recrystallization, Phil. Mag. Lett., 90(3), 219–223, 2010
6. Y. Wang, S.K. Eswara Moorthy, L.J. Sherry, J.A. Dieringer, J.P. Camden, G.C. Schatz, R.P. Van Duyne and L.D. Marks: A Method to Correlate Optical Properties and Structures of Metallic Nanoparticle, Ultramicroscopy, 109, 1110–1113, 2009.
7. S. K. Eswara Moorthy, J. M. Howe and G. Muralidharan: In-situ Determination of the Nanoscale Chemistry and Behavior of Solid-Liquid Systems, Science, 318, 1437-1440, 2007. 
8. S. K. EswaraMoorthy, J. M. Howe, F. Phillipp: A Shield for Reducing the Thermal Signal from Heating Holders During In Situ Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy Analysis, Microsc. Microanal., 13, 291, 2007
9. P. Reinke, J. Howe and S. Eswara Moorthy: Understanding the Role of Annealing Temperatures and Ion Energy in the Growth of Au Clusters, J. Appl. Phys., 100, 024303, 2006

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