Gayle Thayer

Gayle Thayer received her Ph.D. degree in September, 2001. Her dissertation title was "The Role of Stress in Thin Alloy Films: A Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Investigation of CoAg/Ru(0001)."

She won the prestigious Wayne B. Nottingham Prize at the Physical Electronics Conference, Taos, NM, June 11-13, 2001, for best surface science thesis presented at the conference.

Gayle is now a Staff Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Publications

• G. E. Thayer, V. Ozolins, A. K. Schmid, J. L. Stevens, S. Chiang, R. Q. Hwang. Equilibrated Surface Alloys and the Influence of Strain. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings Volume 619, Recent Developments in Oxide and Metal Epitaxy-Theory and Experiment, ed. M. Yeadon, S. Chiang., R. F. C. Farrow, J. W. Evans, O. Auciello, Materials Research Society, Warrendale, PA, pp. 85-89 (2000).
• G. E. Thayer, V. Ozolins, A. K. Schmid, N. C. Bartelt, M. Asta, J. J. Hoyt, S. Chiang, and R. Q. Hwang. Role of stress in thin film alloy thermodynamics: Competition between alloying and dislocation formation. Physical Review Letters, 86, 660-663 (2001).
• T. F. Johnson, S. Chiang, Y. Sato, D. A. Arena, S. A. Morton, M. Hochstrasser, J. G. Tobin, J. D. Shine, J. A. Giacomo, G. E. Thayer, D. P. Land, and X. D. Zhu, X-ray Magnetic Linear Dichoism of Fe-Ni Alloys on Cu(111). Materials Research Society Proceedings, Applications of Ferromagnetic and Optical Materials, Storage and Magnetoelectronics, ed. W.C. Black, H.J. Borg, K. Bussmann, L. Hesselink, S.A. Majetich, E.S. Murdock, B.J.H. Stadler, M. Vazquez, M. Wuttig, J.Q. Xiao, Vol. 674, U7.9.1 (2001).
• G. E. Thayer, N.C. Bartelt, V. Ozolins, A.K. Schmid, S. Chiang, and R.Q. Hwang, Linking Surface Stress to Surface Structure: Measurement of Atomic Strain in a Surface Alloy Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. Physical Review Letters, 89, 036101 (2002).

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