Siu-Ching Lui, came to PENN to do a thesis in the Material Science and Engineering department but ended up working jointly with myself, Professor Bill Graham (MS&E), and David Zehner (ORNL) on a very interesting problem associated with the physical properties of the ordered alloy NiAl. Her thesis work combined surface and bulk probes to determine both the electronic and vibrational properties of single crystals of NiAl and involved close coupling with theorists. Many important papers resulted from her thesis titled, "Electronic and Vibrational Properties of Nickel-Aluminum Alloy."

  • “Electronic Structure of NiAl,” S.-C. Lui, J. W. Davenport, E. W. Plummer, D. M. Zehner, and G. W. Fernando, Phys Rev. B 42, 1582 (1990).
  • “Atomic and Electronic Structure of the NiAl(111) Surface,” M. H. Kang, E. J. Mele, S.‑C. Lui, and E. W. Plummer, Phys. Rev. B 41, 4920 (1990).
  • “Surface States on NiAl(110),” S.-C. Lui, M.-H. Kang, G. Mele, E. W. Plummer, and D. Zehner, Phys Rev. B 39, 13149 (1989).
  • “Electronic and Vibrational Properties of Single-Crystal Surfaces of NiAl,” S.-C. Lui, J. M. Mundenar, E. W. Plummer, M. Mostoller, R. Nicklow, D. M. Zehner, W. K. Ford, and J. Erskine, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 83, 47 (1987).

After graduation she joined her husband working at Allied Chemical in NJ.

 


InWhan Lyo
In-Whan Lyo and Siu-Ching Liu at U-12 NSLS. Siu-Ching and In-Whan repairing angle resolved analyzer.

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