Brief career summary

Research Interests

At Flinders University I was involved in the first series of electron momentum spectroscopy (EMS) measurements using a spectrometer with two-dimensional detection techniques (e.g. Phys. Rev. B 50 5635 (1994), Phys. Rev B 51 3449 (1995), J. Phys. Condens. Matter 7 279 (1995)). The unified approach of EMS for the study of molecules and solids helped elucidate and illustrate the links between the electronic structure of both cases (Rev. Mod. Phys. 67 713 (1995), Am. J. of Phys. 65 544 (1967)). A simulation method to established effects of multiple scattering on the EMS data was developed (Phys. Rev. B 54 5946 (1996)). It became obvious that EMS data could only be described correctly by models going beyond a mean-field level (J. Phys. Condens. Matter 11 3654 (1999)). A new spectrometer was designed and constructed at the ANU, based on the Flinders experience, aiming to reduce multiple scattering (Rev. Sci. Instrum. 71 3831 (2000)). This made a more quantitative study of the many-body effects possible (Phys. Rev. B 65 033108 (2001). Phys Rev. B. 66 155414 (2002)). The quality of the electron optics of the ANU spectrometer was so good that it revealed the effects of vibrations in elastic (not EMS) scattering spectra (Phys. Rev. A 65 012703, Phys. Rev. Lett. . 91 057403 (2003)).

Selected Publications

1. Auger line shape in alloys. M. Vos, D. van de Marel and G.A. Sawatzky, Physical Review B 29 3073-3084 (1984).
2. Photoemission studies of interface chemistry and Schottky barriers for ZnSe(100) with Ti, Co, Cu, Pd, Ag, Au, Ce, and Al. M. Vos, F. Xu, Steven G. Anderson, J.H. Weaver and H. Cheng, Physical Review B 39, 10744-10752 (1989).
3. Selective amorphisation of ion-bombarded SiGe strained-layer superlattices. M. Vos, C. Wu, I.V. Mitchell, T.E. Jackman, J. -M. Baribeau and J. McCaffrey, Applied Physics Letters 58, 951-953 (1991).
4. Ion-beam-induced damage in silicon studied using variable-energy positrons, Rutherford backscattering and infrared absorption. P.J. Simpson, M. Vos, I.V. Mitchell, C. Wu and P.J. Schultz, Physical Review B 44, 12180-12188 (1991).
5. Observing electron motion in solids , M.Vos and I.E, McCarthy Review of Modern Physics, 67, 713-723 (1995).
6. Monte Carlo simulations of (e,2e) experiments in solids, M. Vos and M. Bottema, Physical Review B 54, 5946-5954 (1996).
7. Clear evidence of electron correlation effects in the spectral momentum density of graphite. M. Vos, A.S. Kheifets and E. Weigold, Physical Review B 63 033108 1-4 (2001).
8. Observing atom motion by electron-atom Compton scattering. M. Vos, Phys. Rev A, 65 012703 1-5 (2002).
9. Quantitative measurement of the spectral function of aluminum and lithium by electron momentum spectroscopy, M. Vos, A.S. Kheifets, V.A. Sashin, E. Weigold, M. Usuda, F. Aryasetiawan, Phys. Rev. B, 66 155414 1-11 (2002).
10. Comparison of electron and neutron Compton scattering from entangled protons in a solid polymer film, C.A. Chatzidimitriou-Dreismann, M. Vos, and C. Kleiner and T. Abdul-Redah, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 057403 1-4 (2003).

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