Prof David Jesson - Researcher Profile

Biography

David works in the School of Physics at Monash University as a Professor

 

 

David’s research areas of interest are:

 

• Professor David Jesson has made significant contributions to electron microscopy, diffraction physics and surface physics. His current research interests include the use of Low Energy Electron Microscopy (LEEM) to obtain video movies of nanoscale surface dynamics. Of particular interest is the study of quantum dot self organisation and the study of how interfaces actually form during the molecular beam epitaxy of III-V semiconductor systems. This is centred around a new LEEM instrument at Monash which is equipped to deposit atoms on surfaces and image, in real-time, how nanoscale features are created. From a basic physics perspective, this facilitates the development of new theories to understand self-organisation processes. It also allows the development of new strategies for improving semiconductor device quality and generating nanostructures for applications in photonics and quantum information processing.
• Additional work in Professor Jesson’s group involves the development of Lloyd’s Mirror photoemission electron microscopy to reconstruct surface topography and obtain 3D movies of dynamic events on surfaces.

Keywords

Electron microscopy, Diffraction physics, Surface physics

Qualifications

ACADEMIC PRACTICE

Institution: Heriot Watt University

Year awarded: 2002

PHYSICS

Institution: Bristol University

Year awarded: 1987

PHYSICS

Institution: Bristol University

Year awarded: 1981

Publications

Book Chapters

Jesson, D., Tang, W., 2010, Surface electron microscopy of Ga droplet dynamics on GaAs (001), in Microscopy: Science, Technology, Applications and Education, eds A. Mendez-Vilas and J. Diaz, Formatex, Spain, pp. 1608-1619.

Journal Articles

Zheng, C., Tang, W., Jesson, D., 2012, Asymmetric coalescence of reactively wetting droplets, Applied Physics Letters [P], vol 100, issue 7, American Institute of Physics, College Park USA, pp. 1-3.

Kennedy, S.M., Hjort, M., Mandl, B., Marsell, E., Zakharov, A.A., Mikkelsen, A., Paganin, D., Jesson, D., 2012, Characterizing the geometry of InAs nanowires using mirror electron microscopy, Nanotechnology [P], vol 23, issue 12, Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd, Bristol UK, pp. 1-9.

Kennedy, S.M., Zheng, C., Fu, J., Tang, W., Paganin, D., Jesson, D., 2012, Electron caustic lithography, AIP Advances [E], vol 2, issue 2, American Institute of Physics, Melville NY USA, pp. 1-6.

Zheng, C., Tang, W., Jesson, D., 2012, Relief of surface stress at steps during displacive adsorption of As on Si(111), Applied Physics Letters [P], vol 100, issue 20, American Institute of Physics, College Park USA, pp. 1-4.

Kennedy, S., Jesson, D., Paganin, D., 2011, Laplacian and caustic imaging theories of MEM work-function contrast, IBM Journal of Research and Development [P], vol 55, issue 4, I B M Corporation, USA, pp. 348-355.

Kennedy, S., Zheng, C., Tang, W., Paganin, D., Jesson, D., 2011, Addendum. Laplacian image contrast in mirror electron microscopy, Proceedings Of The Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical And Engineering Sciences [P], vol 467, issue 2135, The Royal Society Publishing, UK, pp. 3332-3341.

Kennedy, S., Zheng, C., Tang, W., Paganin, D., Jesson, D., 2011, Caustic imaging of gallium droplets using mirror electron microscopy, Ultramicroscopy [P], vol 111, issue 5, Elsevier BV, The Netherlands, pp. 356-363.

Tang, W., Zheng, C., Zhou, Z., Jesson, D., Tersoff, J., 2011, Ga droplet surface dynamics during Langmuir evaporation of GaAs, IBM Journal of Research and Development [P], vol 55, issue 4, I B M Corporation, USA, pp. 1-7.

Zhou, Z., Zheng, C., Tang, W., Jesson, D., Tersoff, J., 2010, Congruent evaporation temperature of GaAs(001) controlled by As flux, Applied Physics Letters [P], vol 97, issue 12, American Institute of Physics, Melville NY USA, pp. 1-3.

Tersoff, J., Jesson, D., Tang, W., 2010, Decomposition controlled by surface morphology during Langmuir evaporation of GaAs, Physical Review Letters [P], vol 105, issue 3, American Physical Society, USA, pp. 035702-1-034702-4.

Kennedy, S., Zheng, C., Tang, W., Paganin, D., Jesson, D., 2010, Laplacian image contrast in mirror electron microscopy, Proceedings Of The Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical And Engineering Sciences [P], vol 466, issue 2122, The Royal Society, London England, pp. 2857-2874.

Yu, R.P., Kennedy, S.M., Paganin, D., Jesson, D., 2010, Phase retrieval low energy electron microscopy, Micron [P], vol 41, Elsevier, UK, pp. 232-238.

Zhou, Z., Tang, W., Jesson, D., Tersoff, J., 2010, Time evolution of the Ga droplet size distribution during Langmuir evaporation of GaAs(001), Applied Physics Letters [P], vol 97, issue 19, American Institute of Physics, Melville NY USA, pp. 1-3.

Tang, W., Jesson, D., Pavlov, K.M., Morgan, M.J., Usher, B.F., 2009, Ga droplet morphology on GaAs(001) studied by Lloyd's mirror photoemission electron microscopy, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter [P], vol 21, Institute of Physics Publishing, UK, pp. 314022-1-314022-5.

Ruben, G., Jesson, D., Paganin, D., Smith, A.E., 2009, Kinematic simulation of convergent beam low-energy electron diffraction patterns, Optik [P], vol 120, Elsevier GmbH, Germany, pp. 401-408.

Tersoff, J., Jesson, D., Tang, W., 2009, Running droplets of gallium from evaporation of gallium arsenide, Science [P], vol 324, American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA, pp. 236-238.

Kennedy, S.M., Schofield, N., Paganin, D., Jesson, D., 2009, Wave optical treatment of surface step contrast in low-energy electron microscopy, Surface Review and Letters [P], vol 16, issue 6, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, pp. 855-867.

Kennedy, S.M., Paganin, D.M., Jesson, D.E., 2008, Transition between short and long wavelength limits in quantum mechanical reflection from a linear potential, American Journal of Physics, vol 76, issue 2, American Association of Physics Teachers, USA, pp. 158-162.

Jesson, D.E., Pavlov, K.M., Morgan, M.J., Usher, B.F., 2007, Imaging surface topography using Lloyd's Mirror in Photoemission Electron Microscopy, Physical Review Letters, vol 99, The American Physical Society, USA, pp. 016103-1-016103-4.

Munt, T.P., Jesson, D., Shchukin, V.A., Bimberg, D., 2007, Metastable states of surface nanostructure arrays studied using a Fokker-Planck equation, Physical Review B, vol 75, issue 8, The American Physical Society, USA, pp. 085422-1-085422-12.

Pohl, U.W., Potschke, K., Schliwa, A., Lifshits, M.B., Shchukin, V.A., Jesson, D.E., Bimberg, D., 2006, Formation and evolution of multimodal size distributions of InAs/GaAs quantum dots, Physica E, vol 32, issue 2, Elsevier, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 9-13.

Kennedy, S.M., Jesson, D.E., Morgan, M.J., Smith, A.E., Barker, P.F., 2006, Phase sensitivity of slow electrons to interactions with weak potentials, Physical Review A, vol 74, issue 4, The American Physical Society, USA, pp. 044701-1-044701-4.

Remediakis, I.N., Jesson, D.E., Kelires, P.C., 2006, Probing the structure and energetics of dislocation cores in SiGe alloys through Monte Carlo simulations, Physical Review Letters, vol 97, issue 25, The American Physical Society, USA, pp. 255502-1-255502-4.

Pohl, U.W., Potschke, K., Lifshits, M.B., Shchukin, V.A., Jesson, D., Bimberg, D., 2006, Self-organized formation of shell-like InAs/GaAs quantum dot ensembles, Applied Surface Science, vol 252, issue 15, Elsevier BV, Netherland, pp. 5555-5558.

Denker, U., Jesson, D.E., 2005, Critical misfit for dislocation stability in self-assembled islands, Physica Status Solidi B-Basic Solid State Physics [P], vol 242, issue 12, Wiley - VCH Verlag GmBH & Co. KGaA, Germany, pp. 2455-2461.

Pohl, U.W., Potschke, K., Schliwa, A., Guffarth, F., Bimberg, D., Zakharov, N.D., Werner, P., Lifshits, M.B., Shchukin, V.A., Jesson, D.E., 2005, Evolution of a multimodal distribution of self-organized InAs/GaAs quantum dots, Physical Review B, vol 72, issue 24, American Physical Society, USA, pp. 245332-1-245332-7.

Shchukin, V.A., Munt, T.P., Jesson, D.E., Bimberg, D., 2005, Instability to ostwald ripening of an array of coherently strained faceted ridges, Physical Review B, vol 71, issue 11, American Physical Society, USA, pp. 113407-1-113407-4.

Denker, U., Rastelli, A., Stoffel, M., Tersoff, J., Katsaros, G., Costantini, G., Kern, K., Jin-Phillipp, N.Y., Jesson, D.E., Schmidt, O.G., 2005, Lateral motion of SiGe islands driven by surface-mediated alloying, Physical Review Letters, vol 94, issue 21, The American Physical Society, USA, pp. 216103-1-216103-4.

Vine, D.J., Jesson, D.E., Morgan, M.J., Shchukin, V.A., Bimberg, D., 2005, Shape transitions of metastable surface nanostructures, Physical Review B, vol 72, issue 24, American Physical Society, USA, pp. 241304-1-241304-4.

Shchukin, V.A., Bimberg, D., Munt, T.P., Jesson, D.E., 2005, Stability of an hexagonal array of coherently strained conical islands against Ostwald ripening, Annals of Physics, vol 320, issue 1, Academic Press, USA, pp. 237-256.

Jesson, D.E., Munt, T.P., Lou, C., 2004, Critical thickness for nanostructure self-Assembly during Stranski-Krastanow growth, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, vol 43, issue 10, The Japan Society of Applied Physics, Japan, pp. 7230-7231.

Shchukin, V.A., Bimberg, D., Munt, T.P., Jesson, D.E., 2004, Elastic interaction and self-relaxation energies of coherently strained conical islands, Physical Review B, vol 70, issue 8, The American Physical Society, USA, pp. 085416-1-085416-10.

Munt, T.P., Jesson, D.E., Shchukin, V.A., Bimberg, D., 2004, Manipulating the size distributions of quantum dots associated with strain-renormalized surface energy, Applied Physics Letters, vol 85, issue 10, American Institute of Physics, USA, pp. 1784-1786.

Jesson, D.E., 2004, Solutions of the Fokker-Planck equation describing the metastability of surface nanostructure arrays, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, vol 58, issue 2, Royal Society of South Africa, South Africa, pp. 141-144.

Jesson, D.E., Munt, T.P., Shchukin, V.A., Bimberg, D., 2004, Suppression of coalescence during the coarsening of quantum dot arrays, Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics [P], vol 69, issue 4, The American Physical Society, USA, pp. 041302-1-041302-4.

Jesson, D.E., Munt, T.P., Shchukin, V.A., Bimberg, D., 2004, Tunable metastability of surface nanostructure arrays, Physical Review Letters, vol 92, issue 11, The Americal Physical Society, USA, pp. 115503-1-115503-4.

Shchukin, V.A., Bimberg, D., Munt, T.P., Jesson, D.E., 2003, Metastability of Ultradense Arrays of Quantum Dots, Physical Review Letters, vol 90, issue 7, The American Physical Society, USA, pp. 076102-1-076102-4.

Jesson, D.E., Kastner, M., Voigtlander, B., 2000, Direct Observation of Subcritical Fluctuations during the Formation of Strained Semiconductor Islands, Physical Review Letters, vol 84, issue 2, The American Physical Society, USA, pp. 330-333.

Conference Proceedings

Denker, U., Jesson, D.E., Stoffel, M., Rastelli, A., Schmidt, O.G., 2005, Investigating the evolution of dislocated SiGe islands by selective wet-chemical etching, Physics of Semiconductors: 27th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS-27), 26/07/2004 to 30/07/2004, American Institute of Physics, Melville USA, pp. 599-600.

Lifshits, M.B., Shchukin, V.A., Bimberg, D., Jesson, D.E., 2005, Novel growth mechanism of strained islands: multimodal closed-shell distribution of quantum dots, 13th International Symposium "Nanostructures: Physics and Technology", 20/06/2005 to 25/06/2005, Ioffe Institute, Russia, pp. 1-2.

Munt, T.P., Jesson, D.E., Shchukin, V.A., Bimberg, D., 2004, Modelling the Coalescence, Ordering and Stability of Quantum Dot Arrays, Modeling and Simulating Materials Nanoworld, 30/05/2004 to 04/06/2004, Techna Group, Italy, pp. 193-200.

Jesson, D., Munt, T.P., Shchukin, V.A., Bimberg, D., 2004, Tunable Metastability of surface nanostructure Arrays, Modelling and Simulating Materials Nanoworld, Techna Group, Italy, pp. 209-216.

Munt, T.P., Jesson, D.E., Shchukin, V.A., Bimberg, D., 2002, Modelling the DynamicalEvolution of Quantum Dot Arrays, 26th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, Physics of Semiconductors, 29/07/2002 to 02/08/2002, Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol UK, pp. 1-8.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Completed Supervision

Student:

Kennedy, S.

Program of Study:

Image contrast in mirror and low energy electron microscopy. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Jesson, D (Joint-Co), Paganin, D (Joint).

Student:

Zheng, C.

Program of Study:

Development and application of a III-V surface electron microscopy. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Jesson, D (Main), Tang, W (Associate).

Student:

Zhou, Z.

Program of Study:

Droplet epitaxy of GaAs studied by in situ surface electron microscopy. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Jesson, D (Main), Tang, W (Associate).