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Joshua M. Pomeroy

Contact National Institute of Standards and Technology 100 Bureau Dr., Stop 8421 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8421 Voice: 301-975-5508 FAX: 301-975-5485 Email: joshua.pomeroy@nist.gov Education: Ph.D. 2002, Physics, Cornell University Advisors: Prof. Joel D. Brock and Prof. Barbara Cooper M.S. 2000, Physics, Cornell University B.A. 1997, Physics, Boston University Advisors: Bennett Goldberg and Selim Unlu

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Professional Employment:

June, 2003 - Present		Physicist, Plasma Radiation Group Atomic Physics Division, NIST
September - November 2004		Acting Group Leader, Plasma Radiation Group
August 2002 - June 2003		Post-Doctoral Research Associate Scanning Probe Microscopy Laboratory Materials Science and Technology Division Los Alamos National Laboratory

Active Research Efforts

• Highly Charged Ion Modification of Materials (HCIMM)
• Partitioning potential and kinetic energy transfer during HCI neutralization on surfaces
• Hyperthermal Ion activation of non-thermal surface kinetics
• Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) spectroscopy of highly charged ions
• Laboratory Astrophysics of Highly Charged Ions
• Precision X-ray measurements for constraining QED
• Electron Beam Ion Trap operations

Previous Research

• Potential energy damage susceptibility of EUVL optics, sponsored by International SEMATECH (2003-2004)
• Atomic Level Engineering (2002-2003)
• Hyperthermal Ion Epitaxy of Metal Thin Films, Ph.D. Thesis, (1998-2002)
• Near-field scanning optical microscopy of waveguides and photonic band gap devices (1994-1997)
• Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy (NSOM) of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) (1994-1997)

Selected Publications

• "Potential energy sputtering of EUV materials,"
  J.M. Pomeroy, L.P. Ratliff, and J.D. Gillaspy,
  chapter in EUV Sources for EUVL Lithography, ed. by V. Bakshi, SPIE Press (2006).


• "An Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT) Plus a Microcalorimeter: A Good Combination for Laboratory Astrophysics,"
  J.N. Tan, E. Silver, J. Pomeroy, J.M.L. Laming and J. Gillaspy,
  Phys. Scr. T119 30-34 (2005).


• "UTA versus line emission for EUVL: Studies on xenon emission at the NIST EBIT,"
  K. Fahy, P. Dunne, L. McKinney, G. O'Sullivan, E. Sokell, J. White, A. Aguilar, J.M. Pomeroy, J.N. Tan, B. Blagojevic, E.-O. LeBigot, and J.D. Gillaspy,
  J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 37, 1-8 (2004).


• "STM studies of island nucleation during hyperthermal atom deposition,"
  Joshua M. Pomeroy and Joel D. Brock,
  Mater. Res. Symp. Proc. 749, W16.6 (2003).


• "KMC/MD investigations of hyperthermal copper homoepitaxy,"
  J.M. Pomeroy, J.J. Jacobsen, C.C. Hill, B.H. Cooper, J.P. Sethna, and J.D. Brock,
  Phys. Rev. B 66, 235412 (2002) 235412.


• "Ion-induced pattern formation on Co surfaces: an x-ray scattering and kinetic monte carlo study,"
  O. Malis, J.D. Brock, R.L. Headrick, M.-S. Yi, and J.M. Pomeroy,
  Phys. Rev. B 66, 035408 (2002).


• "Pump intensity profiling of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers using near-field scanning optical microscopy,"
  G.H. Vander Rhodes, J.M. Pomeroy, M.S. Ünlü, B.B. Goldberg, K.J. Knopp, and D.H. Christensen,
  Appl. Phys. Lett. 72 (1998) 1811-13.