Luis G. Rosa, Ph.D. Department of Physics and ElectronicsUniversity of Puerto Rico - Humacao100 Road 908Humacao, PR 00791Cel. 402-770-4492 Off. 787-850-0000, ext. 9551Department Phone. 787-850-9381 E-mail: luis.rosa13@upr.eduU.S. Citizen A. Educational Background

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ph.D. 2005. My dissertation work, Water interaction with the ferroelectric copolymer poly(vinylidene

fluoride) with trifluoroethylene, received the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Graduate Research Assistance Award.

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Physics and Astronomy, M.Sc. 2003.

• University of Puerto Rico-Humacao, Department of Physics and Electronics, B.Sc. 2001. B. Honors and Awards

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Arts & Sciences, Graduate Research Assistant

Award, 2006.

• Fellow of the Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM), Princeton University,

2005-2006.

• Gordon Research Conferences (Dynamics at Surfaces) Carl Storm Underrepresented

Minority Fellowship, 2005.

• Physics Graduate Committee Member (Students Representative), 2003-2005.

• Fulcrum Fellowship (Outreach), 2003-2004.

• Cosmic Ray Observatory Project (CROP) Fellowship (Outreach), summer 2003.

• STARS Scholarship, 2001-2003.

• Richard Larson Fellowship, 2001-2002.

• REU - University of Nebraska – Lincoln, summer 1999.

• Puerto Rico – Alliance for Minority Program (AMP), 1997-2001.

C. Research Experience November 2005 – Present Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Dr. Giacinto Scoles

• My current research is in the area of molecular electronics and nanocontacts. I have been involved in developments of nanolithography and Dip-Pen lithography for grafting thiol molecules on gold surfaces. The technique for characterization of such pattern surfaces is AFM. Conducting probe AFM is used for measuring electrical properties of molecular layers in dicyclohexyl liquid environment and friction properties are extracted from the lateral force mode and structural profile from height and deflection AFM modes. I have design and development a micro device which is composed by a micro heater and a micro thermocouple. Which purpose is to provide a small local heating which will not affect the AFM piezoelectric system. This will give us temperature dependence on the electrical, structural and frictional properties of the molecules measured with AFM.

August 2002 – 2005 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska Graduate Research Assistance to Dr. Peter A. Dowben

• My dissertation research focused on the gas-surface chemistry of water vapor absorption into ferroelectric organic polymer surface. The system was characterize by thermal desorption, angle resolved thermal desorption, photoelectron emission spectroscopy, inverse photoemission spectroscopy. I develop laser induce thermal desorption spectroscopy to probe water absorbed in the bulk of the ferroelectric organic polymer system. Later effort produced the observation of the influence of local dipole orientation on thermal desorption spectroscopy.

• I was heavily involved in the electronic structure characterization of the ferroelectric organic co-polymer poly(vinylidene fluoride with trifluoroethylene) P(VDF-TrFE) 30:70 and the dipole order polymer of polymethylvinylidenecyanide (PMVC). Specifically on the observation of the vibronic coupling in the valence band photoemission on such dipole order systems.

D. Teaching Experience Outreach November 2005-present Princeton University

• At Princeton I have been activily involved with the Princeton University Materials Academy (PUMA), Science and Engineering Expo and the Central New Jersey Regional Science Olympiad Tournament.

August 2003 – August 2004 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska • I had participated with project FULCRUM in outreach activities. My main contribution

to the project was to serve as science teacher assistance and be involved on science teaching in six graders classrooms.

Teaching Assistant August 2001 – August 2003 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska

• My duties as a teaching assistant where grading exams for courses, teaching lab for junior level undergraduates and recitations.

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E. Publication Record 1. Jian Liang, Luis G. Rosa, and Giacinto Scoles, “Nanostructuring, Imaging and Molecular

Manipulation of Dithiol Monolayers on Au(111) Surfaces by Atomic Force Microscopy” accepted by Journal of Physical Chemistry C. (Journal cover for volume 111, November 22, 2007, Number 44).

2. Peter A. Dowben, Luis G. Rosa and Carolina C. Ilie, “Water Interactions with Crystalline

Polymers with Large Dipole”, submitted to Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie. 3. Yaroslav Losovyj, Kevin Morris, Luis G. Rosa, John D. Scott and Peter A. Dowben,

“High Resolution Photoemission Study of Organic Systems at the CAMD 3m NIM Beamline”, accepted by Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research (2007).

4. Carolina C. Ilie, P.A. Jacobson, I.N. Yakovkin, Luis G. Rosa, Matt Poulsen, D. Sahadeva

Reddy, James M. Takacs, and P. A. Dowben, “Activated Water Desorption from Poly(methylvinylidene cyanide)”, Journal of Physics Chemistry B, (2007), 111, 7742-7746.

5. Carolina C. Ilie, P.A. Jacobson, Matt Poulsen, Luis G. Rosa, D. Sahadeva Reddy, James

M. Takacs, Stephen Ducharme, and P. A. Dowben, “Angle Resolved Thermal Desorption Studies from Poly(methylvinylidene cyanide) and Poly(vinylideneflouride triflouroethylene)”, MRS Symposium Proceeding (2007), in press.

6. C.M. Silvernail, V.W. Day, S.A. Schuetz, Luis G. Rosa, P.A. Dowben, and J.A. Belot,

“The synthesis, characterization and magnetic properties of a linear, trinuclear copper (II) Schiff-base Coordination polymer” submitted to Organometallics.

7. P.A. Jacobson, Luis G. Rosa, Kristin Kraemer, Stephen Ducharme, and P.A. Dowben,

“Water Absorption in Langmuir-Blodgett Polyvinylidene Fluoride-Trifluoroethylene Thin Films”, Materials Letters (2007), 61, 1137-1141.

8. Jie Xiao, Luis G. Rosa, Matt Poulsen, D-Q Feng, D. Sahadeva Reddy, James M. Tacks,

Lei Cai, Jiandi Zhang, Stephen Ducharme and Peter A. Dowben, “Comparison of the electronic structure of two polymers with strong dipole ordering”, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter (2006), 18, L155-L161.

9. A.N. Caruso, D.-Q. Feng, Ya.B. Losovyj, D. Shulz, Snjezana Balaz, Luis G. Rosa, A.

Sokolov, B. Doudin and P.A. Dowben, “Defects contributions to conductivity in poly(3-hexylthiophene)?”, Physica Status Solidi B (2006), 243, 1321-1330.

10. Luis G. Rosa, P.A. Jacobson, P.A. Dowben, “Evidence for an Influence of Local Dipole

Orientation in Thermal Desorption”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2006), 110, 7944-7950.

11. K. Park, M.R. Pederson, L.L. Boyer, W.N. Mei, R.F. Sabirianov, X.C. Zeng, S. Bulusu, S.

Curran, J. Dewald, E. Day, S. Adenwalla, M. Diaz, Luis G. Rosa, S. Balaz and P.A.

Dowben, “Electronic Structure and Vibrational Spectra of B10C2 Based Clusters and Films”, Physical Review B (2006), Art. No. 035109.

12. Luis G. Rosa, J. Xiao, Ya.B. Losovyj, Y. Gao, I.N. Yakovkin, X.C. Zeng and P.A.

Dowben, “Single Crystal Ice Grown on the Surface of the Ferroelectric Polymer Poly(vilylidine fluoride) (70%) with trifluoroethylene (30%)”, Journal of the American Chemical Society (2005), 127, 17261-17265.

13. C.C. Ilie, S. Balaz, Luis G. Rosa, J. Zhang, P. Lunca-Popa, C. Bianchetti, R. Tittsworth,

J.I. Brand, B. Doudin, P.A. Dowben, “The Coadsorption and Interaction of Molecular Icosahedra with Mercury”, Applied Physics A-Materials Science and Proceedings (2005), 81, 1613-1618.

14. Luis G. Rosa, I.N. Yakovkin and P.A. Dowben, “H/D isotopic exchange in water

interactions with the Ferroelectric Copolymer: poly(vinylidene fluoride) (70%) and trifluoroethylene (30%)”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2005), 109, 14189-14197.

15. P. Lunca-Popa, J.I. Brand, S. Balaz, Luis G. Rosa, N.M. Boag, Mengjun Bai, B.W.

Robertson, and P.A. Dowben, “Evidence for Multiple Polytypes of Semiconducting Boron Carbide (C2BB10) from Electronic Structure”, J. Physics D: Applied Physics 38 (2005) 1248-1252.

16. Luis G. Rosa, Ya.B. Losovyj, Jaewu Choi, and P.A. Dowben, “Vibronic Coupling in the

Valence Band Photoemission of the Ferroelectric Copolymer: poly(vinylidene fluoride) (70%) and trifluoroethylene (30%)”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2005), 109, 7817-7820.

17. Luis G. Rosa, P.A. Jacobson and P.A. Dowben, “Water adsorption and desorption from

P(VDF-TrFE)”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 109 (2005) 532-535. 18. David Keith Chambers, Srikanth Karanam, Difei Qi, Sandra Selmic, Ya.B. Losovyj, Luis

G. Rosa and P.A. Dowben, “The Electronic Structure of Oriented poly(2-methoxy-5-(2’-ethyl-hexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene)”, Applied Physics A 80 (2005) 483-488.

19. Luis G. Rosa, P.A. Jacobson, Raymond Lemoine and P.A. Dowben, “The Elimination of

the Influence of Ambient Environmental Effects on the Structure of Inert Polymers”, J. Applied Crystallography 37 (2004) 672-674.

20. P.A. Jacobson, Luis G. Rosa, C.M. Othon, Kristin Kraemer, A.V. Sorokin, Stephen

Ducharme, and P.A. Dowben, “Water Absorption and Dielectric Changes in Crystalline poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) Copolymers Films”, Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 88-90.

21. Y.A. Ovchenkov, H. Geisler, J.M. Burst, S.N. Thornburg, C.A. Ventrice Jr., Chunjuan

Zhang, J. Redepenning, Y. Losovyj, Luis Rosa, P.A. Dowben and B. Doudin, “The Electronic Structure of Metal/alkane thiol self assembled monolayers/metal junctions for magnetoelectronics applications”, Chem. Phys. Lett. 381 (2003) 7-13.

F. Presentations and Posters 1. “Desorption of Water from Crystalline Vinylidene Fluoride-Trifluoroethylene Polymer

Surfaces”, 2003 March Meeting of the APS, San Antonio, TX, March 6, 2003 [talk by Luis Rosa]; abstract W33.011, Luis Rosa, Christina Othon, Stephen Ducharme, Peter Dowben.

2. “Water Absorption and Dielectric Changes from Crystalline Copolymer P(VDF-TrFE)”

MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, December 2003 [talk by Luis Rosa] abstract J3.28, Luis Rosa, Peter A. Jacobson, Christina Othon, Stephen Ducharme, Peter Dowben.

3. “On the Formation and Dissociation of Binary Asteroids and Comets” 203rd AAS Meeting

(2003) – Atlanta, GA, Abstract 15.02: J.C. Cersosimo, W. Bruckman, S. Vazquez, L. Rosa, A. Buenrostro. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society Vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 1231.

4. “Water Absorption and Dielectric Changes in Crystalline Poly(Vinylidene fluoride -

trifluoroethylene) Copolymer Films”, 51st AVS International Symposium, Anaheim, CA November 15, 2004 [poster by Luis Rosa], abstract TF-MoP7.

5. “Water Adsorption and Desorption from Ferroelectric Copolymer P(VDF-TrFE)”, Graduate

College, Sigma Xi 2005 Annual Graduate Student Poster Presentation, March 10th, UNL [poster by Luis Rosa].

6. “Water Adsorption and Desorption from Crystalline P(VDF-TrFE) Copolymers”, 2005 APS

March Meeting, March 21, 2005, Los Angeles, CA [talk by Peter Jacobson]; Abstract A28-9: Jia Xiao, Luis Rosa, Peter Jacobson, and Peter Dowben, “Water Adsorption and Desorption from Crystalline P(VDF-TrFE) Copolymers”, Bulletin of the APS 50 (2005)

p 115. 7. “Ferroelctric Switching in a Polymeric Transistor”, 2005 APS Meeting, March 21, 2005, Los

Angeles, CA [talk by Jie Xiao]; Abstract D30-1: Peter Jacobson, Jie Xiao, Luis Rosa, and Peter Dowben, “Ferroelctric Switching in a Polymeric Transistor”, Bulletin of the APS 50 (2005) p 331.

8. “Water interaction with the Ferroelectric Polymer P(VDF)-TrFE”, 2005 Gordon Conference

Gas-Surface Dynamics, New Hampshire, [poster by Luis G. Rosa]. 9. “Water Interaction with a Ferroelectric Polymer”, 2005 AVS 52nd International Symposium

and Exhibitions, Boston MA, [poster and talk by Luis G. Rosa]; Abstract SS1-ThM11: Luis G. Rosa and Peter Dowben.

10. “Water Adsorption on a Polymer Surface”, 2005 Annual CAMD Users Meeting, Baton

Rouge, Louisiana, [talk by Luis G. Rosa]. 11. “Water Interaction with a Ferroelectric Polymer”, 2005 Water Festival IV, Delaware

Biotechnology Institute, Delaware, [talk by Luis G. Rosa].

12. “Correlating Electron Transport Properties with Molecular Structures: Combination of Conductive-Probe AFM Experiments and DFT Calculations”, 2006 NanoItaly, Trieste-Italy, [talk by Luis G. Rosa].

13. “Water Interaction with a Ferroelectric Polymer”, 2006 66th Physical Electronics Conference,

Princeton, New Jersey, [talk by Luis G. Rosa]. 14. “Advances in Soft Condensed Matter Physics”, 2006 Invited Talk, University of Puerto Rico-

Humacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico, [talk by Luis G. Rosa]. 15. “Differential Compaison of Electron Transfer through Self-Assemble Monolayers Made of

Different Molecules and Nanografting and Tunneling AFM”, University-Industry Reserach Symposium 2007, Princeton University, New Jersey, [poster by Luis G. Rosa].

16. “Nanostructuring, Imaging and Molecular Manipulation of Dithiol Monolayer on Au (111)

Surfaces by Atomic Force Microscopy”, Pan American Advanced Study Institute 2007 Electronics States and Excitations on Nanostructures, Zacatecas, Mexico, [poster by Luis G. Rosa].

G. References Dr. Giacinto Scoles Title: Donner Professor of Science Office Tel.: (609) 258-5570 Email: gscoles@princeton.eduPrinceton University Chemistry Department, Washington Road Princeton, NJ 08540, USA Dr. Peter A. Dowben Title: Charles Bessey Professor of Physics Office Tel.: (402) 472-9838 or 8761 Email: pdowben1@unl.eduDepartment of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Materials Research and Analysis, Behlen Laboratory of Physics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0111 Dr. Stephen Ducharme Title: Professor & Vice Chair Office Tel.: (402) 472- 8590 Email: sducharme1@unl.eduDepartment of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Materials Research and Analysis, Behlen Laboratory of Physics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0111