Beata Lesiak-Or³owska,
 D.Sc.
  • M.Sc., 1983 - Department of Physics University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland

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  • Ph.D., 1991 - Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland

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  • D.Sc., 2004 - Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Wroc³aw, Wroc³aw, Poland

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 Education and training:
  • 1992/1993 - post doctorate scholarship of the Royal Society, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
cooperations:
  • Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland

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  • Institute of Physics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

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  • Research Institute of Technical Physics and Material Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

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  • Research Institute of Nuclear Physics Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Debrecen, Hungary

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  • DESSY Synchrotron Laboratory, Hamburg, Germany
     
  • University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
     
 
  
 Research areas:
  1. quantitative and qualitative analysis by Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) of complex systems, e.g. multicomponent samples, polymers, overlayers on substrates

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  2. applications of pattern recognition methods for electron spectroscopy methods (XPS and AES) for qualitative and quantitative analyses
  3. investigating the electron elastic backscattering coefficient; application of elastic peak electron spectroscopy (EPES) for determining the electron transport parameter, i.e. the inelastic mean free path (IMFP) using the Monte Carlo model of electron transport in a solid
  4. determining of electron inelastic losses using the EPES method
  5. application of the EPES method for qualitative and quantitative analysis
 
 Selected papers:
  1. Lesiak B., Mrozek A., Jablonski A. and Jó¼wik A., "Analysis of the Auger KLL spectra of carbon by the pattern recognition method", Surf. Interface Anal., 8, 121-126 (1986).

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  2. Jablonski A., Lesiak B., Zommer L., Ebel H., Fukuda Y. and Tougaard S., "Quantitative analysis by XPS using the multiline approach", Surf. Interface Anal., 21, 724-730 (1994).

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  3. Hoogers G., Lesiak-Or³owska B. and King D. A., "Diffusion on a stepped surfaces: H and D on Rh{332}", Surf. Sci., 327, 47-52 (1995).

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  4. Lesiak B., Zemek J., de Haan P. and Jó¼wik A., "XPS study of Pd/Co multilayers: identification of Pd and Co interface bonding states by the pattern recognition method", Surf. Sci., 346, 79-90 (1996).

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  5. Lesiak B., Zemek J. And Jó¼wik A., "Phase distinction in semi-insulating polycrystalline silicon by pattern recognition of XPS/XAES data", Appl. Surf. Sci., 135, 318-330 (1998).

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  7. Sobczak J. W., Sobczak E., Lesiak B., Palczewska W. and Kosiñski A., "EXAFS investigation of Pd-doped conductive polymers", J. Alloys and Compounds, 286, 88-102 (1999).

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  8. Lesiak B., Jablonski A., Zemek J. Trchova M. and Stejskal J., "Characterisation of polyaniline and determination of the inelastic mean free path of electrons by elastic peak electron spectroscopy", Langmuir, 16, 1415-1423 (2000).

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  9. Varga D., Kövér L., Tóth J., Tokesi K., Lesiak B., Jablonski A., Robert C., Gruzza B. and Bideux L., "Determination of yield ratios of elastically backscattered electrons for deriving inelastic mean free paths in solid", Surf. Interface Anal., 30, 202-206 (2000).

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  10. Zemek J., Jiricek P., Hucek S., Lesiak B., and Jablonski A., "Escape probability of photoelectrons from silver sulphide", Surf. Sci., 473, 8-16 (2001).

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  11. Sulyok A., Gergely G., Menyhard M., Tóth J., Varga D., Kövér L., Berenyi Z., Lesiak B. and Kosiñski A., "Recoil effect in carbon structures and in polymers", Vacuum, 63, 371-376 (2001).
  12. Jiricek P., Zemek J., Lejcek P., Lesiak B., Jablonski A. and Cernanský M., "Stability of the inelastic mean free paths determined by elastic peak electron spectroscopy in nickel and silicon", J. Vac. Sci. Technol., A20, 447-455 (2002).
  13. Kövér L., Tóth J., Varga D., Lesiak B. and Jablonski A., "Surface composition of alloys derived from elastic peak intensity", Surf. Sci., 507-510, 895-899 (2002).
  14. Zemek J., Jiricek P., Jablonski A. and Lesiak B., "Growth mode and morphology of ultrathin gold films deposited on nickel", Appl. Surf. Sci., 199, 138-147 (2002).
  15. Orosz G. T., Gergely G., Menyhard M., Tóth J., Varga D., Lesiak B. and Jablonski A., "Hydrogen and surface excitation in electron spectra of polyaniline", Surf. Sci., 566-568, 544-548 (2004).
  16. Gergely G., Menyhard M., Suilyok A., Orosz G. T., Lesiak B., Jablonski A., Tóth J. and Varga D., "Surface excitation of selected conducting polymers studied by elastic peak electron spectroscopy (EPES) and reflection electron energy loss spectroscopy (REELS)", Surf. Interface Anal., 36, 1056-1059 (2004).
Total number of publications: 68
 blo@ichf.edu.pl