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About Professor Mróz

Professor Stefan Mróz, the well-recognised physicist, is going to retire this year. In order to recognise his outstanding contributions to surface science, and acknowledge his work for the academic community, the Institute of Experimental Physics of the University of Wrocław is organizing a special symposium. Professor Stefan Mróz Symposium is meant as a two-day scientific meeting (16-17 May 2008), consisting of invited lectures of outstanding scientists, oral presentations and poster contributions of researchers.


Born: 1938 Rzeplin (administrative district Tomaszów Lubelski).

Education: Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Wrocław – M.Sc. (1960), Ph.D. (1969), Habilitation (1976), Professor (1986).

Employment: University of Wrocław - Assistant (1960-63), Senior Assistant (1963-69), Lecturer (1969-70), Adjunct (1970-78), Docent (1978-86), Professor (1987-92, 2003-04), Ordinary Professor (1992-2003, 2004-), Institute Vice-Director (1978-87), Head of Electron Spectroscopy Department (1981-2007), Institute Director (1987-91), Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy (1996-2002), Technical University in Kielce - Docent (1980-81), Pedagogical University of Częstochowa - Docent (1985), Pedagogical University in Kielce - Docent, Institute Director (1985-86).

Activities: From the beginning of his career Professor Stefan Mróz has been dealing with surface science. During his Ph.D. work he constructed a glass reverse view LEED apparatus and with the use of this equipment he performed investigations of thermal vibrations of atoms on the Ni(001) surface. After completing his Ph.D., in collaboration with Dr. Stanisław Kaszczyszyn, Professor Mróz developed his experimental setup in order to make a chemical analysis of solid surfaces possible with the use of Auger electron spectroscopy, which extended its utility. Both methods were implemented by Professor Mróz for the first time in Poland. Professor Mróz continued investigations of thermal vibrations together with Dr. Alicja Mróz and Dr. Andrzej Grudniewski, and also performed experiments concerning the sulphur segregation on metal surfaces.
After habilitation (1976), structural investigations of ultrathin epitaxial metal layers on substrates attracted attention of Professor Mróz. Together with his co-workers he developed novel applications of Auger electron spectroscopy and elastic peak electron spectroscopy in order to determine parameters crucial for a quantitative Auger analysis, such as the inelastic mean free path of electrons in solids and the backscattering factor in Auger electron emission. Based on the results obtained together with Dr. Alicja Mróz he indicated the possibility of using the crystalline effects in Auger electron spectroscopy to determine the structure of ultrathin layers. As a consequence, he developed together with Dr. Marek Nowicki the directional Auger (DAES) and directional elastic peak electron spectroscopies (DEPES). With the help of these new experimental methods, it became possible to find the crystalline structure of epitaxial layers using a very simple and inexpensive apparatus. Recently, together with his co-workers and Ph.D. students in the Electron Spectroscopy Department, Professor Mróż works on new applications of DAES and DEPES for determination of the composition, crystalline structure, and structural changes in surface layers of metal alloy crystals.

The most important scientific achievements of Professor Stefan Mróz:

  1. Experimental determination of the thermal vibration amplitude of surface atoms on different nickel crystal surfaces and determination of the vibration anisotropy [3,13,22].
  2. Determination of inelastic mean free path values and backscattering factors for Au, Ag, and Cu [38,46,47,56,60,61].
  3. Elaboration of the physical principles of DAES and DEPES [66,75,79,85].
  4. Investigation of the growth mechanism and the crystalline structure of metal layers on metal substrates at different temperatures [63,68,84,90,91].

The most important achievements of Professor Stefan Mróz concerning the development of electron spectroscopy methods:

  1. Construction of the glass reverse view LEED apparatus [5,25].
  2. Development and application of an alternating current method of measuring the diffracted beam intensity in LEED [13].
  3. Elaboration of a simplified quantitative Auger analysis method [36,72].
  4. Application of a simplified version of the DEPES method to determine the composition of the first few atomic layers of Cu3Au(001) [99].

The results of investigations of Professor Mróz, obtained mainly in collaboration, were presented in 103 publications. 74 works were published in international scientific journals. Moreover, Professor Stefan Mróz published three books and five popularization works. He is also a co-author of three patents. Professor Mróz achieved two individual and one joint Award of the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education and a number of awards of the Rector of the University of Wrocław. He supervised about 60 M.Sc. and 9 Ph.D. theses. Two of his Ph.D. students made habilitation and one of them became a professor.

Collaboration:
1984-1993 Prof. Ernst Bauer, the Institute of Physics of the Technical University of Clausthal, Germany.
1988-1990 Dr. V. Fritzsche, the Physics Institute of the Technical University of Dresden, Germany.
1990-1997 Prof. Bernard Gruzza, the Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Honours and memberships: Minister of Science and Higher Education Awards (1970, 1977, 1989); Polish Physical Society; member of Physics Committee of Polish Academy of Sciences (1993-1999); Guest co-editor of Surface Science, 200 (2-3) (1988), 213 (2-3) (1989), 247 (2-3) (1991); Vacuum 45 (2-3) (1994).

Books:

  • Właściwości powierzchni monokryształu niklu (Properties of the Nickel Crystal Surface), Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław 1976.
  • Dyfrakcja powolnych elektronów (Low-Energy Electron Diffraction), Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław 1981.
  • Spektroskopia elektronów Augera (Auger Electron Spectroscopy), Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław 1992.

Selected papers:

  • S. Mróz, An Investigation of Thermal Vibrations of Atoms on the (001) Surface of Nickel Applying the Low-Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED Method), Acta Phys. Polon; A38 (1970) 321.
  • S. Mróz, LEED Studies of Thermal Vibrations of Atoms on the (111) Nickel Surface by the Alternating Current Method, Surface Science 51 (1975) 365.
  • S. Mróz, On the Structure of the Sulphur Layer Adsorbed on the (110) Nickel Face, Surface Science 83 (1979) L 625.
  • S. Mróz, A. Mróz, A. Grudniewski, E. Bąk, Effective Debye Temperature of the (110) Ni Face for Different Azimuths, Physica Status Solidi (b) 117 (1983) 683.
  • S. Mróz, A. Mróz, Quantitative AES Analysis of PbTe and SnTe Samples with and without Matrix Effects Correction, Physica Status Solidi (a) 95 (1986) 407.
  • A. Mróz, S. Mróz, M. Zagórski, Simple Angle Resolved Auger Electron Spectroscopy System - Effective Rule for Measurement and Tests of Possibilities, Surface and Interface Analysis 12 (1988) 49.
  • W. Doliński, S. Mróz, M. Zagórski, Determination of Inelastic Mean Free Path of Electrons in Silver and Copper by Measurement and Calculation of the Elastic Scattering Coefficient, Surface Science 200 (1988) 361.
  • S. Mróz, A. Mróz, Angular Dependences in Auger Electron Emission from the (001) Nickel Face. I. Dependence of the Auger Signal on the Direction of the Primary Electron Beam, Surface Science 224 (1989) 235.
  • S. Mróz , W. Doliński, Some Problems in Quantitative Auger Analysis of Metallic Alloys, Acta Physica Polonica A81, 2 (1992) 201.
  • S. Mróz, M. Nowicki, Directional Auger Electron Spectroscopy (DAES) and Directional Elastic Peak Electron Spectroscopy (DEPES) in the Investigation of the Crystalline Structure of Surface Layers: the Ag/Cu(111) Interface, Surface Science 297 (1993) 66.
  • S. Mróz, Physical Foundation of Quantitative Auger Analysis, Progress in Surface Science 46, 4 (1994) 377.
  • A. Mróz, S. Mróz, Temperature Effects in Directional Elastic Peak Electron Spectroscopy for the Cu(011) Face: Observation of the Surface Roughening Transition, Surface Science 320 (1994) 307.
  • S. Mróz, A. Mróz, M. Nowicki, On the Mechanism of Contrast Creation in Directional Auger Electron Spectroscopy (DAES), Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 76 (1995) 635.
  • S. Mróz, M. Nowicki, Z. Jankowski, Properties of Ultra-thin Silver Layers on Low-index Faces of Copper and Nickel, Progress in Surface Science 53 (1997) 197.
  • S. Mróz Directional Auger Electron Spectroscopy – Physical Foundations and Application, Surface Review and Letters 4, (1997) 117.
  • S. Mróz, A. Mróz, Nondestructive Determination of the Concentration Profile in the Surface Layer of Au-Cu Alloy with the Use of Directional AES and Monte-Carlo Simulations, Vacuum 49 (1998) 101.
  • S. Mróz, Z. Jankowski, M. Nowicki, Growth and Isothermal Desorption of Ultrathin Silver Layers on the Ni(111) Face at the Substrate Temperature from 180 to 900 K, Surface Science 454-456 (2000) 702.
  • S. Mróz, A. Krupski, Composition of the First Two Atomic Layers in Au0.2Cu0.8 and Au0.8Cu0.2 Alloys, Vacuum 60 (2001) 307.
  • A. Krupski, S. Mróz, Properties of Ultrathin Pb Layers on the Ni(111) Face, Phys. Rev. B 66 (2002) 035410.
  • S. Mróz, M. Nowicki, A. Krupski, Directional Elastic Peak Electron Spectroscopy: theoretical description and review of applications, Progress in Surface Science, 74 (2003) 109.
  • S. Mróz, Composition of the First Atomic Layers of (001)-oriented AuCu3 Crystal Measured with the Use of Directional Auger Electron Spectroscopy at 400 K < T < 1000 K , Vacuum 79 (2005) 241.
Contact address:
Prof. S. Mróz Symposium
Secretariat
Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Wrocław, pl. Maksa Borna 9, 50-204 Wroclaw, Poland
fax: (+48 71) 328-73-65
e-mail: symposium@ifd.uni.wroc.pl

Chair:
Dr. Marek Nowicki e-mail: nowicki@ifd.uni.wroc.pl tel: (+48 71) 375-93-77


Secretary:
Dr. Aleksander Krupski e-mail: akrupski@ifd.uni.wroc.pl
tel: (+48 71) 375-94-59
Mob. +48 664 432 897