Professor Emeritus

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor Emeritus, Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
Research Professor, Materials Research Lab
Professor Emeritus, Center for Global Studies

Recent Publications

Souqui, L., Caroff, C. M., Lastowski, R. J., Shrivastav, S., Girolami, G. S., Krogstad, J. A., & Abelson, J. R. (2026). MgH2 thin films and nanowires deposited by CVD from a magnesium diamidodiboranate precursor. Materials Today Communications, 50, Article 114615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2025.114615

Lastowski, R. J., Flores, V. J., Souqui, L., Abelson, J. R., & Girolami, G. S. (2024). Compounds with Chelating 3-Dimethylamino-1-propyl Ligands as Chemical Vapor Deposition Precursors. Synthesis and Characterization of M[(CH2)3NMe2]2 Complexes of Nickel(II), Palladium(II), and Platinum(II). Organometallics, 43(20), 2548-2556. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.4c00186

Abelson, J. R., Girolami, G. S., Liu, S., Mohimi, E., & Zhang, Z. (2023). Area selective CVD of metallic films using precursor gases and inhibitors. (U.S. Patent No. 11584986).

Canova, K. L., Souqui, L., Girolami, G. S., & Abelson, J. R. (2023). Using metal precursors to passivate oxides for area selective deposition. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces and Films, 41(3), Article 033407. https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0002413

Lafollette, D. K., Canova, K. L., Zhang, Z. V., & Abelson, J. R. (2022). Coalescence of ultrathin films by atomic layer deposition or chemical vapor deposition: Models of the minimum thickness based on nucleation and growth rates. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces and Films, 40(2), Article 023403. https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0001562

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