AVS2003 Tuesday Morning
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| Session | Tuesday, November 4, 2003 | ||||||||||
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| 8:20 AM | 9:20 AM | 10:20 AM | 11:20 AM | ||||||||
| AP-TuM | 
                                    Light Optical Nanoscopy in Cellular Biophysics
                                    
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                                    Biological Applications of Micro and Nanoscale Devices
                                    
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                                    Atomic-scale Device Fabrication in Silicon
                                    
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                                    Nanometer Computing
                                    
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                                    Electronic Materials in the 21st Century: Is the Future Different from the Past?
                                    
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| AS-TuM | 
                                    Advances in Chemical Imaging: NanoSAM and NanoESCA
                                    
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                                    Correlation of XPS and AFM Images for Polymer Blends
                                    
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                                    XPS and Confocal Microscopy Data Fusion for Polymer Characterization
                                    
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                                    Solvent Enhanced Surface Modification of Polymers Accompanying AFM Tip Induced Mechanical Stresses
                                    
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                                    SF5+ Ion Beam Damage of Poly(Acrylates) Studied using Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
                                    
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                                    Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry of Ordered Polymeric Monolayers: Effect on Tertiary Structures
                                    
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                                    Grazing Incident X-ray Diffraction Study of Poly(alkylthiophene) Thin Films on Various Substrates
                                    
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                                    Study of Water-Induced Reorganization of Amphiphilic Graft Copolymers Containing Poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) and Polydimethylsiloxane by Angle-dependent X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
                                    
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                                    The Role of Polymer Architecture and Environmental Humidity on the Interfacial Conformation and Properties of Surface-adsorbed Poly(l-lysine)-graft-poly(ethylene Glycol) Co-polymer
                                    
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                                    Ultra-fast Laser Ablation as a Facilitator for Depth-dependant Characterization of High Pigment Volume Concentration Organic Coatings
                                    
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| BI-TuM | 
                                    Modulation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Behavior by Tuning Substrate Compliance
                                    
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                                    Mechanical and Biochemical Analyses of Cell Adhesion Strengthening Using Micropatterned Substrates
                                    
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                                    The Use of XPS, SIMS, and Immunostaining to Examine the Behavior of Extracellular Matrix upon Cell Detachment from a Smart Polymer
                                    
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                                    Neurite Outgrowth on Well Characterized Surfaces: Chemically and Spatially Controlled Fibronectin and RGD Substrates
                                    
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                                    Surfaces Engineered to Target Integrins to Direct Cell Adhesion and Function
                                    
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                                    Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging and Force Spectroscopy of Microbial Cell Surfaces
                                    
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                                    Molecule Specific Imaging Analysis of Carcinogens in Breast Cancer Cells using Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
                                    
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                                    Preparation and Characterization of Chemically Patterned Surfaces for Cell-Surface Interaction Studies
                                    
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                                    Drug Testing and Environmental Toxin Detection using Cell-based Biosensors
                                    
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| DI-TuM | 
                                    Effects of Transistor Fabrication Process Conditions on Electrical Characteristics of High-k Gate Dielectrics
                                    
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                                    Characteristics of High-k Gate Dielectric Formed by Oxidation of Sputtered Hf/Zr/Hf Thin Fims on the Si Substrate
                                    
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                                    Study of ZrO2 Initial Stage Deposition on Si(100) During High Vacuum Chemical Vapor Deposition
                                    
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                                    Thin Film Growth and Composition Characterization of Hafnium Oxide Grown on Surface Treated Silicon by Atomic Layer Deposition
                                    
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                                    The Effect of Hf Content in Liquid Precursor on the Properties of Mist Deposited Ultra-Thin Films of HfSiO4
                                    
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                                    The Effect of Surface Preparation and Post Growth Annealing on the Thickness and Composition of High-k Layers Grown on Silicon
                                    
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                                    Si and Ge Surface Functionalization Characterized by In Situ and Ex Situ Infrared Spectroscopy
                                    
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                                    Plasma Deposition of RuO2 on HfO2 for Gate Electrode Applications
                                    
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                                    Novel Ultra-thin TiAlOx Alloy Oxide for New Generation of Gate Dielectric
                                    
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| EC+ | 
                                    A Microreactor System for Electrocatalytic Kinetics: Methanol Oxidation on Platinum Electrodes at Elevated Temperature
                                    
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                                    In Situ Characterization of Nucleation and Growth During Electrochemical Deposition of Copper
                                    
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                                    Electrochemical Synthesis of Multifunctional Building Blocks for Nanosystems
                                    
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                                    Photoexcited Electrodeposition of Cu Structures on p-Si(001)
                                    
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                                    Ultrahigh Vacuum Studies of Static and Dynamic Solid Oxide Electrocatalysts by Field Ionization and Spectroscopic Techniques
                                    
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                                    Molecular Ordering at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces
                                    
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                                    Water-Graphite Interaction and the Behavior of Water near Graphite Surface
                                    
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                                    Molecular Structure at Interfaces between Water and Metal, Metal Oxide, or Polymer Studied by Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy
                                    
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| MI+ | 
                                    Characterization of Magnetic Thin Films and Nanostructures using Electron Microscopy
                                    
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                                    Imaging of Magnetic Nanoislands at the Thermal Stability Limit
                                    
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                                    Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Magnetic Impurities at Metal Surfaces
                                    
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                                    A Practical Guide to the Interpretation of Point-contact Andreev Reflection Data
                                    
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                                    Preparation and Magneto-Optical Spectroscopic Studies of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Related Nanostructures: Potential Building Blocks for Spintronics Applications
                                    
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                                    Magnetic Linear and Circular X-ray Dichroism Studies of the Magnetic Instability of Fe(x)Ni(1-x) Pseudomorphic Thin Films Exhibiting the Invar Effect
                                    
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                                    Magnetic Circular X-ray Dichroism of Gd2O3 Nanoparticles
                                    
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                                    Magnetism in Transition-metal Alloy Films: Lineshape Analysis of Magnetic Linear Dichroism Angle-selective Photoemission Spectra
                                    
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| MM-TuM | 
                                    MEMS and NEMS from Chemical Vapor Deposited Nanodiamond Materials
                                    
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                                    Engineering the Surface Properties of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond for High-Performance MEMS Devices
                                    
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                                    AlN-based MEMS and NEMS Resonator Devices
                                    
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                                    Anchor Optimization for Quality Factor Improvement in Microresonators
                                    
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                                    Chemical Control of Mechanical Energy Dissipation in Micromechanical Silicon Resonators
                                    
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                                    Vapor-Phase Lubricants: Nanometer-scale Lubrication Mechanisms and Uptake on Silicon
                                    
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                                    Can We Predict Friction and Wear in MEMS?
                                    
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                                    Nanomechanical Characterization of Digital Micromirror Devices
                                    
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                                    Measurement of Mechanical Properties of Silicon Nitride Thin Film at Cryogenic Temperatures
                                    
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                                    Pointwise Strain Mapping a Multilayer MEMS Mirror Using Synchrotron Radiation
                                    
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| MS-TuM | 
                                    Challenges and Advances in Packaging Technology Development for IC Processing
                                    
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                                    Interfacial Engineering for Reliability Improvement of Cu/Low k Interconnects
                                    
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                                    Forming Laminar Cu/Substrate Interfaces: Vacuum vs. Electrochemical Processing
                                    
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                                    Challenges and Advances in Thin Film Mechanics
                                    
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| NS-TuM | 
                                    Growth and Characterization of Single-Crystal ZnO Nanowires
                                    
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                                    Growth and Characterization of ZnO Nanowires
                                    
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                                    Structure, Defect and Cathodoluminescence Studies of GaN Nanorods and Nanowires
                                    
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                                    Onset of Nanowire Growth by Vapor-Liquid-Solid (VLS) Epitaxy
                                    
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                                    Functional Semiconductor Nanowires and Their Optical Properties
                                    
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                                    Mo3Se3 Nanowires - Mechanical and Electrical Properties at the Nanoscale
                                    
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                                    Defect Mediated Electronic Transport in Nano and Molecular Wires
                                    
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                                    Electronic Structure and Excited States of One-dimensional Polydiacetylene Nanowire
                                    
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                                    STM and DFT Study of Gadolinium Silicide on Si(100)
                                    
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                                    Theoretical Calculation of the Thermal Conductivity of Semiconducting Nanowires
                                    
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| OF+ | 
                                    Charge Transport and Charge Injection in Polymer Field Effect Transistors
                                    
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                                    High Mobility Organic Field Effect Transistors
                                    
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                                    Growth Dynamics and Electrical Properties of Pentacene Ultra-thin Films
                                    
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                                    Optical and Electronics Properties of Poly(o-Methoxyaniline) (POMA) for Organic FET Applications
                                    
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                                    An Optical and Electronic Properties Study of a Stable n-Type Organic Semiconductor: N,N'-bis(3-phenoxy-3-phenoxy-phenoxy)-1,4,5,8-naphthalenetetracarboxydiimide
                                    
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                                    Organic Semiconducting Materials for Plastic Electronics
                                    
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                                    Localized Deposition of Thin Films of Conducting Polyaniline on Microhotplates for Chemical Sensing
                                    
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                                    Polymeric Aperture Masks for High Performance Organic Integrated Circuits
                                    
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                                    Conducting Nanofibers Integrated with Surface Micromachined Structures
                                    
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| PS-TuM | 
                                    Attractive Interactions Between Negatively Charged Dust Particles in a Plasma
                                    
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                                    Measurement of Electrical Fields Around Dissimilar Materials Exposed to a Discharge
                                    
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                                    Plasma Processing Diagnostic Methods and Studies: A Historical Perspective
                                    
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                                    Absolute SiClX Densities in Silicon Gate Etching Plasmas Determined by Broad Band UV Absorption
                                    
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                                    In-situ Processing Memory Effects for Confined vs. Unconfined Plasmas
                                    
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                                    Plasma Diagnostics and Thin Film Characterization in Dielectric Etching: Understanding the Role of Fluorine Chemistry
                                    
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                                    Loss Kinetics of CFx Radicals and F Atoms in the Afterglow of Inductively Coupled Pulsed Plasmas
                                    
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                                    Effect of an Applied-phase of Bias Pulse on a Charge Reduction on a SiO2 Hole Exposed to Plasma Etching in a Two-frequency CCP
                                    
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                                    Analysis of Downstream Etch Chemistry in Ion-Ion and Electron-Ion Cl2 Discharges
                                    
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| PS+ | 
                                    PECVD, From the Laboratory to Mass Production
                                    
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                                    Plasma-enhanced Deposition of Silicon and Metal Oxynitride Films in a High-density Ammonia Discharge
                                    
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                                    Identification of the Growth Precursors for Hydrogenated Amorphous Carbon Growth
                                    
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                                    Characterization of TaN Diffusion Barrier Layers Prepared by Chemical-Enhanced Physical Vapor Deposition (CEPVD)
                                    
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                                    Anisotropic Cu Deposition using Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition
                                    
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                                    Pulsed-plasma Deposition of Silicon Dioxide in a High Density Oxygen Discharge
                                    
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                                    Secondary Plasma Based Debris Mitigation for Next-Generation 13.5nm EUVL Sources
                                    
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| SC-TuM | 
                                    Antimonide-Based Compound Semiconductors: From Interfaces to High-Speed Transistors
                                    
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                                    Understanding the Electronic Properties of Diluted Nitrides Relevant to Optoelectronic Applications
                                    
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                                    Nitrogen Incorporation and Strain Relaxation Mechanisms during Metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy of GaAsN Layers on GaAs (001)
                                    
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                                    Stress Evolution and Nitrogen Incorporation in GaAsN Films Grown by Reactive Molecular Beam Epitaxy
                                    
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                                    Electronic and Optical Properties of GaAsN/GaAs Quantum Wells
                                    
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                                    Growth of InN and Related Compounds by RF Plasma Molecular Beam Epitaxy
                                    
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                                    Electronic Band Structure Ge(1-x)Sn(x) Alloys Grown on Silicon
                                    
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| SE-TuM | 
                                    Influence of Sputtering Condition and Target Material on the Microstructure and Properties of Ti-Si-N Coatings Prepared by r.f.-reactive Sputtering
                                    
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                                    Growth and Physical Properties of Epitaxial CeN and Nanocrystalline Ti1-xCexN Layers
                                    
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                                    Fabrication of Nanostructured Metallic Thin Films by Femtosecond Pulsed Laser Ablation
                                    
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                                    Self-adaptation Processes in Nanostructured Hard Coatings
                                    
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                                    Design of Functional Coatings
                                    
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                                    Functional Profile Coatings and Film Stress
                                    
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                                    The Effect of Surface Finish on Field Emission in Nitrogen-implanted, Silicon Dioxide-Coated Stainless Steel
                                    
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| SS1-TuM | 
                                    Adsorption Energies of Small Alkane Molecules on MgO(100) and on Pd Nanoparticles on MgO by Temperature Programmed Desorption
                                    
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                                    Reactions of Aliphatic Alcohols on WO3(001) Surfaces
                                    
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                                    Dissociative Adsorption of Cyclohexene on Pt(111) at 300 K studied by Single-Crystal Microcalorimetry and Sticking Probability Measurements
                                    
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                                    The Reaction of 1-chloro-2-methyl-2-propanol (CltBuOH)on Oxygen-covered Ag(110): C-Cl Bond Cleavage in Epoxide Formation
                                    
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                                    Surface Chemistry of Hydrocarbon Fragments on Transition Metals: Towards Understanding Catalytic Processes
                                    
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                                    Fluorinated Carboxylic Acids Deprotonation on the Cu(100) Surface
                                    
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                                    Enantioselective Reactivity of R-2-bromobutane on Cu(531)
                                    
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                                    Coupled Experimental and Theoretical Study of Weakly Adsorbed Molecules on Metal Surfaces
                                    
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                                    H2 Production from Ethanol Over Au-Rh/CeO2 Catalysts
                                    
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| SS2-TuM | 
                                    The Dynamics of Crystallite Shape Transformations
                                    
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                                    Fluctuations of Islands on Anisotropic Surfaces1
                                    
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                                    The Importance of Substrate Steps on the Ripening of 3D Particles: Ag and Cu on Ru(0001)
                                    
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                                    Geometry-Based Simulation Algorithm for Island Formation during Submonolayer Film Growth
                                    
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                                    Pyramidal Faceted Ni Nanocrystals on W(111)
                                    
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                                    Growth and Stability of Bi Films on Si(111) Studied by LEEM
                                    
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                                    Nucleation Kinetics during Homoepitaxial Growth of TiN(001) by Reactive Magnetron Sputtering
                                    
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                                    Pt Adsorption on Chiral SrTiO3 Surfaces
                                    
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                                    High-Temperature Low Energy Electron Microscopy Studies of Spiral Dislocation Dynamics on TiN(111) Terraces
                                    
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                                    Conversion from Nanowire to Epilayer: Epitaxial Growth of Bi on Si(114)-2x1
                                    
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| TF-TuM | 
                                    Low Cost Thin Film Electronics on Flexible Polymeric Substrates
                                    
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                                    Ultra-high Barrier Coating Deposition on Polycarbonate Substrates
                                    
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                                    Organic Thin Film Transistors based on Fluorene-Arylene Copolymers for Printed Electronics
                                    
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                                    Elastic Metal Interconnects
                                    
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                                    Properties of Indium Zinc Oxide Thin Films on Heat Withstanding Plastic Substrates
                                    
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                                    Interface and Bulk Charge in Low Temperature Silicon Nitride Dielectrics on Plastic Substrates
                                    
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                                    Effect of Swift Heavy Ions on the Structural and Optical Properties of RF Plasma Polymerized Aniline Thin Films
                                    
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