AVS2006 Thursday Morning

Deep Core X-ray Photoelectron and Auger Spectra: A Comparison of Different Methods for Interpretation

Film Thickness Determination of Ultra Thin HfO₂ Dielectrics with Angle Resolved XPS

Structure and Properties of Ultra-Thin SiO₂ Plasma Polymer Films at Polymer/Metal Interfaces

Interfacial Interactions of PEKK Polymer Coatings onto Oxide-free Phosphate Films on an Aluminum Surface

DualBeam and Electron Microscopy Characterization of Buried Interfaces

Applications of ToF-SIMS Depth Profiling to Problems involving Buried Interfaces and Particulate

Vacuum Splitting at Buried Electronic Interfaces: A Technique Enabling Nanoscale Chemical and Physical Analysis

SIMS Measurements of C contamination in SOI

Light Exposure Affects the Adsorption of Colloidal Gold onto Monolayers of 3-Mercaptopropyltrymethoxysilane

Label Free Nanoscale Optical Biosensors

Non-Cross-Linking Aggregation of DNA-Fnctionalized Nanoparticles for Single-Base Substitution Assay

Nano-Crescents as Tunable Plasmon-Based Sensing Platforms

Plasmonic Coupling in Biomolecule Linked Nanoparticle Assemblies

Semiconductor Quantum Dots for Bioimaging: Bandgap Engineering and Surface Engineering

Organic Thin Film Transistors with an Organic/High-k Inorganic Bilayer Gate Dielectric Layer

Low Voltage Organic Field-Effect Transistors with High k Nanocomposite Dielectric Gate Insulator

New Materials and Processes for Organic Transistors, Inorganic Transistors, and Printed Electronics

Organic Thin-Film Transistors with Novel SAM-Modified Dielectrics

Growth of Pentacene Films: Influence of Substrates

In-Plane Anisotropy of Pentacene Crystals on Surface Alignment Layers and its Influence on Photovoltaic and Thin-Film Transistor Device Characteristics

Metallic Thin Films of Molecular Metals

Mobility Optimization Study of Organic Semiconductor Based Thin Film Transistors

A Study of High Dielectric Constant Magnesium Oxide Film Interfaces with Si

Channel Drift Mobility in High-k Transistors from Galvanomagnetic Measurements

Interface Composition and Band Alignment in Nano-electronics

Band Offsets Measurements of Metal/High-k/Semiconductor Structures

A Soft-X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of D-State Contributions to Valence Band States in Nanocrystalline HfO2, TiO2, and Hf1-xTixO2 Alloys

Line-Width and Symmetry Changes in Jahn Teller Term-Split Sc 3d-States in LaScO3 as a Function of Deposition and Annealing Temperatures

Trends in Core Level Binding Energies of Mixed Oxide Candidates for High-κ Dielectrics

Spin-Polarized Transport in Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Heterostructures

Epitaxial Growth, Spin Polarization, and Electrical Spin Injection from Fe(1-x)Ga(x) (001) Films on AlGaAs/GaAs(001) LEDs

Remanent Electrical Spin Injection from Fe into GaAs Edge-Emitting Spin-LEDs

Towards Electrical Spin Injection into a Single InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot

Organic-based Materials in Spintronics

Characterization of Ferromagnetic Metal/Organic Semiconductor Interfaces in Organic Spin Valves

Interface Magnetization Precession and Switching in Fe/AlGaAs (001)

A Nanometer-scale Gene Chip: Detecting Single Molecules of DNA using a Silicon Nanopore

Single DNA Molecules Stretched in Electrospun Polymer Fibers

Polypyrrole Based Nano-Electrode Arrays Produced by Colloidal Lithography

Biofunctionalized Nanoshells for Biological Detection

Characterization of Silver Nanoparticles Films for the Development of TPB Biosensors

Surface Nanostructuring using Colloidal Particles for Improved Biocompatibility

Study of Plasma Modified PTFE for Biological Applications : Relationship between Non Fouling Properties - Plasma Treatment - Surface Composition and Surface Roughness

Patterning of Plasma Polymers for Bioarrays

Plasma Polymerized Thin Films for Tailored Interaction with Human Blood and Cells

RF(13.56MHz) Glow Discharges fed with Acrylic Acid and Allylamine vapours to obtain Functional Coatings for Biomedical Applications

Fabrication of High Density and High-Aspect Silicon Nano-column Using Neutral Beam Etching and Ferritin Iron Core Mask

The Influence of Bond-Coating on Plasma Sprayed Alumina-Titania, Doped with Biologically Derived Hydroxyapatite, on Stainless Steel

Tuning Polymer Surfaces by Cold Plasma Technology

Morphological and Chemical Evolution of Model Resist Polymers for Plasma/Energetic Beam Templating Materials*

Advanced Plasma Polymerization Methods to Deposit Multifunctional Coatings

Low Temperature PECVD of Silicon Oxynitride Thin Films from Dimethylaminosilanes: Role of Oxygen Addition

Plasma-Assisted Growth of Moisture Diffusion Barriers on Polymers: From Chemical Vapor Deposition to Atomic Layer Deposition

Super-Hydrophobic Transparent Polymer Surfaces Fabricated by Plasma Etching and Deposition

Fabrication and Characterization of Plasma Processed Surfaces with Tuned Wettability

Plasma-Polymerised Surface Chemical Gradients as Platforms for Making Biomolecule Gradients

Pulsed Metal Plasmas

Optimization of Adhesion Promoting Substrate Pre-Treatment using Metal Ions of a High Power Impulse Magnetron Discharge

Modulated Pulsed Power Generator for High Density Magnetron Discharges

Surface Wettability of Stainless Steel Treated using C₂H₂ Plasma using Plasma-based Ion Implantation

Surface Engineering for Improved Resistance to Contact Damage

Cr-B-N Coatings Deposited by Cathodic Arc Evaporation

Growth and Characterization of Diamond/CNT Nanocomposites using Hot-Filament Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition

Interaction of Gold Atoms and Clusters with Color Centers on the Surface of MgO(001) Thin Films

Calcium Adsorption on MgO(100): Calorimetric and Structural Studies

Probing of the Surface Chemistry and Binding Modes of DL-proline on TiO₂(110) Single Crystal Surface: A Study via High Resolution X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Temperature Programmed Desorption

Density Functional Study of the Dissociative Adsorption of Formic Acid on the TiO₂ Rutile (0 1 1) Surface

Structure and Catalytic Activity of Model Oxide Systems

Point Defect and Adsorbate Identification on TiO₂(110) by Non-Contact AFM

H₂O Dissociation and Proton Diffusion on TiO₂(110)

Water Adsorption from Submonolayer to Multilayer Coverage on TiO2(110) and Fe2O3(0001) by In Situ Spectroscopy

Odd-Even Effects in Self-Assembled Monolayers of Biphenyl-Substituted Alkaneselenolates on Noble Metal Substrates

Structure and Stability of Acene-SAMs

A Survey on the Structural Properties of Alkanethiols Self Assembling on Au(111)

The Electronic Structure and Polymerization of a Self-Assembled Monolayer

Kinetics and Mechanism of Displacement in 1-Adamantanethiolate Self-Assembled Monolayers

High Thermal Stability of Cross-Linked Aromatic Self-Assembled Monolayers: New Pathways for Nanopattering by Selective Desorption

In-situ Studies of Protein Resistance of Oligo(Ethylene Glycol) Self-Assembled Monolayers

Thiol-Modified Diamondoid Monolayers on Gold Studied with Near-Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy

Tilted Fiber Texture in Aluminum Nitride Thin Films

CVD of Titanium Diboride using Single Source Precursor

Fundamentals in Thin Film Pulsed Laser Deposition: Growth Control at an Atomic Level

Solvation Effects in the Kinetics of Supercritical CO₂ Based Deposition of Metal Oxide Thin Films

Formation of c-Si/a-Si:H Interfaces Studied by Real-Time Second-Harmonic Generation, Spectroscopic Ellipsometry, and Infrared Spectroscopy

Kinetic Pathways Leading to Layer-By-Layer Growth: A Multibllion Time-Step Molecular Dynamics Study

Interpretation of the Roughness in Au(111) Polycrystalline Films

Benjamin Franklin and the Meaning of Public Science

Monolayers Films: From Franklin's OIl-Drop Experiments to Self-Assembled Monolayer Structures

The Science and Technology of Electrophotography

From Lightning to Lighting: Physics and Technology Discharged from Franklin's Kite Experiment

Progress and Prospects in the Generation of High Voltage*