AVS2006 Tuesday Morning

Time-of-Flight SIMS in the Earth and Planetary Sciences

Characterization of Thin Films Produced by a Simulated Radioactive Dispersal Device

Characterization of Electrocoagulation Wastewater Treatment Floc and Aging Effects

Evolution of Metal-Core Oxide-Shell Iron Nanoparticles as a Function of Time in an Aqueous Environment

Effects of Dopant Concentration and Microstrcutres on Ionic Conductivity in Samaria Doped Ceria Thin Films

Getting Atomic-Scale Information from Complex Surfaces using Synchrotron Radiation

X-ray Spectrometry with the NIST Transition Edge Sensor Microcalorimeter

Dynamical XPS Measurements

Getting to the Root of Bacterial Hair

Antifouling Surface Treatments for Microfluidic Applications

Biofilm Formation on Biomaterials Implant Surfaces

Minimising of Biofilm Formation by Surfaces Coated with Fish Proteins

Microfluidic Devices That Capture Bacteria for Growth and Kill Analysis

Vapor Phase Photografting of Antimicrobial Polymer Coatings

Biocompatible Ag-doped Carbon Coatings with Biocidal Effect

Multi-functional Ag/Plasma Polymer Coatings for Antibacterial Biomaterial Surfaces

Detection and Mapping of Individual Adhesins on Living Bacteria using Atomic Force Microscopy

Dynamic Interactions of the Streptococcal C5a Peptidase with Fibronectin

The Fabrication and Characterization of Polycrystalline Silicon Active Layer Thin Film Transistor with Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber

Detection of Surface Potential Modulation Induced by Molecular Dipole Moment for Biosensor Platform Development on GaAs

Covalent Functionalization of Amorphous Carbon Thin Films: Materials Integration for Real-time Electromechanical Biosensing

Single Nanopores for the Detection and Characterization of DNA and Anthrax Toxins

A Novel High-Throughput DNA Chip Analysis Platform

Biosensing with Fluidic Force Discrimination and Microbead Labels: Comparison of Sequential and Mixed-Homogeneous Assay Schemes

HaloTag^TM Technology for Protein Arrays

Partial Hydrolysis of a Polyimide Surface for Biomolecule Immobilization and Biosensing

Label-Free Biosensing in Array Format Utilizing Surface-Adsorbed Core-Shell Nanoparticle Layers

Towards a Label-Free Biosensor: Defining and Measuring Sensitivity of Nanoscale Plasmonic Systems

Impact of Subsurface Defects in Metal-ZnO(000-1) Schottky Barrier Formation

Surface and Optical Properties of Zn-face versus O-face ZnO

Synthesis and Characterization of ZnO Thin Films

Low Resistivity Aluminum-Doped Zinc Oxide Grown by Atmospheric Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition

Transparent Conducting Zinc Oxide Thin Films Doped with Aluminum, Molybdenum, and Vanadium

Study of Impurities and Dopants in CVD Grown ZnO:N

Carrier Dynamics of ZnO Thin Films - Degeneracy, Inhomogeneity and Multiple Carriers

On the Morphology and Conductivity Control of the Expanding Thermal Plasma-Deposited ZnO Films

X-ray Excited Optical Luminescence Studies of ZnO Nanowires and ZnO/Mg_xZn_(1-x)O Core-Shell Nanowires*

Overview of Magnetic Recording Technologies

Orbital Magnetism of Fe and Pt in Monodisperse FePt Nanoparticles

Probing the Exchange Interactions Between Stable Photogenerated Carriers in Colloidal Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Dots

Single Domain and Vortex State Phase Fractions in Arrays of sub-100nm Fe Nanodots*

Nanostructured Ultrathin Films and Nanowires: A Playground for Manipulating the Magnetic Anisotropy

Fingerprinting Magnetization Reversal in Magnetic Nanostructures

Ultrathin Film Magnetism by Surface Manipulation

Controlled Fabrication of Nanotube Devices using Nanotubes of Known (n,m) Indices

Compensation of Strain Gradient by Varying Dopant Profile during the Growth of Polycrystalline Silicon Carbide Films

Characterization of APCVD and LPCVD Based Polycrystalline 3C-Silicon Carbide Resonators

NEMS and AFM Cantilevers Synthesized from Metal Nanocomposites

Gray-scale Technology for 3-D Static and Dynamic MEMS

Effects of Tensile Stress and Viscous Damping on the Resonance of Nanomechanical Beams and Cantilevers

Piezoelectric-Diamond Hybrid Heterostructures for High Performance MEMS/NEMS Devices

Nanotechnology Oversight - Managing Potential Risk in an Uncertain World

Nanoparticle Occupational Safety and Health Consortium

Nanotech for Environment Renaissance - Soil and Groundwater Cleanup using Reactive Nanoparticles

Ethics between Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: Making Space for a Discussion

Electronic Transport in Nanometer-Scale Silicon Membranes

Nanoelectronic Device Characterization: Correlating Internal Nanoscale Chemical and Physical Structure with Electrical Behaviour

Manipulating Liquids on the Tunable Nanostructured Surfaces

Ideal Control of Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor Characteristics depending on Precise Work Function Difference

Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers for Energy Storage Applications

Local Probing of Polarization Switching in Low-Dimensional Ferroelectrics

Quantitative Measurement of Tip-Sample Forces in Amplitude Modulation Atomic Force Microscopy

Novel Standards for Dimensional and Analytical Nanometrology

Electronic Structure Studies of CdSe Nanocrystals Using Synchrotron Radiation

Reliable XPS Measurement of Sub nm SiO₂ Thickness by Determination of the Surface Normal

Deterministic Growth of Individual Ge Nanowires within Lithographically Patterned Arrays

Investigating the Motion of Molecular Machines on Surfaces: Driving Nanocars

Toward Stable Molecular Devices: Desorption of Cyclopentene from p-Si(100) with UHV-STM and Density Functional Theory

Site-Specific Force spectroscopy and Following Artificial Nanostructuring

Tuning the Self-Assembly of Metal Nanoclusters on Diblock Copolymer Templates

Selecting and Driving Nanoscale Assembly in Monolayer Films through Tailored Intermolecular Interactions

Exploring and Manipulating Fullerenes at the Single Molecule Level

Electrochemical STM Investigations of Redox-Active Tetrathiafulvalene Islands Embedded in Alkanethiol SAMs

Resolving Gate Patterning Issues at sub 65 nm Technology Nodes

Plasma Impact on ArF Resist Line Edge Roughness

ArF Resist Friendly Etching Technology

Plasma Etching of Nano-Scale, Sub-10nm, Features

Nickel Atom and Ion Density in an Inductively Coupled Plasma with an Internal Coil

Bias Frequency Effect on SOC Film Degradation in sub-45 nm Line and Space Pattern SiO₂ RIE using S-MAP

High Aspect Ratio (>10:1) Amorphous Carbon Layer Etching Using Soft Etch Capability in a High Frequency Capacitive Coupled Plasma Source Dielectric Etch Chamber

Chamber and Process Development of High Aspect Ratio Deep Trench Si Etch for DRAM Application below 60 nm

New Methods for Studying Plasma-Surface Interactions

Studies of Oxygen and Chlorine Atom Recombination Reactions on Anodized Aluminum in O₂/Ar, Cl₂ and Cl₂/O₂ Plasmas by a Spinning Wall Method

Plasma-Surface Reaction Mechanisms for Si Etching Profiles in UHF-ECR Cl₂/O₂, Cl₂/O₂/HBr Plasmas

Surface Reactions in Plasma Etching of Nitrided Hafnium Silicates

Ion-Enhanced Plasma Etching of Hafnium Aluminates in Chlorine Based Plasmas

Ion-Radical Synergy in HfO₂ Etching Studied in a Beam Experiment

Incorporation of the Kinetic Modeling into the 3-D Monte Carlo Profile Simulation

3-Dimensional Feature Scale Profile Simulation of Surface Roughness in Physical Sputtering Process

Modeling of Contact Hole Etching Profile in Two Geometrically Different Ways

Enhancement of NF3 Etching Rates in PECVD Chamber Cleaning

Thermal Stability of Metallic Nano-Clusters and Film Patterning on Solid Surfaces Studied Via Weakly Bound Buffer Layer

CO and NO Reactions over Rh Nanoparticles Supported on Ceria Thin Films¹

Size Dependent Composition and Catalytic Reactivity of Platinum Clusters from First Principles

Formic Acid Decomposition on Pd Nanoparticles Deposited on TiO₂(110)

Pd Cluster Growth on the SnO2 (101) Surface

New Atomic-Scale Insights Into Promoter and Support Effects on MoS₂ Nanoclusters from STM Studies of Hydrotreating Model Catalysts

Deposition and Reactivity of Mo_xS_y (x/y=4/6, 6/8, 7/10) Clusters on Au(111)

The Structure of Catalytically Active Gold

Novel Gold Catalysts: UHV and Ambient Studies on Nanoporous Gold Surfaces

Reactions of Ozone with the Constituents of Sea Salt Particles

Nanocarpet Effect: Formation and Characterization of Watermarks on Aligned Silicon Nanorod Arrays

Lateral Water Ordering at Reconstructed MgO(111) Surfaces

2006 Medard W. Welch Award Lecture - Surface Composition and Surface Chemistry of Alkali Halide Solids and Aqueous Solutions

Growth and Structure of Water on Amorphous SiO2 Investigated by Kelvin Probe Microscopy and In Situ X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

A Combined Droplet Train / Photoemission Spectroscopy Experiment for the Investigation of Heterogeneous Reactions on Liquid Surfaces

Ion Depth Profiles at the Liquid - Vapor Interface of Electrolytes in Mixtures of Water and Alcohol

Interfacial Water Structure and Dynamics Probed with Chemical Force Microscopy

The Adsorption and Uptake of Acetone on Ice Studied with Ambient Pressure Photoemission Spectroscopy

Rapid Thermal Annealing of Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) Films on Flexible Substrates

Gate Dielectric Development for Flexible Electronics

Thin-Film Amorphous Silicon Transistors on Flexible Substrates

DC Magnetron Sputtered ITO Thin Film on Plastic Substrate with Hard Coating

The Surface States of MgO Thin Films Deposited with a Flow of Gases by e-beam Evaporation

Local Bonding Arrangements in Ge-Sb-Te Alloys for Optical Memory Applications: Correlations between Device Performance and Te and Sb Bonding

Sputter Deposition of Al Doped ZnO Films with Various Incident Angles

Turbo Pump Developments for Radioactive Environment in High Energy Physics Applications

Use of Getter-Catalyst Thin Films for Enhancing Ion Pump Vacuum Performances

Strategies for Safe Hydrogen Pumping with Mechanical Vacuum Pumps

The Effect of Sampling System Surfaces on Gas Species Measured by RGA Analysis

Limiting Processes in Vacuum Measurement

Enhancement of Accuracy and Interchangeability of Multi-Sensor Gauges by Use of Individualized Calibration Parameters Stored on the Sensor Assembly Itself

The Deviation and the Long-Term Variation of the Sensitivity Factor of an Axial Symmetric Transmission Gauge