AVS2006 Wednesday Morning

Recent Advancements in Polymeric Depth Profiling with an SF₅⁺ Cluster Primary Ion Source

TOF-SIMS Analysis of C60 Sputtered Organic Thin Films

XPS and QCM Studies of PMMA and Teflon AF1600 Films Bombarded by 1-20 keV C₆₀⁺ Ions

Applications of a Bismuth-Cluster Ion Gun in Organic and Inorganic Surface Analysis

Utilization of Polymers in Ocular Science Applications

Multi-Technique Characterization of a Drug Delivery System to Obtain 3-D Chemical Information

Combining Fluidics, Surface Chemistries and Direct Mass Spectrometric Detection to Address Protein Analyte Quantitation from Complex Samples for the Purpose of Diagnostic Assays

The Surface Characterisation of Arrayed Biomaterial Systems

Switchable BioInterfaces with Nanoscale Control

Investigation and Quantification of Immobilized Protein in Crosslinked Bilayers

Proteo-Phospholipid Assemblies on Nanotextured Surfaces

Transcending the Time-Domain in Protein Adsorption Simulations

Biofunctionalizing Nitride Surfaces without Silanes

Characterization of Surface-Immobilized Layers of Intact Liposomes by Atomic Force Microscopy Force Measurements and Quartz Crystal Microbalance

The Clinical Performance of Biomimetic Interfaces: the Long and Winding Road

Bioarrays with 10,000 Functionalized Spots per Square cm

Growth of GaP on Nanoscopically Roughened (001)Si

Formation and Ordering of Ga Droplets Using a Focused Ion Beam

Advances in THz Microelectronics

Recent Development of THz Wave Generation, Detection and Applications*

Influence of Nitrogen Incorporation on Electron Transport in Selectively Doped GaAsN/AlGaAs Heterostructures

Atomic Scale Morphology, Growth Behaviour and Thin Film Properties of Ga(In)NAs Quantum Wells

In-Situ Investigation of Surface Stoichiometry During YMnO₃, InGaN and GaN Growth by Plasma-Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy Using RHEED-TRAXS

Surface Electron Accumulation in Indium Nitride Layers Grown by High Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition

Imaging Magnetic Nanostructures via Resonant Soft X-Ray Spectro Holography

Magnetic Moment Measurements Using Anisotropic Magnetoresistance

Measuring Spin Dependant Hot Electron Transport using Spin-Polarized Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy

Spin-polarized STM as a Tool to Study Non-Periodic Magnetic Structures

Imaging Electrical Spin Injection in Lateral Ferromagnet/Semiconductor Devices

Intrinsic Nanoscale Electronic Phase Separation and Simple Percolation in La1-xSrxCoO3

Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in Quasi-One-Dimensional Li_0.9Mo₆O₁₇

Nanoimprint: Diversity in Materials, Processes and Application

Nanoimprint Lithography: Technology, Applications and Commercialization

Nanoimprint and Nanopatterning in Japan

Metrology for Nanoimprint Technologies: Needs and Prospects

Large Area Ultraviolet Nanoimprint Lithography Applicable to Flat Panel Display

Nanotribological Properties of Diamond-Like Carbon Thin Films: The Effect of Annealing on Nanoscale Adhesion and Friction

Spectromicroscopy of Tribochemistry: X-PEEM Characterization of Wear vs. Humidity for Ultrahard Carbon Films

The Role of Atomic Corrugation, Crystal Orientation, and Surface Chemical Bonding in the Nanotribology of Carbon-Based Systems

Influence of the Solvent Environment on the Contact Mechanics of Tip-Sample Interactions in Friction Force Microscopy of Self Assembled Monolayers

Indentation of Individual and Multiple Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with AFM

Measurements and Modeling of Shear Modulus of Multiwalled Tungsten Disulfide Nanotubes

Deformation Behavior of Low-Density Nanoporous Dielectrics

Nanoporous Au - a 3D Network of Ultra-High Strength Nanowires

Superconductivity Dependent Friction of Water, Nitrogen and Superheated He Films Adsorbed on Pb(111)

In Situ Quantitative TEM Nanoindentation of Individual Nanoparticles and Nanoscale Materials

Carbon Exposed to Hydrogen Plasma of ITER Relevant Conditions in Pilot-PSI

Control of Atomic Layer Degradation on Si Substrate

Modifications of Advanced Photoresist Polymers after Plasma Processing

Study of Energetic Ion and Radical Beams Interacting with Advanced Photoresist Polymers

Investigation of Plasma-Polymer Interactions for Plasma/Energetic Beam Templating of Materials

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Interactions of Ions and Radicals with Organic Masking Materials

Scattering Dynamics of Fluorinated Ions on Surfaces of Relevance to Plasma Etching

Plasma-Surface Interactions During Deposition of Hard Carbon Materials

In Situ Surface Diagnostics during Room Temperature Plasma Deposition of Polycrystalline Si Films

In-situ Spectroscopic and Kelvin Probe Studies of the Modification of Passive Films on Metals in Low Temperature Plasmas

Beam Activation for Atomic Layer Deposition of Ta-Based Barriers on Low-k Dielectric Surfaces

PECVD Synthesis and Optimization of High κ Dielectric Structures

Tantalum Oxy-nitride Film Deposition by Electron Cyclotron Resonance Plasma Sputtering for MIM Capacitor

In Situ Studies of Reaction Mechanisms during Plasma-Assisted Atomic Layer Deposition of Al₂O₃

XPS Study of Plasma Pretreatment of PEN and Related Polymer Substrates to Enhance Atomic Layer Deposition of Aluminum Oxide

The Use of Pulse-Shaped Substrate Bias for Energy-Selective Ion Bombardment During Amorphous Si Deposition

Effects of Clusters and Higher-Order Silane Related Radicals on Stability of a-Si:H Films Deposited by Plasma CVD

Methods of Producing Plasma Enhanced CVD Silicon Nitride Thin Films with High Compressive and Tensile Stress

Analyses of CH4/H2 RF Plasma and Iron Catalysts for Control of Carbon Nanotube Growth

Increase of O(¹D) Metastables by Rare-Gas Diluted O₂ Plasma and Application to the Oxide Growth

New Developments in Glancing Angle Deposition

Effects of Shadowing on Microstructure Evolution during Oblique Angle Deposition

Super Poisson Growth through Glancing Incidence Deposition

Formation of Al Nanowires by High Temperature Glancing Angle Deposition

Ta Nanocolumns Grown by Glancing Angle Deposition: Effect of Surface Diffusion on Column Branching, Merging, and Growth Competition

Onset of Nanocolumn Formation in Extreme Self-Shadowing Conditions

Nanospring Pressure Sensors and Branched Nanorods grown by Glancing Angle Deposition

Optical Behaviour of Sculptured Thin Films

Circular Bragg Reflectors Formed by Glancing Angle Deposition of Helically-Structured Thin Films

Modes of Alloy Crystal Growth Dominated by Sub-Surface Defect Dynamics

CO Adsorption on a Transition Metal Quantum Well System: fcc Co/Cu(100)*

Interaction of O₂, CO, and Methanol with Bimetallic Model Catalysts

Bimetallics - From Theory to Catalysis of Olefin Oxidation

'Live' Observations of Working Catalysts with STM and X-rays at High Pressures

Pinpointing where CO Molecules Reside and React on Stepped Surfaces

Adsorption of Gas-Phase Oxygen Atoms on Pt(100)-hex-R0.7°

Fluctuation Effects in Nanoscale Surface Reaction Systems: Influence of Reactant Phase Separation during CO Oxidation

Theory of Electron-Hole Pair Excitation in Chemisorption

Adsorption-State-Dependent Subpicosecond Photoinduced Desorption Dynamics

High Resolution Photoemission as a Probe of the Collective Excitations in Condensed Matter Systems

The Origin of Work function Changes Induced by Adsorbates on Metal Surfaces: A Theoretical Analysis

Rotational Disorder in Ordered Overlayer Phases

Mechanisms of Isomerization and Dehydrocyclization of n-Hexane on Pt(100) and Pt(111) Surfaces Studied with Sum Frequency Generation

Alane Formation on Al(111)

Exploring Experimental Vibrational Spectra of Surface Adsorbates Using DFT Modeling

Kinetics of NH Formation and Dissociation on Pt(111)

Preparation of Transparent Conducting B-doped ZnO Films by Vacuum Arc Plasma Evaporation

Photonic Band Edge Engineering through Nano Coating of Cu Thin Film on 3D Photonic Crystals

Thin-Film Superlattice Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Materials and Devices

Synthesis of CuO and Cu2O by a Process Combining Sputtering and Rapid Thermal Annealing

Microcrystalline Silicon Deposition Efficiency Optimization

Chemical-Kinetics Analysis of In-Vacuum Cu₂Te Thermal Decomposition and Comparison to Equilibrium Vapor-Pressure Measurements

B doped Be Coatings for NIF Target Development

Morphological Changes in CIGS2 Upon Thickness Reduction of Absorber Layer and its Correlation with Device Performance

Thermoelectric Properties of Compositionally Graded Co-Doped TiO₂ Thin Films

Procedure for Performance Monitoring of Thin-Film Photovoltaic Modules

Spectro-Microscopy with Undulator Radiation: Towards the Resolution Limits

Soft X-Ray Spectromicroscopy at the NSLS

X-ray Tomography: Imaging Biological Cells at Better than 50 nm Resolution

Diffraction Microscopy

Science at the Free-Electron Lasers at DESY in Hamburg: Status and Perspectives

In-Situ Electronic Structure Study of Chemical Reactions with Photon-In/Photon-Out Soft-X-Ray Spectroscopy

New Understanding of Ion-Beam Induced Gas Desorption*

Ion-Induced Desorption Yields for U⁷³⁺ and Ar¹⁰⁺ Ions at 15-100 MeV/u

Electron and Ion Desorption Studies at RHIC 

Ion-Induced Gas Desorption Modeling in High Vacuum Systems*

Photon Stimulated Desorption from Aluminum and Electroplated Copper Chambers

Outgassing of Construction Materials for Vacuum Chambers and Coatings for Reduction of Outgassing

Reducing SS 304/316 Hydrogen Outgas to 2E-15 torr liter/cm² s

Summary of the 45th IUVSTA Workshop on NEG Coatings for Particle Accelerators and Vacuum Systems*

Delicacy in the Activation and Measurement of Non-Evaporable Getter (NEG) Films