AVS2008 Thursday Morning

Engineering Membrane Physical Properties and Dynamics using Structured Interfaces

Fluidic and Air-Stable Supported Lipid Bilayer and Cell-Mimicking Microarrays

Supported Lipid Membranes as Biomimetic Model Systems

Nanopatterning Proteins Over Large Areas for Biological Applications

Fabrication and Testing of Electrospun Novel Biodegradable Polyurethane Scaffolds

Electrically Insulating Pore-Suspending Membranes on Highly Ordered Porous Alumina

Supported Lipid Bilayers on Nanoporous Substrates for Multi-technique Membrane Sensing

Patterning of Plasma Polymers for Bioarray

AlGaN/GaN HEMT And ZnO Nanorod Based Sensors for Chemical and Bio Applications

Label-Free Dual Sensing of DNA-Molecules using GaN Nanowires

Magnetic Tweezer Sensor for Ensemble Binding Events of Nonmagnetic Particles

The Effect of Cell Culture Parameters on Cell Release Kinetics from pNIPAM

Fabrication And Sample Preparation For Microfluidic Molecular Diagnostics

Designing the Interfaces between Biomolecules and Semiconductor Substrates: From the C60 Buckyball Model System to Shape-Restricted DNA Molecules

The Effect of a Spacer Thiol on the Orientation and Hybridization Properties of 40mer DNA SAMs on Gold

Anchoring and LT-STM/STS Characterization of Single Organic Molecules at Semiconducting and Insulating Surfaces

Molecular Self-Assembly of Funtionalized Fullerenes on a Closed Packed Metal Surface

Point-probe Tunneling Measurements of Sheet Conductance of Metallized Silicon Surfaces

Photoluminescece Spectroscopy on Near Surface InAs Quantum Dots and Wetting Layers

Barrier Formation and Transport in Metal Contacts to Nanotubes and Nanowires

Reliability of III-N Electronic Devices

The SiC Surface: A Surface of Growing Technological Importance

Investigation of Negative Electron Affinity in Hydrogen Complex Deactivated Surface of InP:Zn (100)

Nano-Structured and Micro-Structured Semiconductors for Better Efficiency of Solar Cells

Endohedral Metallofullerenes as Improved Acceptor Materials for Organic Solar Cells

Morphology Study of Vacuum-Deposited Pentacene:C60 Mixed Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications

Tailoring the Morphology of Organic Solar Cells with Surface Templates

Photoemission Studies of Lead Sulfide Nanocrystals in Organic Films

Rational Design of Nanostructured Hybrid Materials for Photovoltaics

Electronic Energy Level Alignment in Dye Sensitized Oxide Surfaces

Preparation of Nanoporous ZnO Photoelectrode using PEG Template for the Fabrication of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Metal / Polymer Interfaces: Ca on Polyfluorenes

Spatially-Resolved, Surface-Species Concentrations from Electron Reflectivity -- How Graphene Grows on a Metal

Electron Diffraction Characterization of In Situ Deformation of Gallium Oxide Nanobelts

Direct Observation of Carbon Nanotubes Formation from Selectively Fabricated Catalyst Particles

Investigating Catalyst Behavior Prior to and during the Growth of Carbon Nanotubes with Environmental Cell TEM

In-situ Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy Studies of Interfaces in Advanced Li-ion Batteries under Dynamic Operation Conditions

The Dynamics of the Initial Oxidation Stages of Cu and Cu Alloys

Exchange-Split Surface State on Gd(0001) Revisited

Electrical Injection and Detection of Spin-Polarized Carriers in Silicon in a Lateral Transport Geometry

Room Temperature Ferromagnetism and Surface Morphology in Cr-doped Ga₂Se₃ Films on Si(001)

Organic-based Magnetoelectronics from an Electronic Structure View

Electrical Spin Injection into InAs Wetting Layer

Phase Coexistence in the AF to FM Transition in Epitaxial FeRh Thin Films

A Surface-Driven Route to the Synthesis of Mn-Si and Mn-Ge-Quantum Dot Nanostructures

Magnetic Exchange Bias in Epitaxial Fe₂₅Pt₇₅

Techniques for Three Dimensional and Molecular Scale Nanofabrication

Preparation of 25-nm-spaced PdAu Metal Electrodes on Silicon by Direct Nanotransfer Printing

Adhesion Enhancement using Plasma Processing in the Printing of Carbon-based and Organic Flexible Electronics

Fabrication of Microarrays with Nanoscale Chemical Contrast by Nanoimprint-Assisted Lift-Off

Inkless Deposition of Microparticles by Electrostatic Acceleration for Materials Processing

Plasma-Lithography Interactions for Advanced CMOS Manufacturing (45nm and Beyond)

Influence of Polymer Structure on Dry Etch Behavior of Resists in Soft Lithography

Confinement of Electrochemical Metal Deposition on the Nanometer Scale by a Hydrogen-Bonded Network/SAM Hybrid Structure

FIB Induced Self-Assembly of InAs Quantum Dots

Fabrication and Characterization of Conjugated Organosilicon Nanostructures with UHV STM and X-Ray Spectroscopy

The Driving Forces Underlying the Formation of Chiral Domains of Fluorinated Diacids on HOPG

Potential-Controlled Force Curve Measurements between Electroactive Self-Assembled Monolayers

Self-Assembly of Nanostructures and Nanocomposites using De Novo Designed Helix- Loop- Helix Polypeptides

Non-IPR C₆₀ Solids

Plasma Functionalized Surfaces for Chemically Directed Assembling of Luminescent Nanocrystals for Sensing and Optoelectronic Application

Insertion of Block Copolymers Into the Lithographic Process

Plasma Diagnostics in Microdischarges Using Laser Scattering

The Effect of Excitation Frequency on Microplasmas

Generations, Characterizations and Applications of Microplasmas Operated in Atmospheric Gases and Artificial Media

Atmospheric Dielectric Barrier Glow Discharges at High Overvoltage

Decoloration of Organic Dyes by Bipolar Pulsed Electrical Discharge in Aqueous Solution

Surface Modification of Ultra High Molecular Weight (UHMW) Polyethylene Films Using Atmospheric Pressure Dielectric Barrier Discharges

The Discharge Characteristics of an Industrial Scale Atmospheric Pressure Uniform Plasma Processing System

Influence of Air and Water Vapour Contaminations on the Atmospheric Pressure PECVD of Fluorocarbon Thin Films

Wave and Electrostatic Coupling in Dual Frequency Frequency Capacitively Coupled Plasmas Utilizing a Full Maxwell Solver*

Three-Dimensional Modeling of Capacitively-Coupled Plasmas with Asymmetric Reactor Elements

Flow-Plasma Interactions in Plasma Etching: A 3-Dimensional Computational Investigation

Modeling of Micro-Scale Si Etching under Plasma Molding in 2f-CCP in SF₆/O₂

Computer Simulations of Processing Plasmas

Simulation of Profile Evolution in Shallow Trench Formation by Plasma Etching

Investigation of Micro-Trenching, Bowing and Charge Accumulation on Mask using a Dry Etching Simulator Designed for Low-Pressure High-Density Plasma

Atomic-Scale Numerical Simulations of Surface Reactions in Carbon-Based Thin Film Deposition Processes

Coupling Reaction Kinetics of Gas Phase, Reactor Wall, and Wafer Surface in C₄F₈ and SF₆ Plasmas with Global Models

Sculptured Thin Films: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Randomness and Roughening in Glancing Angle Deposition

Scaling of Nanorods during Glancing Angle Deposition: Effect of Surface Diffusion

Glancing Angle Deposition on Rotating Patterned Substrates: Experiment and Simulation

Growth of Al Nanowhiskers on the Patterned Substrate by Glancing Angle Deposition at High Temperature

Characteristic Length Scale of Nanorods

Crystalline Organic Nanocolumn Arrays

Competitive Growth Mechanisms of Aluminum Nitride Thin Films Deposited by Off-Normal Reactive Magnetron Sputtering

Step Etching and Restructuring on Cl₂-exposed, Cl-saturated Si(001)-(2x1)

Ion Scattering from Au Nanoclusters formed by Buffer Layer Assisted Growth

Competition Between Particle Formation and Burrowing: Gold on Bismuth

Optical Anisotropy Induced by Oblique Incidence Ion Bombardment of Ag(001)

Producing Ultraflat Si(100) Surfaces with Aqueous Etching: STM and FTIR Yield Mechanistic Insights

Focused Ion Beam (FIB) Patterning and Selective Decomposition of III-V Semiconductors

Electron Induced Deposition of Amorphous Carbon Nitride Films

Low Energy Electron Induced Decomposition of Adsorbed Methylcyclopentadienylplatinum(IV)-trimethyl

A Study of the Surface Chemistry and Cross Sections for Electron Induced Dissociation using Temperature Programmed Desorption

Hybrid Nano-Oxide System for Oxidation of Methanol at Lower Temperatures

Decomposition of Methanol on High Surface Area Titanium Carbide Films

Catalysis by Atomic-Size Centers

The Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Methanol by Vanadia Particles Supported on Ceria Thin Films

Photochemistry of (NO)₂ Layers on Alumina-Supported Ag Nanoparticles: Size and Excitation Influences

Effects of Nanocluster Surface Chemistry on Electrocatalysis

Size-Dependent Structure of MoS₂ Nanoclusters

Size-Selected Deposition of Transition Metal Sulfides

Ligand-Spacer Controlled Size Selectivity of Gold Nanoclusters and the Effect of the Ligand on Cluster Geometry and Electronic Structure

Pulsed Laser Dewetting of Patterned Thin Metal Films: A Means of Directed Assembly

Vacancy Ordered Screw Form (VOSF) and Layered Indium Selenide (In₂Se₃) Thin Films by Pulsed Laser Deposition

Electrical Conductivity and Thermopower of Ti_nO_2n-1 Thin Films grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition

Effects of Pulsed Laser Deposition Conditions on the Growth of Ge Quantum Dot on Si(100)-(2x1)

Unique Initial Growth Mode for Rare-Earth Group-V Nanocrystals on III-V Semiconductors

Growth and Characterization of Cuprous Oxide Nanoclusters on Strontium Titanate (100) Surface

Low Temperature Growth of High-Quality Indium Nitride on Si(100) by Femtosecond Pulsed Laser Deposition

Thin Films by Metal-Organic Precursor Plasma Spray

Dependence of Fiber Texture on Composition in Au-SiO₂ Composite Thin Films

Phase Transformation Behaviors of SiO₂ Doped Ge₂Sb₂Te₅ Films for Application in Phase Change Random Access Memory

Evaluation of Ti-In-N Films for Tribological Applications

Nanostructured Sulfur Doped CHx-TiB2 Coatings for Improved Mechnical and Friction Performance

Latest Developments on the Family of C-alloyed TMD Self-lubricating Coatings

Reduction in Friction and Micropitting by Coatings and Lubricants Containing Inorganic Fullerenes

Tribology of Carbon Films in Hydrogen and Deuterium Gas Environments

Tribomaterials for Spacecraft: Testing & Surface Chemistry

Nano-Smooth Diamond Coatings on Various Alloys for Ultralow Friction in the Presence of OH-Containing Lubricants

Tribology of Nanocrystalline Diamond Coatings