AVS2010 Tuesday Morning

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Session	Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Session	8:00 AM			9:00 AM			10:00 AM			11:00 AM

AC+		An Alternative Model for Electron Correlation in Pu	Correlation Effects in Gadolinium Compounds: Comparison of Theory and Experiment		Electronic Phase Diagram of Rare Earth Mono-Pnictides and Mono-Chalcogenides		BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Nanotechnology in the Actinides: Uranium Thin Films and Multilayers		Growth and Characterization of Dy/Y Superlattices	Study of f Electron Correlations in Uranium- and Cerium-Oxides by BIS and XES
AS-TuM	Recent Developments in Quantitative XPS and AES			Photovoltage, Photoconductivity and Charging Probed by Dynamical XPS Measurements	Order-Disorder Transition for Corrugated Au Layers	Surface Characterization of Gold Nanoparticles and Their Interaction with Protein G B1 Domain	BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall			Charging Compensation Method in XPS with Positive Voltage and Low Energy Electron Beam	Applications of Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy for Characterization of a Hybrid Ti-Si Sol-Gel
BI-TuM	Co-Culturing of Osteocytes and Neurons on a Unique Micropatterned Surface: Bone Pain in Cancer	Fabrication of Patterned Surfaces for the Growth of Human Neural Stem Cells		Biomolecule Microarrays in Neural Stem Cell Assay Development	Imaging Conformational States of Fibronectin on Patterned Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Surfaces	Measuring Contractile Cell Forces on Rigid Substrates	BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Biological Cell Detachment from Poly(N-Isopropyl Acrylamide) and its Applications		Rare Earth Nanoparticles - Biocompatibility Studies: Interaction with Human Neutrophil Granulocytes	Synchrotron Radiation X-Ray Fluorescence Mapping of Cobalt Ferrite Nanoparticles in BALB 3T3 Fibroblast Cells
EM-TuM	Resistivity Increase due to Electron Surface Scattering in Nanoscale Metal Films	Extracting Inelastic and Elastic Hot Electron Attenuation Lengths from nm-Thick Metal Films using BEEM	Influence of Spontaneous Polarization and Intrinsic Gap States in Schottky Contacts to ZnO		Dynamics of the Charge Transfer through the Individual Molecules in Alkanethiolate Self-Assembled Monolayers	Electronic Properties and Assembly of Zinc Metalloporphyrin Islands on Au(111) Surfaces	BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Deposition of Nickel Nanostructures by Electroless Deposition on Micron-Scale Patterned SAMs	Rapid DNA Sequencing via Transverse Electronic Transport		High Precision Local Electrical Probing: Potential and Limitations for the Analysis of Nanocontacts and Nanointerconnects
EN-TuM			Control of the Structural, Electrical and Mechanical Bending Properties of Highly Transparent Conductive Ga-doped ZnO Films Deposited on Polyester Substrates	Low-Temperature Deposition of Transparent Conducting Oxides on Plastic Substrates	Flexible Solar Cells Based On Monocrystalline Silicon and GaAs		BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Thin Film Photovoltaics from Nanocrystal Inks		Architectures for Enhanced Exciton Harvesting in Organic Photovoltaic Cells
EW-TuM							New Analytical Techniques for SAM	Multifrequency Techniques for AFM/SPM
GR+	Near-field Scanning Microwave Microscopy of Few-Layer Graphene		Mechanical Characterization of Freestanding Graphenoid Nanomembranes from Self-Assembled Monolayers	Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) Growth of Graphene on Copper	Structural and Electronic Properties of Graphene Synthesized by Chemical Vapor Deposition		BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of a Gated Single-Layer Graphene Device in the Quantum Hall Regime	Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Gated Bilayer Graphene Device in the Quantum Hall Regime	Monolayer Graphene on 150mm Substrate	Probing the Electronic Structure, Surface Chemistry, and Alignment of Graphene using Soft X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
IS+	Oxidation and Reduction of Pd(100) and Supported Pd Nanoparticle Model Catalysts	In-situ XPS Studies of CO₂ Captured by Aqueous Monoethanolamine (MEA) Solutions	Photoelectron Spectroscopy Under Humid Conditions		Chemistry of Aminoacids at the Water – Metal Interfaces under UHV and AP Conditions	In-situ Ambient Pressure XPS Observations of Reversible Charge Storage in Ni Electrodes	BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy: an Effective Probe for Electronic Structure in Materials Science		Novel Applications in Surface Science – In situ Sample Analysis in Extreme Environments
NS-TuM	Nanomanufacturing Processes using Mechanosynthesis Applications	Enabling Surface Patterning on Polyhedral and Curved Nanoparticles	Atomic Precision Fabrication Using Patterned Si Atomic Layer Epitaxy: Processing Capabilities, Throughput Limitations, and Applications		Axial Ge/Si Nanowire Heterostructures: Synthesis and Asymmetric Band-gap Engineered Tunnel FETs	Direct Writing of Polymers using a Heated Probe for Patterning Nanoparticles and Graphene	BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Understanding and Controlling Rotation at the Single-Molecule Level: Turning Rotors into Motors	Atomic Layer Deposition on Self-Assembled Block Copolymer Films
PS1-TuM		Sidewall Polymer Management of sub 20nm Shallow Isolation Trench (STI) Etch via Pulsed Plasma	Feature Scale Model of Shallow Trench Isolation (STI) Etch in HBr Plasma and Comparison with Experiments	Synchronous Plasma Pulsing For Etch Applications	Characterization of Pulsed Plasma Etch Reactors with an Integrated Global Plasma-Feature Scale Model	Atomic Layer Etching of Graphene using O₂ Radical and Ar Neutral Beam	BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Etching of Magnetic Stack for Development of Thermally-assisted Magnetic Access Random Memory	III-V Etch Challenges for Beyond 20nm Node
PS2-TuM	Wafer-level Plasma Parameters Measurements in a Multi-Frequency Capacitively Coupled Plasma Discharge	In-situ Measurement of High-Frequency Current and Voltage in Etching Chambers	The Determination of Energy Fluxes in Plasma Surface Interaction		Noninvasive Electrical Monitoring of Ion Current, Ion Energy, Electron Temperature, and Electron Yield	Controllable Electron Beam for Optical Emission Studies in Real-Time Process Plasmas	BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		A New Diagnostic Tool of Electron Energy Distribution Function in Capacitive Modes in High Frequency Plasmas	Frequency Probe Measurements in Processing Plasmas	Probe Geometry Induced Electron Energy Distribution Function (EEDF) Distortion	How Fast do Ions Fall Out of a Two Ion Species Plasma? Experimental Test of a New Theory
SE-TuM	PVD-Oxide Coatings for Tribological Applications		Nanostructure, Bonding, and High Temperature Oxidation of SiZrON Thin Films	Spinodal Decomposition of Ti_0.33Al_0.67N Thin Films Studied by Atom Probe Tomography	Structure, Mechanical Properties and Thermal Stability of Zr-Al-N Thin Films	Growth and Microstructure Analysis of Hafnia-Based Nanostructured Coatings	BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Low Temperature Synthesis of α-Al₂O₃ Films	Al-Si-N-O Hard Coatings Prepared by Reactive Magnetron Sputter Deposition from Composite Targets		Oxidation and Diffusion Study on AlCrVN Hard Coatings using Oxygen Isotopes ¹⁶O and ¹⁸O
SS1-TuM	Sulfur-Induced Reconstruction of the Ag(100) Surface	In-situ Spectroscopic Investigation of Adsorption and Reaction of Pyridine Molecules on Modified Pt Surfaces	Mechanisms of Catalytic Processes on Au: Imaging, Spectroscopy and Reactivity		An Atomic-scale View of Metal Alloy Surface Chemistry	Prediction of Surface Ensembles in Au-based Bimetallic Alloys using Combined DFT and Monte Carlo Simulations	BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Structure and Segregation at Clean and Oxidized Pd₃Fe(111) Alloy Surfaces	Role of Ensembles in Determining the Catalytic Activity of Au-Pd and Au-Pt Surface Alloys towards CO Oxidation and Oxygen Reduction Reaction: A First Principles Study	Adsorption Studies on Unsupported PdZn Alloy Powders	Reactivity of Epitaxial Vanadium Oxide Layers
SS2-TuM	Relating Aromatic Molecule Structure to Film Structure/Property Relationships		Optimal Electron Doping of a C₆₀ Monolayer on Cu(111) via Interface Reconstruction	Pattern Formation of Arenes and their Derivates on Cu(111)	Step Edge Barriers and Island Nucleation in Organic Thin Film Growth	Filamentous C₆₀ Structures at C₆₀:ZnPc Interfaces	BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Manipulating Island Density and Shape in Organic Thin Film Growth: the Nucleation of Perfluoropentacene on Self-Assembled Monlayers	Surface Structure Directed Chemistry: A Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of Chemically Reactive Self-Assembled Monolayers	Molecular Organization and Odd-Even Effects in in Perfluoroterphenyl-Based Monomolecular Films	From Selective Adsorption to Substrate Reconstruction: A Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of 4´-nitro-1,1´-biphenyl-4-thiol Self-Assembled Monolayers on Au(111)
TF1-TuM	Feasibility of Wrinkle Free Graphene Process		The Effects of Interfacial Organic Layers on the Growth of Thin Al₂O₃, HfO₂ and TaN_x Films by Atomic Layer Deposition	Property of Interfacial Layer Induced V_FB Shift in Al-related Gate Oxide Deposited by Remote Plasma Atomic Layer Deposition	Atomic Layer Deposited Pb(Zr,Ti)O_x Films Composited as Ferroelectric and Multiferroic Materials	Y₂O₃ Atomic Layer Deposition from a Novel Process and its Integration in a Gate First Approach for 0.8 nm Equivalent Oxide Thickness	BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Direct Liquid Injection Chemical Vapor Deposition of Nickel Ferrite and Barium Titanate Thin Films	Structure-Property Relationship in high-k, ALD Al-doped TiO₂ Films using Raman Spectroscopy	In-situ XPS and Half-Cycle Studies of Atomic Layer Deposited Al₂O₃ on Group-III Nitride Substrate for MOS-HEMT Applications	Defect Mechanisms for Chlorosilane Based Self-Assembled Monolayers
TF2-TuM	MRAM: A Practical Application of Spintronics		Bipolar Resistive Switching Characteristics of HfO_x with Anode-Interface HfAlO_x Layer	Plasma Treatments of HfO2 Resitive RAM	Growth of GeTe Films by MOCVD and PE-MOCVD for Phase Change Memory	Effects of Halogenated Plasma Chemistries on Degradation of Magnetic Material Properties	BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Phase Change Materials for Random Access Memories: Deposition, Characterization and Performance		Bipolar Switching Behaviors in TiN/HfO₂/Pt Systems for Nonvolatile Resistive Memory Applications
VT+	Reduction of Hydrogen Content in Stainless Steel Vacuum Components	Hydrogen Outgassing in a Small Vacuum Chamber	Point-of-Use Abatement Devices and Exhaust Management Strategies		Novel Instrument Capable of Efficient Gas Exchange to Remove Gas-phase Contamination in Complex Volumes Without Purging or High Vacuum		BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Modeling, Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of a Pulsed Vacuum System

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