AVS2011 Thursday Morning

The XPS of Heavy Metal Oxides: New Insights Into Chemistry

New Insights into the Oxidation/Corrosion of Plutonium

The Oxidation of Uranium Dioxide at High Pressures in Pure Oxygen

Radiation Effects on Hydrogen Reactivity in Narrow Uranium-Uranium and Uranium-LiD (or Air) Gaps using MCNPX Code

Study of the Gd₅Ge₄ (010) Surface

Using Spatially Controlled Thin-Films Coatings Around Rare-Earth doped Nanophosphors for High Efficiency Energy Applications

Growth and Characterization of Scandia Stabilized Zirconia and Samaria Doped Ceria Multi-Layer Thin Films

Imaging and Differentiation of Epicuticular Waxes on Arabidopsis thaliana Organs by TOF-SIMS

Aqueous SIMS – Towards in Situ Detection of Chemical Reaction Intermediates in Aqueous Solutions

Challenges of the XPS Analysis of the Ionic Liquid [BMIM][PF₆]

Working with Difficult Samples - Preparation, Damage, Charging and Data Analysis

Transient Electron Emission from Insulators under Pulsed Electron Beam Injection

High Resolution XPS Chemical State Imaging of Fuel Cell Membranes

Gas-Cluster Ion Beam Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Characterization of Thin Films for Organic Electronics Applications

Surface Characterization: A Critical Component in Understanding the Biocompatibility of Biomaterials

XPS Sputter Depth Profiling of Organic Materials Using a Coronene Ion Source

Amino-rich Plasma Polymer Films Prepared by RF Magnetron Sputtering

Surface Analysis in Biotech & Pharma: A Surfeit of Frontiers

Enhancing Monoclonal Antibody Drug Detection by Developing a Microparticle-based Immunoassay

Controlling the Hydroaffinity of Silicone/Hydrophobic Acrylic Surfaces of Intraocular Lenses using Visco-Elastic Colloids and Blood Proteins

Application of Various Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Techniques for In Situ Studies of Thin Polymer Films on Solid Substrates

Hard Matter Meets Thin Polymer Films-Spectroscopic Ellipsometry as a Versatile Tool to Investigate Properties of Responsive Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Systems with Incorporated Magnetic Nanoparticles

The White Scarab Beetle Cyphochilus insulanus –Scattering and Polarization Properties

Real-time Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation Characterization of Biomolecule Adsorption within Sculptured Thin Films

Characterization of Multilayer Organic Thin Film for Use as an Aptamer Biosensor with Hybrid Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation

Contamination Processes of EUV Optics Characterized by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

Characterization of Organic Solar Cells Materials and Structures by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

Chemical Modification of Surfaces for Biological Applications

Modification of Oxide-Free Silicon Surfaces with Phosphonic Acid Self-Assembled Monolayers

Competing Effects of Interfacial Organic Layers on the Nucleation of Inorganic Thin Films Deposited Via Atomic Layer Deposition

Towards Molecular Electronics: Solution-Based Methods for Selective Deposition of Metals and Semiconductors

Sensing Mechanism for Peroxide and Hydroperoxide Vapors in Phthalocyanine Thin Film Transistors

Organic/Oxide Hybrid Thin-Film Applications for Photo-detector Cells and Complementary Inverters

Near-ideal Schottky-Mott Behavior of n-Si / Hg Diodes with Hydroquinone-Alcohol Monolayers

Electroless Deposition of Metals on SiO₂ Surfaces Modified by a Self-Assembled Monolayer

Exploring Intercalation Chemistry of Modified Graphene with Ionic Liquids for Energy Storage Applications

Electronic Structure and Chemical Composition of Candidate Conversion Material Iron Oxyfluoride

Lithium Ion Batteries: Present and Future Technologies

Templating of Porous Materials for Energy Storage and Generation

Exploration of the Effects of Si Nanowire Length and Doping on Li-ion Battery Anode Performance

In Situ TEM Electrochemistry of Anode Materials in Lithium Ion Batteries

Tailoring Graphene’s Properties through Chemistry

Water Splits Epitaxial Graphene on Ru(0001) from Domain Boundaries

Novel Strategies for the Chemical Functionalization of Graphene: Towards Graphene/Molecular Nanosheet Heretostructures

Biosensors Based on Chemically Modified Graphene

Controllable Defect Healing and N-doping of Graphene by CO and NO Molecules

Aptamer Modified Graphene Bio Sensor

A Molecular Dynamics Study of Chemical Modification of Graphene Oxide Sheets

Enhancing and Controlling the Chemical Reactivity of Epitaxial Graphene via Growth Induced Strain

Plasma-based Functionalization of Graphene with Primary Amines for Biomaterials Applications

The X-ray View of Ultrafast Nano Magnetism

Spectroscopy of Magnetic Thin Films

Detection and Control of Electronic Phase Competition in Complex Oxides

Room-Temperature Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Topological Antiferromagnetic Nanopyramids on Mn₃N₂(001) Surfaces

Growth Strategies for Mn Doping of Ge Quantum Dots: An STM Study of Reactions, Bonding and Phase Formation

Novel Iron-Induced Structures on Gallium Nitride (0001) and (000-1) Studied Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and First Principles Theory

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy Performed on Single Mn Monolayer on Wurtzite (000-1) GaN

Designing of Engineered Multiferroic Composites by Radical Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition

Chemical Modification and Patterning of Self Assembled Monolayers using Scanning Electron and Ion-Beam Lithography

Interlocking Pinwheel Chains Formed by Self Assembly of Aromatic Cyanides

Electronics and Mechanics of Single Molecule Circuits

Complex Rotation Mechanisms of a Molecular Machine Probed by STM

Self-Assembled Double Strand DNA Monolayers as Spin Filters

Controllable Phase Transition Using a Probing Tip

How Size, Shape, and Bond Strain Affect Electronic Structure in sp³ Carbon-Cage Molecules

Effect of Acetylene Concentration and Thermal Ramp Rate on the Growth of Spin-capable Carbon Nanotube Forests

2010 Plasma Prize Lecture - Super-low Damage Top-down Processing for Future Nanoscale Devices

A Numerical Simulation Method for Plasma-induced Damage Profile in SiO₂ Etching

Theoretical Analysis of Electron Transfer during the Process of Neutral Beam Generation

Energy and Angular Distribution Analysis for Neutral Beam and Application for Etching Simulation

High-Aspect-Ratio Silicon Etching using Large-Diameter Neutral Beam Source

Improvement in the Evaluation Technique for Plasma-Etch Si Damage using Photoreflectance Spectroscopy with Temperature Control

The Mechanism of Thin SiO₂ and GeO₂ Film Formation during Low-Temperature Neutral Beam Oxidation Process

Room Temperature Radical Annealing of Plasma Damaged Gallium Nitride

Effect of Rapid Thermal Annealing on Si Surface Damage by HBr/O₂- and H₂-Plasma

High Quality SiNx by Microwave RLSA Plasma Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition

Composition, Morphology and Optical Dispersion of Plasma Polymerized Titanium Oxide Derived Using PECVD

Plasma Deposition of Carbide-Based Composite Membranes for Hydrogen Purification

Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells using Nanoparticles of Si Compounds Fabricated by Multihollow Discharge Plasma CVD

Structure of Organosilicon Polymeric Films Obtained by Expanding Thermal Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition

Impact of VUV Photons and Ions on Metal Oxide Films Prepared by Plasma-Assisted ALD with Substrate Biasing

Plasma Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition and Plasma Etching of Gadolinium Oxide High-k Gate Dielectrics

Nano- & Micro-Hybrid Materials by a Novel Plasma Deposition Method

Characterization of Solution-Processed HfO₂, HfSiO₄, and ZrSiO₄ Thin Films on Rigid and Flexible Substrates for Memristive Applications

Tensile Testing of Substrate for Fracture Toughness of Thin Films

Structure and Properties of TaN-(Ag,Cu) Nanocomposite Thin Films

Nanoporous Osmium-Ruthenium Thin Film Coatings for Dispenser Cathodes

Influence of Chemistry and Structure on the Thermal Stability and Oxidation Resistance of Ti-Al-N

Design of Catalytically Active Nanostructured Coatings for Severe Tribological Applications

Structure and Electrical Properties of Nb-Ge-C Nanocomposite Coatings

Tuning the Properties of Chromium Oxynitride Coatings

Synthesis of Al-Cr-O and Al-Cr-O-N Thin Films in Corundum-Type Structure by Reactive r.f. Magnetron Sputtering

Bond Activation of Alkanes on CaO(100)

Reaction Chemistry of Methyl and Methylene Species on Cr₂O₃(0001)

Organometallics as Probes of Functional Group Distribution on Oxide Surfaces

Are MgO Thin Films More Reactive Than Bulk MgO Surfaces?

The Adsorption of Silver on Fe₃O₄(111) Studied by Adsorption Microcalorimetry, LEIS, and AES

Properties of TiO₂ Nanoparticle Arrays Functionalized with Pt Photodeposition

Atomic-scale Structure of the Polar Spinel MgAl₂O₄(100) Surface

Growth and Characterization of Cu/ZnO on Au(111) as a Model Catalyst System

Iron Oxide Growth on YSZ(001) and YSZ(111)

Growth Characteristic and Films Properties of Ga doped ZnO (GZO) by Low Temperature Atomic Layer Deposition

Enhancement of C-Axis Orientation of Ga-doped ZnO Films Deposited on Unintentionally Heated Glass Substrates using Nanosheet Seed Layers

Multi-component Transparent Conducting Oxides: Progress in Materials Modeling

Composition Control of Electron Beam Deposited Nb-TiO₂ Thin Films

Laboratory and Production-Scale Low-Temperature Transparent Conducting Oxide Deposition

Optical and Electronic Properties of Photonic Crystal Based Transparent Conductors

Effect of Plasma Treatment and Annealing on the Electrical Properties of Spin-Coated Colloidal ITO Films

Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Materials and Devices for Flexible Electronics Applications

Protrusions, Surface Grains and Extended Single-Crystalline Plates

Characterization of Mg Acceptors in GaN:Mg Grown by Metal Modulated Epitaxy and MOCVD

Post Deposition Annealing Effects on Thin Film Material, Process, and Device Properties

Semiconductor Thin Film Metrology using Coherent Acoustic Phonon Spectroscopy

On the Phase Formation of Reactively Sputtered ZrO₂ Thin Films

Effect of 10 keV X-rays on Silicon Oxidation

Investigating the Local Physical Structure of Amorphous Hydrogenated Boron Carbide

Characterization of Amorphous and Nanocomposite Nb-Si-C Thin Films Deposited by dc-Magnetron Sputtering

Evaluation of Mn-based Cu Barriers for Interconnect Applications

Aluminum Molecular Model for DSMC Simulations of Thin Film Deposition

ISSG Chemistry Modeling to Understand Uniformity Issues in RTP

Composition and Finite Size Effects in Thin Magnetic Films for Data Storage Applications: Magnetic and Transport Properties

Large Scale TiN Thin Films Growth Simulations via Improved Modified Embedded Atom Parameterization

Hard, yet Tough, Transition Metal Nitride Thin Films by Alloying and Valence Electron Concentration Tuning

Using Crystallographic Space Group-Subgroup Relations to Analyze Phase Selection and Transition in HfO₂ and Hf-based Ternary Oxide Films

Experimental and Theoretical Investigations Using SiO₂ Nanotemplates to Relieve Stress Caused by Thermal Expansion Coefficient Mismatch in Epitaxial Germanium Grown on Silicon

Controlling Heteroepitaxy through Surfactant-Enabled Growth: An Ab Initio Thermodynamics Study

Deposition and Modeling of Nanoscale Organic Porous Polymeric Layers and their Characterization with Visual and Electrical Methods

Electrochemical Control of Atomic Friction

Surface Alterations Effects on Ice Adhesion Strength

Atomistic Simulations of Nanoindentation and Nanoscratching of SiO₂/Si and HfO₂/Si Systems using COMB Potentials

Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Nanoscale Friction

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Contact between Carbon-Based Materials: Isolating the Effects of Experimental Variables

Modeling the Pressure Dependence of Shear Strength in Sliding, Boundary-Layer Friction

Lubrication Mechanisms of MoS₂ Fullerene-Like Nanoparticles: Coupling Computer and Experimental Works

Shape-Independent Lateral Force Calibration

Atomic Stick-Slip Friction Studied by Optimally-Matched Accelerated MD Simulations and AFM Experiments