AVS2012 Monday Afternoon

Rare Earth 4f Hybridization in Gallium Nitride

Revisiting the Yb Electronic Structure with Low-Energy Photoemission Spetroscopy

Erbium Rare Earth Thin Film Hydride Stress Studies as a Function of Processing Techniques

Splat Cooling Technique Contributing to Understanding of Uranium Systems

Investigation of Rare Earth Doped Lithium Tetraborate Glasses with XAFS and Emission and Excitation Spectroscopy

Eu-implanted p-type GaN: Charge-Driven Luminescence Hysteresis and Identification of a Possible Charge-State-Alternation Resonance of the Mg Acceptor

Polyatomic and Gas Cluster Ion Beam Depth-Profiling: A Model Indicating the Most Appropriate Source for an Arbitrary, Known Polymer Matrix and Estimates of Polymer Sputter Rates

XPS Profiling of Biosensor Materials with Argon Cluster Ions

ToF-SIMS and NanoSIMS Imaging of Uranium Distributions in the Sediment of Hanford Site

ToF-SIMS MCs_x⁺ Dual Beam Depth Profiling with Improved Dynamic Range

Surface Diffusion of Carbon on Metals and Complications for Auger Spectroscopy of Carburized Steels

Charge Referencing Complex Organic Materials in XPS using Hexatriacontane

PADI: Ambient Surface Analysis of Polymers and Molecules – Metrology Development for Reliable Analysis

Ion Beam Analysis of Surfaces and Thin Films

3D Niche Microarrays for Systems-Level Analyses of Stem Cell Fate

Microfluidic Gradient Systems to Generate Defined Cell Microenvironments and Study Cellular Fate Processes

What Makes the Heart Grow Fonder? High Throughput Screening of Synthetic Surfaces for Cardiomyocyte Culture

High-throughput Discovery of Polymers for Stem Cell Culture

Plasma Polymer Films at the Interface: Biomaterial Applications

A High Throughput Strategy for Studying Protein Pre-adsorption to Materials Developed for Stem Cell Culture

Combinatorial Development of Biomaterials for Pluripotent Human Stem Cell Culture

Biochemical Optical Sensors Based on Highly-Ordered Slanted Columnar Thin Films

Studies of Optical Properties of Hybrid J-aggregates and Nanocrystal Quantum Dots Layers for Photonic Applications

Love and Death, the Story of Most Proteins and Most Surfaces as Told by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

Detailed Photoresist and Photoresist Processing Studies using Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

Ellipsometric Characterization of a Thin Titaniumoxide Nanosheets Layer

Preparation of Abrupt LaAlO₃ Surfaces Monitored by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

Determination of the Refractive Index of a Gold-Oxide Thin Film Using X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

"6.1" Family: The Next Generation of III-V Semiconductors for Advanced CMOS: Epitaxial Growth and Passivation Challenges

Improving Nucleation and Passivation of Ge(100) via H₂O and H₂O₂ Dosing

Electrical and Physical Characteristics of High-k/Metal Gate MOS Devices on MBE-Grown Germanium on Silicon Using Aspect Ratio Trapping

In Situ Infrared Spectroscopy Study on the Temperature Dependence on the Growth Mechanism of Atomic Layer Deposition of Al₂O₃ on InP(100)

Ultimate Scaling of High-k Gate Dielectrics: Current Status and Challenges

AR-XPS Study of Al₂O₃/In-based III-V Interfaces after Annealing under Vacuum at Low Temperature

Effect of a H₂ Plasma Pre-treatment on the Reduction of Native Oxides at the PEALD Al₂O₃/InAs Interface

Research Strategies and Results Toward Improving Thin Film CdTe Photovoltaic Devices Beyond 20% Conversion Efficiency

Nanocrystal-Ink and Soluble-Precursor Routes to Earth Abundant Element Kesterite Solar Cells

Developing Earth Abundant and Quantum Dot Materials for Thin-Film Photovoltaics

Synthesis of Photovoltaic Cu₂ZnSnS₄ via Ex Situ Sulfidation of Co-Sputtered Cu-Zn-Sn Thin Films

Crossover from Intergranular Hopping to Conventional Charge Transport in Pyrite FeS₂ Thin Films

Plasma Assisted Synthesis of Pyrite Absorbers

Influence of Substrate Offcut on Electrical and Morphological Properties of Epitaxial Graphene

Direct Determination of Dominant Scatterer in Graphene on SiO₂

Tuning Electronic Properties of Graphene by Controlling its Environment

Study of Impurity-Induced Inelastic Scattering on Suspended Graphene by Scanning Confocal Micro-Raman Spectroscopy

The Adsorption of Molecules with Large Intrinsic Electrostatic Dipoles on Graphene

Growth of and Interactions in Epitaxial Graphene Layers

Squeezing of the Graphene Dirac Cone Observed by Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy

Interfacial Interaction of Graphene and Metal Surfaces Investigated by Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering

Acute Stress in Silicon Nitride

In Situ SEM Micro Tension Tests on Nanoscale Single Crystal Metals and Nanocrystalline Metals

Fabrication and Testing of Suspended Piezoelectric Nanocomposite Membranes

Fabrication of Nanoelectromechanical Systems via the Integration of Glancing Angle Deposition Thin Films

Electroactive Polymeric MEMS Actuators Fabricated by Thermal Imprinting of P(VDF-TrFE-CFE) and Poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS)

A CMOS MEMS Gas Sensor Using Monolayer Protected Gold Nano-Clusters Coating on Three-Dimensional Interdigitated Electrodes

Integration of Functionalized Biological Nanostructures with Conventional Transducer Fabrication Schemes

A Novel Computational and Experimental Methodology for Development of Therapeutic Microdevices for Rapid Reconstitution

From R&D Towards Industrial Atomic Layer Deposition: Challenges in Scaling up

Enabling ALD for Semiconductor Manufacturing

Migration to ALD Techniques in the Semiconductor Industry: Pattern Effects, Microloading and Film Thickness Variability in Dielectric Thin Films Deposition

Interface Analysis of PEALD TaCN Deposited on HfO₂ using Parallel Angle Resolved X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy for sub-20nm Gate Last CMOS Transistors

Atmospheric Pressure Atomic Layer Deposition of Al₂O₃ using Trimethylaluminum and Ozone

An Industrial Solution for Surface Passivation of c-Si using AlO_x Film Deposited by In-line Atmosphere Chemical Vapor Deposition

Solution Based Processing of Floating Gate Memory using Additive-Driven Self-Assembly and Nanoimprint Lithography

Optical Properties of As-Prepared and Annealed Gold Nanostructures Fabricated by Interference Lithography

Fast Turnaround 3D Nanolithography using Heated Probes – from Nanofabrication to Directed Assembly

Laser Assisted Electron Beam Induced Deposition of Platinum

Parallel Stacking of Extended π-conjugated Molecules on Si(100)-H Surface

Kinetics of disilane reaction on Si(100)-(2x1): Flux, Temperature, and H-coverage Dependence

SPM Lithography on Silicon Reconstructed and Hydrogen-Passivated Surface

Ultra-High Frequency Surface Acoustic Wave Generation in Silicon Using Inverted Nanoimprint Lithography

Variance of Proximity Effect Correction Parameter Measured on Silicon

Nanopatterning of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) based Hydrogel – Gold Nanoparticle Composite

Investigation of Al₂O₃ Nanostructure Surfaces Using Charge Optimized Many Body Potentials

Manipulating Ferroelectric Surfaces for Direct NO_x Decomposition

Catalyst Synthesis by Atomic Layer Deposition

Energy Alignment at Organic/Oxide Interfaces: The Influence of Adsorption Geometry and Chemical Bond on Interface Dipole

Energy-Level Alignment at Organic/Oxide Interfaces

Variable Kinetic Energy XPS of the Buried P3HT/ITO Interface

Organic Molecules Adsorbed on the ZnO(10-10) Surface: An Infrared Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy Study

In Situ Interface Analysis of Self-Assembled Monolayers on Metal Surfaces at High Water Activities by Means of a PM-IRRAS/QCM-Setup

Plasmas in Saline Solution Sustained Using Bipolar Pulsed Power Source – Tailoring the Discharge Behavior Using the Negative Pulses

Low Temperature Plasma Deactivation of Endotoxic Biomolecules: The Effects on Lipid A

Nonthermal Bioplasma Sources and its Interactions to the Microbial, Fungal, Yeast and Living Cells

Deactivation of Lipopolysaccharide and Lipid A by Radicals Produced in Inductively Coupled Plasmas

Localised, Non-Contact Surface Modification with Microplasma for Biotechnological Applications

Biocompatible Nanocomposites Synthesized by Gas-Liquid Phases Plasmas

Organization of Dielectric Barrier Discharges in the Presence of Structurally-Inhomogeneous Wood Substrates

Role of Substrate Outgassing on the Formation Dynamics of Either Hydrophilic of Hydrophobic Wood Surfaces in Atmospheric-Pressure, Organosilicon Plasmas

Tailored Ion Energy Distributions on Plasma Electrodes

Self-Consistent Multi-Dimensional Modeling of Inductively Coupled Plasmas

Feature Profile Modeling of STT-MRAM Etch

Development of a New Industry Focused Plasma Simulation Tool

Mechanism of Generating Ions and Radicals in Fluorocarbon Plasma Investigated by Reaction Model Analysis

Excitation of Ion Acoustic Waves by Electron Beams

Multi-Peaked and Stepped Electron Velocity Distributions in RF-DC Discharges with Secondary Emission

Simulations of the Radial Line Slot Antenna Plasma Source

Layered Binary Metal Oxide Solid Lubricants for High Temperature Moving Assemblies

Free-standing Nanoscale Gold Pyramidal Films with Milled Nanopores

Synthesis of Superhydrophobic PTFE-like Thin Films by Self-Nanostructuration in a Hybrid Plasma Process

Creation of Highly Functionalized Polymer-Metal Oxide Nanomaterials Using A Novel Rotating Drum Plasma Reactor

Field Emission Dynamic Investigation of the Polymer-MWCNT Composite Films Depending from Vacuum Conditions

Cost Efficiency Trade Off in Nanostructured Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Systems

The Effects of Interfacial Bond Stiffness on Heat Transport: An Experimental Study Using Self-Assembled Monolayers

Growth, Nanostructure Formation, and Physical Properties of Single-Phase, Epitaxial, SrTiO₃-TiO₂ Nanocomposites: A Topological Insulator Approach to High-T Thermoelectrics

Creation and Reaction of Solvated Electrons at the Vacuum-Liquid Interface

Liquid-Crystal to Solid-Crystal Phase Transition in Flexible Aryl-Triazole Oligomer Adsorbates at the Liquid / HOPG Interface

State-Resolved Studies of Methane Activation: Mechanistic Insights into Gas-Surface Reactivity

Autocatalytic Decomposition Mechanism of Aspartic Acid on Cu(110) Surfaces

Quantum Tunneling Driven Assembly and Diffusion of Hydrogen and Deuterium on Cu(111)

H Absorption Depth Profiling Measurement at Ultra-thin Pd(111) Film by Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy

Novel Insight Into the Formation Mechanism of Subsurface Hydrogen at Pd(110) Surfaces

Glide-Plane-Specific Selectivity of HREELS Demonstrated in H:Si(110)-(1x1) Phonon Dispersion

Atomic Layer Deposition for the Synthesis of Nanostructured Catalysts

Using Metalcone Films Grown by Molecular Layer Deposition to Form Conducting Metal Oxide-Carbon Composite Films

In Situ Growth Study and Material Characterization of Plasma-Assisted Atomic Layer Deposition of Palladium

ALD-enabled Nanostructures for High Rate Li-ion Storage

Enhancement of the Heat Recovery Mechanism in Infrared Photovoltaic Devices Promoted by Thin Planar ALD Oxide Films

Ultra-thin TiO₂ Blocking Layer by Atomic Layer Deposition for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

First International Comparison of Standard Leak Calibrations of Metrological Institutes

Comparison of the Flow Ratio of the Permeation Type Helium Standard Leaks and the Gas Flow Generator Composed with a Small Conductance Element Made by Sintered Stainless Steel

Porous Plug Made of Sintered Stainless Steel used as Standard Conductance Element

Measurement of Gas Transport in Solids by a Saturation/Outgassing Method

Report on Workshop on Measurement Characteristics and Use of Quadrupole Mass Spectrometers for Vacuum Applications

Mass Spectrometry a Mile Deep: Issues and Solutions for Underwater Vacuum Systems

Performance Optimization for Autoresonant Ion Trap Mass Spectrometers

Differential Pumping Method for a Fast Partial Pressure Analyzer of Recent Design to Extend its Upper Pressure Limit Up to the Torr Range