AVS2013 Tuesday Morning

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Session	Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Session	8:00 AM			9:00 AM			10:00 AM			11:00 AM

AC+	From Berkeley to Bristol: Defect Structures in Actinide Oxides		Covalent Interactions in Metal Oxides	Historical Perspective on Studies of the Surface Reactivity of Actinides at the AWE, UK			BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall			Exploring Plutonium Electronic Structure Using a Unique Photoemission Capability
AS-TuM	Chemical Analysis of Surfaces and Ultra-thin Films: At the Forefront of XPS Analytical Methods		Sample-Morphology Effects on XPS Peak Intensities: Estimation of Detection Limits	The Active-Background Method in XPS Data Peak-fitting	Angle-Resolved XPS of Compound Semiconductors: A Straightforward Route beyond the "Relative Depth" Plot	The Effect of Electronic Relaxation on the First-Principles Prediction of XPS Spectra	BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		XPS for Characterisation of Optical and Electronic Devices under Operation	Practical Auger Spectroscopy	Angle-resolved Photoemission from Curved Surfaces	Uncovering the Mechanism of Bioleaching of Enargite by XPS
BI+	QCM-D for Energy and Environmental Applications			Accounting for Unintended Binding Events in the Analysis of Quartz Crystal Microbalance Kinetic Data	Silica Nanoparticle – Lipid Membrane Interaction Studies Towards Nano(Q)SAR?	Using Real-Time Acoustical Sensing by QCM-D to follow Dynamic Processes in Live Cell Morphology and Cell-Surface Interactions	BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall			QCM-D as a Novel Technique to Investigate Nuclear Pore Transport	Using QCM-D and Ellipsometry to Determine the Orientation and State of Hydration of Antibodies Adsorbed on a Hydrophobic Surface
EM+	Calibration of Capacitance Force Microscopy using Micro-scale Gold Dots	RF-PVD Si Capping for CET Decrease in High-h/Metal Gate 14nm FDSOI	Growth of Oxides for Negative Capacitance Gate Dielectrics		Switching Aspects of RRAM – First Principles and Model Simulations Insight		BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Comparison of Surface Defects on Cleaved GaAs(110) and MBE Grown InGaAs(110)	Scalability of Doped Cubic HfO₂ Films	Advance of 3D-stackable Binary-oxide ReRAM for Storage-class Memory Applications
EN-TuM	Chasing the Photovoltaic Race with Quantum Dot Solar Cells		Extremes of Heat Conduction in Molecular Materials		The Role of Catalysis in Developing Energy Resources for the Future		BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		A Direct Thin-Film Path towards Low-Cost Large-Area III-V Photovoltaics		III-nitride Nanowires: Novel Materials for Light Emission
EW-TuM							Nothing to Fret about Fretting	A New Truly Easy-to-Use Dedicated Infrared Microscope
GR+	Long-range Magnetic Order in a Purely Organic 2D Layer Adsorbed on Epitaxial Graphene	Graphene Thermal Properties and Applications for Thermal Management of Li-Ion Batteries	Graphene Nano-Photonics and Carrier Dynamics		Graphene Mechanics and NEMS Applications		BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Nano-plasmonic Phenomena in Graphene		Controlled Growth of Large-Area Mono-, Bi-, and Few-Layer Graphene by Chemical Vapor Deposition on Copper Substrate	Charged Vacancy Defects in Graphene: Stability and Charge States
MI+	Molecular Beam Epitaxy and Spintronics		Engineering Single Spins in Semiconductors for Sensing and Computation		Semiconductor Spintronics -- New Avenues and Perspectives: Graphene as a Spin Tunnel Barrier in MTJs and Silicon		BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Graphene Direct Growth on Magnetic Oxides on Co(0001): Graphene Effects on Oxide Magnetic Behavior	Nanocluster Size Effects in Au-Co Nanocomposite Thin Films: Correlated Non-linear Magneto-Optics and Magneto-Transport Studies	Spin and Heat Transport through Interfaces between Metals and Magnetic Insulators
MN+	Science and Technology of Integrated Piezoelectric and Ultrananocrystalline Diamond Films for a New Generation of High Performance MEMS and NEMS Devices		Utilizing Piezoelectric MEMS Across Length Scales			Two-Dimensional (2D) MoS₂ Semiconducting Crystal Nanomechanical Resonators with Frequency Scaling
MS+	Microfluidics for Chemical Analysis		Challenges in the Fabrication of Nanoscale Devices for DNA Base Sensing		Nucleic Acid Synthesis and Applications		BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Single Molecule, Real-Time DNA Sequencing		Opportunities and Challenges in the Biobased Products Manufacturing
NS+	Electrical Transport in 2-dimensional van der Waals Material Heterostacks		Transition in Mechanisms of Size Dependent Properties at Nanoscale Interfaces	Quantum Correction to the Transition Localization in La_2/3Sr_1/3MnO₃ Thin Films at Low Temperatures	Nano-enabled Chemical, Bio and Radiation Sensors		BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Ultraflexible and Stretchable Organic Devices for Biomedical Applications		Ultrahigh Thermal Conductivity Gold Nanowire-Filled Polymer Composites and Interfaces	Microscopy and Spectroscopy Study of Immobilization of Molecularly Imprinted Nanoparticles on (3-glycidoxypropyl)trimethoxysilane Modified Silica
PS1-TuM	Non-ambipolar Electron Plasma and its Physical Properties	Ion Energy-Angular Distributions in Dual Frequency Capacitively Coupled Plasmas Using Phase Control	Investigation of Photo-Assisted Etching in Different Halogen-Containing Plasmas and Synergetic Effects of a Tandem Plasma System	Control of Energy Distributions in Inductively Coupled Plasmas using Tandem Power Sources	Si-Gate Etching in Radial Line Slot Antenna Plasmas: Control of Selectivity, Anisotropy and Loading	Vacuum-Ultraviolet Emission Spectra of Plasma-Processing Reactors	BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Counteractions to Plasma Chamber Corrosions by Earthquake		An Improved Cathodic Arc Plasma Source for Large Area Coatings	High Density Narrow Tube Ozonizer by Increased Barrier Discharge Frequency
PS2-TuM	Evaluation of Highly Selective ZrO₂ and HfO₂ based Hard Mask Stacks for sub 30 nm Node Dry Etch Pattern Transfer	Approach to LER/LWR Improvement with Combination of DCS Technology and Newly Developed Resist Material	Metrology and Linewidth Roughness Issues during Complex High-k/Metal Gate Stack Patterning for sub-20nm Technological Nodes		Possible Si Damage Formation and Redeposition in Vertical Gate Etching Processes by HBr Plasmas	Impact of Etch Processes Over Dimensional Control and LWR for 14nm FDSOI Transistor Gate Patterning	BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		FinFET Patterning: Promises and Challenges of SIT^2 for Fin Formation for sub-40 nm Pitch Features		Stack Patterning Challenges for the FinFET Architecture	Mechanisms of Etching and Selectivity for FINFET Gate Low-k Spacer using RLSA™ Microwave Plasma Reactor with Radial Line Slot Antenna
SS+	Low-Energy Electron Microscopy (LEEM) Studies of Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) Deposited Titania Films for Electrochemical Energy Storage		Reactions on the Rutile TiO₂(110) Surface Studied by High-resolution STM and TPD		Atomic Structures on BaTiO₃ (001): Reconstructions, Step Edges and Domain Boundaries	Growth and Optical Properties of Cr- and V-Doped α-Fe₂O₃Epitaxial Thin Films	BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Growth of Oxide Nanowires on Vicinal Metal Surfaces: Atom Exchange Processes at Step Edges	Surface Structure of α -Cr₂O₃(0001) by X-ray Photoelectron Diffraction after Activated Oxygen Exposure	Preparation and Characterization of Rare Earth Oxide Thin Films on Metal and Silicon Substrates	Surface Core Level BE Shifts for MgO
TF-TuM	Fabrication of Top Gate Graphene Transistor using Physically Transferrable High-k Nanosheet using Atomic Layer Deposition	Resistive Switching Devices Based on Ozone assisted ZnO Films by Atomic Layer Deposition	Process Design and Development of ALD for Co(W) Alloy Films as Single Layered Barrier and Liner Material in Future Cu ULSI Interconnects		Control of Oxygen Vacancies by Plasma Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition (PEALD) of TiO₂ for Memristors	Area Selective Atomic Layer Deposition of Dielectric Films on Metal/Dielectric Patterns	BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Development of an Open-Ended Rotary Reactor for Plasma-Assisted ALD on Particles	Metal Ion Photoreduction on ALD Thin Films	Highly Conductive and Flexible Nylon-6 Nonwoven Fiber Mats Formed using Tungsten Atomic Layer Deposition	Room-Temperature Atomic Layer Deposition of Platinum
TR+		Ultra Low Friction Surface Designed by Biomimetic Approach	Thin Organic Monolayers on Inorganic Substrate: Ultra-Low Adhesion Friction and Wear Resistance Properties	Mechanical and Tribological Behavior of Carbon-Based Coatings Sliding against PEEK Polymer Counterfaces	Microstructure, Mechanical and Friction Behavior of Magnetron-sputtered V-C Coatings	Interaction of Stearic Acid with Iron-based Surfaces Coupling Experimental and Numerical Approaches for a Better Understanding of its Friction Behavior	BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		Low Friction on Metals – Glide Planes and Molecular Lubricants		Few Layer Graphene as a Potential Solid Lubricant	Scaling of Structural Lubricity
VT-TuM			60 Years of Vacuum Gate Valve Developments		A History of Vacuum from My Perspective!		BREAK - Complimentary Coffee in Exhibit Hall		How We’ve Learned More & More About Less and Less So That Now We Know a Whole Lot About Nearly Nothing - Vacuum Measurement Over the Years		The Quest for Extreme High Vacuum

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