AVS2015 Tuesday Morning

The Tri-Angular Lattice Exciton (3ALE) Model: Exciton Physics at the Atomic Scale

Opposite Dependence of Microwave-Induced vs. Field-Induced Imaging Contrast in NV^- based Fluorescence Microscopy as Function of Optical Excitation

2D Materials and Heterostructures for Applications in Optoelectronics

Excitations and Ultrafast Charge Response in Bilayer Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides

Automatic Localization and Identification of 2D-Material Flakes by Spectroscopic Imaging Ellipsometry

Systematic Hydrogen Intercalation of Epitaxial Graphene for THz Plasmonics

Determining the Optical Properties of Exfoliated 2D Molybdenum Disulfide on Various Substrates with Imaging Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of 2D Semiconductor Monolayers

Development of Atom Probe Tomography for Studying Nuclear Corrosion Issues

Using Aqueous Solutions by Cryo-Fixation As a Matrix for Analyzing Materials in APT

Atom Probe Tomography Investigation of TiSiN Thin Films Made Possible by ¹⁵N Isotopic Substitution

Investigating the Alternating Cation/Anion Compositions in a High-Voltage Li-Mn-Rich Oxide Electrode during First Charge-Discharge Cycle using Atom Probe tomography

ASSD 30th Anniversary Speaker: Defect Detection and Characterization in Wafer Processing and Magnetic Storage Technologies – Then, Now and (maybe) the Future.

Characterisation of Glass-To-Metal Interfaces using FIB and STEM

X-ray Structural Analysis of Self-assembled Nano-Dielectrics

Multimodal Imaging for Physical and Chemical Surface Characterization using a Combined Atomic Force Microscopy-Mass Spectrometry Platform

Understanding the TERS Effect with On-line Tunneling and Force Feedback Using Multiprobe AFM/NSOM with Raman Integration

High Resolution CREM for Electrical Characterization of Thin Oxide Layers

Secret Ingredients in Thin-TFET: A 2D Material-based Transistor

Application of Thermodynamics to Processing Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Stress-Directed Compositional Patterning of SiGe Substrates for Lateral Quantum Barrier Manipulation

Interlayer Tunnel FETs

Graphene and TMD for Electronic Devices

On Smart Textiles and Vacuum: The Joys of Innovation and Discovery on Quality of Life

Ultra-dense Hydrogen and Low Energy Nuclear Reactions

Optical and Surface Properties of Semiconductor Nanowires for Solar Fuels

Engineering Surfaces and Interfaces for Photoelectochemical (PEC) Water-Splitting

Bulk and Surface Effects of Incorporating Titanium Into Hematite Thin Films to Improve Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

Iron Oxide Nanoparticle Growth on Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite (HOPG) and Photocatalytic Properties of Pt on Iron Oxide

Interface Design for Efficient and Stable Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

Buried, Hetero, and p-i-electrolyte III-V Photoelectrochemical Junctions with Significantly Enhanced Photocurrent Onset Potentials

X-ray Absorption Studies on the Li-S Battery Cathode Side

Ask the Experts Special EW Session

The Nano Probe Station for Your 2D Characterization Needs: The First Low Temperature MultiProbe SPM-NSOM System Integrated with Raman

Mesoscale Evolution & Temporal Analytics of Photovoltaic Energy Materials: A Degradation Science Approach

Why Structural Failure is Mesoscale: From Dislocations to Fatigue Cracks

Engineered 3D Mesoscale Battery Electrodes: Opportunities and Issues

A Materials Genome Approach to Design of Novel Materials and Liquids for Energy Conversion and Storage

Electrical Double Layer Effects on Ion Transport in Thin-Layer Solid-State Electrolytes

Water at Ionic Liquid Interfaces Probed by APXPS

Probig the Liquid-Solid Interface of polycrystalline Pt in 1.0 M KOH using Ambient Pressure Photoemission Spectroscopy and "Tender" X-rays

Toward Ambient Pressure Electron Spectroscopy with Conventional XPS Instrumentation

Solvation and Chemistry at the Interface: Near Ambient Pressure Electron Spectroscopy Studies of Aqueous Solution Interfaces

In situ Single-molecule Microscopy of Photoelectrocatalysis for Solar Water Oxidation

In Situ and Operando AP-XPS for the Oxidation State of Pd at Solid/Liquid Interface

In situ Characterization of Switchable Ionic Liquids by Liquid ToF-SIMS and SALVi

Expanding Roles of Materials Characterization and Metrology in Advancing Moore's Law

X-ray based Characterization of Strained SiGe on FinFETs

Atomic Scale Analysis by Atom Probe on 3D Semiconductor Structures

Preparing and Characterizing Nanoscale Topological Insulators

”More than Moore”: Could Silicene Be the Future of Electronics?

Challenges in Measuring Strain in Nanoscale 3D FinFET Structures

Strain Measurement using Electron Beam Techniques

Magnetic Interactions at Perovskite Oxide Interfaces

X-ray Imaging of Magnetism at the Nanoscale

Complex Fluorides: A New Class of Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Materials

Spin-Dependent Size of Interband Hybridization Gap: The Interplay of Adlayer and Substrate States in Pb/Cu(111)

Energy Dispersion and Spin Structure of Unoccupied Electronic States of BiTeI: A Matter of Surface Termination?

Abnormal Asymmetric Domain Expansion and Skyrmion Bubble Stability in Thin Films with Strong Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction

Control and Characterization of Magnetic Domain Patterns in Complex Oxide Microstructures

Microengineering for Mechanobiology

Introducing Students to MEMS: A Practical Process for the Fabrication and Testing of Piezoresistive Cantilevers

Deflection Control of an Electroactive Polymer Bimorph Actuator by Carrier Frequency Modulation

Solder Based Self-Assembly Method For 3D Integration Using Poly-Acrylic Acid

Mechanics and Spins in Diamond

Nano-Optomechanical Fin Resonators Designed for Sensing in Liquid Environments

Directed Magnetic Optical Resonator Microballoons for Particle Imaging Manometry in 3D Environment

Influence of Focused Electron Beam on Electrical Characterization of Advanced MOSFETs

In Situ Synthesis and Characterization of Core-Shell Nanoparticle Arrays Using Dynamic Transmission Electron Microscopy

Investigation of Nickel-assisted Growth of Silicon Carbide Nanowires

Homogeneous Nucleation and Characterization of Nanodiamonds Synthesized in an Atmospheric-Pressure Microplasma

Chemically-specific Intramolecular Imaging with Atomic Force Microscopy

Time-Resolved Small-Angle X-ray Scattering of Detonating Composition B-3 at the Advanced Photon Source

LEEM Imaging of Growth of Au on Ge(110)

Strength and Fracture of Graphene Oxide Nanosheets

Low-Temperature Atomic Layer Deposition of Crystalline Platinum Nanoclusters on Graphene Nanoplatelets Using (Methylcyclopentadienyl)-Trimethylplatinum and Oxygen

Interconnect Patterning in the EUV Era

Challenges for the sub-32nm Pitch Self-aligned Quadruple Patterning (SAQP) at Back End of Line (BEOL)

Novel Patterning Process for the 7xnm and Beyond

Advanced Interconnect Process Techniques with EUV Photolithographic Masks and Sub-50nm Pitch Structures

Advanced Plasma Etch Techniques for Sub-50nm Pitch Contact & Interconnect Etches

Characterization of Patterned Porous Low-k Dielectrics after Plasma Patterning and Subsequent Wet Processing/Cleaning

Cryogenic Etching of Porous Organosilicate Low-k Materials: Reduction of Plasma Induced Damage

Remote Shielded Microwave Mini Plasma Source for Sample Cleaning

Glow-Discharge Plasma Applications in the Biomedical Sciences: Frontiers and Horizons

Non-Equilibrium Plasmas in Contact with Solutions: Biological Interactions and Material Synthesis

Plasma Biomedicine and Reactive Species

Cold Atmospheric Plasma for the Treatment of Chronic Infected Wounds

Humidity Effect on the Surface Modification and Bio-Deactivation of Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) by Surface Micro-Discharge (SMD)

Plasma Diagnostics of Dielectric Barrier Discharge within a Sealed Meat Package

Low-Temperature Plasma Surface Modification of Porous Polymeric Materials for Environmental and Medical Applications

Synthesis of Hybrid Nanoparticles - Fluorinated (Super)Hydrophobic Coatings by Atmospheric Plasma : Possibilities and Challenges

Deposition of Antifouling PMOXA-like Coatings using Atmospheric Pressure Helium Plasma Jet

Antibacterial Silicon Oxide Thin Films Doped with Zinc and Copper Grown by Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition

Carbon Bridge Incorporation in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Coatings using Atmospheric Plasma Deposition in Ambient Air

Atmospheric Plasma in Liquids

Study of Polymer Confinement Effects in Nanocomposite Thin Films Synthesized by Initiated Chemical Deposition

Persistent Superhydrophilicity of Polycarbonate Surfaces via Nanoimprint Lithography and Atomic Layer Deposition

Enhanced CO₂ Permeation Characteristics Performance On A Crack-Free Nanostructured Ceramic Membrane

Active Sites of Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Materials for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Cerium Oxide-Induced Intercalation of Oxygen on Supported Graphene

Dissociation Dynamics of Energetic Water Molecules on TiO₂(110): Combined Molecular Beam Scattering and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study

Tracking Site-Specific C-C Coupling of Formaldehyde Molecules on Rutile TiO₂(110)

AVS 2014 Gaede-Langmuir Invited Talk: Models for Heterogeneous Catalysts: Complex Materials at the Atomic Level

The Solid State Li-CoO Conversion Reaction Studied by ARXPS and STM

Imaging Water Adsorption and Dissociation on RuO₂ (110) Surfaces

Surface Reaction Kinetics during Low Temperature ALD of Al₂O₃ Studied by Broadband Sum-frequency Generation

The Preparation and Redox Properties of Cu/Al₂O₃/ZnO(0001) Model Surfaces

ENDOM: A Simple Method to Deposit Nanostructures from Nanowires to Nanopores

Chemical Reaction on Photo-excited Plasmonic Nanostructures

Structured Noble Metal Nanosurfaces for Biosensing and Bioanalysis (4): TLC-SERS and In Situ Monitoring of Surface-Adsorbed Target Molecules

Growth and Intercalation of Cu and Dy on the Basal Plane of Graphite

Surface-Mediated Self-assembly of a Flexible Nucleoside Analogue into Micron-sized Hydrogen-bonded Polymers

Nanowire Kinking during Vapor-liquid-solid Growth: Experiments and Simulations

Adsorption of Water and Bromine on Gold Nanoclusters Investigated by Neutralization in Low Energy Alkali Ion Scattering

Optical Constants Measured for Fe, Ni and Pd by Reflection Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy Spectra

FAST-ALD^TM with Close Proximity (CP) Plasma for Low Temperature Applications: Nano-Composite Layer (NCL) Stacks for Flexible Substrates

Atmospheric Roll-to-Roll Spatial Molecular Layer Deposition for flexible barriers

Low Temperature, Temporal and Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition of TiO₂ using Titanium Tetra-Isopropoxide as Precursor

Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition into Flexible Porous Substrates

Accurate Precursor and Reactant Delivery for Quantitative Atomic Layer Deposition

ALD for Capacitor Technologies

Compositionally and Functionally Graded Hybrid Layer for High-Performance Adhesion

Applications for Mobile Vacuum Environments in Semiconductor Manufacturing

Experience of UHV Transportation of Critical Components

Particle Behavior in Vacuum Systems: Protection Schemes for EUVL Critical Surfaces, Speed Controlled Particle Injection, Prevention of Particle Formation during Pump Down

Differentially Pumped Interface to Transfer Environmentally Sensitive Materials Designed with Built-in figures of Merit