AVS1998 Monday Morning

Synchrotron Based Low Z Materials Analysis

Contribution of a Fano Resonance and Pt-H EXAFS in the Pt L₂₃ XANES of Supported Pt Particles: Application to Materials Characterization

An Investigation of the Surface Chemistry of Lubricant Additives on Steel by NEXAFS Spectroscopy

Small Area Analysis: The Synergism of FIB/TEM Instrumentation

Small Area X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy using a Spherical Mirror Analyzer

Analysis of Heterogeneous Polymer Samples using XPS

TOF-SIMS analysis of Atmospheric Aerosol

Evaluation of Ge Based Detectors for Small Area Analysis

Detection and Passivation of Surface States in InP by Thermally Stimulated Exo-electron Emission Spectroscopy

Effect of Surface Rheology on Anti-Adhesive Properties of Water-Soluble Thin Films

Probing the Local Interaction Forces with the AFM between Tertraglyme and Fluorinated Polymers and Biomolecules

Proteins at the Solid-Solution Interface: Significance, Behavior and Manipulation

Molecular Recognition Between Genetically-Engineered Streptavidin and Surface-Bound Biotin

Interfacial Influences on the Apparent Activity of Immobilized Electron Transfer Proteins

Interfacial Supra-Biomolecular Assemblies on Solid Supports

Qualitative and Quantitative Mass Spectrometric Methods for Probing Surface-Protein Binding Affinity

Biosensing Using Colloidal Au Arrays as Biocompatible Substrates and Au:Protein Conjugates as Signal Enhancing Agents

Electron Transfer of Cytochrome c on Lipid-Coated Graphite Electrode

SCALPEL: Projection Electron Beam Lithography

Fundamental Issues in Wafer Bonding and SOI

The Fundamental Mechanisms of Silicon Wafer Bonding and Layer Exfoliation

DARPA High Definition Systems Program

Field Emission Energy Distributions from Silicon Field Emitter Arrays

Effects of Oxygen on Silicon and Platinum-coated Silicon Field Emitter Arrays

Improved Performance in Thin Film Electroluminescent Phosphors by Fluxing

Overcoming Barriers to MEMS Prototyping and Production

Materials, Process, and Integration Issues in SiC MEMS

Thermally-Actuated Micro-Beam for Large In-Plane Mechanical Deflections

Development of a Micro EHD Pump Using Laser Micro-machining

Laminated Plastic Microfluidic Components for Biological and Chemical Systems

Deep Anisotropic Etching of Silicon

Application of the Footing Effect in the Microfabrication of Self-Aligned, Free-Standing Structures

Test Structure Experiments and Modeling of Very Deep Dry Etching Processes for MEMS Applications

Pattern Shape Effects and Artefacts in Deep Silicon Etching

Nanotribological Interactions: Hard and Soft Interfacial Junctions

Measuring Nanocontact Adhesion and Deformation

Adhesive Interactions and Damage Mechanisms in Scanning Probe Microscopy: A Study by Interfacial Force Microscopy

Friction and Adhesion in the Attractive Regime

Tribology and Mechanical Properties of Langmuir-Blodgett Monolayers

Deformation and Friction of Organic Monolayers

Structure-Dependent Viscoelasticity During Alkane Thiol Monolayer Growth

Lubrication Brought to Light: Optical Signatures of Nanomechanical Effects in Organic Thin Films

In-situ Investigation of the Influence of a Mechanical Load on the Orientation of Organic Monolayers with Second Harmonic Generation

Polymers for Optoelectronics

High Efficiency Three Color Stacked Organic Light Emitting Devices

Excited-State Electronic Structure of Conjugated Polymers and Oligomers: Characterization of the Luminescence and Two-Photon Absorption Properties

Gain, Amplified Spontaneous Emission and Lasing in Semiconducting Polymers

XPS and AFM Investigation of Stability Mechanism of tris-(8-hydroxyquinoline) Aluminium Based Light-Emitting Devices

A Comparison of the Change in the Valence Electronic Structure of p-sexiphenyl Thin Films upon Doping with K and Cs

The Independence of Feature Profile Evolution on Mask Charging During Chlorine Plasma Etching of Si (100)

Is Notch Formation Chemical or Physical?

Feature Evolution Simulations of Silicon Trenches

An Integrated Multi-Scale Modeling Approach to Predicting Ionized PVD Step Coverages

Notch Formation by Stress Induced Etching of Polysilicon

The Influence of Insulator Charging on Ion Scattering and Feature Evolution During Plasma Etching

Feature Profile Evolution during the High Density Plasma Etching of Patterned Polysilicon

Modeling of Finite 3-Dimensional Features in High Density Plasma Etching¹

Charging Effects in Profile Evolution during Etching of Silicon in High-Density Plasmas

Effect of Residual Chlorine (Cl) Atoms for Notching Formation in a High Density Plasma Reactor

A General Predictive Semi-Empirical Feature Profile Simulator

The Physical Origin of Surface Relaxation¹

Unoccupied States vs Coverage in Alkali Metals on Mo(110) by Auger Decay, NEXAFS, and Bandmapping

Auger Photoelectron Coincidence Spectroscopy of Ag and the Ag/Cu(100) Surface Alloy

Photoelectron Spectroscopy Studies of Adhesion, Alloying and Segregation in the Platinum - Tungsten Bimetallic System

Electronic Structure of Sn/Ge(111) along the √3 x √3 to 3x3 Phase Transition

Surface Electronic Structure of Wurtzite GaN(0001)1x1 Studied with Angle-Resolved Photoemission

Fermi Surface and Metallization of the Ag/Si(111)7x7 Interface

Analysis of High-Index Si(001) Surfaces by Reflectance-Difference Spectroscopy

HRPES Study of Acetylene Adsorption and Reaction with Si(100)-2x1 Surface

The Electronic Structure of Nanosized Mg Clusters on MgO Surfaces: Characterization with MIES

Scattered and Recoiled Ion Fractions From Cd- and S-Terminated CdS(0001) Surfaces

An X-ray Absorption Study of Saturated Hydrocarbons Physisorbed on Metal Surfaces

An Atom Specific Probe of the Surface Chemical Bond Using X-ray Emission Spectroscopy

The Role of Steps and Kinks in Catalytic Activity

Face Specificity and the Role of Metal Adatoms in Molecular Reorientation at Surfaces

Theoretical Studies of Surface Reactions on Metals: I. Ethyl to Ethylene Conversion on Platinum; II. Photodissociation of Methane on Platinum

Chemistry of SO₂ on Ru(001): Formation of SO₃ and SO₄

Low Temperature STM Imaging of Furan Molecules on Pd(111)

Conformation and Orientation of Methyl Pyruvate on Ni(111)

Negative and Positive Adsorbate-Induced Reflectance Changes: Formic Acid on Cu(100)

Ordering of Chemisorbed PF₃ on Cu(001)

Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition of Transparent Conducting Films of Fluorine-Doped Zinc Oxide

Effects of Layered Structure on Properties of Transparent Conductive Films of ZnO/ZnO:Al

Chemical State Effects on Doped ZnO Film Properties

Photoemission Spectroscopy Analysis of ZnO Films for Display Applications

Transparent and Conductive Multicomponent Oxide Films Prepared by Magnetron Sputtering

Improvement of Microstructure of Indium-Tin-Oxide Films by Thin Film and Surface Technologies

Work Function Modification of Indium Tin Oxide

Application of High Speed Four-Parameter Stokes Vector Spectroscopy to the Characterization of Textured and Specular Transparent Conducting Oxide Thin Films

Transparent Conductive Oxides with Improved Performance for Plastic Flat Panel Displays

Ionised PVD and Filtered Arc Deposition; Processes, Properties and Applications

Transport of a Cathodic-Arc Plasma Through a Linear-Solenoid Macroparticle Filter

Characterization of Magnetron-Sputtered Partially Ionized Deposition as a Function of Metal and Gas Species

Effects of Coil dc Potential on Ion Energy Distribution Measured by an Energy-resolved Mass Spectrometer in Ionized Physical Vapor Deposition

Modeling of Large Cluster Synthesis

Combined Monte Carlo and Fluid Sputter Transport Model in an Ionized PVD System with Experimental Plasma Characterization

Plasma Diagnostics of Magnetic Field Assisted Ionized Magnetron Sputtering

Study of Thin Films Deposited from a Copper Beam Formed in an Argon Atmosphere Capable of Condensing Nanoparticles

Novel (111)-Textured AlCu Growth by Ionized Metal Plasma (IMP) Ti Underlayer

Plasma Polymerization of Fluorine Alloyed Amorphous Carbon Coatings

Data Evaluation of Gas-Analytic Mass Spectra: Special Aspects of Getter-Assisted Helium Analysis

Long Term Behavior of an Axial-Symmetric Transmission Gauge

Ultra-high Vacuum Instrumentation Development Studies

Effect of Background Neutral Pressure on the m=1 Diocotron Mode Amplitude in a Pure Electron Plasma¹

Ionization Gauge Errors at Low Pressures

Plasma Expansion in a Malmberg-Penning Trap as a Function of Background Pressure¹

Outgassing Measurements of Vacuum Compatible Stepper Motors