The Pleasure and Pain of Working with Insulators

Surface Segregation in NixCo(1-x)O and MnxCo(1-x)O Solid Solutions

Dynamics of CO Adsorption on O-ZnO: a Molecular Beam Study

Compositional Heterogeneity in Cerium-Based Mixed Oxides Observed by XPS

The Formation of Magnesium Oxide Layer using the MgO Precursor Solution and its Secondary Electron Emission

Reactivity of Formic Acid (HCOOD and DCOOH) at Uranium and UO2 Surfaces

Characterisation of Ceramics Thin Films Deposited by Plasma Assited CVD

XPS and UPS Characterization of Single Crystal NaNO₃ and NaNO₂: Influence of Laser Irradiation at 248 nm

Surface Defects on Amorphous Aluminum Oxide Films as Corrosion Initiation Sites

Forces and Mechanisms of Self-Assembly: Non-Equilibrium and Transient Effects

Pulling Protein Networks in 2D

Separation of Long DNA in a Microfabricated Channel with Submicron Constrictions

Engineered Nanostructures to Control Microtubule Motion Along Kinesin Tracks

Force and Compliance Spectroscopy of Single Peptide Molecule

Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy by AFM, Nanomechanics Meets Molecular Biology

Characterization of Antibody-Antigen Interaction Forces With Magnetic Tweezers

Probing the Nano-environments of Peptides on Solid Surfaces by Advanced Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

Materials and Devices for Optical Communication

Nano-Crystal and Quantum-Dot Memories: Implications Small Dimensions, Quantum Confinement and Interface States

Fabrication and Manipulation of Silicon Nanocrystals for Non-Volatile Memory Applications¹

Architectonics of Defect-Tolerant Molecular Circuitry

Carbon Nanotubes - a New Class of 1D Conductors

Hot Electron Attenuation Lengths in Magnetic Multilayers

Exchange Bias in Fe/Cr Double Superlattices

Surface Diffusion Mechanism for the Exchange Coupling between a Ferromagnetic Layer and an Antiferromagnetic Layer

Magnetic Stability of Exchange Coupled Magnetic Systems

CPP-GMR for Magnetoelectronic Memory

High-Speed Dynamics of Submicrometer GMR Devices

RF Diode Sputter Deposition of GMR Multilayers

Effects of UV Illumination on Dry Etch Rates of NiFe-based Magnetic Multilayers

Micro-Science and Tribology

Deposition, Characterization and Degradation of Vacuum-deposited Fluorinated Alkylsiloxane Films

Vapor-Phase Lubricants: Nanometer-scale Mechanisms and Applications to Sub-micron Machinery

Adhesion Performance of Silane Coupling Agents at High Humidity Levels

Adhesion Properties of Gold-on-Gold Microswitch Contacts

Environmental Effects on the Tribological Behavior of Silane-Treated Micromachines¹

Selective Organophosphonate Chemical Sensors Using Self-Assembled Composite Monolayers and Adsorption-Induced Stresses in MEMS Devices

Nanofabrication and Electrostatic Operation of Single-crystal Silicon Paddle Oscillators

MEMS-Based Force Detected Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer

Micrometrology with Scanning Probes

Chemical Process Sensing using Mass Spectrometry in Multicomponent Reaction Systems

Mechanisms for the Production of Atomically Flat Surfaces Studied by Scanning Probe Microscopy¹

Investigation of Thermal Curing of an Organic Low-k Spin-on Dielectric by Variable-Angle Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

Assessment of Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry as an In Situ HDP-CVD Process Diagnostic Technique

Determining Ion Flux and Ion Energy from Radio-Frequency Current and Voltage Measurements

Linking Process and Structure using Automated Analysis of AFM Images

Making and Modifying Carbon Nanotubes

Roles of Fe, Co, and Ni in the Formation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Encapsulated Nanoparticles

Plume Diagnostics During Carbon Nanotube Production by Laser Ablation

Synthesis and Integration of Carbon Nanotubes

Growth of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Transition-metal Catalyzed Plain Silicon Substrates using Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition

Carbon Nanotube Tips: Structures and Properties

Electrochemical Deposition of Carbon Nanofilaments

A Study on the Growth of Carbon Nanotubes with Respect to Process Conditions

Dielectric Etching : From Oxide to Low k Dielectrics

Surface Kinetics Study of Silicon Dioxide Etching with Fluorocarbons in Inductively-coupled Plasmas

Chemical Bonding Arrangement Approach for Selective Radical Generation in High-density, Low-pressure Fluorocarbon Plasma

Flux Control for High-Aspect-Ratio Contact Hole Etching

Etching Chemistry and Kinetics of BCB Low-k Dielectric Films

The Effect of Capacitive Coupling on Inductively Coupled Fluorocarbon Plasma Processing

High Density Plasmas Etching of Low Dielectric Constant Materials

A Mechanism of Oxide to Nitride Selective RIE

SiON SAC Etching Technique Using C₄F₈/CH₂F₂/Ar Plasma for 0.18µm Technology and Beyond

How Does Ion Bombardment Produce Enhanced Etching?

Desorption Species from Fluorocarbon Film by Ar⁺ Ion Beam Bombardment

NH₃ / Cl₂ Gas Assisted Etching of Copper with Focused Ion Beams

Guided Ion-beam Studies of Low Energy Cu⁺ and Cu₂⁺ Ion Interactions with Mo

Ion Solid Surface Interactions in IMP Cu PVD

Deposition and Etching Using Fluorocarbon Ions: Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Comparison of Thin-Film Nucleation and Growth from Ion-Beam and Cluster-Beam Deposition: Atomistic Simulations

Understanding Plasma Polymerization by Mass Selected Ions: 25 - 50 eV CF₃⁺ vs. C₃F₅⁺ Ion Modification of Polystyrene

Surface Interactions of Plasma-Generated NH₂ Radicals

FT-IR and XPS Study of Plasma-treated Acrylic Coating Surfaces

Electronic Transport Properties of Silicon Surfaces¹

Reinterpretation of the Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Images of Si(100) (2x1) Dimers-Observation on a Defect Free Surface

STM-Study of the Absorption of Molecular Oxygen on GaAs(100)

Chaotic-like Wavefunction Beating in Thin Silver Films with a Quasiperiodic Superstructure

3C-SiC(100) c(4x2) Surface and Sub-Surface Probed by Core Level Photoemission Spectroscopy Using Synchrotron Radiation and by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Mechanistic Studies of SiO₂ Deposition from TEOS / Ozone

Microcalorimetric Heats of Adsorption of Metals on Metal Oxide and Si(100) Surfaces

Nucleation and Growth of Hemispherical Grained Silicon

Characterization by STM of Interface between Silicon and Silicon Dioxide Layers Fabricated by Highly Concentrated Ozone

Significant Effects of Arsenic Ion Implantation on Si Selective Epitaxy by Ultra-High Vacuum Chemical Vapor Deposition

Dissociative Sticking of Small Oxidant Molecules on a Simple Metal; NO, O₂, CO and N₂ on Al(111)

Chemical Selectivity and Remote Dissociation- ICl/Al(111)

Quantum-State-resolved Studies of Elastic and Inelastic Scattering of H₂ from Cu and Pd

Atom Scattering From Atomic Surfactants

Molecular Beam Studies of the Extrinsic Precursor State: Trapping of Alkanes on Alkane-Covered Pt(111)

Influence of Rotational Energy on Adsorption Probability for a Physisorbed System: C2H4 on Ag(001)

Vibrational-State-Selected Studies of Gas-Surface Dynamics

Reactive Scattering Dynamics of Fast Atoms with Hydrocarbon Surfaces: Initial and Steady-State Reactions

The Phase Diagram of a Self-Organizing Nano-Array

Tunneling on Ag and Au: Surface State Spectroscopy and Magic Molecular Clusters

Step Energetics of Pb(111) Vicinal Surfaces from Facet Shape

Control of Monolayer Island Vacancies on Pt(111) and their Impact on Surface Chemistry

Coalescence Dynamics of Small Pt Clusters on Pt(111) Surfaces: A Molecular Dynamics Study

Spontaneous Island Formation on the GaAs(001) 2x4 Reconstructed Surface

TiN(001) Epitaxy: An in-situ Temperature-Dependent STM and Level-Set Modeling Study

Recent Progresses on High Quality Tin-doped Indium Oxide (ITO) Films

Electrical Properties and Surface Morphology of Heteroepitaxial Grown Tin-doped Indium Oxide Films Deposited by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Influence of the Target-Substrate Distance on the Properties of ITO Films Prepared by rf Reactive Magnetron Sputtering

Properties of Fluorine-Doped Tin-Oxide Films

P-type Transparent Conducting In₂O₃ - Ag₂O Thin Films Prepared by Reactive Electron Beam Evaporation Technique

Mott-Schottky Analysis of Thin ZnO Films

Direct Measurement of Density-of-States Effective Mass and Scattering Mechanisms in Transparent Conducting Oxides Using Second-Order Transport Phenomena

Dry Vacuum Pumps - A Method for the Evaluation of the Degree of Dry

Ebara AAS-series Screw-type Dry Vacuum Pump

Adapting Dry Vacuum Technology to Cu CVD Effluent Abatement in Integrated Circuit Manufacturing

Dry Pumping

The Dry Pump in the Industrial Market