AVS2001 Friday Morning

Molecular Description of Surfaces of Transition Metal Oxide Catalysts

High-pressure XPS: A New Tool for the In-situ Investigation of Catalysts

XPS Analysis of Silica Supported Copper Catalysts for Fine Chemicals Synthesis

Effect of Surface Reduction on Decomposition of Dimethyl Methylphosphonate on Tungsten Trioxide Surfaces

Auger Parameter Studies in Alloys of Transition Metals with Al or Mg

Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Chemical Effects in the Auger Spectra of Aluminium, Copper and Carbon Compounds

Investigation of Surface Oxides on Aluminum Alloys by Valence Band Photoemission

Use of Core- and Valence-Band XPS to Measure the Differences Among Similar Oxide and Mineral Phases

Planar Membrane Assemblies and Waveguide Optics for Biomolecular Device Applications

TOF-SIMS Analysis of Nucleic Acid Biosensor Chips

A "Label-Free" Microchip Array Based Protein-Binding Assay using Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging

Comparative Analysis of Immobilization Strategies for Antibodies and Their Fragments on Biosensor Surfaces

Electrostatically Assisted SPR: A New Method for DNA Mutation Detection

DNA Assay Sensitivity in the BARC Magnetoresistive Biosensor

Study of the Formation and Function of the Cell Membrane Hybrid Layers Containing G-Protein Coupled Receptors at SAM Surfaces

Surface Chemistry for a Membrane-based Biosensor¹

An Electroactive Substrate for Direct Transduction of Biorecognition

Crystalline Bacterial S-Layer Proteins: A New Supporting Structure to Separate and Stabilize Lipid Membranes

Copper Alloys for Interconnections in Microelectronics

Microstructure Evolution and Interfacial Reactions in Cu-Mg Alloy Films on SiO₂

An Investigation of Compound and Non-compound Forming Dilute Binary Cu-Alloy Thin Films

Interfaces in Copper Nanoconnections

Cu Film Deposition under Low Energy Cu Ion Bombardment

Conductivity Issues with Cu at sub-100 nm Dimensions

Cu ECD: Modeling the Effects of Additives

Comparison of TiN, TaN, and WN_x as Diffusion Barriers for Copper on Silicon Dioxide: Thermal Annealing and Bias Temperature Stress Tests

Low-Temperature CVD of ZrB2 and CrB2 Metallic Ceramic Thin Films

Laser Creation of 3D Micro- and Nano-objects: Processing, Properties and Applications

Excimer Laser Surface Treatment for Aluminum Carbide Growth

Laser Surface Treatment for Corrosion Prevention

Laser Processing Opportunities with a High Average Power Free Electron Laser

Novel Spin Structures in Fe₃O₄/CoO and Fe₃O₄/NiO Superlattices

Surface Structure and Phase/Orientation Control of Manganese Nitride Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Mesoscopic Magnetic Structures Grown by Self-organization

Direct Observation of Orbital Kondo Resonance on the Cr(001) Surface

High Dipolar Magnetic Moment Observed on Ni/Cu(111) Nanostructures by Magnetic Circular X-ray Dichroism

Relating Magnetic and Structural Changes of Thin FeNi Alloy Films on Cu(100)

The Structure of Ferromagnetic Ultrathin Fe Films on Cu(100) is not fcc

Angle Resolved Auger Spectra of Ultrathin Fe on Gd (0001)

Transverse Magneto-optical Kerr-effect in the Soft X-ray Regime at Iron and Cobalt Films on W(110)

Optomechanical Effects in and Properties of Nanomechanical Resonant Structures

Micromechanical Cantilever Magnetometers with Integrated Quantum Dots

Nano-Electromechanical Systems: Physics and Applications

Zeptonewton Force Detection at Millikelvin Temperatures

Chemical Detection Based on Nanostructured MEMS Sensors

Biomedical Microsystems for Minimally Invasive Medical Procedures

Fabrication Process and Resulting Structures for a Micron-Scale Force-Detected Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectrometer

Nanotube Electronic and Transport Properties

Laser Irradiation Effect on Field Emission of Carbon Nanotubes

Saturated Emission Near E_F from Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

Integrally Gated In-situ Grown Carbon Nanotube Field Emitter Arrays

Field Emission in Cylindrical Geometry with Carbon Nanotube Cathodes: Characterization and Application to Luminescent Tubes

Fabrication and Electron Field Emission Properties of Carbon Nanotube Films by Electrophoretic Deposition

Field Emission Energy Distribution for an Undergate Type Triode CNT-FED

Integrated Field Emission Devices with Single Carbon Nanofiber Cathodes

Advances in Conception of Flat Panel Displays Based on Carbon Nanotube Field Emitters

Huge Secondary Electron Emission from Coated Carbon Nanotubes

Optical Diagnostics of Charged Particles in Processing Plasmas

Measurements of the Spatiotemporal Variation of Ion Flux in Plasma Etching Reactors

Time-resolved Radical Measurements in a Remote Silane Plasma Using the Cavity Ringdown Absorption Technique

Temporally Resolved Measurement of Electron Temperature, Relative Electron Density, and Atomic Fluorine Density during Fluorocarbon/Rare-gas Plasma Etching of SiO₂, using Optical Emission Spectroscopy

Characterization of Mass-Filtered CF_x⁺ Ion Beams for Surface Studies of Etching

Ion Energy Measurements in a Pulsed Plasma with a High-resolution, Submicron, Retarding Field Analyzer

Characteristics of the LAPPS Ion Flux to an RF Biased Surface

STM Observations of the Initial Growth Process of Ge on Si(105) Surfaces: the Stability of Ge/Si(105) Surfaces

Modulated Semiconductor Structures Studied by In Situ Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Scandium Gallium Nitride Alloys and ScN/GaN Heterostructures Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Formation and Decay Processes of Silicon Mounds on Si(111) Surfaces

Role of Surface Steps in the Arrangement of Silicon Nano-dots on Vicinal Si(111) Surfaces: STM Investigation

Thermal Growth of High-density Silicon Quantum Dots on SiO₂/Si(001) with Submonolayer Silicon Adatom Predeposition

Nucleationless Island Formation in SiGe/Si(100) Heteroepitaxy

Electronic Structure of a Heteroepitaxially-Passivated Si(111) Surface: GaSe-terminated Si(111)

Surface Reaction Study of TaN Growth from MOCVD Precursors on Cu(111)

Crossover from Surface- to Bulk-Diffusion-Limited Surface Dynamics on Pt(111)¹

Dimensionality Investigation of an Alloy-dealloy Phase Transition on Ag/Cu(110)

Vacancies in Solids and the Stability of Surface Morphology

Surface Freezing in Binary Metallic Melts

Submonolayer Growth of Ag on Pt(100): Competition between Alloying and Surface Reconstruction

Direct Observation of Surface Alloying and Interface Roughening: Growth of Au on Fe(001)

Surface Reconstruction STM Studies of Clean and Oxidized Low Index FeAl Surfaces

Self-Assembly of Nanoscale Hexagons in S/Cu/Ru(0001)¹

Application of EELFS Spectroscopy to Local Atomic Structure Study

Chemisorption of O₂ on Al(111): Non-Adiabatic Pathway to Abstraction, and Simulation of STM Data

Surface Temperature Effects in Molecular Beam Scattering: Inelastic State-to-state Scattering and the Dissociation of Hydrogen and Deuterium

Monte Carlo Simulation of the Adsorbate Assisted Adsorption in the Case of CO/ZnO

Ultrafast Energy Flow Studied by Femtosecond Vibrational Spectroscopy

Vibrational Energy Transfer and Energy "Pooling" in Adsorbate Layers: CO on NaCl

HD Scattering on Cu (001): Rotationally Mediated Bound State Resonances and Evidence for Interaction of the Bound States with the Surface Phonons

Structure and Electronic Properties of Planar and Faceted Ir(210)

Linking Stress to Surface Structure Using STM

In-Situ STM Study of the Au(111) Herringbone Reconstruction Under Applied Stress

Core Level Shifts and Stress at the Ni/W(110) Interface^*

Metal Nucleation and Adhesion on Ionic-Oxide Terraces*

Structure Analysis of Oxygen-adsorbed and Annealed W(001) Surface at Liquid Nitrogen Temperature

The Local Adsorption Structure of CH₃- on Cu(111)

Cu(100)c(2x2)-N: a New Type of Adsorbate-Induced Surface Reconstruction

Phases of Oxygen on Cu(100) Imaged by Low Energy Electron Microscopy

Temperature Dependence of Oxides on Titanium Surface in UHV

Synthesis and Characterization of Highly Conducting Nitrogen Doped Ultrananocrystalline Diamond Films

Probing Surface Species on a Diamond C(111) Surface During the Chemical Vapour Deposition of Diamond

Structural, Mechanical and Electrical Properties of DLC Films Deposited by DC Magnetron Sputtering

Electron Transmission in Thin B-doped CVD Diamond Films

Influence of Nitrogen and Temperature on the Deposition of Fluorinated Amorphous Carbon Films

Investigation of Nitrogen Bonding in Amorphous Carbon Nitride

Structural and Physical Properties of Carbon Nitride Films with High Nitrogen Content Synthesized by Reactive Pulsed Laser Deposition

Structure and Properties of Carbon Nitride Thin Films Synthesized by Nitrogen-Ion-BeamAssisted Pulsed Laser Ablation

On the Preparation of Silicon Carbonitride Compounds

The Investigation of Homogeneity of a-SiC:H Thin Films

RHIC Commissioning and First Results

The SNS Accumulator Ring Vacuum Systems^*

Photon Induced Desorption Studies on Sputter-deposited Getter Layers

Design of the NIF Spatial Filter Vacuum System

Direct Measurement of Residual Gas Effect on the Sensitivity in TAMA300

Advances in Semiconductor Physical Vapor Deposition Equipment; Vacuum, System Architecture, and PVD Source Technology

Enhancement of Dielectric CVD Remote Clean Competitiveness Through Improved Gas Utilization

Vacuum System Architecture for Disk and Flat Panel Production Tools

Disassembling and Materials Recovering Process of Zinc-Carbon battery by Vacuum Aided Recycling Systems Technology

The Foundations of Vacuum Coating Technologies

Downstream Effluent Management Subsystems for Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes