AVS2001 Wednesday Morning

Surface Characterization of Biomaterials for Medical Applications

Micromechanical Properties of 'Smart' Gels: A Study of PNIPAAm by Scanning Force and Scanning Electron Microscopy

Tailored Polymer Surfaces Controlled by XPS

Synthesis and Characterization of Poly(imidesiloxane) Copolymers Containing Two Siloxane Segment Lengths: Surface Composition and Its Role in Adhesion

Phase Contrast AFM Analysis of Polymers: Use of Correlative Classification Methods for Phase Identification

A Surface Chemistry Study of Laser Ablated Polymers Used for Microfluidic Devices

RBS-based Characterization of Hyper-Thin Silicon Compound Deposits on Polymers

Hybridization Reactions between Surface Attached Oligonucleotides and Complements from Solution

Functionalization of Metal-Oxide-Based Biomaterials and Biosensor Surfaces by Molecular Self-Asssembly Processes

Buildup Mechanism for Hyaluronic Acid/polysine Films onto a Solid Interface

Orientational Effects and Surface Free Energies in the Amino Acids Adsorption Process onto Silicon-based Surfaces

Surface-bound Liposomes for Biomedical Applications

Thiol-Reactive Surfaces for the Specific Immobilization of Biomolecules

Control and Detection of Surface Immobilized DNA Interactions Using Electrostatically Assisted Surface Plasmon Resonance

Non-Uniform Mixing in Fluid Surfaces

Vesicle to Supported Bilayer Transformation Kinetics; Influence from Vesicle Size, Temperature and Surface Support

Functional Tethered Lipid Membranes on Gold

Growth of Tantalum Oxide Films by Chemical Vapor and Atomic Layer Deposition

Quantum Chemical Study of Zirconium Oxide Atomic Layer Deposition

Effect on In-situ H₂ Plasma Treatment of ZrO₂ Gate Dielectric Deposited by Plasma Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition Method

Nucleation and Growth Chemistry during Tungsten Atomic Layer Deposition on Oxide Surfaces

Atomic Layer Deposition of Al₂O₃/ZnO Nanolaminates and Alloys: Fabrication and Properties

Radical Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition of TiN Diffusion Barriers

Characteristics of Tungsten Nitride Atomic Layer Deposition

Deposition of Ultra Thin Films by Atomic layer Deposition (ALD)

Step Motion and Morphology on Si(111)

Step Fluctuations on a Chemically Heterogeneous Surface: Al/Si(111)-(√3x√3)¹

Atomic and Electronic Structure of Si Layers on CaF₂/Si(111)

Surface Mass Transport and Island Nucleation during Growth of Ge on Laser Textured Si(001)

Non-thermal SiO₂ Film Growth on Si(100) using Laser-generated O(¹D) and O(³P)

On the Use of Angle-resolved XPS for Resolving Composition Structure of Ultrathin Inhomogeneous Oxide Layers

Silicon-Oxide Formation on Gold

Kinetics of the Selective Oxidation of Si(100) versus W by H₂O Steam in Hydrogen

Tailoring Spin Ordering in Magnetic Semiconductors

Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors Based Upon GaP

Epitaxial Growth of a Group IV Ferromagnetic Semiconductor: Mn_xGe_1-x

Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition of ZnO-based Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors

Heterostructures of Mn/GaN and MnGa/GaN Grown by ECR-Plasma Assisted MBE

Epitaxial Growth of GaMnN

The Investigation of MnScN Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

MBE Growth and Properties of Co-doped TiO₂ Anatase

Epitaxial Growth of an n-Type Ferromagnetic Semiconductor: CdCr₂Se₄^*

Characterization of High Dose Mn, Fe and Ni Implantation into p-GaN

Nanotribology of Simple and Complex Fluids at Aqueous Interfaces¹

The Ever Changing Disk Drive Environment: Can Filter Technology Keep Pace?

Effect of Humidity on Lubricated Carbon Overcoats

Tribological Implications of the Confinement in PFPE Boundary Lubricant Films

Pushing Perfluoropolyether Molecules Across Surfaces Using Air Shear

Kinetics and Energetics of the Desorption of Polyether Lubricants

Ramp Materials Challenges with Load/Unload Technology

When are Carbon Nanotubes Ballistic Conductors?

Electrical Characterization of Carbon Nanotube - Metal Contacts

Analysis of Carbon Nanotube Metal-Semiconductor Diode Device

Electrical Transport through Vertically Aligned In-situ Contacted Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

Electronic Rectification, Ballistic Switching, and Logic Gates with Carbon Nanotube `Y-Junctions'

Development of N-type Carbon Nanotube Transistors and Fabrication of the First Nanotube Logic Circuits

Contacting Carbon Nanotubes by Electrodeposition of Metal

Preparation and Characterization of Nano-Scale Mixed Self-Assembled Monolayers

The Role of Linker Molecules in the Controlled Adsorption of Polystyrene (PS) Nano Particles

Characterization of Biphenyl-substituted Alkanethiol Self-assembled Monolayers by High-resolution X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Separation via Self-assembly of Enantiomers of Chiral Aromatic Hydrocarbons Adsorbed on Metal Surfaces

Mesoscopic Correlation of Supramolecular Chirality in One-Dimensional Hydrogen-Bonded Assemblies

Controlling Molecular Orientation in Solid Films Via Self-organization in the Liquid-crystalline Phase

Effect of Lipid Vesicle Fusion on the Ordering and Redox Activity of 11-(ferrocenyl carbonyloxy) Undecanethiols Self-assembled Monolayers

Temperature-dependent Morphology of Crystalline p-sexiphenyl Thin Films on KCl(001)

Characterization of Photoisomerization Reaction of Azobenzene-contanining SAMs: Reaction Kinetics and Thermal Stability

Plasma Etching of High Dielectric Constant Materials

Low-k Etch Selectivity Enhancement Through Ion Energy Control

Organic Low-k Film Etching in Inductively Coupled Plasma Employing N₂/H₂ and N₂/NH₃ Gases

Study of Surface Reaction on Organic Low-k Dielectric Etching By Plasma Beam Irradiation

Low K Porous Silica Etch Behavior in Inductively Coupled Discharges

Etching Mechanism in High-aspect-ratio Contact Hole Etching

Optimization of a Nitride Etch Process Using Optical Detection of NO

Ultra High Selective Silicon Nitride Etching with a Downstream Remote Plasma using CF₄/O₂/CH₂F₂

Time-Dependent Electron Impact Source Functions in Inductive and Capacitive Plasma Sources Obtained Using an "On-The-Fly" Monte-Carlo Technique¹

Global Neutral Modeling of Fluorine Plasma Etching for MEMS Applications

Instabilities in Low-Pressure Electronegative Inductive Discharges

3-Dimensional Modeling of Asymmetric Gas Heating in Plasma Processing Reactors¹

Electron-Molecule Collisions in Processing Plasmas¹

Ionization Mechanism in ICPs

A 3-dimensional Model for Wave Propagation and Plasma Properties in Magnetically Enhanced ICP Reactors¹

Modeling of Fundamental Processes in a Capacitively Coupled Helium Atmospheric-Pressure Glow Discharges

A Novel Approach for Control of High-Density Plasma Process Parameters through Optimal Pulse Shaping

Empirical Density Functionals and the Adsorption of Organic Molecules on Si(100)

Scanning Tunneling Microscope Investigation of Adsorption of Titanium Atoms on Si(111)-7x7 Surface

High-Resolution Core-Level Study of the Initial Stage of Oxygen Adsorption on a Si(111)-(7x7) Surface

First-Principles Theory of Finite-Temperature Adsorbate Ordering in Ba/Si(111)-"3x2"

Adsorption Induced Deflection and Frequency Changes in a Silicon Nitride Cantilever due to Ca²⁺ Ions

Adsorption of NO and NO₂ on Barium Oxide: Surface Nitrition and Nitration

Electronegative Adsorbates on TiO₂: Reducing Effects of S and Cl

Electronic and Chemical Properties of Ce_0.8Zr_0.2O₂(111) Surfaces: Photoemission, XANES, Density Functional, and NO₂ Adsorption Studies

Probing Chemical and Topological Heterogeneity of Carbonaceous Surfaces via Temperature Programmed Desorption of Simple Molecules from Model Carbonaceous Surfaces

Diffusion on and in Surfaces: The Atomic Slide Puzzle

Nothing Moves a Surface: Probing Surface Vacancy Dynamics with a Surface Alloy

Surface-diffusion Mechanism vs. Electric Field: Pt/Pt(001)*

Temperature-Dependent Surface Diffusion Parameters on Amorphous Materials

Hopping Induced by the Vibrational Excitation of Adsorbed Molecule through Inelastically Tunneled Electrons

Determination of Atomic Potential Energy for Pd Adatom Diffusion Across the W (111) Islands and Surfaces

Surface Dynamics During Etching of GaAs(001)

Step Motion on the Cu(100)-(√2x2√2)R45°-O Surface

CO Oxidation on Au Crystals: Studies on the Nanoscale

Surface Phase Transitions of Pt(110) Studied by Desorption Dynamics of Product CO₂ in Steady-state CO Oxidation

Dynamic Spatial Patterns in a Surface Reaction - The Microscopic and Mesoscopic Scales

Hydrogenation of Oxygen on Pd(111)

Abstraction of Si and SiH_x (x=1,2,3) Adsorbed on Cu(100) Surfaces with Gaseous D towards Silane

Catalytic Reactions on Alkali-modified Vicinal Cu(100) Surfaces

Formation of Methylaminomethylidyne(>CNH(CH₃)) by Hydrogenation of Methyl Isocyanide and by Dehydrogenation of Dimethylamine on Pt(111)

Experimental and Theoretical Imaging of the Decomposition of Furan on Pd(111)

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Self-bombardment of Compact Clusters on Pt(111)

On the Relative Motion of Thermal Gas Atoms In the Monte Carlo Simulation of Sputtering

Self-Similar Structure Evolution and Surface Reaction Kinetics in Low Temperature Silicon Deposition

Atomic-Scale Processes in the Growth of Transition-Metal Nitrides

Low Temperature Synthesis of Fully Textured Highly Oriented AlN Films by RF and Pulsed DC Reactive Sputtering

A Theoretical Study of the Chemical Vapor Deposition of (100) Silicon from Silane

Gas and Surface Reactions of Radicals in Hot Wire CVD of Amorphous Silicon

In-Situ Determination of the Deposition Chemistry During BPSG Dielectric Thin Film Growth

Bonding and Debonding in Nanometer-Scale Viscoelastic Contacts

A Multi-Scale Elasto-hydrodynamic Contact Model of Chemical Mechanical Planarization

Comparative Energy Dissipation in Nanoscale Shear and Tensile Interactions

A Nanoscale JKR Test for Adhesive Contacts to Polymers

Combined Nanoindenter and Quartz Crystal Microbalance Studies of Realistic Tribological Contact

Molecular Layer Effects on Friction Between Single Crystalline Metal Surfaces

The Effect of Packing Density on the Friction of Alkane Monolayers

A Study of Triboelectricity on Dielectric Surfaces by Measuring Electric-discharge Luminescence during Friction

Hydrogen Equilibrium Relation for Stainless Steel

New Results on Outgassing of Stainless Steel and Insulators

Simulation of Hydrogen Outgassing in a Fusion Device and a UHV Chamber by Recombination Limited Model

Hydrogen Diffusion under Reactor Irradiation

Thermal Desorption Study of Austenitic Stainless Steels

Outgassing Measurements of Stacked Laminations for Use as an Electromagnet Core