AVS2002 Monday Afternoon

Toward a Comprehensive Quantitative Workbench for Surface Analysis

Quantitative XPS and the Morphology Problem : Simple Algorithm for the Amount of Substance at the Surface

The Information Depth and the Mean Escape Depth in Auger Electron Spectroscopy and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Wavelets: A New Technique for Spectral Processing in Surface Science - Applications to Filtering and Deconvoluting HREELS and XPS Data

Ultra Thin SiO₂ on Si: Quantification of the Oxide Thickness and Carbonaceous Contamination

Correcting for Detector-Induced Non Linearity in Photoelectron Spectroscopy Counting Systems

Theoretical Foundations of Surface Stress Measurements using Atomic Force Microscope Cantilevers

Elementary and Structure Analysis of Si Wafers and Thin Films by Using an X-ray Waveguide-Resonator

Self-Assembled Monolayers of Carboxy-Terminated Poly(ethylene glycol): Protein Resistance, Biospecific Functionalization and Application to Immunodiagnostics

ToF-SIMS and XPS Analysis of Enzymatic Digests of Adsorbed Protein Films

Protein Adsorption on Colloidal Oxide Particles

Prediction of Adsorption Behavior of Fibronectin as a Function of Surface Functionality Using a Customized Protein Adsorption Force-Field

Analysis of Organic and Biological Materials in Ultra-High Vacuum

PEG-ylated Surfaces with Graded Protein Interactiveness : A ToF-SIMS, XPS and Optical Waveguide Sensor Study

Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Conformational Changes in Adsorbed Protein Films

Study of the Adsorption Kinetics and Conformational Changes of Human Serum Albumin and Human Plasma Fibronectin using PM-RAIRS, Radiolabelling and Atomic Force Microscopy

Femtosecond Spectroscopy at the Metal/Liquid Interface

Studies of the Interphase Region for Liquid Hexadecane Near a Au Surface

Surface Forces at Electrified Interfaces

A New View of Ion Adsorption at Mineral-Fluid Interfaces with Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering

Solution Composition Effects on Calcite Dissolution and Growth Processes

Investigation of Binary Oxide (V₂O₅) Thin Films as Electrodes for Rechargeable Micro Batteries using Li

Creating Beakers without Walls: Formation of Deeply-Supercooled Binary Liquid Solutions from Nanoscale Amorphous Solid Films

Using NanomechanicaL Responses in Individual Systems from a Single C-C Bond to Single Cell

Spin Transport in Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Schottky Diodes

Characterization of an Fe/AlGaAs Tunnel Barrier Interface for Electrical Spin Injection

A Schottky Tunnel Barrier Contact for Electrical Spin Injection into a Semiconductor

Contact Metallurgy for the Antimonide Based Compound Semiconductors

Electrical Contact Behavior of Ni/C60/4H-SiC

Electrical Characterization of AlN MIS/MIM-structures

Self-assembly and Magnetism in Novel Core-shell Microspheres

Magnetic Resonance and X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism of Monodisperse Co Nanoparticles

Surfactant-mediated Shape Control, Magnetism and Self-assembly of Cobalt Nanocrystals

Structure and Magnetism of Colloidal Composite AgCo Nanoparticles

Study of the Magnetic Cluster/Superconductiviting Matrix Interface: the Co/Nb System

Magnetic Nanowires for Media and Devices Fabricated Using Copolymer Templates

Evolution of Fe Nanocluster Magnetism Grown on Pt(111)

Process Optimizations of Electrochemically Deposited Copper Films

Real-Time Control of Ion Density and Ion Energy in Chlorine Inductively Coupled Plasma Etch Processing

Mathematical Approaches to Optimal Control of Transient Enhanced Diffusion

Spatially Programmable Reactor Design: Toward a New Paradigm for Equipment Effectiveness

Monitoring and Control of Binary Gas Mixtures from Solid Phase MOCVD Sources using an Acoustic Sensor

Dynamic Simulation and Optimization at the Unit Process Level for Environmentally Benign Semiconductor Manufacturing

Data Handling in Semiconductor Manufacturing: Overall Approach to Correlate Yield, Process and Equipment Parameters

Improved Tool Utilization and Process Capability Through Improved Flow Verficiation Technique

Molecular Shuttles Based on Motor Proteins: Transporters for Nanotechnology

Nanomechanics of an Intrinsically Unstructured Protein

Nanostructures for Analysis of individual Biomolecules

Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Self Assembled Nanoparticles for Delivery of Transforming Growth Factor Beta

Resolving Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Features of Oligomers Adsorbed on Si(100)

Q-dots Patterned Surfaces for Cell Adhesion

Cell Adhesion to Nanostructured Interfaces

Photoenhanced Oxygen Adsorption in Carbon Nanotubes

Strategies for Carbon Nanotube Functionalization

The Fabrication and Characterization of Carbon Nanotube Nanoelectrode Array for Chemical/Biosensor Applications

Investigation on the NO2 Sensitivity Properties of Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Prepared by Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition

Invited Paper

Surface Modification of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays

Comparing Light Gas Diffusion Rates in Carbon Nanotubes and Zeolites

Role of Fluorocarbon Radicals and Ions in SiO₂ Surface Etching Mechanism in Fluorocarbon-Based Discharges

Characteristics of c-C₄F₈, c-C₄F₈/Ar and c-C₄F₈/O₂ Inductively Coupled Plasmas for Dielectric Etching¹

Effects of Ar Gas Dilution on Precise SiO₂ Etching using CF₃I/ C₂F₄ Plasma

Plasma Etching Chemistry and Kinetics for Silicon Oxide Thin Films

Electrical Conductivity of Sidewall Deposited Fluorocarbon in SiO₂ Contact Holes

Silicon Oxide Highly Selective Etching Using Novel Solid Gas Sources

Ion-enhanced Chemical Etching of ZrO₂ in a Chlorine Discharge

Ferroelectric Etching Characteristics in Ar/Cl₂ and in Ar/SF₆ Mixtures

Measuring Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation-Induced Damage

Transfer of Resist Roughness into Substrates during Plasma Etching

Ion Flux Uniformity in Large Area High Frequency Capacitive Discharges

Electrical Characterization of Linearly Extended Inductively Coupled Plasma Sources for Large Area Processing

Optimization of Source Modules in ICP-Helicon Multi-Element Arrays for Large Area Plasma Processing

Scaling up of a Magnetic Pole Enhanced Inductively Coupled Plasma Source (MAPE-ICP)

Plasma Processing for Large Area Substrates

High-rate Large-area Plasma Deposition using Multiple Expanding Thermal Plasmas

Reflective Enhancement of Distributed Helicon Sources

Investigation of Erbium Dispersion in Electrospun Nanofiber Matrices

Grafting of Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) in Surfactant Templated Mesoporous Silica Films and Particles

Structural, Optical and Photocatalytic Properties of Nd³⁺ Doped TiO₂ Nanoparticles

Computational Studies of Gas-Phase Growth of Soot Nanoparticles Using Fully-Integrated Integrated Molecular Dynamics and Kinetic Monte Carlo Methods

Enhancement of High Temperature Oxidation Resistance of Fe-Cr-Ni Alloys Using Nanocrystalline CeO2 Coating Synthesized by Microemulsion Technique

Formation and Optical Properties of Peridically Arranged Silver Nanoparticles by Irradiation with Linear Polarized Ultrashort Laser Pulses

Bridging the Pressure Gap at the Atomic Level: CO/Pt(110) and CO/Pt(111)

Fluctuations and Bistability in CO Oxidation on Nanoscale Facets

In situ Monitoring of the Catalytic CO + NO Reaction on Pd(111) at 240 mbar: The Formation of Isocyanate

Fundamental Studies of Function and Deactivation of NOx Storage Catalysts

Nitrite and Nitrate Formation from NO and NO2 Adsorption on Alkaline Earth Metal Oxide Surfaces

Adsorption and Reaction of NO on SrTiO₃ Surfaces

Structural and Chemical Properties of Ti/Pt(100)-c(2x2) Second Layer Alloy - Evidence for Strong Ligand Effects

Dissociation/Dehydrogenation of Hydrocarbons on NiAl(100)

The Effects of Copper on the Hydrogen-Passivation of Si(001)

Competing Classical and Quantum Effects in Shape Relaxation of a Metallic Island

Formation of Monodispersed Cobalt Nanoclusters on the Si₃N₄(0001)-4x4 Surface

The 'Three-Dimensional' Schwoebel-Ehrlich Barrier in Ag Crystallite Growth on Si(111)

Self-organization of Semimetal Bi on Si(111)

Controlling Island Size Distributions for Metals on Oxides: Cu and Ni Islands on TiO₂(110)-(1x2)

Surface Nanostructuring to Control Size and Composition of Individual Oxide Supported Nanoparticles

Nucleation and Sintering Kinetics of Pd on α-Al₂O₃(0001)

The Domain Boundary Barrier on Intermixed SbGe(001)

Polaron Conductors with Infrared Transparency

p-Type Semiconducting Cu₂O-CoO Thin Films Prepared by Magnetron Sputtering

CVD Formed p-type ZnO Thin Films

Raman Spectra of Cobalt Nickel ITCO Films

Plasma Chemistry Aspects versus Material Properties Related to Textured Zinc Oxide Deposition and Etching using an Expanding Thermal Plasma

Super-Smooth Indium-Tin Oxide Thin Films by Negative Sputter Ion Beam Technology

ZnO Thin Film Synthesis and Device Application

ITO Films with Low Resistivity and Low Internal Stress