AVS2007 Tuesday Morning

Nano-bio Chemical Image of Single Cells and Tissues for Bio-medical Applications

SIMS Imaging of Polymer Membranes and Single Cells

Surface Energy Control Within Copolymer Libraries Synthesised as Micro Arrays for Biological Screening

Surface Characteristics of Listeria Monocytogenes Mutants with Variable Pathogenicity Levels

First Observation of Charge reduction and Desorption Kinetics of Multiply Protonated Peptides Soft Landed onto Self-assembled Monolayer Surfaces

Ultra Fast Mid Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging for Biomedical Applications

X-ray Spectromicroscopy and Ion Spectroscopy to Evaluate a Blend of Poly(L)lactic Acid and Fluorine End-capped Poly(L)lactic Acid

Influence of Molecular Environment on ToF-SIMS Detection of Bio-Active Molecules on Self-Assembled Monolayers

Advances in Organic Depth Profiling Using Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) under Optimized Ion Beam Conditions

Fragment Free Mass Spectrometry for Bio-Molecular Surfaces with Size Selected Cluster SIMS

Inter-Domain Structural Flexibility and Biological Activity of Pro-Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Revealed by Single-Molecule AFM Imaging

Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopic Studies in the C-H, O-H, N-H, and Amide I Regions of Model Peptides at Solid-Liquid Interfaces

Thin Hydrogel Layers on Biomedical Polymers - Biological Responses and Effects on Protein Adsorption Studied by Mass Spectrometry

Development of a Molecular Modeling Program Specifically Designed for the Simulation of Protein Adsorption to Biomaterials Surfaces

Switching the Force between a Hydrophobic Probe and Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold by Changing the Ionic Strength

When Good Cholesterol Goes Bad: Proteins at the Water:Lipid Interface

In situ Quartz Crystal Microbalance Studies of Multi-Layer Glucagon Fibrillation at the Solid-Liquid Interface

Modulating the Orientation and Conformation of Bone Osteopontin and Bone Sialoprotein for Osteoblast Adhesion

Characterization of ECM Protein Production in Spatially Cultured Hippocampal Neurons on Micro-Patterned Surfaces in Serum-Free Conditions

Dynamics of Molecular Switch Molecules Imaged by Alternating Current Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Probing the Polarization and Dielectric Function of Molecules with Higher-Harmonic Demodulation in s-NSOM

Electronic and Vibronic Spectroscopy of Molecular Junctions

Real-time Conductivity Analysis through Single-Molecule Electrical Junctions

Electronic Transport through Redox-Active Organic Molecules in Nanogap Molecular Junctions

Electron Transport through Silicon-Based Molecular Electronic Devices: Effects of Molecular Chainlength and Molecular Dipole

Characterization of Aryl Monolayers on Silicon for Molecular Electronics Applications

Nanoscale Electrical and Structural Characterization of Gold/Monolayer/Silicon Junctions

New Methods for Metal Deposition on Self-Assembled Monolayers: Towards Molecular Electronic Circuitry

Contact Properties in Molecular Electronics: The Effect of Molecular Orientation on Potential at Organic- Metal Interfaces

The Prospects for Low-Cost Photovoltaic Electricity

Constraining Carbon to Confront Climate Change

Offshore Sustainable Electricity Supply Systems: The POSEIDON Vision

Science & Technology Barriers to Economic Ethanol Biorefineries

Carbon Sequestration to Mitigate Climate Change - A Geological Perspective

Wafer Level Integration of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond (UNCD) Film with CMOS Devices for Monolithically Integrated Diamond MEMS/NEMS-CMOS Systems

Optical Excitation of Higher Flexural and Torsional Modes of Nanoelectromechanical Oscillators

Ultrasensitive, Magnet-tipped Cantilevers for Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy

Fabrication of Reliable Through-Silicon via (TSV) Interconnects for 3D Stacking

Micro and Nano Electro-Mechanical Systems: Technology for Engineering Metamorphosis

Self-Packaged Micro Fluorescence Detection Systems

Bi-Directional Transport of Ultra-Low Volume Droplets Using Capacitive Sensing

Microfluidic Transport Control Using Remotely Powered Semiconductor Diodes

Towards Feedback Control with Integrated Position Sensing in Micromachines

An Adaptive Feedback Control Circuit for Resonator Sensors

Atomic-Scale Studies of Complex Oxide Interfaces Using Aberration-Corrected Z-Contrast Imaging and EELS

In-situ Observation of Active Electronic Devices using Electrically Biased TEM Holder

Measuring Atomic Size Objects on Electrically Insulating Surfaces in Ultrahigh Vacuum

Ambient Dynamic Mode AFM Non-contact Operating Regime Determination

Atomic Resolution AFM with a Purely Electrical QPlus Sensor

Imaging Performance Variations in Organic Solar Cells with Time-Resolved Electrostatic Force Microscopy and Photocurrent-sensitive Atomic Force Microscopy

Investigation of Charge Trapping in GaN Films using Scanning Kelvin Probe Microscopy and Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy

Sinc or Sine? The Band Excitation Method and Energy Dissipation Measurements by SPM

Electromechanical Imaging, Polarization Switching, and Intermittent-Contact PFM in a Liquid Environment

Cold and Thermal Neutrons: Suitable Probes for Biomaterials

Small Angle Neutron Scattering Studies of the Counterion Effects on the Molecular Conformation and Structure of Charged G4 PAMAM Dendrimers in Aqueous Solutions

Neutron Reflection Study of Peptides and Proteins at Interfaces

Neutron Reflectivity and Scattering for Studying Biomolecules at Interfaces

Roles of Carbohydrates in Fine Adjustment of Biological Interfaces

Combining Surface Plasmons, Enzyme Chemistry and Nanoparticles for Ultrasensitive Biosensing

Polarization-Dependent Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering from Silver Nanoparticle Arrays

Nanoplasmonic Sensing of Surface and Bulk Modifications of Metallic Nanoparticles using Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances: Studies of Hydrogen Uptake in Supported Pd Nanoparticles and Oxidation of Al Nanoparticles

Surface Modification of Metallic Nanoparticles for Plasmonics Applications: Potential, Challenges and Advances in the Field

Environmental Sensitivities of Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances of Immobilized Nanoparticles: Substrate Modulation of Generic Bulk Phase Results

Controlled Plasmonic Coupling in Reconfigurable Nanoparticle Assemblies

Metal Films with Arrays of Tiny Holes: Infrared Plasmonic Scaffolding for Spectroscopy

Photo-Recognition and Control of a Small Number of Moleclues at Metal Nano-Gap Arrayed on Solid Surface

Characteristics for HfO₂ Gate Dielectrics Deposited by Remote Plasma ALD Method

Pulsed Plasma-Enhanced Pulsed CVD of Y₂O₃ in MIM Capacitors

Engineering Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition to Deliver Self-Limiting Deposition of Metal Oxide Thin Films

Peter Mark Memorial Award Lecture - Plasma-assisted Atomic Layer Deposition: Applications, Opportunities, and Mechanisms

Silicon Based Coatings by Means of Glow and Townsend Dielectric Barrier Discharges

Film Microstructure Control and Characterization of Ion Bombardment- Aided Remote Plasma Deposition of Silicon Dioxide Films

Self-Limiting Growth of Aluminum Oxide by Pulsed Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition

Correlation of Surface Reactivity and Gas Phase Properties of CN Active Species in the Plasma Deposition of Carbon Nitride

Reaction Mechanisms in Patterning Hafnium Aluminate High-k Thin Films

Tungsten and Tungsten Nitride Etch Characterization for sub 45nm Metal Gate

Nitride Spacers Dry Etching for sub-20nm HfO2 - Metal Gate on Fully Depleted SOI

XPS Sidewall Analyses of Poly Si/TiN/HfO₂ Gate Stack Etched with Chlorine and Fluorocarbon Based Chemistries

Reactive Ion Etching of Ru Compounds Modified by Ion Implant

Plasma Etching Processes for Aggressively Scaled Gate Features

Investigation of 45nm Silicon Gate Etching Process Variability Contributors

Control of SiO₂/Si Interface States during Plasma Etching Processes

Plasma Etching in the Era of Intensive Integration Innovation

The Effect of Oxygen Addition in a Chlorine Plasma during Shallow Trench Isolation Etch

Temperature Effect on the Glancing Angle Deposition of Si Nanostructures

Gold Nanorod Arrays for Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Imaging of Micro-objects

Applications of Porous Thin Films Fabricated by Glancing Angle Deposition

Periodic Nanostructures by Glancing Angle Deposition

Electrically Actuated Alq₃ Nanospring Arrays

Effect of Thermal Oxidation and Annealing on the Structure and Morphology of Glancing Angle Deposited TiO_x Films

Glancing Angle Deposition of Organic Molecules

Tailoring the Wettability of Vertically Aligned Si Nanorod Arrays by Glancing Angle Deposition

Chemical Modification of Nanocomposite Si-SiOx Films Obtained by Oblique Deposition

Impact of Surface Analysis in Hydrocarbon Catalysis: Examples from Industry

The Influence of Steps on the Adsorption, Fragmentation, and Reactions of Ethylene and Ethanol on Rh Surfaces

Mechanistic Insights on Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis

H Induced CO Dissociation on Nickel Surfaces

Density Functional Theory Study of the Interconversion between HCO (formyl) and COH Surface Reaction Intermediate on Pt(111)

Enantioselectivity and Structure of Naturally Chiral Metal Surfaces

Tunneling Contributions in β-Hydride Elimination of Ethyl Groups on Cu(111) and Cu(100) surfaces

CO Chemisorption on Cu(111) via Embedded Configuration Interaction Theory

Mechanistic Insights Into Methane Activation from State-Resolved Beam-Surface Scattering Measurements

Preparation of Nickel Nanoparticles and their Catalytic Activity in the Cracking of Methane.

Crystalline Structure of Sn/Cu(100) Across a Surface Phase Transition

Self-assembled MnN Superstructure on Cu(001) Surface

Surface Morphology and Step Fluctuations on Ag Nanowires

Capture-Zone Scaling and Universal Fluctuation Phenomena

Sulfur Adsorption on Ag(111): Self-Organization of Metal-Sulphur Complexes below 300K

Structure of the Al(100)-c(2x2)Ti Surface*

Hard Superconductivity in Soft Quantum Films

Initial Bilayer-by-Bilayer Growth of Ag Islands on NiAl(110): DFT Analysis of underlying Quantum Size Effects

Role of Surface Structure on Thin Film Nucleation on Quasicrystal Surfaces

Study of Growth Process and Structures of Carbon Nanowalls Synthesized Using Radical Injection Plasma Enhanced CVD

Evaluation and Control of Electric Conduction of Carbon Nanowalls Fabricated by Plasma-Enhanced CVD

Low Temperature Deposition of Carbon Nanosheets by C₂H₂/H₂ Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition

Field Emission Performance of Carbon Nanosheets

Enhanced Field Emission from Mo₂C Coated Carbon Nanosheets

Production of Large Area Graphene Sheets by Si Desorption from SiC

Epitaxial Graphene - A New Paradigm for Nanoelectronics

Rotational Stacking of Graphene Films Grown on 4H-SiC(000-1)

Probing the Interface between Graphene and SiC at the Atomic-scale*

Quasiparticle Interference in Epitaxial Graphene*