Optical Characterization of Plasma-Deposited SiO₂-like Layers on Anisotropic Polymeric Substrates

Spectroscopic Ellipsometry in the Mid IR and UV-VIS for Investigating Low Temperature Plasma Activated Wafer Bonding

Applications of Ellipsometry and Polarimetry to Real-Time Analysis and Control of Epitaxial Growth

Spectroscopic Ellipsometric Sudy of Phase-Change Materials for Data Storage Applications

VUV Optical Properties of III-Nitrides in the Thin Film Limit

Parameterization of the Optical Function of Hydrogenated Amorphous Carbon by Means of B-splines

Characterization of P3HT Anisotropic Thin Films with Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

Analysis of CdTe and CdS Thin Films and Photovoltaic Device Structures by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

Synergism of Ellipsometric Porosimetry with Other Complementary Characterization Techniques for Process Control of Ultra Low k Dielectric Films

Molecular Simulation as a Surface Design Tool to Understand and Control Protein-Surface Interactions

Surface-Induced Changes in the Structure of Beta-Helical Peptides

Enantiospecific Adsorption of Serine Enantiomers on the Chiral Cu{531} Surface

Investigation of Surface-Bound Protein Conformation/Orientation Using Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy of Protein Interactions with Model Biomaterials

Probing Individual Side-Chains of Peptides at Interfaces Using Isotope Labeling with Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy

Surface-initiated Vapor Deposition Polymerization of Poly(gamma-benzyl L glutamate): Optimization and Mechanistic Study

Adsorbed α-Helical Polypeptides: Molecular Organization, Structural Properties, and Interactions

Enhancement of the Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in Bulk Semiconductors at the Atomic Level

Synthesis of PbTe Nanowires by Lithographically Patterned Nanowire Electrodeposition (LPNE) and Their Thermoelectric Properties

PbSe Quantum-Dot Solar Cells

Phosphonate Self-Assembled Monolayers as Organic Linkers in Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells

High Efficiency Multijunction Solar Cells – Present Status and Future Directions

GaAs Integration on High-Quality Ge on Si for Multijunction Solar Cells

Investigation of Rare Earth - Doped Silicon Nitride Layers for Solar Cell Applications

Electrical Properties of HfO₂ Thin Films Made by RF Sputtering

XPS Characterization of Hf-based High-k Oxide/SiO₂/Si Films Stacks

Enhanced Dielectric Polarizability of Ge Doped HfO₂ Films on Si and Ge

Correlated Oxide Heterostructures

Polarization-dependent Electron Tunneling Into Ferroelectric Surfaces

XAS and XPES Studies of Strongly Correlated Ti d-states in Gd(Sc_1-xTi_x)O₃

ZnO/LiNbO₃ Heterojunctions: A Candidate System For Multifunctional Oxides

The Study of Electrical and Structural Properties of SiO₂ Film Containing Metal oxide using Organosiloxane-based Silica Precursor

A New Ion-Trap based Vacuum Quality Monitoring & Measurement System

Graphene: Quantum Transport in a 2D Membrane

Air Induced Suppression of n-Type Conduction in Field-Effect Transistors

Epitaxial Graphene Device Technology

Hydrogen Adsorption at Surfaces of the Epitaxial Graphene on the 6H-SiC(0001)

Graphitic Carbon Growth on Si(111) from Solid Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Epitaxial Graphene: Designing a New Electronic Material

MORTON S. TRAUM AWARD FINALIST: Room Temperature Molecular-Resolution Characterization of Self-Assembled Organic Monolayers on Epitaxial Graphene

Effects of Reducing Conditions on Conductivity Change of Graphene Oxide

Tribological Behavior of Nanostructured Materials Predicted from Molecular Dynamics Simulations

High Pressure at Small Scales in Tribology and Piezoelectronics: Insights from First-Principle Molecular Dynamics

Optical Energy Density Inside Metallic Nano-Apertures

Field Amplification in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

Inductively-Coupled Pulsed Plasmas in the Presence of Synchronous Pulsed Substrate Bias for Advanced Gate Etching

Synchronously Pulsed Capacitively Coupled Plasma Sources for Dielectric Etching

Highly Selective and Low Damage Etching of TiN / HfO₂ Layer Gate Stack Structure using Neutral Beam Etching and Atomic Layer Etching

Impact of Cure and Trim Processes on the Linewidth Roughness Transfer during Gate Stack Patterning with Amorphous Carbon Mask

Multilayer Mask Etch - CD, CD Bias, and Profile Control using RLSA Plasma Etcher

Effects of Hydrogen Bombardment during Polysilicon Gate Etching by HBr/O₂ Plasmas

Challenges in Etching sub-45nm Shallow Trench Isolation (STI)

Control of TiN Sheet Resistance in Downstream Plasma PR Strip

Inductively Coupled Plasma Etching of GaN and Induced Defects

Microplasma Synthesis of Dimensionally- and Compositionally-Controlled Metal Nanoparticles for Catalytic Growth of Carbon Nanotubes

Argon-Methyldisiloxane-Oxygen Fed Atmospheric Pressure DBDs for SiO₂-like Thin Film Deposition

Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition by Homogeneous Dielectric Barrier Discharge

On the Deposition Mechanism of the Silica Like Films in Atmospheric Pressure Glow Discharge

Industrial Scale Pulsed Atmospheric Dielectric Barrier Discharges

Optical Emission Spectroscopy of an Argon DC Microdischarge: Electron Density and Gas Temperature Profiles

Argon Microplasma Diagnostics by Diode Laser Absorption

Experiment and Simulation Results of Limited Cathode Area MHCDs Operating in He

Linear Microplasma Array using Strongly-Coupled Resonators

AlTiN and AlCrN Hard Coatings - Alloying as an Approach to Improve Oxidation and Tribological Properties

Pressure Dependence of the Al Ion Energy Distribution Functions during Filtered Cathodic Arc Thin Film Growth in an Ar, O₂ Ambient

Al-Si-N Thin Films: Nanocomposites and Solid Solutions

Development of Water Repellent Metal Oxide Thin Film as Like Organic Polymer

Anti-Wear and Anti-Bacteria Behaviors of Rejuvenated TaN-Cu Nanocomposite Thin Films

UV Induced Work Function Change of Oxide Surfaces

Low-energy Alkali Ion Scattering Studies of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ

Termination and Identification of Surface Species on the Magnetite (111) Surface Studied by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Investigation of the Vanadium Dioxide Surface and Its Related Metal-Insulator Transition (MIT)

The Adsorption and Reaction of Alcohols on Poorly Crystalline γ–Al₂O₃ Surfaces

The Growth and Structure of Ceria Islands on Cu(111)

Morphology and Electronic Structure of Ultrathin Oxide Films on Pt₃Ti(111)

Facile C-H Bond Cleavage of Propane on a PdO(101) Thin Film

Investigation of Oxygen Embedment and Surface Restructuring on the Cu(100) Surface by Density Functional Theory Calculations

Surface Structure of the Pd-H System

Surface-catalyzed O2 Adsorption on Quantum Thin Films

Surface Reactions on Model Gold Catalysts

Oxidative Removal of Carbodiimide (NCN) and Isocyanate (NCO) Species from Cu(001) Surfaces

Kinetics of HCN Decomposition and CNH₂ Formation on Pt(111)

Surface Segregation on Composition Spread Alloy Films

Catalytic Hydrogenation of Butadiene on Bimetallic Surfaces

Buffer Layer Assisted Deposition of Pb-Au Bimetallic Nano-clusters: Characterization and Chemical Reactivity

Theoretical Prediction of Ordering and Reactivity of Bimetallic Gold Alloy Surfaces

Nanorod Structures for Energy Conversion

Nanophotocatalysts Engineered by Glancing Angle Deposition Method

Enhanced Optical Absorption and Photoconductivity Response of Indium Sulfide Nanorod Arrays

Oblique Angle Polymerization

Structural and Optical Properties of Metal Sculptured Thin Films on Large-Scale Prepatterned Substrates

On the Uniformity of Films Fabricated by Glancing Angle Deposition

Nanostructured Tungsten and Tungsten Trioxide Films Prepared by Glancing Angle Deposition

Dual Magnetron Oblique Sputtering of Biaxially Oriented ZnO Thin Films on Amorphous Substrates

A Slice of GLAD: Use of Focused Ion Beam Tomography to Characterize Titania Thin Films

How Surface Reactions Afford Ultra-Conformal CVD: A Zone Diagram and the Application of Suppressor Species

Functional and Conducting Polymer Thin Films by Vapor Deposition

CVD of Three Aminosilanes on Silicon Oxide: Effect of Silane Concentration, Surface Characterization and Stability, and Cyanine Dye Adsorption

Novel Precursors for CVD of Amorphous and Crystalline Cobalt Group Metal-Phosphide Films

Kinetic Study on InGaAsP-MOCVD Using Selective Area Growth and its Application to OEIC Device Fabrication

OLED Encapsulation by Room Temperature Plasma-Assisted ALD Al₂O₃ Films

Controlled Doping of CVD Diamond with Mid-to-High Z Metals