AVS2013 Thursday Morning

Surface Analysis as a Critical Step in Translating Nanomaterials to Technologies

Molecular Surface Characterization of Individual Nano-objects

Towards the Effective Combination of Static and Dynamic SIMS for Nanoparticle and Biological Analyses

Quantitation of Protein Adsorption to Gold Nanoparticles

Surface Characterization of Protein Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles

Optical Rotation Measurements of Enantioselective Separation on Chiral Au Nanoparticles

Monitoring the Citric Acid Content on Dialyzed Gold Nanoparticle

Comparison of the Structure and Solution Behaviors of 20nm Silver and 20nm Silver-Shell-Gold-Core Nanocomposites in Aqueous Biological Media

Influence of Carrier Gas on the Nucleation and Growth of Nb Nanoclusters Formed Through Plasma Gas Condensation

Utility of Lipid Membranes Assembled on Nanoparticles for Measuring Protein Membrane Interactions

Primitive Osmosensing by Phospholipid Membranes

Ultrathin Poly(ethylene glycol) Films as Flexible Platform for Plasmonics and Lithography and as Precursors for Free-Standing Nanomembranes

Miniaturized Localized Surface Plasmon Resonsance Sensing with Single Nanoparticle Arrays

Design of Nanoscale Bionterfaces by Self-Assembly of Genetically Encoded Peptide Polymers

Label-Free Mapping of Protein/Peptide Interactions in Complex Arrays Using Core/Shell Nanoparticle-Based Biosensors

Graphene for Biosensing and Surface Functionalization

Application of Spectroscopic Ellipsometry for the Characterization of Various Solar Cell Devices

Real-Time and Through-the-Glass Mapping Spectroscopic Ellipsometry for Analysis of CdS/CdTe Coated Superstrates and Correlations with Solar Cell Performance

Expanded Beam Spectroscopic Ellipsometry for In-line Monitoring of Thin Film Process

Materials Characterization using THz Ellipsometry and THz Optical Hall Effect

A History of Early Ellipsometry and Polarimetry

Vibrational Properties of Lanthanum Aluminate and Magnesium Aluminate Spinel Using Fourier Transform Infrared Ellipsometry

When the Sequence of Thin Film Deposition Matters: Examination of Organic-on-Organic Heterostructure Formation using Molecular Beam Techniques and In Situ Real Time X-ray Synchrotron Radiation

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy Study of Sliding Defects in α-6T Films on C₆₀/Au(111)

Organic-Organic Heterostructures for Organic Electronics

Importance of Interfaces in Graphene Transfer to Polymers

Towards Organic Electronics: Methods for the Selective Deposition of Semiconductors and Metals

Organic Thin-Film Transistors Manufactured by Vacuum-Evaporation in a Roll-to-Roll Web-Coater Exploiting a Flash-Evaporated Polymer Gate Dielectric

Interface Science of Emerging Thin Film Photovoltaic Technologies: The Role of Interface Composition on Charge Harvesting Efficiencies

Measurement of the Bandgap Energies in Low-k Organosilicates

Complementary Porosity Metrologies for Porous Ultra Low-k Material

Future of Ultra Low-k Materials

Porosity Scaling Strategies for Low-k Films

Ellipsometric Porosimetry Surface Characterization of Oxygen Plasma Damage and κ Repair on Ultra Low κ Dielectrics

Pore Stuffing to Enable Interconnect Scaling

Molecular Layer Deposition of Organic Films for Nanoelectronics Applications

Surface Photoconductivity of Low-k Organosilicates Induced by Plasma Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation

Density Functional Theory Studies of Mechanical and Electronic Properties in 2-D Superlattices Made of Carbon and Boron Nitride Domains

Enclosing, Isolation and Electron Microscopy of Encapsulated Microscopic Objects Using Graphene Oxide Membranes

"Princess and the Pea" at the Nanoscale: Wrinkling and Unbinding of Graphene on Nanoparticles

Chemical Properties of Ultrathin MgO(100) Films: The Role of Interfaces and Dopants

The Self-assembly of Carbon Atoms on Catalyst Surface—Mechanism of Carbon Nanotube and Graphene Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) Growth

Graphene Nanostructures: Top-down vs. Bottom-up Approaches

Exfoliation, Sorting, and Applications of Few Layer Graphene Sheets

Interaction of Copper Nanoparticles with Graphene Membrane

Imaging with Helium Ions - A New Detector Regime with New Challenges and New Opportunities

Interaction of Energetic Ions and Electrons with Two-Dimensional Materials

Imaging of Graphene Films by Helium Ion Microscope

Secondary Electron Contrast for Few Layer Graphene in Helium Ion Microscope

Monte Carlo Simulations of Helium and Neon Ions Beam Induced Deposition and Etching

Helium Ion Microscope; a Single Beam for Imaging and Fabrication

Ambient Pressure XPS Observation of Electrode Surfaces during Electrochemical Reactions

Ambient Pressure Photoelectron and Electron Spectro-Microscopy Using Electron Transparent Membranes

Surface Chemistry over Inverse Model Catalysts under Near-Ambient Pressure

Ambient Pressure Photoelectron Spectroscopy using Tender X-ray

Novel Developments in Near Ambient Pressure XPS – The Route Towards Standard Analysis Tools in Laboratory Environments

Application of Computational Methods to Material Design and Discovery

New Ferroelectrics and Antiferroelectrics by Design

Disruptive Design Strategies for Emergent Ferroics

Computational Design of Materials for Catalysis: Interface Matters

Molecular Dynamics Analysis of Si Etching in HBr-based Plasmas: Ion Incident Energy and Angle Dependence

MD Simulations of Pulsed Chlorine Plasmas Interaction with Ultrathin Silicon Films for Advanced Etch Processes

Control of SiO₂ Etch Properties by Pulsed Capacitively Coupled Plasmas Sustained in Ar/CF₄/O₂

Accuracy of the Step Sheath Approximation

Multi-dimensional Modeling of Industrial Plasma Processing Systems

Self-Consistent Simulations of the Radial Line Slot Antenna Plasma Source

Feature Profile Simulator with Atomic Mono-Layer Resolution Capability

Feature Profile Evolution in Plasma Processing using On-Wafer Monitoring System

Nanoscale Interface Engineering of Silicon Nanocrystals by Non-equilibrium Microplasma

Single Step Plasma Synthesis of Core-shell Group IV Nanoparticles

On the Structure of Non-Thermal-Plasma Produced Nanocrystals

Detection of Nanometer Scale Ni Clusters Formed in an Atmospheric Pressure DC Microplasma by Ion Mobility Spectrometry

One-step Synthesis of Gold Bimetallic Nanoparticles with Various Metal Compositions

Synthesis of Platinum Nanoparticles on Carbon Powder by the Means of an RF Plasma Torch for Fuel Cells Applications

Growth of Nanocomposites on Heat-Sensitive Polymers using Cold, Dielectric Barrier Discharges at Atmospheric Pressure

Fabrication of Asymmetric Nanopores by Pulsed PECVD

Microplasma Reduction of Metal-Organic and Metal-Polymer Films for Single-Step Fabrication of Flexible, Conductive Patterns

A 60 Year Perspective on Developments in Plasma Assisted PVD Processes for Enhanced Surface Engineered Performance

Optimized Magnetic Field Configuration for High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering

HiPIMS Deposition of Semiconducting ZnO Thin Films

Si₃N₄ Spacers Etching in Synchronized Pulsed CH₃F/O₂/He/SiF₄ Plasmas

CO₂ Conversion to CO and O₂ by DBD Plasma at Atmospheric Pressure

Cold Atmospheric Plasma Assisted Production of Hydrogen

Optical Emission Spectroscopy of He Dielectric Barrier Discharges at Atmospheric-Pressure Applied to the Functionalization of Wood Surfaces

Substitution of ThO₂ by La₂O₃ for Tungsten Electrodes used in Atmospheric Plasma Spraying

Inelastic Imaging of Single Molecule Dynamics

Tunneling Resonances Into Engineered Nanoscale Cavities on a Noble Metal Surface

Real-space Spectroscopy and Microscopy of Tunneling Electron Induced Light Emission from Single Gold Nanoclusters

Spatial Mapping of Surface Plasmons in Nanoscale Ag Islands on Graphite using Scanning Probe Energy Loss Spectroscopy

Development of a Synchrotron X-Ray Assisted STM

High-Speed AFM Studies of Cell Membrane Dynamics

Photothermal Excitation for Reliable and Quantitative AFM

Minimally Invasive AFM for Imaging Biomolecules in Liquid

Creation of Local Chiral Surface Environments via the Adsorption of Propylene Oxide on achiral Pt(111) Surfaces

Enantiospecific Adsorption and Decomposition of Aspartic Acid on Cu(hkl)^R&S Surfaces

Imaging a Surface Explosion: Autocatalytic Desorption of Tartaric Acid from Cu(110)

Exploring Enantioselectivity on Chirally Modified Surfaces in Ultrahigh Vacuum

Spin-dependent Electron Transmission through Helical Organic Molecules

Coverage Dependent Self-Assembled Structures of Glutaric Acid on Cu(110)

Enantioselective Decomposition of L and D Tartaric Acid on Copper Surface Structure Spread Single Crystals

Stereodirecting Interactions and Stereodynamics on Chirally Modified Pt(111)

Hindering Influence of Oxygen Vacancies for Photoactivity on TiO₂(110)

Anisotropic Photochemical Reactivity of Rutile (110)

Energy Transfer and Photostimulated Desorption of Atoms and Molecules Co-adsorbed with Oxygen on TiO₂(110) Surface

Adsorption and Photo-induced Decomposition of Formate on Rutile TiO₂ (110)

TiO₂ Nanoparticle Arrays Functionalized with Pt Photodeposition: Studies Using X-ray Spectroscopies under In Situ Heating and Hydrogen Annealing

Carrier Dynamics on Oxide Surfaces Studied by Time-resolved Soft X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Atomic Scale Photochemistry with STM

Atomic Structure and Catalytic Activity of Size-Selected MoS₂ Nanoclusters for Water Splitting

Understanding Strongly Correlated Complex Oxides through Epitaxial Control

Tracing the History of Inorganic Thin Films from ~2500 BC to the Early 1900s AD

Metal-Insulator Transition Induced in SrVO₃ Thin Films

Bi-Chromatic Far-Field Optical Probing the Percolative Metal-Insulator Transition in VO₂ Thin Film

Magnetron Deposition of IGZO Thin Films Utilizing dc, Pulsed dc and Bipolar Power Supply

Structure and Optical Properties of Nanocrystalline Hafnium Oxide Thin Films Made by Sputter-Deposition

Studies of Electrical and Surface Properties of High-k Dielectric Gate formed by Al₂O₃, HfO₂, Al_xHf_yO_z and AlHfON on Silicon via Atomic Layer Deposition

TiO₂ Film Crystallization by Post-Deposition Annealing

Non-destructive Spectroscopic Analysis of Gradient Hydrocarbon/Fluorocarbon Thin Films to Demonstrate the Formation of a Stable Gradient Structure during PECVD Film Growth

CVD Infiltration of Carbon into Carbon Nanotube Forests for Templated Microfabrication

Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition of Functional Polymers onto Porous Materials and Liquid Surfaces

Ultrasonic Spray Deposition of Mesoporous WO₃ Films Displaying 100% Optical Modulation

Preparation and Characterization of CVD & ALD Tungsten & Molybdenum Thin Films for CNT-M Metallic Microstructures

Silica Structures by Plasma-enhanced Chemical Vapor Infiltration of a Carbon Nanotube Template

High Deposition Rate and Uniformity of Silicon Thin Films Deposited Via Efficient, Low-Damage Surface Wave Plasma Source

Ab-initio and Classical Molecular Dynamics Study of Diffusion of Ti and N Adatoms on the TiN(001) Surface

Quantum Chemistry Analysis of the Role of Radicals in Plasma Assisted Atomic Layer Deposition of Silicon Nitride Films