AVS2000 Wednesday Morning

Role of Water in Biological Processes

Neutron Reflectivity Studies on the Interaction of Water with Biocompatible Monolayer Films

Hydrogen Bond of Water in Ih Ice Probed by Core-level Spectroscopies

Tyrosine Derivatives Adsorbed on Gold for Surface Modification

Stretching of a Macromolecule: A First Principles Theory

A Fundamental Approach to Protein Adsorption: Changes in Free Energy for Adsorption of Individual Peptidyl Residues onto Functionalized SAM Surfaces

Ultra Low k Mesoporous Silica Dielectrics for Semiconductor Interconnects

Deposition of Thermal Stable Amorphous Carbon Nitride Thin Films with Low Dielectric Constant by ECR-CVD

Impact of Hydrogen Addition on the Deposition Rate of SiOF Films Prepared by High Density Plasma CVD

Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Low Dielectric Constant Si:O:C:H Films

A New Simple and Accurate Method to Measure Intra-Metal Capacitance of Low-K Fluorinated Silicon Dioxide

DC and RF Characteristics of Advanced MIM Capacitors for MMIC's Using Thin and Low Temperature PECVD Si₃N₄ Dielectric Layers

Rapid Prototyping by Local Deposition of Siliconoxide and Tungsten Nanostructures for Interconnect Rewiring

CVD Films as Directly Patternable Low-k Dielectrics

Characterization of Remote Plasma Clean Process for Plasma CVD Chamber

Silicon Oxide Contact Hole Etching Process Employing Environmentally Harmonized Technique

Photocatalytic, Anti-fogging Mirror

Low-k Materials Etching in Magnetic Neutral Loop Discharge Plasma

Interpretation of the Shirley Background in XPS Analysis

Formation of Potentially Protective Oxide-free Phosphate Films On Titanium Characterized by Valence Band X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Chemometric Approaches to the Analysis of Surface Chemical Image Data

Multivariate Analysis of TOF-SIMS Data of Dodecanethiol SAMs: Detailed Spectral Analysis and Insight Into Fragmentation

Z-dol PFPEs on Magnetic Recording Disks: A PLS Study of TOF-SIMS Spectra

Exploration of the Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectra of Combinatorially Designed Polyarylates by using a Novel Multivariate Statistical Approach

Characterizations of MBE Grown Single Crystal Ferromagnetic Ni₂MnGa Thin Films on (001) Ga_1-xIn_xAs

Molecular Beam Epitaxial Growth of Ferromagnetic Ni₂MnGe on GaAs(001)

Demonstration of Electrical Spin Injection: The Spin-LED¹

Ferromagnetism and Spin Related Phenomena in Semiconductor Heterostructures

Properties of Mn_xGe_1-x, Cr_yGe_1-y and Mn_xCr_yGe_1-x-y Semiconductor Films Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy¹

Characterizations of Fe Thin Films on GaAs (001) Grown at Cryogenic Temperatures by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Growth and Magnetic Properties of Epitaxial Fe-N Films¹

Microfabricated Platform for Semiconducting Metal Oxide Thin Film Gas Sensors

The Use of Micromachined Arrays to Develop Processing/Performance Databases for Metal/Oxide Sensing Materials

Chemical Detection Based on Adsorption-Induced and Photo-Induced Stresses in MEMS Devices

Optical Emission Study of a Microfabricated Inductively Coupled Plasma

A Micromachined Scanning Fabry-Perot Interferometer

Passivation of MEMS Structures that are Integrated with Support Electronics

Surface Acoustic Wave Investigation by UHV Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Q-Control: Characterizing Highly Sensitive Surface Structures with the AFM

Traceability for Nanoscale Properties

Low Temperature Scanning Force Microscopy of the Si(111) 7x7 Surface and Site-specific Measurements of Tip-Sample Interaction Forces

Simultaneous STM/nc-AFM Imaging and Force Spectroscopy of Si(100)-(2x1) Surface with Small Oscillation Amplitudes

A Liquid Helium Temperature Ultrahigh Vacuum Dual-tip Scanning Tunneling Microscope

The Transport and Injection of Positive Carriers in Conjugated Electroluminescent Polymers and their Devices

Grain Boundary Effects on Electrical Transport in Polycrystalline Organic Semiconductor Thin Films

Quantum Confinement and Electron Transfer at Organic-Metal Interfaces

Chemistry and Electronic Properties at Metals (Al, Mg and Au)-Organic Molecular Semiconductor (F₁₆CuPc) Interfaces

Microcontacts to Self-Assembled Monolayers with a Conducting AFM Tip

White-Light-Emitting Organic EL Devices Based on Vacuum Deposited Thin Films

Plasma-Induced Charging Gate Oxide Pinhole Formation

Effects of Plasma-induced Charging Damages on Thin Gate Oxide during Plasma Etching Processes

The Use of Simultaneous Modulation of Source and Wafer RF to Reduce Plasma Induced Damage

Effect of Oxide to Nitride Etch Selectivity on Plasma Induced Charging Damage

Aspect Ratio Dependent Plasma-Induced Charging Damage in RF Pre-Cleaning of Metal Contact

Real-time Observation of Relaxation of Disorder-induced Surface Stress

Transient Charging Effects of Insulating Surfaces Exposed to a Plasma During Pulse Biased DC Magnetron Sputtering.

Infrared Study of the Initial Stages of Etching of Si Electrode Surfaces in HF Solution

Electrical Transport at Chemically Modified Silicon Surfaces

Using Micromachined Test Patterns to Study Surface Chemistry: An Investigation of Etchant Anisotrophy

Etching of BPSG Films Using Anhydrous HF

Etching of Polymer-like a-Si:H Films by Impact of H

Reaction Mechanism of Si(100) Etching by Mass- and Energy-Selected Cl+ Beams

Deuterium Etching of the Si-rich SiC(0001)-(3x3) Surface Reconstruction

Variable Temperature Study of Hydrogen and Deuterium Passivation of the Si(100)-2x1 Surface using the Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Increased Reactivity of Strained Ni Layers on Ru(0001)

Suppression of NO Dissociation by Adsorbed Gold on Pt(335)

Chemical and Electronic Properties of Ni/Pt(111) Bimetallic Surfaces: Unique Surface Reactivity at the Monolayer Ni Coverage

Coverage Dependent Selectivity and a New Approach to Tayloring Nanostructures on Single Crystal Surfaces

The Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure of n-octane Adsorbed on Cu(110): New Insights Into the Type of Chemical Interaction

Direct Experimental Measurement of Donation/Backdonation in Unsaturated Hydrocarbons Bonding to Metals

Trapping-mediated Dissociative Chemisorption of Cycloalkanes on Ru(001) and Ir(111): The Influence of Ring Strain on the Activation of C-C and C-H Bonds

Enhanced Adatom Diffusion Using Glancing-Angle Ions

Scattering of Hyperthermal O⁺ Ions on a SiO_x Surface

Film Growth and Surface Modification by Low Energy Polyatomic Ions

Super-smooth Neutron Optical Surfaces By Gas Cluster Ion Beam Processing

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Hyperthermal Ne⁺ Scattering From Si(100)

Laser Induced Reactivity of Ammonia on Silicon Surface

Interaction of Laser Impulse with YBA₂CU₃O₇ Target and Generation of Four Element Plasma

Rainbow Scattering of Methane and Ethane Molecular Beams from a LiF(001) Surface: Dependencies on Incident Kinetic Energy and Molecular Anisotropy

Probing the Extrinsic Precursor State: Methane Trapping on Ethylidyne-covered Pt(111)

Gas-Surface Dynamics of State-Selected Reagents

Sticking Probability Measurement of Oriented NO on Al(111)

Speed Distribution of Ethane Molecular Beam Reflected after Temporary Trapping on a LiF(001) Surface

Trapping Dynamics of Ethane on Si(100)-(2x1) Studied by Molecular Beam Experiments and Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Dynamics of Atom Abstraction in the Scattering of NH₃⁺ on Deuterated Al(111)

Hyperthermal Ion Enhanced Deposition of Materials

Thin-Film Growth on Polymer Surfaces through Polyatomic Ion Deposition: Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Ion Bombardment on Hydrogen-terminated Si(001)-(2X1) Surfaces

Low Temperature Growth of 2D Pb Islands on Si(111)7x7 Surfaces

Modeling of Cluster Ion-Surface Interactions with Full Inclusion of Internal Degrees of Freedom

Extension Velocities for Level Set Based Surface Profile Evolution

Models of Electrochemical Deposition of Copper Thin Films:The Effect of Leveling Agents

The United States Constitution and Vacuum Technology

Measurements of Photon Stimulated Desorption from Thick and Thin Oxide of KEKB Collider Copper Beam Chambers and a Stainless Steel Beam Chamber¹

Study the Exposure Dose-Dependent Photon Stimulated Desorption Phenomena

Study of Desorption of Carbonaceous Gas Molecules from Copper Surfaces under Electron Bombardment

Vacuum Characteristics of Sprayed Metal Films

Edison's Vacuum Coating Patents