Novel Instrumentation and Techniques in Surface Science

Presentations

• A Combined Scanning Tunneling Microscope-Quartz Crystal Microbalance Investigation of Heating and Liquid-Like Behavior at a Sliding Interface

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 2:30 PM – March 16, 2009, 2:42 PM

  Authors

  • Benjamin Dawson

    • North Carolina State University

  • Jacqueline Krim

    • North Carolina State University

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• Dynamics and Spreading of pentanol and other alcohols for MEMS applications

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 2:42 PM – March 16, 2009, 2:54 PM

  Authors

  • Brendan Miller

    • North Carolina State University

  • David Hook

    • North Carolina State University

  • Jacqueline Krim

    • North Carolina State University

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• Numerical Studies of Friction Between Metallic Surfaces and of its Dependence on Electric Currents

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 2:54 PM – March 16, 2009, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Evangelos Meintanis

    • Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, The University of Texas at Austin

  • Michael Marder

    • Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, The University of Texas at Austin

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• Combined conducting atomic force/scanning Kelvin probe microscope for investigating charge trapping on semiconductor surfaces

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 3:06 PM – March 16, 2009, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • James Moore

    • Longwood University

  • Sean Kenny

    • Longwood University

  • Monika Ruchala

    • Virginia Commonwealth University

  • Mikhail Reshchikov

    • Virginia Commonwealth University

  • Alison Baski

    • Virginia Commonwealth University

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• Hot Electron Transport Properties of Thin Copper Films Using Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 3:18 PM – March 16, 2009, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • J.J. Garramone

    • University at Albany

  • J.R. Abel

    • University at Albany

  • I.L. Sitnitsky

    • University at Albany

  • L. Zhao

    • University of Delaware

  • I. Appelbaum

    • University of Delaware

  • V.P. LaBella

    • University at Albany

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• A Comparative Study of Au-Au, Ru-Ru and RuO$_{2}$-Au RF MEMS Contacts in Controlled Vacuum Environments

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2009, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Matthew Walker

    • North Carolina State University

  • J. Krim

    • North Carolina State University

  • N. McGruer

    • North Carolina State University

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• Reduction of Barrier Height at Close Proximity between two Gold (111) surfaces.

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 3:42 PM – March 16, 2009, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Yoshifumi Oshima

    • Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Yoshihiko Kurui

    • Tokyo Institute of Technology

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• Coherent X-ray Surface Diffraction: Speckle from the Surface Reconstruction Layer of Gold (001)

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 3:54 PM – March 16, 2009, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Michael S. Pierce

    • Argonne National Laboratory
    • Argonne National Laboratory, Materials Science Division

  • Kee-Chul Chang

    • Argonne National Laboratory
    • Argonne National Laboratory, Materials Science Division

  • Daniel Hennessy

    • Argonne National Laboratory
    • Argonne National Laboratory, Materials Science Division

  • Alec Sandy

    • Argonne National Laboratory
    • ANL-APS
    • Argonne National Laboratory, Advanced Photon Source

  • Michael Sprung

    • Argonne National Laboratory, Advanced Photon Source

  • Hoydoo You

    • Argonne National Laboratory
    • Argonne National Laboratory, Materials Science Division

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• In-situ chemical and structural characterization via RHEED-total reflection analysis of x-rays (TRAXS).

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2009, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Sandeep Chandril

    • West Virginia University

  • Cameron Keenan

    • West Virginia University

  • Thomas Myers

    • West Virginia University

  • David Lederman

    • Dept. of Physics, West Virginia University
    • West Virginia University

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• High Energy XRD/XRF for High-Throughput Phase Mapping of Composition Spread Thin Films

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 4:18 PM – March 16, 2009, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • John Gregoire

    • Cornell University

  • Darren Dale

    • Cornell University

  • Alexander Kazimirov

    • Cornell University

  • Michele Tague

    • Cornell University

  • Hector Abruna

    • Cornell University

  • Francis DiSalvo

    • Cornell University

  • R. Bruce van Dover

    • Cornell University

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• Low Energy Electron Microscope Imaging of Doped Si Structures Buried under Thermal Oxides

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 4:30 PM – March 16, 2009, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Gary Kellogg

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Meredith Anderson

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Craig Nakakura

    • Sandia National Laboratories

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• LEED structural analysis of strongly correlated systems: reaching the limit of the instrumentation?

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2009, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • TeYu Chien

    • Dept. of Physics \& Astronomy, U. of TN, Knoxville

  • Biao Hu

    • Dept. of Physics \& Astronomy, U. of TN, Knoxville

  • Shuheng Pan

    • Dept. of Physics, U. of Houston

  • V. Braun Nascimento

    • University of Tennessee, TN 37996
    • Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
    • Dept. of Physics \& Astronomy, LSU

  • E. Ward Plummer

    • Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
    • Dept. of Physics \& Astronomy, LSU

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• Electron emission from surfaces resulting from low energy positron bombardment

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 4:54 PM – March 16, 2009, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • S. Mukherjee

    • U. Texas at Arlington

  • K. Shastry

    • University of Texas at Arlington
    • U. Texas at Arlington

  • A.H. Weiss

    • Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington
    • University of Texas at Arlington
    • U. Texas at Arlington

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• Hydrogen absorption by a Pd film detected by microgravimetry

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 5:06 PM – March 16, 2009, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • J.I. Avila

  • R. Trabol

    • Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

  • U.G. Volkmann

    • P.U. Catolica Chile

  • A.L. Cabrera

    • Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

  • C. Romero

  • P. Lievens

    • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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• Observation of In Plane Magnetization Reversal Using Polarization Dependent Magnetooptical Kerr Effect

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 5:18 PM – March 16, 2009, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Hendrik Ohldag

    • SSRL
    • SSRL, Menlo Park CA, USA.
    • Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Menlo Park, CA USA

  • Franz Hillebrecht

    • Institute for Solid State Research, Juelich Germany

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