Session B20: Focus Session: Growth, Kinetics and Quantum Effects in Metal Thin Films

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Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Robert Bartynski, Rutgers University
Morial Convention Center - 212


Monday, March 10, 2008
11:15AM - 11:27AM

B20.00001: Growth instabilities and adsorbed impurities: Nanostructuring of vicinal surfaces controlled by adsorbates
Ajmi BHadj Hamouda , T.L. Einstein , P.E. Hoggan , A. Pimpinelli

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Monday, March 10, 2008
11:27AM - 11:39AM

B20.00002: Effects of deposition angle in metal(100) epitaxial growth
Jacques G. Amar , Valery Borovikov , Yunsic Shim

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Monday, March 10, 2008
11:39AM - 11:51AM

B20.00003: Shape fluctuations of small Pb(111) islands at low temperatures.
M. Hupalo , M.C. Tringides

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Monday, March 10, 2008
11:51AM - 12:03PM

B20.00004: Connector Model for Many-Body Interactions at Surfaces from First Principles
Yogesh Tiwary , Kristen Fichthorn

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Monday, March 10, 2008
12:03PM - 12:15PM

B20.00005: Double-layer island decay on Ag(111): A molecular dynamic simulation
Berk Onat , Sondan Durukanoglu

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Monday, March 10, 2008
12:15PM - 12:27PM

B20.00006: Kinetics of Facile Bilayer Island Formation for Ag on NiAl(110)
J.W. Evans , Yong Han , D.-J. Liu , Baris Unal , F. Qin , D. Jin , C.J. Jenks , P.A. Thiel

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Monday, March 10, 2008
12:27PM - 12:39PM

B20.00007: Self-organization and pattern selection under nanosecond pulsed laser-induced melting of ultrathin metal films
Ramki Kalyanaraman , Christopher Favazza , Justin Trice , Radhakrishna Sureshkumar

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Monday, March 10, 2008
12:39PM - 12:51PM

B20.00008: Quantum engineering of apparent tunneling height in ultra thin Pb films
Jungdae Kim , Shengyong Qin , Chih-Kang Ken Shih

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Monday, March 10, 2008
12:51PM - 1:03PM

B20.00009: Why Is The Size Dependence Of the Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Workfunction Order Of Magnitude Larger Than That Of Photoemission ?
Wei-Xue Li , Xin Liu , S.B. Zhang

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Monday, March 10, 2008
1:03PM - 1:15PM

B20.00010: Tuning Surface Energy Landscapes in Metallic Quantum Films using Alkali Adsorbates
Alexander Khajetoorians , Shengyong Qin , Wenguang Zhu , Holger Eisele , Zhenyu Zhang , Chih-Kang Shih

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Monday, March 10, 2008
1:15PM - 1:27PM

B20.00011: Super-oscillations in the Interlayer Lattice Relaxation of Quantum Pb Films.
Yu Jia , Biao Wu , T.L. Einstein , H.H. Weitering , Zhenyu Zhang

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Monday, March 10, 2008
1:27PM - 1:39PM

B20.00012: Modifying the Adsorption of Molecules at Metal Surfaces by Quantum Confinement of Electrons
Levan Tskipuri , Robert Bartynski

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Monday, March 10, 2008
1:39PM - 1:51PM

B20.00013: Crystal structure and height selection for Indium growth on Si(111) interfaces
J. Chen , M. Hupalo , M. Ji , C.Z. Wang , K.M. Ho , M.C. Tringides

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Monday, March 10, 2008
1:51PM - 2:03PM

B20.00014: Non-classical scaling in the Pb/Si(111) coarsening at low temperature
Myron Hupalo , R. Feng , E.H. Conrad , C. A. Jeffrey , P. F. Miceli , S. Hayden , M. Gramlich , P. J. Ryan , C. Kim , M.C. Tringides

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Monday, March 10, 2008
2:03PM - 2:15PM

B20.00015: Surface, quantum well, and bulk states in Ag films
Nathan Speer , Ching Wei , Tom Miller , Tai Chiang

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