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Session D12: Novel Instrumentation and Techniques in Surface Science

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Sponsoring Units: DMP DCMP
Chair: MIchael Dreyer, University of Maryland
Room: 308


Monday, March 16, 2009
2:30PM - 2:42PM

 D12.00001: A Combined Scanning Tunneling Microscope-Quartz Crystal Microbalance Investigation of Heating and Liquid-Like Behavior at a Sliding Interface
Benjamin Dawson , Jacqueline Krim

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Monday, March 16, 2009
2:42PM - 2:54PM

 D12.00002: Dynamics and Spreading of pentanol and other alcohols for MEMS applications
Brendan Miller , David Hook , Jacqueline Krim

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Monday, March 16, 2009
2:54PM - 3:06PM

 D12.00003: Numerical Studies of Friction Between Metallic Surfaces and of its Dependence on Electric Currents
Evangelos Meintanis , Michael Marder

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Monday, March 16, 2009
3:06PM - 3:18PM

 D12.00004: Combined conducting atomic force/scanning Kelvin probe microscope for investigating charge trapping on semiconductor surfaces
James Moore , Sean Kenny , Monika Ruchala , Mikhail Reshchikov , Alison Baski

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Monday, March 16, 2009
3:18PM - 3:30PM

 D12.00005: Hot Electron Transport Properties of Thin Copper Films Using Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy
J.J. Garramone , J.R. Abel , I.L. Sitnitsky , L. Zhao , I. Appelbaum , V.P. LaBella

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Monday, March 16, 2009
3:30PM - 3:42PM

 D12.00006: A Comparative Study of Au-Au, Ru-Ru and RuO$_{2}$-Au RF MEMS Contacts in Controlled Vacuum Environments
Matthew Walker , J. Krim , N. McGruer

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Monday, March 16, 2009
3:42PM - 3:54PM

 D12.00007: Reduction of Barrier Height at Close Proximity between two Gold (111) surfaces.
Yoshifumi Oshima , Yoshihiko Kurui

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Monday, March 16, 2009
3:54PM - 4:06PM

 D12.00008: Coherent X-ray Surface Diffraction: Speckle from the Surface Reconstruction Layer of Gold (001)
Michael S. Pierce , Kee-Chul Chang , Daniel Hennessy , Alec Sandy , Michael Sprung , Hoydoo You

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Monday, March 16, 2009
4:06PM - 4:18PM

 D12.00009: In-situ chemical and structural characterization via RHEED-total reflection analysis of x-rays (TRAXS).
Sandeep Chandril , Cameron Keenan , Thomas Myers , David Lederman

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Monday, March 16, 2009
4:18PM - 4:30PM

 D12.00010: High Energy XRD/XRF for High-Throughput Phase Mapping of Composition Spread Thin Films
John Gregoire , Darren Dale , Alexander Kazimirov , Michele Tague , Hector Abruna , Francis DiSalvo , R. Bruce van Dover

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Monday, March 16, 2009
4:30PM - 4:42PM

 D12.00011: Low Energy Electron Microscope Imaging of Doped Si Structures Buried under Thermal Oxides
Gary Kellogg , Meredith Anderson , Craig Nakakura

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Monday, March 16, 2009
4:42PM - 4:54PM

 D12.00012: LEED structural analysis of strongly correlated systems: reaching the limit of the instrumentation?
TeYu Chien , Biao Hu , Shuheng Pan , V. Braun Nascimento , E. Ward Plummer

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Monday, March 16, 2009
4:54PM - 5:06PM

 D12.00013: Electron emission from surfaces resulting from low energy positron bombardment
S. Mukherjee , K. Shastry , A. H. Weiss

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Monday, March 16, 2009
5:06PM - 5:18PM

 D12.00014: Hydrogen absorption by a Pd film detected by microgravimetry
J.I. Avila , R. Trabol , U.G. Volkmann , A.L. Cabrera , C. Romero , P. Lievens

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Monday, March 16, 2009
5:18PM - 5:30PM

 D12.00015: Observation of In Plane Magnetization Reversal Using Polarization Dependent Magnetooptical Kerr Effect
Hendrik Ohldag , Franz Hillebrecht

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