TENNESSEE VALLEY CHAPTER
AMERICAN VACUUM SOCIETY
P. O. Box 5734
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-5734

Vol. 16, No. 4 April 1996
Here's the program for the spring symposium!


Engineering of New Materials and Interfaces

Tuesday, May 21, 1996
Holiday Inn Select at Cedar Bluff
304 Cedar Bluff Road
Knoxville, TN 37923
423-693-1011

Symposium Organizers:
Hanno H. Weitering
The University of Tennessee - Knoxville,
and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Phone: 423-974-7841 or 423-574-5502
Internet: hanno@solid.ssd.ornl.gov 		Z. Ben Xue
The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Phone: 423-974-3443
Internet: xue@utk.edu

Technical Program
8:00 - 8:15Registration
8:25 - 8:30 Opening Remarks Dan Lubben, AVS
Tom Callcott, MRS
Session I: Synthesis of new MaterialsChair: Z. Ben Xue
8:30 - 9:10 The Silicon Revolution and Its Materials Limitations L. C. Feldman, Vanderbilt
9:10 - 9:50 Novel Dielectrics for Microelectronics J. P. Sullivan, Sandia
9:50 - 10:10 Synthesis of Thin-Films of Lead Lanthanum Titanate D. B. Beach, ORNL
10:10-10:30Break
Session II: NanostructuresChair: Hanno H. Weitering
10:30 - 11:10 Electron Correlations in Ultrasmall Interacting Quasi-1D Systems K. Kempa, Boston College
11:10 - 11:30 Self-Limiting Growth Kinetics of 3D Coherent Islands: A Pathway to Monosized Quantum Dots K. Chen, ORNL
11:30 - 11:50 The Physics and Chemistry of Carbon Based Nanoclusters R. N. Compton, U. Tennessee, ORNL
11:50 - 12:10 Characterization of ArF- and KrF-Laser Generated Carbon Plumes for Amorphous Diamond-Like Carbon Film Deposition A. A. Puretzky, Institute of Spectroscopy, Troitsk, Russia
12:10 - 1:20Lunch
Session III: InterfacesChair: Z. Ben Xue
1:20 - 2:00 The Polymer/Polymer Interface: Interfacial Segregation and Stability R. J. Composto, U. Penn
2:00 - 2:20 The Role of Copolymer Architecture on the Interfacial Structure of a Ternary Polymer Blend M. Dadmun, U. Tennessee
2:20 - 2:40 Conductance and Magnetoconductance of Magnetic Multilayers Calculated from first Principles Electronic Structure W. Butler
2:40 - 3:20 GMR Materials and Applications B. Gurney, IBM Almaden
3:20 - 3:40Break
Session IV: Scanning Probe Microscopy of SurfacesChair: Hanno H. Weitering
3:40 - 4:00 Molecular Manipulation and Nanofabrication with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope W. W. Pai, ORNL
4:00 - 4:20 Immobilization, Imaging, and Site-specific Mapping of Proteins on DNA by Atomic Force Microscopy D. P. Allison, ORNL
4:20 - 4:40 Direct observation of a surface charge density wave J. Carpinelli, U. Tennessee
4:40 - 5:00 A Low Temperature Reconstruction Pathway Studied with Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy H. H. Weitering, U. Tennessee, ORNL
5:30Reception 

Registration fees are as follows:
 Prior to
May 13		After
May 13
AVS or MRS Member$35$45
Nonmember$45$55
Student or Retiree$10$10

For additional information contact the organizers or:

Dan Lubben
Building 3025, Mailstop 6030
P. O. Box 2008
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6030
Internet: lubbendc@ornl.gov 

1995-1996 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

PRESIDENT: Dan Lubben		423-574-6289
VICE PRESIDENT: Harry Meyer	423-576-3866
PAST PRESIDENT: John Caughman	423-574-5131
SECRETARY: Ida Lee		423-241-6695
TREASURER: Art Baddorf		423-574-5241
EXECUTIVE BOARD
 David Beach      423-574-5024
 Walt Gardner     423-574-1121
 James Mabon      423-574-0928
 Michelle Solomon 423-481-8138
 Anna Swan        423-241-4828
 David Zehner     423-574-6291
SUBCOMMITTEES:
Awards: Anna Swan               423-241-4828
Short Courses: Dan Lubben       423-574-6289
Newsletter Editor: Walt Gardner 423-574-1121

Date revised - 4/29/96 (dl)
Please email comments to: Dave Beach - beachdb@ornl.gov. 

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