AVS 54th International Symposium
    MEMS and NEMS Monday Sessions

Session MN-MoM
Materials Processing, Characterization and Fabrication Aspects

Monday, October 15, 2007, 8:00 am, Room 615
Moderator: A.V. Sumant, Argonne National Laboratory


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8:00am MN-MoM1 Invited Paper
Materials for the Realization of High Performance Radio Frequency MEMS Devices
S.P. Pacheco, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., G. Piazza, University of Pennsylvania
8:40am MN-MoM3
Nano-Scale, Directional Contact Metal Transfer in Hot-Switched MEMS Actuators
Z. Yang, D. Lichtenwalner, A. Kingon, North Carolina State University
9:00am MN-MoM4
Growth of AlN by Pulsed Laser Deposition and Reactive Sputtering Techniques and Fabrication of RF MEMS Resonators
S. Hullavarad, University of Alaska Fairbanks
9:20am MN-MoM5
Science and Technology of Piezoelectric/Diamond Hybrid Heterostructures for High Performance MEMS/NEMS Devices
O. Auciello, A.V. Sumant, J. Hiller, B. Kabius, Argonne National Laboratory
9:40am MN-MoM6
NEMS Resonators of Carbon Nanotube Network and Metal-Carbon Nanotube Composites
J.H. Bak, Y.D. Kim, B.Y. Lee, S.S. Hong, Y.D. Park, Seoul National University, Korea
10:20am MN-MoM8
Addition and Removal of Stress to Drastically Tune Frequency and Quality Factor of Nanomechanical Resonators
S.S. Verbridge, D. Finkelstein Shapiro, H.G. Craighead, J.M. Parpia, Cornell University
10:40am MN-MoM9
Noise Temperature and Thermodynamic Temperature of Ultrasensitive Cantilevers Below 1 K
A.C. Bleszynski, W.E. Shanks, Yale University, B. Ilic, Cornell University, J.G.E. Harris, Yale University
11:00am MN-MoM10
Process Development and Material Characterization of Polycrystalline BiTe and PbTe Thin Film Alloys on Si for MEMS Thermoelectric Generators
I. Boniche, University of Florida, B.C. Morgan, P.J. Taylor, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, C.D. Meyer, D.P. Arnold, University of Florida
11:20am MN-MoM11
Fabrication of Metal-based High Aspect Ratio Microscale Structures by Compression Molding
J. Jiang, F.H. Mei, W.J. Meng, Louisiana State University
11:40am MN-MoM12
Process Characterization of Vapour Phase Sacrificial Etching
A. O'Hara, G. Pringle, M. Leavy, MEMSSTAR, UK