AVS 56th International Symposium & Exhibition
    MEMS and NEMS Thursday Sessions

Session MN+IJ+TR-ThA
Multi-scale Interactions of Materials and Fabrication at the Micro- and Nano-scale I

Thursday, November 12, 2009, 2:00 pm, Room B3
Moderator: A.V. Sumant, Argonne National Laboratory


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2:00pm MN+IJ+TR-ThA1 Invited Paper
Silicon Carbide Thin Film Technology for Microsystems in Harsh Environments
C. Carraro, University of California, Berkeley
2:40pm MN+IJ+TR-ThA3
Sidewall Tribometer and Quartz Crystal Microbalance Study of a Self-Assembled Monolayer Lubricant Reservoir Effect
D.A. Hook, B.P. Miller, North Carolina State University, M.T. Dugger, Sandia National Laboratories, J. Krim, North Carolina State University
3:00pm MN+IJ+TR-ThA4
In situ Reliability Studies of Interfacial Contact via a 2-axis MEMS Deflecting Cantilever Microinstrument
F. Liu, I. Laboriante, C. Carraro, R. Maboudian, University of California, Berkeley
4:20pm MN+IJ+TR-ThA8
Traceable Determination of Cantilever Spring Constants with a MEMS-based Sensor
T. Dziomba, S. Gao, U. Brand, K. Herrmann, L. Koenders, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany
4:40pm MN+IJ+TR-ThA9
Improvement in Mechanical Contact Reliability with ALD TiO2 Coating
V. Pott, H. Kam, J. Jeon, T.-J. King Liu, UC Berkeley
5:00pm MN+IJ+TR-ThA10
Mass Producable, Multiple Stack, Integrated Micro Gas Chromatography System
K. Stacey, A. Knobloch, N. Chen, GE Global Research, W.C. Tian, National Taiwan University, M. Shannon, R. Masel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign