Because of the electrical insulating properties of polyimide, it is widely used in the packaging of semiconductor chips. However, it has been documented that the electrical resistivity can be decreased by several orders ...

Laser-assisted metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) was used to grow crystalline zinc sulfide at temperatures as low as 200$\sp\circ$C. The metalorganic sources, dimethylzinc and diethylsulfide, were photodissociated ...

Various aspects of the interaction of excimer laser pulses and polyimide were investigated, focusing on low fluences where laser induced electrical conductivity is observed. Multiple shot excimer ablation of polyimide was ...

The structure and orientation of radio frequency sputtered lithium niobate (LiNbO$\sb3$) films on silicon substrates is determined using x-ray diffraction. The structure of the LiNbO$\sb3$ films is determined to be a strong ...

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is an ideal tool for probing the chemistry and physics of these types of nanostructures. Building upon on our previous carbon nanotube research, we have investigated thiol and thiophene ...

Interest in the use of conducting polymers as the active layer in electroluminescent devices has grown steadily over the last decade, and the commercialization of such devices is imminent. The stumbling block to the ...

Earlier work revealed that the transverse thermal conductivity of thin films of amorphous SiO$\sb2$ and $\rm Si\sb3N\sb4$ deposited on monocrystalline silicon decreased substantially when the film thickness was less than ...

A controlled and scalable multi-step purification method has been developed to remove iron impurity and non-nanotube carbon materials from raw single-walled carbon nanotubes produced in the HiPco (high pressure CO) process. ...

The ideal magnetic switching mechanism for magnetic recording is isolated domain coherent rotation. However, in typical Pd/Co and Pt/Co multilayers with high coercivity, the dominant switching mechanism is domain wall ...