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Journals

Superhydrophibicity as a Multiscale Phenomenon

Author(s)
Michael Nosonovsky
Wetting of superhydrophobic surfaces is studied as a multiscale process involving the macroscale (water droplet size), microscale (surface texture size), and

Control of Overfill Bumps in Damascene Cu Electrodeposition

Author(s)
Soo K. Kim, Daniel Wheeler, Daniel Josell, Thomas P. Moffat
Electroanalytical measurements and feature filling experiments have been conducted to study the effect of dodecyltrimethylammonium chloride (DTAC) and branched

Thermomechanical fatigue testing of thin metal films

Author(s)
Reiner Monig, R R. Keller, Cynthia A. Volkert
An experimental method is described for performing thermomechanical fatigue testing of thin films and interconnects on substrates. The method used alternating

Limits on Toughening in Structural Adhesives

Author(s)
Donald L. Hunston, H Jianmei, R Raghavan, D Hoffman
The addition of a toughener to a thermoset resin, usually an epoxy, can increase the fracture energy by an order of magnitude or more. These materials are two

Deformation of Metals

Author(s)
R M. Thomson, Lyle E. Levine, Y Shim
Plastic deformation of a metal is possible because of the production and motion of large numbers of dislocations. Dislocations are one dimensional flexible

Shear Induced Tilt Order in Polymer Blends

Author(s)
Erik K. Hobbie, Haonan Wang, H Jeon, H W. Kim, D Stout, Charles C. Han
Optical studies of viscoelastic emulsions under simple shear flow reveal long-range spatial correlation in the orientation of the deformed domains. As the

Interconnect Failure Due to Cyclic Loading

Author(s)
R R. Keller, Reiner Monig, Cynthia A. Volkert, E Arzt, R Schwaiger, O Kraft
The damage generated by AC currents at 100 Hz in interconnects has been studied andcompared with mechanical fatigue damage in thin films. The nature of the

Polymer-Surface Interactions in Nanfilled Polymers

Author(s)
Alamgir Karim, Jack F. Douglas, A Nakatani, Eric J. Amis, D B. Majumdar
We review recent investigations of conventional and nanoparticle filled polymers using atomic force and optical microscopy, scattering (x-ray, neutron and