Session 1 (Sunday evening): Surfaces and Interfaces in Thin Films
Discussion Leader: Prof. Frans Spaepen, Harvard University
- Prof. Robert C. Cammarata, Johns Hopkins University
"Surface and Interface Stress Effects on Thin Films"
- Prof. Eugene A. Fitzgerald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Dislocation Control in Lattice-mismatched Semiconductors"
Session 2 (Monday morning): Stress & Structural Evolution During Film Growth
Discussion Leader: Dr. Cynthia A. Volkert, Max-Planck-Institut
- Prof. Bruce M. Clemens, Stanford University
"Stress and Morphology in Sputter-Deposited Metal Thin Films and Multilayers"
- Dr. Michael Nastasi, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Modification of Thin Film Stresses During Synthesis"
- Prof. Eric Chason, Brown University
"Real-time Measurements of Stress Evolution During Thin Film Growth"
Session 3 (Monday evening): Poster Session Overviews
Discussion Leader: Professor Trevor Page, University of Newcastle
Poster Overviews (This session will consist of brief oral presentations to introduce posters using two viewgraphs. Preference will be given to graduate students, post docs, and junior faculty, but time allowing, others may also participate.)
POSTER SESSION I
Session 4 (Tuesday morning): Modeling Thin Film Stresses and Microstructures
Discussion Leader: Prof. Zhigang Suo, Princeton University
- Prof. David J. Srolovitz, Princeton University
"Development of Texture and Microstructure During Film Growth"
- Prof. Allan Bower, Brown University
"Three Dimensional Numerical Simulations of Island Formation During Growth of Strained Heteroepitaxial Thin Film Systems"
- Prof. Perry Leo, University of Minnesota
"The Energy of Misfitting Film-Substrate Interfaces"
Session 5 (Tuesday evening): Thin Film Characterization by Nanoindentation
Discussion Leader: Prof. William Gerberich, University of Minnesota
- Prof. Michael V. Swain, University of Sydney
"Blunt (Spherical) Indenters - An Attractive Alternative to Pointed Ones for the Investigation of Thin Films"
- Dr. Warren C. Oliver, MTS Systems Corp - Nanoinstruments Innovation Center
"The Dynamics of Initial Contact with Sharp Indenters"
POSTER SESSION II
Session 6 (Wednesday morning): Deformation & Plasticity in Thin Film Systems
Discussion Leader: Dr. Matthew Begley, University of Connecticut
- Prof. Eduard Arzt, Max-Planck-Institut and University of Stuttgart
"Thin Film Plasticity: Dislocation and Diffusional Mechanisms"
- Prof. Young Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Size-dependent Plasticity and Scale Effects in Thin Films"
- Prof. Subra Suresh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Stresses and Deformation in Thin Films, Patterned Lines and Miniature Structures"
Session 7 (Wednesday evening): Mechanical Behavior of Hard and Brittle Films
Discussion Leader: Prof. Ivar Reimanis, Colorado School of Mines
- Prof. Robert F. Cook, University of Minnesota
"Fracture of Dielectric Thin Films"
- Dr. Sarah V. Hainsworth, University of Leicester
"Temperature-Variant Scratch Response of Thin Films"
Session 8 (Thursday morning): Thin Film Adhesion and Delamination
Discussion Leader: Dr. Joost Vlassak, Harvard University
- Prof. Richard J. Farris, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"An Experimental Mechanics Approach to the Uniformity, Stress State, and Elasticity Coefficients, and Adhesion of Polymer Films and Coatings"
- Prof. Reiner H. Dauskardt, Stanford University
"Adhesion and Subcritical Debonding of Interfaces in Thin Film Structures"
- Prof. David A. Dillard, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
"Residual Stresses and Delamination of Polymer Thin Films"
Session 9 (Thursday evening): Special Topical Presentation
Introduction of Speaker: Prof. William D. Nix, Stanford University
- Speaker: Prof. John B. Pethica, Oxford University
"Contacts - from Engineering to Atoms"
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