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Workshop on Materials Characterization for Nanoscale Reliability

 

14-16 August, 2007

Boulder, Colorado

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PROGRAM (revised 08 August, 2007)

The poster viewing area will be open on Monday evening, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, and Tuesday morning at 7:15 am, so people can hang their posters. We will provide push-pins.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

8:00 am

Welcome

Robert Keller, Materials Reliability Division, NIST

Martin Dunn, Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado

8:05 am

Workshop Sponsor Perspectives

Clark Cooper, Materials Design and Surface Engineering, NSF

David Read, Materials Reliability Division, NIST

Nanoscale Materials Characterization for Manufacturing

8:30 am

George Thompson, Intel - Nanoscale Materials Characterization in Semiconductor Manufacturing

9:15 am

Break - Coffee & Poster Viewing

9:35 am

Greg Blackman, DuPont - Challenges in Nanomanufacturing

Poster Session I

10:30 am

5-Minute Poster Introductions (9 presenters)

1.1  Mengzhi Pang, Intel - Development of Mechanical Characterization Method for Flip-Chip C4 Solder Joints

1.2  Neville Moody, Sandia-Livermore - Patterning Interfaces for Reliability of Thin Film Devices

1.3  Dirk Pfeiffer, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center - Materials Characterization Challenges for Next Generation CMOS Devices

1.4  Tom Campbell, ADA Technologies - Electronic Nanometrology of Bulk Carbon Nanotubes

1.5  Jeremy Thurn, Seagate - Wear and Fracture of Amorphous Carbon Films

1.6  Jun-hee Hahn, KRISS - Mechanical Properties of Column Spacer for TFT LCD

1.7  Donna Hurley, NIST - Measurements and Mapping of Nanomechanical Properties with Contact-Resonance AFM

1.8  Grady White, NIST - Small Scale Test Specimens

1.9  Susanne Arney, Bell Labs, Lucent-Alcatel - Nanotechnology and Photonics (tentative)

11:15 am

Poster Viewing

12:00 pm

Lunch

Government Agency Nanomaterials Characterization

1:00 pm

Clare Allocca, NIST - The United States Measurement System Assessment as a Foundation for the Characterization of Nanomaterials Measurement Needs

1:45 pm

Anne Dillon, NREL - Characterization of Nanomaterials to Optimize Renewable Energy Applications

Poster Session II

2:30 pm 5-Minute Poster Introductions (8 presenters)

2.1  Rachel Goldman, University of Michigan - Ion-Cut-Synthesis for Materials Integration

2.2  Terry Xu, University of North Carolina, Charlotte - Alkaline-Earth metal Hexaboride One-Dimensional (1D) Nanostructures for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion

2.3  David Bahr, Washington State University - Mechanical Reliability in Novel MEMS Materials for Microscale Power Generation

2.4  Nicholas Barbosa III, NIST - Electrically Actuated Cyclic Testing for Measurement of Mechanical Properties in Thin Films

2.5  Joseph Brown, University of Colorado - Modular Microsystem for Nanofiber Multiproperty Characterization

2.6  Frank Fisher, Stevens Institute of Technology - Nanomechanics and Polymer Nanocomposites

2.7  Lawrence Robins, NIST - Development of Tip-Enhanced Raman Instrumentation for Stress/Strain and Composition Mapping of Semiconductor Device Structures

2.8  Ivar Reimanis, Colorado School of Mines - Using Nanoindentation to Interpret Phase Transformations

3:10 pm Coffee & Poster Viewing
4:00 pm

Breakout Session I: Identify Critical Research Issues

5:00 pm

Re-convene: Breakout Summaries and Panel Discussion

6:00 pm

Adjourn for the day

 

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

State of the Art Characterization: Mechanics, Imaging

8:00 am William Gerberich, University of Minnesota - Plasticity and Fracture of High Strength Nanostructures
8:45 am

George Pharr, ORNL/University of Tennessee - Critical Issues in Measuring Small Scale Mechanical Properties by Nanoindentation

9:30 am

Break - Coffee & Poster Viewing

9:45 am

David Larson, Imago Scientific Instruments - LEAP Analysis for Materials Characterization

Poster Session III

10:30 am

5-Minute Poster Introductions (9 presenters)

3.1  Horacio Espinosa, Northwestern University - In Situ Electron Microscopy Testing of 1-D Nanostructures

3.2  Weiquiang Ding, Clarkson University - Mechanical Characterization of One-Dimensional Nanostructures

3.3  Erik Herbert, University of Tennessee and MTS Nano - Nanoindentation and the Dynamic Characterization of Viscoelastic Solids

3.4  Xin Zhang, Boston University - Mechanical Behaviors of PECVD Dielectric Films for MEMS/NEMS Applications

3.5  Xiaoxia Wu, University of North Carolina, Charlotte - Young's Modulus Measurement of 1D Nanostructures with Atomic Force Microscopy

3.6  Patrick Waters, University of South Florida - Environmental and Residual Stress Effects on Thin Film Adhesion

3.7  Warren Oliver, University of Tennessee and MTS Nano - In situ Mechanical Testing in a Scanning Electron Microscope

3.8  Jun Lou, Rice University - Localized Characterization of Effects of Chemical Functionalization on SWNT-Matrix Interfaces

3.9  Michael Chandross, Sandia-Albuquerque - Simulations of Boundary Lubricants with Model Probe Tips

11:15 am

Poster Viewing

12:00 pm

Lunch

Modeling of Nanoscale Materials Structure and Behavior

1:00 pm

George Fitzgerald, Accelrys - Multiscale Modeling of Nanomaterials: Recent Developments and Future Prospects

1:45 pm

Ed Webb III, Sandia National Laboratories - Linking Atomistic Modeling to the "Real World" - Stress Evolution During Thin Film Growth

Poster Session IV

2:30 pm 5-Minute Poster Introductions (6 presenters)

4.1  Harley Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Modeling Surface Instabilities using an Atomistic Unit-Process Approach

4.2  Bo Yang, Florida Institute of Technology - Analysis of Nanoindentation of Graphite to Extract Graphene Properties

4.3  Kannan Subramanian, University of North Carolina, Charlotte - Microstructure and Multiple-Scale Simulations

4.4  Warren Oliver, MTS Nano and University of Tennessee - Compliance of G200 with ISO 14577

4.5  Wilkistar Otieno, University of South Florida - Reliability, Failure Characterization, and Intensity Function Estimates of Nanosystems

4.6  Cheryl Hartfield, Omniprobe - Non-technical Hurdles for Nano-characterization

3:00 pm Coffee & Poster Viewing
4:00 pm

Breakout Session II: Identify Critical Research Issues

5:00 pm

Re-convene: Breakout Summaries and Panel Discussion

6:00 pm

Adjourn for the day

7:00 pm

Workshop Banquet - all attendees invited

 

Thursday, August 16, 2007

8:30 am

Tours at University of Colorado's Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory
http://itll.colorado.edu/ITLL/
(You will be leaving NIST webspace upon selecting this link.)

Consensus-Building and Workshop Summary

9:30 am

Moderators: Workshop Organizers and Sponsors
1. Specific characterization needs identified at this workshop
2. Bigger picture needs
3. Action items/roadmapping

11:30 am

Adjourn Workshop