Publications through year 2014

Elementary surface chemistry during CuO/Al nanolaminate-thermite synthesis: copper and oxygen deposition on aluminum (111) surfaces, C. Lanthony , M.Guiltat , J.M. Ducere , A. Verdier, A. Hemeryck , M. Djafari Rouhani , C Rossi, Y. J. Chabal and A. Esteve, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 6, 15086 (2014)

Effective Sensing of RDX via Instant and Selective Detection of Ketone Vapors, Zhichao Hu, Kui Tan, Hao Wang, Yonggang Zhao, Chong Zheng, Debasis Banerjee, Qihan Gong, Thomas J. Emge, Yves J. Chabal, and Jing Li, Chemical Science 5, 4873 (2014)

Role of Interfacial Aluminum Silicate and Silicon as Barrier Layers for Atomic Layer Deposition of Al2O3 Films on Chemically Cleaned InP(100) Surfaces, W. Cabrera, M. Halls, I. Povey, Y. J. Chabal, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118, 29164 (2014)

Effect of metal/bulk-heterojunction interfacial properties on organic photovoltaic device performance, J. Wang, C. R. Friedman, W. Cabrera, K. Tan, Y. J. Lee, Y. J. Chabal, J. W. P. Hsu, Journal Material Chemistry A, 2, 15288 (2014)

Spectroscopic evaluation of out-of-plane surface vibration bands from surface functionalization of graphite oxide by fluorination, Muge Acik, Sriram Yagneswaran, Weina Peng,  Geunsik Lee, Benjamin R. Lund, Dennis W. Smith Jr., Yves J. Chabal, Carbon 77,577 (2014).

Morphology and Chemical Termination of HF-Etched Si3N4 Surfaces,L.-H. Liu, W. Debenedetti, T. Peixoto, S. Karakaya, N. Shafiq, J.-F. Veyan, D. Michalak, R. Hourani, and Y. J. Chabal, Applied Physics Letters 105, 261603 (2014)

Water Interaction in Metal Organic Framework,K. Tan, N. Nijem, Y. Gao, S. Zuluaga, J. Li, T. Thonhauser and Y. J. Chabal. CrystEngComm 17, 247 (2015)

Water Reaction Mechanism in Metal Organic Frameworks with Coordinatively Unsaturated Metal Ions: MOF-74, Chemistry of Materials, K. Tan, S.  Zuluaga, Q. Gong, J. Li, T. Thonhauser and Y. J. Chabal, Chemistry of Materials 26, 6886 (2014)

Adsorbate interactions in Metal Organic Frameworks studied by vibrational spectroscopy, N. Nijem and Y.J. Chabal, Comments  on Inorganic Chemistry 34, 78 (2014).

Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nano-Emitters on Silicon: a Photoelectrochemical Heterojunction Composed of Earth-Abundant Materials for Enhanced Evolution of Hydrogen, M. Lublow, A. Fischer, C. Merschjann, F. Yang, Th. Schedel-Niedrig, J.-F. Veyan, and Y. J. Chabal, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2, 12697 (2014).

Efficient Directed Energy Transfer through Size-Gradient Nanocrystal Layers into Silicon Substrates, William J. I. De Benedetti , Michael T. Nimmo , Sara M. Rupich , Louis M. Caillard, Yuri N. Gartstein , Yves J. Chabal and Anton V. Malko, Advanced Functional Materials 24, 5002 (2014).

Lowering the Density of Electronic Defects on Organic-Functionalized Si(100) Surfaces, Weina Peng, William J.I. DeBenedetti, Seonjae Kim, Melissa A. Hines and Yves J. Chabal, Applied Physics Letters 104, 241601 (2014).

Chemical bonding and stability of multilayer graphene oxide layers, Cheng Gong, Suenne Kim, Si Zhou, Yike Hu, Muge Acik, Walt de Heer, Claire Berger, Angelo Bongiorno, Eliso Riedo, Yves Chabal, Proc. SPIE 8987, Oxide-based Materials and Devices V, 89872C (2014).

Ab initio study of H2 dissociation and desorption on Si(001) and Ge(001)-(2×1) surfaces, R. C. Longo, J. H. G. Owen, J. B. Ballard, R. M. Wallace, J. N. Randall, Y. J. Chabal and K. Cho, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 118, 10088 (2014).

Pattern transfer of hydrogen depassivation lithography patterns into silicon with atomically traceable placement and size control, Joshua B. Ballard, James H. G. Owen, William Owen, Justin R. Alexander, Ehud Fuchs, John N. Randall, James R. Von Ehr, Stephen McDonnell, Don D. Dick, Robert M. Wallace, Yves J. Chabal, Maia R. Bischof, David L. Jaeger, Richard F. Reidy, Joseph Fu, Pradeep Namboodiri, Kai Li, and Richard M. Silver, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B32(4), 041804 (2014).

Film structure of epitaxial graphene oxide on SiC: Insight on the relationship between interlayer spacing, water content, and intralayer structure, S. Zhou, S. Kim, E. Di Gennaro, Y. Hu, C. Gong, C.-Y. Chang, X. Lu, H.-C. Chiu, C. Berger, W. de Heer, E. Riedo, Y.J. Chabal, C. Aruta, and A. Bongiorno, Advanced Materials Interfaces 1, 1300106 (2014).

Silicon interfacial passivation layer chemistry for high-k /InP interfaces, H. Dong, W. Cabrera, X. Qin, B. Brennan, D. Zhernokletov, C.L. Hinkle, J. Kim, Y.J. Chabal, R.M. Wallace, ACS Appl. Mat. & Int. 6 (10), 7340 (2014).

Study of van der Waals bonding and interactions in metal organic framework materials, S. Zuluaga, P. Canepa, K. Tan, Y.J. Chabal, T. Thonhauser, J. Phys. Cond. Mat. 26 (13), 133002 (2014).

Synthesis, characterization, and photocatalytic activity of Y-doped CeO2 nanorods, A. D. Liyanage, S.D. Perera, K. Tan, Y. J. Chabal, K.J. Balkus, Jr., ACS Catalysis 4 (2), 577 (2014).

Surface Oxide Characterization and Interface Evolution in Atomic Layer Deposition of Al2O3 on InP(100) studied by in-situ Infrared Spectroscopy, W. Cabrera, M.D. Halls, I. M. Povey, Y. J. Chabal, J. Phys. Chem. C. 118 (11), 5862 (2014).

Selectivity of metal oxide atomic layer deposition on hydrogen terminated and oxidized Si(001)-(2×1) surface, R. C. Longo, S. McDonnell, D. Dick, R. M. Wallace, Y. J. Chabal J. H. G. Owen, J. B. Ballard, J. N. Randall and K. Cho; Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B 32, 03D112 (2014).

Realistic Metal-Graphene Contact Structures, C. Gong, S. McDonnell, X. Qin, A. Azcatl, H. Dong, Y. J. Chabal, K. Cho, R. M. Wallace, ACS Nano 8 (1), 642 (2014).

Diffusion of In0.53Ga0.47As elements through hafnium oxide during post deposition annealing, W. Cabrera, B. Brennan, H. Dong, T. P. O’Regan, I. M. Povey, S. Monaghan, É. O’Connor,   P.K. Hurley, R. M. Wallace, and Y. J. Chabal, Appl. Phys. Lett. 104 (1), 011601 (2014).

Digermane Deposition on Si(100) and Ge(100): from Adsorption Mechanism to Epitaxial Growth, Don Dick, Jean-Francois Veyan, R. C. Longo, Stephen McDonnell, Josh B. Ballard, Xiaoye Qin, Hong Dong, James H. G. Owen, John N. Randall, Robert M. Wallace, Kyeongjae Cho, and Yves J. Chabal, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 118 (1), 482 (2014).