Publications
 
    
Sylvie Rangan, Eric Bersch, Robert Allen Bartynski, Eric Garfunkel and Elio Vescovo; Band offsets of a ruthenium gate on ultrathin high-κ oxide films on silicon, Physical Review B 79, 075106 (2009).
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Sylvie Rangan, Eric Bersch, Robert Allen Bartynski, Eric Garfunkel and Elio Vescovo; GeOx interface layer reduction upon Al-gate deposition on a HfO2 /GeOx/Ge(001) stack, Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 172906 (2008).
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Eric Bersch, Sylvie Rangan, Robert Allen Bartynski, Eric Garfunkel and Elio Vescovo; Band offsets of ultrathin high-κ oxide films with Si, Physical Review B 78, 085114 (2008).
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Eric Garfunkel, Jacob Gavartin, Gennadi Bersuker; Defects in CMOS Gate Dielectrics, Defects in Microelectronic Materials and Devices: Edited by Daniel Fleetwood, Sokrates Pantolides, and Ronald D. Schrimpf, Published by CRC Press 2008 ISBN 1420043765 Chapter 11, pp 341-358.
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M. Dalponte, H. Boudinov, L.V. Goncharova, E. Garfunkel and T. Gustafsson; MEIS study of antimony implantation in SIMOX and vacancy-rich Si(1 0 0), J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 40 4222-4227 (2007).
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A. Du Pasquier, D.T. Mastrogiovanni, L.A. Klein, T. Wang, E. Garfunkel; Photoinduced charge transfer between poly(3-hexyl thiophene) and germanium nanowires, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, (18) 183501 (2007).
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N. Goel, W. Tsai, C. M. Garner, Y. Sun, P. Pianetta, M. Warusawithana, D. G. Schlom, H. Wen, C. Gaspe, J. C. Keay, M. B. Santos, L. V. Goncharova, E. Garfunkel, and T. Gustafsson; Band offsets between amorphous LaAlO3 and In0.53Ga0.47As, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 113515 (2007).
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L. V. Goncharova, M. Dalponte, T. Gustafsson, O. Celik, E. Garfunkel, P. S. Lysaght and G. Bersuker; Metal-gate-induced reduction of the interfacial layer in Hf oxide gate stacks, J. Vac. Sci. Tech. A 25, 261 (2007).
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W. Jiang, E. Garfunkel, N. Zhitenev, D. Abusch-Magder, D. Tennant, Z. Bao; Molecular conductance measurements through printed Au nanodots, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, (11) 113107 (2006).
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C.M. Osburn, et al; Materials and Processes for High k Gate Stacks: Results from the FEP Transition Center, ECS Transactions, 3, (3) 389 (2006).
    
    
E. Garfunkel, T. Gustafsson, P. Lysaght, S. Stemmer, R. Wallace; Atomic Scale Materials Characterization Clallenges in Advanced CMOS Gate Stacks, Future FAB International 21, 126 (2006).   Link   
    
N.B. Zhitenev, W. Jiang, A. Erbe, Z. Bao, E. Garfunkel, D.M. Tennant, R. Cirelli; Control of topography, stress and diffusion at molecule–metal interfaces, Nanotechnology 17, p. 1272-1277 (2006).   Link   
    
L.V. Goncharova, D.G. Starodub, E. Garfunkel, T. Gustafsson, V. Vaithyanathan, J. Lettieri, D.G. Schlom; Interface structure and thermal stability of epitaxial SrTiO3 thin films on Si(001), J. Appl. Phys. 100, 014912 (2006).   Link   
    
R. Barnes, D. Starodub, T. Gustafsson, E. Garfunkel; A medium energy ion scattering and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy study of physical vapor deposited thin cerium oxide films on Si(100), J. Appl. Phys. 100, 044103 (2006).   Link   
    
L.V. Goncharova, M. Dalponte, D.G. Starodub, T. Gustafsson, E. Garfunkel, P.S. Lysaght, B. Foran, J. Barnett, G. Bersuker; Oxygen diffusion and reactions in Hf-based dielectrics, J. Appl. Phys. 89, 044108 (2006).   Link   
    
B. Chen, R. Jha, H. Lazar, N. Biswas, J. Lee, B. Lee, L. Wielunski, E. Garfunkel, V. Misra; Influence of Oxygen Diffusion Through Capping Layers of Low Work Function Metal Gate Electrodes, IEEE Electron Device Letters 27, (4) p. 228-230 (2006).   Link   
    
A. Erbe, W. Jiang, Z. Bao, E. Garfunkel, N. Zhitenev; Nanoscale patterning in application to materials and device structures, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 23, (6), p. 3132-3137 (2005).   Link   
    
M. Hong, A. R. Kortan, P. Chang, Y. L. Huang, C. P. Chen, H. Y. Chou, H. Y. Lee, J. Kwo, M.-W. Chu, C. H. Chen, L. V. Goncharova, E. Garfunkel, and T. Gustafsson; High-quality nanothickness single-crystal Sc2O3 film grown on Si(111), Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 251902 (2005).   Link   
    
S. Sayan, N.V. N guyen, J. Ehrstein, J.J. Chambers, M.R. Visokay, M.A. Quevedo-Lopez, L. Colombo, D. Yoder, I. Levin, D.A. Fischer, M. Paunescu, O. Celik, E. Garfunkel; Effect of nitrogen on band alignment in HfSiON gate dielectrics, Appl. Phys. Lett. 87 (21), 212905 (2005).   Link   
    
D.J. Lichtenwalner, J.S. Jur, A.I. Kingon, M.P. Agustin, Y. Yang, S. Stemmer, L.V. Goncharova, T. Gustafsson, E. Garfunkel; Lanthanum silicate gate dielectric stacks with subnanometer equivalent oxide thickness utilizing an interfacial silica consumption reaction, J. Appl. Phys. 98 (2), 024314 (2005).   Link   
    
P.L. Grande, A. Hentz, G. Schiwietz, D. Starodub, E. Garfunkel, T. Gustafsson; Observation of collective inner-shell effects for protons backscattered from the Al(110) surface, Phys. Rev. A 72 (1), 012902 (2005).   Link   
    
W. Jiang, N.B. Zhitenev, Z. Bao, H. Meng, D. Abusch-Magder, D. Tennant, E. Garfunkel; Structure and bonding issues at the interface between gold and self-assembled conjugated dithiol monolayers, Langmuir 21 p. 8751-8757 (2005).   Link   
    
Martin M. Frank, Glen D. Wilk, Dmitri Starodub, Torgny Gustafsson, Eric Garfunkel, Yves J. Chabal, John Grazul and David A. Muller; HfO2 and Al2O3 gate dielectrics on GaAs grown by atomic layer deposition, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 152904 (2005).   Link   
    
S. Sayan, N. V. Nguyen, J. Ehrstein, T. Emge, E. Garfunkel, M. Croft, Xinyuan Zhao, David Vanderbilt, I. Levin, E. P. Gusev, Hyoungsub Kim and P. J. McIntyre; Structural, electronic, and dielectric properties of ultrathin zirconia films on silicon, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 152902 (2005).   Link   
    
Annelies Delabie, et al; Atomic layer deposition of hafnium oxide on germanium substrates, J. Appl. Phys. 97, 064104 (2005).   Link   
    
Nikolai B Zhitenev, Artur Erbe, Zhenan Bao, Weirong Jiang and Eric Garfunkel, Molecular nano-junctions formed with different metallic electrodes, Nanotechnology, 16, (2005) 1-6.   Link   
    
M. Dalponte, H. Boudinov, L. V. Goncharova, D. Starodub, E. Garfunkel, and T. Gustafsson, Thermal activation of As implanted in bulk Si and separation by implanted oxygen, J. Appl. Phys., 96, 7388 (2004).   Link   
    
S. Sayan, R. A. Bartynski, X. Zhao, E. P. Gusev, D. Vanderbilt, M. Croft, M. Banaszak Holl, and E. Garfunkel, Valence and conduction band offsets of a ZrO2/SiOxNy/n-Si CMOS gate stack: A combined photoemission and inverse photoemission study, Phys. Stat. Sol. B, 241, No. 10, p2246–2252 (2004).   Link   
    
S. Sayan, T. Emge, E. Garfunkel, et al, Band alignment issues related to HfO2 /SiO2 /p-Si gate stacks, J. Appl. Phys. 96 (9), p7485 (2004).   Link   
    
D. Starodub, T. Gustafsson and E. Garfunkel; The reaction of O2 with Al(110): a medium energy ion scattering study of nano-scale oxidation, Surf. Sci. 552, 199 (2004). Link
 
  
    
S. Dhar, Y. W. Song, L. C. Feldman, T. Isaacs-Smith, C. C. Tin, and J. R. Williams, G. Chung, T. Nishimura, D. Starodub, T. Gustafsson, and E. Garfunkel; Effect of nitric oxide annealing on the interface trap density near the conduction bandedge of 4H-SiC at the oxide/(112) 4H-SiC interface; Appl. Phys. Lett. 84(9) p1498 (2004).  Link

  
    
Joseph H. Han, Guilian Gao, Yuniarto Widjaja, Eric Garfunkel, Charles B. Musgrave; A quantum chemical study of ZrO2 atomic layer deposition growth reactions on the SiO2 surface; Surface Science 550, 199 (2004). Link
 
  
    
Martin M. Frank, Safak Sayan, Sabine Dormann, Thomas J. Emge, Leszek S. Wielunski, Eric Garfunkel, Yves J. Chabal; Hafnium oxide gate dielectrics grown from an alkoxide precursor: structure and defects; Materials Science and Engineering B, 109, (1-3), 15 June 2004, Pages 6-10. Link
 
  
    
Isaac M. Rutenberg, Oren A. Scherman, Robert H. Grubbs, Weirong Jiang, Eric Garfunkel, and Zhenan Bao; Synthesis of Polymer Dielectric Layers for Organic Thin Film Transistors via Surface-Initiated Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization, J. Am. Chem. Soc. Comm. 126, 2064 (2004). Link
 
  
    
Bert de Boer, Martin M. Frank, Yves J. Chabal, Weirong Jiang, Eric Garfunkel, Zhenan Bao, Metallic Contact Formation for Molecular Electronics: Interactions between Vapor-Deposited Metals and Self-Assembled Monolayers of Conjugated Mono- and Dithiols, Langmuir, 20(5), 1539 (2004).   Link   
    
J. Zhong, S. Muthukumar, Y. Chen, and Y. Lu, H.M. Ng, W. Jiang and E.L. Garfunkel, Ga-doped ZnO single-crystal nanotips grown on fused silica by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition, Appl. Phys. Lett 83 (16), 3401 (2003).   Link   
    
S. Sayan, E. Garfunkel, T. Nishimura, W.H. Schulte T. Gustafsson. G. Wilk, Thermal decomposition behavior of the HfO2/SiO2/Si system, J. Appl. Phys. 94 (2) 928 (2003).   Link   
    
S. Suzer, S. Sayan, M.M.B. Holl, E. Garfunkel, Z. Hussain, N.M. Hamdan, Soft x-ray photoemission studies of Hf oxidationJ, Vac. Sci. Tech. A 21(1) 106 (2003).   Link   
    
W. Tsai, R.J. Carter, H. Nohira, M. Caymax, T. Conard, W. Cosnier, S. DeGendt, M. Heyns, J. Petry, O. Richard, W. Vandervorst, E. Young, C. Zhao, J. Maes, M. Tuominen, W.H. Schulte, E. Garfunkel, T. Gustafsson, Surface preparation and interfacial stability of high-k dielectrics deposited by atomic layer chemical vapor deposition Microelectr. Eng. 65(3) 259 (2003)   Link   
    
J. Kwo, M. Hong, B. Busch, D.A. Muller, Y.J. Chabal, A.R. Kortan, J.P. Mannaerts, B. Yang, P. Ye, H. Gossmann, A.M. Sergent, K.K. Ng, J. Bude, W.H. Schulte, E. Garfunkel, T. Gustafsson, Advances in high kappa gate dielectrics for Si and III-V semiconductors, Cryst. Growth; 251(1-4) 645 (2003).   Link   
    
G.D. Wilk, M.L. Green, M.-Y. Ho, B.W. Busch, T.W. Sorsch,  F.P. Klemens, B. Brijs, R.B. van Dover, A. Kornblit, T. Gustafsson, E. Garfunkel, S. Hillenius, D. Monroe, P. Kalavade, J.M. Hergenrother; Improved film growth and flatband voltage control of ALD HfO2 and Hf-Al-O with n+ poly-Si gates using chemical oxides and optimized post-annealing; VLSI Technology Symposium, Digest of Technical Papers, p88 (2002).     
    
Y.J. Chabal, K. Ragavachari, X. Zhang and E. Garfunkel Silanone (Si=O) on Si(100): intermediate for initial silicon oxidation, Phys. Rev. B; 66161315 (2002).   Link   
    
B.W. Busch, O. Pluchery, Y.J. Chabal, D.A. Muller, R.L. Opila, J.R. Kwo, Garfunkel E, Materials characterization of alternative gate dielectrics, invited review, MRS Bulletin, 27 (3), 206 (2002).   Link   
    
S. Sayan, S. Aravamudhan, B.W. Busch, W.H. Schulte, F. Cosandey, G.D. Wilk, T. Gustafsson, E. Garfunkel, Chemical vapor deposition of HfO2 films on Si(100), J. Vac. Sci. Tech. A20 (2), 507 (2002).   Link   
    
S. Sayan, E. Garfunkel, S. Suzer, Soft x-ray photoemission studies of the HfO2/SiO2/Si system, Appl. Phys. Lett. 80 (12), 2135 (2002).   Link   
    
J. Kwo, B. Busch, D. A. Muller, M. Hong, Y. J. Chabal, L. Manchanda, A. R. Kortan, J. P. Mannaerts, T. Boone, W. H. Schulte, E. Garfunkel, and T. Gustafsson;  High-k Y2O3 and Gd2O3 Gate Stacks: A Vehicle for Critical Materials Integration Issues; Proceedings IEDM Symposium, 2001     
    
W.H. Schulte, E. Garfunkel and T. Gustafsson, I. Baumvol, E. Gusev, Ion Beam Studies of Silicon Oxidation and Oxynitridation, chapter, Ed: Y. Chabal, Springer Verlag, (2001).       
    
M. L. Green, E. P. Gusev, R. Degraeve, and E. L. Garfunkel, Ultrathin SiO2 and Si-O-N Gate Dielectric Layers for Silicon Microelectronics: Understanding the Processing, Structure, and Physical and Electrical Limits, invited review, J. Appl. Phys. 90 (5) 2057 (2001).   Link   
    
X. Zhang, Y.J. Chabal, S.B. Christman, E.E. Chaban, E. Garfunkel, Oxidation of H-covered flat and vicinal Si(111)-1x1 surfaces, J. Vac. Sci. Tech. A19 (4) 1725, (2001).   Link   
    
J. J. Chambers, B. W. Busch, W.H. Schulte, T. Gustafsson and E. Garfunkel, S. Wang and D. M. Maher, T. M. Klein, G. N. Parsons, Effects of surface pretreatments on interface structure during formation of ultra-thin yttrium silicate dielectric films on silicon, accepted, Appl. Surf. Sci., 181, 78 (2001).   Link   
    
J-P. Maria, D. Wicaksana, A. I. Kingon, B.W. Busch, W.H. Schulte, T. Gustafsson, and E. Garfunkel, High temperature stability in lanthanum-based and zirconium-based gate dielectrics, accepted, J. Appl. Phys. 90, 3476 (2001).   Link   
    
H.C. Lu, E.P. Gusev, E. Garfunkel, B.W. Busch, T. Gustafsson, T. Sorch, and M.L. Green, Isotopic Labeling Studies of Interactions of Nitric Oxide and Nitrous Oxide with Ultrathin Oxynitride Layers on Silicon, Journal of Applied Physics, 87, p1550, (2000).   Link   
    
H. C. Lu, E. Gusev, N. Yasuda, M. Green, G. Alers, E. Garfunkel and T. Gustafsson, Growth chemistry and interfacial properties of Si oxynitride and metal oxide ultrathin films on Si, Appl. Surf. Sci., 166, 465 (2000).       
    
B.W. Busch, W.H. Schulte, E. Garfunkel, T. Gustafsson, W. Qi, R. Nieh and J. Lee, Oxygen Exchange and Transport in Thin Zirconia Films on Si(100), Phys. Rev. B 62(20), 13,290 (2000).   Link   
    
E.P. Gusev, H.C. Lu, E. Garfunkel, T. Gustafsson, and M.L. Green, Growth and Characterization of Ultrathin Nitrided Oxide Films, IBM Journal of Research and Development, (invited) 43, 265 (1999).       
    
A.C. Diebold, D. Venables, Y. Chabal, D. Muller, M. Weldon, and E. Garfunkel, Characterization and production metrology of thin transistor gate oxide films, Materials Science in semiconductor Processing, invited review, 2, 103 (1999).   Link   
    
L.C. Feldman, E.P. Gusev, and E. Garfunkel, “Ultrathin Dielectrics in Si Microelectronics” in Fundamental Aspects of Ultrathin Dielectrics on Si-based Devices, edited by E. Garfunkel, E. Gusev and A. Vul’, Kluwer Acad. Publisher, p39, (1998).       
    
    
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Fundamental Aspects of Ultrathin Dielectrics on Si-based Devices, Eds. E. Garfunkel, E. Gusev, A. Vul’, Kluwer Academic Publishers, NATO Science Series, 1998. 

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