Date of Award

January 2014

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Chemical Engineering

First Advisor

Fabio Ribeiro

Committee Member 1

Michael Harris

Committee Member 2

Nicholas Delgass

Committee Member 3

Dmitry Zemlyanov

Abstract

Recently, atomic layer deposition (ALD) has been employed as a promising technique for the growth of solid thin films with high conformality on complex geometries such as heterogeneous catalysts and microelectronic devices. In this work, surface sensitive characterization techniques have been employed to investigate initial precursor-substrate reactions and ALD surface chemistry.

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