Typical Applied Surface Science topics include:

• Analysis of material surfaces, thin films, interphases, and interfaces
• Metals, semiconductors, insulators, polymers, and organics
• Coatings, adhesion, catalysis, corrosion, and wear
• Grain boundaries, and diffusion
• Sensors, and electronic devices
• Biomaterials, and self-assembled monolayers
• Surface reactions, and contamination
• Surface treatments, and decomposition
• Sputtering, and depth profiling
• Techniques AES/XPS/ISS/SIMS/SNMS/RBS/TXRF/SPM
• Developments in instrumentation and data processing
• Quantitative surface, depth, and interface analysis
• Development of reference materials and standards
  
  

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