Project Highlights
Establishment of the Quartz Crystal Microbalance as a working experimental setup
Development of a procedure for measuring the adsorption and desorption of copper ions from an oxide surface
Reproducible results for both adsorption and desorption tests
Began development of a kinetic model for adsorption and desorption for comparison with a thermodynamic model done elsewhere
Participated in 6 week internship at TI to develop a post Cu CMP cleaning process
Began interactions with the sensor project of Thrust C at the U of A Optical Sciences Dept on development of a new sensor for in situ detection of low level Cu concentrations