Preface

Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings

GENERAL CONCEPTS AND MODELING

Influence of Processing Method on the Grain Boundary Character Distribution and Network Connectivity

Adam J. Schwartz

Mukul Kumar

Wayne E. King

Local Potential at Atomically Abrupt Oxide Interfaces by Scanning Probe Microscopy

Sergei V. Kalinin

Dawn A. Bonnell

The Mechanism of Mixed-Mode Phase Transformations

R.C. Pond

P. Shang

T.T. Cheng

M. Aindow

Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Interfacial Decohesion

Y. Mishin

C.J. McMahon

J.L. Bassani

P. Sofronis

Z-Contrast STEM Imaging and Ab Initio Calculations of Grain Boundaries in SrTiO3

Miyoung Kim

Nigel D. Browning

Stephen J. Pennycook

Karl Sohlberg

Sokrates T. Pantelides

Ab Initio Study of the Local Bonding at Metal-Ceramic Heterophase Boundaries

S. Kostlmeier

C. Elsasser

Molecular Simulations of Tilted Chain Crystal - Amorphous Interfaces in Polymers

S. Gautam

S. Balijepalli

G.C. Rutledge

REACTIONS AND WETTING

Control of Grain Boundary Microstructures in Liquid-Phase Sintered Alumina

N. Ravishankar

C. Barry Carter

Influence of the Interfacial Properties on the Microstructural Development and Properties of Silicon Nitride Ceramics

M.J. Hoffmann

H. Gu

R.M. Cannon

Modeling the Effect of Composition on the Stability of Equilibrium Intergranular Films with Diffuse Interfaces

C.M. Bishop

W.C. Carter

Observation of Localized Corrosion of Ni-Based Alloys Using Coupled Orientation Imaging Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy

Peter J. Bedrossian

Adam J. Schwartz

Mukul Kumar

Wayne E. King

Dewetting of Reactive CaMgSiO4 Glass Films on Single-Crystal MgO(001) Substrate

S.V. Yanina

C.B. Carter

Interfacial Reactions in Ti-6Al-4V With Laser-Embedded SiC Particles and the Origin of Intergranular Corrosion Susceptibility of an Al-Mg Alloy

B.J. Kooi

J.Th.M. De Hosson

Angle-Resolved XPS Studies of Interfacial Bonding States in Silicon Oxynitrides Fabricated Using Different Thermal Methodologies

Sanjit Singh Dang

Christos G. Takoudis

Optimization of the Broadband Reflectance of Graded Multilayers for Hard X-ray Mirrors

Adrian Ivan

Richardo Bruni

Kyung Byun

Paul Gorenstein

Suzanne Romaine

Liquid Phase Diffusion Bonding for Thermoelectric Material Pb-Sn-Te

Y. Shinohara

M. Hashimoto

Y. Imai

Y. Isoda

I.A. Nishida

Triple Junction Engineering: The Distribution of Triple Junctions in Polycrystalline Gold Thin Films

Kwame Owusu-Boahen

Alexander H. King

INTERFACE STRUCTURE/COMPOSITION/CHARACTER

Tailoring Grain-Boundary Segregation to Control Mechanical Properties

D.B. Williams

V.J. Keast

Engineering the Interfacial Chemistry in Metal/Oxide Systems

K. Pruner

B.A. Pint

P.Y. Hou

K.B. Alexander

P.F. Tortorelli

Interface Multiplication Through the Combination of Interface and Lattice Diffusion-Controlled Transformations in Alloys

I.G. Solorzano

J.A. Cohn

R.M. Andrade

On the Influence of Applied Fields on Spinel Formation

C. Korte

J.K. Farrer

N. Ravishankar

J.R. Michael

H. Schmalzried

C.B. Carter

Adhesion Properties of Cellulose Films

Xiujuan Zhang

Raymond A. Young

Impact of Grain Boundary Character on Electrical Property in Polycrystalline Silicon

Shu Hamada

Koichi Kawahara

Sadahiro Tsurekawa

Tadao Watanabe

Takashi Sekiguchi

Observations of Interaction Between Magnetic Domain Wall and Grain Boundaries in Fe-3wt%Si Alloy by Kerr Microscopy

K. Kawahara

Y. Yagyu

S. Tsurekawa

T. Watanabe

Interface Related Strength Phenomena in Two-Phase Titanium Aluminides

U. Christoph

M. Oehring

F. Appel

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES

Optimization of Adhesion at Transition Metal-Oxide Interfaces by Processing at Well-Chosen Oxygen Activity

M. Backhaus-Ricoult

Annealing Effects on Interfacial Fracture of Gold-Chromium Films in Hybrid Microcircuits

N.R. Moody

D.P. Adams

A.A. Volinsky

M.D. Kriese

W.W. Gerberich

Interface Properties of Ceramic Composites at High Temperature

X-F. Zhou

C. Marston

S.R. Nutt

Measurements of the Adhesion Strength of Cu/Epoxy Interfaces

H.Y. Lee

Jin Yu

Intergranular Fracture: The Effect of Grain Boundary Orientation and Crack Growth Directions

Jeffrey W. Kysar

Creep in Polycrystalline Aluminum

C.L. Briant

D.L. Davidson

Grain Boundary Microstructure Dependent-Intergranular Fracture in Polycrystalline Molybdenum

Sadahiro Tsurekawa

Tadao Watanabe

Enhancement of the Adhesion of Cordierite Glass-Ceramic Coatings on Molybdenum by the Deposition of Metallic Interlayers on the Substrate

Jesus Noel Calata

Guo-Quan Lu

Thomas A. Kuhr

Biaxial Zero Creep Measurements of Interface Energies in Ni/Ag Multilayers

A.C. Lewis

A.B. Mann

D. Josell

J. Tapson

T.P. Weihs

Indentation-Induced Debonding of Ductile Films

Alex A. Volinsky

W. Miles Clift

Neville R. Moody

William W. Gerberich

Effect of Self-Assembling Monolayers (SAMs) on Ice Adhesion to Metals

S.L. Peng

V.F. Petrenko

M. Arakawa

The Critical Stress for Transmission of a Dislocation Across an Interface: Results from Peierls and Embedded Atom Models

P.M. Anderson

S. Rao

Y. Cheng

P.M. Hazzledine

Structural Design of the Geometrical Shape of Interfaces in Bonded Dissimilar Materials Based on Theoretical Elastic Analysis

Masayoshi Tateno

Yasushi Fukuzawa

Shigeru Nagasawa

Hiroshi Sakuta

Near-Interface Crack Initiation in Thermal Barrier Coatings

Z. Zhang

T.E. Bloomer

J. Kameda

S. Sakurai

ABSTRACTS OF OTHER INVITED PAPERS

Interfacial Engineering in Nanocomposites

Brian Cantor

Structure and Properties of Polycrystalline Materials From Simulation: An Interfacial Perspective

S.R. Phillpot

P. Keblinski

D. Wolf

F. Cleri

Ultrathin Alumina Films on Metallic Substrates: Structure and Metal Adsorption

Dwight R. Jennison

Alexander Bogicevic

Oxidation Resistant Ceramic Composites: How Weak Interfaces Became Designed Failure Processes

Ronald J. Kerans

Interfacial Engineering for Optimized Adhesion in Polymeric Composite Materials

Lawrence T. Drzal

Wetting Transitions of Grain Boundaries

John Blendell

Interface Characterization Using the Automated-EBSP Technique

John A. Sutliff

Enhancing Oxidation Performance by Control of Interfacial Segregation and Microstructural Design

Kathleen B. Alexander

Bruce A. Pint

Peter F. Tortorelli

Dynamic Embrittlement: Quasi-Static Interfacial Decohesion

C.J. McMahon Jr.

J.L. Bassani

Y. Mishin

Author Index

Subject Index