Papers in Well-Refereed Scientific Journals (190)
V. Orlinov, B. Goranchev, G. Sarov, V. Tsaneva, I. Petrov, H. Misiuk, Thin Films of Iron Oxide Deposited by D.C. Reactive Sputtering for Selectively Transparent Photomasks, Physico‑Mathematical Journal, 1 7 (1982).
T. Donchev, I. Petrov, J. Kourtev, TiN films Deposited by Magnetron Sputtering, Journal of the Institute of Microelectronics, 8 304 (1982).
B. Goranchev, I. Petrov, V. Orlinov, V. Tsaneva, Reactive Sputter Deposition of Stoichiometric Oxide Films on Rotating Substrates, C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 35 1217 (1982).
E.W. Thomas, I. Petrov, M. Braun, Recombination and Re‑emission of Deuterium Implanted in Stainless Steel, J. Appl. Phys. 53 6365 (1982).
V. Orlinov, G. Mladenov, I. Petrov, M. Braun, B. Emmoth, Angular Distribution and Sputtering Yield of Al and Al2O3 during 40 keV Argon Ion Bombardment, Vacuum, 32 747 (1982).
B. Goranchev, V. Orlinov, I. Petrov, V. Hinkov, A. Manov, Piezoelectric and Acousto‑Optic Devices Deposited by DC Reactive Sputtering, Journal of Electrical Industry and Instrument Design, 9 27 (1983).
I. Petrov, M. Braun, T. Fried, H. Sätherblöm, Atomic Concentrations of Binary Compound Thin Films on Elemental Substrates Determined by Rutherford Backscattering Technique, J. Appl. Phys. 54 1358 (1983).
I. Petrov, V. Orlinov, A. Misiuk, Highly‑Oriented ZnO Films Obtained by D.C. Reactive Sputtering of a Zinc Target, Thin Solid Films, 120 55 (1984).
I. Petrov, V. Orlinov, V. Lovchinov, Superconducting Nb Films Obtained by Getter Magnetron Sputtering, C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci., 38 997 (1985).
I. Martev, G. Grigorov, I. Petrov, E. Dynovska, Ti‑N Compounds Deposited at Low Temperature: General Aspects of Their Phase Compositions, Thin Solid Films, 131 303 (1985).
I. Petrov, Deposition of Thin Films by Ion Sputtering ‑ Physical Problems and Applications, Ph.D.Thesis, Institute of Electronics, Sofia (1985).
V. Orlinov, I. Petrov, J. Kourtev, B. Goranchev, T. Tashkov, P. Tsanev, An Installation for Deposition of Metal Coatings on Wires by Sputtering in Cylindrical Magnetron Systems, Journal of Electrical Industry and Instrument Design, 4 18 (1986).
V. Orlinov, I. Petrov, J. Kourtev, V. Gaydarova, V. Tsaneva, AES Investigation of Copper Coatings Deposited on Wires by Magnetron Sputtering in Cylindrical Systems, Bulg. J. Phys., 13 369 (1986).
V. Orlinov, I. Petrov, I. Ivanov, J. Kourtev, On the Possibilities for Ion‑Assisted Deposition of Carbon Films in a Planar Magnetron System, C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 40 53 (1987).
K. Popova, B. Spangenberg, I. Petrov, V. Orlinov, Simulation of Profile Evolution during Quartz Reactive Ion Etching, C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci., 40 53 (1987).
I. Petrov, V. Orlinov, I. Ivanov, J. Kourtev, Influence of the Basic Process Parameters on the Ion/Atom Arrival Rate Ratio during Magnetron Sputter Deposition of Thin Carbon Films, Contrib. Plasma Phys., 23 265 (1988).
I. Petrov, I. Ivanov, J. Kourtev, V. Orlinov, J. Jelev, Effect of Ion Bombardment during Growth on the Electrical Resistivity of Magnetron Sputtered Carbon Films, Thin Solid Films, 168 239 (1989).
I. Petrov, L. Hultman, U. Helmersson, J.‑E. Sundgren, J. E. Greene, Microstructure Modification of TiN by Ion Bombardment during Reactive Sputter Deposition, Thin Solid Films, 169 299 (1989).
B. Goranchev, I. Petrov, V. Orlinov, T. Neykova, R. Lindval, L. Hultman, Investigation of Some Mechanical Properties of Hard Carbon Films Deposited by Ion Plating, Bulg. J. Phys., 16 78 (1989).
T. I. Selinder, G. Larsson, U. Helmersson, S. Rudner, I. Petrov, The D.C. Magnetron Sputter Deposition Process of YBa2Cu3Ox Thin Films, Physica C, 162‑164 599 (1989).
I. Petrov, I. Ivanov, V. Orlinov, J. Kourtev, J. Jelev, Deposition of Carbon Films by Bias Magnetron Sputtering in Neon and Argon Gas Ambients, Thin Solid Films, 185 247 (1990).
T. Neykova, J. Kourtev, I. Petrov, V. Orlinov, Investigation of Ion‑Assisted Deposition Diamond‑Like Carbon Films, Bulg. J. Phys., 17 52 (1990).
S. Rohde, I. Petrov, W.D. Sproul, S.A. Barnnet, P. Rudnik, M. E. Graham, Effects of an Unbalanced Magnetron in an Unique Dual‑Cathode High Rate Reactive Sputtering System, Thin Solid Films, 193 117 (1990).
G. Håkansson, I. Petrov, J.‑E. Sundgren, Growth of TaC Thin Films by Direct Current Magnetron Sputtering, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 8 3769 (1990).
F. Adibi, I. Petrov, L. Hultman, U. Wahlström, T. Shimazu, D. McIntyre, J. E. Greene, J.‑E. Sundgren, Defect Structure and Phase Transitions in Epitaxial Metastable Cubic Ti0.5Al0.5N alloys grown on MgO(001) by UHV Magnetron Sputter Deposition, J. Appl. Phys., 69 6437 (1991).
L. Hultman, W.‑D. Münz, J. Musil, S. Kadlec, I. Petrov, J. E. Greene, Low‑Energy (~100 eV) Ion Irradiation during Growth of TiN Deposited by Reactive Magnetron Sputtering: Effects of Ion Flux on Film Microstructure, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 9 434 (1991).
L. Hultman, G. Håkansson, U. Wahlström, J.‑E. Sundgren, I. Petrov, F. Adibi, J.E. Greene, Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies of Microstructural Evolution Defect Structure and Phase Transitions in Polycrystalline and Epitaxial Ti1‑xAlxN and TiN Films Grown by Reactive Magnetron Deposition, Thin Solid Films, 205 153 (1991).
I. Ivanov, I. Petrov, G. Harizanov, G. Håkansson, V. Orlinov, Microstructure Optical Properties and Microhardness of Magnetron Sputtered Thin Carbon Films, Bulg. J. Phys., 18 153 (1991).
I. Petrov L. Hultman J.‑E. Sundgren, J. E. Greene, Polycrystalline TiN Films Deposited by Reactive Bias Magnetron Sputtering: Effects of Ion Bombardment on Resputtering Rates Film Composition and Microstructure, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 10 265 (1992).
I. Petrov, E. Mojab, R. C. Powell, J. E. Greene, L. Hultman and J.‑E. Sundgren, Synthesis of Metastable Epitaxial Zinc‑Blende‑Structure AlN by Solid‑State Reaction, Appl. Phys. Lett., 60 2491 (1992).
H. Kimura, I. Petrov, F. Adibi, and J. E. Greene, Growth and Microstructure of Epitaxial 45o‑Rotated bcc W Layers on fcc MgO(001) Substrates and TiN(001) Buffer Layers, J. Crystal Growth, 123 344‑356 (1992).
J.‑E. Sundgren, L. Hultman, G. Håkansson, J. Birch and I. Petrov, Formation of Defects during Ion‑Assisted Growth of Thin Films from Vapor Phase, "Materials Modification by Energetic Atom and Ions" Ed. K.S. Grabowski, Volume 268, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings Series (Pittsburgh, PA, 1992)
I. Petrov, F. Adibi, J. E. Greene, W. D. Sproul and W.‑D. Münz, Use of an Externally Applied Axial Magnetic Field to Control Ion/Neutral Flux Ratios Incident at the Substrate During Magnetron Sputter Deposition, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 10 3283 (1992).
L. Hultman, S. Benhenda, G. Radnoczi, J.‑E. Sundgren, J. E. Greene and I. Petrov, Interfacial Reactions in Single‑Crystal TiN(100)/Al/Poly-Crystalline‑TiN Multilayer thin Films, Thin Solid Films, 215 152 (1992).
W. D. Sproul, P. J. Rudnik, K. O. Legg, W.‑D. Münz, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, Reactive Sputtering in the ABSTM System, Surface and Coatings Technology, 56 179 (1992).
I. Petrov, E. Mojab, F. Adibi, J. E. Greene, L. Hultman, and J.‑E. Sundgren, Study of Interfacial Reaction in Single Crystal Al/Ti1‑xAlxN (0<x<0.2) Structures, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 11 11 (1993).
F. Adibi, I. Petrov, J. E. Greene, U. Wahlström, and J.‑E. Sundgren, Design and Characterization of a Compact Two‑Target Ultrahigh Vacuum Magnetron Sputter Deposition System: Application to the Growth of Epitaxial Ti1‑xAlxN alloys and TiN/Ti1‑xAlxN superlattices, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 11 136 (1993).
F. Adibi, I. Petrov, J. E. Greene, L. Hultman, and J.‑E. Sundgren, Effects of High Flux Low‑Energy (<50 eV) Ion Irradiation During Deposition on the Microstructure and Preferred Orientaion of Ti0.5Al0.5N Alloys Grown by UHV Reactive Magnetron Sputtering, J. Appl. Phys. 73 8580 (1993).
I. Petrov, I. Ivanov, V. Orlinov, J.-E. Sundgren, Comparison of Magnetron Sputter Deposition Conditions in Neon, Argon, Krypton, and Xenon Discharges, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 11 2733 (1993).
I. Petrov, F. Adibi, J. E. Greene, L. Hultman and J.‑E. Sundgren, Average Energy Deposited per Atom: A Universal Parameter for Describing Ion‑Assisted Film Growth?, Appl. Phys. Lett. 63 36 (1993).
U. Wahlström, L. Hultman, J.-E. Sundgren, F. Adibi, I. Petrov and J. E. Greene, Crystal Growth and Microstructure of Polycrystalline Ti1‑xAlxN Alloy Films Deposited by UHV Dual Target Magnetron Sputtering, Thin Solid Films, 235 62 (1993).
K. V. Guin, V. M. Donnelly, M. E. Gross, F. A. Baiocchi, I. Petrov, J. E. Greene, Decomposition of Hexafluoroacetylacetonate Cu(I) Vinyltrimethylsilane on, and Diffusion of Cu into Single Crystal and Polycrystalline Titanium Nitride, Surface Science, 235 62 (1993).
I. Ivanov, P. Kazansky, L. Hultman, I. Petrov, and J.-E. Sundgren, Influence of an External Magnetic Field on the Plasma Characteristics and Deposition Conditions during DC Planar Magnetron Sputtering", J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 12 314 (1994).
I. Petrov, A. Myers, J. E. Greene, and J. R. Abelson, Mass and Energy Resolved Detection of Ions and Neutral Sputtered Species Incident at the Substrate during Reactive Magnetron Sputtering of Ti in Mixed Ar+N2 Discharges, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 12 2846 (1994).
J. H. Moser, F. Tian, O. Haller, D. B. Bergstrom, I. Petrov, J. E. Greene, C. Wiemer, Single-phase Polycrystalline Ti1-xWxN Alloys (0<x<0.7) Grown by UHV Reactive Magnetron Sputtering: Microstructure and Physical Properties, Thin Solid Films 253 445 (1994).
Y.-W. Kim, J. Moser, I. Petrov, J. E. Greene, and S. M. Rossnagel, Directed Sputter Deposition of AlCu: Film Microstructure and Microchemistry, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 12 3169 (1994).
Y.-W. Kim, I. Petrov, H. Ito, and J. E. Greene, Low-Energy (5<Ei<100 eV), High Brightness, UHV Ion Source for Al and Ge Primary Ion Beam Deposition, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 13 2734 (1995).
D. B. Bergstrom, I. Petrov, L. H. Allen, and J. E. Greene, "Reaction Paths and Kinetics of Aluminide Formation in Al/Epitaxial‑W(001) Model Diffusion Barrier Systems, J. Appl. Phys. 78 194 (1995).
L. Hultman, J.‑E. Sundgren, J. E. Greene, D. B. Bergstrom, and I. Petrov, High‑Flux Low‑ Energy (20 eV) N2+ Ion Irradiation During TiN Deposition by UHV Reactive Magnetron Sputtering: Effects on Microstructure and Preferred Orientation, J. Appl. Phys. 78 5395 (1995).
D. B. Bergstrom, F. Tian, I. Petrov, J. Moser, and J. E. Greene, Origin of Compositional Variations in Sputter‑Deposited TixW(1‑x) Diffusion Barrier Layers, Appl. Phys. Letters 67 3102 (1995).
J. E. Greene, J.‑E. Sundgren, L. Hultman, I. Petrov, and D. B. Bergstrom, Development of Preferred Orientation in Polycrystalline TiN Layers Grown by Ultra‑High‑Vacuum Reactive Magnetron Sputtering, Appl. Phys. Letters 67 2928 (1995).
Y. W. Kim, I. Petrov, J. E. Greene and S. M. Rossnagel, Development of 111 Texture in Al Films Grown on Si)2/Si(001) by Ultra‑High‑Vacuum Primary‑Ion Deposition, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 14 346 (1996)
B. W. Karr, Y. W. Kim, I. Petrov, D. B. Bergstrom, D. G. Cahill, and J. E. Greene, Morphology and Microstructure of Epitaxial Cu(001) films grown by primary ion deposition on Si and Ge Substrates, J. Appl. Phys. 80 6699 (1996).
E. E. Salagean, D. B. Lewis, J. S. Brooks, W.-D. Münz, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, Combined Steered-Arc Evaporation and Unbalanced Magnetron Nb Coatings for Corrosion Resistance Applications, Surface and Coatings Technol. 82 57-64 (1996).
I. Ivanov, H. Ljungcrantz, G. Håkansson, I. Petrov, and J.‑E. Sundgren, Ion Energy Distributions in Reactive Arc Evaporation Discharges used for Deposition of TiN Films, Surface and Coatings Technol. 92 150 (1997).
L. A. Donohue, W.-D. Münz, T. Hurkmans, T. Trinh, I. Petrov and J. E. Greene, Large-Scale Fabrication of Hard Superlattice Thin Films by Combined Steered-Arc Evaporation and Unbalanced Magnetron Sputtering, Surface and Coatings Technol. 93 69 (1997).
I. Petrov, P. Losbichler, J. E. Greene, W.-D. Münz, T. Hurkmans, and T. Trinh, Ion-Assisted Growth of Ti1-xAlxN/Ti1-yNbyN Multilayers by Combined Cathodic-Arc/Magnetron-Sputter Deposition, Thin Solid Films, 302 179 (1997).
D. B. Bergstrom, I. Petrov, L. H. Allen, and J. E. Greene, Aluminide Formation in Polycrystalline Al/W Metal/Barrier Thin Film Bilayers: Reaction Paths and Kinetics, J. Appl. Phys. 82 201 (1997).
D. B. Bergstrom, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, Al/TixW1‑x Metal/Diffusion Barrier Bilayers: Interfacial Reaction Pathways and Kinetics During Annealing, J. Appl. Phys. 82 2312 (1997).
B. W. Karr, I. Petrov, D. G. Cahill, and J. E. Greene, Morphological Epitaxial TiN(001) Grown by Magnetron Sputtering, Appl. Phys. Lett. 70 1703 (1997).
L. A. Donohue, I. J. Smith, W.-D. Münz, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene Microstructure and Oxidation-Resistance of Ti1‑x-y-zAlxCryYzN Layers Grown by Combined Steered-Arc/Unbalanced-Magnetron-Sputter Deposition, Surface and Coatings Technology, 94-95 226 (1997).
B. W. Karr, I. Petrov, P. Desjardins, D. G. Cahill, and J. E. Greene, In situ Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of the Evolution of Surface Morphology and Microstructure in Epitaxial TiN (001) Grown by Utra-High-Vacuum Reactive Magnetron Sputtering, Surface and Coatings Technol. 94-95 403 (1997).
J. E. Van Nostrand, D. Cahill, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, Morphology and Microstructure of Tensile-strained SiGe (001) Epitaxial Films, J. Appl. Phys. 83 1096 (1998).
S. C. Gujrathi, S. Roorda, J. G. D'Arcy, R. J. Pflueger, P. Desjardins, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, Quantitative Compositional Depth Profiling of Si1‑x‑yGexCy Thin Films by Simultaneous Elastic Recoil Detection and Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry, Nucl. Instr. Methods Phys. B, 136-138 654-660 (1998).
D. Gall, I. Petrov L. D. Madsen J.-E. Sundgren, and J. E. Greene, Microstructure and electronic properties of the refractory semiconductor ScN grown on MgO(001) by ultra-high-vacuum reactive magnetron sputter deposition, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. 16, A 2411 (1998).
D. Gall, I. Petrov, N. Hellgren, L. Hultman, J.-E. Sundgren, and J. E. Greene, Growth of Poly- and Single-Crystal ScN on MgO(001): Role of Low-Energy N2+ Irradiation in Determining Texture, Microstructure Evolution, and Mechanical Properties, J. Appl. Phys. 84, 6034 (1998).
J. M. Schneider, A. Anders, B. Hjörvarsson, K. Macák, I. Petrov, U. Helmersson, and J.-E. Sundgren, Hydrogen Uptake in Alumina Thin Films Synthesized from an Aluminum Plasma Stream in an Oxygen Ambient, Appl. Phys. Lett. 75 200 (1999).
V. Kouznetsov, K. Macák, J. Schneider, U. Helmersson and I. Petrov, A Novel Pulsed Magnetron Sputter Technique Utilizing Very High Target Power Densities, Surface and Coatings Technology 122 290-293 (1999).
C. Schönjahn, H. Paritong, L. A. Donohue, W. D. Munz, R. D. Twesten, I. Petrov, Influence of Cr+ and Nb+ substrate sputter cleaning on the formation of Ti1-xAlxN/steel interfaces generated in a combined cathodic arc/unbalanced magnetron deposition system, ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND ANALYSIS, (Inst. Phys. Conf. Ser.) 161, pp 75-78 (1999)
C.-S. Shin, D. Gall, P. Desjardins, A. Vailionis, H. Kim, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, Growth and Physical Properties of Epitaxial Metastable Cubic TaN(001), Appl. Phys. Lett. 75 3808 (1999)
J.-S. Chun, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, Dense Fully 111-Textured TiN Diffusion Barriers: Enhanced Lifetime Through Microstructure Control During Layer Growth, J. Appl. Phys. 86 3633 (1999)
D. Gall, I. Petrov, P. Desjardins, and J.E. Greene, Microstructural Evolution and Poisson Ratio of Epitaxial ScN Grown on TiN(001)/MgO(001) by Ultrahigh Vacuum Reactive Magnetron Sputter Deposition, J. Appl. Phys., 86 5524 (1999)
L. Madsen, E. Svedberg, D. Bergstrom, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, Texture of Al Thin Films Deposited by Magnetron Sputtering onto Epitaxial W(001), J. Appl. Phys., 87 160 (2000).
G. Ramanath, J. E. Greene, I. Petrov, J. E. Baker, L. H. Allen, and G. Gillen, Channeling-Induced Asymmetric Profile Distortion during Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Depth-Profiling of Polycrystalline-TiN /Ti /TiN(001) Trilayers, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, 18, 1369 (2000).
J. D'Arcy-Gall, P. Desjardins, I. Petrov, J. E. Greene, J.-E. Paultre, R. A. Masut, S. C. Gujrathi, and S. Roorda, Epitaxial Metastable Ge1-yCy (y £ 0.02) Alloys Grown on Ge(001) from Hyperthermal Beams: C Incorporation Pathways and Lattice Sites, J. Appl. Phys. 88, 96 (2000).
B. W. Karr, D. G. Cahill, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, Effects of High-Flux, Low-Energy Ion Bombardment on the Low-Temperature Growth Morphology of TiN(001) Epitaxial Layers, Phys. Rev. B 61 16137 (2000).
C. Schönjahn, L. A. Donohue, D. B. Lewis, and W.-D. Münz, R. D. Twesten and I. Petrov, Enhanced Adhesion Through Local Epitaxy of Transition-metal Nitride Coatings on Ferritic Steel Promoted by Metal Ion Etching in a Combined Cathodic Arc/Unbalanced Magnetron Deposition System, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 18 1718 (2000).
K. Macák, V. Kouznetsov, J. Schneider, U. Helmersson, and Ivan Petrov, Ionized Sputter Deposition Using an Extremely High Plasma Density Pulsed Magnetron Discharge, J. Vac. Sci. & Technol. A, 18 4 1533-1537 (2000).
C. Schönjahn, D.B. Lewis, W.-D. Münz, and I. Petrov, Substrate Ion Etching in a Combined Steered Cathodic Arc/Unbalanced Magnetron Deposition System: Effects on Interface Architecture, Adhesion and Tool Performance, Surf. Eng. 16 176 (2000)
J. D'Arcy-Gall, P. Desjardins, I. Petrov, J. E. Greene, J-E. Paultre, R. A. Masut, S. C. Gujrathi, S. Roorda, Epitaxial Metastable Ge1-yCy (y £ 0.02) Alloys Grown on Ge(001) from Hyperthermal Beams: C Incorporation and Lattice Sites, J. Appl. Phys. 88 96 (2000).
N. Finnegan, R. T. Haasch, D. Gall, S. Kodambaka, J. E. Greene, and I. Petrov, Auger Electron Spectra from Epitaxial TiN(001) after Ultra-high Vacuum Cleaving and after Ar+ Ion Etching, Surf. Sci. Spectra, 7 93 (2000).
S. Kodambaka, V. Petrova, A. Vailionis, P. Desjardins, D. G. Cahill, I. Petrov, J. E. Greene, In-situ High-Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Two-Dimensional Island Decay Kinetics on Atomically Smooth TiN(001), Surf. Rev. Lett. 7 (2000).
J. D’Arcy-Gall, D. Gall, P. Desjardins, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, Role of Fast Neutral Particles during Sputter Deposition: Growth of Epitaxial Ge0.99C0.01/Ge(001), Phys. Rev. B 62 11203 (2000).
D. Gall, R. Haasch, N. Finnegan, T.-Y. Lee, C.-S. Shin, E. Sammann, J. E. Greene, and I. Petrov, In-situ X-ray Photoelectron, Ultra-Violet Photoelectron, and Auger Electron Spectroscopy Spectra from First-Row Transition-Metal Nitrides: ScN, TiN, VN, and CrN, Surf. Sci. Spectra, 7, 167(2000).
R. T. Haasch, T.-Y. Lee, D. Gall, C.-S. Shin, J. E. Greene, and I. Petrov, Epitaxial ScN(001) Layers Grown and Analyzed In-Situ by XPS and UPS. I. Analysis of as-deposited layers, Surf. Sci. Spectra, 7 169 (2000).
R. T. Haasch, T.-Y. Lee, D. Gall, C.-S. Shin, J. E. Greene, and I. Petrov, Epitaxial ScN(001) Layers Grown and Analyzed In-Situ by XPS and UPS. II. Analysis of Ar+ sputtered layers, Surf. Sci. Spectra, 7 178 (2000).
N. Finnegan, T.-Y. Lee, R. Haasch, J. E. Greene, and I. Petrov, Epitaxial ScN(001) Grown and Analyzed In situ by AES after (1) Deposition and (2) Ar+ Sputter Etching, Surf. Sci. Spectra, 7 185 (2000).
R. T. Haasch, T.-Y. Lee, D. Gall, C.-S. Shin, J. E. Greene, and I. Petrov, Epitaxial TiN(001) Layers Grown and Analyzed In-Situ by XPS and UPS. I. Analysis of as-deposited layers, Surf. Sci. Spectra, 7 193 (2000).
R. T. Haasch, T.-Y. Lee, D. Gall, C.-S. Shin, J. E. Greene, and I. Petrov, Epitaxial TiN(001) Layers Grown and Analyzed In-Situ by XPS and UPS. II. Analysis of Ar+ sputtered layers, Surf. Sci. Spectra, 7 204 (2000).
N. Finnegan, T.-Y. Lee, R. T. Haasch, J. E. Greene, and I. Petrov, Epitaxial TiN(001) Grown and Analyzed In situ by AES after (1) Deposition and (2) Ar+ Sputter Etching, Surf. Sci. Spectra, 7 213 (2000).
R. T. Haasch, T.-Y. Lee, D. Gall, C.-S. Shin, J. E. Greene, and I. Petrov, Epitaxial VN(001) Layers Grown and Analyzed In-Situ by XPS and UPS. I. Analysis of as-deposited layers, Surf. Sci. Spectra, 7 221 (2000).
R. T. Haasch, T.-Y. Lee, D. Gall, C.-S. Shin, J. E. Greene, and I. Petrov, Epitaxial VN(001) Layers Grown and Analyzed In-Situ by XPS and UPS. II. Analysis of Ar+ sputtered layers, Surf. Sci. Spectra, 7 233 (2000).
N. Finnegan, T.-Y. Lee, R. T. Haasch, J. E. Greene, and I. Petrov, Epitaxial VN(001) Grown and Analyzed In situ by AES after (1) Deposition and (2) Ar+ Sputter Etching, Surf. Sci. Spectra, 7 243 (2000).
R. T. Haasch, T.-Y. Lee, D. Gall, C.-S. Shin, J. E. Greene, and I. Petrov, Epitaxial CrN(001) Layers Grown and Analyzed In-Situ by XPS and UPS. I. Analysis of as-deposited layers, Surf. Sci. Spectra, 7 250 (2000).
R. T. Haasch, T.-Y. Lee, D. Gall, C.-S. Shin, J. E. Greene, and I. Petrov, Epitaxial CrN(001) Layers Grown and Analyzed In-Situ by XPS and UPS. II. Analysis of Ar+ Sputtered Layers, Surf. Sci. Spectra, 7 262 (2000).
N. Finnegan, T.-Y. Lee, R. T. Haasch, J. E. Greene, and I. Petrov, Epitaxial CrN(001) Grown and Analyzed In situ by AES after (1) Deposition and (2) Ar+ Sputter Etching, Surf. Sci. Spectra, 7 271 (2000).
D. Gall, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, “Epitaxial Sc1-xTixN(001: Optical and electronic transport properties”, Journal of Applied Physics, 89 401 (2001)
D. Gall, M. Städele, K. Järrendahl, I. Petrov, P. Desjardins, R. T. Haasch, T.-Y. Lee and J. E. Greene, Electronic Structure of ScN Determined Using Optical Spectroscopy, Photoemission, and Ab Initio Calculations, Phys. Rev. B 63, 125119 (2001).
J.-S. Chun, J. R. A. Carlsson, P. Desjardins, D. B. Bergstrom, I. Petrov, J. E. Greene, C. Lavoie, C. Cabral Jr. and L. Hultman, Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction Studies Of Interfacial Reaction Paths and Kinetics During Annealing of Fully-002-Textured Al/TiN Bilayers, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 19 182 (2001)
J.-S. Chun, P. Desjardins, C. Lavoie, I. Petrov, C. Cabral, Jr., J. E. Greene, Interfacial reaction pathways and kinetics during annealing of 111-textured Al/TiN bilayers: A synchrotron x-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy study, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 19, 2207 (2001)
J.-S. Chun, P. Desjardins, I. Petrov, J. E. Greene, C. Lavoie et C. Cabral Jr., Interfacial Reaction Pathways and Kinetics During Annealing of Epitaxial Al(001)/TiN(001) Model Diffusion Barrier System, Thin Solid Films 391 69 (2001).
J.-S. Chun, P. Desjardins, C. Lavoie, C.-S. Shin,C. Cabral, Jr., I. Petrov, and J.E. Greene, Interfacial reactions in epitaxial Al/TiN(111) model diffusion barriers: Formation of an impervious self-limited wurtzite-structure AlN(0001) blocking layer Journal of Applied Physics, 89 .7841 (2001)
F. H. Baumann, D. L. Chopp, T. Díaz de la Rubia, G. H. Gilmer, J. E. Greene, H. Huang, S. Kodambaka, P. O’Sullivan, and I. Petrov, Multi-scale Modeling of Thin Film Deposition: Applications to Si Device Processing, MRS Bulletin, 26 182 2001.
M.J. Williamson, D.N. Dunn, R. Hull, S. Kodambaka, I. Petrov, and J.E. Greene, Evolution of nanoscale texture in ultrathin TiN films, Appl. Phys. Lett. 78 2223 (2001)
C. Schönjahn, A. P. Ehiasarian, D. B. Lewis, R. New, W.-D. Münz, R. D. Twesten, and I. Petrov, Optimization of In-Situ Substrate Surface Treatment in a Cathodic Arc Plasma: A Study by TEM and Plasma Diagnostics, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 19 1415 (2001)..
C. Schönjahn, H. Paritong, W.-D. Münz, R. D. Twesten, and I. Petrov, Influence of the Interface Composition on the Corrosion Behavior of Unbalanced Magnetron Grown Niobium Coatings on Steel, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 19, 1392 (2001).
S. Kodambaka, V. Petrova, A. Vailionis, P. Desjardins, D. G. Cahill, I. Petrov, J. E. Greene, TiN(001) and TiN(111) Island Coarsening Kinetics: In-situ Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies, Thin Solid Films, 392 164 (2001)
J. D’Arcy-Gall, D. Gall, I. Petrov, P. Desjardins, and J. E. Greene, Quantitative C Lattice Site Distributions in Epitaxial Ge1-yCy/Ge(001) layers, J. Appl. Phys., 90 3910 (2001).
F. K. Urban, III, A. Hosseini‑Tehrani, P. Griffiths, A. Khabari Y.-W. Kim, I. Petrov, Nanophase Films Deposited From a High‑Rate, Nanoparticle Beam, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 20, 995 (2002)
C. S. Shin, D. Gall, Y.-W. Kim, P. Desjardins, I. Petrov and J. E. Greene, Epitaxial NaCl-Structure d-TaNx(001): Electronic Transport Properties, Elastic Modulus, and Hardness vs. N/T Ratio, J. Appl. Phys., 90 2879 (2001)
N. Hellgren, N. Lin, E. Broitman, V. Serin, S.E. Grillo, R. Twesten, I. Petrov, C. Colliex, L. Hultman, and J.-E. Sundgren, Thermal stability of CNx thin films" J. Mater. Res. 16 3188 (2001)
H. Goindi, C.-S. Shin, M. Frederick, H. Kim, I. Petrov, and G. Ramanath, MRS Symp. Proc. 648, (2001) p 1137.
G. Ramanath, H. Kim, H. S. Goindi, M. J. Frederick, C.-S. Shin, , R. Goswami, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, AIP proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Stress-Induced Phenomena in Metallization, edited by S.P. Baker, M. Korhonen, E. Arzt and P. Ho (2001), p.10
C.-S. Shin, Y.-W. Kim, D. Gall, J. E. Greene, and I. Petrov, Phase Composition and Microstructure of Polycrystalline and Epitaxial TaNx Layers Grown on oxidized Si(001) and MgO(001) by Reactive Magnetron Sputter Deposition, Thin Solid Films 402 (2002)
S. Kodambaka, V. Petrova, S.V. Khare, D.D. Johnson, I. Petrov, and J.E. Greene, Absolute TiN(111) Step Energies from Analysis of Anisotropic Island Shape Fluctuations, Phys. Rev. Lett, 88, 146101-1 (2002)
D. Gall, C.-S. Shin, R.T. Haasch, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, Bandgap in epitaxial NaCl-Structure CrN layers, J. Appl. Phys. 91 5882-5886 (2002)
S. Kodambaka, S.V. Khare, V. Petrova, A. Vailionis, I. Petrov, and J.E. Greene, "Absolute Orientation-Dependent TiN(001) Step Energies from Two-Dimensional Equilibrium Island Shape and Coarsening Measurements on Epitaxial TiN(001) Layers," Surf. Sci. 513, 468 (2002).
Peter L. O'Sullivan, Frieder H. Baumann, George H. Gilmer, Jacques Dalla Torre, Chan-Soo Shin, Ivan Petrov, and Tae-Yoon Lee, Continuum model of thin film deposition incorporating finite atomic length scales, J. Appl. Phys. 92, 3487 (2002)
C.-S. Shin, Y.-W. Kim, N. Hellgren, D. Gall, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, Epitaxial Growth of Metastable d-TaN Layers on MgO(001) using Low-energy, High-flux Ion Irradiation during Ultra-high Vacuum Reactive Magnetron Sputtering, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., A20, 2007 (2002)
S. Kodambaka, V. Petrova, S.V. Khare, A. Rockett, I. Petrov, and J.E. Greene, "Size-Dependent Detachment-Limited Decay Kinetics of Two-Dimensional TiN islands on TiN(111)," Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 176102 (2002)
C.-S. Shin, D. Gall, Y.-W. Kim, N. Hellgren, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, Development of preferred orientation in polycrystalline NaCl-structure δ-TaN layers grown by reactive magnetron sputtering: Role of low-energy ion surface interactions, J. Appl. Phys. 92, 5084 (2002)
T. Donchev, V. Tsaneva, T. Nurgaliev, L. Gravier, J. Ph. Ansermet, I. Petrov, V. Petrova, V. W. Matz, R. Groetzschel, S. Pignard and H. Vincent, YBCO/LSMO and LSMO/YBCO double-layer deposition by off-axis magnetron sputtering and strain effects, Vacuum, 69 (2002), 243-247
A. P. Ehiasarian, W. -D. Münz, L. Hultman, U. Helmersson and I. Petrov, High power pulsed magnetron sputtered CrNx films, Surface and Coatings Technology, Volumes 163-164, 30 January 2003, Pages 267-272
S. Kodambaka, S. V. Khare, V. Petrova, D. D. Johnson, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, Absolute orientation-dependent anisotropic TiN(111) island step energies and stiffnesses from shape fluctuation analyses, Phys. Rev. B 67, 035409 (2003)
F. Tian, J. D’Arcy-Gall, T.-Y. Lee, M. Sardela, D. Gall, I. Petrov, J.E. Greene, “Epitaxial Ti1-xWxN alloys grown on MgO(001) by ultra-high vacuum reactive magnetron sputtering: electronic properties and long-range cation ordering”, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A21 (2003) 140
S.V. Khare, S. Kodambaka, D.D. Johnson, I. Petrov, and J.E. Greene, "Determining absolute orientation-dependent step energies: a general theory for the Wulff-construction and for anisotropic two-dimensional island shape fluctuations, Surface Science, Volume 522, Issues 1-3, 1 January 2003, Pages 75-83
S. Kodambaka, V. Petrova, A. Vailionis, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, "In situ high-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy studies of two-dimensional TiN island coarsening kinetics on TiN(0 0 1), Surface Science, Available online 24 January 2003,526,85-96
Broitman, E. N. Hellgren, Zs. Czigány, R. D. Twesten, J. Luning, I. Petrov, L. Hultman, and B. C. Holloway, Structural and mechanical properties of diamond-like carbon films deposited by direct current magnetron sputtering, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 21, 851 (2003)
T.-Y. Lee, D. Gall, C.-S. Shin, N. Hellgren, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene Growth and physical properties of epitaxial CeN layers on MgO(001), J. Appl. Phys. 94, 921 (2003)
D. Gall, S. Kodambaka, M. A. Wall, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, Pathways of atomistic processes on TiN(001) and (111) surfaces during film growth: an ab initio study J. Appl. Phys. 93, 9086 (2003)
C.-S. Shin, D. Gall, N. Hellgren, J. Patscheider, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene Vacancy hardening in single-crystal TiNx (001) layers J. Appl. Phys. 93, 6025 (2003)
M. Gao, J. M. Zuo, R. D. Twesten, I. Petrov, L. A. Nagahara, and R. Zhang, Structure determination of individual single-wall carbon nanotubes by nanoarea electron diffraction, Appl. Phys. Lett. 82, 2703 (2003)
Abraham, D.P., J. Liu, C.H. Chen, Y.E. Hyung, M. Stoll, N. Elsen, S. MacLaren, R. Twesten, R. Haasch, E. Sammann, I. Petrov, K. Amine, G. Henriksen, Diagnosis of Power Fade Mechanisms in High-Power Lithium-Ion Cell, J. Power Sources, 119-121,511-516 (2003)
D. P. Abraham, R. D. Twesten, M. Balasubramanian, J. Kropf, D. Fischer, J. McBreen, I. Petrov, and K. Amine, Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Lithium Nickel Oxide-Based Particles Used in High Power Lithium-Ion Cells, J. Electrochem. Soc. 150, A1450 (2003)
A.M. Minor, E.A. Stach, J.W. Morris, Jr., and I. Petrov In situ nanoindentation of epitaxial TiN/MgO (100) in a transmission electron microscope, J. Electronic Materials, 32, 1023 (2003)
S. Kodambaka, D. L. Chopp, I. Petrov, and J.E. Greene, "Determination of Edge-Atom Mobilities during Coalescence of Two-Dimensional TiN Islands on Atomically-smooth TiN(001) and TiN(111) Terraces," Surf. Sci. 540, L611 (2003)
S. Kodambaka, S.V. Khare, V. Petrova, A. Vailionis, I. Petrov, and J.E. Greene, "Determination of Absolute Orientation-Dependent TiN(001) and TiN(111) Step Energies," Vacuum, in press.
S. Kodambaka, V. Petrova, I. Petrov, and J.E. Greene, "In-situ High-temperature STM Studies of Surface Dynamics on Atomically Smooth TiN(001) and TiN(111)," Omicron Nanotechnology 7, 8 (2003).
S. Kodambaka, S.V. Khare, V. Petrova, A. Vailionis, I. Petrov, and J.E. Greene, "Determination of Absolute Orientation-Dependent TiN(001) and TiN(111) Step Energies," Vacuum, 74 345-351 (2004)
P. Eh. Hovsepian , Y. N. Kok , A. P. Ehiasarian , A. Erdemir , J. -G. Wen and I. Petrov, Structure and tribological behaviour of nanoscale multilayer C/Cr coatings deposited by the combined steered cathodic arc/unbalanced magnetron sputtering technique, Thin Solid Films, 447-448, 7 2004
T. -Y. Lee, S. Kodambaka, J. G. Wen, R. Twesten, J. E. Greene, and I. Petrov, "Directed nanostructural evolution in Ti0.8Ce0.2N layers grown on SiO2 by magnetron sputter deposition as a function of low energy, high flux ion irradiation," Appl. Phys. Lett., 84 2796 (2004).
S. Kodambaka, S.V. Khare, W. Święch, K. Ohmori, I. Petrov, J.E. Greene, Dislocation-Driven Surface Dynamics on Solids, Nature 429, 49 (2004).
Marcel A. Wall, David G. Cahill, I. Petrov, D. Gall, and J. E. Greene, “Nucleation kinetics during homoepitaxial growth of TiN(001) by reactive magnetron sputtering”, Physical Review B 70, 035413 (2004)
T.-Y. Lee, S. Kodambaka, J. G. Wen, R. G. Twesten, J. E. Greene, and I. Petrov, “Controlled Nanostructural Evolution in Ti0.8Ce0.2N Layers Grown as a Function of Low Energy, High Flux Ion Irradiation”, book chapter in Nanoscale Magnetic Oxides and Bio-World, ed. I. Nedkov and Ph. Tailhades, (Heron Press, Sofia) (2004), 156-165.
H.-S. Seo, T.-Y. Lee, J. G. Wen, I. Petrov, J. E. Greene, and D. Gall, "Growth and physical properties of epitaxial HfN layers on MgO(001)”, J. Appl. Phys. 96, 878 (2004)
M. S. Raghuveer, P. G. Ganesan, J. D’Arcy-Gall, and G. Ramanath, M. Marshall and I. Petrov, Nanomachining carbon nanotubes with ion beams, Appl. Phys. Lett. 44 4484 (2004)
C.W. Lim, K. Ohmori, I. Petrov, and J.E. Greene, “Method for large-scale fabrication of atomic-scale strucutures on material surfaces using surface vacancies”, U.S. Patent, US 6 762 131 B2, Jul. 13, 2004
C.W. Lim, C.S. Shin, D. Gall, I. Petrov, and J.E. Greene, “Method for forming an epitaxial cobalt silicide layer on MOS devices:, U.S. Patent, US 6 797 598 B2, Sept. 28, 2004
Bjurstrom, J.; Rosen, D.; Katardjiev, I.; Yanchev, V.M.; Petrov, I., “Dependence of the electromechanical coupling on the degree of orientation of c-textured thin AlN films” IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 51, 1347 (2004)
S. Kodambaka, Navot Israeli, J. Bareno, W. Swiech, K. Ohmori, I. Petrov, J.E. Greene, "Low-energy electron microscopy studies of interlayer mass transport kinetics on TiN(1 1 1)" Surface Science 560 53 (2004)
K. Ohmori, Y.-L. Foo, S. Hong, J.-G. Wen, J.E. Greene, and I. Petrov Directed Self-Assembly of Ge Nanostructures on High-Index, Highly Anisotropic Si(hkl) Surfaces, Nanoletters, 5 369 2005
C.W. Lim, C.S. Shin, D. Gall, J.M. Zuo, I. Petrov, and J.E. Greene, "Growth of CoSi2 on Si(001) by reactive deposition epitaxy", J. Appl. Phys., 97, 44909, 2005.
M.A. Wall, D.G. Cahill, I. Petrov, D. Gall, and J.E. Greene, "Nucleation Kinetics versus Nitrogen Partial Pressure during Homoepitaxial Growth of Stoichiometric TiN(001): a Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study," Surf. Sci. 581, L122 (2005).
H.-S. Seo, T.-Y. Lee, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, "Epitaxial and Polycrystalline HfNx (0.8 £ x £ 1.5) layers on MgO(001): Film Growth and Physical Properties," J. Appl. Phys. 97, 83521 (2005).
Taeyoon Lee, K. Ohmori, C.-S. Shin, David. G. Cahill, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, " Elastic constants of single-crystal TiNx(001) (0.67 ≤ x ≤ 1.0) determined as a function of x by picosecond ultrasonic measurements," Phys. Rev. B 71, 144106 (2005)
G.R. Lee, J.J. Lee, C.S. Shin, I. Petrov, and J.E. Greene,"Self-organized Lamellar Structured TaN by UHV Unbalanced-magnetron Sputtering, " Thin Solid Films 475, 45 (2005).
Y.N. Kok, P.Eh. Hovsepian, Q. Luo, D.B. Lewis, J.G. Wen, I. Petrov Influence of the bias voltage on the structure and the tribological performance of nanoscale multilayer C/Cr PVD coatings, Thin Solid Films, 475 2005 p 219-226
M. Zhang, E.A. Olson, R.D. Twesten, J.G. Wen, L.H. Allen, I.M. Robertson, and I. Petrov, "In situ transmission electron microscopy studies enabled by microelectromechanical system technology" J. Mater. Res., 20 1802 (2005)
Taekyung Kim, Jian-Min Zuo; E.A Olson,.; I. Petrov, Imaging suspended carbon nanotubes in field-effect transistors configured with microfabricated slits for transmission electron microscopy, Applied Physics Letters, v 87, n 17, 24 Oct. 2005, p 173108-1-3
Y. N. Kok, P. Eh. Hovsepian, R. Haasch, I. Petrov,” Raman spectroscopy study of C/Cr coatings deposited by the combined steered cathodic ARC/unbalanced magnetron sputtering technique,” Surf. and Coatings Technol., 200, 1117-1122 (2005).
P.Eh. Hovsepian, Y.N. Kok, A.P. Ehiasarian, R. Haasch, J.-G. Wen and I. Petrov, “Phase separation and formation of the self-organised layered nanostructure in C/Cr coatings in conditions of high ion irradiation,” Surf. and Coatings Technol., 200, 1572-1579, (2005).
M. Stoehr, H.-S. Seo, I Petrov, J.E Greene, , “Raman scattering from epitaxial HfN layers grown on MgO(001),” J. Appl. Phys. 99, 043507 (2006)
C.W. Lim, J.E. Greene, I. Petrov, CoSi2 growth on Si(001) by reactive deposition epitaxy: Effects of high-flux, low-energy ion irradiation, Journal of Applied Physics, v 100, n 1, 2006, p 013510
J. Bareno, S. Kodambaka, S.V. Khare, W. Swiech, I. Petrov, J.E.Greene, Orientation-dependent mobilities from analyses of two-dimensional TiN(111) island decay kinetics, Thin Solid Films, v 510, n 1-2, Jul 3, 2006, p 339-345
Y.N.Kok, J.G. Wen, I. Petrov, P.Eh. Hovsepian, “Influence of ion bombardment on structure and tribological performance of nanoscale multilayer C/Cr PVD coatings” Surface Engineering, v 22, 92, (2006)
C.W. Lim, I. Petrov, and J.E. Greene, “Epitaxial growth of CoSi2 on Si(001) by reactive deposition epitaxy: island growth and coalescence,” Thin Solid Films, 515, 1340 (2006).
P. H. Mayrhofer, C. Mitterer, J. G. Wen, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, Thermally induced self-hardening of nanocrystalline Ti–B–N thin films, JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 100, 044301 (2006)
S.-J. Tang, S. Kodambaka, W. Swiech, I. Petrov, C.P. Flynn, and T.-C. Chiang, “Sublimation of atomic layers from a chromium surface,” Physical Review Letters, 96, 126106 (2006).
C.W. Lim, J.E. Greene, and I. Petrov, “CoSi2 growth on Si(001) by reactive deposition epitaxy: effects of high-flux, low-energy ion irradiation,” J. Appl. Phys., 100, 013510 (2006).
S Kodambaka., S.V. Khare, I. Petrov, and J.E. Greene, “Two-dimensional island dynamics: role of step energy anisotropy,” Surf. Sci. Repts., 60, 55-77 (2006).
B. Mi, O.C. Nieto, B.J. Mariñas, F. Watanabe, D.G. Cahill, and I. Petrov, "Physico-chemical characterization of NF/RO membrane active layers by Rutherford backscattering spectrometry," Journal of Membrane Science, 282, 71-81 (2006).
Giuseppe Faraci and Agata R. Pennisi, Federico Zontone, Boquan Li, and Ivan Petrov, Expansion and melting of Xe nanocrystals in Si, PHYSICAL REVIEW B 74, 1 _2006
J. Bareno, S. Kodambaka, S.V. Khare, V. Petrova, W. Swiech, I. Petrov, and J.E. Greene " TiN surface dynamics: Role of surface and bulk mass transport processes" AIP Book Chapter (accepted 10-2006)
Young Min Park, Kyung-Woo Yi, Ivan Petrov, and Young-Woon Kim, Measurement and Estimation of Temperature Rise in the TEM sample during Ion Milling, Ultramicroscopy, Available online 19 January 2007
A.P. Ehiasarian, J.G. Wen, I. Petrov Interface microstructure engineering by high power impulse magnetron sputtering for the enhancement of adhesion, J. Appl. Phys. 101, 054301 (2007)
Stoehr, M. Shin, C.-S.; Petrov, I.; Greene, J.E., Raman scattering from epitaxial TaNx ((0.94 < x < 1.37) layers grown on MgO(001), J.Appl Phys., 101, 123509 (2007)
A.P. Ehiasarian, A. Anders, I. Petrov, Combined filtered cathodic arc etching pretreatment-magnetron sputter deposition of highly adherent CrN films, J. Vac. Sci. & Technol. A 25, 543-50 ( 2007)
L. Hultman, J. Bareño, A. Flink, H. Söderberg K. Larsson, V. Petrova, M. Odén, J. E. Greene, and I. Petrov, “Interface structure in superhard TiN-SiN nanolaminates and nanocomposites: Film growth experiments and ab initio calculations”, Physical Review B (Condensed Matter), 75, 155437-1-6 (2007)
P. O. Å. Persson, S. Kodambaka, I. Petrov, and L. Hultman Epitaxial Ti2AlN (0001) Thin Film Deposition by Dual Target Reactive Magnetron Sputtering, Acta Materialia, 55, 4401-4407 (2007)
W. Swiech, M. Rajappan, M. Ondrejcek, E. Sammann, S. Burdin, I. Petrov and C.P. Flynn Real-time imaging of surface evolution driven by variable energy ion impact, Ultramicroscopy, accepted
B. Howe, M. Sardela, J.G. Wen, A. Voevodin, J. Greene, L. Hultman, I. Petrov, Growth and physical properties of epitaxial Hf1-xAlxN alloys grown on MgO(001), Surface & Coatings Technology 202 (2007) 809–814
C.H. Lei, J. Bareno, J.G. Wen, I. Petrov, S.-H. Kang, D.P. Abraham, Local structure and composition studies of Li1.2Ni0.2Mn0.6O2 by analytical electron microscopy, Journal of Power Sources 178, 422–433 (2008)
Manuscripts:
1/ B. Cho, J. Bareño, Y.L. Foo, S. Hong, T. Spila, I. Petrov, and J.E. Greene, " P incorporation during Si(001):P gas-source molecular beam epitaxy: effects on growth kinetics and surface morphology" J. Appl. Phys
2/ B. Cho, J. Bareño, I. Petrov, and J.E. Greene, "Effect of P predeposition on Ge/Si(001) island formation", Appl. Phys. Lett.
3/ M. Stoehr, C.-S. Shin, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene, Raman scattering from epitaxial TaNx (0.94 ≤ x ≤1.37) layers grown on MgO(001), JAP
4/ Jörg Patscheider, Niklas Hellgren, Richard T. Haasch, Joe E. Greene, Ivan Petrov) The interface of TiN-Si3N4 – a model for the binding in hard nanocomposites
5/M. Bettge, D. Abraham, S. Burdin, S. MacLaren, E. Sammann, I. Petrov Ion-Assisted Growth of Aligned and Unidirectional Silicon Nanocones and Nanowhiskers with Indium as a Growth Promoter
7/ M. Stoehr C.-S. Shin, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene Raman scattering analyses from strained single-crystal TiNx grown on MgO(001)
8/ M. Stoehr H.-S. Seo, I. Petrov, and J. E. Greene Raman scattering of epitaxial and polycrystalline HfNx grown on MgO(001)
9. M. Schultz, X. Zhang, S. Unarunotai, D. Khang, Q. Cao, C. Wang, C. Lei, S. MacLaren, J. A. N. T. Soares, I. Petrov, J. Moore, and J. Rogers, "Crosslinked, Conjugated Carbon Monolayers: Films, Balloons, Tubes and Pleated Sheets,"
10. M. Bischoff, H. van Lin, S. Lazar, B. Freitag, P. Tiemeijer, M. van der Stam, S. von Harrach, M. Stekelenburg, M. Haider, H. Müller, P. Hartel, B. Kabius3, D. Miller, I. Petrov, E. Olson, T. Donchev, E.A. Kenik, A. Lupini, J. Bentley, S. Pennycook, C. Kisielowski, A. Minor, A.K. Schmid, T. Duden, V. Radmilovic, Q. Ramasse, M. Watanabe, E. Stach, P. Denes, U. Dahmen, Electron Microscope Achieves Half-Angstrom Performance, Science Brevia
10. P.Eh. Hovsepian, A.P. Ehiasarian, I. Petrov, TiAlCN/VCN Nanolayer Coatings Suitable for Machining of Al and Ti Alloys Deposited by the Combined High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering / Unbalanced Magnetron Sputtering, J. Vac. Sci. Technol.
Dear reader, if you have reached this point you understand why my life is so "interesting" with so much pending work on manuscripts that is done only in the "spare" time.