Srini Raghavan

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1976
Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
The University of Arizona
Mines Building, Room 147
Tucson, AZ 85721-0012
Campus Phone: (520) 979-2348
AML Phone: (520) 322-2960
FAX: (520) 621-8059
E-mail: srini@u.arizona.edu

Teaching Interests

• Applied Surface Chemistry (MSE 503)
• Corrosion and Degradation of Materials (MSE 435/535)
• Physical Chemistry of Materials (MSE 412/512)
• Semiconductor Processing (MSE/ECE 446/546)

Current Research

• Silicon wafer cleaning and photomask cleaning
• Electrochemical and environmental aspects of chemical mechanical polishing of metals
• Etching and drying issues in Microelectromechanical systems.

Principal Publications (Recent)

• A.M. Almanza-Workman, S. Raghavan, P. Deymier, D.J. Monk, and R. Roop, "Water Dispersible Silanes for Wettability of Polysilicon", J. Electrochem. Soc., Vol. 149, No. 1, H6-H11(2002).
• V. Kapila, P. Deymeir, S. Raghavan, "Effect of Long-Range and Steric Hydorophilic Interactions on Micellization of Surfactant Solutions: A Monte Carlo Study in 2-D", Langmuir, Vol 18, No. 9, pp. 3728-3736 (2002).
• S. Tamilmani, W. Huang, S. Raghavan and R. Small, "Pourbaix Diagrams of Interest to Copper CMP", J. Electrochem. Soc., 149, 12, G638-G642 (2002).
• A.M. Almaza-Workman, S. Raghavan, S. Petrovic, B. Gogoi, P. Deymier, D. Monk and R. Roop, "Characterization of Highly Hydrophobic Coatings Deposited onto Pre-oxidized Silicon from Water Dispersible Organosilanes", Thin Solid Films, 423(1), 77-87(2003).
• W. Huang, S. Tamilmani, S. Raghavan, R. Small, "Dissolution of Copper Thin Films in Hydroxylamine-based Solutions", International Journal of Mineral Processing, 72, pp. 365-372 (2003).
• A.M. Almanza-Workman, S. Raghavan, P. Deymier, D.J. Monk and R. Roop, "Aqueous Silane-surfactant co-dispersions for Deposition of Hydrophobic Coatings onto Pre-oxidized Polysilicon", Colloids and Surfaces A, Physiochem. Eng. Aspects, 232, pp. 67-75 (2004).
• V. Kapila, A.M. Almanza-Workman, P. Deymier, S. Raghavan, "Two-dimensional Monte Carlo Simulations of Ionic and Non-ionic Silane Self Assembly on Hydrophilic Surfaces", J. Chemical Physics, 120, 19,pp. 1-9 (2004).
• Y. Yang, B.H. Constance, P.A. Deymier, J. Hoying, S. Raghavan, B.J. Zelinski, "Electroless metal plating of microtubules: Effect of microtubule-associated proteins", J. Materials Science, 39, pp. 1927-1933 (2004).
• V. Lowalekar and S. Raghavan, "Etching of Zirconium Oxide, Hafnium Oxide and Hafnium Silicates in Dilute Hydrofluoric Acid Solutions", J. Materials Research, 19, 4, pp. 1149-1156 (2004).