Materials and Physical Properties of High-K Oxide Films.- Device Principles of High-K Dielectrics.- Thermodynamics of Oxide Systems Relevant to Alternative Gate Dielectrics.- Electronic Structure and Chemical Bonding in High-k Transition Metal and Lanthanide Series Rare Earth Alternative Gate Dielectrics: Applications to Direct Tunneling and Defects at Dielectric Interfaces.- Atomic Structure, Interfaces and Defects of High Dielectric Constant Gate Oxides.- Dielectric Properties of Simple and Complex Oxides from First Principles.- IVb Transition Metal Oxides and Silicates: An Ab Initio Study.- The Interface Phase and Dielectric Physics for Crystalline Oxides on Semiconductors.- Interfacial Properties of Epitaxial Oxide/Semiconductor Systems.- Functional Structures.- Mechanistic Studies of Dielectric Growth on Silicon.- Methodology for Development of High-? Stacked Gate Dielectrics on III–V Semiconductors.