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Vernon E. Yost

Senior Research Technician
On staff since: 2008

Phone number: 303-384-6657
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Primary Research Interests

  • Surface chemistry, morphology, catalysis, and kinetics
  • Film crystal silicon photovoltaics
  • Surface characterization including UV-vis reflectance spectrometry, piezoelectric and interferometric profilometry
  • Analytical chemistry of semiconductor precursors

Other Affiliations

  • American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemists
  • American Society of Enologists & Viticulturists

Education

  • M.S in Organo-Metallic Chemistry, University of Colorado at Denver (1988)
  • B.S. in Chemistry, University of Colorado at Denver (1981)

Hobbies and Other Interests

  • Music: instrumental and vocal
  • Flying, skiing, fishing, and camping

Selected Publications

Damrauer, R.; Danahey, S.E.; Yost, V.E.; "Fluoride Ion Induced Rearrangements of Chloromethyl-Substituted Silanes: Carbanionic Character of Groups Undergoing Migration," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 106, pp.7633-7634, 1984.

Damrauer, R; Yost, V.E.; Danahey, S.E.; O'Connell, B.K.; "Fluoride Ion Induced Rearrangements of Chloromethyl-Substituted Silanes," Organometallics 4, pp. 1779-1784, 1985.

Yost, V.E.; Master's Thesis, University of Colorado at Denver, "Solution and Gas Phase Rearrangements of Chloromethylsilanes," 1988.

Streusand, B.J.; Yost, V.E.; Govorchin, S.; Fry, R.C.; Padula, F.J.; Hughes, S.K.; "Characterization of Molecular and Elemental Impurities in Tungsten Hexafluoride". Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. VLSI 5, 251-255, 1990.

Ghatpande, A.S.; Yost, V.E.; Karpen, J.W.; "Towards the design and synthesis of a specific and high-affinity blocker of cyclic nucleotide-gated channels," J. Gen. Physiol. 116, 10a, 2000.

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