D. Litvinov and S. Khizroev, "Next Generation Magnetic Nanotransducers," Nano-Vivo Summit, Houston, Texas, July 2003.

D. Litvinov and S. Khizroev, "Nanotechnology Applications in Magnetic Data Storage," to be presented at 10th International Conference on Composite Engineering New Orleans, Louisiana, July 2003.

S. Khizroev and D. Litvinov, "The Role of Focused Ion Beam in Nanoscale Magnetic Recording,"2003 NNUN Japan-US Symposium, Tools and Metrology for Nanotechnology, Ithaca, New York, January 2003.

D. Litvinov and S. Khizroev, "Fundamental Challenges Facing Perpendicular Recording at Nanoscale Dimensions," presented at the 47^th Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Tampa, Florida, October 2002.

D. Litvinov and S. Khizroev, "Magnetic Recording: Prospects and Retrospect," presented at the invited panel discussion "10 Year Retrospective and 10 Year Prospective" at the 10^th NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Conference on Mass Data Storage Systems and Technologies, College Park, Maryland, April 2002.

D. Litvinov and S. Khizroev, "Perpendicular Recording: A Future Technology or a Temporary Solution," tutorial presented at the 10^th NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Conference on Mass Data Storage Systems and Technologies, College Park, Maryland, April 2002.

D. Litvinov, J. Wolfson, J. Bain. M.H. Kryder, R.W. Gustafson, and S. Khizroev, "The Role of the Gap in Single Pole Heads in Perpendicular Recording," presented at 1^st North American Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference, Miami, Florida, January 2002.

J. Wu, L. Holloway, H. Laidler, K.O’Grady, S. Khizroev, J.K. Howard, R.W. Gustafson, and D. Litvinov, "Magnetic Characterisation of Perpendicular Recording Media, presented at 1^st North American Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference, Miami, Florida, January 2002.

J.T. Wolfson, J.A. Bain, S. Khizroev, and D. Litvinov, "Dynamic Kerr Imaging of Soft Underlayer for perpendicular Recording Applications," presented at MMM Seattle, Washington, November 2001.

D. Litvinov and S. Khizroev, "Soft Underlayers", presented at the Lake Arrowhead Conference, December 2000.

R. Clarke and D. Litvinov, "Energetics of Cubic Boron Nitride Deposition," 45th International Symposium of American Vacuum Society: "Vacuum, Thin Films, Surfaces/Interfaces & Processing," Baltimore, Maryland, November 1998.

D. Litvinov, J. Wolfson, J.Bain, and S. Khizroev, "Recording Layer Influence on the Dynamics of a Soft Underlayer," INTERMAG in Amsterdam, Netherlands in April 2002.

D. Litvinov and S. Khizroev, "Multiple Magnetic Image Reflection in Perpendicular Recording," INTERMAG in Amsterdam, Netherlands in April 2002.

D. Litvinov, M.H. Kryder, A. Lyberatos, and S. Khizroev, "Physics of Perpendicular Recording: Effects of Magnetic Charge Distribution," INTERMAG in Amsterdam, Netherlands in April 2002.

A. Lyberatos, D. Litvinov, and S. Khizroev, "Ultra-fast switching of perpendicular media," INTERMAG in Amsterdam, Netherlands in April 2002.

E. Svedberg, D. Litvinov, and S. Khizroev, "Magnetic Force Microscopy Study of the Thermal Stability of Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Media," INTERMAG in Amsterdam, Netherlands in April 2002.

S. Khizroev and D. Litvinov, "Parallels between Playback in Perpendicular and Longitudinal Recording," INTERMAG in Amsterdam, Netherlands in April 2002.

D. Litvinov, J. Wolfson, J. Bain. M.H. Kryder, R.W. Gustafson, and S. Khizroev, "Narrow Gap in Single Pole Heads in Perpendicular Recording," INTERMAG in Amsterdam, Netherlands in April 2002.

A. Lavrenov, D. Litvinov, and S. Khizroev, "Study of the Pinning Nature in High-Temperature Superconductors via Direct Sensing of Individual Magnetic Vortices," MMM 2001 in Seattle, Washington in November 2001.

S. Khizroev, A. Lyberatos, and D. Litvinov, "Effects of Charge Distribution in a Perpendicular Medium," MMM in Seattle, Washington in November 2001.

D. Litvinov and S. Khizroev, "Recording Physics of Perpendicular Media," Joint INTERMAG/MMM conference in San Antonio, Texas in January 2001.

T. Klemmer, K. Howard, S. Khizroev, D. Litvinov, A. Roy, and D. Laughlin, "Seed Layer Effect on the Microstructure and Magnetic Properties of Co/Pd Multilayers," Joint Intermag/MMM conference in San Antonio, Texas in January 2001.

E. Svedberg, S. Khizroev, D. Litvinov, "Magnetic Force Microscopy Study of Perpendicular Media," Joint Intermag/MMM conference in San Antonio, Texas in January 2001.

J. Wolfson, J.A. Bain, R. White, R. Chantrell, E. Svedberg, D. Litvinov, S. Khizroev, "Dynamics of Perpendicular Recording," Joint Intermag/MMM conference in San Antonio, Texas in January 2001.

A. Lyberatos, S. Khizroev, and D. Litvinov, "High speed coherent switching of magnetic recording media," Joint Intermag/MMM conference in San Antonio, Texas in January 2001.

B. Lu, T. Klemmer, S. Khizroev, K. Howard, and D. Litvinov, "CoCrPtTa/Ti perpendicular media deposited at high sputtering rate," Joint Intermag/MMM conference in San Antonio, Texas in January 2001.

R. Clarke, A. Inspektor, D. Litvinov, D. Barlett, and C.A. Taylor, "Thick Ultra-Hard Coatings Based on Cubic Boron Nitride," International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, San Diego, California, April-May 2001.

S. Khizroev and D. Litvinov, "Perpendicular Recording at 100Gbit/in^2 density," presented at Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference in Japan in October 2000.

S. Khizroev, Y.-K. Liu, K. Mountfield, and D. Litvinov, "Dynamics studies of a perpendicular recording system," INTERMAG, Toronto, Canada, April 2000.

H. Gong, D. Litvinov, T.J. Klemmer, D.N. Lambeth, and J.K. Howard, "Seed layer effects on the magnetoresistive properties of NiFe films," INTERMAG, Toronto, Canada, April 2000.

D. Litvinov, L. Abelmann, K. Ramstock, and S. Khizroev, "Micromagnetics of a soft underlayer," INTERMAG, Toronto, Canada, April 2000

D. Litvinov, J.K. Howard, S. K. Khizroev, H. Gong, and D. Lambeth, "RHEED Based Texture Characterization and Control: Magnetic Thin Films for Perpendicular Media," International Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, San Diego, CA, October 1999.

A.Lukaszew, Y. Sheng, D. Litvinov, C. Uher, and R. Clarke, L. Pust, "Patterned Spin-Tunneling Structures," American Physical Society Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1999.

L. Abelmann, S.K. Khizroev, D. Litvinov, J. Zhu, M. H. Kryder, K. Ramstock, C. Lodder, "Micromagnetic Simulations of Ultra-Small Single Pole Perpendicular Heads," International Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference, San Diego, CA, October 1999.

R. A. Lukaszew , Y. Sheng, D. Litvinov, Y. Wang, L. Pust, C. Uher and R. Clarke, "Patterned Co-BN-Co Spin Tunneling Structures," Material Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA 1999.

D. Litvinov, T. O'Donnell, and R. Clarke, "Thin Film Texture determination from RHEED," Material Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 1998.

D. Litvinov, R. Clarke, C.A. Taylor, and D. Barlett, "Real-time Strain Monitoring in Thin Film Growth: Cubic Boron Nitride," Material Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 1998.

D. Litvinov, R. Clarke, C.A. Taylor II, and D. Barlett, "Real-time Strain Monitoring in Thin Film Growth: Cubic Boron Nitride on Si (100)," Fourth International Workshop on Expert Evaluation and Control of Compound Semiconductor Materials and Technologies, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, June 1998.

D. Litvinov and R. Clarke, "Epitaxial Growth of Boron Nitride," Meeting of the American Physical Society, Los Angeles, CA, March 1998.

L. Pust, L.E. Wenger, R.A. Lukaszew, R. Clarke, D. Litvinov, Y. Sheng, C. Uher, and Y. Wang, "Temperature Dependence of the Magnetization Reversal in Co-BN-Co Structures," 43rd Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Miami, Florida, November 1998.

G.R. Williams, D. Litvinov, R. Clarke, and S.C. Rand, "Quantum Interference and Bandedge Emission in Boron Nitride Thin Films," Joint Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and International Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/IQEC), San Francisco, California, May 1998.

D. Litvinov and R. Clarke, "Preparation of Pure Phase Semiconducting Cubic Boron Nitride," Material Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 1997.

D. Litvinov and R. Clarke, "Doping and Transport Properties of Semiconducting Cubic Boron Nitride," 8th European Conference on Diamond, Diamond-like and Related Materials, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 1997.

D. Litvinov, R. Clarke, and C.A. Taylor II, "Growth of Semiconducting Cubic Boron Nitride," 8th European Conference on Diamond, Diamond-like and Related Materials, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 1997.

D. Litvinov, P. Encarnacion, G. Williams, and R. Clarke, "Semiconducting Cubic Boron Nitride Films," Meeting of the American Physical Society, Kansas City, MO, March 1997.

D. Litvinov and R. Clarke, "Self-Compliant Growth of Semiconducting Cubic Boron Nitride," 16th North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Ann Arbor, MI, October 1997.

D. Litvinov, P. Encarnacion, and G. Williams, and R. Clarke "Controlling Strain in Cubic Boron Nitride Films," Fourth Wide Bandgap and Nitride Workshop, St. Louis, MO, March 1997.

G. Williams, P. Encarnacion, D. Litvinov, S. Rand, and R. Clarke, "Cathodoluminesence Studies of Cubic Boron Nitride Films," Meeting of the American Physical Society, Kansas City, MO, March 1997.

A.Lukaszew, D. Litvinov, Y. Sheng, C. Uher, and R. Clarke, "Magnetic Multilayers MBE grown on Si (100)," The 3^rd Workshop in Magnetic Sensor Materials, East Lansing, MI, November 1997.