Session P1: Buckley Prize, Bouchet Award, and Apker Award Talks

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago
LACC - 152


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:51AM

P1.00001: Quantum spin dynamics and coherence in solids
Invited Speaker: Gabriel Aeppli

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:27PM

P1.00002: Spintronics: Semiconductors, Molecules, and Quantum Information Processing
Invited Speaker: David D. Awschalom

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 1:03PM

P1.00003: Quantum Tunneling of the Magnetization in Molecular Nanomagnets
Invited Speaker: Myriam P. Sarachik

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:39PM

P1.00004: Single-Electron Transport and Device Applications
Invited Speaker: Godfrey Gumbs

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 2:15PM

P1.00005: Asymmetry in RNA Pseudoknots
Invited Speaker: Nathan Hodas

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Session P2: New Techniques for Biological Structure Determination

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Janos Kirz, SUNY Stony Brook
LACC - 151


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:51AM

P2.00001: Organic-inorganic templates in biomineralization of shells, bone, teeth, and bacterial biofilms
Invited Speaker: Gelsomina "pupa" De Stasio

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:27PM

P2.00002: X-Ray Tomography Generates 3-D Reconstructions of the
Invited Speaker: Carolyn Larabell

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 1:03PM

P2.00003: Biological x-ray microscopy: from biochemical mapping to lensless imaging
Invited Speaker: Chris Jacobsen

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:39PM

P2.00004: 3D Diffraction Microscope Provides a First Deep View
Invited Speaker: Jianwei Miao

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 2:15PM

P2.00005: In Vivo Microtesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Invited Speaker: Michael M\"o{\ss}le

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Session P3: Physics and Sustainable Development

Sponsoring Units: APS FIP
Chair: Judy Franz, APS
LACC - 515B


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:51AM

P3.00001: Doing Physics With Third World Collaborators
Invited Speaker: Steven T. Manson

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:27PM

P3.00002: Energy and the Environment in the 21st Century
Invited Speaker: Daniel Kammen

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 1:03PM

P3.00003: Exploring Ways to Promote and Sustain Physics Education in the Non-Industrial Countries
Invited Speaker: Priscilla Laws

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:39PM

P3.00004: Physics and Health in the Developing Countries
Invited Speaker: Perry Sprawls

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 2:15PM

P3.00005: Panel Discussion
Invited Speaker:

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Session P4: Structure in Solutions and Melts

Sponsoring Units: DPOLY
Chair: Zhen-Gang Wang, California Institute of Technology
LACC - 515A


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:51AM

P4.00001: Self-Assembled Liquid Crystalline Gels Designed from the Bottom Up
Invited Speaker: Julia Kornfield

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:27PM

P4.00002: Telechelic amphiphilic polymers: assembly in water and at the air/water interface
Invited Speaker: Francoise M. Winnik

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 1:03PM

P4.00003: Network Phases of ABC Triblock Copolymers
Invited Speaker: Travis Bailey

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:39PM

P4.00004: Conformations and Structure in Aqueous Poly(ethylene oxide) Solutions
Invited Speaker: Grant Smith

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 2:15PM

P4.00005: Control of contents and release kinetics in block copolymer vesicles
Invited Speaker: Adi Eisenberg

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Session P5: Nitride-Based Microelectronics

Sponsoring Units: FIAP
Chair: Joanna Mirecki-Millunchick, University of Michigan
LACC - 502B


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:51AM

P5.00001: Toward a Self-Consistent Model of Carbon States, Semi-Insulating Conductivity and Yellow Luminescence in GaN:C Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Invited Speaker: Steven Ringel

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:27PM

P5.00002:
Invited Speaker: Umesh Mishra

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 1:03PM

P5.00003: Dispersion in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs
Invited Speaker: Robert Coffie

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:39PM

P5.00004: III-V Nitride Materials and Electron Devices
Invited Speaker: Lester F. Eastman

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 2:15PM

P5.00005: Nitride semiconductor material growth by rf-MBE for electronic device applications
Invited Speaker: David Storm

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Session P6: Spectroscopy of Novel Magnetic Materials

Sponsoring Units: GMAG DMP
Chair: H. Dennis Drew, University of Maryland
LACC - 502A


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:51AM

P6.00001: Ultrafast Magneto-Optics in Ferromagnetic III-V Semiconductors
Invited Speaker: Junichiro Kono

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:27PM

P6.00002: Electrical spin injection from ferromagnetic metals and semiconductors
Invited Speaker: Berend Jonker

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 1:03PM

P6.00003: Photoemission and magnetic circular dichroism studies of magnetic semiconductors
Invited Speaker: Atsushi Fujimori

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:39PM

P6.00004: Optical Properties of Magnetic Semiconductors
Invited Speaker: Kenneth Burch

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 2:15PM

P6.00005: Ferromagnetic resonance studies of dilute magnetic semiconductors
Invited Speaker: Jacek Furdyna

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Session P7: Oh the Places You'll Go, Career Paths in Physics

Sponsoring Units: FGSA
Chair: Lindley Winslow, University of California-Berkeley
LACC - 408B


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:51AM

P7.00001: A Physicist as President of the University
Invited Speaker: Robert Dynes

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:27PM

P7.00002: Becoming a Physicist at a National Laboratory
Invited Speaker: Elaine Chandler

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 1:03PM

P7.00003: Between Industry and Academia: A Physicist's Experiences at The Aerospace Corporation
Invited Speaker: James Camparo

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:39PM

P7.00004: A Physicist and a Lawyer
Invited Speaker: Christopher Fuglesang

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Session P10: Focus Session: Magnetic Semiconductors: Oxides

Sponsoring Units: DMP GMAG
Chair: Christoph Adelmann, University of Minnesota
LACC - 153B


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P10.00001: Oxygen vacancies and ferromagnetism in Co-doped anatase
John Jaffe , Timothy Droubay , Scott Chambers

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P10.00002: Magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) measurements of cobalt-doped titanium dioxide films
J.R. Simpson , H.D. Drew , S.R. Shinde , S.B. Ogale , T. Venkatesan

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P10.00003: Origin of ferromagnetism in transition metal doped TiO$_2$
Rebecca Janisch , Nicola A. Spaldin

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P10.00004: Structure and magnetic properties of Co doped anatase TiO2 particles
Hao Zhu , Lubna Shah , Yuwen Zhao , John Q. Xiao , Mohamed A. Barakat , G. Hayes , Ismat Shah

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P10.00005: Characterization of transition metal doped CVD-grown ZnO films and nanostructures
D. Hill , R.A. Bartynski , L. Wielunski , P. Wu , Y. Lu , V. Poltavets , M. Greenblatt

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P10.00006: Magnetism in transition doped ZnO
Priya Gopal , Nicola Spaldin

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P10.00007: Ferromagnetism in Ti-Doped ZnO Nanoclusters
Jiji Antony , Sweta Pendyala , Amit Sharma , Daniel Meyer , You Qiang

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P10.00008: Carrier Mediated Ferromagnetism above 300 K in ZnO:Mn
Nikoleta Theodoropoulou , Vinith Misra , Jagadeesh Moodera , Biswarup Satpati

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P10.00009: Metastable defect ferromagnetic phases by low temperature interface reactions between transition metal oxides
Darshan C. Kundaliya , S.B. Ogale , S.R. Shinde , M.S.R. Rao , T. Venkatesan , S.E. Lofland

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P10.00010: Paramagnetic properties of Mn$^{2+}$ in Mn-added ZnO$
S. H. Choh , I.-W. Park , Y. M. Kim , C. H. Son , J. H. Lyou , Y. J. Park , U. Chon

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P10.00011: Magnetic studies of ion-implanted p-GaN,\\Al$_{0.35}$Ga$_{0.65}$N, and ZnO with tran\-sition metals
Jeremy Raley , Yung Kee Yeo , Mee-Yi Ryu , Robert Hengehold , Todd Steiner , Pan Wu , Yicheng Lu

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P10.00012: Preparation and Magnetic Properties of Transition-metal-doped SnO$_2$
Jun Zhang , Xingzhong Li , David Sellmyer , Kiran Mendu , Jing Shi , Yongfeng Lu

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P10.00013: Variable range hopping behavior in the magnetic semiconductor SnO$_2$:Co
P.A. Stampe , R.J. Kennedy , Yan Xin , E. Hu , Peng Xiong , S. von Moln\'{a}r

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:51PM - 2:03PM

P10.00014: Intrinsic Defect Ferromagnetism: The case of Hafnium Oxide
Chaitanya Das Pemmaraju , Stefano Sanvito

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P10.00015: Electric Field Modulation of Ferromagnetism in Diluted Magnetic Insulating Co:TiO$_2$
T. Zhao , S.R. Shinde , S.B. Ogale , H. Zheng , T. Venkatesan , S. Das Sarma , J. Misewich , R. Ramesh

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Session P12: Superconducting Materials

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Myron Salamon, University of Illinois
LACC - 402A


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P12.00001: Structure and Physical Properties of Hydrated Sodium Cobalt
Goran Gasparovic , R.A. Ott , B. Khaykovich , F.C. Chou , E.T. Abel , J.W. Lynn , S.E. Nagler , J.P. Hill , K.J. Thomas , Y.S. Lee

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P12.00002: Revised superconducting phase diagram of hole doped Na$_{x}$CoO$_{2}\cdot y$H$_{2}$O
C.J. Milne , D.N. Argyriou , A. Chemseddine , N. Aliouane , J. Veira , S. Landsgesell , D. Alber

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P12.00003: Evidence of two-gap superconductivity in Na$_{0.35}$CoO$_2\cdot$1.3H$_2$O
H. Q. Yuan , M. B. Salamon , D. Vandervelde , P. Badica , K. Togano , K. Yamada

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P12.00004: High Pressure Structure of Na$_{0.75}$CoO$_2$
Ravhi Kumar , Andrew Cornelius , Malcolm Nicol , D Prabhakaran , Andrew Boothroyd , Maddury Somayazulu

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P12.00005: Pulsed Laser Deposition of Na$_x$CoO$_2$ Thin Films
Weidong Si , Sangmoon Park

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P12.00006: Effects of Disorder on the Normal State of Pr$_{2-x}$Ce$_{x}$CuO$_{4-\delta}$
J.S. Higgins , Y. Dagan , M.C. Barr , R.L. Greene , B.D. Weaver

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P12.00007: Superstructural lattice distortion within electron doped superconductor Pr$_{0.88}$LaCe$_{0.12}$CuO$_{4}$
Branton J. Campbell , Stephan Rosenkranz , Peter J. Chupas , Hye Jung Kang , Pengcheng Dai , Yasuaki Kurita , Seiki Komiya , Yoichi Ando

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P12.00008: The effect of annealing to the transport and magnetic properties of electron-doped Pr$_{0.88}$LaCe$_{0.12}$CuO$_{4}$
Shiliang Li , Stephen Wilson , Songxue Chi , Pengcheng Dai , Seiki Komiya , Yoichi Ando

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P12.00009: Thin Film Growth via Pulsed Laser Deposition and Characterization of the Electron-Doped Superconductor Sm$_{2-x}$Ce$_x$CuO$_{4-y}$
D. J. Scanderbeg , B. J. Taylor , Y. Kim , M. B. Maple

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P12.00010: Origin of superconducting carriers in ``non-doped'' T$^{\prime}$-(La, RE)$_{2}$CuO$_{4}$ (RE = Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Lu, and Y)
Hideki Yamamoto , Akio Tsukada , Masumi Noda , Michio Naito

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P12.00011: Electric-field-induced modulation of the magnetic penetration depth of superconducting La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_{4}$ ultrathin films
A. Ruefenacht , P. Martinoli , J. Fompeyrine , D. Caimi , J.-P. Locquet

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P12.00012: Experimental observation of magic doping fractions and two-dimensional charge ordering in La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$
Seiki Komiya , H.-D. Chen , S.-C. Zhang , Yoichi Ando

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P12.00013: Synthesis and Charateriztion of BSCCO System Doped with Ru, Nb and Ho
Fouzi Arammash , Brett McCarty , Ruslan Prozorov

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:51PM - 2:03PM

P12.00014: Growth and characterization of large HgBa$_{2}$CuO$_{4+\delta}$ single crystals
Guichuan Yu , Xudong Zhao , Li Lu , Guillaume Chabot-Couture , Martin Greven

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
2:03PM - 2:15PM

P12.00015: Growth and superconductivity of single crystals La$_{1.875}$Ba$_{0.125}$CuO$_4$
Genda Gu , Guangyong Xu , J. Tranquada , Q. Li , A. Moodenbaugh , H. Goka , K. Yamada

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Session P13: Superconducting Thin Films and Transport

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Paola Barbara, Georgetown University
LACC - 402B


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P13.00001: Electrical properties of epitaxial junctions between Nb:SrTiO$_{3}$ and optimally doped, underdoped and Zn-doped YBa$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{7-\delta }$
Wegdan Ramadan , S.B. Ogale , S. Dhar , S.R. Shinde , M.S.R Rao , T. Venkatesan

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P13.00002: Ce doping in T-La2CuO4 films: Broken electron-hole symmetry in high-Tc superconductivity
Akio Tsukada , Hideki Yamamoto , Michio Naito

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P13.00003: Magnetic impurity doping effect of Bi2201 superconducting thin films
Xiaofang Zhai , Maitri Warusawithana , James Eckstein

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P13.00004: Complex Conductance Measurements of Ultra-thin MoGe films near the Superconductor-Insulator Transition
Lukas Urban , Michael Callahan , Ali Yazdani

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P13.00005: Crossover from 2D-XY to 3D-XY superconducting fluctuations with hole-doping in dynamical conductivity of La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$ thin films by broadnband technique
A. Maeda , H. Kitano , T. Ohashi , I. Tsukada

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P13.00006: Vortices and the superconductor-insulator transition
D. Shahar , G. Sambandamurthy , A. Johansson , E. Peled , P.G. Bjornsson , K.A. Moler

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P13.00007: Fractional-exponent behavior of magnetization near $T_c$ in $\rm Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8$}
Lu Li , Yayu Wang , M.J. Naughton , S. Ono , Y. Ando , N.P. Ong

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P13.00008: Normal-Superconducting Phase Transition Obscured by Current Noise
M. C. Sullivan , S. Li , H. Xu , M. Lilly , C. J. Lobb

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P13.00009: Phase Transition from a Spin-Glass Metal to Superconductor in La2-xSrxCuO4 (x<0.05) Single Crystalline Films by Epitaxial Strain
ATM Nazmul Islam , Satoshi Watauchi , Isao Tanaka

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P13.00010: Critical currents of $ex-situ$ YBCO thin films on ``RABiTS'' substrates: thickness, field and temperature dependencies
A.O. Ijaduola , J.R. Thompson , R. Feenstra , D. K. Christen , A. A. Gapud

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P13.00011: Current Percolation Characteristics of IBAD Coated Conductors
G. You , K.R. Barraca , L.B. Wang , C. Kwon

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P13.00012: Reversible and irreversible magnetostriction of untwinned YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.999}$ single crystals
C. Meingast , P. Popovich , R. Lortz , S. Tajima , T. Masui

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P13.00013: Superconductors in a Strong Low-Frequency ac Electric Field
R. Tao

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:51PM - 2:03PM

P13.00014: Tuning the Insulator-Superconductor Transition in Ultrathin Films By Use of the Electric-Field Effect
Kevin A. Parendo , K. H. Sarwa B. Tan , Allen M. Goldman

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Session P14: Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage I: Media

Sponsoring Units: FIAP
Chair: Frederick E. Pinkerton, GM Research and Development Center
LACC - 403B


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:51AM

P14.00001: A Variety of Metal-N-H System for Hydrogen Storage
Invited Speaker: Ping Chen

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P14.00002: Glassy materials as a hydrogen storage medium
Seung-Hoon Jhi , Young-Kyun Kwon

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P14.00003: Enhanced hydrogen affinity in single-walled carbon nanotubes relative to activated carbons
M.K. Haas , A.C. Cooper , C.G. Coe , J.M. Zielinski , G.P. Pez

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P14.00004: New Reversible Complex Metal Hydrides
J. Graetz , J.J. Reilly , Y. Lee , T. Vogt

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P14.00005: Hydrogen storage in BN cage
Puru Jena , Qiang Sun , Qian Wang

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P14.00006: Effect of Mg Doping in NaAlH$_4$
Rajeev Ahuja , Sa Li , C. Moyses Araujo , Puru Jena

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P14.00007: Cohesion of Mg$_2$FeH$_6$ and Related Complex Hydrides
David Singh , Samed Halilov , R. Gupta , M. Gupta

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P14.00008: New Quaternary Hydride Li$_{3}$BN$_{2}$H$_{8}$ with $>$10 wt{\%} Hydrogen: I. Material Synthesis and Structural Characterization
Gregory P. Meisner , Frederick E. Pinkerton , Martin S. Meyer , Michael P. Balogh , Matthew Kundrat

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P14.00009: New Quaternary Hydride Li$_{3}$BN$_{2}$H$_{8}$ with $>$10 wt{\%} Hydrogen: II. Hydrogen Desorption Measurements
Frederick E. Pinkerton , Gregory P. Meisner , Martin S. Meyer , Michael P. Balogh , Matthew Kundrat

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P14.00010: Towards 9 weight percent, reversible, room temperature hydrogen adsorbents: Hydrogen saturated organometallic bucky balls
Yufeng Zhao , Yong-Hyun Kim , A. C. Dillon , M.J. Heben , S. B. Zhang

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Session P15: Focus Session: Relaxation and Phonons in Nanostructures

Sponsoring Units: FIAP
Chair: Fran Wise, Cornell University
LACC - 405


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P15.00001: Properties of the LO-Phonon in GaN Nanocrystallites
Leah Bergman , Andrew P. Purdy

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P15.00002: Intraband carrier relaxation in semiconductor quantum rods: Competition between phonon-assisted cooling and Auger heating
Marc Achermann , Andrew P. Bartko , Jennifer A. Hollingsworth , Victor I. Klimov

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P15.00003: Confined optical phonons in PbSe quantum dots
Byung-Ryool Hyun , Jonathan Wrubel , Nick Agladze , Albert Sievers , Kyung-Sang Cho , Chris Murray , Frank Wise

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:27PM

P15.00004: Effects of Band Structure on the Electronic and Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Lead Selenide vs. Cadmium Selenide
Invited Speaker: Richard Schaller

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P15.00005: Investigation of the Phonon Frequency Shifts in ZnO Quantum Dots
Khan A. Alim , Vladimir A. Fonoberov , Alexander A. Balandin

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P15.00006: Ultrafast flipping of exciton spin orientation in colloidal CdSe quantum dots
Gregory Scholes , Vanessa Huxter , Vitalij Kovalevskij

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P15.00007: Ultrafast carrier dynamics and carrier localization in thermally annealed Si nanoclusters
D.G. Cooke , A. Hryciw , A.N. MacDonald , A. Meldrum , F.A. Hegmann

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P15.00008: A Model for the Powerlaw Behavior of Blinking Dynamics of Single Quantum Dots
Sunney Xie , Peng Chen , John Krug , Kang Taek Lee

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Session P16: Focus Session: Optical Resonances and Techniques in Nano-Optics

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Henri Lezec, CNRS & Caltech
LACC - 404A


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:51AM

P16.00001: Cavity cooling of a microlever
Invited Speaker: Khaled Karrai and Constanze H\"ohberger-Metzger

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P16.00002: Optical forces at Morphology Dependent Resonance
Tsz-Fai (Jack) Ng , Zhifang Lin , Che-Ting Chan

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P16.00003: Single Metal Nanoparticle Optical Interference
Sang-Kee Eah , Heinrich M. Jaeger , Norbert F. Scherer , Gary P. Wiederrecht , Xiao-Min Lin

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P16.00004: A Simple Route to Tunable Ordered Arrays of Quantum Dots
Jessica Pacifico , Daniel Gomez , Paul Mulvaney

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P16.00005: Optical Studies of a Nanoporous Array in Silicon
L. Tian , I. Ahmad , K. Bhargava Ram , L. Menon , M. Holtz

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P16.00006: Numerical Aperture Increasing Lens Assisted Microscopy and Spectroscopy
Anthony N. Vamivakas , Mesut G. Eraslan , M. Selim Unlu , Bennett B. Goldberg

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P16.00007: Nano-patterning Using an Embedded Particle Monolayer as an Etch Mask
Tsutomu Nakanishi , Toshiro Hiraoka , Akira Fujimoto , Koji Asakawa

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P16.00008: Higher external efficiency of LEDs having nano-structured surface fabricated by self-assembled block-copolymer
Akira Fujimoto , Koji Asakawa

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P16.00009: Ultra-small Ni/NiOx/Ni tunnel junctions for terrahertz and ir applications
R.B. Laibowitz , P. Hobbs , F. Libsch , R. Koch , J. Kirtley , G. Keefe , J. Chey

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P16.00010: An alternative mechanism for surface enhanced spectroscopy: second harmonic surface plasmon resonance
Hsia Yu Lin , Yang Fang Chen

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Session P17: Focus Session: Materials and Device Physics for Quantum Computing II

Sponsoring Units: DMP DCMP
Chair: John Worlock, University of Utah
LACC - 404B


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:51AM

P17.00001: Controlling Spin and Charge in Quantum Dots and Nanotubes
Invited Speaker: Charles Marcus

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P17.00002: Transport and charge detection spectroscopy of few electron quantum dot molecular states.
Andrew Sachrajda , Michel Pioro-Ladriere , Pawel Hawrylak , Ramin Abolfath , Piotr Zawadzki , Jean Lapointe , Sergei Studenikin

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P17.00003: Fermionic Bell state analyzer for spin qubits
Hans-Andreas Engel , Daniel Loss

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P17.00004: Pulsed-gate measurements of the singlet-triplet relaxation time in a two-electron double quantum dot
J. R. Petta , A. C. Johnson , A. Yacoby , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P17.00005: Enhancement Single Electron Transistor for Quantum Computing
B. Hu , G. M. Jones , A. S. Mampahzy , C. H. Yang , M. J. Yang , Y. B. Lyanda-Geller

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P17.00006: Anisotropic exchange interactions between electron spins in coupled semiconductor quantum dots
\c{S}.C. B\u{a}descu , T.L. Reinecke , Y. Lyanda-Geller

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P17.00007: CCD-like Architecture for Quantum Computing on Liquid Helium
Guillaume Sabouret , Stephen Lyon

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P17.00008: Imaging Coherent Electron Flow in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas with a Perpendicular Magnetic Field
K.E. Aidala , A.C. Bleszynski , R.M. Westervelt , M.P. Hanson , A.C. Gossard

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P17.00009: Imaging Electrons in Few-Electron Quantum Dots
P. Fallahi , A.C. Bleszynski , R.M. Westervelt , E.J. Heller , M. Hanson , A.C. Gossard

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P17.00010: Local Gating of Nanostructures with a Low-Temperature Scanned Probe Microscope
M. Jura , M.A. Topinka , L.S. Moore , D. Goldhaber-Gordon , L. Urban , A. Yazdani , L.N. Pfeiffer , K.W. West

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P17.00011: Spin Qubit Quantum Computing with RKKY interaction
Ying Zhang , Sankar Das Sarma

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:51PM - 2:03PM

P17.00012: Spin Exchange Interaction between Localized and Itinerant Carriers
Guy Ramon , Thomas Reinecke , Lu Sham

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Session P18: Surfaces and Point Defects in Semiconductor

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Dr. Tae-Sik Yoon, Dept. MSE, UCLA
LACC - 406A


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P18.00001: Improved Simulation of Charged Defect Profiles in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Images
Geoffrey W. Brown , Marilyn E. Hawley

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P18.00002: Dimer and NEB studies on Si $I_{4}$ chain and the ground state $I_{4}$
Yaojun Du , John Wilkins

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P18.00003: Energy Scaling and Surface Patterning of Halogen-Terminated Si(001) Surfaces
Duane D. Johnson , Nikolai Zarkevich

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P18.00004: Diffusion Monte Carlo Formation Energies of Silicon Self-Interstitial Defects
Kevin P. Driver , William D. Parker , Phillip R. Peterson , Richard G. Hennig , John W. Wilkins , Cyrus J. Umrigar

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P18.00005: Interactions between native point defects in ZnGeP$_2$.
Xiaoshu Jiang , M. S. Miao , Walter R. L. Lambrecht

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P18.00006: Hartree-Fock Cluster Investigation of Locations for Erbium in Silicon
Junho Jeong , R.H. Scheicher , N. Sahoo , M.B. Huang , T.P. Das , Lee Chow , S. Byahut , D.R. Mishra , M.M. Aryal , N.B. Maharjan , D.D. Paudyal

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P18.00007: A LSDA+U Study on Bulk CuO: Electronic Structures and Native Defects
Dangxin Wu , Qiming Zhang , Longcheng Wang , Meng Tao

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P18.00008: Does the zinc vacancy in ZnGeP$_2$ exhibit a Jahn-Teller distortion?
Walter R.L. Lambrecht , Xiaoshu Jiang , M.S. Miao , Sukit Limpijumnong

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P18.00009: Study of the stability of Se passivation layers on Si(001) surfaces using time-of-flight positron annihilation induced Auger electron spectroscopy
J. Zhu , Manori Nadesalingam , A. H. Weiss , Meng Tao

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P18.00010: Uniaxial stress study of the ro-vibrational transitions of HD in Si
G. A. Shi , M. Stavola , W. B. Fowler , E. E. Chen

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P18.00011: B couples formation and dissolution in ion implanted Si.
Emanuele Rimini , Lucia Romano , Alberto Piro , Maria Grazia Grimaldi

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P18.00012: Scanning Probe Study of Donor Layer Charging in a Gallium Arsenide Heterostructure
Irma Kuljanishvili , Stuart Tessmer , Loren Pfeiffer , K.W. West

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P18.00013: Si as an acceptor in (110) GaAs for high mobility p-type heterostructures
F. Fischer , M. Grayson , D. Schuh , M. Bichler , G. Abstreiter , K. Neumaier

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Session P19: Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanostructures II

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Giti Khodaparast, Virginia Tech
LACC - 406B


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P19.00001: Dynamics of the Inter-Landau-Level Magnetoplasmon Coherence in a Quantum Hall system
Keshav Dani , Jerome Tignon , Michael Breit , Daniel Chemla , Eleftheria Kavousanaki , Ilias Perakis

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P19.00002: Infrared spectroscopy of 2D electron gas in high magnetic field: a case study of graphite
Zhiqiang Li , Willie Padilla , Sasa Dordevic , Pablo Esquinazi , C.C. Homes , Dimitri Basov

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P19.00003: Observation of Optical Gain in InAs Nanocrystals
Gang Chen , Ronen Rapaport , Dan Fuchs , Sahar Vilan , Assaf Aharoni , Uri Banin

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P19.00004: Cathodoluminescence study of thermal activation of carriers in InAs/GaAs(001) self-assembled quantum dots
D. H. Rich , S. Khatsevich , O. Moshe , E. Kim , A. Madhukar

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P19.00005: Exciton Determination of Strain Parameters in InSb/AlInSb Quantum Wells
T. Kasturiarachchi , X.H. Zhang , F. Brown , N. Dai , R.E. Doezema , N. Goel , S.J. Chung , M.B. Santos

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P19.00006: Carrier Relaxation in Self-Assembled ZnTe/ZnSe Quantum Dots
Der-Jun Jang , Y. C. Yeh , S.K. Lu , C.L. Wu , C.-S. Yang , W.C. Chou , M.E Lee

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P19.00007: Carrier Relaxation in Multi-Stacked InAs/GaAs Quantum Dots
C.L. Wu , D.-J. Jang , S.-K. Lu , C.M. Lai , J.S. Wang , K.Y. Hsei , M.-E. Lee

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P19.00008: Green's Function Monte Carlo Study of Two-Dimensional Quantum Dots
Kenneth Graham , James Anderson , Jainendra Jain

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P19.00009: Study of the Trion Correlations in Quantum Dots with the Tight Binding Method
Gian Franco Sacco , Paul von Allmen

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P19.00010: Exciton Confinement in Traps Formed by a Laterally Modulated Gate Voltage
A.T. Hammack , G.O. Andreev , Sen Yang , N.A. Gippius , L.V. Butov , M. Hanson , A.C. Gossard

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P19.00011: Condensation of microcavity polaritons with a disorder induced distribution of oscillator strengths
Francesca Maria Marchetti , Jonathan Keeling , Marzena H. Szymanska , Peter B. Littlewood

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P19.00012: Polariton Condensation with Localised Excitons and Propagating Photons
Jonathan Keeling , Paul Eastham , Marzena Szymanska , Peter Littlewood

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P19.00013: Condensation of interacting excitons in a microcavity
Anson Cheung , Ben Simons , Peter Littlewood

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:51PM - 2:03PM

P19.00014: Characterization of Macroscopic Ordering in Exciton Rings
Sen Yang , A.T. Hammack , L.V. Butov , L.S. Levitov , B.D. Simons , A.C. Gossard

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
2:03PM - 2:15PM

P19.00015: Spin relaxation of stress-split orthoexcitons in cuprous oxide*
Joon Jang , Jim Wolfe

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P19.00016: Theoretical study of electronic properties of Cu2O and Cu1.5Mn0.5O
Hao Zhu , John Q. Xiao , Liqing Pan , Chongfei Fan

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Session P20: Surface Localized States

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Eric Fullerton, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
LACC - 407


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P20.00001: Chemical Tuning of Metal-Semiconductor Interfaces
Dominic Ricci , Thomas Miller , Tai-Chang Chiang

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P20.00002: Band structure calculations of the surface linear optical response of the clean and hydrogenated Si(100) surface
B. Mendoza , N. Arzate , F. Nastos , J. Sipe

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P20.00003: Effects of one-dimensional multiband electronic structure on indirect interaction between Pb atoms adsorbed on the In(4x1)-Si(111) surface
M. Hupalo , T.-L. Chan , C. Z. Wang , K. M. Ho , M. Tringides

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P20.00004: Unusual Band Dispersion in Pb Films on Si(111)
M.H. Upton , T. Miller , T.-C. Chiang

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P20.00005: Bimodal electronic structure of isolated Co atoms on Pt(111)
Yossi Yayon , Xinghua Lu , Michael Crommie

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P20.00006: Breakup of Quasiparticles in Thin-Film Quantum Wells
S.-J. Tang , L. Basile , T. Miller , T.-C. Chiang

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P20.00007: Correlation between Electron Reflectivity and Quantum Bound States Observed by Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy on Ag Thin Film
Wei-Bin Su , Shin-Ming Lu , Hwa-Te Shu , Chi-Lun Jiang , Chia-Seng Chang , Tien-Tzou Tsong

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P20.00008: Unoccupied Metallic Quantum Well States and CO Adsorption on Ni/Cu(100)
Hua Yao , Anthony Danese , Robert Bartynski

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P20.00009: Electronic Structure and Dynamics of Quantum-Well States in thin Yb-Metal Films
Daniel Wegner , Andreas Bauer , G\"unter Kaindl

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P20.00010: Local potential profile and confined states on the Si(111)- $\sqrt 3$ x $\sqrt 3$-Ag surface by scanning tunneling spectroscopy
Masanori Ono , Y. Nishigata , T. Nishio , T. Eguchi , Y. Hasegawa

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P20.00011: Positron Trapping at Quantum-Dot Like Particles on Metal and Semiconductor Surfaces
N. G. Fazleev , J. L. Fry , A. H. Weiss

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P20.00012: Effect of terrace width on site selectivity of C and S adsorption on stepped Pd surfaces
Faisal Mehmood , Sergey Stolbov , Talat S. Rahman

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P20.00013: On mechanism of influence of alkali adsorbates on the interaction of co-adsorbed molecules with metal surface
Sergey Stolbov , Talat S. Rahman

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:51PM - 2:03PM

P20.00014: Contribution of Vibrational Dynamics to Adatom Diffusion on Metal Surfaces
Handan Yildirim , Sondan Durukanoglu , Abdelkader Kara , Talat S. Rahman

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P20.00015: Computational studies on small silicon clusters deposited on a graphite substrate
Frank Hagelberg , Jianhua Wu

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Session P21: Nanotubes, Nanowire and Nanoparticles in Biology

Sponsoring Units: DBP
Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University
LACC - 409A


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P21.00001: Electrical Detection of ssDNA by Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes
Chih-kuan Tung , Yuexing Zhang , Phuan Ong , Edward Cox , Robert Austin

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P21.00002: Sturdier DNA nanotubes via ligation
Patrick O'Neill

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P21.00003: Interaction between proteins and carbon nanotubes field effect transistors.
Mikhail Briman , Keith Bradley , Alex Star , George Gruner

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P21.00004: Self-Assembled Gold Nanowires from Nanoparticles
Lifeng Zheng , Shengdong Li , J. Brody , Peter Burke

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P21.00005: Accurate and efficient modeling for carbon nanotubes in biological applications
Yan Li , Deyu Lu , Klaus Schulten , Umberto Ravaioli

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P21.00006: Importance of specific magnetic moment and size monodispersity of magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications
You Qiang , Joe Nutting , Jiji Antony , Sweta Pendyala , Amit Sharma , Daniel Meyer

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P21.00007: Incorporation and release of materials into/from nanohorns used as drug delivery systems
Masako Yudasaka , Jing Fan , Jin Miyawaki , Sumio Iijima

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P21.00008: Drug-loaded single-wall carbon nanohorns: adsorption and release of dexamethasone in vitro
Tatsuya Murakami , Kumiko Ajima , Jin Miyawaki , Masako Yudasaka , Sumio Iijima , Kiyotaka Shiba

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P21.00009: Cell Structure Assembly with Magnetic Nanowires
E. J. Felton , A. Hultgren , M. Tanase , D. H. Reich , C. S. Chen

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P21.00010: Imaging of DNA/Nanosphere Condensates
R. Krishnan , T. Jaleel , T. Nordlund

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P21.00011: Theory of Excluded Volume Effects in Tethered Particle Experiments
Darren Segall , Rob Phillips

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Session P23: Focus Session: Biological Hydrodynamics II

Sponsoring Units: DFD DBP GSNP
Chair: Peter Lenz, University of Marburg
LACC - 410


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P23.00001: Self-organization of hydrodynamically entrained sperm cells into an array of vortices
Ingmar Riedel , Karsten Kruse , Jonathon Howard

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P23.00002: Individual and collective dynamics of gyrotactic algae
Sujoy Ganguly , Cristian Solari , John Kessler , Raymond Goldstein

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P23.00003: Tracking the bacterial dynamics in three dimensions
Mingming Wu , John W. Roberts

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P23.00004: A Computational Model of Deformable Cell Rolling in Shear Flow
Charles Eggleton , Sameer Jadhav , Kostantinos Konstantopoulos

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P23.00005: Pressure-driven polymer dynamics in nanofluidic channels
Derek Stein , Wiepke Koopmans , Cees Dekker

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:51PM

P23.00006: Polymer dynamics and fluid flow in actin-based cell motility
Invited Speaker: Julie Theriot

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P23.00007: Formation of 2D ligand-receptor bonds under shear
Nelly Henry , David Pointu , David Leboeuf

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P23.00008: Swimming, Stirring, and Hydrodynamic Scaling in the {\it Volvocales}
Cristian Solari , Sujoy Ganguly , John Kessler , Raymond Goldstein

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P23.00009: The effect of solution conditions on the conformation of clathrin triskelions
Matthew Ferguson , Kondury Prasad , Dan Sackett , Peter Schuck , Hac\`ene Boukari , Eileen Lafer , Ralph Nossal

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P23.00010: Lizard locomotion on weak sand
Daniel Goldman , Wyatt Korff , Homero Lara , Robert Full

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P23.00011: Choice of High-Efficacy Strains for the Annual Influenza Vaccine
Michael Deem

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P23.00012: Hydrodynamic Forcing of Spontaneous Helical Growth
Ariel Balter , Jay Tang

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P23.00013: A Newtonian fluid meets an elastic solid: Simulating fluid flow past compliant walls
Rolf Verberg , Gavin Buxton , David Jasnow , Anna Balazs

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Session P24: Focus Session: Jamming: Rheology and Failure

Sponsoring Units: GSNP
Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University
LACC - 411


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P24.00001: Avalanche behavior in yield stress fluids
Daniel Bonn

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P24.00002: Three Dimensional Observation of Force Chain Formation in Emulsions
Theodore Brzinski , Charlotte Hollinger , Raul Gonzalez , Eric Weeks

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P24.00003: Collision times and stress in gravity driven granular flow
John Drozd , Colin Denniston

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:27PM

P24.00004: Microrheology and the jamming transition in colloidal suspensions
Invited Speaker: Eric R. Weeks

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P24.00005: Stressed out colloids: The effects of gravity on sedimented suspensions
Daniel L. Blair , Jacinta Conrad , Eric R. Dufresne , David A. Weitz

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P24.00006: Yield stresses and stress relaxation in latex dispersions
Suresh Ahuja

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P24.00007: Universal Breakdown of Elasticity at the Onset of Material Failure
Craig Maloney , Ana\"el Lema\^{\i}tre

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P24.00008: Sum rules for the visco-elastic response of disordered solids at zero temperature
Anael Lemaitre , Craig Maloney

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P24.00009: Jamming and dynamics in Confined Quasi-One Dimensional Systems
R.K. Bowles , K.K. Mon , J.K. Percus

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P24.00010: Signatures of dynamical heterogeneities in dense granular flows
Bulbul Chakraborty , Allison Ferguson

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P24.00011: Is a ``homogeneous'' description of dynamic heterogeneities possible?
Grzegorz Szamel

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:51PM - 2:03PM

P24.00012: Heterogeneous Dynamics in Thin Films of Glassy Polymers
Arlette Baljon , Joris Billen , Rajesh Klare

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
2:03PM - 2:15PM

P24.00013: Origins of jamming in the zero-temperature dynamics of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model
Paul Eastham , Richard Blythe , Alan Bray , Mike Moore

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Session P25: Focus Session: Novel and Complex Oxides: Multiferroic and Other

Sponsoring Units: DMP DCMP
Chair: Michelle Johannes, NRL
LACC - 501A


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:51AM

P25.00001: Magnetoelectric Coupling in Multiferroic Materials
Invited Speaker: Claude Ederer

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P25.00002: Orbitally-driven Peierls state in correlated oxides
Daniel Khomskii , Takashi Mizokawa

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P25.00003: Andreev Edge State on Semi-Infinite Triangular Lattice: Detecting the Pairing Symmetry in Na$_{0.35}$CoO$_{2}$.yH$_{2O}$
Tamar Pereg-Barnea , Hsiu-Hau Lin

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P25.00004: Finite Size Effects in Nanocrystals of Magnetoelectric Multiferroic Oxides.
Prasenjit Guptasarma , Shishir Ray , Mark Williamsen , Vaijayanti Palkar

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P25.00005: Far-infrared phonon behavior in the undersconstrained negative thermal expansion system Zr(WO$_4$)$_2$
Zack Schlesinger , Chandra Turpen , Jason Hancock , Glen Kowach , Art Ramirez

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P25.00006: Eleectric Field Gradients and Born Effective Charges of PST
Dandan Mao , Eric Walter , Henry Krakauer

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P25.00007: High-yield growth of semiconducting tungsten oxide nanowires
Christian Klinke , James B. Hannon , Phaedon Avouris

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P25.00008: Synthesis and characterization of MgO and ZnO nanoparticle
Mary Ross , M. Farinelli , S. Chinta , D. Beach , A. Rondinone , John Larese

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P25.00009: Non-integral spin moment and electron correlation effects in magnetite
P. A. Montano , Yinwan Li , B. Barbiellini , P. E. Mijnarends , S. Kaprzyk , Hsin Lin , A. Bansil

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P25.00010: Theoretical studies on strongly correlated systems: bulk and surfaces of magnetite $\text{Fe}_3\text{O}_4$
Henry Pinto , Simon Elliott

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P25.00011: Effect of the electron-phonon coupling on the magnetism in the Nickelatematerials Li$_{x}$Na$_{1-x}$NiO$_{2}$
H. Meskine , S. Satpathy

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:51PM - 2:03PM

P25.00012: Hole dynamics in spin and orbital ordered vanadium perovskites
Sumio Ishihara

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
2:03PM - 2:15PM

P25.00013: P-O and Al-O Bonding in Alumina-Calcia-Monazite Melts Studied by Raman Scattering and Ultra High-temperature NMR
Robert Marzke , Susan Boucher , Jeremy Piwowarczyk , George Wolf

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Session P26: Computational Nanoscience IV

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP DMP
Chair: R. Klemm, Kansas State University
LACC - 501B


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P26.00001: Water at a hydrophilic solid surface probed by ab-initio molecular dynamics: inhomogeneous thin layers of dense fluid.
Giancarlo Cicero , Jeffrey Grossman , Alessandra Catellani , Giulia Galli

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P26.00002: One dimensional growth of styrene on H-Si(001)-(3×1): a Density Functional Theory study.
Noboru Takeuchi , Annabella Selloni

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P26.00003: Surface Reaction of Alkynes and Alkenes with H-Si(111) : A DFT study
Yosuke Kanai , Noboru Takeuchi , Annabella Selloni

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P26.00004: Structure, Bonding, and Dynamics of Alkanethylhiolates on Copper and Gold Clusters and Surfaces
Martin Konopka , Roger Rousseau , Ivan Stich , Dominik Marx

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P26.00005: Strain in Layered Nanocrystals
Youir Bae , Russel Caflisch

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P26.00006: Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Nanostructured Thin Film Growth
X.W. Zhou , D.A. Murdick , J.J. Quan , B. Gillespie , H.N.G. Wadley , R. Drautz , D.G. Pettifor

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P26.00007: Self-Teaching Kinetic Monte-Carlo Scheme For Small Cluster Diffusion on Cu(111)
Petr Vikulov , Oleg Trushin , Victor Naumov , Altaf Karim , Abdelkader Kara , Talat S. Rahman

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P26.00008: Preferential Growth of Pt Particles on Rutile TiO$_2$
Vladimir Skavysh , Hakim Iddir , Serdar Ogut , Nigel Browning

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P26.00009: Mechanical properties of diamond/a-C nanocomposite films
Ioannis Remediakis , Maria Fyta , Pantelis Kelires

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P26.00010: Theoretical Investigation of the Vibrational and Electronic Properties of Titanium Carbide Nanocrystals
Qin Zhang , Steven Lewis

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P26.00011: Evolution of Electronic and Vibrational Polarity of NaF Nanocrystals
Philip B. Allen , Christian Schmidt , Tunna Baruah , Mark R. Pederson

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P26.00012: Simulations of amorphous nanoparticles: the effect of shape on surface structure and subsequent interactions with the surroundings
Susan Fullerton , Chunxia Chen , Janna Maranas

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P26.00013: Cage structures based on Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes (POSS) with atomic and ionic impurities
Frank Hagelberg , Sung Soo Park , Chuanyun Xiao , Delwar Hossain , Charles Pittman , Svein Saebo

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P26.00014: Structure of nanocrystals embedded in amorphous carbon
Ioannis Remediakis , Maria Fyta , Pantelis Kelires , Georgios Kopidakis

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Session P27: Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Functionalization II

Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Keith Perkins, NRL
LACC - 501C


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:51AM

P27.00001: Electrochemical Sensing with Individual Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
Invited Speaker: Serge Lemay

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P27.00002: Quantitative Characterization of Defect Densities in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Yuwei Fan , Nathan Emmott , Philip G. Collins

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P27.00003: Probing the Phonon-Assisted Relaxation Process in DNA-wrapped Carbon Nanotubes Using Polarization Dependent Optical Spectroscopy
Shin Grace Chou , Andrew Welsh , Georgii Samsonidze , Jie Jiang , Riichiro Saito , Flavio Plentz , Ado Jorio , Marcos Pimenta , Ming Zheng , G. Bibiana Onoa , Ellen Semke , Gene Dresselhaus , Millie Dresselhaus , Anna Swan , Bennett Goldberg , Selim Unlu

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P27.00004: Electrical transport characteristics of DNA-wrapped carbon nanotubes contacted to palladium and palladium oxide electrodes
Frank Jones , Paul Dentinger , Francois Leonard , Alec Talin

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P27.00005: Detection of Pathogens Using AFM and SPR
Ashok Vaseashta

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P27.00006: Anomalously soft dynamics of water in carbon nanotubes
Alexander Kolesnikov , Chun-Keung Loong , Nicolas de Souza , Christian Burnham , Alexander Moravsky , Raouf Loutfy

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P27.00007: Observations of Simple and Complex Liquid Transport in Carbon Nanotubes
Byong Kim , Shashank Sinha , Haim Bau

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P27.00008: Microscopic and spectroscopic studies of the surfactant-assisted dispersion process of CoMoCAT carbon nanotubes in water
Adelina Santos , Douglas Alves , Valdirene Peressinotto , Clascidia Furtado , Mauricio Souza , Flavio Plentz , Henrique Ribeiro , Ado Jorio , Marcos Pimenta , Daniel Resasco

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P27.00009: Noncovalent functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes with water-soluble porphyrins
Jinyu Chen , C. Patrick Collier

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P27.00010: A Generic Method towards Periodically Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes
Lingyu Li , Wenwen Cai , Stephen Kodjie , Kishore Tenneti , Christopher Li

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P27.00011: Single-walled carbon nanotubes in superacid: partly ordered H$_{2}$SO$_{4}$, nanotube-templated crystallization and evidence for protonation
W. Zhou , P.A. Heiney , H. Fan , R.E. Smalley , J.E. Fischer

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:51PM - 2:03PM

P27.00012: Structural, thermodynamic and transport properties of functionalized carbon nanotubes from first-principles
Young-Su Lee , Nicola Marzari

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Session P29: Transport and Electronic Structure of Organic Electronic Materials

Sponsoring Units: DPOLY FIAP
Chair: Arthur Epstein, Ohio State University
LACC - 504


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:51AM

P29.00001: Theory of Quantum Hopping In Metallic Polymers and Applications in Electronics
Invited Speaker: Vladimir Prigodin

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P29.00002: Charge injection, transport and trapping in nanoparticle based memory devices
J. Campbell Scott , Luisa Bozano , Ryan Chiechi , Jodi Iwata

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P29.00003: Local EFM measurements of organic conducting materials at various temperatures
Tse Nga Ng , William Silveira , John Marohn

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P29.00004: On the electronic transport in doped polyaniline/polyethylene oxide nanofibers prepared via electrospinning
Natalya A. Zimbovskaya , Alan T. Johnson Jr. , Nicholas J. Pinto

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P29.00005: Dispersion and Current-Voltage Characteristics of Helical Polyacetylene Single Fibers
Y.W. Park , H.J. Lee , A.N. Aleshin , J.Y. Lee , Y.S. Kim , D.W. Kim , Z.X. Jin , M.J. Goh , K. Akagi

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P29.00006: Characterization of the Porphyrin Molecule as an Electronic Component
Sathish Thriuvengadam , Kim Lewis , Raghu Ramachandran , Royston Siow , Theda Daniels-Race

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P29.00007: CP-AFM Study of Current Transport Through Porphyrin – Based Molecules
Raghu Ramachandran , Kim Lewis , Sathish Thiruvengadam , Royston Siow , Theda Daniels-Race

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P29.00008: The injection barrier at a metal/organic interface
D. H. Dunlap , Tianjian Lu

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P29.00009: Charge Injection into Cathode-Doped Amorphous Organic Semiconductors
Benjie Limketkai , Marc Baldo

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P29.00010: Spectroscopy and Imaging of Metal-Organic Interfaces using BEEM
Cedric Troadec , Linda Kunardi , Natarajan Chandrasekhar

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Session P30: Polymers - Inorganic Composites III

Sponsoring Units: DPOLY
Chair: Mark Dadmun, University of Tennessee, Knoxsville
LACC - 505


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P30.00001: Novel Route to Mesoporous silica with perpendicular nanochannels from polymer/inorganic nanocomposite films
Sivakumar Nagarajan , Mingqi Li , Rajaram Pai , Craig Weinman , Christopher Ober , Thomas Russell , James Watkins

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P30.00002: A Fracture Resisting Molecular Interaction in Trabecular Bone: Sacrificial Bonds and Hidden Length Dissipate Energy as Mineralized Fibrils Separate
Georg E. Fantner , Tue Hassenkam , Johannes H. Kindt , James C. Weaver , Henrik Birkedal , Leonid Pechenik , Jacqueline A. Cutroni , Laura S. Golde , Marquesa M. Finch , Philipp Thurner , Geraldo A.G. Cidade , Galen D. Stucky , Danie E. Morse , Paul K. Hansma

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P30.00003: Self-assembled anisotropic polymer particles by polycondensation in lyotropic surfactant mesophases
Guruswamy Kumaraswamy , Mohan Wadekar

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P30.00004: Electron spin resonance on carbon nanotubes-polymer composites
Mircea Chipara , Zaleski Jeffrey , David Hui , Ning Pan

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P30.00005: Flow Based Control of Conductivity in Nanotube Composites
Kalman Migler , Sam Kharchenko , Jan Obrzut , Jack Douglas

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P30.00006: Effect of Carbon Nanotube Alignment in Polymer Nanocomposites on the Electrical Conductivity
Fangming Du , John E. Fischer , Karen I. Winey

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P30.00007: Thermal Conductivity of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube / Polyethylene Nanocomposites
Reto Haggenmueller , John E. Fischer , Karen I. Winey , Jesse J. Cugliotta , Jennifer R. Lukes

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P30.00008: Controlling the Dispersion and Properties of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Nanocomposite
Asif Rasheed , Mark Dadmun , Phillip Britt , David Geohegan , Ilia Ivanov

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P30.00009: From Carbon Nanotube Dispersion to Composite Nanofibers
Yachin Cohen , Yael Dror , Wael Salalha , Alexander L. Yarin , Eyal Zussman , Wim Pyckhout-Hintzen

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P30.00010: Enhanced alignment of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Electrospun PS/PMMA Polymer Blends
Jaemin Kim , Kwanwoo Shin

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P30.00011: Processing Phase Diagram of Polymer Carbon-Nanotube Composites
Erik K. Hobbie , Dan Fry , Howard Wang

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P30.00012: Measurements of particle orientation in simple shear and channel flows of polypropylene/clay nanocomposites
Laura Dykes , Wesley Burghardt , Kosmas Kasimatis , John Torkelson

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P30.00013: Rheology of Non-dilute Polystyrene/Cloisite/Toluene Solutions
Jun Li , Vladimir Zaitsev , Steven Schwarz , Jonathan Sokolov , Miriam Rafailovich

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:51PM - 2:03PM

P30.00014: Melt rheology studies of polymer chain dynamics in the presence of nanofillers
Sudeepto Sen , Sanat Kumar

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
2:03PM - 2:15PM

P30.00015: Polymer nanocomposites: permeability, chain dynamics, mechanical properties
Laxmi Sahu , Nandika D'Souza

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Session P31: Biopolymers: Molecules, Solutions and Networks I

Sponsoring Units: DPOLY DBP
Chair: John Crocker, University of Pennsylvania
LACC - 503


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:51AM

P31.00001: Nonlinear elasticity of semiflexible polymer networks
Invited Speaker: Fred MacKintosh

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P31.00002: RNA gels with negative Poisson ratio
Amir Ahsan , Joseph Rudnick , Robijn Bruinsma

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P31.00003: DNA intercalation by ethidium bromide: A quantitative binding study using DNA stretching and force-induced melting
Mark C. Williams , Ioana Vladescu , Micah McCauley , Ioulia Rouzina

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P31.00004: Stretching DNA by a Constant Field
Yuko Hori , Ashok Prasad , Jane' Kondev

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P31.00005: Beyond Wormlike Chain: An effective theory of mesoscale DNA mechanics
Philip Nelson , Paul Wiggins , Rob Phillips

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P31.00006: Semiflexible Chain Networks Formed via Self-Assembly of Beta-Hairpin Molecules
Bulent Ozbas , Darrin Pochan , Karthikan Rajagopal , Joel Schneider

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P31.00007: The Rheological Properties of the Biopolymers in Synovial Fluid
Wendy E. Krause , Rebecca R. Klossner , Julie Wetsch , Katherine M. N. Oates , Ralph H. Colby

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P31.00008: The nonlinear elasticity of alpha helical polypeptides: Analytical and Monte Carlo studies
Buddhapriya Chakrabarti , Alex Levine

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P31.00009: Persistency of single-stranded DNA: the interplay between base sequences and base stacking
Bae-Yeun Ha , Anirban Sain , Jeff Z.Y. Chen

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P31.00010: Unzipping DNA from the condensed globule state--effects of unraveling
Pui-Man Lam

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P31.00011: Distance measurement along DNA molecules using fluorecent quantum dots
Helmut Strey

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:51PM - 2:03PM

P31.00012: AFM Imaging of F-actin Network Formation on a photopolymer surface
Taiji Ikawa , Osamu Watanabe , Youli Li , Cyrus R. Safinya

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
2:03PM - 2:15PM

P31.00013: Microtubule Bundling and Shape Transitions
Daniel Needleman , Miguel Ojeda-Lopez , Uri Raviv , Kai Ewert , Janya Jones , Herbert Miller , Leslie Wilson , Cyrus Safinya

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P31.00014: Higher Order Assembly of Microtubules by Counter-ions
Daniel Needleman , Miguel Ojeda-Lopez , Uri Raviv , Herbert Miller , Leslie Wilson , Cyrus Safinya

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Session P32: Computational Methods Classical and Quantum Monte Carlo

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP
Chair: Alice Kolakowska, Mississippi State University
LACC - 507


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P32.00001: Quantum Monte Carlo Study on NiO crystal
Ryo Maezono , M.D. Towler , R.J. Needs

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P32.00002: Interpretation of Hund's multiplicity rule for the atomic systems
Kenta Hongo , Takayuki Oyamada , Ryo Maezono , Yoshiyuki Kawazoe , Hiroshi Yasuhara , M.D. Towler , R.J. Needs

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P32.00003: Pfaffian wavefunctions with pairing orbitals for electronic structure quantum Monte Carlo
Michal Bajdich , Gabriel Drobny , Lucas K. Wagner , Kevin E. Schmidt , Lubos Mitas

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P32.00004: Nodes of fermionic wavefunctions: coordinate transformations and topologies
Lubos Mitas , Michal Bajdich , Gabriel Drobny , Lucas K. Wagner

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P32.00005: Dielectric Response of Periodic Systems from Quantum Monte Carlo
Paolo Umari , Andrew J. Willamson , Giulia Galli , Nicola Marzari

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P32.00006: Coupled Electron-Ion Monte Carlo Study of Hydrogen
Kris Delaney , David Ceperley , Carlo Pierleoni

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P32.00007: Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo in Continuum Systems
Luke Shulenburger , Richard Martin

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P32.00008: Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Composite-Fermions in Quantum Dots
Alev Devrim Guclu , Gun Sang Jeon , Cyrus Umrigar , Jainendra Jain

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P32.00009: Quantum Monte Carlo examines accuracy of density functional approximations for defects and phase transformations in silicon
Richard G. Hennig , Kevin P. Driver , William D. Parker , John W. Wilkins , Cyrus J. Umrigar

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P32.00010: Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Ground State Properties of Atoms and Molecules
Malliga Suewattana , Shiwei Zhang , Henry Krakauer , Eric Walter

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P32.00011: Study of TiO and MnO using auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo
Wissam Al-Saidi , Henry Krakauer , Shiwei Zhang

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P32.00012: Monte Carlo Calculations of Finite Temperature Transition Rates in Nickel
Erik Welch , Kaden Hazzard , John Wilkins

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P32.00013: Numerical Interpolation of Orbitals in Periodic Systems for Diffusion Monte Carlo Calculations
William Parker , Kevin Driver , Phillip Peterson , Richard Hennig , John Wilkins , Cyrus Umrigar

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:51PM - 2:03PM

P32.00014: A rejection-free Monte Carlo method for the hard-disk system
Hiroshi Watanabe , Satoshi Yukawa , Mark A. Novotny , Nobuyasu Ito

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
2:03PM - 2:15PM

P32.00015: Optimal Ensemble Monte Carlo Simulations: Application to dense Lennard-Jones fluids
Simon Trebst , Matthias Troyer

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Session P33: Quantum Mechanical Properties

Sponsoring Units: GQI
Chair: Irfan Siddiqi, Yale University
LACC - 511C


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P33.00001: Teleportation of electronic many-qubit states via single photons
Michael Leuenberger , Michael Flatte , David Awschalom

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P33.00002: Coherence-decoherence crossover with subohmic bath
Alex Chin , Misha Turlakov

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P33.00003: A quantum measurement of the double barrier junction (DBJ) qubit
Serhii Shafranjuk

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P33.00004: Quantum measurement of a Cooper-Pair Box using a nanomechanical resonator
Akshay Naik , Keith Schwab

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P33.00005: Noise and Back-action in Nanomechanical Resonators
Olivier Buu , Matthew Lahaye , Benedetta Camarota , Keith Schwab

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P33.00006: Non-Markovian qubit dynamics in a thermal field bath: Relaxation, decoherence and entanglement
Sanjiv Shresta , Charis Anastopoulos , Adrian Dragulescu , Bei-Lok Hu

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P33.00007: Quantum Adiabatic Evolution Algorithm via combinatorial landscapes
Vadim Smelyanskiy , Sergey Knysh , Robin Morris

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P33.00008: Effects of finite bandwidth and delay on Bayesian quantum feedback of a qubit
qin zhang , Rusko Ruskov , Alexander Korotkov

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P33.00009: Experimental Evidence for Violation of Bohr's Principle of Complementarity
Shahriar S. Afshar

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P33.00010: Interference and Trajectories
Edward Floyd

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P33.00011: Inference of Schr\"odinger's Equation from Classical Wave Mechanics[1]
P-I. Johansson , J.X. Zheng-Johansson

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Session P34: Dynamics in Condensed Phase III

Sponsoring Units: DCP
Chair: Philip Geissler, University of California-Berkeley
LACC - 511A


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:51AM

P34.00001: Langmuir Prize Talk: Pathways to forming glass: bubbles in space-time
Invited Speaker: David Chandler

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P34.00002: Oxidative Damage to DNA
Robert N. Barnett , Charles L. Cleveland , Uzi Landman , Gary B. Schuster

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P34.00003: Glassy Dynamics in the Immune System Prevents Auto-Immune Disorders
Jun Sun , David Earl , Michael Deem

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:51PM

P34.00004:
Invited Speaker: Vijay Pande

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P34.00005: Novel Method for Selective Probing of Ground-State Rotational Dynamics of Solutes in Solvents
Thai V. Truong , Y.R. Shen

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P34.00006: Equilibrium structure and phase separation in lipid mixture from dissipative particle dynamics simulations
Jinsuo Zhang , Yi Jiang

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:51PM

P34.00007: Experimental Test of Hatano and Sasa's Nonequilibrium Steady-state Equality
Invited Speaker: Jan Liphardt

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:51PM - 2:03PM

P34.00008: An ab initio study of crystalline and molecular biotin
Milo Lin , David Prendergast , Giulia Galli

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
2:03PM - 2:15PM

P34.00009: The Transition State in a Noisy Environment
Thomas Bartsch , Turgay Uzer

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Session P35: Molecular Electronics I

Sponsoring Units: DCP DMP FIAP
Chair: Cherie Kagan, IBM, TJ Watson
LACC - 511B


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:51AM

P35.00001:
Invited Speaker: James Heath

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P35.00002: Signal and thermal noise in [2]catenenane molecular electronic switches
Yong-Hoon Kim , Seung Soon Jang , Yun-Hee Jang , William A. Goddard III

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:39PM

P35.00003: Electronic Conduction and Switching in Metal / Molecule / Metal Structures
Invited Speaker: Duncan Stewart

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P35.00004: Transport through thiol SAMs: Effect of monolayer order, dynamics and temperature
Geetha Dholakia , W. Fan , M. Meyyappan

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:27PM

P35.00005: Molecular Engineering of Single Molecular Switches and Molecular Assemblies
Invited Speaker: Paul S. Weiss , Arrelaine A. Dameron , Amanda M. Moore

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P35.00006: Ab initio study of vibrational spectrum and electron-molecular vibration interaction in molecular electronic systems
Nikolai Sergueev , Dan Roubtsov , Hong Guo

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P35.00007: Switching of the Fe Oxida\-tion State in Ferro\-cene-Capped Alkanethiols
Fan Zheng , Virginia P\'erez-Dieste , J.L. McChesney , Yan-Yeung Luk , Nicholas L. Abbott , F.J. Himpsel

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:51PM - 2:03PM

P35.00008: Theoretical Investigation on the Electronic Structure of Alq3/Al Interface
Susumu Yanagisawa , Yoshitada Morikawa

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
2:03PM - 2:15PM

P35.00009: Biosensor Consists of Na -- Doped Hydroxyapatite Thin Film
Hiroaki Nishikawa , Masanonu Kusunoki , Shigeki Hontsu , Masami Kawashima , Tomoji Kawai

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Session P36: Focus Session: BCS-BEC Physics in Fermi Gases

Sponsoring Units: DAMOP
Chair: Nicolai Nygaard, NIST
LACC - 510


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P36.00001: Density Profiles of Strongly Interacting Trapped Fermi Gases
Jelena Stajic , Qijin Chen , Kathryn Levin

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P36.00002: Thermodynamics of ultracold fermions in traps in the strongly interacting regime
Qijin Chen , Jelena Stajic , Kathryn Levin

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P36.00003: Feshbach Molecule Formation in Finite-Temperature Quantum Gases
James E. Williams , Nicolai Nygaard , Tetsuro Nikuni , Charles W. Clark

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P36.00004: Phase Diagrams for a Fermi Gas with a Feshbach Resonance
Tetsuro Nikuni , Nicolai Nygaard , James E. Williams , Charles W. Clark

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P36.00005: Pairing of Opposite-Spin Fermions in the BCS-BEC Crossover Regime
Javier von Stecher , Chris H. Greene

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P36.00006: Fermion-mediated BCS-BEC crossover in ultracold ${}^{40}$K gases
Meera Parish , Bogdan Mihaila , Ben Simons , Peter Littlewood

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 1:03PM

P36.00007: Single particle excitations in the BCS-BEC crossover region
Invited Speaker: Yoji Ohashi

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P36.00008: Dynamic projection on Feshbach molecules: a probe of pairing and phase fluctuations
Ehud Altman , Ashvin Vishwanath

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P36.00009: Quantum phase transitions in a novel Fermi-Bose Hubbard model
Lincoln D. Carr , Daniel E. Sheehy , Murray J. Holland

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P36.00010: Fermion superfluids of non-zero orbital angular momentum near resonance
Roberto Diener , Tin-Lun Ho

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P36.00011: Quantum phase transitions across p-wave Feshbach resonance
Victor Gurarie , Leo Radzihovsky , Anton Andreev

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:51PM - 2:03PM

P36.00012: Characteristics of Fermion Pairs with d- and extended s-wave Symmetries around BE-BCS Crossover
Dusan Volcko , Khandker Quader

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
2:03PM - 2:15PM

P36.00013: BCS to BEC Quantum Phase Transition in Spin Polarized Fermionic Gases
Sergio Botelho , Carlos Sa de Melo

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Session P37: Focus Session: Microfluidic Physics III: Surface Effects and Flows

Sponsoring Units: DFD
Chair: Lyderic Bocquet, University Lyon I
LACC - 512


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P37.00001: Stick or Slip ?: Measuring slip lengths with nm resolution
Sung Chul Bae , Stephen Anthony , Steve Granick

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P37.00002: Large electrokinetic effects on slipping surfaces
Lyderic Bocquet , Laurent Joly , Christophe Ybert , Emmanuel Trizac

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P37.00003: Models for Apparent Slip
Eric Lauga , Michael Brenner , Howard Stone

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P37.00004: Wetting on nano-patterned surfaces observed with the Atomic Force Microscope
Antonio Checco , Benjamin Ocko , Oleg Gang

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P37.00005: Manipulating Liquids on the Tunable Nanostructured Surfaces
Tom Krupenkin , Ashley Taylor , Paul Kolodner , Stanley Pau , Alan Lyons , Mark Hodes

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P37.00006: Effect of Korteweg Stress of Miscible Two Liquid Flow on Micro Fluidic Devices
Yasuhiko Sugii , Koji Okamoto , Akihide Hibara , Manabu Tokeshi , Takehiko Kitamori

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P37.00007: A Microfluidic Tensiometer
Shelley Anna , Hans Mayer

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P37.00008: Transport of nonconductive and conductive droplets in a parallel plate array
Debalina Chatterjee , Boonta Hetayothin , Aaron Wheeler , Daniel King , Robin Garrell

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P37.00009: Analysis of Drop Shapes during Electrowetting on a Dielectric
Yousef Daneshbod , James D. Sterling , Ali Nadim

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P37.00010: Simulations of electrowetting dynamics in free and and confined droplet geometries
Karl Glasner

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P37.00011: Bubble microstreaming: Transport and force actuation
Sascha Hilgenfeldt , Philippe Marmottant

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P37.00012: 3D Hydrodynamic Positioning using Micro-Steady Streaming Eddies
Jian Chen , Barry Lutz , Daniel Schwartz

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P37.00013: Photosensitive chemical reactions in patterned microchannels
Olga Kuksenok , Anna Balazs

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Session P39: Fermi Liquid and Strong Correlations

Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Kun Yang, Florida State University
LACC - 514


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P39.00001: Critical Behavior of the Pauli Spin Susceptibility in A Strongly Correlated 2d Electron Liquid
S. Anissimova , A.A. Shashkin , S.V. Kravchenko , M.R. Sakr , V.T. Dolgopolov , T.M. Klapwijk

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P39.00002: Thermodynamic Magnetization of Strongly Correlated 2d Electrons in Perpendicular Magnetic Fields
Ananth Venkatesan , S. Anissimova , S.V. Kravchenko , A.A. Shashkin , V.T. Dolgopolov , M.R. Sakr , T.M. Klapwijk

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P39.00003: Precursors of 1D behavior for $D>1$: evolution of the non-analytic correction to the Fermi-liquid behavior
Ronojoy Saha , Dmitrii Maslov

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P39.00004: Quantum Correction to Conductivity Close to Ferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point in Two Dimensions: Ballistic Regime
Indranil Paul , Catherine P\'{e}pin , Boris Narozhny , Dmitri Maslov

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P39.00005: Corrections to Fermi Liquid theory in 2D in a magnetic field
Andrey Chubukov , Joseph Betouras , Dmitri Efremov

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P39.00006: Non-perturbative behavior of the Pomeranchuk quantum phase transition of a nematic Fermi fluid
Michael Lawler , Victoria Fernandez , Eduardo Fradkin

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P39.00007: Magnetic impurity in an itinerant Anti-Ferromagnet: Undressing the Kondo effect
Vivek Aji , Chandra Varma , Ilya Vekhter

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P39.00008: Deconstruction of the Kondo Effect near the Antiferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point
Hideyaki Maebashi , Kazumasa Miyake , Chandra Varma

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P39.00009: Anomalous scaling at the quantum critical point in itinerant antiferromagnets
Artem Abanov , Andrey Chubukov

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P39.00010: Interacting electrons in 2D in the presence of van Hove singularities and phonons
Shan-Wen Tsai , Antonio H. Castro Neto , David K. Campbell

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P39.00011: Renormalization-group treatment of the large-$N$ $t$-$J$ model
Antonio H. Castro Neto , Shan-Wen Tsai , Ziqiang Wang , David K. Campbell

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P39.00012: Superconductivity in charge Kondo systems
Maxim Dzero , Joerg Schmalian

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P39.00013: Luttinger-Liquid signature in scanning tunneling spectra of Li0.9Mo6O17
R. Matzdorf , J. Hager , M.A. Cazalilla , R. Jin , J. He , D. Mandrus , E.W. Plummer

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:51PM - 2:03PM

P39.00014: Doping dependent isotope effects of the quasi-1D electron-phonon system: comparison with the high-temperature superconductors
Ian Bindloss

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P39.00015: Non-equilibrium quantum phase transition in an itinerant electron system
Dima Feldman

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Session P40: Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures IV: Wires

Sponsoring Units: DMP DCP
Chair: D. Natelson, Rice University
LACC - 408A


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P40.00001: Spin-flip scattering times from weak localization studies of Cu$_{93}$Ge$_4$Au$_3$ thin films
J.J. Lin , S.M. Huang

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P40.00002: Electrical Transport and 1/f Noise in Au Nanoparticle Films
C. Kurdak , J. Kim , J. J. Lucido , A. Kuo , L. A. Farina , X. Bai , M. P Rowe , K. E. Plass , A. J. Matzger

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P40.00003: Quantum Coherence and Local/Nonlocal Resistance Measurements
Sungbae Lee , Aaron Trionfi , Douglas Natelson

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P40.00004: Role of surface anisotropy for magnetic impurities in electron dephasing and energy relaxation and their size effect
Alfred Zawadowski , Antal Jakovac , Orsolya Ujsaghy

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P40.00005: Time dependent universal conductance fluctuations in AuPd, Ag, and Au wires
A. Trionfi , S. Lee , D. Natelson

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P40.00006: Superconducting ultra narrow Al nanowires
Fabio Altomare , Albert M. Chang , Michael R. Melloch , Yuguang Hong , Charles W. Tu

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 1:03PM

P40.00007: End States in One-Dimensional Chains
Invited Speaker: Jason Crain

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P40.00008: Gate Dependent One-dimensional Transport in In2O3 Nanowires
Fei Liu , Mingqiang Bao , Kang L Wang , Chao Li , Bo Lei , Chongwu Zhou

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P40.00009: Nanowires and Nanoribbons of Charge-Density-Wave Conductor NbSe$_{3}$
Yew San Hor , Zhili Xiao , Ulrich Welp , John F. Mitchell , Russell E. Cook , Wai-Kwong Kwok , George W. Crabtree , Yasuo Ito

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P40.00010: Effects of Morphology on the Electronic Properties of Nano-lithographic Thin Pb Wires
U. Kemiktarak , K.C. Schwab , Kamil Ekinci

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P40.00011: Transport Measurements on Individual Branched Nanostructures
Yong Sun , Jeong-Il Oh , Dezhi Wang , K. Kempa , Z.F. Ren , Wenzhi Li , M.J. Naughton

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:51PM - 2:03PM

P40.00012: Scattering Mechanisms in 3D Quantum Mechanical Simulations of a Silicon Quantum Wire
Matthew Gilbert , Richard Akis , David Ferry

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P40.00013: Electronic structure of single fullerene molecules in C60 nanocrystals grown on thin NaBr film
Gareguin Mikaelian , Xiuwen Tu , Wilson Ho

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Session P42: Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures VII

Sponsoring Units: DMP GMAG
Chair: Xiaofeng Jin, Fudan University, China
LACC - 150B


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P42.00001: The spatial profile of unpinned and pinned uncompensated spins in the antiferromagnetic layer of an exchange bias heterostructure determined with polarized neutron reflectometry
M.R. Fitzsimmons , S. Park , A. Misra , X. Zhang , S. Roy , M. Dorn , O. Petracic , I.V. Roshchin , Z.P. Li , X. Batlle , R. Morales , S.K. Sinha , Ivan K. Schuller

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P42.00002: Resonant X-ray Scattering Studies of Positively Exchange Biased Co/FeF2
S. Roy , M. Dorn , S.K. Sinha , O. Petracic , Z.P Li , I.V. Roshchin , R. Moralles , X. Batlle , I.K. Schuller , K. Chesnel , J.B. Kortright , S. Park , M.R. Fitzsimmons

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P42.00003: Tailoring the spin direction of antiferromagnetic NiO thin films grown on vicinal Ag(001)
B. Sinkovic , Y.Z. Wu , Y. Zhao , Z.Q. Qiu

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

P42.00004: Influences of lateral domains and interfacial domain wall formation on exchange bias phenomena in TbFe/GdFe bilayers
Stephane Mangin , Thomas Hauet , Francois Montaigne , Yves Henry , Eric Fullerton

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

P42.00005: Exchange Bias of Single-Crystalline Fe$_x$Zn$_{1-x}$F$_2$/Co Bilayers
David Lederman , Hongtao Shi

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

P42.00006: Parallel Versus Antiparallel Interfacial Coupling In Exchange-biased Co/FeF$_2$
Hendrik Ohldag , Joachim Stohr , Hongtao Shi , David Lederman

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P42.00007: Micromagnetic simulation to observe the reversal mechanism in exchanged biased system of NiFe/NiMn
Jyotirmoy Saha , Randall Victora

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P42.00008: Lateral length scales and local character of exchange bias.
Ivan K. Schuller , Igor V. Roshchin , O. Petracic , R. Morales , Zhi-Pan Li , Xavier Batlle

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P42.00009: Bi-domain state in the exchange bias system FeF2/Ni
Oleg Petracic , Zhi-Pan Li , Igor V. Roshchin , M. Viret , R. Morales , X. Batlle , Ivan K. Schuller

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P42.00010: Angular Dependence of Exchange Anisotropy on Cooling Field in Exchange Biased Films
Kai Liu , Justin Olamit , Zhi-Pan Li , Ivan Schuller

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P42.00011: Interplay between Exchange Bias and Uniaxial Anisotropy
S.-H. Chung , A. Hoffmann , M. Grimsditch

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P42.00012: Temperature dependence of the training effect in exchange bias heterostructures
Christian Binek , Xi He , Srinivas Polisetty

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P42.00013: Exchange biasing of (Ga,Cr)N thin films using a MnO layer
Hongxue Liu , Stephen Wu , Rakesh Singh , Nathan Newman

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Session P43: Focus Session: Phase Complexity and Enhanced Functionality in Magnetic Oxides III

Sponsoring Units: DMP GMAG
Chair: Ichiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland
LACC - 150C


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

P43.00001: Magnetoelectric measurements of multiferroic thin film materials using microwave microscopy
Ichiro Takeuchi , Chen Gao , Makoto Murakami , Kao-Shuo Chang

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

P43.00002: Large Second Harmonic Kerr rotation in GaFeO3 thin films on YSZ buffered Silicon
Ernst Knoesel , Keith F. McDonald , Tim Osedach , Samuel E. Lofland , S.B. Ogale , Sankar Dhar , Sanjay Shinde , Darshan Kundaliya , T. Venkatesan

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

P43.00003: All-Optical Subpicosecond Magnetic Switching in NiO(001)
W. H\"{u}bner , G. Lefkidis , K. Satitkovitchai , O. Ney

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
11:51AM - 12:27PM

P43.00004: Optical Magnetoelectric Effects in Multiferroics
Invited Speaker: Taka-hisa Arima

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

P43.00005: Enhanced Tc in a High Temperature Superconductor, Proximate to an Antiferromagnetic Insulator
S. Park , C. N. Zhang , S. Guha , S.-W. Cheong

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

P43.00006: Anomalous Effect of Chromium on Enhancing Ferromagnetism of SrRuO$_3$
F. Huang , W. Dmowski , Y-D. Wang , I-W. Chen

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

P43.00007: Anomalous Transport in Ca$_{1-y}$Sr$_y$MnO$_3$ ($0\leq y\leq 0.75$)~$^{\ast}$
Corneliu Chiorescu , Joshua Cohn , John Neumeier

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

P43.00008: Ferroelectric microdomains and magnetocapacitance in Ti-doped YMnO3
S. Mori , Y. Horibe , Y. Aikawa , K. Tsuda , T. Arima , T. Katsufuji

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

P43.00009: Magnetic domains in the ferromagnetic and ferroelectric mixture of (La, Lu, Sr)MnO$_3$
Alex de Lozanne , Weida Wu , Casey Israel , N. Hur , S. Park , S.-W. Cheong

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

P43.00010: Super-Colossal Magnetoresistance in Magnetic / Superconducting Oxides
Carlos Sa de Melo

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

P43.00011: Effect of adiabatic breathing and half-breathing phonons on striped ground states.
Yucel Yildirim , Adriana Moreo

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
1:51PM - 2:03PM

P43.00012: Soliton like excitations and inconmensurate phases in half doped manganites.
Luis Brey , P.B. Littlewood

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