Session A20: Focus Session: Quantum Dots and Semiconductor Surface Nanostructures

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Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Kristen Fichthorn, Pennsylvania State University
Morial Convention Center - 212


Monday, March 10, 2008
8:00AM - 8:12AM

A20.00001: Phase-field modeling of solute precipitation and dissolution at solid-fluid interface
Zhijie Xu , Paul Meakin

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Monday, March 10, 2008
8:12AM - 8:24AM

A20.00002: Island Size Scaling and Evolution during Strained Film Epitaxy
Zhi-Feng Huang , Ken Elder

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Monday, March 10, 2008
8:24AM - 8:36AM

A20.00003: Optimal Capping Layer Thickness for Stacked Quantum Dots
Xiaobin Niu , Christian Ratsch , Young-Ju Lee , Russel Caflisch

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Monday, March 10, 2008
8:36AM - 9:12AM

A20.00004: Modeling the complex evolution of self-assembled quantum dots
Invited Speaker: Jerry Tersoff

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Monday, March 10, 2008
9:12AM - 9:24AM

A20.00005: Effect of Elastic Inhomogeneity and Anisotropy on the Order of Epitaxial Self-Assembled Quantum Dots
Chandan Kumar , Lawrence Friedman

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Monday, March 10, 2008
9:24AM - 9:36AM

A20.00006: Composition Maps in Strained Alloy Quantum Dots
Nikhil Medhekar , Vishwanath Hegadekatte , Vivek Shenoy

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Monday, March 10, 2008
9:36AM - 9:48AM

A20.00007: An Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Study of the GaAs (001) $\beta $2(2x4) Reconstruction
Maria Mignogna , Kristen Fichthorn

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Monday, March 10, 2008
9:48AM - 10:00AM

A20.00008: Strain and Piezoelectric Effects on the Electronic Structure of Coupled In$_{x}$Ga$_{1-x}$As/GaAs Self-Assembled Quantum Dots
Usman Muhammad , Shaikh Ahmed , Gerhard Klimeck

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Monday, March 10, 2008
10:00AM - 10:12AM

A20.00009: Structure competition in growth of In island on Si{111} from first-principles calculations
Cai-Zhuang Wang , Min Ji , J. Chen , M. Hupalo , M.C. Tringides , K.M. Ho

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Monday, March 10, 2008
10:12AM - 10:24AM

A20.00010: Thermodynamic potentials in closed and open nanocrystalline systems: Si-Ge islands on Si(001).
Marina S. Leite , Angelo Malachias , Stefan W. Kycia , Ted I. Kamins , R. Stanley Williams , Gilberto Medeiros-Ribeiro

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Monday, March 10, 2008
10:24AM - 10:36AM

A20.00011: Characterization of MBE grown PbSe Quantum Dots
Nathaniel Becker , Dustin Klein , Tim Kidd

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Monday, March 10, 2008
10:36AM - 10:48AM

A20.00012: Self Assembling Quantum Dot Aggregates in Liquid Crystal Matrices
Christopher Ferri , M. Gallardo , Y. Verma , D. Kelley , S. Ghosh

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