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Session Q24: Focus Session: Transport in Nanostructures V: Optics, Mechanics, and Networks

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Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Douglas Natelson, Rice University
Room: Morial Convention Center 216


Wednesday, March 12, 2008
11:15AM - 11:27AM

Q24.00001: Simultaneous measurements of single-molecule electrical conduction and Raman response
Daniel Ward , Naomi Halas , Douglas Natelson

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
11:27AM - 11:39AM

Q24.00002: Local luminescence characterizations of ZnO nanostructures and their electrical transport characteristics
Ji-Yong Park , Young Mu Oh , Kyung Moon Lee , Kyung Ho Park , Yongsun Kim , Y.H. Ahn , Soonil Lee

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
11:39AM - 11:51AM

Q24.00003: Transport properties of a novel molecular rotor
Mei Xue , K.L. Wang , Sanaz Kabehie , Jeffrey I. Zink

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
11:51AM - 12:03PM

Q24.00004: Simultaneous Measurements of Force and Conductance through Single Molecular Junctions
Michael Frei , Maria Kamenetska , Mark S. Hybertsen , Latha Venkataraman

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
12:03PM - 12:15PM

Q24.00005: Dielectrophoretic Trapping of Au Nanoparticles using High Quality Nanogap Electrodes
Ye Lu , Danvers E. Johnston , Douglas R. Strachan , Beth S. Guiton , Peter K. Davies , Tae-Hong Park , Michael J. Therien , A. T. Charlie Johnson

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
12:15PM - 12:27PM

Q24.00006: Nanomechanical Shuttling of Electrons
E. M. Weig , D. R. Koenig , J. P. Kotthaus

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
12:27PM - 12:39PM

Q24.00007: Measuring the momentum of a nanomechanical oscillator using tunnel junctions
Charles Doiron , Bjoern Trauzettel , Christoph Bruder

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
12:39PM - 12:51PM

Q24.00008: Vibronic enhancement of phonon heat conductance
Yoshihiro Asai

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
12:51PM - 1:03PM

Q24.00009: Anisotropic Phonon Propagation in Nanoporous Alumina
Akihiro Sato , George Fytas , Bahram Djafari-Rouhani , Yan Pennec , Martin Steinhart , Wolfgang Knoll

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
1:03PM - 1:15PM

Q24.00010: Phononic Properties of Periodic 1D Multilayer Polymer Films
Nikolaos Gomopoulos , Wei Cheng , George Fytas , Taras Gorishnyy , Edwin Thomas , Anne Hiltner , Eric Baer

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
1:15PM - 1:27PM

Q24.00011: Dephasing of the weak localization correction in networks of quantum dots
Joern N. Kupferschmidt , Piet W. Brouwer

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
1:27PM - 1:39PM

Q24.00012: Fractal conductance fluctuations of classical origin
Holger Hennig , Ragnar Fleischmann , Lars Hufnagel , Theo Geisel

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
1:39PM - 1:51PM

Q24.00013: Electron Transport through Models for Small-World Nanomaterials
Lazarus Solomon , Mark Novotny

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
1:51PM - 2:03PM

Q24.00014: Atomic scale contact formation: A combined Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) study
Till Hagedorn , Mehdi El Ouali , Yoichi Miyahara , Peter Gr\"utter

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
2:03PM - 2:15PM

Q24.00015: Dissipation in metallic nano-mechanical resonators at millikelvin temperatures.
A. Venkatesan , K. Lulla , M.J. Patton , A.D. Armour , C.J. Mellor , J.R. Owers-Bradley

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