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Session H11: SPS Undergraduate Research III

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Sponsoring Units: SPS
Chair: Thomas Olsen, American Institute of Physics
Room: D222


Tuesday, March 22, 2011
8:00AM - 8:12AM

H11.00001: Nanodynamics of Ferroelectric Ultrathin Films
Ryan Herchig , Qingteng Zhang , Inna Ponomareva

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
8:12AM - 8:24AM

H11.00002: Thermal Conductivity of Random Multilayer Thin Films
Anthony Frachioni , B.E. White Jr.

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
8:24AM - 8:36AM

H11.00003: Controlling the microstructure of binary carbide films with elemental substitutions
K. Feller , M. Haider , A. Hodges , R. Spreng , E. Posbergh , H. Woodward , S.E. Lofland , J.D. Hettinger , M. Heon , Y. Gogotsi

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
8:36AM - 8:48AM

H11.00004: Polypeptide Chirality Influences Multilayer Thin Film Growth and Structure
Zephra Bell , Dhan Khadka , Donald Haynie

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
8:48AM - 9:00AM

H11.00005: Thermoelectric Properties and Microstructure of Ca$_{3}$Co$_{4}$O$_{9}$ thin films on SrTiO$_{3}$ and Al$_{2}$O$_{3}$ Substrates
T. Paulauskas , Q. Qiao , A. Gulec , R.F. Klie , M. Ozdemir , C. Boyraz , D. Mazumdar , A. Gupta

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
9:00AM - 9:12AM

H11.00006: Antireflective Coatings using Layer-by-Layer Self Assembly of Silica and Titania Nanoparticles
Raisa Velasco Castedo , Anitesh Anand Lal , Dan Mazilu

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
9:12AM - 9:24AM

H11.00007: Compositional dependence of the narrow band emission from zinc oxide nanowires
Bradley Golder , Eric Driscoll , Marian Tzolov

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
9:24AM - 9:36AM

H11.00008: Dependence of the band gap of highly confined CdSe and PbSe nanocrystals on temperature
Aaron Zaubi , J. Bylsma , P. Dey , J. Rejman , S. Witanachchi , P. Mukherjee , D. Karaiskaj , M. Beard

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
9:36AM - 9:48AM

H11.00009: Synthesis and characterization of ZnO nanocrystals co-doped with Ce$^{3+}$ and Tb$^{3+}$
Kelly McCutcheon , Christie Larochelle

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
9:48AM - 10:00AM

H11.00010: Growth and Morphology of High Mobility Organic Semiconductors
Cortney Bougher , Katelyn Goetz , Zhong Li , John Anthony , Oana Jurchescu , Brad Conrad

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
10:00AM - 10:12AM

H11.00011: Effect of the polymer concentration on the ON/OFF states of a TN-LCD: polyvinyl alcohol vs. soy lecithin
Romeo de Coss Martinez , Jose Luis Gonzalez Murguia

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
10:12AM - 10:24AM

H11.00012: Tunable Schottky diodes fabricated from electrospun crossed SnO$_{2}$/PEDOT-PSSA nanoribbons
Katherine Carrasquillo , Nicholas Pinto

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
10:24AM - 10:36AM

H11.00013: UV-vis and Transport Characterization of Degradation in Polymer Blend Photovoltaics
Emilee Sena , Justin Peel , Shreya Nathan , Devin Wesenberg , Marianne Wallis , Thorsteinn Adalsteinsson , Brian McNelis , Richard Barber

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
10:36AM - 10:48AM

H11.00014: Modeling of Quantum Cascade lasers with different waveguide profiles
Charles Zhang , Richard Cendejas , Claire Gmachl

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
10:48AM - 11:00AM

H11.00015: Photoluminescence studies of WO$_{3}$ and WO$_{3-x }$ single crystals
J. Easley , P. Dey , D. Karaiskaj , S. Deb , T. Ciszek , D. Dessau

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