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Session W33: Insulators and Dielectrics I

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Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: William Parker, Argonne National Laboratory
Room: C143/149


Thursday, March 24, 2011
11:15AM - 11:27AM

W33.00001: An \textit{Ab Initio }Study of PuO$_{2\pm 0.25}$, UO$_{2\pm 0.25}$, and U$_{0.5}$Pu$_{0.5}$O$_{2\pm 0.25}$
Li Ma , Asok Ray

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
11:27AM - 11:39AM

W33.00002: Characterization of point defects in UO2 by positron annihilation spectroscopy: a first-principles study
Marc Torrent , Gerald Jomard

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
11:39AM - 11:51AM

W33.00003: Effect of Dielectric Materials on the Topological Insulator Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$ Surface States
Jiwon Chang , Leonard Register , Sanjay Banerjee , Bhagawan Sahu

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
11:51AM - 12:03PM

W33.00004: First-Principles Investigation of Low Energy E' Center Precursors in Amorphous Silica
Nathan Anderson , Ravi Vedula , Peter Schultz , Renee Van Ginhoven , Alejandro Strachan

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
12:03PM - 12:15PM

W33.00005: Structure and energetics of ferroelectric domain walls in LiNbO$_{3}$ from atomic level simulations
Donghwa Lee , Haixuan Xu , Volkmar Dierolf , Venkatraman Gopalan , Simon Phillpot

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
12:15PM - 12:27PM

W33.00006: Study of Defects That Trap Excitons in Yttrium Aluminum Garnets Doped With Rare-Earth Elements
Farida Selim , Chris Varnery , Gary Collins , David Mckay , Sherif Reda

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
12:27PM - 12:39PM

W33.00007: Charge-Flow Regulation at Material Interfaces in Atomistic Models
Steven Valone

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
12:39PM - 12:51PM

W33.00008: Infrared laser ablation of polystyrene from microseconds to picoseconds
Richard Haglund , Sergey Avanesyan , Kenneth Schriver , Malte Duering , Barry Luther-Davies , Hee Park , Singaravelu Senthilraja , Michael Klopf , Michael Kelley

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
12:51PM - 1:03PM

W33.00009: The effect of substrate temperature on the structure and morphology of titanium nitride compounds grown by DC magnetron sputtering
Mohammad R. Hantehzadeh , Reza Bavadi

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
1:03PM - 1:15PM

W33.00010: Growth of Erbium doped Yttrium oxide thin films by atomic layer deposition
Nicholas Becker , Thomas Proslier , J. Klug , J. Elam , T. Sanamyan , M. Dubinckii , J. Girolami , M. Pellin

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
1:15PM - 1:27PM

W33.00011: Atomic Layer Deposition of AlOx for Metal-AlOx-Metal Trilayers and Resonators
A. Kozen , L. Henn-Lecordier , X. Chen , M. Schroeder , C. Musgrave , G. Rubloff

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
1:27PM - 1:39PM

W33.00012: Improvements of Defect Analysis by Space-Charge Wave Spectroscopy
Kay-Michael Voit , Burkhard Hilling , Heinz-J\"urgen Schmidt , Mirco Imlau

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
1:39PM - 1:51PM

W33.00013: First-principles studies of Ce and Eu doped inorganic scintillator gamma ray detectors
Andrew Canning , Anurag Chaudhry , Rostyslav Boutchko , Stephen Derenzo

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
1:51PM - 2:03PM

W33.00014: Novel Approaches in Energy Conversion by Molecular Charge Transfer from Diamond Surfaces
Franz A.M. Koeck , Jeff Sharp , Robert J. Nemanich

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
2:03PM - 2:15PM

W33.00015: Diamond Based Electron Emitters for Photon Enhanced Thermionic Energy Conversion
Tianyin Sun , Franz A. Koeck , Robert J. Nemanich

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