Session D1: Atomic and Molecular Physics

Chair: Paul Wolf
SC - 320


Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:00AM - 8:12AM

D1.00001: Measurements of Total Cross Sections of the n=2 Excitation of Helium from the Impact of 10-25 keV Protons
G.S. Hodges , J. Kang , J.D. Thomas , T.J. Kvale , D.G. Seely

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:12AM - 8:24AM

D1.00002: Two-Photon Polarization Spectroscopy of atomic Cs over the $6s^{2}S_{1/2}\rightarrow6p^{2}P_{3/2}\rightarrow9d^{2}D_{5/2}$ transition
Morgan J. Welsh , Seda Kin , Jacob D. Hinkle , S. Burcin Bayram

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:24AM - 8:36AM

D1.00003: A theory of the N-clock
Michael Crescimanno , Irina Novikova , David Phillips , Alexander Zibrov , Ron Walsworth

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:36AM - 8:48AM

D1.00004: Intensity Calculations of CO2 Molecule using Schwenke PES
Kausar Yasmin

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:48AM - 9:00AM

D1.00005: Non-Adiabatic Dynamics of B + H$_{2}$
David Weeks , Lachlan Belcher

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
9:00AM - 9:12AM

D1.00006: Modeling DNA unzipping in the presence of bound proteins
Farhat Habib , Ralf Bundschuh

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
9:12AM - 9:24AM

D1.00007: Diffusion in Entangled Polymer Solutions: Constraint Release
E. von Meerwall , J. Randall , S.-Q. Wang

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Session D2: Gravitation, Cosmology, High Energy and Nuclear Physics

Chair: David Weeks
SC - 106


Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:00AM - 8:12AM

D2.00001: Gravity and Atomic Tests of Lorentz Symmetry
Jay D. Tasson , V. Alan Kostelecky

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:12AM - 8:24AM

D2.00002: The Lorentz-Violating Post-Newtonian Expansion
Quentin G. Bailey , V. Alan Kostelecky

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:24AM - 8:36AM

D2.00003: Towards photon intensity interferometry in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Evan Frodermann

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:36AM - 8:48AM

D2.00004: Anisotropic flow and jet suppression in ultrarelativistic U+U collisions
Anthony Kuhlman

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:48AM - 9:00AM

D2.00005: Quark-Hadron Duality
Sabine Jeschonnek , J.W. Van Orden

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
9:00AM - 9:12AM

D2.00006: Time Dependent Nuclear Scattering Calculations
David Weeks , Brian Davis

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
9:12AM - 9:24AM

D2.00007: Gravitational N-body Simulation of Galactic Clusters
Erica Blasdel , Stephen Alexander

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
9:24AM - 9:36AM

D2.00008: Dark Matter and Energy as Antimatter
Wayne Lundberg

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Session D3: Physics Education

Chair: Rex Berney
SC - 119


Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:00AM - 8:12AM

D3.00001: Sliding Downhill Horizontally
Ulrich Zurcher

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:12AM - 8:24AM

D3.00002: Assessing laboratory instruction by studying student perceptions of introductory physics laboratories
Yuhfen Lin , Dedra Demaree , Gordon Aubrecht , Xueli Zou

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:24AM - 8:36AM

D3.00003: Raising Student Interest in Oscillating Systems by a Study of Car Suspensions
Klaus Fritsch

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:36AM - 8:48AM

D3.00004: Nanoscience and nanotechnology activities for undergraduates
Antonio Cancio , Ronald Cosby

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:48AM - 9:00AM

D3.00005: Physics and Literature -- An Experimental Course
Robert Brecha , Alex Tuss

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
9:00AM - 9:12AM

D3.00006: Peak Oil Production: How to Evaluate Estimates of Depleting Natural Resources?
Bruce Craver , Rex Berney , Robert Brecha

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
9:12AM - 9:24AM

D3.00007: Installing and Using A Personal Response System in the Classroom
Todd Smith , Rex Berney , Said Elhamri

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
9:24AM - 9:36AM

D3.00008: Linux in Math and Science Classrooms
Leno Pedrotti

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
9:36AM - 9:48AM

D3.00009: A Hall Effect Experiment using LabVIEW
Rex Berney

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Session D4: Electro-Optics

Chair: Joe Haus
SC - 128


Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:00AM - 8:12AM

D4.00001: Optical Studies and Poling of DNA NLO Waveguides
Emily Heckman , Perry Yaney , James Grote , F. Kenneth Hopkins

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:12AM - 8:24AM

D4.00002: Investigation of Marine Derived DNA for use as a Cladding Layer in Electro-Optics
Joshua Hagen , Stephen Clarson , James Grote , Perry Yaney

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:24AM - 8:36AM

D4.00003: Quenching of two-photon pumped fluorescence in an organic dye molecule
David Pikas , Mark Walker , Christopher Brewer , Bala Sankaran , Loon-Seng Tan , Rachel Jakubiak , Sean Kirkpatrick , Peter Powers

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:36AM - 8:48AM

D4.00004: Poling Protocols: Order Makes a Difference
John Zetts , Joshua Hagen , James Grote

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:48AM - 9:00AM

D4.00005: Electro-optic effective medium composite materials
Brad Birchfield , Robert Nelson , Joe Haus , Perry Yaney

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
9:00AM - 9:12AM

D4.00006: Characterization of Thermo-optic and Thermal Expansion Coefficients of Semiconductors
Christopher DiRocco , Glen Gillen , Shekhar Guha

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
9:12AM - 9:24AM

D4.00007: Micro-Optic Waveguide on IRFPA With Reticulated Pixels
Lirong Sun , Andrew Sarangan , John Devitt , Mike Garter

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
9:24AM - 9:36AM

D4.00008: Analytic, Graphical, and Geometric Solutions for the Band Edges of One-Dimensional Photonic Band Gap Materials
Frank Szmulowicz

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Session D5: Sources and Detectors

Chair: Andrew Sarangan
SC - 150


Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:00AM - 8:12AM

D5.00001: Exploring the terahertz region with a narrowband tunable source
Peter Powers , Rashid Alkuwari , Joseph Haus

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:12AM - 8:24AM

D5.00002: Thermal Lens Mitigation And Modeling In Chromium-Doped Zinc Selenide Laser Sources
Patrick Berry , Kenneth Schepler , Peter Powers

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:24AM - 8:36AM

D5.00003: Fabrication and Direct Comparison of Periodically-Poled Materials for Mid-Ir Generation
Eric Vershure

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:36AM - 8:48AM

D5.00004: Fabrication of Granular Aluminum Microbolometers -- Solving the Contact Resistance Problem
Thomas Wilson

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:48AM - 9:00AM

D5.00005: Characterization of carrier drift and diffusion in an InSb focal plane array under high-intensity excitation
Bryant Wysocki , Michael Marciniak , Mitchell Haeri

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
9:00AM - 9:12AM

D5.00006: The Effects of Photo-Generated Carrier Diffusion on Blooming in an IR Detection System Exposed to High Intensity Sources
Bryant Wysocki , Michael Marciniak , Mitchell Haeri

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
9:12AM - 9:24AM

D5.00007: Resonant cavity enhanced (RCE) corrugated quantum well infrared photodetectors (C-QWIP)
Jang Pyo Kim , Aziz Mahfoud , Andrew Sarangan

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Session D6: Nanotechnology

Chair: Michael Marciniak
SC - 107


Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:00AM - 8:12AM

D6.00001: Field Enhanced Thermionic Emission from a New Cathode Using Oxide Coated Carbon Nanotubes
Feng Jin , Chris Day

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:12AM - 8:24AM

D6.00002: Novel Gapped Quantum Wire
Trinanjan Datta , Erica W. Carlson

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:24AM - 8:36AM

D6.00003: Fano quadrupole resonance in an Aharonov-Bohm ring
Eric Hedin , Arkady Satanin , Yong Joe

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:36AM - 8:48AM

D6.00004: Scanning Probe Microscopy and Microwave Characterization of Nanostructured Ferroelectric Barium Strontium Titanate Thin-Films Fabricated by Pulsed Laser Deposition
Angela Campbell , Guru Subramanyam , Rand Biggers , Bonnie Riehl

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:48AM - 9:00AM

D6.00005: Highly ordered FePd magnetic thin films
Rosa Lukaszew , Cesar Clavero , Mukut Mitra , Alfonso Cebollada

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
9:00AM - 9:12AM

D6.00006: Numerical Simulations in Quantum-dot Cellular Automata Devices
Ioan Sturzu , Travis Barclay , Mahfuza Khatun

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Session D7: Condensed Matter

Chair: Robert Hengehold
SC - 328


Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:00AM - 8:12AM

D7.00001: Random-phase approximation of core-electron energy-loss spectra in solids
Kofi Nuroh

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:12AM - 8:24AM

D7.00002: Josephson vortex state across the phase diagram of La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$: a magneto-optics study
Sasa Dordevic , D.N. Basov , S. Komiya , Y. Ando , Y.J. Wang

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:24AM - 8:36AM

D7.00003: The Electrical Field Gradient at $^{181}Ta$ in $ZrSiO_{4}$ and $HfSiO_{4}$
Sean McBride , Herbert Jaeger

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:36AM - 8:48AM

D7.00004: Effects of spin--orbit interaction on optical properties of narrow-band semiconductor quantum wells
Leonid Isaev , Arkady Satanin , Yong Joe

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:48AM - 9:00AM

D7.00005: Electrical properties of Al$_{x}$Ga$_{1-x}$N implanted with Si at low doses
Elizabeth Moore , Timothy Zens , Mee-Yi Ryu , Yung Kee Yeo , James Fellows , Robert Hengehold

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
9:00AM - 9:12AM

D7.00006: LabVIEW for Admittance Spectroscopy Automation
Robert J. Brodrick , Mo Ahoujja , Rex L. Berney

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
9:12AM - 9:24AM

D7.00007: \textit{$\mu $}-Raman studies of residual stress in SiC MEMS
Chris Zingarelli , Michael Marciniak , Jason Foley

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
9:24AM - 9:36AM

D7.00008: Effect of Interfaces on the Band Gaps of InAs/GaSb Superlattices Beyond the Standard Envelope-function Approximation
Frank Szmulowicz , Heather Haugan , Gail Brown

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
9:36AM - 9:48AM

D7.00009: Magnetic properties of ZnO nanotips ion-implanted with Fe or Mn
Jeremy Raley , Yung Kee Yeo , Mee-Yi Ryu , Robert Hengehold , Todd Steiner , Pan Wu , Yicheng Lu

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