Session B1: Condensed Matter II

Shamrock Main - 261M

Friday, October 21, 2005
2:00PM - 2:12PM

B1.00001: A simple technique for spectral control of a mode-locked Ti:Sapphire oscillator
Jiahui Peng , Alexei Sokolov

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Friday, October 21, 2005
2:12PM - 2:24PM

B1.00002: Dielectric Response of Gallium Arsenide ( GaAs), Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT) and Other Select Materials in a Microwave Field
James Roberts , Aman Anand , Jai Dahiya

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Friday, October 21, 2005
2:24PM - 2:36PM

B1.00003: Magnetic Reversal in NiFe Gratings
Joel Dunn , Wilhelmus Geerts , Gregory Spencer , Claude Garrett , Jett Hendrix

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Friday, October 21, 2005
2:36PM - 2:48PM

B1.00004: Auger Parameter of Aluminum
Richard Miller , A. Chourasia , George Nixon

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Session B2: Theory II

Waldorf Astoria A - 210A

Friday, October 21, 2005
2:00PM - 2:12PM

B2.00001: CO {\&} O Emission Lines in Circumstellar Disks
Jesus Enriquez , Inga Kamp

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Friday, October 21, 2005
2:12PM - 2:24PM

B2.00002: On Control of Chaos in the R\"{o}ssler system
Julian Antolin Camarena , Roman Grigoriev

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Friday, October 21, 2005
2:24PM - 2:36PM

B2.00003: The Coulomb Force between Two Charged Balls
G.E. Hite , T.J. Hyland , W.M. Haymes

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Friday, October 21, 2005
2:36PM - 2:48PM

B2.00004: The curved SN1a Hubble plots
R.L. Collins

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Friday, October 21, 2005
2:48PM - 3:00PM

B2.00005: Symmetry analysis of the quantum oscillator
Balraj Menon

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Friday, October 21, 2005
3:00PM - 3:12PM

B2.00006: Modeling graphene layers and single-walled carbon nanotubes with regularized $\delta $-function potentials
Han Hsu , L.E. Reichl

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Session B3: General Experimental II

Waldorf Astoria B - 210B

Friday, October 21, 2005
2:00PM - 2:12PM

B3.00001: Thermodynamics and Anharmonicity in Dilute Vanadium Alloys
Jorge Munoz , Olivier Delaire , Brent Fultz

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Friday, October 21, 2005
2:12PM - 2:24PM

B3.00002: Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Cesium Molecule
Hui Chen , Vladimir Sautenkov , Yuri Rostovtsev , Hebin Li , Marlan Scully

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Friday, October 21, 2005
2:24PM - 2:36PM

B3.00003: Gallium NMR Study of Type-I Clathrates
Weiping Gou , Yang Li , Ji Chi , Joseph H. Ross , G.S. Nolas

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Friday, October 21, 2005
2:36PM - 2:48PM

B3.00004: How the Cookie Crumbles: Data Analysis for Experimental Granular Materials Research
Victoria Winbow , R.J. Zieve

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Friday, October 21, 2005
2:48PM - 3:00PM

B3.00005: Magnetic and Physical Properties of Nd$_{2}$Ni$_{2}$Pb and NdNiPb
V. Goruganti , Yang Li , Joseph H. Ross, Jr. , K. D. D. Rathnayaka , Y. Oner

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Session B4: Nanotechnology

Waldorf Astoria C - 210C

Friday, October 21, 2005
2:00PM - 2:12PM

B4.00001: Crystallography of metallic nanowires fabricated by hydraulic pressure injection
Zhiping Luo

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Friday, October 21, 2005
2:12PM - 2:24PM

B4.00002: Investigation of Giant Magnetoresistance in thin Ni-Cu-NiFe Structures
C.D. Stehno , W.J. Yeh

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Friday, October 21, 2005
2:24PM - 2:36PM

B4.00003: HgSe Semiconductor Nanoclusters in Zeolite
A.M. Milinda Abeykoon , E.A. Anokhina , Miguel Castro-Colin , Simon C. Moss , A.J. Jacobson , W. Donner

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Friday, October 21, 2005
2:36PM - 2:48PM

B4.00004: A Vibrating String Model to Explain Microwave Heating of Carbon Nanotubes
James Roberts , Zhou Ye , Bill Deering , Krokhin Arkady

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Friday, October 21, 2005
2:48PM - 3:00PM

B4.00005: Negative static dielectric constant in a nano-colloid
Jason Shulman , Feng Chen , Stephen Tsui , Yuyi Xue , C.W. Chu

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Session B5: Computational I

Waldorf Astoria Main - 210M

Friday, October 21, 2005
2:00PM - 2:12PM

B5.00001: Electronic structure and Schottky-barrier height of Si/PtSi interface
Manish Niranjan , Stefan Zollner , Leonard Kleinman , Alex Demkov

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Friday, October 21, 2005
2:12PM - 2:24PM

B5.00002: Pressure-Induce phase transition of ZnS
Israel Martinez , Murat Durandurdu

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Friday, October 21, 2005
2:24PM - 2:36PM

B5.00003: Internal dielectric interface: SiO$_{2}$/HfO$_{2}$.
Onise Sharia , Alex Demkov , Genadi Bersuker , Byoung Hun Lee

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Friday, October 21, 2005
2:36PM - 2:48PM

B5.00004: Surface States and Annihilation Characteristics of Positrons Trapped at Reconstructed Surfaces of Silicon
Nail G. Fazleev

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Session B6: Poster Session II

Waldorf Astoria - Lobby




B6.00001: Previously Unobserved Emission Lines in Neutral Helium Edge Plasma Conditions
Timothy Imholt , Adam Pirkle , Daniel Pirkle , Orlando Cabarcos , Erich Gross , Bruce Gnade , David Allara

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B6.00002: Analysis of several Methods of Determining the Concentration of $^{11}$B on Implanted Si Wafers used in the Semiconductor Industry.
Nelson Martinez , Matthew McCleskey , M.E. Peretich , G. Downing , J.L. Duggan , Fabian Naab , B.N. Guo

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B6.00003: Properties of nickel silicide formed by rapid thermal processing of thin Ni layers on Si (001)
S. Zollner , S. Bolton , D. Jawarani , X. Zhu , R.B. Gregory , J. Alvis , R. Noble , M. Jahanbani , B.-Y. Nguyen

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B6.00004: Fabrication of Waveguides for Characterization of Low-k Dielectric Thin Films
James McDonald , Kevin Radican , Heather Galloway , David Donnelly , Deborah Koeck

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B6.00005: Implementation of a Thermal Desorption Apparatus in High-k Dielectrics
Ezekiel Walker , Vaishali Ukirde , Mohamed El Bouanani

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B6.00006: Empirical Evaluation of a Novel Design for an electrostatic Quadrupole Triplet Ion Beam Lens
L.R. Burns

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B6.00007: Microstructural Analysis of Ternary NiTiPt High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys
E. Stenmark

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B6.00008: Exploration of Three-Dimensional Magnetic Vortex Structures by Using Scanning Ion Microscopy with Polarization Analysis (SIMPA)
Jian Li

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B6.00009: Radiation Effects in Cu-doped Lithium Tetraborate Glass
Barbara Johnson

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B6.00010: $^{37}$Al(p,y)$^{28}$
Kristi A. Michels

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B6.00011: Dissipation of classical energy in nonlinear quantum systems
Yuriy Pereverzev , Andrey Pereverzev , Oleg Prezhdo

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B6.00012: AL A\&M
Philip Land

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B6.00013: Investigation of Giant Magnetoresistance in thin Ni-Cu-NiFe Structures
C.D. Stehno

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B6.00014: Shifting of Cholesterol Maximum Solubility in Lipid Bilayers by Ceramide
M.R. Ali , J. Huang

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