Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
2:30PM - 2:42PM 
 
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S44.00001: Au Bowtie Nanostructures for Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy 
Daniel Ward, Nathaniel Grady, Carly Levin, Naomi Halas, Douglas Natelson
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
2:42PM - 2:54PM 
 
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S44.00002: Optical Response of Metal Nanoantennas to Femtosecond Pulses 
Sushmita Biswas, Albert Heberle
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
2:54PM - 3:06PM 
 
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S44.00003: Two-Photon Vibrational Spectroscopy using local optical fields of gold and silver nanostructures 
Katrin Kneipp, Janina Kneipp, Harald Kneipp
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
3:06PM - 3:18PM 
 
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S44.00004: Interparticle and Interfacial Effects on Second Harmonic Generation from Gold Nanoparticles 
Matthew McMahon, Davon Ferrara, Richard Haglund
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
3:18PM - 3:30PM 
 
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S44.00005: Strong Field Enhancement in a Scanning Nanogap for Infrared Imaging of Single Nanoparticles (lambda/1000) 
Javier Aizpurua, Antonija Cvitkovic, Nenad Ocelic, Reinhard Guckenberger, Rainer Hillenbrand
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
3:30PM - 3:42PM 
 
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S44.00006: Enhanced thermal emission from individual antenna-like nanoheaters 
Snorri Ingvarsson, James A. Lacey, Hendrik F. Hamann
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
3:42PM - 3:54PM 
 
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S44.00007: Plasmon Assisted Heating of Metal Nanoparticles 
Adam Bushmaker, David Boyd, Rajay Kumar, David Goodwin, Stephen Cronin
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
3:54PM - 4:06PM 
 
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S44.00008: Modifying the visual appearance of metal nanoparticle composites by infrared laser annealing 
Andrej Halabica, J. C. Indrobo, R. H. Magruder III, R. F. Haglund Jr., J. M. Epp, S. Rashkeev, L. A. Boatner, S. J. Pennycook, S. T. Pantelides
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
4:06PM - 4:18PM 
 
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S44.00009: First Principles Absorption Spectra of Si$_n$ ($n=20-28$) Clusters: TDLDA versus Predictions from Mie Theory 
Koblar Jackson, Juan C. Idrobo, Serdar Ogut, Mingli Yang
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
4:18PM - 4:30PM 
 
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S44.00010: Optical Properties of Cage Versus Space-Filling Gold Clusters: A TDLDA Study 
Weronika Walkosz, Juan C. Idrobo, Serdar Ogut, Jinlan Wang, Julius Jellinek
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
4:30PM - 4:42PM 
 
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S44.00011: Isomeric Forms, Polarizabilities, and Optical Absorption Spectra of Ag$_{11}$ 
Serdar Ogut, Juan C. Idrobo, Karoly Nemeth, Julius Jellinek
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
4:42PM - 4:54PM 
 
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S44.00012: Preparation and control of optical properties of plasmonic crystals using colloidal crystals as templates. 
Zhen-Lin Wang, Peng Zhan, Nai-Ben Ming
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
4:54PM - 5:06PM 
 
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S44.00013: Optical Metamaterials at Near IR Range Fabricated by Nanoimprint Lithography 
E. Kim, W. Wu, E. Ponizovskaya, Y.R. Shen, A. Bratkovsky, S.Y. Wang
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
5:06PM - 5:18PM 
 
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S44.00014: Nanoparticles in alumina: Microscopy and Theory 
Juan C. Idrobo, Andrej Halabica, Sergey Rashkeev, Michael V. Glazoff, Lynn A. Boatner, Richard F. Haglund, Stephen. J. Pennycook, Sokrates T. Pantelides
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
5:18PM - 5:30PM 
 
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S44.00015: Probing the Surface Guided Modes from Infrared to Ultraviolet by Fast Electrons 
Aycan Yurtsever, Martin Couillard, David A. Muller
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