Program overview (TEST)

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 20 MARCH 1996

14:30 K1.01 Fermi Surface Evolution with Doping in the Underdoped Cuprates

Andrey Chubukov (University of Wisconsin, 1150 University ave., Madison, WI, 53706)

15:06 K1.02 Destruction of Fermi liquid quasiparticles in two dimensions by critical fluctuations

Andr'e-Marie Tremblay (Département de physique and Centre de Recherche en Physique du Solide, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Qc J1K 2R1, Canada)

15:42 K1.03 Theory of Short-Range Magnetic Order

Alexander Sokol (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801)

16:18 K1.04 Photoemission from Underdoped Cuprates.\footnotemark[1]\footnotemark[2]

Patrick A. Lee (MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139--4307)

16:54 K1.05 Spectral Function in Antiferromagnetically Correlated Metals

Arno P. Kampf (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln, Germany)

14:30 K2.01 Ultrathin Dielectrics: Perspectives, Limits, and Defect Interactions

J.H. Stathis (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY)

15:06 K2.02 Properties and Applications of Silicon Oxynitride Gate Dielectrics.

K. S. Krisch (ATamp;T Bell Laboratories.)

15:42 K2.03 First-Principles Study of Models for the Si-SiO_2 Interface.^\ast

Alfredo Pasquarello (IRRMA, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland)

16:18 K2.04 Ion Scattering Studies of Silicon Oxide Growth in the Ultrathin Film Regime

E. Garfunkel (Department of Chemistry, and Laboratory for Surface Modification, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08855)

16:54 K2.05 Second-Harmonic Generation as a Probe of the Buried Si-SiO_ 2 Interface

G. Lüpke (University of Aachen, Germany)

14:30 K3.01 Mysteries at Ice Interfaces

Samuel C. Fain Jr (U. Washington, Physics, Seattle, WA 98195-1560)

15:06 K3.02 The Amazing Shrinking Magnets

Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky (Behlen Laboratory for Physics and Center for Materials Research amp; Analysis, University of Nebraska)

15:42 K3.03 Instability Cascades: How Water Drops Form

Jay Patel (Pennsylvania State University)

16:18 K3.04 How Do Cells Know Where to Go?

James A. Glazier (Department of Physics University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556-5670)

16:54 K3.05 Dynamics of Single DNA Molecules in Elongational Flows

Thomas T. Perkins (Dept. of Physics, Stanford University)

14:30 K4.01 Dynamic Force Spectroscopy of Weak Adhesive Bonds

E. Evans (University of British Columbia)

15:06 K4.02 Physical Aspects of Adhesion of Leukocytes

R. Bruinsma (University of California- Los Angeles)

15:42 K4.03 Surface Tensions of Embryonic Tissues Predict Their Mutual Envelopement Behavior.

G. Forgacs (Clarkson University, Potsdam, N.Y.)

16:18 K4.04 Adhesive Dynamics Stimulations of Static and Dynamic Friction in Cell Adhesion

Daniel Hammer (Cornell University)

16:54 K4.05 Molecular Forces and Mechanisms Controlling Receptor-mediated Bioadhesion

D.E. Leckband (University of Illinois, Dept. of Chemical Engineering)

14:30 K5.01 Measuring Forces by Atomic Force Microscopy: Chemical Imaging, Molecular Recognition and Biosensors

Richard J. Colton (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC)

15:06 K5.02 Millimeter Distance Measurements With The NIST Molecular Measuring Machine

E.Clayton Teague (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland)

15:42 K5.03 Recent Developments in Scanning Probe Microscopy for Optical and Electronic Characterization of Surfaces

C. C. Williams (Department of Physics, University of Utah)

16:18 K5.04 Creating and Using Novel Step Morphologies on Silicon Surfaces^*

Ellen D. Williams (Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111, U.S.A.)

14:30 K6.01 Vibrational Predissociation Dynamics of Aromatic Clusters with Internal Rotation

Charles S. Parmenter (Indiana University, Bloomington)

14:30 K7.01 Polymer Dynamics at the Air/Water Interface.

Hyuk Yu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

15:06 K7.02 Long-range Influence of Polymer-Surface Interactions on Polymer Diffusion

J. Sokolov (SUNY at Stony Brook)

15:42 K7.03 Two different molecular mechanisms for slip at melt/solid interfaces

S.Q. Wang, P.A. Drda (Case Westernn Reserve University)

15:54 K7.04 Kinetics of Interfacial Structure Formation in \ Reactive Blend Compatibilization

Uday Sawhney, Ben O'Shaughnessy (Columbia University)

16:06 K7.05 Nanorheology on Diluted Polymer Brushes by Atomic Force Microscopy

R. M. Overney, D. P. Leta (Exxon Research and Engineering Company, 1545, Route 22 East, Annandale, NJ 08801), M. Rafailovich, Y. Liu, J. Quinn, J. Sokolov (Department of Material Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, N.Y. 11794-2275)

16:18 K7.06 Nanorheology of Polymers and Block Copolymers

Steve Granick (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

16:54 K7.07 Polymer Mobility In Thin Films

Benjamin Frank, Alice P. Gast (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA), Thomas P. Russell, Hugh R. Brown, Craig Hawker (IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA)

17:06 K7.08 Electrophoretic Mobility of an Asymmetric Reptating Polymer

Daniel P. Aalberts (Inst. Lorentz, Leiden Univ.)

17:18 K7.09 Kinetic Aspects in Equilibration of a Polymer Solution with Confining Geometry

Iwao Teraoka, Anil Dube (Polytechnic University)

17:30 K7.10 Onset of Entanglements in Block Copolymer Lamellae

J.S. Shaffer, X. Pan (Departments of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California)

14:30 K9.01 %Driven Plastic Vortex Lattice Interacting with a %Rigid Disordered Substrate. Vortex Plastic Flow in Superconductors: %with % Uncorrelated and Correlated (e.g., Twins, Periodic Array of Pinning Sites) %Pinning: Dynamical Computing and Visualizing Dynamical Instabilities, Flux Cascades, Voltage Bursts, and the Derivation of Macroscopic Magnetic Quantities % (e.g., B(x,y,H(t)), J_c(x,y,H(t)), M(H(t))) from the Microscopic Dynamics of Individual Flux Lines

Franco Nori (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

15:06 K9.02 Nonequilibrium Vortex Dynamics near the Critical State

O. Taylor, E.R. Nowak, Li Liu, H.M. Jaeger (University of Chicago*), T.J. Selinger (Argonne National Laboratory)

15:18 K9.03 Spatial Imaging of Vortex Avalanches

J. Siegel, J. Witt, S. Field (Univ. of Michigan), R. Hey, K. Ploog (Paul-Drude-Institut, Berlin)

15:30 K9.04 Flux Jump Avalanches in YBCO Superconductors

A.P. Hope, M.J. Naughton (SUNY Buffalo), D.A. Gajewski, M.B. Maple (UCSD)

15:42 K9.05 Vortex-Motion-Induced Voltage Noise in $YBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta Single Crystals

G. D'Anna, P.L. Gammel, G. Alers, D.J. Bishop (AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill), J. Giapintzakis, D.M. Ginsberg (Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana)

15:54 K9.06 Reproducibility of Magnetic Avalanches in a Ferromagnet

J. S. Urbach, R. C. Madison, J. T. Markert (Univ. of Texas, Austin)

16:06 K9.07 Repeatable Barkhausen Noise

M.B. Weissman, J. Petta, Kevin P. O'Brien (U. of IL, Urbana-Champaign)

16:18 K9.08 Cluster expansion of 3D zero temperature random-field Ising model

Naresh K. Kannan, M.E.J. Newman, James P. Sethna (LASSP, Cornell University)

14:30 K10.01 Transport Properties of Superconducting Arrays with Long Range Interaction

H.R. Shea, M.A. Itzler, M. Tinkham (Harvard University)

14:42 K10.02 RF Enhanced Long Range Phase Coherence in Large Proximity Coupled Josephson Junction Arrays

Y.C. Hui, E.B. Harris, J.C. Garland (The Ohio State University)

14:54 K10.03 Voltage Splay States in a Parallel-Biased Josephson Junction Array

E. B. Harris, J. C. Garland (Ohio State University)

15:06 K10.04 Phase Transitions in a kagomé Lattice of Josephson Junctions

M.S. Rzchowski (Physics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison,)

15:18 K10.05 Dynamics of Systems with Multi-junction Superconducting Loops

Marian Darula, Stefan Beuven, Michael Siegel, Alex I. Braginski (Institut für Schicht-und Ionentechnik, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52425 Jülich, Germany), Paul Seidel, Alexandra Darulova (Institut für Festkörperphysik, Friedrich Schiller Universität, D-07743 Jena, Germany)

15:30 K10.06 Current-induced collective vortex dynamics in inductive Josephson junction arrays

T.J. Hagenaars (Uni Würzburg, Germany), J.E. van Himbergen, P.H.E. Tiesinga (Utrecht U., The Netherlands), Jorge V. José (Northeastern U., Boston), S.G. Lachenmann (KFA Jülich, Germany), T. Doderer, R.P. Huebener (Uni Tübingen, Germany)

15:42 K10.07 Investigation of the Temperature Dependence of the Current-Voltage Exponent for the Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition in Two-Dimensional Josephson Junction Arrays

S.T. Herbert (Xavier University), Y. Jun, L.B. Gomez, Said Elhamri, K. Ravindran, D.B. Mast, R.S. Newrock (University of Cincinnati)

15:54 K10.08 Phase Transitions in the Frustrated XY Model

Colin Denniston (Princeton University), Chao Tang (NEC Research Institute)

16:06 K10.09 Spatial and temporal correlation functions in Josephson junction arrays with and without a current bias

P.H.E. Tiesinga, J.E. van Himbergen (University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands), Jorge V. José (Northeastern University, Boston), T.J. Hagenaars (Uni Würzburg, Germany)

16:18 K10.10 Ginsburg-Landau theory for three-dimensional Josephon-junction arrays.

R. S. Newrock, L. B. Gomez, Said Elhamri, D. B. Mast (Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati), S. Herbert (Department of Physics, Xavier University, Cincinnati), C. J. Lobb (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland)

16:30 K10.11 Nature of Phase Transitions of Superconducting Wire Networks in a Magnetic Field

X.S. Ling, M.J. Higgins, C. Tang, P.M. Chaikin, S. Bhattacharya (NEC Research Institute), H.J. Lezec, J.S. Tsai, J. Fujita, H. Numata, Y. Nakamura, Y. Ochiai (NEC Fundamental Research Laboratories)

16:42 K10.12 Local chaos induces global coherent vortex states in driven underdamped Josephson junction arrays

Jorge V. José (Northeastern University, Boston), T.J. Hagenaars (Uni Würzburg, Germany), J.E. van Himbergen, P.H.E. Tiesinga (Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands)

14:30 K11.01 Langevin Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulations of Flux Liquids and Flux Lattices in a Model for YBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta

Seungoh Ryu, D. Stroud (Ohio State University)

14:42 K11.02 High field study of vortex lattice melting by ^17O NMR in YBa_2Cu_3O_7.

A. P. Reyes, W. P. HALPERIN (Northwestern University), J. A. martindale, P. C. hammel (Los Alamos National Laboratory), P. Kuhns, A. KLEINHAMMES, W. G. MOULTON (NHMFL)

14:54 K11.03 Anomalous planar ^17O spin-spin relaxation in the superconducting state of YBa_2Cu_3O_7

H. N. bachman, A. P. Reyes, W. P. HALPERIN (Northwestern University), J. A. martindale, P. C. hammel (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:06 K11.04 Second-order vortex phase transition parameters in Au-doped single crystals of YBCO -- apparent translational order dependence

Brandon Brown, J.M. Roberts, J. Tate (Oregon State University)

15:18 K11.05 Two Dimensional ^89Y NMR Study of Vortex Dynamics in YBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta

Y.-Q. Song (Dept of Chemistry, Univ. of California, Berkeley)

15:30 K11.06 Observation of Defect-Independent ab-Plane Vortex Dynamics in YBa_2Cu_3O_7 Single Crystals with the First and Third Harmonic Transmittivity Measurements

W. Jiang, N.-C. Yeh, C.-C. Fu (Caltech), B. Schmidt, M. Konczykowski (Ecole Polytechnique, France)

15:42 K11.07 Columnar Defects as a Probe of the Vortex Liquid in YBa_2Cu_3O_7.

M. V. Feigel'man (L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, 117940 Moscow, Russia), A. V. Samoilov (114-36 Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125), M. Konszykowski (Laboratoire des Solides Irradiès, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France), F. Holtzberg (Emeritus IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598)

15:54 K11.08 Vortex Shear Modulus, Vortex Melting, and Peak Effect in Twin Boundary Channels of YBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta

Wai K. Kwok, John A. Fendrich, Alex E. Koshelev, Valerii M. Vinokur, George W. Crabtree (Material Science Division amp; Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439)

16:06 K11.09 High Field Torque Investigations of the Irreversibility Line in YBCO

M.J. Leone, D.K. Petrov, A.P. Hope, M.J. Naughton (SUNY Buffalo)

16:18 K11.10 Suppression of the Vortex Melting Transition in YBa_2Cu _3O_7-/delta by Proton Irradiation

A.M. PETREAN, L.M. PAULIUS, J.A. FENDRICH, W.-K KWOK, G.W. CRABTREE, RE. SHAMU, S.M. FERGUSON

16:30 K11.11 Far Infrared Magneto-Conductivity Tensor of Superconducting YBa_2Cu_3O_7 thin films

H.-T. S. Lihn, S. Wu, S. G. Kaplan, H. D. Drew (Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 and Laboratory for Physical Sciences, College Park, MD 20740.)

16:42 K11.12 Complex resistivity of the vortex lattice at melting transition in untwinned YBa_2Cu_3O_7.

Hui Wu, N. P. Ong (Princeton University), R. Gagnon, L. Taillefer (McGill University)

16:54 K11.13 Thermodynamic Evidence for a Flux Line Lattice Melting Transition in YBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta

Ulrich Welp, John A. Fendrich, Wai K. Kwok, George W. Crabtree, Boyd W. Veal (Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity amp; Material Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439)

17:06 K11.14 Vortex Lattice Melting in YBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta

John A. Fendrich, Ulrich Welp, Wai K. Kwok, George W. Crabtree (Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity amp; Material Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439)

17:18 K11.15 Hall Magnetometry measurements and melting transition of the flux lattice in YBCO

M. Charalambous, B. Billon, P. Lejay, J. Chaussy (CRTBT, CNRS, 25, Av. des Martyrs, BP166-38042 Grenoble Cedex 9)

14:30 K12.01 Influence of a Magnetic Field on the Antiferromagnetic Order in UPt_3

Benoit Lussier, Louis Taillefer (McGill University), William J. L. Buyers (AECL Chalk River), Thom E. Mason, Thom Petersen (University of Toronto)

14:42 K12.02 Magnetic Field Dependence of the Energy Gap of SmB6

Alax Lacerda, J.D. Goettee (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos Facility), J.L. Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory), A. Kebede (Phys. Department, North Carolina State Univ.)

14:54 K12.03 Measurement of the de Haas-van Alphen effect in cerium hexaboride

Donavan Hall, R. G. Goodrich (Louisiana State University), F. M. Mueller (STC, Los Alamos)

15:06 K12.04 Angle-Resolved Photoemission of SmB_6

J.A. Clack, G.-H. Gweon, J.W. Allen (The University of Michigan), D.M. Poirier, C.G. Olson, P.C. Canfield (Ames Laboratory)

15:18 K12.05 Light Scattering from Charge Gap Excitations and Bound State s in SmB_6

P.A. Nyhus, S.L. Cooper (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Z. Fisk, J. Sarrao (National High Field Magnet Lab)

15:30 K12.06 Pressure Dependence of the Correlation Gap in Ce_3Bi_4Pt_3

M. C. Aronson, J. C. Cooley (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120), P. C. Canfield (Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011)

15:42 K12.07 Anomalous Thermodynamic Properties at Low Temperatures in PrInAg_2 and PrBiPt.

W. P. Beyermann, A. Yatskar (University of California, Riverside), P. C. Canfield (Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University)

15:54 K12.08 Crystal-field excitations in UPdSn

H. Nakotte, R.A. Robinson (MLNSC, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM 87545), Bull M, McEwen K. (Birkbeck College, University of London, London, U.K), Ecclestone R. (ISIS, RAL, U.K.), Bruck E. (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

16:06 K12.09 High Pressure Magnetoresistance of Ferromagnetic EuB_6

J. C. Cooley, M. C. Aronson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109), Z. Fisk, J. Sarrao (NHMFL Florida State University, Tallahassee FL, 32306)

16:18 K12.10 ESR of Gd^3+ in the Intermediate Valence Compound YbInCu _4

C. Rettori, S.B. Oseroff (San Diego State University), P.G. Pagliuso, D. Rao, G.E. Barberis (Instiuto de Física "Gleb Wataghin", UNICAMP), J. Sarrao, Z. Fisk (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)

16:30 K12.11 YbIn_1-xAg_xCu_4: Crossover from First-Order Valence Transition to Heavy Fermion Behavior.

J.L. Sarrao, C.L. Benton, Z. Fisk (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL), J.M. Lawrence (Dept. of Physics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA), D. Mandrus, Y.Y. Chen, J.D. Thompson (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM)

16:42 K12.12 Inelastic Neutron Scattering in Single Crystal YbInCu_4

J. M. Lawrence (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine), S. M. Shapiro (Brookhaven National Lab.), J. L. Sarrao, Z. Fisk (Florida State University), J. D. Thompson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:54 K12.13 Electrical Conductivity and Magnetic Characteristics of the NiS_2-xSe_x System

Jurgen M. Honig, Xiaoqiang Yao, Patricia Metcalf, Jozef Spa\lek (Purdue University)

17:06 K12.14 Incommensurate magnetic structure of UNiGe

A. Purwanto (Los Alamos National Laboratory and National Atomic Energy Agency, Indonesia), R.A. Robinson, H. Nakotte, A.C. Larson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Z. Tun (Chalk River Laboratories, Canada), V. Sechovský, L. Havela (Charles University, the Czech Republic), K. Proke\vs, E. Brück, F.R. de Boer (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

14:30 K13.01 Contrasting Dynamic Spin Susceptibility Models and their Relation to High-T_c Superconductivity

H.--B. Schüttler (University of Georgia), M. R. Norman (Argonne Natl. Lab.)

14:42 K13.02 Implications of Charge Ordering for Single-Particle Properties of High-T_c Superconductors

M.I. Salkola (Department of Physics, McMaster University), V.J. Emery (Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory), S.A. Kivelson (Department of Physics, University of California at Los Angeles)

14:54 K13.03 Spin Fluctuation Excitation in La_2-xSr_xCuO_4: Neutron Scattering and ^63Cu NMR Experiments Reconciled

D. Pines, Y. Zha (UIUC & STCS), V. Barzykin (UBC)

15:06 K13.04 Spin Fluctuation Excitations in La_1.86Sr_0.14CuO_4: Neutron Scattering and ^17O NMR Experiments Reconciled

Y. Zha, D. Pines (UIUC and STCS), V. Barzykin (Physics Dept., UBC)

15:18 K13.05 Spin Fluctuation Excitations in the YBCO System: Neutron Scattering and NMR Experiments Reconciled.

Victor Barzykin (Physics Dept. UBC), Yuyao Zha, David Pines (Physics Dept. UIUC amp; STCS)

15:30 K13.06 Quasiparticle Scattering Rate and Antiferromagnetic Excitations in YBa_2Cu_3O_7.

Branko P. Stojkovi\'c, G. Blumberg, M. V. Klein (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:42 K13.07 Spin dynamics in underdoped cuprates.

Thomas Wolenski, Joachim Appel (Universität Hamburg, Germany)

15:54 K13.08 Doped planar quantum antiferromagnets with striped phases

Antonio H. Castro Neto (University of California, Riverside), Daniel Hone (University of California, Santa Barbara)

16:06 K13.09 First-Principle Investigation of Hyperfine Fields at ^119 Sn in Antiferromagnetic and Superconducting La_2CuO_4

S.B. SULAIMAN (University Sains Malaysia, Penang 11800 Malaysia), G. GOWRI, SUDHA SRINIVAS, T.P. DAS (State University of NewYork at Albany)

16:18 K13.10 Anisotropic Phenomenology of the Magnetic Properties of High-T_c Superconductors

Wei Lu, Peter Riseborough (Polytechnic University)

16:30 K13.11 Fermi Liquid Damping and NMR Relaxation in Superconductors

Shubha Tewari, John Ruvalds (University of Virginia)

16:42 K13.12 Magnetoabsorption of Large Bipolarons

V. M. Fomin, J. T. Devreese, F. Brosens (University of Antwerp (U.I.A.), Belgium)

16:54 K13.13 Effects of Impurity Vertex Correction on NMR Coherence Peak of s-wave Superconductors

Han-Yong Choi (Sung Kyun Kwan University)

17:06 K13.14 Theory of the Resonant Neutron Scattering of High-Temperature Superconductors

Shou-Cheng Zhang, Eugene Demler (Stanford University)

14:30 K14.01 Electron-Phonon Scattering and Heat Flow in GaAs/AlGaAs 2DEG Samples below 0.5K.

A. Mittal, R.J. Zieve, D.E. Prober, R.G. Wheeler (Yale Univ.), R.N. Sacks (Ohio State Univ.)

14:42 K14.02 Phonon transport in semiconductor heterostructures

Per Hyldgaard, Gerald D. Mahan (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, U. of Tennessee)

14:54 K14.03 Drag in paired electron-hole layers

G. Vignale (University of Missouri-Columbia), Allan MacDonald (Indiana University)

15:06 K14.04 Radiation patterns of acoustic phonons emitted by hot electrons in GaAs/AlAs quantum wells

G. Paulavicius, N. Bannov, V. Mitin (Wayne State University, Detroit)

15:18 K14.05 Coulomb Drag in a Magnetic Field

M.C. BØNSAGER, B.Y.-K. HU, K. FLENSBERG, A.-P. JAUHO (Mikroelektronik Centret, Technical University of Denmark)

15:30 K14.06 Quantum Localization Effects on Electron Transport in Quantum Wells.

K.A. CHAO (Department of Physics, The University of Trondheim - NTH, Trondheim, Norway), A.G. MAL'SHUKOV (Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Science, Troitsk, Russia), M. WILLANDER (Department of Physics and Measurement Technology, The University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden.)

15:42 K14.07 Weak Antilocalization and Spin Precession in Quantum Wells

F.G. Pikus (UCSB), G.E. Pikus (A.F. Ioffe Institute)

15:54 K14.08 Effect of an Electric Field on the Scattering of Excitons by Free Carriers in a Semiconducting Quantum Well Structure

H.N. Spector (IIT), Y.P. Feng, T.S. Koh (National Univ. Singapore)

16:06 K14.09 Scattering of Plasmons in a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Electron Gas containing an Impurity Charge.

S. RUDIN (U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Fort Monmouth, NJ), T. L. REINECKE (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.)

16:18 K14.10 Increase of Electron-Electron Scattering Rates in 2 Dimensional Electron Gases in Intermediate Magnetic Fields

X. Feng, H. Noh, T. J. Gramila (Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA), L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West (ATamp;T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ)

16:30 K14.11 Probing Interface Roughness With Quantum Transport: Suppression of

Harsh Mathur (Case Western Reserve University), H. U. Baranger (ATamp;T Bell Laboratories)

16:42 K14.12 Ballistic transport in systems with rough walls.

Alexander Meyerovich (Department of Physics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881), Sergey Stepaniants (Theoretical Biophysics, The Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801)

16:54 K14.13 Electron Scattering Rates in Thin GaAs/AlAs Quantum Wells

I.C. da Cunha Lima, G. Weber (Universidade São Francisco, Itatiba, Brazil), P.D. Emmel (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil), T.L. Reinecke (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C.)

17:06 K14.14 Imaging interfaces of GaAs/InGaAs by ballistic-electron-emission microscopy (BEEM)

Edwin Lee, Sidharth Bhargava, Kevin Pond, Maurice Chin, Arthur Gossard, Venky Narayanamurti (University of California, College of Engineering, Santa Barbara)

17:18 K14.15 Theory of Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy of Buried Semiconductor Heterostructures

Sh. Kogan, D. L. Smith (Los Alamos National Lab.)

14:30 K15.01 Photoluminescence and Transport in Disordered

D.G. Chtchekine, L.P. Fu, G.D. Gilliland (Emory University), Hosun Lee, H.P. Hjalmarson (Sandia National Laboratories), J.G. Yu, M.G. Craford (Hewlett Packard)

14:42 K15.02 Low-Temperature Near-Field Studies of InGaP Ordering Domains

H. D. Robinson, H. Ghaemi, B. B. Goldberg (Boston University Physics Dept.), P. Ernst (Physikalisches Inst., Univ. Stuttgart)

14:54 K15.03 Phonon Assisted Indirect Transition, Impurity-bound Excitons and D-A Pair Spectra in GaP

H. Alawadhi, R. Vogelgesang, T. P. Chin, J. M. Woodall, A. K. Ramdas (Purdue U.)

15:06 K15.04 Dark States in Coherent Semiconductor Spectroscopy

Markus Lindberg (Åbo Akademi, Åbo, Finland)

15:42 K15.05 Spectral Shift of Galvanomagnetic Luminescence of Intrinsic InSb

Floyd James (North Carolina A & T State Univ.), Paul Berdahl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Fernando Diaz, John Borja (Univ. Metropolitana, Rio Piedras,P.R.)

15:54 K15.06 Electron Relaxation near the Fermi edge of n-type InGaAs

D. Cohen (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia), C. R. Pollock (School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University)

16:06 K15.07 Electronic and Structural Modifications of GaAs by Intense Laser Pulses

J.S. Graves, R.E. Allen (Dept. of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University)

16:18 K15.08 Photocurrent Generation in Bulk and Quantum Wells

R. Atanasov, J.E. Sipe, A. Haché, J.L.P. Hughes, H.M. van Driel (University of Toronto)

16:30 K15.09 Raman Spectra of Zinc Chalcogenides Across Their Pressure-Induced Phase Transitions

Frederick G. Moore (Whitman College, Department of Physics), Jose Menendez (Arizona State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy)

16:42 K15.10 Raman Studies of Spontaneously Ordered GaInP_2

H.M. Cheong, A. Mascarenhas (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO), P. Ernst, C. Geng (4 Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany)

K15.11 Magneto-optical study on ultrathin ZnTe epilayers

S. Lee, M. Dobrowolska, J.K. Furdyna (University of Notre Dame)

14:30 K16.01 Dynamics of Light Adatoms on Metal (110) Surfaces

E. Altshuler, D. L. Mills (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.), R. B. Gerber (Fritz Haber Institute, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)

14:42 K16.02 Adatom diffusion on stepped surfaces

Juha Me\-ri\-kos\-ki, See-Chen Ying (Department of Physics, Brown University)

14:54 K16.03 Surface Diffusion Analysis from 2-d Concentration Profiles.

J. R. Sanchez (Universitat Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina), M. C. Tringides (Ames Laboratory*, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011)

15:06 K16.04 Evidence for Electron Localization by the Step-Edge Potential for Electrons in the n=1 Image State on Cu(111)

X. J. Shen, X. Y. Wang, Jr Osgood (Columbia Radiation Laboratory, Columbia University)

15:18 K16.05 Structural studies of alkali metal adsorption and coadsorption

A. M. Bradshaw (Fritz-Haber-Institut, 14195 Berlin, Germany)

15:30 K16.06 NO chemisorption properties on transition metals Pd, Pt and Rh

W. Mannstadt, A. J. Freeman (Northwestern U.)

15:42 K16.07 Ab initio Calculations of C_2 Hydrocarbons Adsorbed on Metal Surfaces

Keith Glassford (Dept. of Materials Sc. and Eng., Univ. of Illinois), Richard Martin (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Illinois), James B. Adams (Dept. of Materials Sc. and Eng., Univ. of Illinois)

15:54 K16.08 Photoemission Spectroscopy and LEED of Ultra-thin Gd Films on Mo(112)

C. W. Hutchings, C. Waldfried, D. N. McIlroy, P. A. Dowben (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

16:06 K16.09 Overlayer Formation and Miscibility of Sn on Pt(111)

Ahlam N. AL-Rawi, Abdelkader Kara, Talat S. Rahman (Kansas State University)

16:18 K16.10 Ab initio derived Cl-Ta potential and its application to Cl/Cl_2 scattering off Ta 110 surface

Jing Zhu, David B. Boercker, Christine J. Wu (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA)

16:30 K16.11 Structure Determination Of Chemisorbed C(2x2)P/Fe(100) Using Angle-Resolved Photoemission Extended Fine Structure

W. Huff, Y. Chen, S. Kellar, E. Moler, Z. Hussain, H. Wu, Y. Zheng, Z. Huang (LBNL), X. Zhang (Zhejiang U.), L. Terminello, A. Schach von Wittenau (LLNL), S. Kim (KIT), Z. Yang (Jilin U.), F. Tao, Y. Pan (Boston College), X. Zhou, D.A. Shirley (Penn. St. U.)

16:42 K16.12 The Growth Mode and Electronic Properties of Thick Films of Gd on Mo(112)

Carlo Waldfried, D. N. McIlroy, C. Hutchings, P. A. Dowben (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

K16.13 Gas Adsorption On Metallic Films Monitored By Resistance Measurements

A. L. Cabrera, W. Garrido (P. Univ. Catolica de Chile, F. Fisica, Casilla 306, Santiago 22), J. Colino, D. Lederman, I. K. Schuller (UCSD, Physics Dept., La Jolla, CA 92093-0319)

14:30 K17.01 Epitaxial Growth of Flat Ag Films on GaAs(110) via Low Tempe rature Deposition

K.-J. Chao, A.R. Smith, C.K. Shih (Univ. of Texas at Austin)

14:42 K17.02 Surfactant-Mediated Epitaxy of Metastable SnGe Alloys

Paul F. Lyman (Northwestern University), Michael J. Bedzyk (Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory)

14:54 K17.03 X-ray Investigation of Ferromagnetic MnAs Thin Films Grown on GaAs(001) by MBE

S. Huang, Z.H. Ming, Y.L. Soo, Y.H. Kao (SUNY at Buffalo), M. Tanaka (University of Tokyo), H. Munekata (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

15:06 K17.04 Islanding on Strained-Layer Semiconducting Films. ^\ast

K. E. KHOR, S. DAS SARMA (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Maryland at College Park.)

15:18 K17.05 Determination of Near-surface Ge and Si Site Occupation in Ge/Si(100)

M. Leskovar, S. Meng, Uwe Hessinger, Marjorie A. Olmstead (U. of Washington)

15:30 K17.06 Optical Properties and Photoluminescence of Low-Temperature- Grown AlGaAs,.

P.C. Chang, Chih-Hsiang Lin, S.J. Murry, Yucai Zhou, D. Zhang, Rui Q. Yang, S.S. Pei (Space Vacuum Epitaxy Center University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5507), C.H. Kuo (Center for Solid State Electronics Research, EE Dept., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ 85287-6206)

15:42 K17.07 Heat conduction in thin dielectric films

Seung-Min Lee, David G. Cahill (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801)

15:54 K17.08 Effect of barrier tunneling on ballistic electron emission microscopy (BEEM) I-V curves of metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) structures

H.-J. Im, B. Kaczer, J. P. Pelz (Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210)

16:06 K17.09 Nanometer-scale creation and characterization of trapped charge in SiO_2 films using ballistic-electron emission microscopy (BEEM).

B. Kaczer, J. P. Pelz (The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210)

14:30 K18.01 CHARGED SKYRMIONS: A CONDENSATE OF SPIN EXCITONS IN A 2D ELECTRON GAS.

Yu. A. Bychkov (L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, RUSSIA), T. Maniv (Technion, ISRAEL), I. D. Vagner (Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory, FRANCE)

14:42 K18.02 Collective Modes in Antiferromagnetically Correlated Quantum Wells

R. J. Radtke, S. Das Sarma (University of Maryland)

14:54 K18.03 Skyrmions without Sigma Models in Quantum Hall Ferromagnets

A. H.\ MacDonald, H. A.\ Fertig, Luis \ Brey (Department of Physics, Indiana University)

15:06 K18.04 Skyrmions in the quantum limit and their role in Nuclear Spin Relaxation Rates.

Juan J. Palacios, Allan H. MacDonald, Steven M. Girvin (Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington)

15:18 K18.05 Collective Modes Around the Skyrmion State in the \nu=1 Quantum Hall Effect

Herbert Fertig (University of Kentucky), Luis Brey (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), René Côté (Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada), Allan MacDonald (Indiana University)

15:30 K18.06 Skyrmions and edge spin excitations in quantum Hall droplets

J.H. Oaknin, C. Tejedor (Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain.), L. Martín-Moreno (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales (CSIC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain.)

15:42 K18.07 Spin Textures and Edge Reconstruction

S. L. Sondhi (Princeton University), A Karlhede, K Lejnell (Stockholm University), S. A. Kivelson (UCLA)

15:54 K18.08 Evidence of Skyrmion excitations about \nu =1 in n-Modulation Doped Single Quantum Wells by Inter-band Optical Transmission

E. A. Aifer, M. J. Manfra, B. B. Goldberg (Boston University Physics Dept.), D. A. Broido (Boston College Physics Dept.)

16:06 K18.09 Soft Low Energy Spin Excitations of Electrons in Double Quantum Wells

A. Pinczuk, B. S. Dennis, A. S. Plaut, J. P. Eisenstein, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West (ATamp;T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ)

16:18 K18.10 Integral quantum Hall effect in single wide quantum wells.

Mohammad Abolfath, Steven M. Girvin, Allan H. MacDonald (Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405)

16:30 K18.11 Magnetotransport of Electrons in an AlGaAs/GaAs Triple Well System

S. P. Shukla, T. S. Lay, J. Jo, M. Shayegan (Princeton University)

16:42 K18.12 Spontaneous interlayer coherence in triple-layer quantum Hall systems

C. B. Hanna, A. H. MacDonald (Indiana University)

16:54 K18.13 Gap collapse in double-layer quantum Hall systems and the K-T temperature for soliton-lattice melting.

S. M. Girvin, C. B. Hanna, A. H. MacDonald (Indiana University)

17:06 K18.14 Skyrmion-Antiskyrmion Annihilation in Quantum Hall Systems.

Andrew D. Rutenberg (Oxford University, U.K.), Martin Zapotocky (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Wojtek J. Zakrzewski (University of Durham, U.K.)

14:30 K19.01 A 7-junction Electron Pump for Capacitance Standards and Other Metrological Applications

Mark W. Keller, John Martinis, R.L. Kautz (NIST Boulder)

14:42 K19.02 Observation of Photon-Assisted Tunneling in Single-Electron Transistors

R.J. Fitzgerald, S.L. Pohlen, J.M. Hergenrother, D.C. Ralph, M. Tinkham (Harvard University)

14:54 K19.03 A Microwave Photon Detector Based on the Single-Electron Transistor

J.M. Hergenrother, M. Tinkham (Harvard University), E.H. Visscher (Delft University of Technology)

15:06 K19.04 A Single Electron Transistor Operated at 250\,kHz

J. Pettersson, P. Wahlgren, P. Delsing (Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University), N. Rorsman (Department of Microwave Technology, Chalmers University of Technology)

15:18 K19.05 Single-Electron Transistors with Superconducting Islands of Different Lengths.

J.G. Lu, J.M. Hergenrother, M. Tinkham (Harvard University)

15:30 K19.06 Coulomb-Blockade Devices with Tunable Josephson Coupling

A. Amar, D. Song, C. J. Lobb, F. C. Wellstood (Center for Superconductivity Research, Physics Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111)

15:42 K19.07 Quasiparticle Tunneling Current in Coulomb-Blockade Electrometers Biased above the Superconducting Gap

D. Song, A. Amar, C. J. Lobb, F. C. Wellstood (Center for Superconductivity Research, Physics Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111), X. Hu (Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120)

15:54 K19.08 STM Tunneling in Ultra-small Silver and Bismuth Droplets and Few-Atom Clusters.

T. B. Ekkens, S. T. Ruggiero (University of Notre Dame)

16:06 K19.09 Current-Voltage Characteristics of a Two-Dimensional Array of Strongly Coupled Small Metallic Islands

A. J. Rimberg, T. R. Ho, John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:18 K19.10 Two-Dimensional Array of Small Metallic Islands With Specifically Introduced Disorder

T. R. Ho, A. J. Rimberg, John Clarke (University of California Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:30 K19.11 Full Capacitance Matrix of Coupled quantum-dot arrays: Static and Dynamical Effects

C. B. Whan, J. White, T. P. Orlando (MIT)

16:42 K19.12 Interaction effects in coupled quantum dots.

F. Ramirez (CICESE, Ensenada, México), E. Cota (Lab. Ensenada, Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, México), S.E. Ulloa (Ohio University, Athens, OH)

16:54 K19.13 Capacitively Coupled 1D-arrays of Small Tunnel Junctions

P. Delsing, D.B. Haviland, P. Davidsson (Department of Physics)

17:06 K19.14 Metal-Insulator Transition in Two-Dimensional Quantum Dot Arrays

R. Kotlyar, S. Das Sarma (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Maryland at College Park), C. A. Stafford (Departement de Physique Theorique, Universite de Geneve)

14:30 K20.01 Rotational and Translational Diffusion of Probes in Supercoo led \alpha\alpha\beta-Trisnaphthylbenzene

F.R. Blackburn, C. Wang, M.D. Ediger (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

14:42 K20.02 Localization in Glasses and Supercooled Liquids

Brian B. Laird, Scott D. Bembenek (Department of Chemistry, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045)

14:54 K20.03 Independently Relaxing Nanoscale Inhomogeneities as model for Structural Relaxation: Light Scattering around the Glass Transition Region.

Mierie Lee, John Schroeder, Susanta K. Saha, Cornelius T. Moynihan (Department of Physics, \mboxRensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180-3590, USA)

15:06 K20.04 Connectivity and Frustration in Glass-Forming Materials

A. Coniglio (Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Universita di Napoli, Mostra d'Oltremare, Pad. 19, 80125 Napoli, Italy,), S.C. Glotzer (Materials Theory Center, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899)

15:18 K20.05 Structural Study of an Organic Liquid through the Glass Transition

Robert L. Leheny, Narayanan Menon, Sidney R. Nagel (The University of Chicago), David Long Price (Argonne National Laboratory)

15:30 K20.06 Structural Relaxation and Orientational Relaxation Dynamics in Salol Studied by Impulsive Stimulated Light Scattering

Yongwu Yang, Keith A. Nelson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chemistry Department)

15:42 K20.07 First Observation of Thermal Polarization Noise at the Glass Transition *

N. E. ISRAELOFF (Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115)

15:54 K20.08 Pressure Dependence of T_g in Glycerol up to 12 GPa

Bruce L. Schulte, William F. Oliver III (Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701)

16:06 K20.09 Pressure dependence viscosity study of Salol and OTP: Comparison between free-volume and mode-coupling data treatment

Kai-Uwe Schug, Hubert E. King (Exxon Research and Engineering, Annandale, NJ), Herman Z. Cummins (City College - CUNY, New York, NY), Hans Sillescu (Universität Mainz, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Jakob-Welder-Weg 15, D-55099 Mainz, Germany)

16:18 K20.10 The Refractive Index of Glass-Forming Liquids at High Pressure

Joseph P. Owczarzak, William F. Oliver III (Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701)

16:30 K20.11 Scaling Parallels in the Non-Debye Behavior of Ionic and Dipolar Glassformers

David L. Sidebottom, P. F. Green, R. K. Brow (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1349)

16:42 K20.12 Frequency-dependent specific heat and thermal conductivity near the glass transition

Narayanan Menon (Department of Physics, UCLA), Sidney R. Nagel (Department of Physics, Univ. of Chicago)

16:54 K20.13 The Disorder-Induced Delocalization and Unbinding Transitions

M. Lässig (Max-Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany), T. Hwa (Physics Department, University of California at San Diego)

17:06 K20.14 Slow Algebraic Relaxation of a Classical Particle in Anharmonic Potential Landscapes and its Consequences

Robert S. Sinkovits (Naval Research Laboratory), Surajit Sen (State Univ. of New York at Buffalo)

K20.15 Asymptotic High Frequency Behavior of the Primary Relaxation in a Supercooled Liquid.

Robert L. Leheny, Sidney R. Nagel (The University of Chicago)

14:30 K21.01 Mechanical Deformation and Tribology of Simulated Nano-Thin Amorphous Hydrogenated-Carbon (aC:H) Films

James N. Glosli, James Belak (University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Michael R. Philpott (IBM Almaden Research Center)

14:42 K21.02 Theoretical Study of Friction on the Atomic Scale.

A. Buldum, S. Ciraci (Dept.of Physics, Bilkent University, Ankara)

14:54 K21.03 High Velocity Behavior of Sliding Metal Interfaces

J.E. Hammerberg, B.L. Holian, P.S. Lomdahl, S.J. Zhou (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:06 K21.04 Imaging Surface Contacts: Origins of State-Dependent Frictional Processes

James H. Dieterich (U. S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA)

15:42 K21.05 Sliding Friction of Solid Xenon Monolayers and Bilayers on Ag(111)

C. Daly, J. Krim (Northeastern University)

15:54 K21.06 Molecular Origins of Friction: Monolayers and Bilayers

Elizabeth D. Smith, Mark O. Robbins (The Johns Hopkins University), Marek Cieplak (Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)

16:06 K21.07 Electronic Contributions to Sliding Friction at Metallic Interfaces

A. J. Dayo, J. Krim (Northeastern University)

16:18 K21.08 Simulations of the Phonon Contributions to Sliding Friction

S. Tomassone, J. B. Sokoloff, J. Krim (Northeastern University)

14:30 K22.01 Current-Driven Excitation of Ferromagnets

J. SLONCZEWSKI (IBM Research Center Yorktown Heights, NY)

14:42 K22.02 Electron interaction and spin accumulation in spin polarized tunneling

S. T. CHUI (Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716)

14:54 K22.03 First-principles determination of the in-plane interface magnetocrystalline anisotropy in (110) Co thin films and multilayers.

Miyoung Kim, Lieping Zhong, A. J. Freeman (Northwestern Univ.)

15:06 K22.04 Temperature Dependence of Magnetization and Anisotropy in Fe/Cu Multilayers

Michael J. Pechan (Dept. of Physics, Miami University, Oxford, OH), Eric E. Fullerton (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL), Ivan K. Schuller (Dept. of Physics, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA)

15:18 K22.05 Direct Measurement of Induced Cr Magnetic Moments in Fe/Cr Multilayers

G. R. Harp, M. A. Tomaz, W. J. Antel Jr (Physics Dept., Ohio University), W. L. O'brien (Synchrotron Radiation Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

15:30 K22.06 Magnetic Moment Measurements of Iron and Rhodium in Fe/Rh Multilayers

M. A. Tomaz, W. J. Antel Jr, G. R. Harp (Physics Dept., Ohio University), W. L. O'brien (Synchrotron Radiation Center - University of Wisconsin)

15:42 K22.07 Structural and Magnetic studies of Epitaxial fcc Co(100) films grown on Ni(100)/Cu(100)/Si(100) substrates.

R.A. Lukaszew, B.U.M. Rao, G.W. Auner, R. Naik (Wayne State University), K.R. Mountfield, J.O. Artman (Carnegie Mellon University)

15:54 K22.08 Structural, Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Fe/Au Monatomic Multilayers.^*

John F. Shi, Zhenyu Cooke, Zhu-Pei Zhang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Barry M. Klein (Department of Physics, University of California at Davis)

16:06 K22.09 Enhancement of Curie Temperature in Fe/Fe-Cr-B Ferromagnetic Multilayers

N.B. Shevchenko, X. Meng-Burany, J. A. Christodoulides, G.C. Hadjipanayis (University of Delaware), V. Papaefthymiou (University of Ioannina, Greece)

16:18 K22.10 Polarized Neutron Reflectivity Measurements of Proximity Induced Magnetism in Fe/Pd Superlattices

J. A. Dura, J. A. Borchers, C. F. Majkrzak (NIST), J. F. Ankner (U Missouri), J. R. Childress (U Florida amp; LCR-Thomson CSF, France), Th. Zeidler, A. Schreyer, H. Zabel (Ruhr U, Germany)

16:30 K22.11 Long-range Magnetic Order in (110) Fe_3O_4/NiO Superlattices

J.A. Borchers, R.W. Erwin (NIST), D.M. Lind, K. Shaw, P. Stoyanov (Florida State Univ.)

16:42 K22.12 Growth and Characterization of Multilayers consisting of Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganates and High--Temperature Superconducting Cuprates.

P.A. Kraus, V.A. Vas'ko, C.A. Nordman, V.S. Achutharaman, A.M. Goldman (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota.)

16:54 K22.13 Interfacial Magnetism in Co/Au Multilayers.

Z.S. Shan, J.X. Shen, D.J. Sellmyer (University of Nebraska, NE 68588)

17:06 K22.14 The Structural and Magnetic Properties of Ultrathin Fe/Ni FCC (111) Bilayers.

H.L. Johnston, D. Venus (McMaster University)

17:18 K22.15 Magnetism of Ni/Cu Bilayers

A. L. Cabrera, M. Pino (P. Univ. Catolica de Chile, F. Fisica, Casilla 306, Santiago 22)

14:30 K23.01 Optical Studies of Charged Excitations in \pi-Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers

Paul Lane (University of Utah)

15:06 K23.02 Models of Coulomb Screening and Exciton Binding in Conjugated Polymers

David Yaron, Eric Moore (Carnegie Mellon University)

15:18 K23.03 Effects of Molecular Fields on the Photophysical Properties of Poly(p-phenylene vinylene) Oligomers and Polymers

Thomas W. Hagler (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA 94551), Ian H. Campbell (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), Donal D. C. Bradley (The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, UK)

15:30 K23.04 Optical absorption in substituted phenylene-based conjugated polymers: theory and experiment

S. Mazumdar, M. Chandross (U. Arizona), M. Liess, P.A. Lane, Z.V. Vardeny (U. Utah), M. Hamaguchi, K. Yoshino (Osaka U.)

15:42 K23.05 Time-Resolved Two-Photon Photoemission Spectroscopy of a Phenylene Vinylene Oligomer

Y. Park, S. Xu, Y. Gao (Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY), D. A. Mantell, B. R. Hsieh (Xerox Co., Webster, NY), T. Wehrmeister, K. Müllen (MPI Mainz, Germany)

15:54 K23.06 Photoabsorption and Photo-induced absorption in Conjugated Polymers

Guozhong Wen, Wu-Pei Su (University of Houston)

16:06 K23.07 Characterization of the Photoexcitations in Pyridine Based Polymers

S. W. Jessen, J. W. Blatchford, L.-B. Lin, T. L. Gustafson, A. J. Epstein (The Ohio State Univ.), J. Partee, J. Shinar (Iowa State Univ.), D.-K. Fu, T. M. Swager, A. G. MacDiarmid (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

16:18 K23.08 First-principles Calculation of Polarons in Poly-thiophene

Geert Brocks, Arie Tol (Philips Research Laboratories, Prof. Holstlaan 4, 5656 AA Eindhoven, The Netherlands.)

16:30 K23.09 Triplet absorptions in conjugated polymers: implications for the underlying electronic structure

Y. Shimoi, S. Mazumdar (U. Arizona)

16:42 K23.10 Photoluminescence-Detected Magnetic Resonance (PLDMR) of Films and Solutions of Conjugated Poly(p-phenylene)-Type Ladder Polymers (LPPP).

J. Partee, J. Shinar (Ames Laboratory - USDOE* and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011), W. Graupner, G. Leising (Institute für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Graz, Graz, Austria)

14:30 K24.01 Excitonic Interactions and Nonlinear Optical Processes in Ordinary and Correlated Semiconductors

L. J. Sham (Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319)

15:06 K24.02 Far IR optical absorption of the intermetallic ``semiconductor'' Al_2Ru from first principles

Karin Rabe, Serdar Ogut (Yale University)

15:18 K24.03 First--Principles study of the Born Effective Charges in Heavy Alkaline--Earth Oxides: The Case of BaO.

M. Posternak, A. Baldereschi (IRRMA--Lausanne, Switzerland), S. Massidda (U. of Cagliari, Italy), R. Resta (U. of Trieste, Italy)

15:30 K24.04 Geometric-Phase approach to macroscopic polarization in lattice fermion models

Gerardo Ortiz, Richard M. Martin (University of Illinois, Urbana), Pablo Ordejón (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)

15:42 K24.05 Density-Polarization functional theory and the intrinsic dependence of exchange-correlation energy on polarization

Richard M. Martin, Gerardo Ortiz (Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801)

15:54 K24.06 High-order responses of periodic solids to an homogeneous electric field

Ricardo Nunes (Rutgers University), Xavier Gonze (Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie et de Physique des Matériaux, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

16:06 K24.07 Theory of the non-reciprocal optical effects in Cr_2O_3

Roser Valenti, V.N. Muthukumar, Claudius Gros (Department of Physics, University of Dortmund, 44221 Dortmund, Germany)

K24.08

16:30 K24.09 Simple Models of Photon Drag in Metals

J. Eric Goff, W.L. Schaich (Indiana University)

16:42 K24.10 One-Electron Excitations, Correlation Effects, and the Plasmon in Cs Metal.

A. G. Eguiluz (The Univ. of Tennessee, and Oak Ridge Nat. Lab.), A. Fleszar (Universität Würzburg), R. Stumpf (Sandia Nat. Labs., Albuquerque)

16:54 K24.11 Local-field effects and quasi-particle band structure for localized systems

Olle Gunnarsson (Max-Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung, D-70506 Stuttgart)

14:30 K25.01 Electrical Properties of Neutron Irradiated and Annealed Diamond Films

Salim Khasawinah, Galina Popovici, M. A. Prelas (University of Missouri - Columbia, Nuclear Engineering Program, Columbia, MO 65211)

14:42 K25.02 Field Emission and Photoemission Measurements on Negative Electron Affinity Diamond Surface.

D. Ganesan, S.K. Ramanathan, S.C. Sharma (Department of Physics and Materials Science & Engineering Program, University of Texa at Arlington, Arlington, Texas)

14:54 K25.03 Correlation of CVD Diamond Electron Emission with Film Properties

S.P. Bozeman, P.K. Baumann, B.L. Ward, R.J. Nemanich (North Carolina State University), D.L. Dreifus (Kobe Steel USA)

15:06 K25.04 Ballistic Transport of Nonequilibrium Electrons in Diamond

P. B. Lerner, P. H. Cutler, N. M. Miskovsky (Physics Department, Penn State University, University Park)

15:18 K25.05 Diamond Structure (a p-n Junction?) Obtained by Li and B doping

Galina Popovici (University of Missouri - Columbia, Nuclear Engineering Program, Columbia,)

15:30 K25.06 Measurement of the Resistivity of Small Diamond Crystallites

Sangil Hyun, M.F. Thorpe (Michigan State University), A.R. Day (Marquette University)

15:42 K25.07 Doping and Conduction Mechanisms in Diamondlike Amorphous Carbon

Petra Stumm, David. A. Drabold (Ohio University)

15:54 K25.08 Influence of Forced Diffusion of Boron on Electrical Conductivity of Diamond Films

Talun Sung, Galina Popovici, M. A. Prelas (University of Missouri - Columbia, Nuclear Engineering Program, Columbia, MO 65211), R. G. Wilson (Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, CA 90265), L. K. Bigelow (Norton Diamond Film, Northgboro, MA)

16:06 K25.09 Diamond Lattice Defects Caused by P-doping

SHIGANG ZHANG, M. E. ZVANUT (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

16:18 K25.10 Surface Hardness Enhancement in Ion Implanted Amorphous Carbon

D. H. Lee, B. Park (Georgia Institute of Technology), D. B. Poker (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), J. E. E. Baglin (IBM Almaden Research Center)

16:30 K25.11 Calculation of the bulk modulus of possible hard carbon structures

Ruben Weht (ICTP, Trieste, Italy), Mariana Weissmann (CNEA, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Carlos Osvaldo Rodriguez (IFLYSIB, La Plata, Argentina)

14:30 K26.01 Thermally Generated Point Defects in Silicon Dioxide Films.

M. E. ZVANUT, T. L. CHEN (University of Alabama at Birmingham), R. E. Stahlbush, E. S. Steigerwalt (Naval Research Laboratory)

14:42 K26.02 The Role of Hydrogen in the Creation of Positive Charge and Oxide Defects During High-Field Stress of SiO2 Films.

HONG LIN, M. E. ZVANUT (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

14:54 K26.03 TEM Studies of Interface Structure of Si/SiO2

XIDONG CHEN, J.MURRAY GIBSON (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:06 K26.04 Characterization of a SiN:D.H. Thin Films by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and Deuterium Magnetic Resonance (DMR)

P. Santos-Filho, G. Lucovsky (Dept. of Physics, NCSU Raleigh, NC 27695-8202), T. Cull, R. Norberg (Dept. of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis)

15:18 K26.05 Correlation of Optical Precipitate Profiler Results with TEM Observations for Oxygen Precipitates of Different Sizes in Silicon

L. Mulestagno, P. Fraundorf (Univ. of Missouri), D.E. Hill, J.C. Holzer (MEMC Electronic Materials.Inc.), R. Falster (MEMC Elctronic Materials Spa)

15:30 K26.06 Characterization of Current Conduction Mechanisms and Defect Levels of 4H-SiC p-n Junction Diodes.

M.E. Dunn, Y.K Yeo, R.L. Hengehold (Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson AFB, OH), K.C. Reinhardt, J.D. Scofield (Wright Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH)

15:42 K26.07 Comparison Study of the Electrical Properties of 4H- and 6H-SiC Schottky Diodes.

J.C. Wiemeri, Y.K. Yeo, R.L. Hengehold (Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson AFB, OH), K.C. Reinhardt, J.D. Scofield (Wright Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH)

15:54 K26.08 Paramagnetic Point Defects and Dopant Compensation in Silico n Carbide

G.J. Gerardi (William Paterson College), K. Xie, E.H. Poindexter (Army Research Laboratory), D.J. Keeble (U. of Dundee)

16:06 K26.09 Defects in a-Si_1-x Ge_x alloys using ab initio molecular dynamics method

Young Hee Lee, Eunja Kim, Hyung Jae Lee (Department of Physics, Jeonbuk National University, Korea)

16:18 K26.10 METASTABLE DEFECTS IN a-Si:H FROM BOND-LENGTH DISORDER*

Qiming Li, Rana Biswas (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Microelectronics Research Center, Iowa State University)

16:30 K26.11 Relaxation by Paramagnetic Defects in Deuterated Amorphous Sillicon

T.S. CULL, J.R. BODARHT, H. MA, D.J. LEOPOLD, P.A. FEDDERS, R.E. NORBERG (Washington University, St. Louis, MO)

16:42 K26.12 NMR Signatures of Light-Induced Defects Upon Illumination of Hydrigenated Amorphous Sillicon

M.J. KERNAN, D.J. LEOPOLD, P.A. FEDDERS, R.E. NORBERG (Washington University, St Louis, MO), R.L. COREY (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City,SD)

K26.13 Local Motion of Hydrogen in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon: An NMR Study

P. Hari, P. C. Taylor (Physics Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112), R. A. Street (Xerox PARC, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304)

14:30 K27.01 Phase Diagram of Iron at High Pressures and High Temperatures

Choong-Shik YOO (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA)

15:06 K27.02 Theory for Iron at High Pressure

Söderlind Per (Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab.)

15:42 K27.03 HCP-BCC competition in Iron from T-dependent band theory

E.G. Moroni (Technische Universität, Vienna, Austria), T. Jarlborg (Université de Gen\-ève, Switzerland)

15:54 K27.04 First Principles Linear Response Calculations of Lattice Dynamics in CaSiO_3 Perovskite

L. Stixrude (Georgia Institute of Technology), R. E. Cohen (Carnegie Institution of Washington), R. Yu, H. Krakauer (College of William and Mary)

16:06 K27.05 Equation of State of MgAl_2O_4-spinel

M. B. Kruger (University of Missouri-Kansas City), J. H. Nguyen, W. Caldwell, R. Jeanloz (U.C. Berkeley)

16:18 K27.06 Pressure Effect on Perovskite-type Manganese Oxides

Y. Moritomo, Y. Tomioka (Joint Reserach Center for Atom Technology), Y. Tokura (Joint Reserach Center for Atom Technology and Univ. of Tokyo)

16:30 K27.07 The coesite-stishovite transition in a laser-heated diamond cell

George Serghiou, Andrei Zerr, Lyudmilla Chudinovskikh, Reini Boehler (Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany)

16:42 K27.08 Optical second harmonic generation and Raman scattering from quartz at high pressure.

D.A. Pinnick (Penn. State Un. - Erie), X.C. Sun, S.A. Lee, H.J. Simon (University of Toledo)

K27.09 Molecular Dynamics Study of Premelting in MgO Clusters at High Pressures

R. E. Cohen, Joshua Weitz (Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Rd., N.W. Washington D.C. 20015)

K27.10 The origin of the lattice distortion and its pressure dependence in 3d monoxides

I. I. Mazin, R. E. Cohen (Carnegie Institution of Washington and Center for High Pressure Research), A.I. Liechtenstein (Forschungscentrum Julich, F.R.G.)

K32.01 Chain Motions and Orientation Distributions in Fully Aromatic Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polyesters in the Melt from ^1H NMR.

Michael Gentzler, Jeffrey A. Reimer, Morton M. Denn (Center for Advanced Materials, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley 94720-1462)

K32.02 Kinetics of Morphological Development in PDMS/TEOS Hybrid Materials.

L. Guo, J. Hyeon-Lee, G. Beaucage (University of Cincinnati), A. Macip-Boulis (Armstrong World Industries), S. Bates, T. A. Ulibarri (Sandia National Laboratories)

K32.03 Microstrucural Characterization of Ultra High Performance Polymers by Positron Lifetime Spectroscopy

A.H. Baugher, W. Kossler (College of William and Mary), R.H. Pater (NASA Langley, Hampton Virginia)

K32.04 Lamellar Orientation in Polyolefin Films.

S. Rane, G. Beaucage (University of Cincinnati), A. Prasad, R. Shroff (Quantum Chemical Company)

K32.05 Crystal Structure and Morphology of Bromo- and Phenyl-Substituted Liquid Crystal Polyesters

J. Huh, P. H. Jin (Korea Univ., Seoul), Liu, Geil (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL)

K32.06 Correlated Roughness in Polystyrene Thin Films

M.J. Fasolka, G.J. Kellogg, A.M. Mayes (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

K32.07 Self-Consistent Mean-Field Study of Chain End Segregation in Branched/Linear Polymer Blends

D.G. Walton, A.M. Mayes (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

K32.08 Self Diffusivity of Diblock Copolymers in Solutions in Neutral Good Solvents^#

K. Chrissopoulou, G. Fytas, S. H. Anastasiadis (FO.R.T.H.-I.E.S.L., Greece), M. Appel, G. Fleischer (Univ. of Leipzig, Germany), K. Adachi (Osaka Univ., Japan), Y. Gallot (Inst. Charles Sadron, France)

K32.09 Determination of Loops to Bridges Ratio in Triblock Copolymers by Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy^#

K. Karatasos, S. H. Anastasiadis (FO.R.T.H.-I.E.S.L., Greece), F. Kremer (Univ. of Leipzig, Germany), H. Watanabe (Kyoto Univ., Japan)

K32.10 High Osmotic Pressure Chromatography and Phase Fluctuation Chromatography

Min Luo, Iwao Teraoka (Polytechnic University)

K32.11 X-ray Studies of the Supramolecular Structures formed by Polymethacrylates with Highly Tapered Side Groups

Y.K Kwon, J. Blackwell, C.A. Danko, S.N. Chvalun, V. Percec, D. Schleuter (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-7202)

K32.12 Computer Simulations of Polytetrafluoroethylene in the Solid State

D.B. Holt, B.L. Farmer (U. of Virginia), R.K. Eby (U. of Akron), K.S. Macturk (NIST)

K32.13 Molecular Modeling of Novel Piezoelectric Polyimides

J. A. Young, B. L. Farmer (University of Virginia), J. A. Hinkley (NASA Langley Research Center)

K32.14 Modeling of Aromatic Carbon Ribbons, Sheets and Rings

B. L. Farmer (University of Virginia), D. S. Dudis (MLBP, Materials Laboratory, WPAFB), R. Pachter, W. W. Adams (MLPJ, Materials Laboratory, WPAFB)

K32.15 Atomistic Study of Ring Flips in Glassy Polyimides.

U. NATARAJAN, W.L. MATTICE (The Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH)

K32.16 Simulation of Specific Polymer Systems on the 2nnd Lattice.

J. CHO, R.F. RAPOLD, W.L. MATTICE (University of Akron, Akron, OH)

K32.17 Free-volume Hole Structures of Semi-Crystalline Polymers Determined by 2D-ACAR Method.

Y.-S Rhee, Y.-M Lou, Y.C. Jean (University of Missouri-Kansas City)

K32.18 Conformational Energies of Model Molecules for Poly(propylene Oxide) from ab Initio Electronic Structure Calculations

K.R. Crain, G.D. Smith (University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO)

K32.19 Modification of Inorganic Fillers for Polymer Composites via Admicellar Polymerization

B.P. GRADY (University of Oklahoma)

K32.20 Characterization and Degradation of Waste Polymers Investigated by X-Ray Diffraction and ESR Spectroscopy

M.S. SEEHRA, M.M. IBRAHIM (West Virginia University)

K32.21 Phase Behavior of Rod-Coil Block Copolymers

J.T. CHEN, E.L. THOMAS (MIT), C.K. OBER, G.P. MAO (Cornell)

K32.22 Microstructures of Block Copolymer Thin Films via Cross-sectional TEM

L.H. RADZILOWSKI, E.L. THOMAS (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

K32.23 Large Strain Deformation Synchrotron SAXS Study of a Near-Single Crystal Triblock Copolymer Stretched Normal to the Cylindrical Morphology

C.C. HONEKER, E.L. THOMAS (MIT), M. CAPEL (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

K32.24 Investigation of New Morphologies in ABC Triblock Copolymers Using TEM and SAXS

U.B. BREINER, R. STADLER (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz), C.C. HONEKER, E.L. THOMAS (MIT)

K32.25 The Gel Effect in Free Radical Polymerization: the Role of Entanglements and "Short-Term" Termination

G.A. O'NEIL, J.M. TORKELSON (Northwestern University)

K32.26 Thin vs. Ultrathin Polymer Films: Effects on Spin Coating Parameters,\alpha-Relaxation Dynamics, and Physical Aging

D.B. HALL, J.M. TORKELSON (Northwestern Univ.)

K32.27 Solution Properties of 'Smart' Dendritic Macromolecules

P.M. WELCH, R.L. LESCANEC (University of Southern Mississippi)

K32.28 Propagator and Structure Factor of Kratky-Porod Worm-Like Chains

C.E. REED (Our Lady of Holy Cross College, 4123 Woodland Dr., New Orleans, Louisiana 70131)

K32.29 Bridging Polymer Chains in a Poor Solvent

CHANDRALEKHA SINGH, EKATERINA ZHULINA, DILIP GERSAPPE, ANNA C. BALAZS (Materials Science & Engineering and Physics Depts., The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261)

K32.30 Shear Induced Ordering in Diblock Copolymer Melts

EUGENIA CORVERA, ANNA C. BALAZS (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261)

K32.31 The Conformation of Functionalized Diblock Copolymers Adsorbed From Solution Onto Metal Substrates

M. KENT, R. SAUNDERS (Sandia Nat. Labs)

K32.32 Modeling the Rheology of Phase Separating Polymer Liquids

B. CRIST, A.R. NESARIKAR (Northwestern Univ.)

K32.33 Control of Immiscible Blend Morphology Using Isomotive Electrode Geometry

D. Winoto, A. Nesarikar, S.H. Carr (Northwestern University)

K32.34 Structure of a Surface Decorated by Y-shaped AB Block Copolymers. Solvency Effects.

EKATERINA B. ZHULINA, CHANDRALEKHA SINGH, ANNA C. BALAZS (Materials Science and Engineering Department, The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261)

K32.35 Conformations of a Multiblock Copolymer Adsorbing onto a Patchy Substrate

EUGENIA CORVERA, EKATERINA B. ZHULINA, ANNA C. BALAZS (Materials Science and Engineering Department, The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261)

K32.36 Particulate Diffusion as a Probe of Polymer/Metal Interactions

D.H. Cole, K.R. Shull (Dep't of Mat. Sci. and Eng., Northwestern University)

K32.37 Poly(ethylene oxide) Containing Diblock Copolymers as Antifouling Coatings

W. Chen (Dep't of Chem. Eng., Northwestern University), K.R. Shull (Dep't of Mat. Sci. and Eng., Northwestern University)

K32.38 JKR Studies of Adhesion Between Poly(n-butyl acrylate) Elastomers and Poly(methyl methacrylate).

D. Ahn (Dept. of Chem. Eng., Northwestern University), K.R. Shull (Dept. of Mat. Sci. and Eng., Northwestern University)

K32.39 Melt Viscoelastic Properties of Substituted Poly(ParaPhenylenes)

Derrick R. Dean, Richard A. Vaia (Materials Directorate of Wright Laboratory, WPAFB, OH, 45433), Mark Trimmer (Maxdem Inc., 140 E. Arrow Hwy., San Dimas, CA 91773)

K32.40 Molecular Dynamic Simulations of Substituted Poly(paraphenylenes)

Richard A. Vaia, Derrick R. Dean, Doug Dudis (Polymer Branch, Materials Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433), Mark Trimmer (Maxdem Inc., 140 E. Arrow Hwy., San Dimas, CA 91773)

K32.41 Thermodynamic Aspects of Polymer Melt Intercalation

Richard A. Vaia (Polymer Branch, Materials Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, 45433), Emmanuel Giannelis (Dept. Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853)

K32.42 The Effect of Molecular Weight and Crystallite Structure on Yielding in Ethylene Copolymers

L. Mandelkern, J.T. Graham (Florida State University), R.G. Alamo (FAMU/FSU College of Engineering)

K32.43 Study of Ion-Implanted Polymers using a Variable Energy Posi tron Beam

Vinita J. Ghosh, Bent Nielsen (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Eal H. Lee, John D. Hunn (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

K32.44 A Density Functional Study on the Torsional Conformation of Polyethylene

M. Miao (University of Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium), J.W. Mintmire (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC), J.J. Ladik (University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany), P.E. Van Camp, V.E. Van Doren (University of Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium)

K32.45 Theoretical Studies of Spreading of Tiny Droplets on Surfaces

M. Haataja, T. Ala--Nissila (TFT, University of Helsinki, Finland), J.A. Nieminen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

K32.46 Winding angles for directed polymers and random walks

Barbara Drossel, Mehran Kardar (MIT)

K32.47 Structure and Interactions in fluid Multilayer Membranes Containing Double - End - Anchored Polymers

N.L. Slack, H.E. Warriner, P. Davidson, H.W. Schmidt, C.R. Safinya (University of California Santa Barbara)

K32.48 On the Orgins of Region I Shear Thinning in Concentrated Sol utions of Poly(benzyl glutamate)

V. Ugaz, D. Cinader, W. Burghardt (Northwestern Univeristy)

15:06 K'6.01 Nanoclusters: Their Generation and Spectroscopic Properties

Jr. Bowen (The Johns Hopkins University)

15:42 K'6.02 Crystals of Symmetric Gold Nanocrystals: Metal Superlattices in the Quantum Size Regime

Robert L. Whetten (Georgia Institute of Technology)

16:18 K'6.03 Optical Studies of Luminescent Zinc Selenide Nanocrystals In Potassium Borosilicate Glass matrices

CHIRSTINE A. SMITH, SUBHASH H. RISBUD, HOWARD W. H. LEE, J. DIANE COOKE

16:30 K'6.04 Low-Energy Silicon Clusters: Stabilities, Reactivities and Vibrational Signatures

Mark Pederson (Complex Systems Theory Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375-5345), Koblar Jackson (Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant MI, 48859), Zoltan Hajnal, Dirk Porezag, Thomas Frauenheim (Technische Universität, Institut für Physik, Theoretische Physik III, D - 09009 Chemnitz, Germany)

16:42 K'6.05 Energetics and Electronic Structure of Li_nC Clusters

B.K. Rao, P. Jena (Virginia Commonwealth University)

16:54 K'6.06 Clusters as the Building Blocks for Materials

S.N. Khanna (Virginia Commonwealth University)

17:30 K'6.07 Ab Initio Study of Structural and Electronic Properties of Chromium Oxide Clusters

Sundar Veliah, Ravi Pandey (Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI)

17:42 K'6.08 Electronic Structure of Small Titanium and Vanadium Clusters: Emergence and Evolution of the 3d Band

Hongbin Wu, Sunil R. Desai, Lai-Sheng Wang (Department of Physics, Washington State University, Richland, WA 99352)

17:54 K'6.09 Ni-Al Alloy Clusters: Hierarchy of Isomers and Homotops

J. Jellinek, E. Krissinel (Argonne National Laboratory)