Program overview

TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 13 MARCH 2001

Session K40. Poster Session II.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:00, Exhibit Hall, Washington State Convention Center

K40.001 Superconductivity

K40.002 Superconductivity as BE condensation in 2D or 1D periodical arrays

Mauricio Fortes, Francisco J. Sevilla, Miguel A. Solís (Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 01000 México, D.F., MEXICO), Marcela D. Grether (Fac. de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510 México, D.F., MEXICO), Manuel de Llano, Ariel A. Valladares (Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510 México, D.F., MEXICO)

K40.003 L-flop transition in anisotropic layered superconductors induced by

Serhii Shafranjuk (Institute of Magnetism NASU, 36b Vernadski Blvd. 03142, Kuiv, UKRAINE)

K40.004 Interaction of the AC Josephson current with the optical phonon modes in the frequency range up to 20 THz in HTS Josephson junctions.

Yaroslav Ponomarev, Kim Kim Ki Uk, Marina Sudakova, Mikhael Sabalin, Serguei Tchesnokov (Physics Department, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia), Buckhtiar Aminov, Mikchael Lorenz, Gunter Muller, Helmut Piel, Herbert Shmidt (2Bergische Univeritat Wuppertal, Fachberich Physik, Wuppertal, Germany)

K40.005 Electrical Resistivity of ReNi_2B_2C (R = Dy, Ho, Pr) at High Pressures.

Richard Falconi, Roberto Escudero, Alejandro C. Duran (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Apartado Postal 70-360 México, D. F. 04510 MÉXICO.)

K40.006 Magnetic Properties of PrNi_2B_2C SIngle Crystals

Alejandro Duran, Roberto Escudero (Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, UNAM. Apartado postal 70-360, Mexico D.F. 04510, MEXICO.)

K40.007 Raman scattering study of electronic excitations in ErNi_2B_2C

H. Martinho, J.A. Sanjurjo, C. Rettori (Instituto de Física ``Gleb Wataghin'', UNICAMP,13083-970, Campinas-SP, Brasil), P.C. Canfield (Ames Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA), P.G. Pagliuso (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA)

K40.008 Pseudomorphic growth of RBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta films on

L.X. Cao, T.L. Lee, F. Renner, J Zegenhagen (ESRF, Grenoble, France), Y.X. Su (University Hamburg)

K40.009 optimal synthesis of RuSr_2Gd_2-xCe_xCu_2O_10-\delta ^1)

D. H. Cao (TCSUH, University of Houston), Y. Y. Xue, Y. S. Wang, B. Lorenz, Z. G. Li, Y. Y. Sun, C. W. Chu

K40.010 Feedback control of Pulsed Laser Deposition

Rand Biggers (Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base), Thomas Svobodny (Wright State University)

K40.011 Width and Magnetic Field Dependence of Transition Temperature in Ultranarrow Superconducting Wires

Beccy S Handy, Robert A Smith (University of Birmingham, England.), Vinay Ambegaokar (Cornell University.)

K40.012 Thermal Conductivities in a Type-II Superconductor at High Magnetic Field

Sasha Dukan, Richard Howard (Goucher College)

K40.013 Effect of Tb substitution on the superconductivity and the magnetism of DyNi_2B_2C

Jae-Hyuk Choi, H. B. Kim, Hyeonjin Doh, B. K. Cho, Sung-Ik Lee (National Creative Research Initiative Center for Superconductivity and Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea), Manfred Sigrist (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan)

K40.014 Ferromagnetic superconductor \rmRuSr_2RECu_2O_8 (RE=Sm, Eu and Gd)

D. P. Hai, S. Kamisawa, I. Kakeya, M. Furuyama, K. Kadowaki (Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, 305-8573, Japan), T. Mochiku (National Research Institute for Metals, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, 304-0047, Japan)

K40.015 Origin of two-dimensional nature of four-layer cuprate superconductors

Mun-Seog Kim, C. U. Jung, Sung-Ik Lee (National Creative Research Initiative Center for Superconductivity and Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea), A. Iyo (Electrotechnical Laboratory, Umezono 1-1-4, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan)

K40.016 Hall Coefficient of Oxygen-Intercalated La214

S. Yomo (Div. of Fundamental Studies and Dep. of Info. Sci, Hokkaido Tokai U, Sapporo 005-8601, Japan), Z.G. Li, P.H. Hor (Dep. of Phys. and Texas Center for Superconductivity, U of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-5932, U.S.A.), N. Mori (Inst. for Solid State Physics, U of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8581, Japan)

K40.017 Penetration Depth in high-Tc Superconductors

Ajay Suvarna (Kansas City, Kansas)

K40.018 Phonons, magnetic and coupled magnetic-phonon excitations in GdSr_2RuCu_2O_8

V. G. Hadjiev, M. N. Iliev, R. L. Meng, Y. Y. Xue, C. W. Chu (Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5932, USA)

K40.019 Optical study of phonons and crystal-field excitations in Sm_1+xBa_2-xCu_3O_6+y

David Barba, Serge Jandl (Departement de Physique - Universite de Sherbrooke), V. Nekvasil Team, A.A. Martin Team, T. Wolf Team

K40.020 Magnetic and electronic properties of ruthenocuprates

Y. Hirai, M.L. Schneider, B.H. Frazer, S. Rast, M. Onellion (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706), U. Asaf, I. Felner, I. Nowik (Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel), N. Ali, S. Roy (Department of Physics, Southern llinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901), M. Prester, D. Drobac, I. Zivkovic (Institute of Physics, HR-10 000 Zagreb, Croatia), L. Perfetti, A. Reginelli, D. Ariosa, G. Margaritondo (Institute of Applied Physics, EPFL, CH-1024 Lausanne, Switzerland)

K40.021 Infrared spectroscopy of c-axis oriented RuSr_2GdCu_2O_8 film

A.P. Litvinchuk, M.N. Iliev, S.Y. Chen, C.L. Chen, R.L. Meng, C.W. Chu (Texas Center for Superconductivity and Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5932), V.N. Popov (Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia, BG 1126 Sofia, Bulgaria), LDC Collaboration

K40.022 High sensitivity magneto-optical imaging system.

P.E. Goa, H. Hauglin, M. Baziljevich, E.I. Il'Yashenko, T.H Johansen (University of Oslo, Norway)

K40.023 Peak Effect: Magnetic Decoration and Corbino Transport Measurements in NbSe_2 doped with Fe

Yanina Fasano, Mariela Menghini, Francisco de la Cruz (Centro Atómico Bariloche-Instituto Balseiro, CNEA, Bariloche, RN, Argentina), Daniel Lopez, Hugo Safar, E Bucher, Peter Gammel, David Bishop (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, USA)

K40.024 Vortex dynamics and upper critical fields in ultrathin Bi films

S Sambandamurthy, K Das Gupta, Swati Soman (Indian Institute of Science), N Chandrasekhar (University of Minnesota and Indian Institute of Science)

K40.025 Robust Insulator-Superconductor transition on solid inert gas and other substrates

G Sambandamurthy, K Das Gupta, Swati Soman (Indian Institute of Science), N Chandrasekhar (University of Minnesota and Indian Institute of Science)

K40.026 Novel Vortex Solid State in YBa_2Cu_3O_7 - \delta Twinned Crystals

B. Maiorov, E. Osquiguil (Instituto Balseiro and Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina.)

K40.027 Josephson plasma and Josephson vortex oscillation modes in Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8+\delta

Itsuhiro Kakeya, Tomoyuki Wada, Kazuo Kadowaki (Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba and CREST, JST)

K40.028 ^11B NMR Study of Vortex Dynamics in LuNi_2B_2C

K. H. Lee, K. H. Kahng, H. S. Seo, B. J. Mean, Moohee Lee (Dept. of Physics, Konkuk University, Seoul 143-701, Korea), B. K. Cho (Dept. of Material Science and Technology, KJ-IST, Kwangju 500-712, Korea)

K40.029 How do the columnar defects change the vortex liquid state of Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8+\delta?

Kazuo Kadowaki, Shiho Kamisawa, Kazuhiro Kimura (Institute of Materials Science, The University of Tsukuba), Satoru Okayasu, Masao Sataka (Japan Atomic Energy Institute), Yukio Kazumata (Japan Advanced Technology), Wai Kwok, George Crabtree (Argonne National Laboratory)

K40.030 AFM Production of Periodic Pinning Arrays in Superconducting Niobium Thin Films

Joseph C. Amato, Jason Stewart, Patrick Heaney (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Colgate University, Hamilton NY 13346)

K40.031 Critical Points of the First Order Vortex Melting Line in YBCO Single Crystals

L. M. Undreiu, L. M. Paulius, V. Tobos (Western Michigan University,Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008), W. K. Kwok, G. W. Crabtree (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory), C. Marcenat (CEA-Grenoble/DRFMC/SPSMS)

K40.032 Effect of Columnar Defects on the Irreversibility line in Pristine and Iodine-intercalated Bi_2Sr_2Ca_2O_8+\delta Single Crystals

Kijoon H. P. Kim, Mun-Seog Kim, Jae-Hyuk Choi, W. N. Kang, Sung-Ik Lee (National Creative Research Initiative Center for Superconductivity and Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea), Dong-Han Ha (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Taejon, Republic of Korea), Dong-Ho Kim (Department of Physics, Yeungnam University, Kyungsan, Republic of Korea), KRISS Collaboration, Yeungnam University Collaboration

K40.033 Peak Effect: Corbino Transport Measurements and Magnetic Decoration in pure NbSe_2

Mariela Menghini, Yanina Fasano, Clemens Winkelmann, Francisco de la Cruz (Centro Atómico Bariloche-Instituto Balseiro, CNEA, Bariloche, RN, Argentina), Daniel Lopez, Hugo Safar, E. Bucher, Peter Gammel, David Bishop (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, USA)

K40.034 Finite-temperature transition in the 2D XY gauge glass model

Petter Minnhagen, Beom Jun Kim, Petter Holme (Dept. of Theor. Physics Umeå University 901 87 Umeå Sweden)

K40.035 An Atomic Beam Magnetic Resonance Method for Studies of Vortex Matter Structure

Harald Hauglin (Department of Physics, University of Oslo, N-0316 Oslo, Norway), Nathan G Woodard, Samuel Dapore-Schwartz, Gergory P. Lafyatis (Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH 43210)

K40.036 Machine Design for SQUIBIT Implementation of Quantum Computing

B. Rosen (Stevens Institute of Technology)

K40.037 Radio-frequency Bloch-transistor electrometer

A. B. Zorin (PTB, Braunschweig, Germany)

K40.038 CuO2/Y/CuO2 block termination of (001) YBa2Cu3Ox surface

MORISHITA Tadataka, ZAMA Hideaki, TANAKA Nobue, UCHIYAMA Hiroshi (Superconductivity Research Laboratory, ISTEC)

K40.039 Nanotubes

K40.040 Green's Function Theory of Electrical and Thermal Transport in Carbon Nanotubes

P. J. Lin-Chung (Naval Research Laboratory)

K40.041 Effect of catalyst type on field emission properties of nanostructured carbon films grown by a modified hot-filament chemical vapor deposition technique

Sukill Kang (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee,Knoxville,TN 37996,Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge,TN 37831), Douglas H. Lowndes (Solid State Division,Oak Ridge National Laboratory,Oak Ridge,TN 37831), Darren Ellis (Department of Electrical Engineering,University of Tennessee,Knoxville,TN 37996)

K40.042 Coupling of armchair and zigzag tubes to a free electron metal

M. P. Anantram (NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000)

K40.043 Dispersion, Structure, and Physical Properties of Polymer Wrapped Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes For Use in Crossbar Assemblies

Michael Diehl, Robert Beckman, Alexander Star, Akram Baukai, David Steuerman, Yang Xin, Fraser Stoddard, James Heath (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA)

K40.044 THEORETICAL STUDY OF THE COLLECTIVE EXCITATIONS OF CARBON NANOTUBES

Tibab McNeish, Godfrey Gumbs (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hunter College / CUNY)

K40.045 Transport Interference in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Electron Waveguide

Wenjie Liang (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University), Marc Bockrath, Dolores Bozovic (Department of Physics, Harvard University), Jason Hafner (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University), Michael Tinkham (Department of Physics, Harvard University), Hongkun Park (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University)

K40.046 Correlation of Resistance with Fractal Structure for Different Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Networks

Bingbing Liu (Department of Experimental Physics, Umea University, 901 87 Umea, Sweden; *National Lab of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, P.R.China), Bertil Sundqvist (Department of Experimental Physics, Umea University, 901 87 Umea, Sweden), Eva Olsson (Analytical Materials Physics, The Angstrom Lab, Uppsala University, Box 534, 751 21 Uppsala, Sweden), Xiao-Mei Zhu (Department of Experimental Physics, Umea University, 901 87 Umea, Sweden), Guangtian Zou (*National Lab of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, P.R.China)

K40.047 Magnetoresistive Oxides

K40.048 Orbital and Charge Ordering in La_1-xSr_1+xMnO_4 (0.4\le x \le 0.5)

Y. Wakabayashi (Keio univ., Yokohama, Japan, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan), Y. Murakami (KEK, Tsukuba, Japan, CREST, Tsukuba, Japan), Y. Moritomo (Nagoya univ., Nagoya, Japan), I. Koyama, H. Nakao, T. Kiyama (KEK, Tsukuba, Japan), T. Kimura (JRCAT, Tsukuba, Japan), Y. Tokura (University of Tokyo, Tokyo , Japan, JRCAT, Tsukuba, Japan), N. Wakabayashi (Keio univ., Yokohama, Japan)

K40.049 Microstructures and transport properties of La_0.8Ca_0.2MnO_3-\delta films prepared by rf magnetron sputtering using "soft" targets

J. S. Park, C. O. Kim, Y. P. Lee (Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea), V. G. Prokhorov, G. G. Kaminsky, V. A. Komashko (Institute of Metal Physics, Kiev, Ukraine)

K40.050 Structural Transformation and Magnetic Properties of Co doped Fe3O4 films

M.C. Chen, Gung Chern (Physics Department, National Chung-Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, ROC), Lance Horng, T.C. Wu (Physics Department, Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan, ROC)

K40.051 Profound effect of low Cu doping on magnetism of oxygen deficient La_0.7A_0.3MnO_3-\delta (A= Ca, Sr).

A. Pogorily, A. Tovstolytkin, E. Shypil, D. Podyalovskii (Institute of Magnetism, 36-b Vernadsky Str., Kyiv 03142, Ukraine)

K40.052 Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films II

K40.053 Laser etching of Si with NF3 using CuBr laser

Borislav Ivanov, Richard Haglund (Vanderbilt University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Nashville TN 37235), Krasimir Woynoff, Ludmil Zambov (UCTM, Dept. of Semiconductors,8 Kliment Ohridski St., Sofia 1756, Bulgaria), Mihail Tarasov (Central Laboratory of Minerolagy, Bulgarian Academy of Science), Vanderbilt University Team, UCTM Collaboration, Mineralogy Laboratory Collaboration

K40.054 A new growth technique of GaAs and InAs quantum dots by supersonic molecular sources

Masashi Ozeki, Jie Cui, Byoung-Rho Shim (Joint Research Center for Atom Technology)

K40.055 NaCl on vicinal Cu surfaces: layer growth versus adsorbate-induced faceting

A. Riemann, S. Fölsch, J. Repp, G. Meyer, K.H. Rieder (Institut f. Experimentalphysik, FU Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany)

K40.056 Instability and Wavelength Selection During Step Flow Growth of Metal Surfaces Vicinal to fcc(001)

Marko Rusanen (Laboratory of Physics and Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland), Ismo T Koponen (Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland), Jarkko Heinonen, Tapio Ala-Nissila (Laboratory of Physics and Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)

K40.057 High-resolution x-ray reflectivity studies of highly crystalline CeO_2 films on (1\b102) Al_2O_3

S. H. Bang, S. K. Park, J. H. Cho (Department of Physics and RCDAMP, Pusan National University, Pusan 609-735, Korea)

K40.058 Surface roughness in quenched random potentials

Sukyung KIM, Jin Min KIM (Soongsil University)

K40.059 Submonolayer homoepitaxial growth of Ag on Ag(110)

Chiara de Giorgi, Pulati Aihemaiti, Francesco Buatier de Mongeot, Corrado Boragno, Riccardo Ferrando, Ugo Valbusa (INFM-UdR Genova, CFSBT-CNR and Dipartimento di Fisica, Genova)

K40.060 New mechanisms of cluster diffusion on metal fcc(100) surfaces

Oleg Trushin, Petri Salo, Matti Alatalo, Tapio Ala-Nissila (Helsinki Institute of Physics and Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 1100, 02015 HUT, Finland)

K40.061 Adatom island diffusion on metal fcc(100) surfaces

Jaakko Hirvonen, Oleg Trushin, Petri Salo, Tapio Ala-Nissila (Helsinki Institute of Physics and Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 1100, FIN-02015 HUT, Espoo, Finland), Ismo Koponen (Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 9, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland)

K40.062 Growth and Thermal Stability of Ultra-thin Silver Oxide Films

S.B. Rivers (Rhode Island College), F. Bock, R.J. Lad (Univ of Maine)

K40.063 Applied Physics

K40.064 Performance of a Pb_1-xSn_xTe(In) far-infrared photodetector in comparison with the state of the art Si(Sb) and Ge(Ga) analogs.

Dmitriy Khokhlov, Ivan Ivanchik (Physics Department, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia), Steven Raines, Dan Watson, Judith Pipher (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester NY)

K40.065 Comparative Study of Thermoelectric Response in Electron-Doped Perovskites

KENJI NAKANISHI, TETSUJI OKUDA, SHIGEKI MIYASAKA (JRCAT(Joint Research Center for Atom Technology)), YOSHINORI TOKURA (JRCAT, University of Tokyo)

K40.066 Effect of Quantum Wire Width in the Optimization of Changes in Excitonic Absorption and Index of Refraction in InGAAS-Inp Quantum Wire Modulators

Ming Xu (Microsoft Corp., 15400 NE 13th Pl, Bellevue, WA 98007), Wenli Huang (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department,United State Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996), Faquir Jain (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-2157)

K40.067 Switching of a Defect Mode in a One Dimensional Photonic Crystal using Liquid Crystals

Chaitanya Ullal, Manish Deopura, Martin Maldovan, Craig Carter, Yoel Fink, Edwin Thomas (MIT)

K40.068 High-resolution cesium magnetometer surveys used as a tool to help solve water quality problems.

Michael Rogers, James Cassidy, Maria Dragila (Oregon State University)

K40.069 Application of Phase Modulated Optical Signals to Inhomogeneously Broadened Materials

Zeb Barber, Randy Reibel, Mingzhen Tian, Wm.Randall Babbitt (Physics Department, Montana State University-Bozeman)

K40.070 Electronic Structures, Bonding Natures, and Charge Transfers

takatoshi Nagano (Meiji univ.), kazuo Tsumuyara, haruki Eguchi

K40.071 Stabilities and Electronic Structures, Bonding Natures in Ba@Si28

takatoshi Nagano (Meiji univ.), kazuo Tsumuyara, haruki Eguchi

K40.072 Ferroelectrics

K40.073 Macroscopically symmetric domain configurations in ferroic crystals

Jiri Fuksa (Institute of Physics, Acad. Sci. of the Czech Rep., Na Slovance 2, CZ-182 21 Prague 8, Czech Republic)

K40.074 Investigation of Ferroelectromagnetic nature in Bismuth Layer Structured Magnetoelectric ceramics

Srinivas Adiraj, Suryanarayana Shambuni Venkata (Materials Research Laboratory, Department of Physics, Osmania University, Hyderabad-500 007. INDIA)

K40.075 Phase Diagram of Magnetically Ordered Relaxor Ferroelectric Pb(Fe_2/3W_1/3)O3 and PbTiO_3 (PFW-PT)

Li Feng, Zuo Guang Ye (Department of Chemistry,Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6)

K40.076 Optical, Dielectric and Ferroelectric Properties of LaCrO_3 Single Crystals

Mahesh Kumar Matam, Zuo Guang Ye (Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, V5A 1S6)

K40.077 Magnetic and Electrical Characterization of TiBO_3 Single Crystals

ZiGuang Xu, Mahesh Kumar Matam, Zuo Guang Ye (Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6)

K40.078 Instrumentation and Measurements

K40.079 Quartz vacuum windows for mm-wave recievers

Daniel Koller (National Radio Astronomy Observatory), G. Ediss, A. Kerr (NRAO)

K40.080 HEMISPHERICAL GRID RETARDING FIELD ANALYZER FOR ABSOLUTE MEASUREMENT OF SECONDARY AND BACK-SCATTERED ELECTRON YIELDS

Neal Nickles, W.-Y. Chang, J.R. Dennison (Utah State University)

K40.081 Evanescent Readout of Quasi-Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors: Prospects for Long Sensor Arrays

Barry Prince, Alan Schwabacher, Peter Geissinger (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

K40.082 Complex Frequency Characterization of Lossy Piezoelectric Materials

Robert Pastore, Arthur Ballata, John Kosinski (US Army Communications Electronics Command), Hong Liang Cui (Stevens Institute of Technology)

K40.083 Automatic High Precision Calibration System for Rotary Encoder

Tsukasa Watanabe, Hiroyuki Fujimoto, Kan Nakayama (National Research Laboratory of Metrology, 1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8563, Japan), Tadashi Masuda (Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology, 2200-2 Toyosawa, Hukuroi-shi, Shizuoka, 437-8555, Japan), Makoto Kajitani (The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu-shi, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan)

K40.084 High sensitivity pump-probe thermal lens method for the measurement of small absorption coefficients in liquids and crystals

Aristides Marcano, Sonal Gupte, Curtis Loper, Ranjit Pradhan, Noureddine Melikechi (Applied Optics Center of Delaware and Department of Physics, Delaware State University, 1200 N. DuPont Highway, Dover, DE 19901 USA.)

K40.085 Electron momentum spectroscopy of surfaces

S Tixier, Y Zheng, G Cooper (Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z1), T Tiedje (AMPEL, department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z1), C. E. Brion (Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z1)

K40.086 Studying the size, microstucture, and formation of nanodroplets in supersonic nozzles using the novel technique - aerosol SANS

Kiril A. Streletzky, Barbara E. Wyslouzil, Chris H. Heath (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), J. Woelk, R. Strey (University of Cologne), Gerald Wilemski (University of Missouri-Rolla)

K40.087 Mapping 2D conductance using a near-field scanning optical microscope

Ricardo Decca (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46202)

K40.088 Van der Waals Forces in Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy

Melissa MacBeth, Joseph Garbini, John Sidles, William Dougherty, Shih-hui Chao (Departments of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Orthopaedics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195)

K40.089 A sub-Angstrom Sample Scanner for Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (MRFM): Contact Mechanics and Controlled Damping

Shih-hui Chao, William Dougherty, Joseph Garbini, John Sidles, Melissa MacBeth (University of Washington, Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Orthopaedics, and Electrical Engineering, Seattle, WA)

K40.090 Phase Dependence in Noise Measurements of Complex Impedances

Y. Feng, G.T. Seidler (Physics Department, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1560)

K40.091 Education

K40.092 Incorporating Application Based Laboratories into the General Physics Course

Kurt Vandervoort, Mike Lesmerises, Kylie Shuler, Ginny Peterson, Mark Lord (Department of Chemistry and Physics and Department of Geosciences, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723)

K40.093 Chemical Physics

K40.094 Multiphoton excitation and dissociation of diatomic molecules with chirped laser pulses

Rebekah Martin, W.-K. Liu (Department of Physics, Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute, University of Waterloo)

K40.095 Partial molar entropy change of mixing of binary hard spheres

Masayuki Irisa (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)

K40.096 Electrostatic-based embedded atom method potentials for ruthenium oxide

Marc D Legault (University of Puerto Rico at Bayamon), Daniel E Bacelo (Universidad Metropolitana), Fredy R Zypman (Yashiva University), Edmund B. Webb III (Sandia National Laboratories)

K40.097 Electronic spectroscopy and photoisomerization of the epidermal chromophore trans-urocanic acid in a supersonic jet

Wendy Ryan, Donald Levy (University of Chicago)

K40.098 Two-Component Self-Diffusion in Solutions: Trehalose and Sucrose in Water

E. J. Feick, E. D. von Meerwall (Univ. Akron), N. Ekdawi, J. de Pablo (Univ. Wisconsin)

K40.099 A Hard Sphere Default Model for Information Theory

Mary E. Gentile, Maria A. Gomez (Department of Chemistry, Vassar College), Lawrence R. Pratt (Los Alamos National Laboratories)

K40.100 Comparison of Gradient Theory with Classical Nucleation Theory

J.-S. Li, A. Obeidat, G. Wilemski (University of Missouri-Rolla)

K40.101 Gradient Theory of Binary Nucleation in Carbon Dioxide-Decane Mixtures

A. Obeidat, J.-S. Li, G. Wilemski (University of Missouri-Rolla)

K40.102 Calculation of the Solvation Free Energy of a Proton in Water

Paul E. Grabowski, Demian Riccardi, Maria A. Gomez (Vassar College), Lawrence R. Pratt (Los Alamos National Laboratories)

K40.103 Proton Conduction in Perovskite Oxides

Mary Griffin, Kristin Rule, Valentino Cooper, Maria Gomez (Department of Chemistry, Vassar College)

K40.104 Proton Transfer in Macrobicyclic Amines

Jillian Orans, Maria A. Gomez (Vassar College Department of Chemistry)

K40.105 Atomic hydrogen on the Pt(111) surface: ab-initio calculation of 3D vibrational modes

Stefan Badescu (), See-Chen Ying (Dept. of Physics, Brown Univ., USA), Petri Salo, Tapio Ala-Nissila, Matti Alatalo (), Oleg Trushin (Lab. of Physics, HUT, Finland)

K40.106 Stochastic Schrödinger Equation Study of Quantum Diffusion of Hydrogen on Metal Surfaces

Stefan Badescu, See-Chen Ying (Dept. of Physics, Brown Univ., USA), Tapio Ala-Nissila, Petri Salo, Oleg Trushin (Lab. of Physics, HUT, Finland)

K40.107 Computer Simulations of Cyclic Voltammetry and phase ordering of Br on Ag(100)

S.~J. Mitchell, G. Brown, P.~A. Rikvold (FSU/CSIT, FSU/MARTECH, Department of Physics, Florida Steate University)

K40.108 Theory of Molecule-Surface Scattering: Application to C_2H_2 Scattering from LiF

Ileana Iftimia, J. R. Manson (Clemson University)

K40.109 Properties of effective noise for systems with quenched randomness

Sami Majaniemi (Helsinki Institute of Physics and Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology)

K40.110 Development of a System to Study the Photolysis and Radiolysis of Ices

T. Randy Dillingham, David Cornelison, Nicholas Erhardt (Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northern Arizona University), Nathan Borggren (Department of Physics & Astronomy)

K40.111 Sum frequency generation spectroscopic studies of CO-ethylene coadsorption on the Pt(111) surface: The CO poisoning effect of ethylene hydrogenation.

Peilin Chen, Kyle Kung (Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley), Y Shen (Department of Physics, UC Berkeley), Gabor Somorjai (Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley), Materials Sciences Division Collaboration

K40.112 Phase Field Model of Capillary Rise Between Two Walls

Mikko-Pekka Kuittu, Sami Majaniemi (Helsinki Institute of Physics and Laboratory of Physics), Martin Dube (Centre for Physics of Materials, McGill University), Tapio Ala-Nissila (Helsinki Institute of Physics and Laboratory of Physics)

K40.113 Investigation of Chemisorption Structures of O_2 Molecules on the Ru(0001) Surface by Density Functional Molecular Orbital Method.

Atsushi Ohtake, Akihiro Sano, Kinya Kobayashi, Toshihide Nabatame (Hitachi Research Lab., Hitachi Ltd., 7-1-1, Omika-cho, Hitachi-shi Ibaraki-ken, 319-1292 Japan)

K40.114 Theoretical study of the effect of surface charge on the binding energy of bisulfate adsorbed onto a gold (111) surface

Daniel E Bacelo (Universidad Metropolitana), Marc D Legault (University of Puerto Rico at Bayamon)

K40.115 Solvent-Induced Crystallization in Poly(Ethylene Terephthalate) during Mass Transport

Hao Ouyang (APS;DHPP), Wen-Hao Lee

K40.116 Conformational Analysis on the Molecular Structures of Polypeptides having L-D and L-L Regular Sequences

Tsutomu Nakanishi, Hajime Okamoto, Maki Kasahara, Kyozaburo Takeda (Waseda Univ., JAPAN)

K40.117 Salt dependence of compression normal forces of quenched polyelectrolyte brushes

Ernesto Hernandez-Zapata, Mario N. Tamashiro, Philip A. Pincus (Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara)

K40.118 A Thermodynamic Theory of Rapid Entropy Drop, Kauzmann Catastrophe and an Apparent Mode-Coupling Transition in Polymers: An Exact Model Calculation on a Husimi Tree

Andrea Corsi, P.D. Gujrati (The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325 USA)

K40.119 Calculation of Void Cluster Size Distribution in the Presence of Polymers

Sagar Rane, P. D. Gujrati (University of Akron, Akron, OH)

K40.120 Near Edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Polymers

Olivier Dhez, Harald Ade (Department of Physics, North Carolina State University), Stephen Urquhart (Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan)

K40.121 New High Pressure Phases in the N-O system

Achintya Maddury (Th. Jefferson Highschool, 6560 Braddock Rd., Alexandria, V, and: 2), Maddury Somayazulu (Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, and: 2), Oliver Tschauner, Ho-kwang Mao, Russell J. Hemley (2: Geophysical Laboratory and Center for High Pressure Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Road, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20015)

K40.122 Ab initio Calculation of Adsorbate Induced Stress on Ni(100)

Sampyo Hong, Abdelkader Kara, Talat S. Rahman (Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506.), Stefano de Gironcoli, Stefano Baroni (SISSA, Trieste, Italy.)

K40.123 Large Size Dependence of the Luminescence and Quenching Dynamics of Small (1-3 nm) Nanoparticles

Christy Landes, Markus Braun, Clemens Burda, Mostafa El-Sayed (Laser Dynamics Laboratory, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0400, USA)

K40.124 Tunneling Electron Induced Photon Emission from Porphyrin Molecules on Metal Surfaces

Z.-C. Dong, T. Ohgi, D. Fujita, H. Nejoh (National Research Institute for Metals), T. Terui, S. Yokoyama, T. Yamada, S. Mashiko (Communication Research Laboratory), T. Okamoto (RIKEN (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research) - Japan)

K40.125 Adsorption structure and single-molecule vibrational spectroscopy of CO on Pd(110)

Yousoo Kim, Hiroyuki Kato, Tadahiro Komeda, Maki Kawai (RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan)

K40.126 General Theory

K40.127 Convergence Properties of Moments Expansions

William J. Massano (SUNY Maritime), Jay D. Mancini, Vassilios Fessatidis, Christina Celi (Fordham University), Samuel P. Bowen (Chicago State University)

K40.128 Jahn-Teller Effect: A Canonical Sequence Approach

Christina Celi, Vassilios Fessatidis, Jay D. Mancini (Fordham University), Samuel P. Bowen (Chicago State University)

K40.129 Ground-State of Hydrogen Fluoride

Samuel P. Bowen (Chicago State University), Vassilios Fessatidis, Christina Celi, Jay D. Mancini (Fordham University)

K40.130 Canonical Sequence Method Applied to the Anisotropic Heisenberg Lattice

Vassilios Fessatidis, Christina Celi, Jay D. Mancini (Fordham University), Samuel P. Bowen (Chicago State University), Robert Murawski (Stevens Institute of Technology)

K40.131 Strain induced ferromagnetic instability in strongly correlated oxides.

Alexander Dobin, Renata Wentzcovitch (School of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Minnesota Supercomputer Institute for Digital Technology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455)

K40.132 First principles studies on Iron - Neodymium - Hydrogen compounds

E.L. Peltzer y Blancá (IFLYSIB-CONICET, Depto.de Electrotecnia,Fac.Ingeniería,UNLP), F. Dominguez (IFLYSIB - FOMEC), F.H. Sánchez, F.D. Saccone, C.E. Rodrí guez Torres (Dept. de Física, Fac. Cs.Exactas, UNLP)

K40.133 Interaction of Sine-Gordon Solitons with Impurities

G. Lei, W.C. Kerr (Wake Forest Univ.), D. Marshburn (UNC-Chapel Hill)

K40.134 Replace with abstract title Space-Time Matrix

Jane Kr (University Of South Florida)

K40.135 Semiconductors II: Spectroscopy

K40.136 Ultrahigh Field Cyclotron Resonance in a Spatially Separated Electron-Hole System

M. A. Zudov, J. Kono (ECE Dept., Rice University), T. Ikaida, Y. H. Matsuda, N. Miura (Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo), S. Sasa, M. Inoue (EE Dept., Osaka Institute of Technology), P. J. Nordlander (Dept. of Physics, Rice University)

K40.137 Effects of dilute nitrogen-alloying on the pressure dependence of interband transitions in InGaAsN/GaAs confinement structures

B. A. Weinstein (Physics Dept., SUNY at Buffalo, NY 14260-1500), S. A. Choulis, T. J. C. Hosea, M. Kamal-Saadi, E. P. O'Reilly, A. R. Adams (Physics Dept., Univ. of Surrey, Guildford, UK), W. Stolz (Philipps-Univ., Materials Science Center, Marburg, Germany)

K40.138 Magneto-optics of charged excitons in narrow quantum wells in high magnetic fields

T Vanhoucke, M Hayne (Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, KU Leuven), M Henini (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham), V V Moshchalkov (Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, KU Leuven)

K40.139 Nonlinera Light Absorption Saturation in Direct Band Gap Semiconductors

Hayk Minassian, Armen Melikyan (SEUA)

K40.140 The pump-probe spectroscopy with infrared probe light in highly excited semiconductors: Beyond the BCS-like mean-field theory

Takeshi Inagaki, Masaki Aihara (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

K40.141 Thermalization process of a photo-generated plasma in

M.A. Rodriguez-Meza, J.L. Carrillo (Instituto de Fisica, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla)

K40.142 Ab initio calculation of (hyper)polarizabilities using a sum-over-states formalism.

Caroline M. Taylor, Rajat K. Chaudhuri, Davin M. Potts, Karl F. Freed (James Franck Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago)

K40.143 Optical properties of plasmons in multiple quantum wells in magnetic fields

Suck Whan Kim (Department of Physics, Andong National University, Andong 760-749, Korea), Jai Yon Ryu (Department of Physics, Cheju National Univeristy, Cheju 690-756, Korea), Hyung Soo Ahn (Department of Applied Physics, Korea Maritime University, Pusan 606-791, Korea), Haeng Ki Lee, Ki Soo Sohn (Department of Physics, Kyungpook National University, Taegu 702-701, Korea)

K40.144 The effect of a radial periodically modulated magnetic fields on energy spectra of electrons in mesoscopic annulus*

Tzong-Jer Yang, Weng-Long Liu (Department of Electrophysics,National Chiao-Tung University,Hsinchu,Taiwan 300,Rep. of China), Ben-Yuan Gu (Institute of Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,P.O.Box 603,Beijing 100080,China)

K40.145 Optical Characterization of Positive Photoresist

Dhiraj Sardar, Michael Mayo, Anthony Sayka, Raylon Yow (University of Texas at San Antonio), Center for Lasers and Materials Research Team

K40.146 Investigation Of CdTe Surface Layers Via Reflection, Electroreflection, Photoluminescence and Photocurrent methods

Gagik Shmavonyan (State Engineering University of Armenia)

K40.147 Excitation-dependent transition between defect-related and radiative recombination in lattice-mismatched InGaAs/InAsP heterostructures

F. E. Weindruch, T. H. Gfroerer (Davidson College), M. W. Wanlass (NREL)

K40.148 Studies of Nonradiative Recombination Centers in GaAs and InP*

S. TUZEMEN (Department of Physics, Ataturk University, Erzurum 25240, Turkey), DIFEI LIANG, K. B. UCER, R. T. WILLIAMS (Department of Physics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109)

K40.149 Four-terminal and two-terminal measurements on open square ballistic quantum dots.

S. Faniel, C. Gustin, B. Hackens, V. Bayot (Cermin, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), M. Shayegan (Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton)

K40.150 High-sensitive and tunable far-infrared detector using quantum Hall devices

Yukio Kawano, Susumu Komiyama (Dep. of Basic Science, Univ. of Tokyo)

K40.151 Electron tunneling through a quantum dot between superconducting leads.

Hua Zhao, Donald Sprung (Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton ON L8S 4M1 Canada)

K40.152 Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

K40.153 Four Lil' Devils: A Family of Experimentally Testable Maxwell Demons

Dsniel P. Sheehan (Department of Physics, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA)

K40.154 Relaxation of non-order parameter field in directed Ising system

Heung Sik Park, Hyunggyu Park (Inha University, Inchon, Korea)

K40.155 Green functions for the modified rectangle lattice of \nobreakDhar

C. Reese (New Mexico State Univ.), W. Schwalm, B. Moritz (Univ. of North Dakota)

K40.156 Stability of Quantum Bound States under Noisy Disorders.

Mihaela Sardiu, Yi-Kuo Yu (Department of Physics, Florida Atlantic University)

K40.157 Spatiotemporal Nonlinear Dynamics of a Magnetoelastic Ribbon

Thomas L. Carroll, Michael D. Todd, Frederic J. Rachford, Louis M. Pecora (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC. 20375)

K40.158 From chaos to space-time chaos in subcritical systems. The case of plane Couette flow.

Paul Manneville (Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique, Ecole polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau, France)

K40.159 Order-Disorder Phase Transition in Arrays of Coupled Diode Resonators.

Prashant Gade, Nandini Chatterjee, Normand Mousseau, Earle Hunt (Dept. of Phys. and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, OHIO)

K40.160 A Glauber Monte Carlo Approach to Stock Market Dynamics

Filippo Castiglione (Cologne University, Germany), Dietrich Stauffer (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil), Ras Pandey (University of Southern Mississippi)

K40.161 Directed Percolation: cluster size distribution and free energy distribution

Gelio Alves, Mihaela Sardiu, Yi-Kuo Yu (Department of Physics, Florida Atlantic University)

K40.162 Numerical Study of Allen-Cahn growth in three-dimensional phase ordering.

Gregory Brown, P. A. Rikvold (Florida State University)

K40.163 Prediction of severity of additional blood pressure elevation after tracheal intubation in hypertensive patients by pre-anesthetic recurrence quantification analysis of heart rates

Myung-Kul Yum (Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Hanyang University Kuri Hospital, Kyunggi-do 471-701, Korea), Hee-Soo Kim (Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea), Kyungsik Kim (Department of Physics, Pukyong National University, Pusan 608-737, Korea)

K40.164 Charateristic Features of an Iterative Map with Two Control Parmeters

B. I. Henry (Department of Applied Mathematics, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia), M.K. Yum (Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Hanyang University, Kuri 471-701, Korea), Y.S. Kong (Department of Exploration Engineering, Pukyong National University, Pusan 608-737, Korea), B.O. Shim, Kyungsik Kim (Department of Physics, Pukyong National University, Pusan 608-737, Korea)

K40.165 Multifractal Measures in the Kim-Kong Map

Kyungsik Kim, J.S. Choi (Department of Physics, Pukyong National University, Pusan 608-737, Korea), Y.S. Kong (Department of Exploration Engineering, Pukyong National University, Pusan 608-737, Korea), B. I. Henry (Department of Applied Mathematics, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia), M. K. Yum (Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Hanyang University, Kuri 471-701, Korea)

K40.166 Self-Organized Criticality in a Bead Pile

Christie Egnatuk, D. T. Jacobs (Physics Department, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio)

K40.167 Critical Behavior of a Strain Percolation model in Metals

Yunsic Shim (Center for Simulational Physics, The University of Georgia and MSEL, National Institute of Standards and Technology), L. E. Levine, R. Thomson (Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology)

K40.168 Electronic Subsystem Excitation and Radiation Defect Generation in Silicon

Vladimir Rumyantsev (Donetsk Phys. amp; Tech. Institute of the NAS of Ukraine)