Program overview

WEDNESDAY MORNING, 14 MARCH 2001

Session N1. DCMP: Spin Chains.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Ballroom 6A, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N1.001 Magnetic ordering and spin dynamics in coupled S=1 quantumspin chains

Andrey Zheludev (Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

08:36 N1.002 Spin Dynamics in the weakly coupled S=1/2 chain compound KCuF3

Stephen Nagler (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

09:12 N1.003 Field-Induced Long-Range Order in New Quasi-1D Haldane Gap Materials

K. Katsumata (RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan and RIKEN Harima Institute, Mikazuki, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan)

09:48 N1.004 Spin and charge excitations in pure and Ca-doped NaV2O5

Dirk van der Marel (Rijksunviversiteit Groningen)

10:24 N1.005 Theoretical Studies of coupled S=1/2 chains and ladders

Fabian Essler (Department of Physics, University of Warwick, UK)

Session N2. DCMP: Symmetry Breaking During Deposition.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Ballroom 6B, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N2.001 Kinetics in the Earliest Stages of Atom Deposition: An Atomic View

Gert Ehrlich (Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL 61801)

08:36 N2.002 Steering-enhanced roughening during metal deposition at grazing incidence

Bene Poelsema (MESA+ Research Institute and Faculty of Applied Physics, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands)

09:12 N2.003 Morphological Evolution and Control in Submonolayer Epitaxy

Jianxin Zhong (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831 and Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712)

09:48 N2.004 The ion sandblasting: a new method to nanostructuring surfaces.

Ugo Valbusa (Physics Department University of Genoa, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16136 Genova Italy)

10:24 N2.005 Unstable Growth and Decay of Nanostructures on Crystalline Surfaces

Theodore L. Einstein (University of Maryland, College Park)

Session N3. DCMP/DBP: Molecular Motors.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Ballroom 6C, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N3.001 Mechanics of molecular motors

Koen Visscher (University of Arizona, Depts. of Physics and Molecular amp; Cellular Biology)

08:36 N3.002 Useful Motifs for DNA Nanotechnology

Nadrian C. Seeman (Department of Chemistry, New York University)

09:12 N3.003 DNA-based molecular motors

Bernard Yurke (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)

09:48 N3.004 Listeria propulsion

Albrecht Ott (Institut Curie, Laboratoire PhysicoChimieCurie, UMR168 du CNRS, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, France)

Session N4. FIAP/DPOLY: Organic Optoelectronic Devices.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Ballroom 6E, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N4.001 Fast polymer modulators

Larry Dalton (University of Washington and University of Southern California)

08:36 N4.002 Electro-phosphorescence

Marc Baldo (Princeton University)

09:12 N4.003 Electronic paper

Magnus Berggren (University Linkopping, Sweden)

09:48 N4.004 Polyfluorene Light Emitting Devices

Donal Bradley (Imperial College, London)

10:24 N4.005 Organic solid state injection laser

Bertram Batlogg (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07974 and ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

Session N5. DCMP: Dynamics of Quantum Dipoles: From Fundamental Physics to Quantum Optimization.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 602-603, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N5.001 Aging and memory effects among interacting two level systems in amorphous solids

Danna Rosenberg (Stanford University)

08:36 N5.002 Theory of quantum relaxation of interacting dipoles

Phil Stamp (Spinoza Institute)

09:12 N5.003 Nonequilibrium dynamics of quantum glasses

Leticia Cugliandolo (LPT-Ecole Normale Superieure and LPTHE-Jussieu)

09:48 N5.004 Quantum Annealing and Tunable Magnetic Domain Wall Tunneling

Thomas F. Rosenbaum (University of Chicago)

10:24 N5.005 Cooperative quantum effects in glasses

Siegfried Hunklinger (Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany)

Session N6. GSNP: Chaos and Complexity.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 608, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N6.001 Complexity and Robustness

Jean Carlson (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara)

08:36 N6.002 Collective Behavior and Long-Range Order in Spatially-Extended Chaotic Systems

Hugues CHATÉ (CEA -- Saclay, FRANCE)

09:12 N6.003 An Open-System Approach to the Study of Space-time Chaos

Antonio Politi (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata)

09:48 N6.004 SPIN WAVE INSTABILITIES AND CHAOS: FROM HIGH POWER MAGNETIC RESONANCE TO NANOSTRUCTURED MAGNETIC MATERIALS

Sergio M. Rezende (Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, 50 670-901, Brazil)

10:24 N6.005 Critical behavior of spins systems with aperiodic interactions

S. R. Salinas (Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)

Session N7. GMAG: Spin Polarized Tunneling.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 609, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N7.001 Spin Polarization: Comparison between theoretical band structure and experiments based upon Point Contact Andreev Reflection

Robert Soulen, Michael Osofsky, Boris Nadgorny (Naval Research lab)

08:12 N7.002 Spin Polarized Tunneling and Enhancement of Magnetic Moment in Co-Mn Alloy Films

Tae Hee Kim, Jagadeesh S. Moodera (Francis Bitter Magnet Lab, MIT)

08:24 N7.003 Temperature and Bias Effects in Inverse Tunneling Magnetoresistance Structures

Alex F. Panchula, Stuart S. P. Parkin (IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Rd. San Jose, CA 95120)

08:36 N7.004 Charge modulated trilayer magnetic junction: La_0.7Ca_0.3MnO_3/La_0.45Ca_0.55MnO_3/La_0.7Ca_0.3MnO_3

Moon-Ho Jo, N.D. Mathur, M.G. Blamire (Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom), D. Ozkaya, A. K. Petford-Long (Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road,Oxford OX1 3PH, United Kingdom)

08:48 N7.005 Effect of Swift heavy ions on the magnetic transport and structural properties of magnetic tunnel junctions

Tamalika Banerjee (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400 005, India), Tapobrata Som, Dinakar Kanjilal (Nuclear Science Centre, Delhi 110 067, India), Jagadeesh S. Moodera (Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, MIT)

09:00 N7.006 Transport studies of magnetic tunnel junctions exhibiting negative tunneling magnetoresistance

P.E. Scott, E.R. Nowak (University of Delaware), S.S.P. Parkin (IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center)

09:12 N7.007 Interface effects of (La_1-xSr_xMnO_3/SrTiO_3) Oxide Superlattices

Y. Ogimoto, M. Izumi, Y. Okimoto, T. Manako (JRCAT), P. Ahmet, K. Nakajima, T. Chikyow (COMET-NIRIM, NIRIM, and TIT), M. Kawasaki (JRCAT, Tokyo Institute of Technology), Y. Tokura (JRCAT, University of Tokyo)

09:24 N7.008 Fermi Surface effects in Voltage-Controlled Spintronic Structure

Chun-Yeol You, J. S. Jiang, Sam. D. Bader (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439)

09:36 N7.009 In-situ characterization of ultra-small magnetic junctions made by electrochemical techniques

A. Sokolov, J.R. Jennings, C.-S. Yang, J. Redepenning, B. Doudin (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Lincoln-Nebraska)

09:48 N7.010 Imaging Magnetic Tunnel Junctions Using Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy

A.C. Perrella, W.H. Rippard, R.A. Buhrman (Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca NY)

10:00 N7.011 INTERFACIAL CAPACITANCE EFFECTS IN MAGNETIC TUNNELING JUNCTIONS

John Q Xiao, G Landry, X Xiang (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716), J Du (National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P.R. China)

10:12 N7.012 Determination of spin polarization of half-metallic CrO2 by point-contact Andreev Reflection

Y. Ji, G.J. Strijkers, F.Y. Yang, C.L. Chien (The Johns Hopkins University), J.M. Byers (Naval Research Lab), A. Anguelouch, G. Xiao (Brown University), A. Gupta (IBM)

10:24 N7.013 RIXS Studies of the Electronic Structure of CrO_2 and Cr_2O_3 at the O K and Cr L_2,3-edges

Cormac McGuinness, James E. Downes, Philip Ryan, Kevin E. Smith (Department of Physics, Boston University), Cristian B. Stagarescu, Dean E. Eastman (James Franck Institute, University of Chicago), A. Gupta (IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.)

Session N8. DMP: Laser Processing of Novel Nanoscale Materials.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 208, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N8.001 THE PRODUCTION OF SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES WITH SPECIFIC DIAMETERS BY CONTROLLING PULSED LASER VAPORIZATION SYNTHESIS PARAMETERS

Anne Dillon (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

08:36 N8.002 Generation of nanometer structures on surfaces of ionic solids generated by laser and electron beam irradiation

M. L. Dawes, S. C. Langford, J. Thomas Dickinson (Washington State University)

08:48 N8.003 Atomistic Simulation Study of Laser Ablation of Semiconductor Surfaces

C. Z. Wang, K. M. Ho (Ames Lab-U.S. DOE and Dept of Physics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011)

09:00 N8.004 Nanostructure enhanced optical interactions

S.R.J. Brueck (Center for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico)

09:36 N8.005 Ultrafast Laser-Induced Processes in Nanostructured Materials

Mark Stockman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University)

09:48 N8.006 Laser Induced Reactions of Defect Nano-Clusters

C. W. Carr, H. B. Radousky (University of California at Davis and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), S. G. Demos, M. Staggs (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:00 N8.007 Angular Distributions of Isotopically-Enriched Ions in Ultrafast Laser Ablation Plasmas

Peter P. Pronko, Paul A. VanRompay, Zhiyu Zhang, John A. Nees, Gerard A. Mourou (Center for Ultrafast Optical Science and Department of Electrical Engineering amp; Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2099)

10:12 N8.008 Laser manipulation of the size and shape of supported metal nanoparticles

Frank Stietz (Universitat Kassel)

10:48 N8.009 LASER-DIRECTED SELF-ORGANIZATION OF METAL NANO-CRYSTAL ARRAYS FOR NONLINEAR

Richard Haglund, Leonard Feldman, Rene Lopez, Allen Newton, Robert Weller (Vanderbilt University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Nashville TN 37235), Cynthia Heiner (University of New Hampshire), Matthew McMahan (Drew University)

Session N9. DFD: Liquid Crystals II: Smectics and Related Layered Systems.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 201, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N9.001 Phase behavior of Banana Shaped Molecules

Yves Lansac, Prabal K. Maiti, Matthew A. Glaser, Noel A. Clark (Department of Physics and Ferroelectirc Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309)

08:12 N9.002 Ordering of Bent-Core Molecules in a Smectic Solvent

Matthew A. Glaser, Prabal K. Maiti, Yves Lansac, Noel A. Clark (Department of Physics and Ferroelectirc Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO 80309)

08:24 N9.003 Liquid Crystal Phases Lacking Point Group Symmetry

Nattaporn Chattham, Renfan Shao, Joseph E. Maclennan, Noel A. Clark (Department of Physics and FLCMRC, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309), Eva Korblova, David M. Walba (Department of Chemistry and FLCMRC, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309)

08:36 N9.004 Domain Switching in Achiral Smectic C Liquid Crystals

Christopher Jones, Renfan Shao, Noel Clark (Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, Dept of Physics, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, USA)

08:48 N9.005 Electroclinic Liquid Crystals with Large Tilt Angles for Gray Scale Applications

Mark Spector (Naval Research Laboratory), Paul Heiney (University of Pennsylvania), Jawad Naciri, R. Shashidhar (Naval Research Laboratory)

09:00 N9.006 Resonant x-ray scattering measurements on a ferrielectric liquid crystal phase

R. Pindak, J. Pitney (Bell Labs), L. Matkin, H. Gleeson (Univ. of Manchester), A. Cady, C.C. Huang (Univ. of Minnesota), P. Barois (Univ. of Bordeaux), W. Caliebe, P. Siddons (National Synchrotron Light Source)

09:12 N9.007 Effect of mosaicity correction on the value of critical exponents at the nematic-smectic A Transition

Andrew Primak, Mike Fisch, Satyendra Kumar (Department of Physics and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242)

09:24 N9.008 Effect of Quenched Random Disorder on Smectic Ordering

S. Park, R. L. Leheny, R. J. Birgeneau (Department of Physics, MIT)

09:36 N9.009 Interlayer interactions in enantiomeric anticlinic liquid crystalline mixtures

Mohammad Reza Dodge, Charles Rosenblatt (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio)

09:48 N9.010 CONTROLLING DEFECT STRUTURES OF 8CB BY SI MICROCHANNELS

T. Pfohl, Y. Li, C.R. Safinya (University of California at Santa Barbara), M.C. Choi, M.W. Kim (Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Z. Wen (Chongqing University, China)

10:00 N9.011 TGB_C phases near h_c2

Arindam Kundagrami (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania), Tom Lubensky (Same)

10:12 N9.012 SELF-LASING IN CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS

Bahman Taheri, Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Antonio Munoz (Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242-0001, USA.)

10:24 N9.013 Coherence and Diffraction in a Nanosecond Liquid Crystal Laser

Wenyi Cao, Antonio Munoz, Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Bahman Taheri (Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242-0001, USA.)

N9.014 Self-Assembly in Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals

Prabal K. Maiti, Yves Lansac, Matthew A. Glaser, Noel A. Clark (Department of Physics and Ferroelectirc Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO 80309)

Session N10. DMP: Hydrogen in Materials III: Nanotubes and Hydrides.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 203, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N10.001 The Mechanism of Hydrogen Storage on Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes

M.J. Heben (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden CO, 80401.)

08:36 N10.002 Hydrogen Interaction with Single Walled Carbon Nanotube. An Ab-initio Study.

George Froudakis (Dept. of Chemistry, Uni. of Crete, Greece.)

08:48 N10.003 DINS STUDIES OF H_2 IN CARBON NANOTUBES

David Narehood, Paul Sokol, Peter Eklund (Penn State University, University Park, PA 16801)

09:00 N10.004 Hydrogen Diffusion in C_60

Stephen FitzGerald, Dorab Sethna, Zoltan Szuts (Oberlin College)

09:12 N10.005 Sources of Error in High-Pressure Hydrogen Storage Measurements

Gregory P. Meisner, Gary G. Tibbetts (GENERAL MOTORS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER)

09:24 N10.006 Evidence of an inhomogeneous hydride phase in single crystal Pd

Brent Heuser, Wangchun Chen (University of Illinois)

09:36 N10.007 Electronic structure and vibrational dynamics of Lanthanum Hydrides and Deuterides

Oguz Gulseren (University of Pennsylvania and NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD), Taner Yildirim, Terrence J. Udovic (NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD)

09:48 N10.008 Deuterium Site Occupancy and Motion in ZrNiD_x by High-Resolution ^2H NMR Spectroscopy

Natalie L. Adolphi, Lisa A. Browder, Sharwari Badola (Knox College), Jr. Bowman (JPL, California Institute of Technology)

10:00 N10.009 NMR study of a phase transition in ZrBe_2D_x : an isotope effect

Vikram Kodibagkar (Dept. of Physics, Washington University), Jr. Bowman (Jet Propulsion Lab, Caltech), Mark Conradi (Dept. of Physics, Washington University)

10:12 N10.010 Degradation Behavior of LaNi_4.87Sn_0.22H_x at Elevated Temperature

Jr. Bowman, C. A. Lindensmith, M. Prina (JPL)

10:24 N10.011 Degradation study of the ZrNiH_1.5 system

M. Prina, J. G. Kulleck, Jr. Bowman (JPL)

10:36 N10.012 Calculation of the Quasiparticle Spectra of YH_3 and LaH_3

J. Ashley Alford, M. Y. Chou (School of Physics, Georgia Tech), Eric Chang, Steven G. Louie (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley)

10:48 N10.013 Evolution of the Gap in Insulating YH_x

A. S. Roy, A. F. Th. Hoekstra, T. F. Rosenbaum (The James Franck Institute and Department of Physics, The University of Chicago), R Griessen, R. J. Wijngaarden, N. J. Koeman (Institute COMPAS and Faculty of Exact Sciences, Vrije Universiteit)

N10.014 A Theory of Cold Nuclear Reactions in Solid Matrix and Its Implications to Nuclear Physics

Andrew Angus (Absolute Knowledge Foundation)

Session N11. DMP: Nanoparticles and Nanowires II: Optics and Magnetooptics.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 204, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N11.001 Magnetically-doped semiconductor quantum dots (nanocrystals)

David Norris (NEC Research Insitute)

08:36 N11.002 Charge transport through thin films of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals

Mirna Vitasovic, Moungi Bawendi (MIT, Department of Chemistry), Catherine Leatherdale (3M), Nicole Morgan, Marc Kastner (MIT, Department of Physics)

08:48 N11.003 Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy of Single CdSe Nanocrystal Quantum Dots

Ken T. Shimizu, Wing-Keung Woo, Moungi G. Bawendi (Dept of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

09:00 N11.004 Photophysics of Charged CdSe Quantum Dots

Wing-Keung Woo, Kentaro Shimizu, Mirna Vitasovic, Moungi Bawendi (MIT, Dept of Chemistry), Michael Rubner (MIT, Dept of Materials Science and Engineering), Robert Neuhauser (Infineon Technologies AG), Catherine Leatherdale (3M)

09:12 N11.005 Electric field effects during the assembly of CdSe nanoparticle arrays as probed by second harmonic generation, atomic force microscopy and ellipsometry

Mohammad Islam, Jonathan Spanier (Dept of Applied Phys; Columbia University), Bosang Kim (Dept of Applied Phys; Columbia Univeristy), Dalia Yablon (Dept Of Chemistry; Columbia University), Jerry Dadap (Dept of Phys; Columbia University), George Flynn (Dept of Chemistry; Columbia University), Tony Hienz (Dept of Phys; Columbia University), Irving Herman (Dept of Applied Phys; Columbia University)

09:24 N11.006 Local order in CdS nanoparticles grown in glass

T~M Hayes, L~B Lurio, J Pant, P~D Persans (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

09:36 N11.007 Relationship between critical radius and Cd concentration in the formation of CdS nanoparticles in glass

P D Persans, T M Hayes, L B Lurio (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

09:48 N11.008 Synthesis of Size-Controlled Indium and Gallium Compound Semiconductor Nanoclusters in Mesoporous Media and in Ordered Array Block Copolymer Templates

Valerie Leppert, Amith Murali, Anirudha Barve, Subhash Risbud (UC Davis, Dept. of Chem. Eng. and Mat. Sci., Davis, CA), Matthias Stender, Philip Power (UC Davis, Dept. of Chemistry, Davis, CA), Howard Lee (LLNL, Livermore, CA), X Lu, John Colton, Peter Yu (UC Berkeley, Dept. of Physics, Berkeley, CA), Y Won, Pulab Banerjee, Anne Mayes (MIT, Dept. of Mat. Sci. and Eng., Cambridge, MA)

10:00 N11.009 Quantum Confined Atoms

Rameshwar Bhargava (Nanocrystals Technology P.O.Box 820 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510)

Session N12. DMP: Thin Films II: Characterization Properties and Preparation.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 205, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N12.001 Field Emission Study of Ti-silicide Field Emitter using KOH Anisotropic Etching

Seong S. Choi (Department of Physics, Sun Moon University, Ahsan, Chungnam, Korea), S. B. Kim, H.T. Jeon (Department of Materials Science, Hanyang Univeristy), S.B. Jeon Collaboration, Reserach Center for Advanced Science and Materials Collaboration

08:12 N12.002 Thin film and interface characterization of Pd/Au alloy deposited on Si wafers using photoelectron spectroscopy and grazing incidence x-ray reflectivity and diffraction.

Senay Yalcin (Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey), Recep Avci, Marcus Teter, Chad Bohannan (MSU Physics, Bozeman MT 59717)

08:24 N12.003 Composition and structure of the Co-Al interface for thin Co films deposited on Al(001) and Al(110) surfaces at room temperature

R.J. Smith, N.R. Shivaparan, Marcus A. Teter (Montana State University)

08:36 N12.004 Superlattice of stress domains in nanometer-size semiconductor devices predicted from atomistic simulations

Martina E. Bachlechner (Physics Department, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6315), Ingvar Ebbsjö (Studsvik Neutron Research Laboratory, University of Uppsala, S-611 82 Nyköping, Sweden), Rajiv K. Kalia, Sanjay Kodiyalam (Concurrent Computing Laboratory for Materials Simulations, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-4001), Anupam Madhukar (Photonics Materials and Device Laboratory, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA), Aiichiro Nakano, Andrey Omeltchenko, Phillip Walsh, Priya Vashishta (Concurrent Computing Laboratory for Materials Simulations, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-4001)

08:48 N12.005 Measurement of a Variable Current Exponent in Electromigration-Induced Failure in Al-Cu Interconnects.

Brian Setlik, Todd Bianco, Victor Taveras, David Heskett (University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881)

09:00 N12.006 Effects of Surface Roughness and Grain Size on the Electrical Resistivity of Polycrystalline Metal Thin Films

C. K. INOKI, T. S. KUAN (Department of Physics, University at Albany, SUNY), S. M. ROSSNAGEL (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

09:12 N12.007 Numerical Simulation of Current Localization in Two and Three dimensional Semicontinuous Conducting Films

Ricky Moore, Eric Kuster (Georgia Tech Research Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology)

09:24 N12.008 Second harmonic generation from small particle aggregates

W. Luis Mochan (CCF-UNAM, Cuernavaca, México), Guillermo P. Ortiz (CCF-UNAM and FC-UAEM, Cuernavaca, México), Bernardo S. Mendoza (CIO, León, México), Vera L. Brudny (DF-UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina,)

09:36 N12.009 Characterization of contaminant removal by an optical strip material*

James P. Hamilton†‡, S.P Frigo‡, Brenden J. Caroll†, L. Assoufid¥, Matthew S. Lewis, Russell E. Cook*, F. De Carlo‡

09:48 N12.010 How thick is my oxide?

David Allred, Matthew Squires, Michael Newey, Douglas Markos, Guillermo Acosta, Cort Johnson (Brigham Young University), XUV Research Team

10:00 N12.011 X-RAY REFLECTIVITY STUDY OF PASSIVE FILM FORMATION ON STAINLESS STEEL

Hyun Hwi Lee, Do Hyung Kim (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology), Sang Soo Kim, Do Young Noh (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology)

10:12 N12.012 Optimization of the preparation of CuIn1-xGaxSe2 thin-films by flash-evaporation

Didarul Qadir, Rahul Ramamurti (Central Michigan University)

Session N13. DCP: Dynamics at Surfaces: Liquids and Ices.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 206, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N13.001 Nonthermal desorption from surfaces of ices and other oxides

Theodore E. Madey (Dept. of Physics, Rutgers University)

08:36 N13.002 Molecular Beam Studies of Nanoscale Ice Films

Greg Kimmel (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, K8-88, PO Box 999, Richland Washington, 99352)

09:12 N13.003 Molecular hydrogen formation on amorphous water-ice surfaces via the Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism

Joseph Roser, Gianfranco Vidali, Robert D'Agostino (Syracuse University, N.Y.), Giulio Manico' (University of Catania, Sicily (Italy) and Syracuse University, N.Y.), Giuseppe Raguni' (University of Catania, Sicily (Italy)), Valerio Pirronello (University of Catania, Sicily (Italy) and Syracuse University, N.Y.)

09:24 N13.004 Diffusion in ice measured using laser resonant desorption

Steven George (Univ Colorado)

10:00 N13.005 Molecular Beam Studies of Interfacial and Bulk Reactions of HCl with Liquid Glycerol

Bradley Ringeisen, Gilbert Nathanson (Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1101 University Ave., Madison, WI)

10:24 N13.006 Probing Adsorption / Desorption Processes at the Liquid / Solid Interface: Thiols and Proteins

Charles Campbell, Linda S. Jung, Jennifer Shumaker-Parry, K. E. Nelsen, P. S. Stayton, M. H. Gelb (), R. Aebersold (University of Washington)

10:48 N13.007 Determination of the Point of Zero Charge of the Hematite/Water Interface

I. V. Stiopkin, Z.-H. Zhang, K. B. Eisenthal, T. F. Heinz (Columbia University)

Session N14. DMP: Multiscale Modeling of Materials I.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 210, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N14.001 From first-principles calculations to growth simulations: Modeling molecular beam epitaxy of GaAs

Peter Kratzer (Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, D-14195 Berlin, Germany)

08:36 N14.002 Finding Transition States with the Step and Slide Method

Alex Miron, Kristen Fichthorn (The Pennsylvania State University)

08:48 N14.003 Real-time multiresolution analysis for accelerated molecular dynamics simulations.

David A. Richie, Jeongnim Kim, John W. Wilkins (Ohio State University)

09:00 N14.004 Long Timescale Simulations of Surface Processes Within Harmonic Transition State Theory

Graeme Henkelman, Hannes Jonsson (University of Washington)

09:12 N14.005 Modeling Equilibrium and Growth Kinetics of III-V Semiconductors: Connecting First Principles Calculations and Large Scale Simulations

Frank Grosse (HRL/UCLA), William Barvosa-Carter, Mark Gyure, Richard Ross (HRL), Christian Ratsch, James Owen (UCLA), Jennifer Zinck (HRL)

09:24 N14.006 Anisotropic Materials Properties: Functional Forms for Multiscale Modeling

Thierry Cretegny, Nicholas P Bailey (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University), Christopher R Myers (Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University), James P Sethna (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University)

09:36 N14.007 The Digital Material: Molecular Dynamics

Nicholas P. Bailey, Thierry Cretegny, Andrew J. Dolgert (LASSP, Cornell University), Christopher R. Myers (Cornell Theory Center), Jakob Schiøtz (CAMP, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark), James P. Sethna (LASSP, Cornell University)

09:48 N14.008 Coupling-of-length-scale approach for multiscale atomistic-continuum simulations: Atomistically-induced stress distributions in Si/Si_3N_4 nanopixels

Elefterios Lidorikis (Concurrent Computing Laboratory for Materials Simulations, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001), Martina E. Bachlechner (Physics Department, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6315), Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Priya Vashishta (Concurrent Computing Laboratory for Materials Simulations, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001), George Voyiadjis (Advanced Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803), Anupam Madhukar (Photonics Materials and Device Laboratory)

10:00 N14.009 Role of silicon suboxide in the nucleation of silicon nanostructures

R.Q. Zhang (Center Of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films (COSDAF), and Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)

10:12 N14.010 Dynamic of a non homogeneously coarse grained system

Stefano Curtarolo, Gerbrand Ceder (Dept. Mat. Science and Eng., MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139)

Session N15. DCP: Materials Theory and Simulation: III.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 211, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N15.001 Accelerating Rare Events in Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations

U. Roethlisberger (ETH Zurich)

08:36 N15.002 ANEBA: Adaptive Nudged Elastic Band Approach

Paul Maragakis, Efthimios Kaxiras (Harvard University)

08:48 N15.003 Direct ab initio calculation of coupled vibrational energies of hydrated species

Joel Bowman (Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation and Department of Chemistry, Emory University)

09:24 N15.004 MD Simulations of Water Between Plates

Subramanian Vaitheeswaran (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469), Jayendran Rasaiah (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469)

09:36 N15.005 Continuous solvation model for ab initio molecular dynamics simulations

J.-L. FATTEBERT, F. GYGI (CASC,Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:48 N15.006 Screened Iterative Solution of the Poisson Equation

A. L. Ankudinov, J. J. Rehr (Dept. of Physics, U. of Washington)

10:00 N15.007 Calculation of the X-ray absorption spectrum of liquid water and ice

Balazs Hetenyi, Paolo Giannozzi, Roberto Car (Department of Chemistry and Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University)

Session N16. DCMP: Theory of Correlated Systems I.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 303, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N16.001 Dimensional crossover in half-filled and lightly doped Hubbard ladders

Urs Ledermann (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

08:12 N16.002 Thermopower in the degenerate Hubbard model

Viktor Oudovenko, Gabriel Kotliar (Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA)

08:24 N16.003 Numerical studies of the undoped and doped quantum dimer model

P. W. Leung, K. F. Yu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

08:36 N16.004 Numerical investigation of fictitious fluxes in the t-J model

Martin Andersson, Stellan Östlund (Chalmers University of Technology)

08:48 N16.005 Stripe Phase in the t-J model

Chi-Ho Cheng, T. K. Lee, Wei-Cheng Lee (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan), Chung-Yu Mou (Dept. of Phys. National Tsing Hua Univ. Hsinchu, Taiwan)

09:00 N16.006 Exact diagonalization study of a two-dimensional model of strongly interacting spinless fermions

Nai-Gong Zhang, Christopher L. Henley (LASSP, Cornell Univ.)

09:12 N16.007 Electron- versus hole-doping in the 2D t-t' Hubbard model

Carsten Honerkamp (ETH Zürich)

09:24 N16.008 Stripes in a strong coupling spinless fermion model

Christopher L. Henley, Nai-gong Zhang (Cornell Univ.)

09:36 N16.009 Straight stripe in the t-J_z model

Alexander Chernyshev (ORNL), Steven White (UC, Irvine), Antonio Castro Neto (Boston University)

09:48 N16.010 Anomalous Scaling of the SO(8) Symmetric Phases of the Two-Leg Ladder

Hsiu-Hau Lin (National Tsing-Hua University, TAIWAN)

10:00 N16.011 Inhomogeneous Superconductivity and Metallic Antiferromagnetism within the Attractive and Repulsive Hubbard Models

Armen Kocharian (Department. of Physics, California State University, Northridge CA 91330-8268), Chi Yang (Department of Physics, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan 251, Republic of China), You-Ling Chiang (Department of Physics, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan 111, Republic of China), Correlation Collaboration

10:12 N16.012 Magnetic and charge correlations in the 2D Anderson-Hubbard model

Matthew Enjalran (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada; Materials Research Institute, LLNL), Frederic Hébert, George Batrouni (INLN, Université de Nice, Nice, France), Richard T. Scalettar (UC Davis), Shiwei Zhang (College of William and Mary), Malvin H. Kalos (LLNL)

10:24 N16.013 Metal-insulator transition in a doped electron-phonon chain

Pinaki Sengupta (UIUC), Anders W. Sandvik (Abo Akademi University, Finland), David K. Campbell (Boston University)

10:36 N16.014 Superconductivity near a ferromagnetic quantum critical point

Ziqiang Wang (Boston College), Wenjin Mao (Rutgers University), Bedell Kevin (Boston College)

10:48 N16.015 Enhancing Bound State Formation with Stripelike Hopping Anisotropies

Saurabh Basu, R. J. Gooding (Department of Physics, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada), P. W. Leung (Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong)

N16.016 Signatures of Spin and Charge Energy Scales in the Local Moment and Specific Heat of the Two--Dimensional Hubbard Model

Richard Scalettar, Thereza Paiva (Physics Department, University of California, Davis, CA 95616), Carey Huscroft (Physics Department, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221--0011), Andy McMahan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, California 94550)

N16.017 Supersymmetric Hubbard Operators

Piers Coleman (Rutgers University), Catherine Pepin (CEA, Saclay), John Hopkinson (Rutgers University)

N16.018 Doping Dependence of the Spectral Function in the 2D Hubbard Model

Tudor Stanescu, Philip Phillips (Loomis Laboratory of Physics, University of Illionios at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, Il. 61801-3080)

Session N17. DPOLY: Processing Effects on Polymer Structure and Properties.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 304, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N17.001 Dynamics of Kink Bands in a Lamellar Diblock Copolymer

Lei Qiao (Department of Materials Science, University of Pennsylvania), David Morse (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota), Anthony Ryan (Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield), Karen Winey (Department of Materials Science, University of Pennsylvania)

08:12 N17.002 Dynamic Properties of Block Copolymer Single Crystal

Hyeok Hahn, Nitash Balsara (Dr.)

08:24 N17.003 Cell Dynamics Simulations of Lamellar Phases

Ian Hamley, Shaoran Ren (School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK)

08:36 N17.004 Orientation-induced morphology and structure development in i-PP melt after step shear using synchrotron SAXS and WAXD

R. H. Somani, L. Yang, L. Liu, B. S. Hsiao (Department of Chemistry, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794), S. Srinivas, A. Tsou, H. Fruitwala (ExxonMobil Chemical Company, Baytown Polymers Center, Texas 77522)

08:48 N17.005 Study of the Effect of Comonomer Type on the Properties of Rapidly Crystallized and Annealed Random Ethylene Copolymers

Rufina Alamo, Adriane Simanke (FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering. Tallahassee, Fl 32310), Griselda Galland, Raquel Mauler (Instituto de Quimica. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Allegre, Brazil)

09:00 N17.006 Shear-induced crystallization of isotactic polypropylene with different molecular weight distributions: in-situ synchrotron SAXS and WAXD studies

F. Balta-Calleja, T. Ezquerra, A. Nogales (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, Spain), R. Somani, B. Hsiao (Dept. of Chemistry, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794), S. Srinivas, A. Tsou, H. Fruitwala (ExxonMobil Chemical Company, Baytown Polymers Center, TX 77522)

09:12 N17.007 Effect of Extended Elasticity on Polymer Single Crystal Growth During Isothermal Crystallization

Rujul Mehta, Wirunya Keawwattana, Andrew Guenthner, Thein Kyu (Institute of Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron OH 44325)

09:24 N17.008 Mechanical Properties of EPS Foam Do Not Behave As Material Constants

P. Rusmee, K. L. DeVries (University of Utah)

09:36 N17.009 The Influence Of Orientation On The Elmendorf Tear Resistance Of LLDPE Blown Films

Rajendra K. Krishnaswamy, Ashish M. Sukhadia (Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, LP)

09:48 N17.010 Role of tacticity on the rheological and orientation behavior of metallocene-catalyzed semi-syndiotactic polypropylenes

Vivek Maheshwari, Gautam Parthasarathy (Chemical Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI), A. R. Siedle (3M Corporate Research Laboratories, St. Paul, MN), Rangaramanujam Kannan (Chemical Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI)

10:00 N17.011 Cross Deformation of Biaxially Oriented Polystyrene Films

C.C. Chau (The Dow Chemical Company), J.C.M. Li (The University of Rochester)

10:12 N17.012 Spall response of plasticized Estane at 400 and 800 MPa impact pressure

Jerry Dick, A. Richard Martinez (DX-1, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:24 N17.013 Orientation And Physical Properties Of Blown Films From Binary Blends Of Metallocene-Catalyzed LLDPEs

Rajendra K. Krishnaswamy (Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, LP)

10:36 N17.014 The mass spectral density in quantitative time-of-flight mass spectrometry of polymers

Ranjeet S. Tate (Dept of Chemical Engg., Univ of Wisconsin - Madison), Dan Ebeling, Lloyd M. Smith (Dept of Chemistry, Univ of Wisconsin - Madison)

10:48 N17.015 Thermal Stress in a Polymer Coated Optical Glass Fiber with Low Modulus Coating at the Ends

Ephraim Suhir (APS)

Session N18. DPOLY: Perspectives on the Glass Transition in Bulk and Thin Film Materials.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 307-308, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N18.001 Elastic Neutron Scattering and the Glass Transition in Thin Polycarbonate Films

Christopher Soles (NIST Polymers Division), Robert Dimeo (NIST Center for Neutron Research), Jack Douglas, Wen-li Wu (NIST Polymers Division)

08:12 N18.002 Quasielastic neutron scattering studies of thin free-standing films of polystyrene

B. Frick (Institut Laue-Langevin, 6, rue Jules Horowitz, F-38042 Grenoble, Cedex, France), K. Dalnoki-Veress (Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4M1, Canada), J.A. Forrest (Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada), J.R. Dutcher, C. Murray (Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada), A. Higgins (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, United Kingdom)

08:24 N18.003 Segmental Dynamics amp; Glass Transition of PolyStyrene Confined in 2-nm Slit Pores

Evangelos Manias, Vikram Kuppa (Penn State University, University Park)

08:36 N18.004 Meso-scale model for structural relaxation in the glass transition region

Grisha Medvedev, James Caruthers (Purdue University, School of Chemical Engineering)

08:48 N18.005 New Insights into the Fragility Dilemma in Glass Forming Liquids

Gregory B. McKenna, Dinghai Huang (Texas Tech University)

09:00 N18.006 Volume Recovery of Polystyrene: Evolution of Characteristic Relaxation Time

Sindee Simon, Paul Bernazzani (Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University)

09:12 N18.007 Tuning Fragility: The Quest for Strong Polymeric Glass Formers

Brian Erwin, Ralph Colby (Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State), Jeremy Lizotte, Timothy Long (Chemistry, Virginia Tech)

09:24 N18.008 Nano-scale non-exponential relaxation near the glass transition

Ezequiel Vidal Russell, Konesh Sinnathamby, Nathan Israeloff (Northeastern University)

09:36 N18.009 Molecular Motions During Physical Aging in Polystyrene

Courtney T. Thurau, M.D. Ediger (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1101 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706)

09:48 N18.010 Deviations from the fluctuation dissipation relation in a structural glass

Shomeek Mukhopadhyay, Nathan Israeloff (Physics Department , Northeastern University)

10:00 N18.011 Thermodynamic Signature to the onset of caging in Glass-forming systems.

Sudesh Kamath, Ralph Colby, Sanat Kumar (Penn State University)

10:12 N18.012 Simulation of the effect of a nano-particle on melt structure and dynamics

Francis W. Starr (N.I.S.T., Gaithersburg, MD), Sharon C. Glotzer (), Thomas B. Schroder

10:24 N18.013 Theory for the Structure and Thermodynamics of Polymers in Confined Geometries.

John D. McCoy, Melody A. Teixeira (Materials Dept., New Mexico Tech, Socorro NM, 87801), John G. Curro (Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque NM 87185)

10:36 N18.014 Surface glass transition measured on ultrathin homopolymer systems with a nanorheological method

Cynthia Buenviaje, Rene M. Overney (University of Washington)

10:48 N18.015 SURFACE GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE OF AMORPHOUS POLYSTYRENE MEASURED BY SFM

Valery Bliznyuk, Hazel Assender (Department of Materials, Oxford University, Oxford, OX1 3PH, UK), Yusuke Tsukahara (Toppan Printing Company, 4-2-3 Takanodai-Minami, Sugito, Saitama 345-8508, Japan), Andrew Briggs (Department of Materials, Oxford University, Oxford, OX1 3PH, UK)

Session N19. DPOLY: Computer Simulations of Polymers I.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 310, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N19.001 Ab initio molecular dynamics study of topological defects in polymers

Michael L. Klein (Laboratory for the Research in the Structure of Matter and Dept. of Chemistry, Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (PA) 19104, USA), Antonino Marco Saitta (Physique des Milieux Condensés, Univ Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)

08:12 N19.002 Viscoelasticity near the gel point: a molecular dynamics study

Michael Plischke, D.C. Vernon (Simon Fraser University), Bela Joos (University of Ottawa)

08:24 N19.003 Parallel Tempering for Dense Polymer Systems

Alex Bunker, Thijs Vlugt, Burkhard Duenweg (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany)

08:36 N19.004 Sampling of Conformational Properties of Polybutadiene Melts. How Much Does the Parallel Tempering Help?

Dmitry Bedrov, Grant Smith (Department of Materilas Sci amp; Eng, University of Utah)

08:48 N19.005 Study of Phase Equilibria of Petrochemical Fluids using Gibbs Ensemble Monte Carlo Methods

SHYAMAL NATH (Molecular Simulations Inc.)

09:00 N19.006 Comparison of partitioning of bimodal polymer mixture into micropores in good and theta solvent. A Monte Carlo study.

Peter Cifra (Slovak Academy of Sciences, 842 36 Bratislava, Slovakia), Yongmei Wang (North Carolina Aamp;T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411), Iwao Teraoka (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY 11201)

09:12 N19.007 Partitioning of Bimodal Polymer Mixtures into Microscopic pores: Effect of Compositions and Slit Widths

Yongmei Wang, Qiang Lin (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC 27411), Iwao Teraoka (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY 11201), Peter Cifra (Slovak Academy of Sciences, 842 36 Bratislava, Slovak Republic)

09:24 N19.008 Computer Simulation of Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers

D.B. Adolf, G.R. Davies (University of Leeds Department of Physics and Astronomy Leeds LS2 9JT United Kingdom), A.V. Lyulin (Eindhoven University of Technology Department of Applied Physics Postbus 513 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands)

09:36 N19.009 Brownian Dynamics Investigations of Dendrimer Structures.

Peter Sheridan (Polymer IRC, University of Leeds), Alexey Lyulin (Eindhoven University of Technology), David Adolf, Geoff Davies (Polymer IRC, University of Leeds)

09:48 N19.010 Monte Carlo Simulations of a Polymer Blend Modified by Copolymers of Varying Monomer Composition and Copolymer Structure

Dean Waldow, Jason Higbee (Pacific Lutheran University), Mark Dadmun (University of Tennessee)

10:00 N19.011 Crystal Growth Rates for Alkanes by Molecular Simulations

Numan Waheed, Marc S. Lavine, Gregory C. Rutledge (M.I.T.)

10:12 N19.012 Methanol-Induced Swelling and Plasticization in PMMA Studied by Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Mesfin Tsige, P. L. Taylor (Case Western Reserve University)

10:24 N19.013 The Volume Dependence of Cohesive Energy for Nonpolar to Polar Molecules from Molecular Dynamics

B.E. Eichinger (Molecular Simulations Inc.), David Rigby, Huai Sun

10:36 N19.014 Excess Thermodynamic Quantities of Perfluoroalkane-Containing Mixtures from Atomistic Simulations

David Rigby (Molecular Simulations, Inc., San Diego CA 92121-3752), B.E. Eichinger, Huai Sun

10:48 N19.015 A Dynamic Self-Consistent Field Lattice Model of Polymer Fluids.

Yitzhak Shnidman, Maja Mihailovic (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, and the NSF MRSEC on Polymers at Engineered Interfaces)

Session N20. DMP: Fracture and Fatigue I: Instabilities.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 401, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N20.001 Crack Front Waves in Dynamic Fracture

Jay Fineberg (The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel)

08:36 N20.002 Studies of deformation and fracture in model noncrystalline solids

Michael L. Falk (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan)

09:12 N20.003 Fracture and Friction

Eric Gerde (Computational and Applied Mathematics), Michael Marder (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin)

09:24 N20.004 Transition from Straight to Oscillating Cracks in Dynamic Fracture

Paul Petersan, Robert Deegan, Michael Marder (Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Texas at Austin)

09:36 N20.005 The Effect of Damping Propagating Stress Waves during Brittle Fracture

A. Johns, R. Morahan, J. Paoluccio, L.C. Krysac (Dept. of Physics, University of the Pacific)

09:48 N20.006 Effective elastic constants of a two dimensional solid under an oscillatory applied stress

Rodrigo Arias (Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile)

N20.007 Multiscale approach to intergranular fracture in polycrystals

Thierry Cretegny (LASSP, Cornell University), Chuin-Shan Chen (Cornell Theory Center), Erin Iesulauro (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University), Christopher R. Myers (Cornell Theory Center), Anthony R. Ingraffea (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University), James P. Sethna (LASSP, Cornell University)

Session N21. DBP: Nucleic Acids: Structural Transitions.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 604, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N21.001 DNA melting

Lei-Han Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University), Hugues Chaté (CEA Saclay), Guang-Shan Tian (Peking University)

08:12 N21.002 Unzipping random zippers and the mechanical denaturation of DNA

David K. Lubensky, David R. Nelson (Physics Department, Harvard University)

08:24 N21.003 Forces and kinetic barriers in unzipping of DNA

Simona Cocco (Department of Physics, The University of Illinois at Chicago), Remi Monasson (The James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago), John F. Marko (Department of Physics, The University of Illinois at Chicago)

08:36 N21.004 Loop-Size Dependence of the Kinetics OF DNA Hairpin Formation

Yiqing Shen, Serguei V. Kuznetsov, Anjum Ansari (University of Illinois at Chicago)

08:48 N21.005 DNA Unzipping: Steps and Kinetics in the Critical Region

Valentin Klouchine (Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027), Ben O'Shaughnessy (Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027)

09:00 N21.006 Kinetic model of DNA replication in eukaryotic organisms

John Bechhoefer (Department of Physics,Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada), John Herrick, Aaron Bensimon (Laboratoire de Biophysique de l'ADN, Département des Biotechnologies, Institut Pasteur, 25-28, rue du Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France Biotechnologies, Institut Pasteur, 25-28, rue du Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France)

09:12 N21.007 Force-induced denaturation of RNA

Ulrich Gerland, Ralf Bundschuh, Terence Hwa (Physics Dept., University of California, San Diego)

09:24 N21.008 Transition metal binding to the nucleosome core particle

Krastan Blagoev (Boston College and Institute for Complex Addaptive Matter), Indra Solijoadikusumo, Anny Usheva (Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)

09:36 N21.009 Stress Modulation of Binding of Proteins to DNA

Abhijit Sarkar, John Marko (University of Illinois at Chicago)

09:48 N21.010 Translocation of DNA through pores of the cell nucleus

Hanna Salman, David Zbaida, Michael Elbaum (Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel), Yitzhak Rabin (Department of Physics, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel), Didier Chatenay (LDFC, UMR CNRS 7506, F-67000 Strasbourg, France)

Session N22. DMP/GMAG: Magnetic Nanostructures VI: Magnetic Coupling in Multilayers.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 605-610, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N22.001 Switching of the exchange bias in double-superlattices

S.G.E. te Velthuis, G.P. Felcher, J.S. Jiang (Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Ave, Argonne, IL 60439)

08:12 N22.002 Imaging spin structures of exchange-coupled materials with neutron reflectometry

K.V. O'Donovan, J.A. Borchers, C.F. Majkrzak (NIST Center for Neutron Research), E.E. Fullerton, O. Hellwig (IBM Almaden Research Center)

08:24 N22.003 Current induced interlayer coupling

Peter M. Levy, Carsten Heide (New York University), Shufeng Zhang (University of Missouri-Columbia), Albert Fert (Unite Mixte de Physique-LCR-Thomson,Orsay, France)

08:36 N22.004 Magnetic Coupling in Strongly Correlated Multilayers

M.C. Muñoz, M.P. López Sancho (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Cantoblanco, 28049-Madrid, Spain)

08:48 N22.005 Indirect Exchange Coupling and Oscillation in MBE grown Fe/x Au/Tb Trilayers

Elena Shypil, Yevgeniy Pogorelov, Dmitrii I. Podyalovski, Anatoli M. Pogorily (Institute of Magnetism, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine.), Tae Hee Kim, Geetha P. Berera, Jagadeesh S. Moodera (Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, MIT)

09:00 N22.006 PAC study of biquadratic coupling in Fe/Cr

J. Meersschaut, and S.D. Bader (MSD-223, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439), M. Rots (I.K.S., K.U.Leuven, C-200 D, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium)

09:12 N22.007 State Crossing in Cu/Co/Cu(100) Double Quantum Well System

W. L. Ling, H. J. Choi, J. H. Wolfe, F. Toyama, S. Paik, Z. Q. Qiu (Dept. of Physics, UC-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720), E. Rotenberg, N. V. Smith (Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab., Berkeley, CA 94720)

09:24 N22.008 Occupied and Unoccupied Metallic Quantum Well Electronic States in Cu/fccNi/Cu(100) and Cu/fccFe/Cu(100)

A. G. Danese, R. A. Bartynski (Department of Physics, Rutgers University), D. A. Arena, M. Hochstrasser, J. G. Tobin (Lawerence Livermore National Lab)

09:36 N22.009 X-ray resonance exchange scattering and magnetic circular dichroism study of the magnetic structure of a \bigl[Gd(50\rm\, ÅFe(15\rm\, Å\bigr]_15 multilayer

Daniel Haskel, George Srajer, Jens Pollmann, Jonathan Lang (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA), Christie Nelson (Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA), Samuel Jiang, Samuel Bader (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA)

09:48 N22.010 Resolving Magnetic and Chemical Heterogeneity from Resonant Diffuse X-ray Scattering

Jeffrey Kortright, Sang-Koog Kim, Greg Denbeaux (Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California), Gabriel Zeltzer, Kentaro Takano, Eric Fullerton (IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California)

10:00 N22.011 Thickness dependent crossover of magnetic properties in multilayers

Andreas Bill, Hans-Benjamin Braun (Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland)

Session N23. DBP: Sensory Perception, Statistical Mechanics and Neurobiological Physics.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 606, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N23.001 Theory of Auditory Thresholds in Primates

Michael J. Harrison (Michigan State University)

08:36 N23.002 Stochastic resonance in human vision and audition

Lawrence M. Ward, Simren Desai, Daniel Rootman, Matthew Tata (Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia), Frank Moss (Center for Neurodynamics, University of Missouri, St. Louis)

08:48 N23.003 Visual motion estimation in the natural world.

Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck, Geoff Lewen, William Bialek (NEC Research Institute)

09:00 N23.004 A Langevin Model of Nanoelectromechanical Transduction in Cochlear Outer Hair Cells

Robert M. Raphael (Johns Hopkins University)

09:12 N23.005 Synchronized Inhibition Boosts Information Transfer in Entrained Neurons

Paul Tiesinga (Sloan Center and CNL, Salk Institute), Jean-Marc Fellous (CNL and HHMI, Salk Institute), Jorge Jose (Physics Dept. and CIRCS, Northeastern University), Terrence Sejnowski (CNL and HHMI, the Salk Institute and Dept of Biology, UCSD)

09:24 N23.006 A Neuron-Silicon Interface for Probing Living Neural Networks

Cristian Ionescu-Zanetti (UCSC Physics), Lindsay Hinck (UCSC Biology), Alan Litke (Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics), Fred Gage (The Salk Institute), Sue Carter (UCSC Physics)

09:36 N23.007 Computing with neuronal dynamics

Paul S. Garcia (Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University), Ronald L. Calabrese (Emory University), Richard T. Ellis, Stephen P. DeWeerth (Georgia Institute of Technology), William L. Ditto (Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University)

09:48 N23.008 Computing with diffusion

C.S. Pencea, H.G.E. Hentschel (Emory University, Department of Physics)

10:00 N23.009 Loop expansion analysis of learning dynamics in neural networks with recurrent connectivity.

Patrick Roberts (Neurological Sciences Inst, Oregon Health Sciences University)

10:12 N23.010 Structure of Cytoskeletal Supramolecular Assemblies in the Nerve Cell Axon

Miguel A. Ojeda-López, Ryan Case, Herb P. Miller, Leslie Wilson, Cyrus R. Safinya (University of California Santa Barbara)

N23.011 Dynamics of Hybrid Electronic-Neuronal Systems

Barbara Breen, Paul Garcia, Michael D Furman (Georgia Institute of Technology), John Lindner (The College of Wooster), William Ditto (Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University)

Session N24. DMP/GMAG: CMR VI: Polarons, Local/Electric Structure.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 607, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N24.001 Are There Small Lattice Polarons Above the Curie Temperature in Magnetoresistive Manganites?

Amar Nath, Vladimir Chechersky (Department of Chemistry, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104), Kartik Ghosh (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), Richard L. Greene (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.)

08:12 N24.002 Charge Melting and Polaron Collapse in CMR Bilayer Manganites

Lida Vasiliu-Doloc (Northern Illinois University and Argonne National Laboratory)

08:48 N24.003 Ionic Size Effect in CMR Manganites: Myth of Band-width Control

TAKESHI EGAMI (University of Pennsylvania), DESPINA LOUCA (University of Virginia), JOHN MITCHELL (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:00 N24.004 Competition between Spin and Lattice Polaron Effects: Prediction for Electron-doped CaMnO_3

Yiing-Rei Chen, Philip B. Allen (Stony Brook)

09:12 N24.005 Local Structural Distortions in Manganites Probed by Comparative X-Ray Emission and X-Ray Absorption Near Edge Measurements: Relation to Transport Properties

T. A. Tyson, Q. Qian (New Jersey Institute of Technology), C.-C. Kao (Brookhaven National Laboratory), M. Croft, S.-W. Cheong, G. Popov, M. Greenblatt (Rutgers University)

09:24 N24.006 A Comparison of Local and Long-Range Structure in Bulk CMR Perovskite La_0.6Y_0.07Ca_0.33MnO_3

Jeremy P. Carlo, T. A. Tyson, H. Woo (New Jersey Institute of Technology), J. Bai (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:36 N24.007 Structure-Transport Correlations in Charge-Ordered Bi_1-xCa_xMnO_3

Hyungje Woo, Trevor A. Tyson (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Mark Croft (Rutgers University), Sang-Wook Cheong (Rutgers University and Bell Lab Lucent Technology), Joseph C. Woicik (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Jianming Bai (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Carlo Segre (Illinois Institute of Technology)

09:48 N24.008 Magnetic field-induced local distortions in CMR materials observed using a field modulation technique

FRank Bridges, Graham Brown, Daliang Cao, Mark Anderson (UCSC, Santa Cruz CA 95064)

10:00 N24.009 Mn Valence States in La_1-xCa_xMnO_3

R. Sujoy, N. Ali (Southern Illinois Univ), A.Yu. Ignatov, T.A. Tyson (New Jersey Inst of Tech), S. Khalih (Brookhaven National Lab)

10:12 N24.010 Site-Specific Valence Band Photoemission from La1/2Sr3/2MnO4 Using X-Ray Standing Waves

Erik Nelson, Joseph Woicik (National Institute of Standards and Technology), M. Zahid Hasan, Zhi-Xun Shen (Stanford University), David Heskett (University of Rhode Island), Lonny Berman (National Synchrotron Light Source)

10:24 N24.011 Hole spectral functions of LaMnO_3

Wei-Guo Yin, Hai-Qing Lin (Physics Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Chang-De Gong (Physics Department, Nanjing University)

10:36 N24.012 Electronic structure and superexchange interaction in La_2FeCrO_6

K. Miura (JRCAT-ATP), K. Terakura (JRCAT-NAIR and TACC)

N24.013 Optical Properties of Nd_1-xSr_xMnO_3 single crystals (x = 0.40, 0.50, 0.54, and 0.65)

M. W. Kim, J. H. Jung, H. J. Lee, K. H. Kim, S. K. Lee, T. W. Noh (School of Physics and Research Center for Oxide Electronics, Seoul National University, Korea), Y. Moritomo (CIRSE, Nagoya University, and PRESTO,JST, Japan)

Session N25. DCMP: Spin-dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors VI: Hybrid Heterostructures.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 612, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N25.001 Intrinsic Exchange Biasing in MnAs Epilayers on (001)GaAs

S. J. Potashnik, S. H. Chun, J. J. Berry, K. C. Ku, P. Schiffer, N. Samarth (Penn State University)

08:12 N25.002 Proximity effects of an antiferromagnetic MnTe overlayer on MnAs precipitates in GaAs

Yuji Sasaki, Xinyu Liu, Jacek Furdyna (University of Notre Dame), Furdyna Team

08:24 N25.003 Heusler alloy/Ga_1-xIn_xAs Heterostructures

J.W. Dong, J. Lu, J.Q. Xie, C.J. Palmstrøm (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota), A.F. Isakovic, P.A. Crowell (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota), Y. Xin (High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University)

08:36 N25.004 Structure and Magnetism of CoMnGe Alloys

Frank Tsui, Ryan Paul (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

08:48 N25.005 The half-metallic NiMnSb(111)/CdS(111) interface

Robert A. de Groot, Gilles A. de Wijs (ESM, RIM)

09:00 N25.006 Magnetic and Electronic Properties of MnAs/ZnSe Hybrid Ferromagnet/Semiconductor Heterostructures

Joseph Berry, S. H. Chun, S. J. Potashnik, K. C. Ku, P. Schiffer, Nitin Samarth (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University), J. Stephens, I. Malajovich, D. D. Awschalom (Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, University of California)

09:12 N25.007 MODIFICATION OF MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF GaMnAs BY PARAMAGNETIC Zn_1-xMn_xSe OVERLAYERS

Xinyu Liu, Yuji Sasaki, Jacek Furdyna (University of Notre Dame), Furdyna Team

09:24 N25.008 Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Mn_xGa_1-xAs: Role of Mn= Defect Bands

Yu-Jun Zhao, W.T. Geng, A.J. Freeman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University=)

09:36 N25.009 Spectroscopy of InMnAs: Effective Mass and Energy Gap versus Mn Concentration

M. A. Zudov, J. Kono (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University), Y. H. Matsuda, T. Ikaida, N. Miura (Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo), G. D. Sanders, C. J. Stanton (Department of Physics, University of Florida), H. Munekata (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

N25.010 Mean Field Approach to Disorder Effects on Ferromagnetism in Ga_1-xMn_xAs

Mona Berciu, R.N. Bhatt (Princeton University)

N25.011 Monte Carlo Study of (III,Mn)V Ferromagnetic Semiconductors

John Schliemann, Jürgen König, Allan H. MacDonald (The University of Texas at Austin)

Session N26. DCMP/DMP: High T$_c$ Superconductors XIII: Periodic Pinning.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 613-614, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N26.001 Vortex Imaging in Superconducting Films with Periodic Magnetic Dot Arrays

D. M. Silevitch, D. H. Reich (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218), S. B. Field (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523), H. Shtrikman (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)

08:12 N26.002 VORTEX AVALANCHES WITH PERIODIC ARRAYS OF PINNING SITES

J. Abbas, T. Heckel, J. Kakalios (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455)

08:24 N26.003 Vortex dynamics in Nb films with a periodic array of Ni dots

Maria Velez, Daniel Jaque, Jose Ignacio Martin, Jose Luis Vicent (Departamento de Fisica de Materiales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain), Francisco Guinea (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales, Cantoblanco Universidad, 28049 Madrid, Spain)

08:36 N26.004 Periodic vortex pinning by regular structures in Nb thin films: magnetic vs. structural effects

Maria Isabel Montero, B. Johan Jonsson-Akerman, Ivan K. Schuller (Physics Department, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093)

08:48 N26.005 Fractional Matching Effect due to Pinning of the Vortex Lattice by an Array of Magnetic Dots

O. M. Stoll, M. I. Montero, B. J. Jönsson-Åkerman, Ivan K. Schuller (Department of Physics 0319, University of California San Diego)

09:00 N26.006 Phase-locking of Vortex Motion in Periodic Pinning System with Transverse AC-Force

C. Reichhardt (Los Alamos National Laboratory), A.B. Kolton, D. Dominguez (Centro Atomico Bariloche), N. Gronbech-Jensen (University of California - Davis)

09:12 N26.007 London equation studies of thin film superconductors with periodic pinning centers

Sa-Lin Cheng, H. A. Fertig, D. J. Priour (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky)

09:24 N26.008 NANOENGINEERED PERIODIC PINNING ARRAYS

Victor V. Moshchalkov (Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, KULeuven, B-3001 Belgium)

10:00 N26.009 Evidence for a Bose Glass Melting Line in a WGe Thin Film with a Square Antidot Lattice

L.E. De Long, S. Lokhre, T. Ye (Dept. Physics amp; Astronomy, U. Kentucky), V.V. Metlushko (Dept. Electrical Engineering amp; Computer Science, U. Illinois-Chicago), M. Baert, E. Rosseel, M.J. Van Bael, K. Temst, V. V. Moshchalkov, Y. Bruynseraede (Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, K. U. Leuven)

10:12 N26.010 Periodic Magnetic Dots for High-Tc Superconducting Thin Films

W. J. Yeh, Bo Cheng (Department of Physics, University of Idaho), Brian Justus (Naval Research Lab.)

10:24 N26.011 Vortex pinning in laterally nanostructured ferromagnetic/superconducting bilayers

Yvan Bruynseraede (Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, K.U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium)

10:36 N26.012 Commensuration and Multiple Vortices in Periodic Pinning Arrays

D. P. Arovas, A. V. Rozhkov (Physics Department, UCSD)

10:48 N26.013 Disordered Ratchet for Transporting Superconducting Vortices

C.J. Olson, C. Reichhardt (Los Alamos National Laboratory), B. Janko (University of Notre Dame), F. Nori (University of Michigan)

Session N27. DCMP/DMP: Superconductivity: Tunneling and Andreev Reflection.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 615, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N27.001 Dynamic Interplay of Berry's Phase and Spectral Flow in the I-V Curves of a Restricted Class of Large SNS Annular Josephson Junctions

V. Plerou (Boston College), F. Gaitan (Southern Illinois Univ.)

08:12 N27.002 Low Frequency Noise in High-T_c SQUIDs and Multilayer Magnetometers Following a Change in Ambient Magnetic Field

Hsiao-Mei Cho (University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of Houston and Texas Center for Superconductivity), Y. T. Andresen, John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), M. S. DiIorio, K-Y. Yang, S. Yoshizumi (MagneSensors Inc., San Diego, CA)

08:24 N27.003 Observation of Sharp, New Density of States Features in Solution-Fabricated YBCO Planar Tunnel Junctions

P. J. Hentges, L. H. Greene (Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)), G. Westwood, M. M. Pafford, W. G. Klemperer (Chemistry, UIUC)

08:36 N27.004 Reproducible fabrication and applications of superconducting scanning tunneling microscope tips

Ofer Naaman, Winfried Teizer, Robert C. Dynes (University of California, San Diego)

08:48 N27.005 The effects of spin fluctuations on the tunneling spectroscopy in High Tc Superconductors

Chung-Yu Mou, Ching-Long Wu, Darwin Chang (Physics Dept, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)

09:00 N27.006 Spatially-Resolved and Doping Dependence Tunneling Spectra in High-T_c Cuprates

Nai-Chang Yeh (California Institute of Technology)

09:36 N27.007 Quantum Nucleation of Soliton Pairs in Josephson Junctions, Stripes, and Density Waves

John Miller, Andrew Beckwith, Wilfredo More, Gustavo Cardenas, L.-M. Xie, Carlos Ordonez (Dept. of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston)

09:48 N27.008 Magnon-assisted Andreev reflection in a ferromagnet-superconductor junction

Edward McCann, Vladimir I Fal'ko (Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, United Kingdom)

10:00 N27.009 Observation of Andreev Bound State of Superconducting phases in Sr_2RuO_4

Z. Q. Mao, K. D. Nelson, R. Jin, Y. Liu (Department of Physics, Penn State University, University Park), Y. Maeno (Department of Physics, Kyoto University, and CREST-JST, Japan)

10:12 N27.010 Multiple Andreev reflections revealed by the energy distribution of quasiparticles

F. Pierre, A. Anthore, H. Pothier, C. Urbina, D. Esteve (Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France)

10:24 N27.011 Reduced Tc Nb Superconducting HEB Mixers

Irfan Siddiqi, Daniel Prober (Yale University), Bruce Bumble, Henry LeDuc (NASA JPL)

10:36 N27.012 Evidence for Surface Andreev Boundstates in YBCO from Penetration Depth Measurements

F Manzano, A Carrington (H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, UK), R Prozorov, R.W Giannetta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA)

10:48 N27.013 Effect of Andreev bound states on the London penetration depth in single crystals BSCCO

Ruslan Prozorov, Russell W. Giannetta (Loomis Laboratory of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, 61801 Illinois), Antony Carrington, F. Manzano (H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, England), N. Kameda, Tsuyoshi Tamegai (Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan)

N27.014 Signatures of the Neutron Resonance in Two-Particle Tunneling

Eugene H. Kim (Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S-4M1), Boldizsar Janko (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, 46556-5670)

Session N28. DCMP/DMP: High T$_c$ Superconductors XIV: Addressing Doping and Impurities.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 616, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N28.001 Ni_1-xCr_x Substrate Alloys with Reduced or non-Ferromagnetic Properties for Coated Conductor Applications

J.R. Thompson (Oak Ridge National Lab and University of Tennessee), A. Goyal, D.K. Christen, D.M. Kroeger (Oak Ridge National Lab), H.J. Kim (University of Tennessee)

08:12 N28.002 Effect of ferromagnetic substrates on ac losses in YBCO coated conductor tape.

Paul M. Grant (EPRI)

08:24 N28.003 Dielectric function of YBCO in the mid-infrared: temperature and doping dependence at 3.392 microns

D George Walmsley (Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Queen's University Belfast BT7 1NN), Gareth A Farnan (Solid State Division, Building 3137, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, PO Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6057), Gerard F Cairns (Seagate Technology, 1 Disc Drive, Londonderry, N. Ireland, BT48 8PQ), Paul Dawson (Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Queen's University Belfast BT7 1NN), Martin P McCurry (Seagate Technology, 1 Disc Drive, Londonderry, N. Ireland, BT48 8PQ), Shane O'Prey (Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Queen's University Belfast BT7 1NN)

08:36 N28.004 Preparation and Characterization of Homogeneous YBCO Single Crystals with Doping Level near the SC-AFM Boundary

Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn (University of British Columbia)

08:48 N28.005 STRUCTURAL CHANGES ACCOMPANYING BROMINATION AND CHLORINATION OF UNDERDOPED SINGLE-CRYSTAL YBCO: RECOVERY OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

L. Dieng, T. A. Tyson (New Jersey Institute of Technology), M. Croft (Rutgers University), F. Dogan (University of Washington)

09:00 N28.006 Vortex States of Zn/Ni Substituted YBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta in Optimally- and Under-doped Regimes

Takahiko Masui (Japan Science and Technology Corporation Domestic Reserach Fellow), Setsuko Tajima (Superconductivity Research Laboratoty, ISTEC, JAPAN)

09:12 N28.007 Anomalous Vortex States of (Pr,Y)BCO: an ME Muon-spin-rotation Study

M. Tun (San Jose State University, San Jose CA), H. H. Aslanian (University of California, Los Angeles CA), S. X. Cavanaugh (University of Texas, San Antonio TX), R. D. Santiago (San Jose State University, San Jose CA), C. Boekema (San Jose State University, San Jose CA 95112 - 0106)

09:24 N28.008 ME-Burg Muon-spin-rotation Study of (Pr,Y)BCO: Pr in BaO layer?!

H. H. Aslanian (University of California, Los Angeles CA), M. Tun (San Jose State University, San Jose CA 95112), M. M. Abdelrazek (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory), S. X. Cavanaugh (University of Texas, San Antonio TX), C. Boekema (San Jose State University, San Jose CA 95112 - 0106)

09:36 N28.009 SYSTEMATIC ALUMINUM SUBSTITUTIONS OF PrBa_2Cu_3O_7-d EPITAXIAL THIN FILMS

Q.Y. Chen, L.X. Yuan, M.J. Jin (TcSUH, University of Houston), U. Tipparach, T.P. Chen (University of North Dakota), C. Wang, H.Y. Seo, W.K. Chu (TcSUH, University of Houston), M.K. Choi (Ewha Womans University), University of North Dakota Collaboration, Ewha Womans University Collaboration

09:48 N28.010 Substitution of Sr for Ca in BSCCO(2212) thin films and stabilization of 2302 phase

TIZIANA DI LUCCIO, SEONGSHIK OH, B. A. DAVIDSON, J. N. ECKSTEIN (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

10:00 N28.011 In-plane Anisotropy and Temperature-induced Flux Pinning in Heavily Pb-doped Bi2212 Single Crystals

Kohji Kishio, Yuri Nakayama (Department of Superconductivity, University of Tokyo), Teruki Motohashi (Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology), Jun-ichi Shimoyama (Department of Superconductivity, University of Tokyo)

10:12 N28.012 Growth aspects of superconducting Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O whiskers by Vapour-Liquid-Solid growth mechanism

Ramasamy Jayavel, Takashi Mochiku, Shuuichi Ooi, Kazuto Hirata (National Research Institute for Metals, 1-2-1, Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan)

10:24 N28.013 Phonon Density of States of Undoped and Zn-doped LSCO Measured by Inelastic Neutron Scattering

Jae-Ho Chung, Takeshi Egami (University of Philadelphia), Robert McQueeney (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:36 N28.014 Synthesis and superconductivity of the infinite-layer superconductor Sr_0.9Sm_0.1CuO_2.

C. U. Jung, J. Y. Kim, Mun-Seog Kim, Heon-Jung Kim, Min-Seok Park, S. Y. Lee, Sung-Ik Lee (National Creative Research Initiative Center for Superconductivity and Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology)

Session N29. DCMP: Quantum Wires and Dots.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 617, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N29.001 Magnetotransport of a wide quantum well ballistic billiard

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

08:12 N29.002 Landau expansion and spin polarization in quantum point contacts

Henrik Bruus, Vadim V. Cheianov, Karsten Flensberg (Niels Bohr Institute, Oersted Lab., University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark)

08:24 N29.003 Observation of anomalous subband edges in quantum point contacts

Anders Kristensen, Adam Espe Hansen, Henrik Bruus (Niels Bohr Institute fAFG, Oersted Lab., University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark)

08:36 N29.004 Multi-sublevel Magnetoquantum Conductance in Single and Coupled Double Quantum Wires

D. Huang (Air Force Research Laboratory), S. K. Lyo, J. S. Moon, M. A. Blount, J. A. Simmons, J. R. Wendt, J. L. Reno (Sandia National Laboratories)

08:48 N29.005 Competition of phase-breaking and thermal broadening in few-mode mesoscopic rings

Adam Espe Hansen, Anders Kristensen, Simon Pedersen, Claus Sorensen, Poul Erik Lindelof (Niels Bohr Institute fAFG, Oersted Lab., University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark)

09:00 N29.006 Conductance fluctuations and magnetism in mesoscopic ErAs wires.

D. R. Schmidt, C. K. Kadow, A. C. Gossard, S. J. Allen (UCSB)

09:12 N29.007 Tunneling Between Two Parallel Wires

O. M. Auslaender, A. Yacoby (Department of Condensed Matter Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel), R. de Picciotto, K. W. Baldwin, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, 700 Mountain Ave., Murray Hill, NJ 07974, U.S.A.)

09:24 N29.008 Effect of the Temperature and of an in-Plane Magnetic Field on the Weak Localization Peak of an Open Ballistic Quantum Dot

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

09:36 N29.009 Transmission Phase Shift of a Quantum Dot with Kondo Correlations

Ulrich Gerland (University of California at San Diego), Jan von Delft (Universitaet Bonn), Theo Costi (Institut Laue-Langevin), Yuval Oreg (Weizmann Institute)

09:48 N29.010 Quantum pump for spin and charge transport in a Luttinger liquid.

Prashant Sharma, Claudio Chamon (Boston University, Department of Physics, Boston MA 02215)

10:00 N29.011 Influence of a time dependent field on transport properties of open quantum dots

Maxim G. Vavilov (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University), Igor L. Aleiner (Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY at Stony Brook)

10:12 N29.012 Coherence and Partial Coherence in Interacting Electron Systems

Yuval Gefen (Department of Condensed Matter Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel), Jürgen König (Department of Physics,The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA)

10:24 N29.013 Spin orbit effects in a GaAs quantum dot in a parallel magnetic field

Ady stern (Weizmann Institute), Bertrand I. Halperin (Harvard), Yuval Oreg (Harvard, Weizmann Institute), Jan-Hein Cremers, Charles Marcus, Joshua Folk (Harvard)

Session N30. DCMP: Quantum Wells.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 618, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N30.001 Single-well electron interferometers

Stefano Roddaro, Vincenzo Piazza, Fabio Beltram (Scuola Normale Superiore, I-56126 Pisa, Italy), Werner Wegscheider (Walter Schottky Institute, Munich, Germany), Chi-Te Liang, Micheal Pepper (Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom)

08:12 N30.002 Transport and response for current driven non-equilibrium steady state complex quantum well structures.

P. Bakshi, C. Du, G. Feng, K. Kempa (Boston College)

08:24 N30.003 Coherent Spatial Transfer of Electrons in Semiconductor Double Quantum Wells

M. Rüfenacht, S. Tsujino, S.J. Allen, W. Schoenfeld, P. Petroff (iQuest,UCSB)

08:36 N30.004 Electron diffusion processes in p-AlGaAs/GaAs quantum well structures observed by STM light emission spectroscopy

TOHRU TSURUOKA, RYO TANIMOTO, YOSHITSUGU OHIZUMI, RYUICHI ARAFUNE, SUKEKATSU USHIODA (Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University and CREST-Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST))

08:48 N30.005 Effects of magnetic field on electron-electron intersubband scattering rates in quantum wells.

K. Kempa, Y. Zhou, J. Engelbrecht, P. Bakshi (Boston College)

09:00 N30.006 Terahertz photoconductivity and magnetoplasmons in double quantum wells

Xomalin G. Peralta, S. James Allen (Center for Terahertz Science and Technology, U.C. Santa Barbara), Nathan E. Harff, Jerry A. Simmons (Sandia National Laboratories), Peter J. Burke, Jim P. Eisenstein (Caltech)

09:12 N30.007 Coherent Intersubband Raman Beats in Modulation-Doped Quantum Wells

J. Bao, R. Merlin (University of Michigan), K. W. West, L. N. Pfeiffer (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)

09:24 N30.008 A Hopf bifurcation with a strong incommensurate frequency response in driven multisubband quantum wells

A. Batista Adriano, Bjorn Birnir (Mathematics Dept., University of California, Santa Barbara), I. Tamborenea Pablo (Departamento de Fisica, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires)

09:36 N30.009 Spectroscopy and Manipulation of Doped Coupled Quantum Wells

K. S. Gill, J. B. Williams, M. S. Sherwin (Physics Department, UCSB), B. Gerardot, P. Petroff (Materials Department, UCSB)

09:48 N30.010 Theory of coherent LA phonons in strained würzite multiple-quantum wells

G. D. Sanders, C. J. Stanton (University of Florida)

10:00 N30.011 String model for ultrafast generation of coherent acoustic phonons in multiple quantum wells and superlattices

R. Liu, G. D. Sanders, C. J. Stanton (University of Florida)

10:12 N30.012 Spatially separated electron-hole pairs: Screening and scattering.

V.V. Nikolaev, M.E. Portnoi (School of Physics, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter EX4 4QL)

10:24 N30.013 Polariton local states in periodic Bragg multiple-quantum-well structures

Lev Deych (Department of Physics, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ 07079), Alexey Yamilov, Alexander Lisyansky (Department of Physics, Queens College of CUNY, Flushing, NY 11367)

N30.014 Quantum Coherent Control and Mid-Infrared to Near-infrared Upconversion in Double Quantum Wells

S. Tsujino, M. Rüfenacht, P.A. Miranda, S.J. Allen, W. Schoenfeld, T. Lundstrom, P. Petroff, P. Tamborenea, H. Metiu, D. Moses (UCSB), G. Herolod, G. Lupke (Vanderbilt Univ.)

Session N31. DCMP: Electronic Band Structure.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 619, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N31.001 Maximally-localized Wannier Functions in the Ultrasoft Pseudopotential Approach

Yudong Wu, Nicola Marzari, Roberto Car (Chemistry Department and Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University), David Vanderbilt (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University)

08:12 N31.002 Maximally-localized Wannier functions for entangled energy bands

Ivo Souza, David Vanderbilt (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University), Nicola Marzari (Department of Chemistry, Princeton University)

08:24 N31.003 Maximally--localized Wannier Functions in Antiferromagnetic MnO.

M. Posternak, A. Baldereschi (EPF--Lausanne, Switzerland), S. Massidda (U. of Cagliari, Italy), N. Marzari (Princeton University)

08:36 N31.004 Decay properites of Wannier and Wannier-like Functions

Lixin He, David Vanderbilt (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University)

08:48 N31.005 Tight-Binding for Binary and Magnetic Systems

Michael J. Mehl, Dimitrios A. Papaconstantopoulos, Igor I. Mazin (Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375-5000)

09:00 N31.006 Phonons in the Tight Binding Formalism

Sven P. Rudin (Los Alamos National Lab), Dallas R. Trinkle (Ohio State University), Matt D. Jones (Center for Computational Research, SUNY Buffalo), Robert C. Albers (Los Alamos National Lab)

09:12 N31.007 The inclusion of spin-orbit effects in the Slater-Koster tight-binding formalism

Mohammed Lach-hab (School of computational sciences,George Mason University, Fairfax, Va 22030), Dimitrios Papaconstantopoulos, Michael Mehl (Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laborary, Washington, D.C)

09:24 N31.008 Dynamical density-response of flat-band materials: The necessity of the all-electron approach

J. M. Sullivan, W. Ku, A. G. Eguiluz (*) (Department of Physics, Univ. of Tennessee, and SSD, Oak Ridge Nat. Lab. (**))

09:36 N31.009 Green Function Calculation for Full-potential Multiple Scattering Methods

Yang Wang (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Carnegie Mellon University), G. Malcolm Stocks (Metals and Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Don M.C. Nicholson (Computational Physics and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

09:48 N31.010 GW method based on the full-potential LMTO method

T. Kotani (Osaka University), Mark van Schilfgaarde (Sandia National Laboratories)

10:00 N31.011 Development of a self-consistent and environment-dependent LCAO Hamiltonian for Silicon: Application to clusters and surfaces

Ming Yu, Chris Leahy, C.S. Jayanthi, S.Y. Wu (University of Louisville)

10:12 N31.012 Parameterized environment-dependent LCAO Hamiltonian for Germanium

Chris Leahy, C.S. Jayanthi, S.Y. Wu (University of Louisville)

10:24 N31.013 Hubbard-U calculations from first principle Wannier functions for the 3d systems Fe, Co, Ni and Cu

Ilan Schnell, Gerd Czycholl (Inst. f. Theor. Physik, University of Bremen, Germany)

10:36 N31.014 Analysis of parameters of effective magnetic interactions in systems with different magnetic ordering

Evgenii Riabinkin, Vladimir Antropov (Ames Lab, Ames, IA), Mark van Schilfgaarde (Sandia Nat.Lab, Livermore, CA)

10:48 N31.015 Coupling of Nonlocal Potentials to Electromagnetic Fields

Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, Eric K. Chang, Steven G. Louie (UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Session N32. GSNP: Chaos in Spatially Extended Systems and in Experiments.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Room 620, Washington State Convention Center

08:00 N32.001 Driven Heisenberg Magnets : Power-law Correlations, Spatio-Temporal Chaos and Control - Targeting of Chiral Steady States

Jayajit Das (Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va 24061-0435, USA), Madan Rao (Raman Research Institute, C. V. Raman Avenue, Bangalore 560080, INDIA), Sriram Ramaswamy (Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, INDIA)

08:12 N32.002 Chaotic motion of space charge wavefronts in semiconductors under time-independent voltage bias

I.R. Cantalapiedra (UPC), L.L. Bonilla (UC3), M.J. Bergmann, S.W. Teitsworth (DU)

08:24 N32.003 Ordered and self--disordered dynamics of holes and defects in the one--dimensional complex Ginzburg--Landau equation

Martin Howard (Simon Fraser University), Martin van Hecke (University of Leiden)

08:36 N32.004 Interaction of intrinsically localized modes with kinks in a Josephson ladder

Enrique Trias, Kenneth Segall, Terry P. Orlando (MIT), Juan J. Mazo (University of Zaragoza)

08:48 N32.005 Effects of Lagrangian chaos on droplet breakup and coarsening

Tom Solomon (Bucknell University)

09:00 N32.006 Comparison of Inclined Layer Convection Simulations and Experiments

Karen E. Daniels, Chris Maloney, Eberhard Bodenschatz (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University), Oliver Brausch, Werner Pesch (University of Bayreuth)

09:12 N32.007 Measuring Lyapunov exponents in a Rayleigh-Benard convection experiment using pulsed laser perturbations

Kapilanjan Krishan, Andreas Handel, Roman Grigoriev, Michael Schatz (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology)

09:24 N32.008 Extracting Dynamical Structure from Unstable Periodic Orbits

Kevin Dolan (Center for Neurodynamics, University of Missouri - St. Louis)

N32.009 Multiple Coexisting Oscillatory States in a Low Dimensional Dynamica System

Jonathan Mason, Michael Furman, William Ditto, Robert Butera (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Session N33. DCMP: Self-Assembled Quantum Dots.

Wednesday morning, 08:00, Grand B, Sheraton Seattle

08:00 N33.001 Microstructure of Size-Selected InP Quantum-Dot Ensembles

S. P. Ahrenkiel, O. I. Micic, A. J. Nozik (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

08:12 N33.002 Charging effects in single InP/GaInP baby dots

Jonas Persson (Solid State Physics/Nanometer Structure Consortium, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, 221 00 Lund, Sweden), Magnus Holm, Dan Hessman, Mats-Erik Pistol, Lars Samuelson

08:24 N33.003 Electronic structure of InP/InGaP self-assembled quantum dots

Selvakumar Nair, John Shumway, Alex Zunger (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401)

08:36 N33.004 Probing the electronic structure of CdSe/ZnSe self-assembled quantum dots

N. MUKOLOBWIEZ, H. RHO, L. ROBINSON, H.E. JACKSON, L.M. SMITH (Dept. of Physics, U. of Cincinnati), S. LEE, M. DOBROWOLSKA, J. FURDYNA (Dept. of Notre Dame)

08:48 N33.005 Photoluminescence from CdSe/ZnSe self assembled quantum dots: A scaling study as a function of sampling area

R. Jones, N. Mukolobwiez, L.M. Smith, H.E. Jackson (University of Cincinnati), S. Lee, M. Dobrowolska, J.K. Furdyna (University of Notre Dame)

09:00 N33.006 Saturation of Mid-Infrared Emission from Self-Assembled InAs Quantum Dot Structures in Resonant Tunneling Devices

D. Wasserman, S.A Lyon (Princeton University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton, NJ, 08544)

09:12 N33.007 Time-resolved spectroscopy of the ground state and excited state of 1.3-micron-wavelength InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots

Lin Zhang, Kenan Gundogdu, Thomas Boggess, Michael Flatte, D.G. Deppe, D.L. Huffaker, O.B. Shchekin, C. Cao

09:24 N33.008 Ellipsometric study of quasi-monolayer InAs embedded in GaAs at the threshold of quantum dot formation

Hosun Lee, S. M. Kim, T. D. Kang (Dept. of Physics, Kyung Hee University, Suwon 449-701, S. Korea), Y. J. Park, E. K. Kim (KIST, Seoul 130-650, S. Korea)

09:36 N33.009 Band mixing in isolated and coupled InGaAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dots

John Shumway, Alex Zunger (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

09:48 N33.010 Compositional Analysis of InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Dots by Cross-Sectional Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Ning Liu, Chih-Kang Shih (Dept of Physics, The Univ of Texas at Austin), Sridhar Govindaraju (Texas Materials Inst, The Univ of Texas at Austin), Archie L. Holmes Jr (Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Univ of Texas at Austin)

10:00 N33.011 Scanning capacitance microscopy/spectroscopy study of InGaAs self-assembled QDs

Xiang-Dong Wang, N. Liu (Physics Department, The University of Texas at Austin), S. Govindaraju, A. Holmes Jr (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin), C. K. Shih (Physics Department, The University of Texas at Austin)

10:12 N33.012 Lateral Electronic Transport in Self-Assembled Quantum Dots

S. L. Konsek, T. P. Pearsall (University of Washington), A. N. Cleland, C. S. Yung, W. V. Schoenfeld, P. M. Petroff (University of California, Santa Barbara)

10:24 N33.013 Interaction effects on the tunneling of electron-hole pairs in coupled quantum dots

Hector M. Guerrero (Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon), Gregorio H. Cocoletzi (Universidad Autonoma de Puebla), Sergio E. Ulloa (Ohio University)

10:36 N33.014 Structural Characterization of a Strain-Balanced InSb/Ga(As,Sb) Quantum-Dot Superlattice

Richard P. Leavitt, John W. Little (U. S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, 20783)

10:48 N33.015 Molecular dynamics simulations of atomic level stresses in Si(001)/Ge nanoscale mesas

Maxim Makeev, Anupam Madhukar (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Southern California, CA)