Program overview

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 14 MARCH 2001

Session R40. Poster Session III.

Wednesday afternoon, 13:30, Exhibit Hall, Washington State Convention Center

R40.001 Magnetic Phenomena

R40.002 Mössbauer Studies of Melt-Spun Pr_2Fe_14B

J.C. Ho, X. Zhang (), H.H. Hamdeh (Wichita State University, Wichita, KS), W.C. Chang, H.W. Chang (), Y.S. Liou (National Chung-Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan)

R40.003 Cluster glass behavior of layered manganite above T_C

Kyunglim Lee, Ilryong Kim, Soonchil Lee (The Korean Physical Society)

R40.004 Studies on crystal structure and Magnetism of perovskite-like La_xPb_1-xMnO_3 system

Ming-Fomg Tai, Ting-Sheng Huang (Department of Physics, Chung Cheng University, Ming-Hsiung, Chia-Yi 621, Taiwan, R.O.C.), High Field Lab Team

R40.005 Pb-doping effects on crystal structure and spin-glass behavior in perovskite-like La_0.7(Ba_1-xPb_x)_0.3CoO_3 system

Ming-Fong Tai, Chiung-Hsiung Chen (Department of Physics, Chung Cheng University, Ming-Hsiung, Chia-Yi 621, Taiwan, R.O.C), High Field Lab Team

R40.006 Observation of a Weak Ferrimagnetic Phase in Pr_1-xLa_xMnGe

Sunil Labroo (State University of New York at Oneonta), Naushad Ali, Shibaji Saha (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale), Dale Zych (State University of New York at Oswego)

R40.007 Magnetostructural Correlation in R_0.5Sr_1.5MnO_4 (R= La, Pr, and Nd)

Chang Seop Hong, Eun Ok Chi, Wan Seop Kim, Nam Hwi Hur (Center for CMR Materials, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Yusong, P.O. Box 102, Taejon 305-600, KOREA)

R40.008 Crystallographic, Magnetic Properties and Magnetosistance of Nd doped (La,K)MnO3

Yongquan Guo (Naushad Ali), Roger Wappling (Roland Mathieu, Per Nordblad, Peter Svedlindh)

R40.009 Colossal magnetoresistive properties of charge-disproportionate La_1-xNa_xMnO_3,x = 0.07-0.40

Sujoy Roy, Yongquan Guo, Naushad Ali (Dept. of Physics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901)

R40.010 Temperature Dependence of the Spin Wave Stiffness in LSMO CMR Manganite Thin Films

Edward Gillman (Jefferson Lab), Natalia Noginova, Rakhim Rakhimov (Norfolk State University)

R40.011 Manganite oxide thin films deposited under low oxygen pressure

Shiu-jen Liu (Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jiunn-yuan Lin (Institute of Physics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yih-shuang Gou (Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)

R40.012 Pinholes may Mimic Tunneling

David Rabson (Department of Physics, University of South Florida), B.J. Jönsson-Åkerman, A.H. Romero, R. Escudero, C. Leighton, S. Kim, I.K. Schuller (Department of Physics, Univ.\ of California, San Diego)

R40.013 Spin-dependent transport between two ferromagnets separated by a nonmagnetic layer in the effective-mass approximation

Victor Los (Institute for Magnetism, Nat. Acad. Sci. , Ukraine), Vladislav Saltanov (National Kiev University, Ukraine)

R40.014 Magnetic properties of nanoclusters embedded in a matrix

Renat Sabiryanov, You Qiang, Siataram Jaswal, David Sellmyer (116 Brace, Dept. Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE68588-0111)

R40.015 Magnetic Coupling in Fe3O4/Mn3O4 Superlattices

G. Chern, W.K. Shieh, M.T. Lin (Physics Department, National Chung-Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, ROC), Lance Horng, T.C. Wu (Physics Department, Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan, ROC)

R40.016 Electronic and Magnetic Properties of 3d-single or Multilayers on Cu(001) Substrate

Zongxian Yang, Ruqian Wu (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, California State University, Northridge, CA 91330-8268)

R40.017 Unidirectional Solidification of TbFe_2Alloy using Magnetic Field in Microgravity

Hideki Minagawa (HNIRI), Keiji Kamada (JSUP), Tomoya Konishi (NEDO), Takashi Tsurue, Hideaki Nagai, Yoshinori Nakata, Masataka Sasamori, Takeshi Okutani (HNIRI)

R40.018 Broken-symmetry-adapted Green function Theory of Condensed Matter Systems: Towards a Vector-Spin-density-Functional Theory

Mogus Mochena (Florida A amp; M University), Attipat Rajagopal (Naval Research Laboratory)

R40.019 Classical ground states of a multiple-excahnge spin model on the triangular lattice

Kenn Kubo (Dept. Phys. Aoyama Gakuin Univ. Setagaya, Tokyo 157-8572 Japan), Tsutomu Momoi (Inst. Phys. Tsukuba Univ., Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571 Japan)

R40.020 Acoustomagnetoelectric effect in bismuth in the presence of a strong current density gradients.

Peter Finkel (Rowan University, NJ), Sergei Bengus, Vitaliy Krasovitsky (Institute for Low Temperature Physics , Ukraine)

R40.021 Magneto-optical and optical properties of Fe-Au disordered alloy films near the fcc-bcc structural transformation region

Y. P. Lee, Y. V. Kudryavtsev, X. S. Jin, Y. H. Hyun (Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea), R. Gontarz (Institute of Molecular Physics, Poznan, Poland), K. W. Kim (Sunmoon University, Asan, Korea)

R40.022 Magneto-optical, optical and transport properties of Ni_2MnGa alloy

Y. Zhou, Y. V. Kudryavtsev, X. S. Jin, C. O. Kim, Y. P. Lee (Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea), J. Y. Rhee (Hoseo University, Asan, Korea)

R40.023 Insulator and Dielectrics

R40.024 Local-Field Distribution of Two Dielectric Inclusions at Small Separation

Yuet-lun Siu, Kin-wah Yu (Department of Physics, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

R40.025 LOW TEMPERATURE THERMOLUMINESCENCE PROCESSES IN KBr:Eu2+

B. Castañeda, M. Pedroza-Montero (Programa de Posgrado en Física de Materiales, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Baja California, México. P.O.Box 2681, 22800), R. Meléndrez, M. Barboza-Flores (Centro de Investigación en Física, Universidad de Sonora. P.O.Box 5-088, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83190 México.)

R40.026 FABRICATION AND THERMOLUMINESCENCE CHARACTERIZATION OF NEW KClXBr1-X:Eu2+ PHOSPHORS CERAMICS WITH DOSIMETRIC APPLICATIONS

R. Bernal (Centro de Investigación en Física, Universidad de Sonora, P.O. Box 5-088, Hermosillo, Son., 83000, México.), M. Pedroza-Montero, B. Castañeda (Programa de Posgrado en Física de Materiales, Centro de Invest. Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, P.O. Box 2681, Ensenada, Baja California, 22800 México.), M. Barboza-Flores (Centro de Investigación en Física, Universidad de Sonora, P.O. Box 5-088, Hermosillo, Son., 83000, México.), C. Cruz-Vázquez, K.R. Alday-Samaniego (Departamento de Investigación en Polímeros y Materiales de la Universidad de Sonora, P.O.Box 130, Hermosillo, Son., 83000, México.)

R40.027 Al-Ti Electrodes for Ferroelectric Thin Films

Oscar Blanco (Posgrado en Física de Materiales, CICESE, México), Jesús Heiras (Centro de Ciencias de la Materia Condensada, UNAM, México)

R40.028 A thermodynamic model of the growth of diamond-like Carbon = Nitride film

Xing-Jian Shi, Wen-Xiu Wang, Ying-Mei Wang, Da-Ren He (Dept. Phys., Yangzhou Univ., 225002, China), He-Bao Yao, Qing-Li He (Dept. Phys., Northwest Univ., 710069, China)

R40.029 Influence of Strain on the Electronic Properties of BSTO Films

Q. Qian, T. A. Tyson (Department of Physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology), D. Bubb (Naval Research Laboratory), J. Bai (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

R40.030 A breather model for PtCl

George Kalosakas (T-CNLS, Los Alamos National Laboratory), Nikos Voulgarakis (Physics Dept., Univ. of Crete), Alan Bishop (T-Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory), George Tsironis (Physics Dept., Univ. of Crete)

R40.031 A Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction Study of PMN-PT Single Crystals

Mingqin Zou (Material Science Program, Washington State University), Roger Willett (Department of Chemistry, Washington State University)

R40.032 Single Crystal Structural Investigation of the Phase Transitions in (Me4P)2ZnBr4 and (Me4P)2ZnI4

Roger Willett (Department of Chemistry, Washington State University), Mingqin Zou (Material Science Program, Washington State University)

R40.033 Ab-initio Calculation of XANES/ELNES Spectra of YAG (Y3Al5O12)

Yu Chen, Shangdi Mo, Wai-Yim Ching (University of Missouri-Kansas city, Kansas City, MO 64110)

R40.034 Afterglow induced by UV radiation at low temperature in europium-doped alkali halides.

S. Àlvarez-García (Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias (Física). Universidad de Sonora. P.O. Box 5-088 Hermosillo, Son., 83190 México.), M. Barboza-Flores, T.M. Piters (CIFUS. Universidad de Sonora. P.O. Box 5-088 Hermosillo, Son., 83190 México)

R40.035 Temperature Dependence of Radiative Decay Rates of Mn4+ and Cr3+ in YAG

Kurt Hoffman, Micheal Wimpee (Whitman College)

R40.036 Dynamic Mechanical Measurements of SiC for Simulations of MEMS Devices

D.R. Wiff (Air Force Research Lab/ Materials amp; Manufacturing Directorate)

R40.037 ELASTIC CHARACTERIZATION OF CONCRETE MATERIALS

Claudio Guerra-Vela, Abraham Ruiz (University of Puerto Rico), Fredy R. Zypman (Yeshiva University)

R40.038 Wide Bandgap Semiconductors

R40.039 Electron-Polar Optical Phonon Interactions and transport in degenerate GaN-based heterostructures

David Anderson, Mohamed Babiker, Colin Bennett (University of York), Nick Zahkleniuk (Marconi Caswell Technology), Brian Ridley (University of Essex)

R40.040 Depth profile of carrier concentrations in bulk GaN crystals

S. S. PARK (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, P.O.Box 111, Suwon 440-600, Korea), I.-W. PARK, E. K. KOH (Korea Basic Science Institute, Seoul Branch, Seoul 136-701, Korea), S. H. CHOH (Department of Physics, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Korea)

R40.041 Luminescence Properties of GaN:Tb, GaN/AlGaN:Eu Superlattice, and AlN:Tb and Eu.

H.J. Lozykowski, W.M. Jadwisienczak (Ohio University), I.G. Brown (University of California Berkeley)

R40.042 Optical properties of Epitaxial Al_1-xIn_xN Alloy Films Grown on Sapphire (0001) by Plasma Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy (PSMBE)

M.J. Lukitsch, Y.V. Danylyuk, C. Huang, L. Rimai, G.W. Auner, R. Naik (Wayne State U.), V.M. Naik (U. Michigan-Dearborn), W.H. Weber (Ford Motor Co.)

R40.043 ZnO Film Luminescence*

GANG XIONG, JOHN WILKINSON, K. B. UCER, R. T. WILLIAMS (Department of Physics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109), BIXIA LIN, ZHUXI FU (Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People's Republic of China)

R40.044 Silver doped p-type ZnS crystals

Ekaterine Chikoidze, Tamar Chelidze, Tamaz Butkhuzi, Nodar Kekelidze (Tbilisi State University, Semiconductive Materials Scirence Laboratory)

R40.045 MAGNETIC MEASUREMENTS ON THE LAYERED III-VI DILUTED MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTOR Ga1-xFexSe

T.M. Pekarek, C.L. Fuller, J.L. Garner (Univ. of N. Florida), B.C. Crooker (Fordham Univ.), A.K. Miotkowski, A.K. Ramdas (Purdue Univ.)

R40.046 Biophysics

R40.047 Effect of Mutation on Immune Response in an HIV Response Model via Population Dynamics of Cell - A Monte Carlo Approach

Ras Pandey (University of Southern Mississippi), Heather Ruskin, Rachel Mannion (Dublin City University)

R40.048 Force Dependence of the Michaelis Constant in a Two--State Ratchet Model for Molecular Motors

Gianluca Lattanzi (International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS), Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia (INFM)), Amos Maritan (International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS), Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia (INFM), The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP))

R40.049 Effect of Pressure Denaturation on Molecular Motions of Myoglobin

Martin Diehl, Hellmut Schober, Johannes Wiedersich, Wolfgang Doster (University of Munich, Germany)

R40.050 On the Long Time Dynamics of Met-Enkephalin

Min-yi Shen, Karl Freed (Department of Chemistry and James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago)

R40.051 Quantization of a RLC mesoscopic biologically equivalent circuit

Jiu-rong Han, Qiao Bi (Dept. Phys., Yangzhou Univ., 225002 China)

R40.052 Time-resolved enthalpy measurements of light-induced reactions by optical interferometry

Harald Leyser, Wolfgang Doster (Technical University Munich, Physics Department E 13)

R40.053 Light Induced Destabilization of Giant Vesicles

Daniel T. Chen, Keng-Hui Lin, Arjun G. Yodh (University of Pennsylvania)

R40.054 AFM investigations of hRPA/DNA complexes

Maryna Lysetska, Georg Krausch (Universitaet Bayreuth - Physikalische Chemie II - 95440 Bayreuth - Germany), Daniel Boehringer, Thomas Hey, Gerhard Krauss (Universitaet Bayreuth - Laboratorium fuer Biochemie - 95440 Bayreuth - Germany)

R40.055 Atomic force microscopy of gastric mucin

Bernard Chasan, Zhenning Hong, Rama Bansil (Boston University), Bradley Turner, K. Ramakrishnan Bhaskar, Nezam Afdhal (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)

R40.056 Electrical Transport Properties of DNA Molecules

J. O. Lee (Dept. of Physics, Chonbuk National Univ.), K.-H. Yoo, Jinhee Kim (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science), J.-J. Kim (Dept. of Physics, Chonbuk National Univ.), S. K. Kim (Dept. of Chemistry, Yeongnam Univ.)

R40.057 Electrical Impedance Analysis of Cellular Responses to Microbial Toxins

Chun-Min Lo (Department of Physics, Cleveland State University)

R40.058 Mechanical response of cells: multi-state adhesion

Stella Park (MIT, Dept. of Mat. Sci. amp; Eng.), Darrell Irvine (Stanford Univ., Dept. of Medicine), Linda Griffith (MIT, Dept. of Chem. Eng.), Anne Mayes (MIT, Dept. of Mat. Sci. amp; Eng.)

R40.059 Enduring Bioinformatic Roles for Quantum Microscopy

John A. Sidles (University of Washington), Joseph L. Garbini, William M. Dougherty, Shih-Hui Chao, Melissa M. MacBeth, UW MRFM Team

R40.060 Computational Profiling of Microbial Genomes using Short Sequences

Dale Doering (Associated Western Universities, Inc.), Toyoko Tsukuda (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

R40.061 Adsorption of myoglobin to metal-chelating lipid monolayers by neutron reflectivity

Michael Kent, Hyun Yim, Daryl Sasaki (Sandia National Labs.), Greg Smith (Los Alamos National Labs.)

R40.062 Structure and properties of beta-keratin assemblies ^1

David Grubb, Anirban Mukherjee (Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University)

R40.063 Metals

R40.064 Cusp Condition Constraints on the Thermodynamic Properties of Dense Liquid Hydrogen*

K. Nagao, N. W. Ashcroft (Cornell University)

R40.065 Structural and Electrical Properties of Thermoelectric Thin Films of Ce0.9CoFe3Sb12

Lozano Giratá, Amalia Doris, Olmos Arnache, Luis Oscar, Muñoz Lopera, Wilson (Universidad de Antioquia), Castro, Fernando Luis, Pulido Prieto, Antonio Pedro (Universidad del Valle)

R40.066 Crystallograpic and Magnetic Properties of EuMn_xGa_3-x

Yongquan Guo (Naushad Ali), Yuin Grin (Walter Schnelle)

R40.067 Transport Properties in Liquid Metals by Computer Simulation

Efraín Urrutia-Bañuelos (Programa de Postgrado en Ciencias (Física), Universidad de Sonora), Alvaro Posada-Amarillas (Depto. de Investigación en Física, Universidad de Sonora, 0-588,83190 Hermosillo, Son., México)

R40.068 An exact-diagonalization study of rare events in disordered conductors

Rudolf A. Roemer, Ville Uski, Michael Schreiber (Institut fuer Physik, Technische Universitaet Chemnitz), Bernhard Mehlig (Faculty of Physics, University of Freiburg)

R40.069 Interpolation formalism for arbitrary frequencies in the hydrodynamic model for 1D and 2D degenerate free-electron gases

Marcelo del Castillo-Mussot, Gerardo J. Vazquez (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, Mexico), Gregorio H. Cocoletzi (Instituto de Fisica, BUAP, Mexico)

R40.070 Electromagnetic energy propagation in cylindrical holes of metallic walls

Sergey Sekerzh-Zenkovich (Departamento de Fisica, Universidad de Sonora, Mexico), Dimitry Sekerzh-Zenkovich (Moscow State University, Russia), Felipe Ramos-Mendieta (Centro de Investigacion en Fisica, Universidad de Sonora, Mexico)

R40.071 Acoustical pseudo-gaps within allowed frequency bands in superlattices: finite multilayer - external medium mixed effect

Betsabe Manzanares-Martinez (Programa de Posgrado en Ciencias (Fisica), Universidad de Sonora, Mexico), Felipe Ramos-Mendieta (Centro de Investigacion en Fisica, Universidad de Sonora, Mexico.)

R40.072 local structure study of V2O3 powder

Hao Chen, Wojtek Dmouski, Takeshi Egami (University of Pennsylvania)

R40.073 Hyper molecular dynamics simulations of vacancy diffusion in Aluminum

X. M. Duan, D. Y. Sun (Institute of Solid State Physics, Academia Sinica, Hefei-230031, P.R. China), X. G. Gong (Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P.R. China)

R40.074 Quantitative determination of hydrogen in titanium at hundred-ppm levels using an imaging detector

H. Heather Chen-Mayer, David F. R. Mildner, George P. Lamaze, Richard M. Lindstrom (National Institute of Standards of Technology)

R40.075 Polymers II

R40.076 Effect of Segmental Chain Dynamics on Interface Growth in Electrophoretic Deposition of Polymer Chains

Frank Bentrem (University of Southern Mississippi), Grace Foo (National University of Singapore), Ras B. Pandey (University of Southern Mississippi)

R40.077 Density, Conformation, and Roughening at the Interface in Electrophoretic Deposition of Polymer Chains

Frank Bentrem, Ras B. Pandey (University of Southern Mississippi)

R40.078 Mechanisms of Ordering of Block Copolymer Microdomains

Christopher Harrison, Matthew Trawick, P.M. Chaikin (Physics Department), John Sebastian, Richard A. Register (Chemical Engineering Department), Douglas H. Adamson (Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544), Harrison, Zhengdong Cheng (ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, 1545 Route 22 East, Annandale, NJ 08801-0998)

R40.079 Investigation of the Mechanical and Surface Properties of Adhesive Films Made from Discrete Polymer Nanoparticles

Elizabeth F. Fabbroni, Kenneth R. Shull (Northwestern University, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering)

R40.080 Preparing high-density polymer brushes by mechanically assisted polymer assembly (MAPA)

Tao Wu, Kirill Efimenko, Jan Genzer (NC State University)

R40.081 What is the distance to the wall in lattice Monte Carlo simulations?

Iwao Teraoka (Polytechnic University), Peter Cifra (Slovak Academy of Sciences), Yongmei Wang (North Carolina Aamp;T State University)

R40.082 The Influence of molecular weight on nanoporous polymer films

Ting Xu, Ho-Cheol Kim, Jason DeRouchey (University of Mass., Amherst), Chevey Seney (Frontier Regional High School, S.Deerfield,MA), Cathy Levesque (Wilbraham Middle School, Wibraham, MA), Paul Martin (Boston Lation Academy, Boston, MA), Chris Stafford, Thomas Russell (University of Mass., Amherst)

R40.083 Polymer mediated aggregation of Gold nanoparticles

Irene Tsai, Scott Kennedy (University of Mass. at Amherst-PSE), Andrew K. Boal, Faysal Ilhan, Vincent M. Rotello (University of Mass. at Amherst), Thomas P. Russell (University of Mass. at Amherst - PSE), Irene Y. Tsai, Scott Kennedy, Andrew K. Boal, Faysal Ilhan, Vincent M. Rotello, Thomas P. Russell

R40.084 Effect of surface roughness on failure mechanisms of soft adhesive layers

Arnaud Chiche, Jacob Hooker, Costantino Creton (Laboratoire PCSM-ESPCI, France), Yong Chen (CNRS-L2M, Bagneux, France)

R40.085 Effects of Heterogeneity on the Adsorption of Poly(ethylene oxide) at a Solid-Liquid Interface

Yu-Wen Huang, Vinay K. Gupta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Chemical Engineering)

R40.086 Patterned Attachment of Ultrathin Polymer Layers to Solid Substrates

Matthew R. Hammond, Edward J. Kramer (UCSB)

R40.087 Confined Asymmetric Diblock Copolymers

Qiang WANG, Paul NEALEY, Juan DE PABLO (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison)

R40.088 Confinement-Induced Shifts in the Dielectric Response of a Conductive Polymer

Ken Kojio, Sangmin Jeon, Steve Granick (Department of Materials Science amp; Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

R40.089 Alignment Mechanisms of Diblock Copolymers in Electric Fields

Jason DeRouchey, Thomas Thurn-Albrecht, Ting Xu (University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA), S.K. Satija (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD), Thomas Russell (University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA)

R40.090 'Parachute' Studies of Adsorption onto Polymer Surfaces: Comparison with Contact Angle Measurements

Neil Moe (Osmonics, Inc.)

R40.091 UV/ozone induced modification of silicone rubber surfaces

Kirill Efimenko, Jan Genzer (North Carolina State University)

R40.092 Thermal probe assignments of the glass transition temperature of ultrathin polymer films and the effects of thickness, interfacial energy and grafting

Ranjeet S. Tate, Tushar Jain, David S. Fryer, Paul F. Nealey, Juan J. de Pablo (Dept. of Chemical Engg., UW-Madison)

R40.093 Surface Passivation: A Route to Nonpreferential Surfaces

Ho-Cheol Kim, Christopher M. Stafford, Thomas P. Russell (Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

R40.094 Thin Film Morphologies of SBM Triblock Copolymers

K. Amanda Leach, Ho-Cheol Kim, Thomas P. Russell (Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst - Polymer Science and Eng. Dept.), Ludwik Leibler, Francois Court (Elf Atochem)

R40.095 Characterization by Atomic Force Microscopy of Capillary Wave Fluctuations at Free Polymer Surfaces.

Cecile Bollinne, Stephane Cuenot, Bernard Nysten, Alain M. Jonas (Department of Materials Science, Universite catholique de Louvain.)

R40.096 Monte Carlo Simulations of Pattern Recognition of Copolymers near Heterogeneous Surfaces

James Semler, Jan Genzer (North Carolina State University)

R40.097 Controlling Self-Assembly of Helical, Rod-Like Polypeptides on Solid Surfaces

Alveda J. Williams (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Chemistry), Vinay K. Gupta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Chemical Engineering)

R40.098 Surface Segregation and Nanostructure Formation in Ionomer Films

Russel Walters, Russell Composto (Materials Sci. & Eng and LRSM, Univ. of Pennsylvania), Joon-Seop Kim (Chosun University)

R40.099 Guided self-assembly of symmetric diblock copolymer films on chemically nanopatterned substrates

R. D. Peters, X. M. Yang, P. F. Nealey (University of Wisconsin)

R40.100 Growth routes of multicomponent thin organic films: the case of PTCDA and decanethiols deposited on gold.

Jens Pflaum, Giacinto Scoles, Antoine Kahn (Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University, New Jersey 08544)

R40.101 Dynamics of Thermally Induced Phase Separation in Main-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymer Solutions

Do Kim, Thein Kyu (Institute of Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron OH 44325)

R40.102 Polymer Mixtures by Molecular Design

Anne Mayes, Juan Gonzalez, Anne-Valerie Ruzette, You-Yeon Won (Department of Material Science and Engineering, MIT)

R40.103 Phase Behavior of Alkane Monolayers Ionically Bonded to Mica

Rahmi Ozisik, Maged A. Osman, Ulrich W. Suter (Institute of Polymers, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH))

R40.104 Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Phase Behavior of a Soft-core Repulsion Liquid Crystal Model

Pu Tian, Grant Smith, Ramanathan Karthik (Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Chemical and Fuels Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah)

R40.105 Liquid Crystal / Liquid Crystalline Diblock Copolymer Binary Blends

Mitchell Anthamatten, Andres A. Tamez, Paula T. Hammond (MIT, Dept. of Chemical Engineering)

R40.106 Effect of Polymer Molecular Weight on the Phase Behavior of Polymer/Small Molecule Liquid Crystal Mixtures

Nathan Crawford, Mark Dadmun, Gary Lynn (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)

R40.107 Kinetics of Order-to-Order Transitions in Block Copolymers

Chia-Ying Wang, Timothy P. Lodge (Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455)

R40.108 The phase behavior and viscoelastic properties of block copolymers with hydrogenated aromatic hydrocarbon resins

Duyeol Ryu, Jin Kon Kim, WoonYong Jeong (Department of Chemical Engineering, Polymer Research Institute, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Kyungbuk 790-784, Korea)

R40.109 Depletion Phenomena in Suspensions of Rigid Rods and Colloids

Yeng-Long Chen, Kenneth Schweizer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

R40.110 Critical Chain Length for the Need of Supercooling of Extended-chain Crystals of Oligomers by Calorimetry

Jeongihm Pak, Marek Pyda, Bernhard Wunderlich (Department of Chemistry, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1600, and Chemical and Analytical Sciences Div., Oak Ridge National Lab., Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6197)

R40.111 Cylinder-sphere epitaxial transitions in block copolymer melts

M.W. Matsen (University of Reading)

R40.112 Computer Simulation of Copolymer Phase Behavior

Andrew Schultz, Carol Hall, Jan Genzer (NCSU)

R40.113 Phase Behavior of Liquid-Crystalline/Isotropic Diblock Copolymer

Michael C.-Y. Huang (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology)

R40.114 Effects of Oscillating Electrophoretic Field on Mobility, Conformation, and Segregation of Polymer Chains in a Porous Medium

Grace Foo (National University of Singapore), Ras Pandey (University of Southern Mississippi)

R40.115 Solvation Thermodynamics of Ethers in Aqueous Solutions. A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study

Yi Feng, Dmitry Bedrov, Grant Smith (Department of Materials Sci.amp; Eng., University of Utah)

R40.116 On the Validity of the Ogston Obstruction Model for Diffusion and Electrophoresis in Gels

Jean-Francois Mercier, Gary W. Slater (University of Ottawa)

R40.117 Heat Capacity of the Liquid-Liquid Mixture Perfluoroheptane and 2,2,4-Trimethylpentane Near the Critical Point

Emily R. Oby, D. T. Jacobs (Physics Department, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio)

R40.118 Phase Transitions in Nanostructured Polyelectrolyte-Surfactant Complexes

Michael Leonard, Helmut Strey (Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

R40.119 Adhesive and Elastic Properties of DOPA-Containing Hydrogels

Rebecca Webber, Ken Shull, Phillip Messersmith, Priti Madhav (Northwestern University)

R40.120 Electroviscous effects of Xanthan in water

David Norwood, Tamara Pearson, Catherine diBenedetto (Southeastern Louisiana University)

R40.121 The effects of LiClO4 on the overall internal relaxation mode of poly-ethylene oxide (PEO) in methanol solution

Gregory Piet, Jim Selser, Rainer Walkenhorst, Rene Walter (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

R40.122 Network viscoelastic behavior in poly(ethylene oxide) melts: effects of dissolved lithium perchlorate on the network structure and dynamic behavior

Rene Walter, Rainer Walkenhorst, Jim Selser, Malcolm Smith, Radoslav Bogoslovov, Greg Piet (Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

R40.123 Dendrimer Electrophoresis in Free Solution

David Hoagland, Cynthia Welch (Polymer Sci. amp; Eng., U. of Mass. Amherst)

R40.124 PEO-PPO-PEO Block Copolymer Micelles in Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions: Effect of Anions and Temperature on the Micelle Structure and Interaction

Sathish Sukumaran (University of Cincinnati), Guomin Mao (Argonne National Laboratory), Gregory Beaucage (University of Cincinnati), Marie-Louise Saboungi, P Thiyagarajan (Argonne National Laboratory)

R40.125 Stabilizing Co-continuous Morphologies in Polymer Blends with Particles

B.Y. Asoo, G.H. Fredrickson, E.J. Kramer (UCSB)

R40.126 Intercalation of polymer melts in layered nanostructures: A coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation study

B. L. Farmer, R. A. Vaia (Air Force Research Lab), R. K. Bharadwaj (Avery Research Center)

R40.127 Dynamics of plate-like and spherical microparticles in evaporating solutions

Andrew Guenthner, Thein Kyu (The University of Akron, Department of Polymer Engineering)

R40.128 Relaxation of a Polymer Chain in a Melt

Katsumi Hagita, Hiroshi Takano (Dept. of Phys., Fac. of Sci. amp; Tech., Keio Univ.)

R40.129 Optimized Mechanical Behavior of Vinyl Ester Resins

Manisha Ganglani, John Torkelson, Stephen Carr (Northwestern Univ.)

R40.130 An Optical Rheometer for Simultaneous Study of Structures and Rheological Properties of Polymer Solutions under High Shear Rates

Khaled S. Mriziq, James Dai, Mark D. Dadmun (University of Tennessee/Knoxville), Hank D. Cochran (Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Oak Ridge)

R40.131 Elongational Relaxation of Polymer Fluids

D. H. Reneker (The University of Akron), A.L. Yarin (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology), Han Xu (The University of Akron)

R40.132 Slow Dynamics at the Glass Transition in Semicrystalline Polymers Studied by Pure-Exchange ^13C NMR

Tito J. Bonagamba, Eduardo R. deAzevedo, Fabio Becker-Guedes (Instituto de Fisica de São Carlos, Univ. de São Paulo, Brasil), Klaus Schmidt-Rohr (Dept. of Chemistry, Iowa State Univ., Ames IA)

R40.133 Dewetting Dyanmics in Filled Polymeric Systems

Luo Haobin, Dilip Gersappe (Dept of Materials Science, SUNY Stony Brook)

R40.134 Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy and the Boson Peak in Polycarbonate Copolymers

Christopher Soles (NIST Polymers Division), Robert Dimeo (NIST Center for Neutron Research), Alexander Kisliuk, Alexei Sokolov (University of Akron), Jianwei Liu, Albert Yee (University of Michigan), Wen-li Wu (NIST Polymers Division)

R40.135 Pressure Dependance of the Segmental Dynamics of Anthracene-Labelled Polyisoprene in Dilute Solution

Benjamin Punchard, David Adolf (The University of Leeds)

R40.136 Coexistence of Islands and Holes in Block Copolymer Thin Films

Seung-Heon Lee, Huiman Kang, Jinhan Cho, Yeon Sang Kim, Kookheon Char (School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, Korea)

R40.137 Glass Transition in CO2 Treated Polysulfones by DSC and PAS

Y.C. Jean, J. P. Yuan, E.W. Hellmuth (University of Missouri-Kansas City)

R40.138 Effect of Functionality of Reactive Polymers on Reaction Kinetics and Structure of Copolymers at Immiscible Polymer Interface

Yooseong Yang, Char Kookheon (School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University)

R40.139 Post-deadline abstracts

R40.140 The precursor effect and mechanical properties in Pb_3(PO_4)_2

Y.C. Cho, S.Y. Jeong (Dept. Physics, Pusan Nat'l Univ., Korea), C.R. Cho (COMTECS Research Lab., Korea), Y.N. Choi (KAERI, Korea)

R40.141 Finite size effects in molecular motors

M. Cemal Yalabik, Sencer Taneri (Bilkent University)

R40.143 Novel approach for silicon nanolithography.

R.M. Ralich, S.F. Lyuksyutov, R.D. Ramsier (University of Akron, Dept. of Physics)

R40.144 Deposition of Multilayers Using Vertical Ascent of Monolayer

Ratna S. Phadke (UNV. Dept. Of Chemical Technology, UDCT. Nathalal Parikh Marg, Matunga, Mumbai India 400019)

R40.145 A micromachined probe array for interfacing between electronics and neurons

Chenyang Xu (Micro Actuator, Sensor, and System Research Group (MASS), Microelectronics Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801)

R40.146 Characteristics of a two-dimensional electron-hole gas in GaSb-InAs-AlSb heterostructures

P.A. Folkes (), J. Bruno, M. Taysing-Lara (Army Research Laboratory)

R40.147 A nanostructured nonlinear electronic material that operates at room temperature and 50\ GHz

A.M. Song, P. Omling, L. Samuelson, W. Seifert, I. Shorubalko (Solid State Physics and Nanometer Structure Consortium, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden), H. Zirath (Department of Microwave Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

R40.148 A new approach to calculate the band structures of real crystals

Pedro Pereyra (UAM-A, Area de Fisica Teorica y Materia Condensada, Mexico D.F.)

R40.149 ac Susceptibility in Granular Superconductors: Theory and Experiment.

Jose Luis Cardoso, Andrzej Myszkowski, Pedro Pereyra, Alejandro Kunold (UAM-A, Area de Fisica Teorica y Materia Condensada, Mexico D.F.)

R40.150 Boch Electrons in Magnetic and Electric Fields and an Anisotropic Lattice

Alejandro Kunold (UAM-A,Area de Fisica Teorica y Materia Condensada, Mexico D.F.), Manuel Torres (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, Mexico)

R40.151 Self-Consistent diagrammatics: frustrating order and quantum critical behaviour

Hongbo Zhao, Jan R. Engelbrecht, Ziqiang Wang (Department of Physics, Boston College)

R40.152 Direct nano-wiring of carbon nanotube using growth barrier

Yun-Hi Lee, Yoon-Taek Jang, Byeong-Kwon Ju, Eun-Kyu Kim (Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea), Dong-Ho Kim, Chang-Woo Lee (Department of Physics, Yeungnam University, Kyungsan, Korea), Jae-Eun Lee, Young-Soo Han, Sang-Soo Yoon, Jin-Koog Shin, Sung-Tae Kim (LG Electronics Institute of Technology, Seoul, Korea)

R40.153 First-principles calculations of the local electronic and magnetic properties of Cu in La_2-xBa_xCuO_4

K. Nagamine (RIKEN, Wako-shi, Japan; KEK, Japan), H. Li (RIKRN, Wakoshi, Japan), T.M. Briere (KEK-MSL, Tsukuba, Japan), T.P. Das (SUNY Albany, Albany, NY)

R40.154 Dynamics of Ethylene Oxide Oligomers in Water Investigated by NMR

J.H. Shibata, M.C. Kime (University of the South)

R40.155 Resonant Tunneling and the Substituent Effect on Negative Differential Resistance in Molecular Electronics

Karl Sohlberg (Department of Chemistry, Drexel University), Nikita Matsunaga (Department of Chemistry, Long Island University)

R40.156 Low field magnetoresistance in FeMo double perovskites

Mar Garcia-Hernandez, Jose Luis Martinez, Maria Jesus Martinez-Lope, Maria Teresa Casais, Jose Antonio Alonso (ICMM/CSIC, Spain)

R40.157 Optical and Magneto-Optical Study of Orbital and Spin Ordering Transitions in YVO3

A.A. Tsvetkov, F.P. Mena, Y. Ren, I.S. Elfimov, D. van der Marel, G.A. Sawatzky (University of Groningen), A.A. Nogruho, A.A. Menovsky (University of Amsterdam)

R40.158 Comparison of Process Performance and Emission Gases during Oxide Etch using Octafluoro-cyclobutane and Perfluoro-2-butene

Chang-Jin Kang, Yoshizo Miura, Hiroyuki Nakata, Akinori Kitamura, Makoto Sekine (Association of Super-Advanced Electronics Technologies (ASET), Environmentally Benign Etch Technology Lab (EEL), Totsuka-ku, Yokohama 244-0817, JAPAN)

R40.159 Subatomic resolution with Atomic Force Microscopy - Experiments and Calculations

Franz J. Giessibl, Hartmut Bielefeldt, Jochen Mannhart (Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, D 86135 Augsburg, Germany)

R40.160 OPTICAL STUDY IN A NOVEL QUATERNARY CRYSTAL DOPED WITH EUROPIUM

E.R. Alvarez (Departamento de Fisica, Universidad de Sonora, Apartado Postal 1626, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83000, Mexico), R.M. Rodriguez, M.E. Atondo (Departamento de Investigacion en Fisica, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico), A. Cordero-Borboa (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000, Mexico, D.F.)

R40.161 DEFECTS IN NEW MIXED IONIC CRISTALOGAPHIC FAMILY

R.M. Rodriguez , M.E. Atondo (Departamento de Investigacion en Fisica, Universidad de Sonora, Apartado Postal 5-88, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83190, Mexico), E.R. Alvarez (Departamento de Fisica, Universidad de Sonora, Apartado Postal 1626, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83000, Mexico), E. Camarillo, H.G. Riveros, G. Vazquez-Polo (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000, Mexico, D.F.)

R40.162 Magnetic g factor and diamagnetic shift in narrow GaAs-AlGaAs quantum wire

Jong Chun Woo (Professor,School of physics,Seoul National University,Seoul,Korea), Do Hyun Kim, Min Gyu Sung, In Chun Moon (School of physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea)

R40.163 Transport and Spin Effects in Homogeneous Magnetic Superlattice

Jose Luis Cardoso, Pedro Pereyra, Alfonso Anzaldo-Meneses (Física Teórica y Materia Condensada, UAM-Azcapotzalco, Av. S. Pablo 180, C.P. 02200, México D. F., México)

R40.164 Controllable Enhancement of the Thermal and Electrical Transport Properties of an Industrial Epoxy by the Addition of Low Weight Percentages of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Michael Biercuk (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania), Marc Llaguno (Department of Physics and Astronomy and LRSM, University of Pennsylvania), Marko Radosavljevic (Department of Physics and Astronomy and LRSM, University of Pennslyvania), Alan T. Johnson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania)

R40.165 Marshall-Peierls sign rule in frustrated Heisenberg quantum antiferromagnets

Andreas Voigt (University of Georgia, Center for Simulational Physics, Dep. of Physics and Astronomy, Athens GA 30602), Johannes Richter (Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Institut für Theoretische Physik, D-39016 Magdeburg, Germany)

R40.166 The nematic-isotropic phase transition in semiflexible fused hard-sphere chain fluids

K.M. Jaffer (McMaster University), S.B. Opps (University of Toronto), D.E. Sullivan, B.G. Nickel (University of Guelph), L. Mederos (CSIC)

R40.167 Deep impurity centers in CdTe:Ti crystals

Yu.P. Gnatenko, I.O. Faryna, P.M. Bukivskij, P.A. Skubenko (Institute of Physics of NAS of Ukraine), R.V. Gamernyk (Lviv National University), P.I. Babij (Chernivtsi National University)

R40.168 Advanced Oxide Thin Film Fabrication and its Application to Fuel Cells

X. Chen, N.J. Wu, L. Smith, A. Ignatiev (Space Vacuum Epitaxy Center, TCSUH and MRSEC, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5507)

R40.169 Dirac quasiparticles in the mixed state

Daniel Knapp, Catherine Kallin, A.J. Berlinsky (Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University)

R40.170 Non-perturbative approach to electron pairing mediated by excitons

N. Luo (Northwestern University)

R40.171 Extended BEG model of halogenated methanes physisorbed on ionic crystals

Teresa Burns (Coastal Carolina University), Jason Kite, JR Dennison (Utah State University)