Program overview

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 14 MARCH 2001

Session S1. DCMP: Complex Phase Transitions at Surfaces.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Ballroom 6A, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S1.001 Dynamical role of defects in 2D CDW phase transitions
Ward Plummer (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Solid State Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN)
15:06 S1.002 Fermi Surfaces and Energy Gaps in Sn/Ge(111)
T.-C. Chiang (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
15:42 S1.003 Charge density waves or dynamical fluctuations at the Pb/Ge(111) and Sn/Ge(111) interfaces?
M. C. Asensio (LURE, Centre Universitaire Paris Sud, Bât 209D . 91898 Orsay, France amp; Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales, CSIC, 28049 Madrid, Spain.)
16:18 S1.004 Many-Body and Other Effects in Surface Phase Transitions
Steven C. Erwin (Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.)
16:54 S1.005 Core level line shapes and surface band structures of Sn/Ge(111) and Sn/Si(111)
Roger Uhrberg (Dept. of Physics and Measurement Technology, Linkoping University, S-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden)
   

Session S2. DCMP: Low Carrier Density Magnetic Materials followed by Mott Metal-Insulator Transition.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Ballroom 6B, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S2.001 Theory of (III,Mn)V Semiconductor Ferromagnetism
Jürgen König (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712)
15:06 S2.002 The Density of States of Amorphous Gd_xSi_1-x at the Metal-Insulator Transition
Winfried Teizer (Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92117)
15:42 S2.003 Magnetotransport near the Kondo insulator to metal transition in (Fe,Co)Si
John F. DiTusa (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University)
16:18 S2.004 Towards Realistic Electronic Structure Calculations of Correlated Materials Exhibiting a Mott Metal-Insulator Transition.
Gabriel Kotliar (Physics Department and Center for Materials Theory Rutgers University)
16:54 S2.005 Metal-insulator transitions: Influence of lattice structure, Jahn-Teller effect, and Hund's rule coupling
J. E. Han (Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University)
   

Session S3. FHP/DMP: History of Electronic Structure Theory in Atoms.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Ballroom 6C, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S3.001 A Personal Account of the History of Density Functional Theory
Walter Kohn (University of California, Santa Barbara)
15:06 S3.002 Impact of Band Theory: Past, Present and Future
A.J. Freeman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL)
15:42 S3.003 Why I Love Pseudopotentials
Leonard Kleinman (University of Texas at Austin)
16:18 S3.004 Density Functional Calculations of Molecules: History and Outlook
Bernard Delley (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)
   

Session S5. FIAP/GIMS: Quantum Standards.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 602-603, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S5.001 Josephson Voltage Standards
Clark Hamilton (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
15:06 S5.002 Quantum Hall Effect-Based Resistance Standard
Marvin E. Cage (NIST Gaithersburg, MD)
15:42 S5.003 A Capacitance Standard Based on Counting Electrons
Mark W. Keller (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO)
16:18 S5.004 Laser-Cooled Atomic Clocks at NIST
Steven Jefferts (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
   

Session S6. GMAG: Magnetism in Soft Matter.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 608, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S6.001 Super-strong magneto-rheological fluids
R. Tao (Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA)
15:06 S6.002 Magnetically Induced Novel Instabilities in a Magnetic Fluid
Weili Luo (Department of Physics, University of Central Florida)
15:42 S6.003 Manipulation of Cell Division using Static Magnetic Fields
James Valles Jr. (Department of Physics, Brown University)
16:18 S6.004 Effects of Magnetic Field on Biological Cells and Applications
Ching-Jen Chen (Biomagnetic Engineering Laboratory)
   

Session S7. GSNP: Self-Organized Criticality.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 609, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S7.001 Avalanche Dynamics, Cellular Automata, and Magnetic Flux Creep
Kurt Wiesenfeld (School of Physics, Georgia Tech)
15:06 S7.002 Extremal processes and global optimization
Radu Dobrin, Phillip M. Duxbury (Physics and Astronomy Department, Michigan State University)
15:18 S7.003 Design and Highly Optimized Tolerance: An Introduction
David Reynolds, Jean Carlson (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara)
15:30 S7.004 Exact solution of stochastic directed sandpile model
Morten Kloster (Princeton University), Sergei Maslov (Brookhaven National Lab), Chao Tang (NEC Research Institute)
15:42 S7.005 Large-Scale Synchrony in Weakly Interacting Automata
Adam Landsberg (W.M. Keck Science Center, The Claremont Colleges), Eric Friedman (Dept. of Economics, Rutgers University)
15:54 S7.006 Interface view of a directed avalanche system
Chun-Chung Chen, Marcel den Nijs (Department of Physics, University of Washington)
16:06 S7.007 Electric and Magnetic Detection of Avalanche Behavior in Chemical Reactions
James Claycomb, M. Nersesyan, Martin Miller, John Miller, Dan Luss (University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204 USA)
16:18 S7.008 Self-Organized Criticality and Universality in a Nonconservative Earthquake Model
Stefano Lise, Maya Paczuski (Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London, UK)
16:30 S7.009 Dynamic Bose Condensation in a One-dimensional Traffic model with a Parking Garage
Meesoon Ha, Marcel den Nijs (Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195)
16:42 S7.010 Recent Results for the Bak-Sneppen Model
Stefan Boettcher (Physics Department, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322), Maya Paczuski (Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, 180 Queen's Gate, London, SW7 2BZ; UK)
   

Session S8. DFD: Quantum Fluids and Solids III.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 208, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S8.001 Superfluid helium drop impact and bubble entrainment: the movie
Antonios Apostolou, Jin Liu, Jinhun So, Zhiqu Lu, J. D. Maynard (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University)
14:42 S8.002 Theoretical calculation of the Equation of State of Condensed Helium at High Pressure
Soon Yong Chang, Massimo Boninsegni (Department of Physics, San Diego State University)
14:54 S8.003 Critical Casimir Pressure Gauge
Sarah Weber, Klaus Knorr, Rafael Garcia, M.H.W. Chan (Penn State Univ.)
15:06 S8.004 Monolayer molecular hydrogen films adsorbed on graphite
Kwangsik Nho, Efstratios Manousakis (Florida State University)
15:18 S8.005 Helium on Graphite: Third and Fourth Layer
Marlon Pierce, Efstratios Manousakis (Florida State University)
15:30 S8.006 Dynamics of Immersed Molecules in Superfluids
Michael Quist, Veit Elser (Cornell University)
15:42 S8.007 Generation and State of Hydrogen Microparticles
T.E. Huber, Kizi Celestine (Howard University)
15:54 S8.008 The quest for classical hindered rotors using NMR techniques
Kiho Kim (Department of Physics, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688, USA), N. S. Sullivan (Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA)
16:06 S8.009 Sputtered Films of PdMn for Paramagnetic Thermometry and Bolometry Near The Lambda Point of Liquid Helium
Raymond C. Nelson (University of New Mexico), Dmitri Sergatskov, Robert V. Duncan (), John McKenney (Sandia National Laboratories)
16:18 S8.010 Gas Dynamics and Hydrodynamics Simulations of Low Temperature Helium Pulses
Aaron Wynveen, Keith Lidke, J. Woods Halley (School of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Minnesota)
16:30 S8.011 Confinement effects on rotational tunneling
Robert Dimeo, Dan Neumann (NIST Center for Neutron Research)
16:42 S8.012 Using a Constriction to Measure the Critical Heat Current in Bulk Superfluid Helium
Andrew Chatto (California Institute of Technology), Talso Chui, Peter Day (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), David Goodstein (California Institute of Technology)
16:54 S8.013 Helium Transmission Experiments on Suspended Superfluid Slabs
Keith A. Lidke, Aaron Wynveen, Mark C. Williams, C. F. Giese, J. W. Halley (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota)
17:06 S8.014 Low-Lying Excitations from the Yrast Line of Weakly Interacting Trapped Bosons
Masahito Ueda (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Tatsuya Nakajima (University of Texas)
17:18 S8.015 Charged bosons in a quasi-one-dimensional system
Bilal Tanatar (Department of Physics, Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara), Bahman Davoudi (Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy), Mohamad Kohandel (Physics Department, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.)
   

Session S9. DMP/DPOLY: Organic Electronic Materials and Devices V: Photovoltaics and LEDs.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 201, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S9.001 Highly Efficient Conjugated Polymer/Fulleren Solar Cells
Christoph J. Brabec (Christian Doppler Laboratory for Plastic Solar Cells, Johannes Kepler University Linz)
15:06 S9.002 Optical and Electrochemical Characterization of Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Photovoltaics
Melissa Kreger, Jin Zhang (Chemistry Dept Univ of California Santa Cruz), Sue Carter (Physics Dept Univ of California Santa Cruz), H. Tillmann, H.-H. Horhold (Institute of Organic Chemistry, Univ of Jena)
15:18 S9.003 Highly efficient photoinduced charge transfer at the polymer/polymer interfaces of nanolayered heterojunctions of donor/acceptor pi-conjugated polymers
Maksudul M. Alam, Samson A. Jenekhe (Department of Chemical Engineering, Benson Hall, Box 351750, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1750)
15:30 S9.004 The Enhanced Photocurrent in UV region in MEH-PPV
Chao-Yi Tsai, Shu-Chun Yang, Wunshain Fann, Pei-Hsi Tsao (Institute of Atomic amp; Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, and Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)
15:42 S9.005 New method to measure carrier drifting mobility in dispersive organic and polymer semiconductors
Xiaoming Zou, Arthur Epstein (Department of Physics, The Ohio State University)
15:54 S9.006 The Role of Sidechain Length on Luminescence Efficiency
Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Hanpeng Dong, Mary Galvin (Dept of Matls Sc amp; Engg, Univ of Delaware, Newark DE 19716)
16:06 S9.007 Effects of Side Branching, End Capping and Hole Transport Layer on Polyfluorene Light Emitting Diodes
Yuko Nakazawa (University Of California Santa Cruz, Dept. of Physics), Heinz-Georg Nothofer, Ullrich Scherf (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research), Victor Lee, Campbell Scott, Robert Miller (IBM Almaden Research Center), Sue Carter (University of California Santa Cruz, Dept. of Physics), University of California Santa Cruz Collaboration, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Physics Collaboration, IBM Almaden Research Center Collaboration
16:18 S9.008 The Morphological Dependence of Charge Transport in a Luminescent Conjugated Polymer
Czek-Haan Tan (Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Anto Regis Inigo (Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan), Wunshain Fann (Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Pei-Kuen Wei Collaboration (Institute of Applied Science and Engineering, Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Gung-Yeong Perng and Shaw-An Chen Collaboration (Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hwa University, Taiwan)
16:30 S9.009 Optical and Electronic Properties of MEH-DOO-PPV Red Emitting LEDs
J.M. Leger (University of California, Santa Cruz), H.-H Hoerhold, H. Tillmann (Universitat Jena), S.A. Carter (University of California, Santa Cruz)
16:42 S9.010 Role of Average Conjugation Length in Conducting Polymers
Hanpeng Dong, Mary Galvin (Department of Materials Science amp; Engineering, Univ. of Delaware)
16:54 S9.011 The role of energetic disorders in conjugated polymers
Anoop Menon, Zukhra Niazimbetova (University of Delaware, Materials Science and Engineering), Rachel Jakubuiak, Christine Liberatore, Chris Collison, Lewis Rothberg (University of Rochester, Department of Chemistry), Mary Galvin (Universty of Delaware, Materials Science and Engineering)
17:06 S9.012 Emission in Pinwheel Aggregates of p-phenylene vinylene Oligomers
Frank Spano (Temple University)
17:18 S9.013 Transparent Oxides for Improved Polymer Optoelectronic Device Performance
Sue Carter (University of California, Santa Cruz), Alison Breeze (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Melissa Kreger (University of California, Santa Cruz), Hans Horhold (University of Jena, Germany)
17:30 S9.014 High efficiency organic light emitting diodes using electrophosphorescence
Chihaya Adachi (Center for Photonics and Optoelectronic Materials (POEM), Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544)
   

Session S10. DCMP: QMC and Other Many Body Methods.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 203, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S10.001 A Ground State Method for Continuum Systems Using Random Walks in the Space of Slater Determinants.^
Shiwei Zhang, Henry Krakauer (Dept. of Physics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795)
14:42 S10.002 The inhomogeneous RPA and many-electron trial wave functions
Rene Gaudoin, Maziar Nekovee, W. Matthew C. Foulkes (The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW 7 2BZ, UK), Richard J. Needs, Guna Rajagopal (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE)
14:54 S10.003 Comparison of Quantum Monte Carlo and Density Functional Models of the Correlation Hole in Second Row Atoms
Antonio C. Cancio (Georgia Tech), C. Y. Fong (University of California, Davis)
15:06 S10.004 Real-time correlation functions from imaginary-time evolution
Pavel Kornilovitch (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California)
15:18 S10.005 Path Integral Monte Carlo Simulation of Hot, Dense Hydrogen
Burkhard Militzer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
15:30 S10.006 A Monte Carlo method for coupling electronic and ionic degrees of freedom
Mark Dewing, David Ceperley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
15:42 S10.007 Finite-temperature transport of the Holstein polaron
Li C. Ku, S. A. Trugman (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA)
15:54 S10.008 Buckled versus symmetric geometry of the Si(001) surface - the role of non-dynamical and dynamical correlation
Peter Bokes, Ivan Stich (CCMS, Slovak Technical University (FEI STU), Bratislava, Slovakia), Lubos Mitas (Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27669-8202)
16:06 S10.009 Spin-Polarization transition in the two dimensional electron gas
Gaetano Senatore (INFM and Università di Trieste), Saverio Moroni, Daniele Varsano (INFM and Università di Roma "La Sapienza")
16:18 S10.010 Exact limits of the exchange-correlation local fields in the magnetic response of a spin-polarized electron gas
Marco Polini, Mario Tosi (Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy)
S10.011 Local-spin-density approximation for the correlation energy of 2-dimensional electron systems
Michael Seidl (Inst. of Theor. Physics, University of Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany), John P. Perdew (Dept. of Physics and Quantum Theory Group, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118)
   

Session S11. DMP: Nanoparticles and Nanowires IV: Metal Nanowires.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 204, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S11.001 The physics and chemistry of electrodeposited magnetic nanowires
Peter Searson (Johns Hopkins University)
15:06 S11.002 Trapping and Assembly of Magnetic Nanowires
M. Tanase, L. A. Bauer, A. Hultgren, L. Sun, P. S. Searson, G. J. Meyer, D. H. Reich (The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218)
15:18 S11.003 Fabrication of small nanowire
F. Altomare, A. M. Chang (Department of Physics), M. R. Melloch (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University)
15:30 S11.004 Direct Patterning of Self-Assembled Nanocrystal Monolayers by Electron Beams
Heinrich M. Jaeger, Xiao-Min Lin, Raghuveer Parthasarathy (The James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637)
15:42 S11.005 Fabrication of Magnetic Wires from Submicron Spheres Covered with a Multilayered Fe_3O_4 Shell
M. Spasova, E.-L. Bizdoaca, M. Farle (IHO, TU Braunschweig, Germany), F. Caruso (MPI of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany), M. Hilgendorff, M. Giersig (Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin, Germany)
15:54 S11.006 Chemical Handles for Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Alignment and Crossbar Assembly
Michael Diehl, Robert Beckman, Boukai Akram, Daniel Steiger, Fred Wudl, James Heath (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA)
16:06 S11.007 Magnetic "Smart-Wire" Nanostructures Using Molecular Self-Assembly
H. Matsui (Chemistry Department, Univ. of Central Florida), B. P. Tonner (Physics Department, Univ. of Central Florida)
16:18 S11.008 Novel structures and properties of metal nanowires
Baolin Wang, Shuangye Yin, Guanghou Wang (National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China), Alper Buldum, Jijun Zhao (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
16:30 S11.009 Decoherence Times in Metallic Nanowires
Sunil Goda, Lydia L. Sohn (Dept. of Physics, Princeton University)
16:42 S11.010 Inelastic scattering in atomic wires
Nicolas Agrait, Carlos Untiedt, Gabino Rubio-Bollinger, Sebastian Vieira (Laboratorio de Bajas Temperaturas, Departamento de Fisica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
16:54 S11.011 Fabrication and lateral transport measurement of gold nanowires in ultra-high vacuum
Takashi Uchihashi, Urs Ramsperger, Hitoshi Nejoh (National Research Institute for Metals)
17:06 S11.012 From Molecules to Supramolecular Structure: Self assembling of Wire-Like Poly(parapheneyleneethynylene)s.
Rakchart Traiphole (Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634-0973), Uwe Bunz (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, 29208), Dvora Perahia (Department of Chemistry and MSamp;E, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634-0973)
   

Session S12. DMP: Thin Films IV: Growth Mechanisms and Diffusion in Monolayers.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 205, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S12.001 Self-Replicating Silane Multilayer films; Structure and Growth Mechanism
Ben Ocko (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Alain Gibaud (Univ of Maine (FRANCE)), Rivka Maoz, Jacob Sagiv (Weizmann Institute of Science (ISRAEL))
14:42 S12.002 Diffusion in a strongly correlated anisotropic overlayer
Igor Lyuksyutov (Texas Aamp;M University), Hans-Ulrich Everts (Institut for Theoretical Physics, Hannover University), Herbert Pfnuer (Institut fuer Festkoerper Physik, Hannover University)
14:54 S12.003 Structural relationships between organic (Langmuir) monolayers and initial stages of inorganic nucleation
J. Kmetko, G. Evmenenko, A. Datta, F. Teran Arce, P. Dutta (Northwestern University)
15:06 S12.004 Conformational isomers of cyclohexene on Si(100)(2x1) observed by STM
Yoshiyuki Yamashita, Jun Yoshinobu, Kazuto Akagi, Shinji Tsuneyuki (The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo)
15:18 S12.005 ORGANIC MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY OF SELF-ASSEMBLING STRUCTURES ON PD(111)
Byung-Il Kim, Xiaobin Deng, Chengzhi Cai, Scott S. Perry (Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston TX 77204-5641)
15:30 S12.006 Growth Mechanism of Octadecylsiloxane Self-Assembled Monolayers Studied With Sum-Frequency Generation
Bruce Chow (Materials Science Program, Colorado School of Mines), Thomas Furtak (Physics Department, Colorado School of Mines)
15:42 S12.007 Exploring Thin Films of Magnetic Molecules
Lance L. Miller, David Vaknin (Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 50011, USA), Avi Bino (Dept. of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Hebrew University, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel)
15:54 S12.008 In Situ Studies of the Kinetics of Alkanethiol Self-Assembly at the Ethanol/Gold Interface
Clayton S. C. Yang, Kimberley A. Briggman, Lee J. Richter, John C. Stephenson (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899)
16:06 S12.009 Diffusive motions in monolayer and submonolayer nitrogen
L. W. Bruch (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
16:18 S12.010 Diffusive Motion in Monolayers of the n-Alkane, Tetracosane, Adsorbed on Graphite
L. Criswell, A. Diama, D. Fuhrmann, H. Mo, H. Taub (University of Missouri-Columbia), K. W. Herwig (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), F. Y. Hansen (Technical University of Denmark), R. Dimeo, D. Neumann (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
16:30 S12.011 Separation of the Quasielastic Neutron Scattering from n--Alkane Monolayers into Contributions from Different Types of Molecular Diffusive Motion
F.Y. Hansen (Technical University of Denmark), K.W. Herwig (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), D. Fuhrmann, L. Criswell, H. Taub (University of Missouri--Columbia)
16:42 S12.012 X-ray Specular Reflectivity Study of an n-Alkane Film, Dotriacontane, Adsorbed on Si(100) Substrates
H. Mo, H. Taub (University of Missouri-Columbia), S. N. Ehrlich (Brookhaven National Laboratory), U. G. VOLKMANN, M. PINO (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), F. Y. Hansen (Technical University of Denmark)
16:54 S12.013 High-Resolution Ellipsometric Study of n-Alkane Films Adsorbed on Si(100)
U. G. VOLKMANN, M. PINO (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), H. Taub, H. Mo (University of Missouri-Columbia), F. Y. Hansen (Technical University of Denmark)
17:06 S12.014 Charge Transfer, Trapping and Detrapping Dynamics at Semiconductor Interfaces Probed by Second Harmonic Generation
Eric Borguet, Vasiliy Fomenko, Catherine Faler (Department of Chemistry and Surface Science Center, University of Pittsburgh)
   

Session S13. DCP: Quantum Dynamics, Control and Computing: Quantum Computing.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 206, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S13.001 Quantum Computers and Quantum Control
Seth Lloyd (MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering)
15:06 S13.002 More Advances in Quantum Computing
Colin Williams (Stanford)
15:42 S13.003 Theoretical Issues in Practical Implementation of Quantum Computation
K. Birgitta Whaley (University of California, Berkeley)
16:18 S13.004 Quantum Decoherence and Chaos
Wojciech Zurek (LANL)
16:54 S13.005 Nonlinear Wavepacket Interferometry: Theoretical Studies for Polyatomic Molecules
Jeffrey A. Cina (University of Oregon, Dept. of Chemistry amp; Oregon Center for Optics)
   

Session S14. DMP: Materials: Synthesis, Growth and Processing.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 210, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S14.001 Thin Film Growth of the Charge-Density-Wave Conductor Niobium Triselenide by Pulsed Laser Deposition
K.M. O'Neill, K. Cicak, R.E. Thorne (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University)
14:42 S14.002 Formation of cobalt disilicide films on(3\times3) 6H-SiC(000\=1)
D. K. Wood, W. Platow, J. E. Burnette, D. E. Sayers, R. J. Nemanich (Department of Physics, NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8202)
14:54 S14.003 Crystal growth by accelerated molecular dynamics: Ag/Ag(100) at low temperature
F. Montalenti, S. Swaminarayan, M.R. SØrensen, T.C. Germann, A.F. Voter (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545.)
15:06 S14.004 Microstructure Investigation of CuCo Granular Alloys With FMR
A.P. Guimaraes, B.R. Pujada, E.H.C.P. Sinnecker, A.M. Rossi (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, 22290-180 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
15:18 S14.005 Investigation of Temperature Dependence, Growth rate, and Segregation coefficient of Sodium Doped KDP
Selemani Seif, Jiann-Min Chang, Kamala Bhat, R.B. Lal (Alabama Aamp;M University), Benjamin Penn (NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center), NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center Collaboration
15:30 S14.006 An inductively coupled rf plasma as a medium for carbonitriding aluminum
Fayez El-Hossary, Niemat Negm, Sayed Khalil, Ahmad Abed Elrahman (Physics Department, Faculty of Science, South Valley University, Sohag, EGYPT), Lewis Watson (Mechanical Engineering, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK)
15:42 S14.007 Fractal hole growth in thermal agglomeration of metal nanofilms
Kyoung-Yol Kim, Jihwa Lee (School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University)
15:54 S14.008 Textured Growth of Rare-Earth Carbides via Direct Reaction of Graphite
Louis Santodonato, Daniel Dender, Dan Neumann, Ross Erwin (NIST Center for Neutron Research)
16:06 S14.009 STM INVESTIGATION OF ADATOM/VACANCY FORMATION DURING DIRECT ION DEPOSITION
Joshua M. Pomeroy (Cornell University), Joachim Jacobsen (Haldor Topsoe A/E Denmark), Barbara H. Cooper, J.P. Sethna, Joel Brock (Cornell University), Cornell Center for Materials Research IRGD Collaboration
16:18 S14.010 Hartree Fock and DFT Study of Models for Amorphous Chalcogenide Alloys
Arthur Edwards, Walter Shedd, Robert Pugh (Air Force Research Laboratory)
16:30 S14.011 Non-Equilibrium Pattern Formation in the Crystallization of Polymer Blend Films
Jack F. Douglas, Vincent Ferreiro (Polymers Division, NIST Gaithersburg, MD), James A. Warren (Metallurgy Division, NIST Gaithersburg, MD), Alamgir Karim (Polymers Division, NIST Gaithersburg, MD), Metallurgy Division Collaboration
16:42 S14.012 Electrical properties of molybdenum films prepared by electron beam
P.S. Nayar, R. Nelson, J. La Rue, A. Kine (University of California - Irvine)
16:54 S14.013 FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF RARE-EARTH HEXABORIDE THIN FILMS
Zhenchen Zhong (Louisiana Tech University and Grambling State University)
   

Session S15. DCP: Materials Theory and Simulation V.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 211, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S15.001 Rigid Body Diffusion Monte Carlo studies of SF_6 in helium clusters
Mehul V Patel (Departments of Physics and Chemistry, U. C. Berkeley), K. Birgitta Whaley (Department of Chemistry, U. C. Berkeley)
14:42 S15.002 Moving Atoms, Electrons and Spins with Molecular Dynamics
Roberto Car (Princeton Univ)
15:18 S15.003 The SIESTA Program for Electronic Structure Simulations
Jose M. Soler (Dep. de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain)
15:54 S15.004 First-principles simulations of shock front propagation in liquid deuterium
Francois Gygi, Giulia Galli (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA 94551)
16:06 S15.005 A Molecular Dynamics Study of High Pressure Nitrogen
William Mattson, Daniel Sanchez-Portal, Richard Martin (Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
16:18 S15.006 Transitions to Nonmolecular Structures and Decomposition of CO2 at High Pressures
Oliver Tschauner, Maddury Somayazulu, Ho-kwang Mao, Russell J. Hemley (Geophysical Laboratory and Center for High Pressure Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Road, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20015)
16:30 S15.007 Model Potential Calculations of the Thermal Properties of Argon
E. Roger Cowley (Rutgers University)
16:42 S15.008 Monte Carlo calculation of interfacial free energy of hard-sphere fluid against structured walls
Atsushi Mori, Brian Laird (Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas)
16:54 S15.009 Direct calculationof the crystal/melt interfacial free energy for a system of hard-spheres
Brian Laird (Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas), Ruslan Davidchack (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Leicester)
   

Session S16. DCMP: Non-Fermi Liquids II.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 303, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S16.001 ^27Al NMR Studies of Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in Y_0.8U_0.2Pd_2Al_3
M. S. Rose, D. E. MacLaughlin, B. Young (U. of Calif., Riverside), H. G. Lukefahr (Whittier College), M. B. Maple, E. J. Freeman (U. of Calif., San Diego)
14:42 S16.002 NMR Studies of Fermi and non-Fermi liquid behavior in CePtSi_1-xGe_x, x=0 and x=0.1
Ben-Li Young, D. E. MacLaughlin, M. S. Rose (Department of Physics, U. of Calif., Riverside, California 92521-0413), G. R. Stewart (Department of Physics, U. of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611), K. Heuser (Fachbereich Physik, Universit\ddotat Augsburg, 86159 Augsburg, Germany)
14:54 S16.003 \boldmath \muSR and Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in UCu_5-xPd_x
D. E. MacLaughlin, M. S. Rose (UC Riverside), O. O. Bernal (CSU Los Angeles), R. H. Heffner, J. E. Sonier (LANL), G. J. Nieuwenhuys (KOL Leiden), B. Andraka (U. Florida), R. Chau, M. B. Maple (UC San Diego)
15:06 S16.004 Griffiths effects and quantum critical points in dirty superconductors without spin-rotation invariance: One-dimensional examples
Kedar Damle (Physics Department, Harvard University), Olexei Motrunich, David Huse (Physics Department, Princeton University)
15:18 S16.005 Griffiths effects and delocalization transitions in two-dimensional bipartite random hopping
Olexei Motrunich (Princeton University), Kedar Damle (Princeton University, Harvard University), David Huse (Princeton University)
15:30 S16.006 Numerical study of disordered quantum magnets.
Liliana Arrachea, Marcelo Rozenberg (Departamento de Física, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria Pabellón I, (1428) Buenos Aires, Argentina.)
15:42 S16.007 Onset of magnetic order in the doped semimetal Ce(Ni,Cu)Sn
Almut Schröder, T. Miokovic, R. Vollmer, C. Pfleiderer, H. v. Löhneysen (Universität Karlsruhe), G. M. Kalvius (TU München), Y. Echizen, T. Takabatake (Hiroshima University)
15:54 S16.008 La4Ru6O19 and La3Ru3O11: quantum critical behavior resulting from metal-metal bonding
Peter Khalifah (Department of Chemistry and Princeton Materials Institue, Princeton University), Rongying Jin, Ying Liu (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University), Qingzhen Huang (NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland - College Park), Xuan P.A. Gao, Art. P. Ramirez (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), Robert J. Cava (Department of Chemistry and Princeton Materials Institue, Princeton University)
16:06 S16.009 Spectroscopy of Matter Near Criticality
Bogdan Bernevig, Domenico Giuliano, Robert Laughlin (Stanford University)
16:18 S16.010 Thermoelectric Behaviour Near Magnetic Quantum Critical Point
Indranil Paul, Gabriel Kotliar (Rutgers University)
16:30 S16.011 The Kondo Lattice model from local viewpoint.
Valeri Kotov, Peter Hirschfeld (University of Florida)
16:42 S16.012 Local criticality in heavy fermion metals: a dynamical mean field analysis of Kondo lattice models
Lleweilun Smith, Silvio Rabello, Qimiao Si (Rice University), Kevin Ingersent (University of Florida)
16:54 S16.013 Locally critical quantum phase transitions in strongly correlated metals
Qimiao Si, Silvio Rabello (Rice University), Kevin Ingersent (University of Florida), Lleweilun Smith (Rice University)
17:06 S16.014 Thermal expansion in heavy fermion metals close to quantum criticality
Lijun Zhu, Qimiao Si (Rice University)
17:18 S16.015 Thermopower in Cobalt Oxides
Wataru Koshibae, Kenji Tsutsui, Sadamichi Maekawa (IMR, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan)
   

Session S17. FIAP/DMP: Materials Theory and Computation for Industrial Problems II: Adhesion and Catalysis.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 304, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S17.001 First Principles Simulation of Adhesion at Al/Metal-Oxide Interfaces
Donald Siegel (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jr. Hector (General Motors Research and Development), James Adams (Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Arizona State University)
14:42 S17.002 First-principles simulations of metal-ceramic interface adhesion: Co/WC vs Co/TiC
Mikael Christensen, Sergey Dudiy, Göran Wahnström (Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden)
14:54 S17.003 Design and Modeling of a Selective Composite n/p Gas Sensor
Brian Chwieroth, Bruce R. Patton (Ohio State Univ. Physics Dept. / NSF Center for Industrial Sensors and Measurements), Nancy Savage, Prabir K. Dutta (Ohio State Univ. Chemistry Dept. / NSF Center for Industrial Sensors and Measurements)
15:06 S17.004 Catalysis from First-Principles
Matthew Neurock (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Virginia)
15:42 S17.005 Modeling Gas Sensor Arrays with Support Vector Machines
Matthew Fulkerson, Bruce Patton (Ohio State University Physics Department)
15:54 S17.006 NO Binding and Reactions on Closepacked Metal Surfaces from First Principles
K. C. Hass, A. Bogicevic (Ford Motor Company)
16:06 S17.007 Rac-Meso configurational stability and structural transition in Zirconocene-based Ziegler-Natta catalysts - a hybrid QM/MM investigation
Amitesh Maiti (Molecular Simulations Inc., San Diego)
16:18 S17.008 Hyperthermal Dissociative Dynamics of Methane and Methyl on Pt(110) 2x1
Nicola Marzari, Roberto Car (Chemistry Department and Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University)
16:30 S17.009 Simulation of the Methanol to Gasoline Process catalyzed by Zeolites
I. Stich (CCMS, Dept. of Physics, Slovak Technical University (FEI STU), Slovakia), M. Hytha (Dept. of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republik), J.D. Gale (Dept. of Chemistry, Imperial College, London, U.K.), K. Terakura (JRCAT, Angstrom Technology Partnership, Tsukuba, Japan), M.C. Payne (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K.)
16:42 S17.010 Ab-initio Study on the Adsorption of H, H_2 and CO on the Reduced Ceria CeO_2-x (111) Surface
Rainer Grohmann, Doris Vogtenhuber, Raimund Podloucky (University of Vienna), Joseph Redinger (Technical University of Vienna), Georg Kresse (University of Vienna)
16:54 S17.011 First-principles Study of Methyl-group-absorbed GaAs (001) Surfaces as Growing Surface Models during OMVPE
Masayoshi Mikami, Shinichiro Nakamura (Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation), Klavs F. Jensen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Atsushi Oshiyama (University of Tsukuba)
17:06 S17.012 Analysis on Characteristics of Ar Plasma for Decomposing Polynuclear Hazardous Wastes
Y. Liu, Y. Kanazawa, T. Iwao, H. Yoshida (Institute of Science and Engineering, CHUO University, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan), H. Shindo (Department of Applied Physics, Tokai University, Hiratsuka 259-1292, Japan), T. Inaba (Institute of Science and Engineering, CHUO University, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan)
   

Session S18. DCMP: Nanocrystals.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 307-308, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S18.001 The Effect of Oxygen Contamination on the Optical Gap of Nanocrystalline Silicon.
Igor Vasiliev, Richard M. Martin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), James R. Chelikowsky (University of Minnesota)
14:42 S18.002 Atomic and electronic structures of magic sizes of hydrogen-saturated 1-1.5 nm silicon nanocrystals
Lucas Wagner, Lubos Mitas (Department of Physics, North Carolina State University), Munir Nayfeh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
14:54 S18.003 Ultrafast carrier dynamics in thin film nanocrystalline silicon
K.E. Myers, S.L. Dexheimer (Washington State University), Q. Wang (National Renewable Energy Lab)
15:06 S18.004 Investigation of Local Structures Around Ge in MBE-Grown Si/Ge Superlattices with ¡§Inverted Hut¡¨ Structure of SiGe Nanocrystals
Y. L. Soo, S. Kim, G. Kioseoglou, S. Huang, Y. H. Kao (SUNY-Buffalo), H. H. Cheng (National Taiwan University)
15:18 S18.005 Manganese-Doped Nanocrystals of ZnS: Effect of an Extra Electron
Que Huong Nguyen, Joseph L. Birman (CCNY), Al.L. Efros (NRL), CCNY-NRL Collaboration
15:30 S18.006 Theory of single particle tunneling in InAs nanocrystals.
Yann Michel Niquet, Christophe Delerue, Guy Allan (IEMN-Dept ISEN,BP 69,59652 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex,France), Michel Lannoo (L2MP,Marseille,France)
15:42 S18.007 Highly emissive CuCl nanocrystals in solution
Ivan Okhrimenko, Laura Bullock, Brent Wacaser, Chris Green, Bret Hess, Robert Davis, Roger Harrison (Physics and Chemistry Departments, Brigham Young University, Provo UT 84602)
15:54 S18.008 Anomalous electron spin resonance in neutral and doped CdSe nanocrystal solids
Bret Hess, Ivan Okhrimenko, David Housely, David Garber, Robert Davis (Physics Department, Brigham Young University, Provo UT 84602)
16:06 S18.009 Dephasing in CdSe/ZnS core/shell nanocrystals: Effects of phonon quantization
Phedon Palinginis, Hailin Wang (Department of Physics and Oregon Center for Optics, University of Oregon)
16:18 S18.010 Optical Characterisation of Planar Microcavities Incorporating II-VI Semiconductor Nanocrystals.
Chris Finlayson, David Ginger, Neil Greenham (Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Rd, Cambridge, United Kingdom.)
16:30 S18.011 Integration of a Self-Organizing Block Copolymer Resist for Nanometer-Scale Semiconductor Processing
C. T. Black, K. W. Guarini, K. R. Milkove (IBM Research), S. M. Baker, T. P. Russell, M. T. Tuominen (UMass Amherst)
16:42 S18.012 Sensitivity of electron-hole integrals to choice of atomic orbitals in tight-binding models for nanocrystals.
Lars Jönsson, Seungwon Lee, John W. Wilkins (Ohio State University), Garnett W. Bryant (NIST), Gerhard Klimeck (JPL, California Institute of Technology)
16:54 S18.013 Single-soliton Avalanches in 2D Single-electron Arrays
Viktor A. Sverdlov, Daniel M. Kaplan, Alexander N. Korotkov, Konstantin K. Likharev (SUNY at Stony Brook)
17:06 S18.014 Electrochromic Nanocrystal Quantum Dots
Congjun Wang, Moonsub Shim, Philippe Guyot-Sionnest (James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago)
17:18 S18.015 Interaction of the Bragg gap with polaritonic gap in opal photonic crystals
Eradat Nayer, Andrey Yu Sivachenko, Sergey Li, Mikhail E. Raikh, Z. Valy Vardeny (Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA)
   

Session S19. DMP/DBP: Biological/Biometric Materials.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 310, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S19.001 Biological Applications of Semiconductor and Metal Nanocrystals
Richard Haglund (Vanderbilt)
15:06 S19.002 Control over Crystal Properties by Organic Assemblies: in Vivo and in Vitro
Joanna Aizenberg (Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies)
15:42 S19.003 ULTRABRIGHT SI BIO-NANOCONJUGATES FOR ULTRASENSITIVE DETECTION
Elena Rogozhina, Gennadiy Belomoin, Adam Smith, Laila Abuhassan, Osman Akcakir, Paul Braun, Munir Nayfeh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
15:54 S19.004 SYNTHYSIS OF ULTRASMALL ULTRABRIGHT PHOTOSTABLE YELLOW LUMINESCENT SI NANOPARTICLES
Gennadiy Belomoin, Nick Barry, Adam Smith, Osman Akcakir, Laila Abuhassan, Enrico Gratton, Munir Nayfeh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
16:06 S19.005 A New Photochemical Method for the Template Removal in Substrate-Supported,
Atul N. Parikh, Theotis Clark, Julia D. Ruiz, Basil I. Swanson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Hongyou Fan, Jeffrey Brinker (Sandia/University of New Mexico)
16:18 S19.006 Bio-Derived tubules for microwave applications
Paul Schoen, Daniel Zabetakis, Ronald Price, Bor-Sen Chiou, Joel Schnur (Naval Research Lab)
16:30 S19.007 Morphology and Kinematics of Langmuir-Blodgett Monolayers
Matthew R. Mazloff, Jie Yang (Physics Department, University of Vermont, Cook Building, Burlington, VT 05405)
16:42 S19.008 Formation and properties of a supported lipid monolayer
John Woodward (Biotechnology Division, National Institute of Standards & Technology)
16:54 S19.009 Charge Transport of Self-assembled DNA Networks measured by Atomic Force Microscope
Hea- yeon Lee, Hidekazu Tanaka, Tomoji Kawai (ISIR-Sanken, Osaka Univ., 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan)
17:06 S19.010 Reducing Effects Of Data Truncation On The Inversion Of Specular Neutron Reflectivity from Thin Films.
N.F. Berk, C.F. Majkrzak (NIST), T. Aktosun (NDSU)
17:18 S19.011 Theoretical Study on the Electronic and Molecular Structures of Novel Peptide Nanotubes
Hajime Okamoto, Tsutomu Nakanishi, Maki Kasahara, Kyozaburo Takeda (Waseda Univ., JAPAN)
   

Session S20. DMP: Nanotubes VII: Spectroscopy and Optical Properties.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 401, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S20.001 Polarized optical spectroscopy of aligned single wall carbon nanotubes
Andrew Rinzler (University of Florida, Dept. of Physics)
15:06 S20.002 Collective electronic excitations in magnetically aligned single wall carbon nanotubes studied by Raman spectroscopy
G. Blumberg, A. Gozar, B.S. Dennis, A.A. Sirenko (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ), P.C. Eklund (Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA), D.A. Walters, M.J. Casavant, J. Schmidt, R.E. Smalley (Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, TX)
15:18 S20.003 Near-IR, Raman and Photoluminescence Study of Purified and Soluble Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
M.E. Itkis, S. Niyogi, M. Meng, B. Hu, H. Hu, M.A. Hamon, P. Bhowmik, D. Jensen, R.C. Haddon (Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA)
15:30 S20.004 Resonance Raman Scattering Study of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes under Electrochemical Doping
C. An, S.J. Bauman, Z.V. Vardeny (Univ. of Utah), Z. Iqbal, G. Spinks, R.H. Baughman, A. Zakhidov (Honeywell Int.)
15:42 S20.005 Optical Limiting Properties of Suspended and Solubilized Carbon Nanotubes
Ya-Ping Sun (Clemson University)
16:18 S20.006 Optical Limiting Properties of Carbon Nanotubes: are they just fancy carbon black?
J. Xu, R. Czerw, D.L. Carroll (the Laboratory for Nanotechnology, dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson SC, 29634)
16:30 S20.007 Luminance enhancement from nano dispersed conjugated polymer in organic light emitting diodes
Richard Czerw, Hyung-Suk Woo, David L. Carroll (The Laboratory for Nanotechnology, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, SC 29634)
16:42 S20.008 Anisotropy of the optical conductivity and infrared-active optical phonons in magnetically aligned single wall carbon nanotubes
A.A. Sirenko, P.C. Eklund (Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA), C. Bernhard, Todd Holden (Max-Planck-Institut fuer FKF, Stuttgart, Germany), C. Homes, N. Marinkovic (BNL-NSLS, Upton, NY), D.A. Walters, M.J. Casavant, J. Schmidt, R.E. Smalley (Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, TX)
16:54 S20.009 Optical properties of individual nanotubes
Mathieu Kociak, Odile Stephan (LPS, UPS, F-91405 Orsay), Luc Henrard (LPS, FUNDP, B-5000 Namur), Kasutomo Suenaga (JST, MU, J-468-8502 Nagoya), Christian Colliex (LPS, UPS, F-91405 Orsay)
17:06 S20.010 Photoluminescence of aligned monosized carbon nanotubes in zeolite crystals
Xudong Xiao, Jiandong Guo, Ming Bai, Chunlei Yang, Z. K. Tang, W. K. Ge (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong), E. G. Wang (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China)
17:18 S20.011 Polarized Absorption Spectra of 0.4nm-Sized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Aligned in Channels of AlPO4-5 Single Crystal
Z. M. Li, Z. K. Tang, G. D. Li, Irene L. Li, H. J. Liu, C. T. Chan (Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science amp; Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong)
   

Session S21. DBP: Lipids and Membranes.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 604, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S21.001 Using an Optical Stretcher to Micromanipulate Cells
Jochen Guck (Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Texas, Austin), Revathi Ananthakrishnan (CNLD, University of Texas, Austin), Tessie J. Moon (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin), C. Casey Cunningham (Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas), Josef Kas (CNLD, University of Texas, Austin)
14:42 S21.002 Effect of unsaturations on the physical properties of a model membrane with the highly polyunsaturated docosahexaenoic fatty acid
Leonor Saiz, Michael L. Klein (Center for Molecular Modeling and Chemistry Department, University of Pennsylvania)
14:54 S21.003 Theory of tunable pH sensitive vesicles of anionic and cationic lipids or anionic and neutral lipids
Xiao-jun Li, Michael Schick (Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1560)
15:06 S21.004 Electroporation of adherent cells on a conductive substrate.
Ivar Giaever (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180), Joachim Wegener (Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet,48149 Muenster, Germany), Charles R. Keese (Applied BioPhysics, Inc, Trpy, Ny 12180)
15:18 S21.005 Single-molecule tracking in biomembranes using a near-field scanning optical microscope
Ricardo S. Decca (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46202)
15:30 S21.006 Synaptic Pattern Formation During Cellular Recognition
Jay T. Groves (Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley), S.Y. Qi, Arup Chakraborty (Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley)
15:42 S21.007 A Lattice Model for the Kinetics of Membrane Rupture
Luc Fournier, Bela Joos (University of Ottawa)
15:54 S21.008 Polymer lipids stabilize the ripple phase in lipid bilayers
Beth Cunningham, Justin Likar (Bucknell University), David Wolfe (Lycoming College), W. Patrick Williams (King's College London)
16:06 S21.009 Integration of isolated cell membrane patches in nanomachined apertures for single ion channel recording
Fertig Niels, Jan Behrends (Center for NanoScience, University of Munich, Germany), Robert Blick (Center for NanoScience, University of Munich, Germany.)
16:18 S21.010 SP-B_1-25 Induced Phase Coexistence in Palmitic Acid Monolayers
Bret Flanders, Sarah Vickery, Robert Dunn (University of Kansas), Dunn Research Team
16:30 S21.011 FREE ENERGY OF MEMBRANE DEFECT FORMATION DERIVED FROM MECHANICALLY MEASURED RATES OF LIPID TRANSPORT
Robert M. Raphael (Johns Hopkins University)
   

Session S22. DMP/GMAG: Magnetic Nanostructures VIII: Magnetic Media/Sensors.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 605-610, Washington State Convention Center

14:30 S22.001 Thermally stable magnetic media based on antiferromagnetically coupled layers
Eric E. Fullerton (IBM Almaden Research Center)
15:06 S22.002 Micromagnetic theory of antiferromagnetically coupled magnetic recording media
Manfred Schabes (IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120)
15:18 S22.003 Magnetic and chemical grain size distributions of recording media via resonant X-ray scattering
O. Hellwig, D. T. Margulies, Y. Ikeda, Y. Sonobe, Eric E. Fullerton (IBM Almaden Research Center), J. B. Kortright (Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
15:30 S22.004 Sm-Co nanoparticles for future magnetic recording media
P. Farber, V. Skumryev, H. Okumura, G.C. Hadjipanayis (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716)
15:42 S22.005 FePt/BN granular films with texture
M. Daniil, P. Farber, H. Okumura, G.C. Hadjipanayis (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716)
15:54 S22.006 Textured FePt Nanoparticles for Perpendicular Magnetic Recording
Y. Huang, H. Okumura, G.C. Hadjipanayis (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716), Dieter Weller (Seagate Technology, Pittsburgh, PA 15203)
16:06 S22.007 An Integrated Magnetoresistive Read Head and an Inductive Write Head For Hard Disk Recording
Animesh Chakraborty (Columbus State Community College), Keith Mountfield (ECE department, Carnegie Mellon University), Samsung Project Collaboration
16:18 S22.008 Improving the hot-electron transfer ratio of the spin-valve transistor
O.M.J. van 't Erve, R. Jansen, R. Vlutters, S.D. Kim, P.S. Anil Kumar, J.C. Lodder (Information Storage Technology Group, MESA+, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, NL)
   

Session S23. DBP: Nonlinear Phenomena and Pattern Formation.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 606, Washington State Convention Center