Program overview

SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 21 APRIL 2001

14:15 H1.001 Application of Fiber Optical Probes to Spectroscopy

Zasim Mozumder, Perry Yaney (University of Dayton)

14:27 H1.002 Time-Resolved Photoluminescence of InAs/GaInSb Quantum Well Lasers

Michael R. McKay, M. A. Marciniak, R. L. Hengehold (Air Force Institute of Technology), G. W. Turner (Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

14:39 H1.003 Electron transmission through one-dimensional model of Fibonacci sequence

Gregory T. Ryshen (Kent State University), Ronald M. Cosby, Yong S. Joe (Ball State University)

14:51 H1.004 The Final State of a Two-Ion Penning Trap

Michael Crescimanno (Youngstown State University)

15:03 H1.005 Tunneling spectroscopy of silane monolayers adsorbed on amorphous silicon-, and germanium-oxide films

Robert Mallik, Dennis Ferrall (The University of Akron)

15:15 H1.006 Nanoelectronics design and the correspondence principle

Ronald M. Cosby, Kevin Tajkowski, Taran V. Harman, Yong S. Joe (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, Ball State University)

14:15 H2.001 A Theoretical Model for Prewetting Transitions in Cylindrically Confined Nematic Liquid Crystals

D. W. Allender (Department of Physics, Kent State University)

14:27 H2.002 Critical Behavior at the Nematic-Smectic A Transition in Strong Field*

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

14:39 H2.003 Hidden photoalignment of liquid crystals in the isotropic phase

Elena Ouskova, Denis Fedorenko, Yuriy Reznikov (Institute of Physics, Prospect Nauki 46, Kyiv, 03039, Ukraine), Sergij V. Shiyanovskii, Linli Su, John L. West (Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA), Olga V. Kuksenok (Institute for Nuclear Research, Prospect Nauki 47, Kyiv, 03039, Ukraine), Oriano Francescangeli, Francesco Simoni (Dipartimento di Scienze dei Materiali e della Terra and Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Universita' di Ancona, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy)

14:51 H2.004 Dynamic Light Scattering Studies of Twist Grain Boundary Liquid Crystals

Anthony Adorjan, S. Stojadinovic, L. Sukhomlinova, R. Twieg, S. Sprunt (Kent State University)

15:03 H2.005 Low Concentration Aerosil Dispersions in 8CB: a DNMR Study

Tao Jin, Dan Finotello (Department of Physics, Kent State University)