Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 25 OCTOBER 2003

08:30 S1.001 Theoretical Study of Complex Band Structure of Peptide NanoTubes

Eric Dykeman, Otto Sankey (Department Of Physics and Astronomy ASU), James Lewis (Department Of Physics and Astronomy BYU)

08:42 S1.002 Mid to far infrared absorption of electrochemically doped single wall carbon nanotubes

W. Joshua Kennedy, Z. Valy Vardeny (University of Utah), Ray Baughman, Alan Dalton, Dong-Seok Suh (Nanotech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas)

08:54 S1.003 Analysis of the C60 Single Molecule Transistor

David Dunlap, Anita Parmar, Christina Haegemann (University of New Mexico), Dario Martinez (University of Texas, Austin), Gary White (American Institute of Physics)

09:06 S1.004 Measurement of the mechanical adhesion between a single-walled carbon nanotube and a silicon dioxide substrate

Jed Whittaker (Brigham Young University), Ethan Minot, Paul McEuen (Cornell University), Robert Davis (Brigham Young University)

09:18 S1.005 Theory of electronic transport through photoswitching molecules

Jun Li (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University), Gil Speyer (Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University), Otto Sankey (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University)

09:30 S1.006 Stability of Metal Nanowires at Finite Voltage

Chang-hua Zhang, Charles Stafford (Department of Physics, University of Arizona, 1118 E. 4th Street, Tucson, AZ 85721), Jerome Bürki (Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany), Nanophysics Research Group Team

09:42 S1.007 Theoretical investigations of a strained metal-molecule-metal system

Gil Speyer, David K. Ferry (Department of Electrical Engineering), Otto F. Sankey (Department of Physics and Astronomy), Arizona State University Collaboration

08:30 S2.001 Temperature Dependence of the Growth of Epitaxial Palladium Silicide Nanowires on Si(111)

Linda Lindsley (Arizona State University, Science and Engineering of Materials Program), Peter Bennett (Arizona State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy)

08:42 S2.002 Nanoscale Chemomechanical Surface Patterning Using an Atomic Force Microscope

Melinda Tonks, Katherine Barnett, Matthew Linford, Brent Wacaser, Robert Davis (Brigham Young University)

08:54 S2.003 Etching Behavior of Epitaxial Silicide Nanostructures

Sheng-de Liang, Peter Bennett (Arizona State University)

09:06 S2.004 Ultra Shallow Layer Formation Using Recoil Implantation: A Comparison of Experimental Results with Computer Simulations

Kurt E. Daley, Robert J. Culbertson (Arizona State University)

09:18 S2.005 A New Ordered Si/SiO2 phase: Infrared Spectroscopy Analysis and Modeling

J. Bradley (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona St. University, Tempe, Az 85287), N. Herbots, J. Shaw (Physics and Astronomy, Arizona St. University, Tempe, Az 85287), V. Atluri (Intel Corporation, Chandler, Az), K. T. Queeney (Department of Chemistry, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063), Y. J. Chabal (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854)

09:30 S2.006 Low temperature deposition of Si1-xMnx on Si(100) surface

Yangting Zhang, Jeff Drucker, Qian Jiang (Affiliation), David Smith (Department of Physics & Astronomy, Arizona State University)

09:42 S2.007 TEM Study of Dysprosium Silicide Nanowires and Islands on Si(001)

Zhian He (Science and engineering of materials program, Arizona State University), peter Bennett (physics and astronomy, arizona state university), David Smith Collaboration

09:54 S2.008 Removing Surface Contaminates from Silicon Wafers to Facilitate EUV Optical Characterization

Jedediah Johnson, Ross Robinson, David Allred, Richard Sandberg, Steven Turley, Kristi Adamson, Aaron Jackson (Brigham Young University)

08:30 S3.001 Pressure and magnetic field effects in UNi1/3Ru2/3Al

A.M Alsmadi, S. El-Khatib, H. Nakotte (Physics Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003), A.H Lacerda (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Pulse Field Facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), M.H Jung (National Research Laboratory for Material Science, Korea Basic Science Institute, 52 Yeoeun-Dong Yusung-Go, Daejeon, 305-333 South Korea), F. Honda, A.V. Andreev, V. Sechovsky (Joint Laboratory for Magnetic Studies, Department of Electronic Structures, Charles University, 12116 Prague 2, The Czech Republic)

08:42 S3.002 Specific Heat-Phonon Spectrum Inversion by Odd Hermite Expansion

Thomas C. Butler, William E. Evenson (Department of Physics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602), Xian Xi Dai (Department of Physics, Fudan University, 200433 Shanghai, P.R. China)

08:54 S3.003 PROPERTIES OF THICK InGaN EPITAXIAL LAYERS

L. Geng, R. Liu, S. Srinivasan, B. Jiang, H. Omiya, F.A. Ponce (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1504.), S. Tanaka, Y. Nakagawa (Nichia Corporation, Anan, Tokushima 774-8601, Japan.)

09:06 S3.004 Determining Chemical Composition through X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Kristi Adamson (Brigham Young University), BYU Thin Films Group Team

09:18 S3.005 GaN on ZrB2 substrates using LT-AlGaN as a nucleation layer

J. Mei, R. Liu, F. A. Ponce (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA), H. Amano, I. Akasaki (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan)

09:30 S3.006 Chemo-Mechanical Surface Patterning of Germanium Surface Using an Atomic Force Microscope

Sarah A. Stokes, Katherine Barnett, Melinda Tonks, Yit-Yian Lua, Matthew R. Linford, Robert C. Davis (Brigham Young University)

11:00 S4.001 Localization and field effects in InGaN quantum wells

Abigail Bell, Fernando Ponce (Arizona State University), Juergen Christen, Frank Bertram (Institute of Experimental Physics, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany), H Marui, S Tanaka (Nichia Corporation, 491 Oka, Kaminaka, Anan, Tokushima 774-8601, Japan.)

11:12 S4.002 Electron beam induced chemical vapor deposition of nanoscale Au and Ge features using an environmental transmission electron microscope

Sutharsan Ketharanathan, Jeff Drucker (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287), Renu Sharma, Peter Crozier (Center for Solid State Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287)

11:24 S4.003 Profiling the electrostatic potential in InGaN quantum wells as a function of well width

Michael Stevens (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Arizona State University), Fernando Ponce (Dept of Physics and Astronomy Arizona State University), Molly McCartney (Center for Solid State Science Arizona State University), H Marui (Affiliation), S Tanaka (Nichia Corporation, Tokushima-ken 774-8601, Japan)

11:36 S4.004 Path Integral Monte Carlo for Self-Assembled InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Dots

Matthew Harowitz, John Shumway (Arizona State University)

11:48 S4.005 Control of Ge dome cluster growth by varying deposition rate

Emily McDaniel, Jeff Drucker (Arizona State University Department of Physics and Astronomy), Peter Crozier (Arizona State University Center for Solid State Science)

11:00 S5.001 Total Energies of Atoms from Path Integral Monte Carlo Simulations

Daejin Shin, John Shumway (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287)

11:12 S5.002 Monte Carlo Simulation of Wave Damping in a Dilute Gas

Ryan Clary (Utah Valley State College), Ross Spencer (Brigham Young University)

11:24 S5.003 Low-field orientation dependence of ^3He relaxation in spin-exchange cells

J. Teter, R. E. Jacob, B. Saam (University of Utah), W. C. Chen, T. R. Gentile (NIST)

11:36 S5.004 Quantum Monte Carlo treatment of Spin Orbit Interaction

Raghu Chatanathody, John Shumway, Kevin Schmidt (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University)

11:48 S5.005 Laser Beam Energy Deposition by Ray Tracing in a Laser-Produced Plasma

Zafar Yasin (Department of Physics, UNLV , Las Vegas.)

12:00 S5.006 Semi-classical Study of Electron Blurring in the Magnetic Field of a Current Ring

Daniel James, Jean-Francois Van Huele (Brigham Young University)

11:00 S6.001 The Blame Game in the Science Preparation of Future Teachers

Fredrick Stein (American Physical Society), APS Collaboration, AAPT Collaboration, AIP Collaboration

11:12 S6.002 The Leadership Education for Advancement and Promotion (LEAP) Project

Patricia Rankin (Physics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder), LEAP Project Team

11:24 S6.003 Secret Lives of the Hidden Physicists: From Software to Spandex

Gary White (Sigma Pi Sigma and Society of Physics Students)

11:36 S6.004 Surface Acoustic Waves on Piezoelectrics: The KGBS Connection

Fred S. Hickernell (The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona)

11:48 S6.005 Search for Tibet Unidentified Sources of TeV Gamma Radiation using the Whipple 10 m Cerenkov Telescope

David Kieda, Gary Walker (University of Utah), VERITAS Collaboration

12:00 S6.006 Development of Methods for Characterization of Silicon Sensors

Dmitriy Naumov (University of New Mexico)

13:30 S7.001 The Crab Nebula: The Gift that Keeps on Giving

Jeff Hester (Arizona State University)

14:06 S7.002 Towards Resolving the Price Tail Controversy

Elspeth W. Allen, Elizabeth Buckmiller, Lior M. Burko, Richard H. Price (University of Utah)

14:18 S7.003 Signal Fluctuations of the Cerenkov Detectors in the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory

Robert Knapik (Colorado State University), Pierre Auger Collaboration

14:30 S7.004 Using Fractal Dimensionality in the Search for Source Models of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays

B.T. Stokes, C.C.H. Jui, J.N. Matthews (University of Utah, Department of Physics and High Energy Astrophysics Institute)

14:42 S7.005 TeV Gamma-Ray Spectrum of 1ES 2344+514

Martin Schroedter (U of Arizona / Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory), VERITAS Collaboration

14:54 S7.006 Characterization of Orbiting Wide-angle Light-collectors (OWL)

Rasha Abbasi (University of Utah; Department of Physics), Orbiting Wide-angle Light-collectors (OWL) Collaboration

15:06 S7.007 Mars Desert Research Station

Nicole Farnsworth, David D. Allred (Department of Physics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602)

15:18 S7.008 Simulation of Extensive Air Showers Generated by Heavy Nuclei (Z>26) Cosmic rays

Michael Snure, David Kieda (University of Utah), Utah Gammaray Group Team

13:30 S8.001 The Fifth Dimension: It's Closer Than You Think

Keith R. Dienes (University of Arizona)

14:06 S8.002 The Quest for the Higgs Boson and the Planck Black Hole Production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Nassim Haramein, E.A. Rauscher (The Resonance Project)

14:18 S8.003 Puzzles and Prospects in String Thermodynamics

Michael Lennek (University of Arizona)

14:30 S8.004 A QCD Generated Mass Spectrum

Burra Gautam Sidharth (Centre for App. Math.amp; Comp. Sc., B.M.Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad 500063)

14:42 S8.005 Effective Field Theory Approach to Nucleon Compton Scattering

William Hockings (University of Arizona)

14:54 S8.006 Patching Up the Lithium Problem - Neutrino Degeneracy to the Rescue?

Thomas Topel (Colorado State University), George Fuller (University of California, San Diego)

15:06 S8.007 Neutrino Mass Search with Single Ba+ Ion Detection

Kendy Hall, Shie-Chang Jeng, Wade Taylor, William M Fairbank (Department of Physics, Colorado State University), Mitsuhiro Miyajima (Department of Applied Physics, Fukui University, Japan)

15:18 S8.008 Finding signatures of direct cherenkov radiation in Utah7 telescope array data samples

Daniel Allen, David Kieda (University of Utah), University of Utah Gammaray Team

15:30 S8.009 Systematic Errors in Particle Lifetime Measurements

Steve Wasserbaech, Eric Brown (Utah Valley State College)

13:30 S9.001 Multiphoton EUV Photonics

Emily A Gibson, Ariel Paul, Nick Wagner, Ra'anan Tobey, Ivan P. Christov, Margaret M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn (JILA and University of Colorado)

14:06 S9.002 Optical Constants of Uranium Nitride in the XUV (80--182 eV)

Marie Urry, David D. Allred, Kristi Adamson, Luke Bissell, R. Steven Turley (Brigham Young University)

14:18 S9.003 Optical Properties of the Thin Film Chalcogenide Glasses GeTe, Sb_2Te_3, and Ge_2Sb_2Te_5.^*

J.K. Olson, J. Whitaker, M.C. DeLong, P.C. Taylor (University of Utah Department of Physics)

14:30 S9.004 Growth-direction Dependence of Optical Properties in Epitaxially Laterally Overgrown GaN

Sridhar Srinivasan, Lijian Geng, Lingyun Shi, Fernando Ponce (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University), Frank Bertram, Juergen Christen (Otto-von-Guericke University, Madgedurg, Germany), Y Narukawa, Shinji Tanaka (Nichia Corp., Japan), Arizona State University Collaboration, Otto-von-Guericke University Collaboration, Nichia Corp. Collaboration

14:42 S9.005 Study of Cu-related Defect States in Single-crystal CdTe

Caroline Corwine, James Sites (Colorado State University), Timothy Gessert, Wyatt Metzger, Pat Dippo, Anna Duda (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

14:54 S9.006 Uranium Oxide as a Highly Reflective Coating from 2.7 to 11.6 Nanometers

Richard L. Sandberg, William R. Evans, David D. Allred, R. Steven Turley (Brigham Young University), Jed E. Johnson (Brigham Young Univeristy), BYU Extreme Ultraviolet Optics Group Team

15:06 S9.007 Room Temperature Pressure-induced Photoluminescence in MnF2

Ignacio Hernandez (DCITIMAC, University of Cantabria, Fac. de Ciencias, 3005 Santander, Spain), Hans D. Hochheimer (Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523), Fernando Rodriguez (DCITIMAC, University of Cantabria, Fac. de Ciencias, 3005 Santander, Spain), High Pressure Spectroscopy Collaboration, High Pressure Group Collaboration

S10.001 Genome template model of evolutionary dynamics

Ankana Boondirek, Timothy Newman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University), Biophysics Group Collaboration

S10.002 Multiscale modeling of chemotaxis

Ramon Grima, Timothy Newman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University), Biophysics Group Collaboration

S10.003 Progress in NMR Studies of Liquid Ceramic Materials

Robert F. Marzke, Jeremy Piwowarczyk (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1504), Susan Boucher, George H. Wolf (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1604)

S10.004 Development of a Gallium Atomic Beam Source for Laser Manipulation

Tessa Peters, Zach Rouse, Siu Au Lee (Colorado State University)

S10.005 Electronic properties of UCoAl0.75Sn0.25 single crystal

SAMI EL-KHATIB (NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY), A.M. Alsmadi Collaboration, H. Nakotte Collaboration, A.H. Lacerda Collaboration, M.H. Jung Collaboration, F. Honda Collaboration, A.V. Andreev Collaboration, V. Sechovsky Team

S10.006 Evolutionary dynamics of diploid populations

Ralph DeSimone, Timothy Newman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University), Biophysics Group Collaboration

S10.007 Extinction times for birth-death processes through the adjoint approach

Christopher Quince, Timothy Newman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University), Biophysics Group Collaboration

S10.008 Doping of CdSe Nanocrystals

John Jensen (Utah Valley State College), Brett Hess Collaboration

S10.009 Collisional Effects in Spherically Symmetric Low Temperature Plasma Oscillations

Zafar Yasin, Ross Spencer, Scott Bergeson (Department of Physics, Brigham Young University, Provo.)

S10.010 High efficiency luminescent gallium nitride powders by direct synthesis from gallium metal and ammonia.

Rafael Garcia, Abigail Bell, Michael Stevens, Fernando Ponce (Arizona State University)

S10.011 Characterization of AlGaN epitaxial layer

Usha Parasuraman, Sridhar Srinivasan (Arizona State University, Tempe), Fernando Ponce, Liu Rong, Bell Abigail, Justin Mei (Arizona State University), S Tanaka (Nichia Corporation), Nichia Corporation Collaboration

S10.012 Anomalous random walks in a discrete model of chemotaxis

Suchittra Sanguansin, Ramon Grima, Timothy Newman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University), Biophysics Group Collaboration

S10.013 Selective Green or Red Emission From a New Polycrystalline Oxide Phosphor

Oscar Ozuna, Abigail Bell, Oscar Contreras, Fernando Ponce (Dept. of Physics amp; Astronomy, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA, 85287), Gustavo Hirata (Centro de Ciencias de la Mat. Cond., UNAM, Ensenada, B.C., México, CP 22800)

S10.014 V802 Aql, a W Ursae Majoris Eclipsing Binary

Carolee Blackham, Eric Hintz (Brigham Young University)

S10.015 A stochastic model of enzyme kinetics

Marianne Stefanini, Timothy Newman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University), Alan McKane (Department of Physics, University of Manchester), Biophysics Group Collaboration

S10.016 A Consideration of Torsion and Coriolis Effects in Einstein’s Field Equations

Nassim Haramein, E.A. Rauscher (The Resonance Project)

S10.017 Elevated Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Ge on Si(100)

Michael McKay, Jeff Drucker (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ)

S10.018 Astronomical Image processing in IDL

A. Reynolds (Weber State University)

S10.019 The Lorentz Aether Theory

Gerald L. O'Barr (Retired Physicist - General Dynamics)

S10.020 About the calculation of the photon power

Sergej Reissig (EFBR)

S10.021 Possible origin of inertial mass.

Alexander Panin (Utah Valley State College)

S10.022 On the relationship between Hamiltonian chaos and classical gravity

Ervin Goldfain (OptiSolve Consulting)