Program overview

TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 4 MARCH 2003

14:30 K1.001 Biopolymer Physics: Semiflexibility with a Twist

Helmut Strey (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

15:06 K1.002 Microscopic interactions and mesoscopic elasticity in flexible polyelectrolytes

Rudolf Podgornik (Laboratory of Physical and Structural Biology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health)

15:18 K1.003 Onsager Theory for a Mixture of Linkers and Charged Rods

Itamar Borukhov, Andrea J. Liu, William M. Gelbart (Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA), Robijn F. Bruinsma (Department of Physics, UCLA)

15:30 K1.004 The Effect of Length on the Phase Behavior of Colloidal Liquid Crystals

Seth Fraden (Complex Fluids Group, MS 057, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454), Kirstin Purdy, Eric Grelet

15:42 K1.005 Confinement-Mediated Pairwise Macroionic Attractions: New Results

David G. Grier (Dept. of Physics, JFI, and IBD, The University of Chicago)

15:54 K1.006 Molecular Motors Fluidize Polymer Networks

Josef A. Kas (Institute of Soft Matter Physics, University of Leipzig, Germany), David Humphrey, Cynthia Duggan, Devi Saha (Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Texas at Austin), David Smith (Institute of Soft Matter Physics, University of Leipzig, Germany)

16:06 K1.007 Polyelectrolyte Phase Behavior

Sanat Kumar, G Orkulas (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), A Panagiotopoulos (Princeton University)

16:18 K1.008 Flory-Huggins Model of Dynamic Clustering and Phase Behavior in the Stockmayer Fluid

Jack F. Douglas (Polymers Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899), Jacek Dudowicz, Karl F. Freed (James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637)

16:30 K1.009 Glassy Behavior in a Micellar Polyelectrolyte System

Surita Bhatia, Mark Crichton (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts), Ahmed Mourchid (CNRS/Rhodia Complex Fluids Laboratory)

16:42 K1.010 Particle Adhesion on Polyelectrolyte Layers and Patchy Surfaces

Maria Santore, Natalia Kozlova (Polymer Science --- UMass)

16:54 K1.011 How does Electrophoretic Mobility Reflect Polyelectrolyte Charge?

David Hoagland, Alexei Popov (U. Massachusetts Amherst)

17:06 K1.012 Geometric Approach to Self-Assembly

Randall Kamien (University of Pennsylvania)

17:18 K1.013 Twists, straights and crossovers: DNA, lipids, and dollars

Parsegian Parsegian (NICHD/NIH, Bethesda, MD)

14:30 K2.001 Reflections on Arnold Sommerfeld and the Beginnings of Modern Solid-State Theory

Hans Bethe (Cornell University)

15:06 K2.002 The Quantum Theory of Solids Enters American Graduate Programs in the 1930s: John Bardeen at Princeton and Harvard

Lillian Hoddeson (Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:42 K2.003 How We Came to Know What We Knew About Semiconductors During World War II

Frederick Seitz (The Rockefeller University)

16:18 K2.004 The Magnetic State

Philip Anderson (Princeton U)

14:30 K3.001 New MBE technique for fabricating quantum wells and wires with perfectly abrupt and smooth interfaces

Loren Pfeiffer (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07974)

15:06 K3.002 Kinetic growth and epitaxy of Ag nanowires on Si (100)

Boquan Li (Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Waclaw Swiech (Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jian-min Zuo (Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:18 K3.003 Decay of DySi2 nanowires on Si(001)

A. Sunda-Meya, Lena Fitting, M.C. Zeman, R.J. Nemanich (NC State)

15:30 K3.004 Structure and Orientation of Epitaxial Titanium Silicide Nanowires on Si(111)

Zhian He, Mike Stevens, David Smith, Peter Bennett (Arizona State University)

15:42 K3.005 A New Titanium Silicide Structure Solved using Electron Microdiffraction

Michael Stevens (Department of Physics and Astronomy , Arizona State University), Zhian He (Science and Engineering of Materials Program, Arizona State University), Peter Bennett (Department of Physics and Astronomy , Arizona State University), Bennett's Team

15:54 K3.006 Heteroepitaxial Growth of Group IV Nanopillars on Si

S. T. Picraux, J. Dailey, C. Ha, J. Drucker (Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ)

16:06 K3.007 Self-assembled Ge dots and dashes on SiGe/Si superlattices

Lena Fitting, M.E. Ware, Jennifer J. Huening, R.J. Nemanich (NC State)

16:18 K3.008 A systematic study of novel self-assembled surface structures in SiGe/Si

Thomas E. Vandervelde (Department of Physics, University of Virginia, 382 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA), Piyush Kumar, Takeshi Kobayashi (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, 351 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA), Jennifer L. Gray (Department of Materials Science, University of Virginia, 116 Engineers Way, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA), Timothy L. Pernell (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, 351 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA), Robert Hull (Department of Materials Science, University of Virginia, 116 Engineers Way, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA), John C. Bean (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, 351 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA)

16:30 K3.009 Structure of supported Ag nanoclusters on silicon surfaces, theory and experiment

Jian-Min Zuo, Yunfeng Shi, J.K. Bording, Boquan Li (Materials Sci. and Eng. and Materials Res. Lab. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

16:42 K3.010 Supported magnetic nanoclusters: Soft-landing of Pd clusters on a MgO surface

Michael Moseler (University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany), Hannu Häkkinen, Uzi Landman (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA)

16:54 K3.011 Quantum Well dimension and energy level determination in Pb/Si(111)-7x7

V. Yeh, M. Hupalo (Iowa State University, Ames Laboratory , USDOE), E.H. Conrad (Georgia Tech Atlanta, GA), M.C. Tringides (Iowa State University, Ames Laboratory , USDOE)

17:06 K3.012 Low Temperature STM Study of Quantized Electronic States in Thin In(111) Films

I. B. Altfeder (Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138), X. Lian, D. M. Chen (Rowland Institute at Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142), V. Narayanamurti (Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138)

14:30 K4.001 Topologically protected quantum computation

John Preskill (Institute for Quantum Information, California Institute of Technology)

15:06 K4.002 Quantum Dynamics of Superconductor Vortices: From the Electrons Up

Ari Mizel (Department of Physics and Materials Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University)

15:42 K4.003 A novel class of Josephson Junction arrays with topologically protected ground states and its application to quantum computing.

Lev Ioffe (Center for Materials Theory, Physics Department, Rutgers University)

16:18 K4.004 Cooper pair transport in arrays of Josephson nanojunctions with a dice lattice.

Bernard Pannetier (CNRS-CRTBT, associé à l'Université Joseph Fourier, 25 Av. des Martyrs, Grenoble, France)

16:54 K4.005 Mesoscopic superconductor as a ballistic quantum switch

Valerii Vinokur (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:30 K5.001 Big, Fast Vortices in HIgh-Tc Superconductors

Andrew Millis (Department of Physics, Columbia University)

15:06 K5.002 The Physics of Liquid Crystalline Phases in High Tc Superconductors

Eduardo Fradkin (Department of Physics, University of Illinois)

15:42 K5.003 Spin and charge order in superconducting cuprates

Matthias Vojta (Institut fuer Theorie der Kondensierten Materie, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany)

16:18 K5.004 QED3 Theory of Underdoped Cuprates

Zlatko Tesanovic (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA)

16:54 K5.005 The Potemkin Gap

R.B. Laughlin (Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305)

14:30 K6.001 Judd-Ofelt analysis of the absorption intensities in Er3+ -doped garnets

Dhiraj Sardar (University of Texas at San Antonio)

15:06 K6.002 Resistance of multilayers with long length scale interfacial roughness

Jason Alicea (University of California at Santa Barbara)

15:42 K6.003 Precise Measurement of the Stark Shift in the Thallium 6P_1/2-7S_1/2 378 nm Transition

S. Charles Doret (Harvard University)

16:18 K6.004 Buckley Prize Talk

Boris Altshuler (NEC Research Institute)

16:54 K6.005 Structure, Dynamics, and Growth of Semiconductor Surfaces

Rudolf M. Tromp (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, PO Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598)

14:30 K7.001 Recent Development in Magnetocaloric Materials

Karl Gschneidner (Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa)

15:06 K7.002 Room Temperature Magnetic Refrigerator Using Permanent Magnets

Hirano Naoki (Chubu electric Power Co., Inc.)

15:42 K7.003 Development of a magnetic refrigeration prototype for operation at ambient temperatures

C. Zimm (Astronautics Corporation)

16:18 K7.004 Room temperature magnetic refrigeration using a 1.4 Tesla permanent magnet field source

W. Wu (Sichuan Institute of Technology)

16:54 K7.005

14:30 K8.001 Localization of Soft Defects in Integrated Circuits using Laser Scanning Microscopy

Michael R. Bruce, Victoria J. Bruce, David H. Eppes, Jacob Wilcox (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.), Edward I. Cole Jr., Paiboon Tangyunyong (Sandia National Laboratories), Charles F. Hawkins (University of New Mexico)

14:42 K8.002 Micro-probing on Integrated Circuits Using an AFM based Technique

Rama Goruganthu, Shawn McBride, Mike Santana Jr., Mehrdad Mahanpour (Advanced Micro Devices. Inc.)

14:54 K8.003 Second Harmonic Generation Probing of Band Bending, Dopant Type and Density at Buried Semiconductor Interfaces

Julie Fiore, Vasiliy Fomenko, Eric Borguet (University of Pittsburgh)

15:06 K8.004 Scanning Probe Microscopes for the Electrical Characterization of Semiconductors

Joseph Kopanski (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

15:42 K8.005 High Spatial Resolution Automatic Resistivity Mapping of Semiconductors

M. W. Matarazzo (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering), J. J. Kopanski (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Semiconductor Electronics Division)

15:54 K8.006 Method for Enhanced Endpoint Detection of Low Open Area Etches

Kenneth Harvey, Jimmy Hosch (Verity Instruments, Inc.)

16:06 K8.007 Improved detection of high-energy photons from reactions used to quantify semiconductor impurities

Arthur K. Pallone (United States Military Academy), J. Derek Demaree (Army Research Laboratory)

16:18 K8.008 Microwave Characterization of Low-k Dielectric Thin Films using a Coplanar Waveguide

Kevin P. Radican, Deborah C. Koeck, Wilhelmus Geerts, Gregory Spencer, David Donnelly, Heather C. Galloway (Department of Physics, Southwest Texas State University)

16:30 K8.009 The Effect of Film-Thickness Nonuniformity on In-Situ Wafer-Curvature Measurements of Thin-Film Stress

Stephen Lee, William Breiland, Dan Koleske (Sandia National Laboratories)

16:42 K8.010 Real-time measurements of critical dimensions by scatterometry: can optics replace the CD/SEM

Jon Opsal (Therma-Wave, Inc.)

14:30 K9.001 The Electrostatic Interaction in Biomolecular Simulations: Beyond the Born Approximation

T. P. Doerr (National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20894), Yi-Kuo Yu (Physics Department, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431 and National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20894)

14:42 K9.002 SPHERICAL AND PERIODIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS IN IONIC CHARGING FREE ENERGIES IN A POLARIZABLE SOLVENT

David Henry Herce, Celeste Sagui (Department of Physics, North Carolina State University), Thomas Darden (NIEHS)

14:54 K9.003 Effect of Mono- and Multivalent Salts on the Interaction Between Two Charged Rods

Kun-Chun Lee, Andrea Liu, William Gelbart, Itamar Borukhov (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles), Mark Stevens (Sandia National Laboratories)

15:06 K9.004 Multiscale methods for electrostatics and electronic structure

Thomas Beck (Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati)

15:42 K9.005 Spontaneous Natural Fibrillogenesis on Charged Surfaces

N. Pernodet (Materials Science, SUNY Stony Brook. Stony Brook, NY 11794), M. Simper, R Frenkel, L Collazo (SKA High School, Hewlett, NY), S. Ge, M. Rafailovich (Materials Science, SUNY Stony Brook. Stony Brook, NY 11794)

15:54 K9.006 Local dielectric constant around the electron primary acceptor in photosystem I: a probe for protein matrix relaxation

Sergei Savikhin, Naranbaatar Dashdorj (Purdue University), Wu Xu, Peter Martinsson, Parag Chitnis (Iowa State University)

16:06 K9.007 Ab initio investigations of solvated formic and acetic acids

Jung Goo Lee, Celeste Sagui, Christopher Roland (Department of Physics, NC State University, Raleigh NC), Thomas Darden (National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences (NIEHS), Research Triangle Park (RTP), NC)

16:18 K9.008 Macromolecular simulations with New Generalized Born Methods

Freddie Salsbury (Wake Forest University)

16:30 K9.009 Systematic Error in Computation of Free Energy Changes

Daniel Zuckerman (University of Pittsburgh), Thomas Woolf (Johns Hopkins University)

16:42 K9.010 Asymmetric scoring functions for proteins

Timothy Lezon, Neal Holter (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University), Amos Maritan (International School for Advancd Studies (SISSA)), Jayanth Banavar (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University)

16:54 K9.011 An inverse Monte Carlo procedure to determine structure of biomolecules in solution

Mark Bathe, Gregory Rutledge (MIT)

17:06 K9.012 Quantum-Monte-Carlo study of hydrogen bonded molecules

M. Fuchs, A. Badinski, J. Ireta, P. Kratzer, M. Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Berlin), C. Filippi (Instituut Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Univ. Leiden)

17:18 K9.013 ``Water-free'' computer model for fluid bilayer membranes

Oded Farago, Philip Pincus (Materials Research Laboratory, UC Santa Barbara)

K9.014 A residue level protein-protein interaction model in aqueous solutions

Xueyu Song (Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011)

14:30 K10.001 Actin Polymerization

Tom Pollard (Yale University)

15:06 K10.002 Stress Distribution, Friction and Listeria Propulsion

Jacques Prost (Institute Curie)

15:42 K10.003 Complex behavior of simple ions near biological polyelectrolytes

Gerard C. L. Wong (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

16:18 K10.004 Linker-Assisted Biopolymer Aggregation

Itamar Borukhov (Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA)

16:54 K10.005 Stretching Cells with Light

Jochen Guck (Universität Leipzig)

14:30 K11.001 Electron-nuclear corellations for photoinduced dynamics in molecular dimers

Dmitri S. Kilin, Yuryi V. Pereversev, Oleg V. Prezhdo (University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195)

14:42 K11.002 Time-resolved spectroscopy and microscopic characterization of individual molecular aggregates

Sang-Hyun Lim, Thomas G. Bjorklund, Christopher Bardeen (Department of Chemistry, U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

14:54 K11.003 ULTRAFAST ENERGY AND CHARGE TRANSPORT IN PHOTOFUNCTIONAL SELF-ASSEMBLED PERYLENEDIIMIDE-BASED NANOSTRUCTURES

Michael Wasielewski (Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3113)

15:30 K11.004 TBD

Charles V. Shank (University of California-Berkeley)

16:06 K11.005 Femtosecond Vibrational Dynamics in Molecular Electron Transfer

Kenneth G. Spears, Timothy W. Marin, Gerald M. Sando (Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208)

16:18 K11.006 Dynamics and Structural Rearrangements in Photogenerated MLCT States of [Cu^I(dmp)_2]^+ Studied by Laser Pump/X-ray Probe XAS and Optical Transient Absorption

George B Shaw, Lin X Chen (Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory), Gerald J Meyer (Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University)

16:30 K11.007 Vibrational Cooling Dynamics in Coordination Compounds

James McCusker, Eric Juban, Amanda Smeigh (Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University)

16:42 K11.008 Interligand Electron Transfer in Polypyridyl Os(II) Compounds

John Papanikolas, George Shaw, David Styers-Barnett, Jeremy Granger (Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599)

16:54 K11.009 Ultrafast Energy Transfer Dynamics Between a Polypyridyl Ru(II) Chromophore and a Covalently Attached Acceptor

David Styers-Barnett, Erika Gannon, John Papanikolas (Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599), Thomas Meyer (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM 87545)

17:06 K11.010 Simulations of the cis-trans photoisomerization of butadiene

Roland Allen, Yusheng Dou (Texas Aamp;M University), Ben Torralva (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

17:18 K11.011 Simulations of the photochemistry of cis-stilbene

Yusheng Dou, Roland Allen (Texas Aamp;M University)

14:30 K12.001 Structure of the Aqueous Solvated Electron from Resonance Raman Spectroscopy

Michael Tauber, Richard Mathies (UC Berkeley, Dept. of Chemistry)

14:42 K12.002 A Modified Random Phase Approximation of Polyelectrolyte Solutions

Aleksander Ermoshkin, Monica Olvera de la Cruz (Northwestern University)

14:54 K12.003 Character and Structure of Hydrogen Bonding in Liquid Water

Jinghua Guo (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Yi Luo (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden), Andreas Augustsson, Jan-Erik Rubensson, Conny Sathe (Uppsala University, Sweden), Hans Agren (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden), Hans Siegbahn, Joseph Nordgren (Uppsala University, Sweden)

15:06 K12.004 Neutron scattering experiments on the dynamics of water in zeolites

William A. Kamitakahara (NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8562), Noboru Wada (Toyo University, Saitama, 350-8585 Japan)

15:18 K12.005 Water between plates at high electric fields in an open system

S. Vaitheeswaran (Department of Physics, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469), J.C. Rasaiah (Department of Chemistry, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469)

15:30 K12.006 THF Reorientations in THF/D_2O Clathrate

K. W. Herwig, C. A. Tulk (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN)

15:42 K12.007 Simulation study of water and sugar dynamics in supercooled mixtures

Valeria Molinero (MSC - California Institute of Technology (Caltech)), Tahir Cagin, William A. Goddard (MSC - Caltech)

15:54 K12.008 Langevin equation method for the rotational Brownian motion and orientational relaxation in liquids

William Coffey (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland), Yuri Kalmykov (Centre d’Etudes Fondamentales, Université de Perpignan, France), Sergey Titov (Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation)

16:06 K12.009 Thermodynamics of Anisotropic Lattice Ionic Fluids

Vladimir Kobelev, Anatoly B. Kolomeisky (Dept. of Chemistry, Rice Univesity, Houston TX 77005)

16:18 K12.010 Dynamics of Capillary Drying in Water

Kevin Leung (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque), Alenka Luzar (Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143), Dusan Bratko (College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720)

16:30 K12.011 Phase Changes and Hydrogen Desorption in Sodium Alanate

Gregory P. Meisner, Michael P. Balogh, Gary G. Tibbetts, Frederick E. Pinkerton, Charles H. Olk (General Motors Research and Development Center, Warren, MI 48090)

16:42 K12.012 Quantum Monte Carlo study of photoactive molecules

Friedemann Schautz, Claudia Filippi, Francesco Buda (Leiden University, The Netherlands)

16:54 K12.013 Equation of state for adhesive hard sphere fluids

Domenico Gazzillo (Dipartimento di Chimica Fisica, Universita' di Venezia, DD 2137, I-30123 Venezia, Italy), Achille Giacometti (Dipartimento di Chimica Fisica, Universita' di Venezia, DD 2137, I-30123 venezia, Italy)

17:06 K12.014 Measurement of critical adsorption of nitrogen near the liquid-vapor critical point

R. Garcia, S. Scheidemantel (Phys. Dept., Penn State University, Univ. Park, PA 16802), K. Knorr (Universit\”at des Saarlandes, Saarbr\”ucken, Germany), M. H. W. Chan (Phys. Dept., Penn State University, Univ. Park, PA 16802)

17:18 K12.015 Solubility of Small Molecules in High Pressure Carbon Dioxide using Molecular Simulation

Kenneth M. Lee (The University of Texas at Austin), Isaac Sanchez

14:30 K13.001 Translation of magnetic particles in a dense colloidal suspension

Shanshan Wu, Piotr Habdas, David Schaar (Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322), Andrew Levitt (Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Eric R. Weeks (Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322)

14:42 K13.002 Electrokinetic phenomena and dielectrophoresis in charged colloidal suspensions

J. P. Huang (Biophysics and Statistical Mechanics Group, Laboratory of Computational Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, and Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Mikko Karttunen (Biophysics and Statistical Mechanics Group, Laboratory of Computational Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland), K. W. Yu, L. Dong (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

14:54 K13.003 Electrokinetic Characterization of PMMA Spheres Suspended in Organic Solvents

Andrew D. Hollingsworth, William B. Russel (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University), Paul M. Chaikin (Dept. of Physics, Princeton University), Anand Yethiraj (Dept. of Chemistry, University of British Columbia), Alfons van Blaaderen (Dept. of Physics, Utrecht University)

15:06 K13.004 An Electric Bottle for Colloids

M.T. Sullivan, K. Zhao, A. D. Hollingsworth, W.B. Russel, P.M. Chaikin, R.H. Austin (Princeton University)

15:18 K13.005 Computer Simulation of Electrorheological Suspensions in Rotating Fields

Andrew Chiu-tai Wong, Kin-wah Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

15:30 K13.006 An Analytical Model to Describe the Effects of the External Field Ramping Rate on Aggregate Formation in Ferrofluids

F. Marty Ytreberg (Whitman College), Susan R. McKay (University of Maine)

15:42 K13.007 Grain Boundaries of single Disclinations: A detailed study.

Alex Travesset (Iowa Staten and Ames National lab)

15:54 K13.008 Confinement-Induced Colloidal Attractions in Equilibrium

Yilong Han, David G. Grier (Dept. of Physics, JFI, and IBD, University of Chicago)

16:06 K13.009 Comparison of colloidal crystal defects with atomic crystal defects

Peter Schall, Itai Cohen, David Weitz, Frans Spaepen (Harvard)

16:18 K13.010 Sintering of grains in a saturated solution

Thomas C Halsey, Benny Davidovitch, Deniz Ertas (Corporate Strategic Research, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, Annandale NJ 08801)

16:30 K13.011 Fuzzy Colloids and Elasticity

William Kung (University of Pennsylvania), Primoz Ziherl (J. Stefan Institute), Randall D. Kamien (University of Pennsylvania)

16:42 K13.012 2D colloidal assembly on a random substrate

Alexandros Pertsinidis (Stanford University), Sean Ling (Brown University)

16:54 K13.013 Template-directed convective assembly of three-dimensional face-centered-cubic colloidal crystals

Fan Zhang (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania), Wen-Jung Pao, V.S.K Balagurusamy, Paul A. Heiney, Jian Zhang, Ahmed Alsayed, Keng-Hui Lin, Subrata Sanyal, Arjun G. Yodh, Paul A Heiney's group Collaboration, Arjun G. Yodh's group Collaboration

17:06 K13.014 Computer simulations of structural transitions in large ferrofluid aggregates

Mina Yoon, David Tomanek (Michigan State University)

14:30 K14.001 Detecting Single Biomolecules With Solid State Nanopores

Gregor Schurmann (Harvard University)

15:06 K14.002 MicroChemLab, A Novel Approach for Handheld Chemical Sensing

Patrick Lewis (Sandia National Labs)

15:42 K14.003 Microelectromagnets for the manipulation of biological systems

H. Lee (Affiliation), R.M. Westervelt (Department of Physics and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University)

15:54 K14.004 Single bead separation using surface modification

Yael Hanein (Department of physics, University of Washington), Ryan Lipscomb, Karl F. Bohringer (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington), Buddy D. Ratner (Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington), Denice D. Denton (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington)

16:06 K14.005 Friction Measurments of Organic and Inorganic Coated MEMS

Alex Corwin (Sandia National Laboratories), William Ashurst, David Luck, Thomas Mayer, Maarten De Boer, Sandia National Labs Collaboration

16:18 K14.006 A chip-based Teflon^R AF coated liquid core waveguide on Si: microfabrication and analytical study

Arindom Datta (Nanotech Center, Texas Tech University (TTU), Lubbock, Texas 79409), In-Yong Eom, Petr Kuban, Purnendu K. Dasgupta (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, TTU), Henryk Temkin, Shubhra Gangopadhyay (Nanotech Center, TTU)

16:30 K14.007 Stress Analysis of SiC MEMS Using Raman Spectroscopy

Stanley J. Ness, M.A. Marciniak, J.A. Lott (Air Force Institute of Technology), L.A. Starman, J.D. Busbee (Air Force Research Laboratory), J.M. Melzak (FiberLead, Inc.)

16:42 K14.008 INTEGRATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIVE HYDROGELS WITH SILICON MICROCANTILEVERS FOR BIOSENSOR APPLICATIONS

J. Zachary Hilt, Nicholas A. Peppas (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, TX), Rashid Bashir (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN)

16:54 K14.009 Hall effect magnetic field detectors for biotechnology

V. N. Smolyaninova (Department of Physics, Astronomy and Geosciences, Towson University), M.M. Miller, R. Bass, Mark Johnson (NRL, Washington DC)

14:30 K15.001 The shape of ammonium chloride dendrite tips at small supersaturation

Andrew Dougherty, Mayank Lahiri (Dept. of Physics, Lafayette College)

14:42 K15.002 Dendritic Growth Subject to a Step Change in Pressure

Matthew Koss (College of the Holy Cross)

14:54 K15.003 Patterns of Melting Snow

Ravi Mehrotra (National Physical Laboratory, K. S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi-110016), Subir Sarkar, Deepak Kumar (School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India)

15:06 K15.004 Stable and unstable physicochemical hydrodynamic flows in thin-layer cell electrodeposition

Guillermo Marshall, Esteban Mocskos (Complex System Laboratory-Computer Science Department, Uiniversity of Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina.), Fernando V. Molina (INQUIMAE, Uiniversity of Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina.), Silvina Dengra (Complex System Laboratory-Computer Science Department, Uiniversity of Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina.)

15:18 K15.005 Directional Transport and Pattern Formation of Alkali Metals on a Catalytic Metal Surface

Hubertus Marbach (Surface Science Center, Dpt of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh), Sebastian Günther, Monika Hinz, Ronald Imbihl (Univertitaet Hannover, Germany), Luca Gregoratti, Maya Kiskinova (Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)

15:30 K15.006 Theory of diffusion controlled growth

R. C. Ball, E. Somfai (Univ. of Warwick)

15:42 K15.007 Non-linear Laplacian Growth by Random Walkers

E. Somfai, R. C. Ball (Univ. of Warwick), L. M. Sander, J. P. DeVita (Univ. of Michigan)

15:54 K15.008 Non-linear Laplacian Growth by Conformal Maps

Jason DeVita (Physics Department, University of Michigan), Leonard Sander (Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, Physics Department, University of Michigan), Robin Ball, Ellak Somfai (Physics Department, University of Warwick)

16:06 K15.009 Conformal-map Dynamics for a Class of Transport-Limited Growth Phenomena

Martin Z. Bazant, Jaehyuk Choi (Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Benny Davidovitch (ExxonMobil Research and Engineering)

16:18 K15.010 A Study of the Behavior of Systems of Interacting SOC Automata

Adam Landsberg (Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges), Jessica Venable, Reuben Gann (Claremont McKenna College), Eric Friedman (Cornell University)

16:30 K15.011 Roughness and SOC experiments on 2-dimensional interfaces

Rinke J. Wijngaarden, C.M. Aegerter, M.S. Welling (Faculty of Sciences, Division of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

16:42 K15.012 Is Electrochemical Noise a SOC Phenomenon?

J.R. Claycomb, D. Nawarathna, K.E. Bassler, C. Prodan, J.H. Miller Jr. (Department of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials, University of Houston, Houston TX 77204-5932), Claycomb Team

16:54 K15.013 Roughness distribution of 1/f^\alpha noise

Tibor Antal (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada), Michel Droz (Universite de Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland), Geza Gyorgyi, Zoltan Racz (Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary)

17:06 K15.014 Self-erasing perturbations of Abelian sandpiles

Jeffrey R. Moffitt, Patrick Macdonald, John F. Lindner (Department of Physics, The College of Wooster, Wooster OH 44691)

K15.015 Pseudospectral method for the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation

Achille Giacometti (Dipartimento di Chimica Fisica, Universita' di Venezia, DD 2137, I-30123 Venezia, Italy), Lorenzo Giada (MPIKG Golm, D-14424 Potsdam, Germany), Maurice Rossi (Laboratoire de Modelisation en Mecanique, Universite' de Paris VI, 4 Place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris Cedex 05, France)

14:30 K16.001 Real-Time Imaging of Fluorescent Flagellar Filaments

William Ryu (Harvard University)

15:06 K16.002 Simulation of flows in bacterial flagellar bundling

Thomas R. Powers, MunJu Kim (Division of Engineering, Brown University)

15:18 K16.003 Macroscale experiments on bacterial flagellar bundling

MunJu Kim, Bird James C., Thomas R. Powers, Kenneth S. Breuer (Division of Engineering, Brown University)

15:30 K16.004 Mechanics of bacterial flagellar polymorphism

Srikanth Srigiriraju (Division of Engineering, Brown University), Greg Huber (Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Boston), Thomas R. Powers (Division of Engineering, Brown University)

15:42 K16.005 A mechanical approach to polymorphism of bacterial flagella

Ming Zhao (University of Chicago, Department of Physics), Norbert Scherer (University of Chicago, Department of Chemistry), Philippe Cluzel (University of Chicago, Department of Physics)

15:54 K16.006 The supercoiling of Bacillus subtilis

Neil H. Mendelson (Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0106)

16:30 K16.007 Model for supercoiling dynamics of growing filaments

Charles Wolgemuth (University of Connecticut Health Center), Raymond Goldstein (University of Arizona), Thomas Powers (Brown University)

16:42 K16.008 The Spontaneous Growth of Helical Actin Gel Tubes

Ariel Balter (Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN), Anders Carlsson (Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO), Jay Tang (Physics, Brown University, Providence, RI)

16:54 K16.009 Interplay of chemotaxis and kinesis mechanisms bacterial dynamics

Maria D'Orsogna (Dept. of Physics, UCLA), Tom Chou, Marc Suchard (Dept. of Biomathematics, UCLA)

17:06 K16.010 Probing Gravitational Sensitivity in Biological Systems Using Magnetic Body Forces

James Valles, Karine Guevorkian, Samuel Wurzel, Mariana Mihalusova (Department of Physics, Brown University)

17:18 K16.011 Noise of chemotaxis networks in individual E. coli cells

Ekaterina Korobkova (Graduate student, Chemistry Department, The University of Chicago), Thierry Emonet (Postdoc, Physics Department, The University of Chicago), Tom Shimizu (Postdoc, Japan), Philippe Cluzel (Assistant Professor, Physics Department, The University of Chicago)

14:30 K17.001 Dillon Medal Break

15:06 K17.002 Proton NMR Study of Room Temperature Aging in Isotactic Polypropylene and Ethylene/Octene Copolymers

David VanderHart, Chad Snyder (NIST), Rufina Alamo (FAMU/FSU College of Engineering)

15:18 K17.003 Shear-Induced Precursor Structures for Crystallization in Isotactic Polypropylene Melt by Rheo-SAXS and -WAXD Studies

Benjamin Hsiao, Rajesh Somani, Ling Yang (Chemistry Department, Stony Brook University), Hitesh Fruitwala (ExxonMobil Chemical Co.)

15:30 K17.004 Synchrotron small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering studies of shear-induced crystallization in iPP/UHMWPE solution blends

Carlos Avila-Orta, Rajesh Somani, Ling Yang, Benjamin Hsiao (Chemistry Department. State University of New York at Stony Brook), Gad Marom (Casali Institute of Applied Chemistry. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

15:42 K17.005 Structure and morphology of poly(L-lactic acid) fibers under hot drawing studied by in-situ synchrotron SAXS and WAXS

Jing Zhang, Jing Wu (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

15:54 K17.006 Flow Induced Crystallization in Model Polyethylene Blends: Molecular Weight Effect of the Matrix

Ling Yang, Rajesh Somani, Igors Sics, Benjamin Hsiao (Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at StonyBrook, StonyBrook, NY 11794), Rainer Kolb, David Lohse, Christine Ong (ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ 08801), Hitesh Fruitwala (ExxonMobil Chemical Company, Baytown, TX 77522)

16:06 K17.007 Hot Compaction of PET fibers: Influence of Processing on Crystallinity and Mechanical Properties

Pichet Rojanapitayakorn, Patrick Mather, Robert Weiss (Institute of Materials Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT 06269), Jon Goldberg (UCONN Health Center, University of Connecticut, Farmington CT 06034)

16:18 K17.008 The Path to “Single-Component Composites”: Melting and Crystallization of Extended-chain Polyethylene Fibers Under Pressure.

Yachin Cohen, Dmitry M. Rein, Liron Shavit, Rafail Khalfin (Technion, Israel), Ann Terry (ESRF, France), Sanjay Rastogi (TU Eindhoven, Netherlands)

16:30 K17.009 Role of Molecular Architecture on Mechanical Failure of Glassy/Semicrystalline Block Copolymers: CEC verses CECEC lamellae.

Frank Bates, Theresa Hermel (University of Minnesota), Steve Hahn (Dow chemical company), William Gerberich (University of Minnesota), Kimberly Chaffin (Medtronic)

16:42 K17.010 Crystallization and Melting Behaviors of PEO Nano-layer Crystals Confined in between Two PS nano Glassy layers

William Y. Chen, Lei Zhu, Christopher Y. Li, Ping Huang, Stephen Z.D. Cheng, Qing Ge, R.P. Quirk (Department of Polymer Science, the University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325), B Lotz (Institute Charle Sadron, 6 Rue Bousssingault, Strasbourg, France), E. L. Thomas (Department of Matreial Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139)

16:54 K17.011 Confinement induced crystallinity in Semifluorinated Polymer Thin Films

Lilin He, Rakchart Traiphol, Dennis W. Jr. Smith, Dvora Perahia (Department of Chemistry, and the School of Material Science and Engineering Program, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634-0973)

17:06 K17.012 Comparison of Crystallization Kinetics in Various Nano-confinement Environments

Lei Zhu, Lu Sun (Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science and Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3136), Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk (Maurice Morton Institute and Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3909)

17:18 K17.013 Homogeneous and heterogeneous crystallisation in confined domains of poly(ethylene oxide): the dependence of nucleation rate on length-scale

Michael V. Massa, Jessica L. Carvalho, Kari Dalnoki-Veress (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy and the Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada)

14:30 K18.001 Dillon Medal Break

15:06 K18.002 Intermolecular packing and Dynamics of homopolymers

Arun Neelakantan, Janna Maranas (Pennsylvania State University)

15:18 K18.003 Effect of reaction rate on reactive blending of polymer blends

Chuck Yeung (Pennsylvania State University at Erie)

15:30 K18.004 Thermodiffusion in polymer solutions

Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann (Department of Physics, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-4001)

15:42 K18.005 Heterogeneous Dynamics in Polymer Fluids

Marina Guenza (University of Oregon)

15:54 K18.006 Collapse Dynamics of a Polymer Chain: Theory and Simulation

Sergei Obukhov (University of Florida), Cameron Abrams (Drexel University), Nam-Kyung Lee (Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Rerearch)

16:06 K18.007 Dynamics of Pattern Formation in Polymer Nanofibers during Solidification

Andrew Guenthner (Chemistry and Materials Division, Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, China Lake, CA 93555), Thein Kyu (Institute of Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325)

16:18 K18.008 Collective states in clusters of polar-polarizable molecules

Anna Painelli, Francesca Terenziani (Parma University and INSTM-UdR Parma)

16:30 K18.009 A Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Study of Extended pi-Conjugated Chromophores

Kiet A. Nguyen, Ruth Pachter (Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials amp; Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7702)

16:42 K18.010 Effect of inter-ring torsion angle, protonation and vinyl group on electronic state of pyridine dimer

K.Y. Wong, J.A.O. Smallfield, A.J. Epstein (The Ohio State University), M. Fahlman (Linköping University, Sweden)

16:54 K18.011 Electronic properties calculated for heterocyclic aromatic hydroxyl rigid-rod polymers

Y. -H. Tang, M. -H. Tsai (Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 804, ROC), C. C. Wu, S. J. Bai (Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 804, ROC)

17:06 K18.012 Electronic Excitation Transfer in PPV/Mesoporous Silica Matrix

Gil Claudio, Eric Bittner (Department of Chemistry, University of Houston)

17:18 K18.013 Device Physics and Modeling of Organic Transistor Sensors

Taeho Jung, Daniel Fine, Jongjin Lee, Dim Lee Kwong, Heinz von Seggern, Ananth Dodabalapur (Microelectronics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758)

14:30 K19.001 Mechanics of Small Structures: Cracking, Ratcheting, and Wrinkling

Zhigang Suo (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department and Princeton Materials Institute)

15:06 K19.002 Stress-driven growth of bismuth nanowires

Yang-Tse Cheng, Anita M. Weiner, Curtis A. Wong, Michael P. Balogh, Michael J. Lukitsch (General Motors Research and Development Center, 30500 Mound Road, Warren, Michigan, 48090)

15:18 K19.003 Impurity Enhancement of Al_2O_3/Al Adhesion

Xiao-Gang Wang, John R. Smith (Delphi Research Labs, Shelby Twp., MI 48315), Wenqing Zhang, Anthony Evans (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

15:30 K19.004 FIRST PRINCIPLES STUDY OF ADHESION AND ADHESIVE TRANSFER AT ALUMINUM/DIAMOND INTERFACES

Yue Qi, Louis G. Hector (General Motors Ramp;D)

15:42 K19.005 Adhesion and deformation of KCl overlayers on Fe

M. Weinert (University of Wissonsin-Milwaukee)

15:54 K19.006 Nanostressors and the Nanomechanical Response of a Thin Silicon Film on Insulator

Minghuang Huang, Feng Liu (University of Utah), P.P. Rugheimer, D.E. Savage, M.G. Lagally (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

16:06 K19.007 Structural characterization of diamond-like-carbon films.

Jacqueline Johnson, John Woodford, Ali Erdemir (Argonne Naional Laboratory)

16:18 K19.008 Ultra-hard, nanostructured B-C-N films produced by MPCVD

Qi Liang, Shane Catledge, Yogesh Vohra (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

16:30 K19.009 Nanostructuring and texturing of pulsed laser deposited hydroxyapatite thin films

Hyunbin Kim, Shane Catledge, Yogesh Vohra, Renato Camata (University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dept. of Physics, Birmingham, AL), William Lacefield (University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dept. of Prosthodontics and Biomaterials, Birmingham, AL)

16:42 K19.010 Effects of residual stress on surface acoustic wave spectroscopy measurements of thin-film elastic constants

R. E. Kumon, D. C. Hurley, V. K. Tewary (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305-3328)

16:54 K19.011 ALUMINIUM BASED COMPOSITES REINFORCED WITH ALUMINA COATED FIBERS

Zeng Qingbing, Cui Mingyu, Zhang Dianzhi (Chem. Dept., 1st Military Medical Univ., Guangzhou, China 510515)

17:06 K19.012 Misfit dislocations in epitaxial heterostructures with different elastic constants

Edward Feldman, Ludmila Gumen (Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, 21 Sur, #1103, 72160, México), Vladimir Yurchenko (Donetsk Physics and Engineering Institute, Donetsk, 80314, Ukraine), Arkady Krokhin (Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, 72570, México)

14:30 K20.001 4.2K Cryocooled Scanning SQUID Microscope

S.P. Kwon (Center for Superconductivity Research), L. Knauss, N. Lettsome, A. Cawthorne (Neocera Inc.), C.J. Lobb, F. C. Wellstood (Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland)

14:42 K20.002 Ultimate Limit to the Spatial Resolution in Magnetic Imaging

John Matthews, Frederick C. Wellstood, Sojiphong Chatraphorn (CSR, Dept of Physics, University of Maryland)

14:54 K20.003 A Novel Technique for Generating AC voltages using Arrays of Superconducting SNS Junctions

Sam Benz, Paul Dresselhaus, Charles Burroughs, Yonuk Chong (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

15:06 K20.004 Effects of Interlayer Electrode Thickness in Nb/(MoSi_2/Nb)_N Stacked Josephson Junctions

Yonuk Chong, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz, John E. Bonevich (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

15:18 K20.005 Nonequilibrium quasiparticle trapping in single Cooper pair

José Aumentado, Mark W. Keller, John M. Martinis (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305-3337), Michel H. Devoret (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8284)

15:30 K20.006 Diffusion-Engineered Single-Photon Spectrometer

Veronica Savu, Aryesh Mukherjee, Christopher Wilson, Daniel Prober (Yale University)

15:42 K20.007 Measuring the electron-phonon interaction with NIS junctions: novel techniques and results

I. J. Maasilta, J. T. Karvonen, J. M. Kivioja, L. J. Taskinen, J. P. Pekola (Department of Physics, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)

15:54 K20.008 The Ideal Electron Gas Thermometer

Lafe Spietz, K.W. Lehnert, Irfan Siddiqi, R.J. Schoelkopf (Yale University)

16:06 K20.009 Wide bandwidth SIN tunnel junction thermometers for mesoscopic calorimetry and bolometry

D. R. Schmidt, C. S. Yung, A. N. Cleland (UCSB)

16:18 K20.010 Superconducting Kinetic Inductance Detectors with Microwave Readout

Peter Day, Henry LeDuc (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Ben Mazin, Anastasios Vayonakis, Jonas Zmuidzinas (California Institute of Technology)

14:30 K21.001 Magnetism and Superconductivity in Ce_nM_mIn_3n+2m Heavy Fermion Materials

G.D. Morris, R.H. Heffner (Los Alamos National Laboratory), D.E. MacLaughlin (Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside), O.O. Bernal (Physics Department, California State University, Los Angeles), G.J. Nieuwenhuys (Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University), N.O. Moreno-Salazar, P.G. Pagliuso, J.L. Sarrao (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:42 K21.002 Field induced first-order superconducting phase transition in heavy fermion CeCoIn_5

A.D. Bianchi, R. Movshovich, J.D. Thompson, A.H. Lacerda, P.G. Pagliuso, J.L. Sarrao (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

14:54 K21.003

15:06 K21.004 Observation of a symmetry change in the superconducting gap function in heavy-fermion PrOs_4Sb_12

Koichi Izawa, Yasuyuki Nakajima (University of Tokyo), Jun Goryo (Max-Plank-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems), Yuji Matsuda (University of Tokyo), Shuji Osaki, Hitoshi Sugawara, Hideyuki Sato (Tokyo Metropolitan University), Peter Thalmeier (Max-Plank-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids), Kazumi Maki (University of Southern California)

15:18 K21.005 The Effect of Magnetic and Non-magnetic Impurities on the Upper Critical Field of Single Crystal Lu_xR_1-xNi_2B_2C (R=Y, Gd)

K.D.D. RATHNAYAKA, D.G. NAUGLE, A.C. DU MAR, M.P. ANATSKA (Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX), P.C. CANFIELD (Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University, Ames, IA)

15:30 K21.006 New Phase in the Superconducting State of LuNi_2B_2C

Tuson Park, Elbert E. E. Chia, Myron B. Salamon (Department of Physics and Material Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Eun-Mi Choi, Sung-Ik Lee (Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology)

15:42 K21.007 London Penetration Depth of LuNi_2B_2C and YNi_2B_2C : Evidence for a Strong Gap Anisotropy ?

P. Rodière, J. Fletcher, A. Carrington (H.H.Wills Laboratory, University of Bristol, UK), R. Prozorov (University of South Carolina, Columbia), D.D. Lawrie, R.W. Giannetta (University of Illinois at Urabana-Champaign), S.L. Bud'ko, P.C. Canfield (Iowa States University), H.H. Wills Laboratory Team, Department of Physics amp; Astronomy Collaboration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Collaboration, Iowa States University Collaboration

15:54 K21.008 Effect of Magnetic Order on the Superfluid Density of Single Crystal ErNi_2B_2C: A Penetration Depth Study

Elbert E. M. Chia, W. Cheong, M. B. Salamon (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Eun-Mi Choi, Sung-Ik Lee (National Creative Research Initiative Center for Superconductivity and Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea)

16:06 K21.009 Unconventional Superconductivity in MgCNi_3

Klaus Voelker (University of Toronto), Manfred Sigrist (ETH Hoenggerberg)

16:18 K21.010 Local Lattice Instability in MgCNi_3 Superconductor Determined by Ni K-edge EXAFS and ab-initio Linear Response LDA

A. Yu. Ignatov, T. A. Tyson, S. Yu. Savrasov (New Jersey Inst. of Tech., Newark, NJ 07102)

16:30 K21.011 Unconventional Superconductivity in the Non-Oxide Perovskite \mathrmMgCNi_3

Ruslan Prozorov, Alexey Snezhko (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208), Tao He, Robert J. Cava (Department of Chemistry and Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, 08544)

16:42 K21.012 Heterogeneity of Intercalated YBCO Single Crystals Determined by Polarized Cl K-, Br K-, and I- L3 Edge X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy

L. M. Dieng, A. Yu Ignatov, T. A. Tyson (New Jersey Inst. of Tech., Newark, NJ 07102), M. Croft (Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ 08854), W. Caliebe, S. Khalid (NSLS, Brookhaven Natl. Lab., Upton, NY)

16:54 K21.013 SDW excitations in the specific heat of La_2CuO_4.11 single crystals

Guillermo Jorge, Marcelo Jaime, Leonardo Civale (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Barry Zink, Frances Hellmann (UCSD), B. Khaykovich, M. A. Kastner, Y. S. Lee (MIT), R. J. Birgeneau (University of Toronto)

17:06 K21.014 Superfluid Density Ns(T) and Specific Heat Cs(T) in Impure Isotropic Superconductors

SANG BOO NAM (URC)

K21.015 Low temperature resistivity measurements of CeCoIn_5

Johnpierre Paglione, M.A. Tanatar, D.G. Hawthorn, E. Boaknin, Robert W. Hill, Filip Ronning, M. Sutherland, Louis Taillefer (University of Toronto), C. Petrovic (Brookhaven National Lab)

K21.016 Detailed study of the magnetic phase transitions in single crystalline HoNi_2B_2C and DyNi_2B_2C

R. A. Ribeiro, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield (Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 50011)

14:30 K22.001 A Negative Index Material that Obeys Snell's Law

Andrew Houck (MIT Center for Bits and Atoms; Harvard University), Jeffrey Brock, Isaac Chuang (MIT Center for Bits and Atoms)

14:42 K22.002 Microwave Focusing Using Negative Index of Refraction Materials

Jeffrey Brock (MIT), Andrew Houck (Harvard), Isaac Chuang (MIT)

14:54 K22.003 “Perfect lens” Imaging by Negative Index Media

W. T. Lu, J. B. Sokoloff, S. Sridhar (Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115)

15:06 K22.004 New type of lenses based upon left-handed materials

Alexei Efros, Alexandre Pokrovski (University of Utah)

15:18 K22.005 Sign of refractive index and group velocity in left-handed media

Alexandre Pokrovski, Alexei Efros (University of Utah)

15:30 K22.006 Negative Refraction and Left-handed Behavior in Photonic Crystals

Stavroula Foteinopoulou (Ames Laboratory-USDOE and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011), Costas M. Soukoulis (Ames Laboratory-USDOE and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 and Research Center of Crete, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece)

15:42 K22.007 Refraction of Electromagnetic Energy for Wave Packets Incident on a Negative Index Medium: Always Negative

J. B. Sokoloff, W. T. Lu, S. Sridhar (Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115)

15:54 K22.008 Microwave Propagation in Negative Index and Artificial Dielectric Media

Patanjali Parimi, Plarenta Vodo, Wentao Lu, Srinivas Sridhar (Northeastern University)

16:06 K22.009 Energy transmission in a left-handed medium through evanescent modes

Z. M. Zhang, C. J. Fu (Georgia Institute of Technology), D. B. Tanner (University of Florida)

16:18 K22.010 Guided waves and beam transmission in layered structures with left-handed materials

Ilya Shadrivov, Andrey Sukhorukov, Yuri Kivshar (Nonlinear Physics Group, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia), Nonlinear Physics Group

16:30 K22.011 Surface modes at the interface with left-handed electromagnetic media

Sergei Darmanyan (Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142190 Troitsk, Russia), M. Neviére (Institut Fresnel, CNRS UMR 6133 Faculte des Sciences de St-Jerome Case 162, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20 France), Anvar Zakhidov (UTD Nanotech Institute, Univ. of Texas at Dallas. P.O. Box 830688 M/S: BE26, Richardson, TX 75083)

16:42 K22.012 Physics and Electronics of Left-Handed Guided Wave Devices

Clifford Krowne (Microwave Tech. Br., Electronics Sc. amp; Tech. Div., Naval Research Laboratory, Wash. DC 20375)

14:30 K23.001 Spin and Charge Density Wave phases in Integer Quantum Hall systems with a Tilted Magnetic Field

D.-W. Wang, E. Demler (Physics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138), S. Das Sarma (Condensed Matter Theory Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), B. I. Halperin (Physics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138)

14:42 K23.002 Impurity disorder vs random magnetic field disorder: consequences of long-range correlations in a quantum critical point

Nancy Sandler (Ohio University, Athens OH), Jane' Kondev (Brandeis University)

14:54 K23.003 Disorder-induced quantization of the anomalous Hall effect

Masaru Onoda (Correlated Electron Research Center (CERC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)), Naoto Nagaosa (Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo)

15:06 K23.004 Effect of a Periodic Potential on the Longitudinal Conductance of Two Dimensional Electron Gas in IQHE Regime

Chenggang Zhou (Electrical Engineering Department, Princeton University), Mona Berciu (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia), R.N. Bhatt (Electrical Engineering Department, Princeton University)

15:18 K23.005 Fingering of Electron Droplets in Nonuniform Magnetic Fields

Alexios D. Klironomos, Taylor L. Hughes, Alan T. Dorsey (University of Florida)

15:30 K23.006 Conservation laws in the quantum Hall Liouvillian theory and its generalizations

Joel Moore (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley; Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

15:42 K23.007 Dynamics of electrons in quantum Hall bubble phases

Rene Cote, Charles Doiron, Jerome Bourassa (Universite de Sherbrooke), Herbert A. Fertig (University of Kentucky)

15:54 K23.008 Dynamical Ordering of Driven Stripe Phases in Quenched Disorder

C.J. Olson Reichhardt (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory), C. Reichhardt (Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory), I. Martin, A.R. Bishop (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:06 K23.009 Low-frequency noise in submicron Hall devices

Cong Ren, Stephen von Molnar (MARTECH and Physics Department, Florida State University)

16:18 K23.010 Electrical noise in n-type and p-type silver telluride

L. Jiang, E. R. Nowak (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware)

16:30 K23.011 Anomalous Magnetoresistance of the Silver Chalcogenides

Meera Parish, Peter Littlewood (Theory of Condensed Matter, Cambridge University, UK)

16:42 K23.012 A Collective Impact Ionization Theory of Electrical Breakdown

K. Kambour (Texas Tech University), Harold P. Hjalmarson (Sandia National Labs), Charles W. Myles (Texas Tech University)

16:54 K23.013 Extraordinary Piezoconductance of Metal-Semiconductor Composites

A. C. H. Rowe, D. R. Hines (NEC Laboratories America), S. A. Solin (Washington University, St. Louis)

14:30 K24.001 Magnetotransport studies of Ga_1-xMn_xSb ferromagnetic semiconductor

W. L. Lim, X. Liu, M. Dobrowolska, J. K. Furdyna (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame), T. Wojtowicz (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame and Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)

14:42 K24.002 (In,Mn)Sb – a new narrow gap ferromagnetic semiconductor

T. Wojtowicz (University of Notre Dame, IN and Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), W.L. Lim, X. Liu, M. Dobrowolska, J.K. Furdyna (University of Notre Dame, IN), K.M. Yu, W. Walukiewicz (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), X. Chen, S.M. Wang, G.B. Kim, M. Cheon, H. Luo (Department of Physics, State University of New York at Buffalo)

14:54 K24.003 Magneto-optical properties of metallic (III,Mn)V magnetic semiconductors

Jairo Sinova (University of Texas), Tomas Jungwirth (University of Texas and Institute of Physics ASCR, Prague), S.-R. Eric Yang (Korea University), A. H. MacDonald (University of Texas)

15:06 K24.004 Mechanisms limiting the Curie temperature in GaMnAs

Tomasz Wojtowicz (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 and Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences , 02-668 Warsaw, Poland)

15:42 K24.005 Self-Compensation in Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors

Steven C. Erwin (Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.)

16:18 K24.006 Theory of optically induced magnetization switching in GaAs:Mn

J. Fernandez-Rossier, A. S. Nunez, M. Abolfath, A.H. MacDonald (Department of Physics. University of Texas at Austin)

16:30 K24.007 Electron-active Cyclotron Resonance in p-doped InMnAs in High Magnetic Fields

Yongke Sun, G. D. Sanders, C. J. Stanton (University of Florida), Y. H. Matsuda (Okayama University), G. A. Khodaparast, J. Kono (Rice University), N. Miura, S. Ikeda (University of Tokyo), H. Munekata (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

16:42 K24.008 Ultrahigh Field Cyclotron Resonance in InMnAs/InAs Superlattices

D. S. King (Stanford University), G. A. Khodaparast, J. Kono (Rice University), Y. H. Matsuda (Okayama University), S. Ikeda, N. Miura (University of Tokyo), A. Oiwa, H. Munekata (Tokyo Institute of Technology), G. D. Sanders, C. J. Stanton (University of Florida)

16:54 K24.009 Theory of ultrahigh field cyclotron resonance and magneto-optics in InMnAs films and superlattices

G. D. Sanders, C. J. Stanton (University of Florida), D. S. King (Stanford university), G. A. Khodaparast, J. Kono (Rice University)

17:06 K24.010 Terahertz Spectroscopy of Photogenerated Carriers in Ferromagnetic InGaMnAs

G.A. Khodaparast, D.C. Larrabee, J. Kono (Rice University), D.S. King (Stanford University), J. Kato (Keio University), T. Slupinski (Warsaw University), A. Oiwa, H. Munekata (Tokyo Institute of Technology), G.D. Sanders, C.J. Stanton (University of Florida)

17:18 K24.011 Ultrafast photoinduced softening in a ferromagnetic semiconductor

J Wang, G.A. Khodaparast, J Kono (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University), T Slupinski, A Owia, H Munekata (Imaging Science and Engineering Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

14:30 K25.001 Fabrication and optical characteristics of single crystalline Si nano dots

Young-Kyu Hong, Jae Ho Bahng, Ja-Yong Koo (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 305-600, Korea), Ji-Hyun Yoon, Jinwoo Cheon (Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea), J.-Y. Yi (Department of Physics, Dong-A University. Busan 604-714, Korea), D.-H. Shin (Department of Physics, Dongguk University, Seoul 100-715, Korea)

14:42 K25.002 Influence of synthesis conditions on the structural and optical properties of silicon nanoclusters

Erik W. Draeger, Jeffrey C. Grossman, Andrew J. Williamson, Giulia Galli (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:54 K25.003 Calculated Emission from Silicon Nanocrystals Via the Stokes Shift

Aaron Puzder, Andrew Williamson, Jeffrey Grossman, Giulia Galli (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

15:06 K25.004 Nonlinear Spectroscopic Mapping of Silicon Nanocrystal Distributions

P. C. Figliozzi, Y. Jiang, M. C. Downer (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin), C. W. White, S. P. Withrow (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

15:18 K25.005 RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF DISPERSED SILCION NANOPARTICLES

Joel Therrien, Satish Rao (Dept. of Physics U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jeffery White (Materials Research Laboratory U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Munir Nayfeh (Dept. of Physics U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:30 K25.006 SILICON NANOCRYSTALLITES IN AMORPHOUS SILICON MATRIX: PROPERTIES MEASURED ON NANOSCALE

Saule Aldabergenova, Gerhard Frank, Martin Albrecht, Melanie Nerding, Michael Becker, Horst Strunk (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Microcharacterization, Erlangen-Nürnberg University, Cauerstr.6, 91058 Erlangen, Germany)

15:42 K25.007 Calculation of the frequency-dependent optical response of hydrogen-passivated Ge clusters using TDDFT

Argyrios Tsolakidis, Richard M. Martin (Department of Physics and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:54 K25.008 Microscopic Modeling of Phonon Modes in SiGe Alloy Quantum Dots

Shang-Fen Ren (Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4560), Wei Cheng (Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China), Peter Y. Yu (University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720)

16:06 K25.009 Ultra-fast Carrier Relaxation in Self-assembled 1.24 Micron-wavelength InAs/GaAs quantum dots

Peng Xiang Zhang (Semiconductor Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Science, P. R. China, Xiangfan City, Hubei 440010), Ming Song Zhang (Zhongxiang Institute of Techlonogy, Division One, P. R. China, Zhongxiang City, Hubei 431900), Wei Qiang Li (Nanyang Normal University, Department of Material Science, Nanyang City, Henan 473000), Nanostructure Research Collaboration

16:18 K25.010 Magneto-Photoluminescence of quantum confined states in ordered-Ga_xIn_1-xP with 200 Nanometer Resolution

S. Smith, A. Mascarenhas, J.M. Olson (NREL, Golden, CO USA)

16:30 K25.011 Surface effect on the quantum size energy levels in semiconductor nanocrystals.

Anna Rodina, Alexander Efros (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375, USA)

16:42 K25.012 Coherent Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Single Charged Quantum Dots

M. V. Gurudev Dutt, J. Cheng, D. G. Steel (University of Michigan), A. S. Bracker, D. Gammon (Naval Research Laboratory), L. J. Sham (University of California, San Diego)

14:30 K26.001 Gas-surface interactions and charge-carrier dynamics in single-wall carbon nanotubes

Tobias Hertel (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

15:06 K26.002 Carbon nanotubes as gas sensors: a first-principles study

Silvia Picozzi, Luca Lozzi, Sandro Santucci, Carlo Cantalini (INFM - Univ. L'Aquila, Italy), Luca Valentini (INFM - Univ. Perugia, Italy), Bernard Delley (Paul Scherrer Inst., Villigen, Switzerland)

15:18 K26.003 CARBON NANOTUBES BASED RESONANT CIRCUIT SENSORS FOR GAS DETECTION

S. Chopra, K. McGuire, N. Gothard (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634), A. Pham (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616), A. M. Rao (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634)

15:30 K26.004 Quantum Dents by Gas Atoms

Gun Sang Jeon, G. D. Mahan (The Pennsylvania State University)

15:42 K26.005 Gas Interactions with Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes

Peter C. Eklund (Physics Dept. ,The Pennsylvania State University)

16:18 K26.006 Adsorption isotherm study of neon on the outer surface of SWNT bundles

Vaiva Krungleviciute, Saikat Talapatra, Aldo D. Migone (Department of Physics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)

16:30 K26.007 H2 and N2 Adsorption on Activated-Nanofiber-Doped Carbon Liquid Crystals

Dinesh Rawat, Saikat Talapatra, A. D. Migone (Department of Physics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale), Khalid Lafdi (University of Dayton Research Institute 300 College Park, Dayton OH. 45469-0168 and AFRL/MLBC, WPAFB, OH 45433)

16:42 K26.008 High temperature phase transition of hydrogen in nanotube bundles

M. Mercedes Calbi, Silvina M. Gatica, Ari Mizel, Milton W. Cole (Department of Physics, Penn State University), William F. Saam (Physics Department, Ohio State University)

16:54 K26.009 Diffusion of H2 on Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes

David Narehood, Jon Pearce, Peter Eklund, Paul Sokol (Department of Physics, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802), Ruep Lechner, Jörg Pieper (Hahn-Meitner-Institut/BENSC, Glienicher Strasse 100, D-14109, Berlin Germany), John Copely, Jeremy Cook (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA)

17:06 K26.010 Specific heat and thermodynamic behavior of gases adsorbed on the outside of nanotube bundles

Milton W. Cole, M. Mercedes Calbi, Milen K. Kostov, Silvina M. Gatica (Department of Physics, Penn State University)

17:18 K26.011 Ab initio simulations of H_2 in Li-doped graphite and carbon nanotube systems

Abdenour Sabir, Wenchang Lu, Christopher Roland, Jerry Bernholc (North Carolina State University)

17:30 K26.012 Li and H2 Diffusion in Carbon Nanotubes for Li-Batteries and Hydrogen Storage: A Predictive Model

Yuriy Malozovsky, V Subramanian, Terrence Reese, Boba Rambabu (Southern University and Aamp;M College)

17:42 K26.013 ADSORPTION OF ACETONE ON CARBON NANOTUBES

Yiming Zhang (Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NewYork-12180), Nirupama Chakrapani, Y.Y. Choi, P.M. Ajayan (Department of Material Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NewYork-12180), S.K. Nayak (Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NewYork-12180), J. A. Moore (Department of Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NewYork-12180), D. L. Carroll (Deaprtment of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University,Clemson-29634)

14:30 K27.001 Bonding and coordination in Si clusters

Marco Fornari, Koblar A. Jackson (Dept. of Physics, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant)

14:42 K27.002 Simulating the Si Cluster Growth Pattern

Mihai Horoi, Jennifer Boike, Koblar A. Jackson (Physics Department, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859), Indira Chaudhuri, Thomas Frauenheim (Theoretische Physik, Universität Paderborn, D33095 Paderborn, Germany)

14:54 K27.003 H2O interaction with polar semiconductor surfaces: the case of SiC(001)

Alessandra Catellani (CNR-IMEM, Parco Area delle Scienze, 37a - I-43010, Parma, Italy), Giulia Galli (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, L-415 - Livermore, CA 94551, USA)

15:06 K27.004 The differential reactivity of octahydridosilsesquioxane on Si(100) and Si(111): A comparative scanning tunneling microscopy study

Bradford Orr (The University of Michigan, Physics and Applied Physics Departments)

15:42 K27.005 First-Principles Study of Si-SiO2 Interface and the Impact on Mobility

X.-Y. Liu, D. Jovanovic, R. Stumpf (Computational Nanoscience Group, Physical Sciences Research Laboratories, Motorola, Inc., Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA), Computational Nanoscience Group Team

15:54 K27.006 Growth and Characterization of FeSi_2 Films Grown on Si using Co-Deposition of Si and Fe using MBE

R. Failla, R.J. Cottier, D. Koustubh, A. Wadhawan, T.D. Golding, J.M. Perez (Department of Physics, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203)

16:06 K27.007 Theoretical calculations of optical properties of Si(111)-In surfaces

Shuchun Wang, Wenchang Lu, W. G. Schmidt, Jerry Bernholc (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695-8202)

16:18 K27.008 Mapping Silicon Bonding at Heterostructure Interfaces with Atomic-Resolution TEM and Ab-Initio Modeling

Gerd Duscher (North Carolina State University)

16:54 K27.009 Synthesis of erbium oxide nanoparticles in Si for light emission at 1.54 um

Jie Zhu (Dept. of Phys., SUNY-Albany), Joseph Madelone (Dept. of phys., SUNY-Albany), Katherine Dovidenko (School of NanoScience amp; NanoEngineering, SUNY-Albany), Mengbing Huang (Dept. of Phys., SUNY-Albany), Dept. of Phys. Collaboration, School of NanoScience amp; NanoEngineering Collaboration

17:06 K27.010 3D SELF-ASSEMBLED NANOPOROUS SILICA SHAPES

Igor Yu. Sokolov (Department of Physics, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, 13699)

17:18 K27.011 Alkylsilane monolayers on gold

Thomas Owens, Kevin Schneider, Daniel Fosnacht, Yunqing Chen, Bradford Orr (University of Michigan), Sefik Süzer (Bilkent University), Mark Banaszak Holl (University of Michigan)

14:30 K28.001 Exchange-Spring Behavior of Annealed SmCoz/Co Multilayers*

Jian Zhou, Ralph Skomski, YuCheng Sui, David Sellmyer (Behlen Lab of Physics and CMRA, University of Nebraska)

14:42 K28.002 Exchange-coupled Sm–Co/Nd–Co nanomagnets: Correlation between soft phase anisotropy and exchange field

J. S. Jiang, J. E. Pearson, S. D. Bader (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439), Z. J. Guo, J. P. Liu (Institute for Micromanufacturing, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana 71272)

14:54 K28.003 Fully reversible magnetism in the hard magnetic layer of an exchange-spring bilayer

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

15:06 K28.004 Modeling of Magnetic Properties of an Exchange-Coupled Hard-Soft Bilayer System

Vamsi Chakka, Ping Liu (Dept. of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington TX 76019), Zhengsheng Shan (Komag Inc., 1710 Automation Parkway, San Jose CA 95131)

15:18 K28.005 FeRh/FePt antiferromagnet/ferromagnet exchange spring media for thermally assisted magnetic recording

Stefan Maat, Jan-Ulrich Thiele, Eric E. Fullerton (IBM Almaden Research Center)

15:30 K28.006 Ferromagnetic - ferrimagnetic transition in a trilayer Co/Ru/Co synthetic ferrimagnet film

W.-T. Lee (Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831), S. G. E. te Velthuis (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439), Z. Zhiya, P. Mani, V.V. Krishnamurthy, G.J. Mankey (MINT and Department of Physics, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487), A.A. Parizzi, F. Klose (Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831)

15:42 K28.007 Advanced Magnetic Materials and Transducers: Enabling Information Explosion and Magnetic Nanotechnology

Shan Wang (Stanford University)

16:18 K28.008 Magnetic hysteresis loop tuning in antiferromagnetically coupled (AFC) bi-layers

Andreas Berger, David Margulies, Hoa Do (IBM Almaden Research Center)

16:30 K28.009 A unique high-magnetization iron oxide in metal/native oxide multilayers

G.S.D. Beach, F.T. Parker, D.J. Smith (Center for Solid State Science and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, Arizona 85287-1504), A.E. Berkowitz (Dept. of Physics and Center for Magnetic Recording Research, Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0401)

16:42 K28.010 Ion Beam Sputter-Manipulation of the Crystalline and Magnetic Properties of Ni81Fe19 and Metastable (Ni81Fe19)O Films

Dana Larison (Physics Dept., Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666), Steven Rios, Anup Bandyopadhyay, Shannon Fritz, Carlos Gutierrez (SWT)

16:54 K28.011 Low Angle X-Ray studies of Co/Nb multilayers

D. Hussey, D.V. Baxter (Indiana University), Wen-C. Chaing, J. Bass (Michigan State University)

17:06 K28.012 Magnetic Switching of Nb/Ni Multilayers near the Superconducting Critical Temperature

Lance De Long, Sergey Kryukov (Dept. Physics amp; Astronomy, U. Kentucky), E. Navarro, J.E. Villegas, E.M. Gonzalez, Jose L. Vicent (Depto. Fisica Materiales, U. Complutense, Madrid)

K28.013 Probing the Bias Field in Spring Magnets with a First Order Reversal Curve Method

L. Zhao, C. R. Pike, H. G. Katzgraber, R. T. Scalettar, K. L. Verosub, G. T. Zimanyi, Kai Liu (University of California - Davis), O. Hellwig, E. E. Fullerton (IBM Almaden Research Center)

14:30 K29.001 Modeling Spin-Dependent Magnetic Junction Behavior

Bryan Baker (Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011), David Jiles (Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011)

14:42 K29.002 First-principles Calculation of Spin-Dependent Conductance for metal/insulator/metal junction at Finite-bias

Chun Zhang (Department of Physics amp; QTP, University of Florida), Xiaoguang Zhang (Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Lab), Predrag Krstic (Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Lab), Haiping Cheng (Department of Physics amp; QTP, University of Florida)

14:54 K29.003 Negative TMR observed in Magnetic Tunneling Junctions with Zr oxide barrier

Xiaohai Xiang, Tao Zhu, John Q. Xiao (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware)

15:06 K29.004 Electronic structure, tunneling magnetoresistance and spin polarization of amorphous ferromagnetic storage layer used in magnetic tunneling junction

See-Hun Yang, Mahesh G. Samant, Stuart S. P. Parkin (IBM Almaden Research Center, IBM Research Division), Brian Hughes (Infineon Technology), Jinghua Guo (Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Andreas Augustsson (Department of Physics, Uppsala University, Sweden), Eli Rotenberg (Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Magnetoelectronics and spintronics study with spectroscopy approach Collaboration

15:18 K29.005 Magnetic Tunnel Junctions with a Doped Fe_3O_4 Electrode.

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

15:30 K29.006 Coulomb blockade, superconductivity, and spin accumulation in magnetic tunnel junctions

Patrick LeClair, Tiffany Santos, Jagadeesh Moodera (Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, MIT)

15:42 K29.007 Origin of spin polarization in spin polarized tunneling experiments?

M. Muenzenberg (Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, MIT)

16:18 K29.008 Spin Polarized Tunneling and Enhanced Ferromagnetism in CoMn Alloy Films

Tae Hee Kim (Francis Bitter Magnet Lab, Massachusetts Insttitute of Technology, Cambridge, MA), Dario A. Arena (Material Physics Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC), Jagadeesh S. Moodera (Francis Bitter Magnet Lab, Massachusetts Insttitute of Technology, Cambridge, MA), Christie S. Nelson (NRL-SRC, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY), Vince G. Harris (Material Physics Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC), Yves U. Idzerda (Physics Department, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT)

16:30 K29.009 Diagnosis and location of a pinhole in a tunnel junction using only electrical measurements on four leads

Zhongsheng Zhang, David Rabson (University of South Florida)

16:42 K29.010 Spin Transport in AlOx Tunnel Barriers for Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

P. Chalsani, S. K. Upadhyay, O. Ozatay, R. A. Buhrman (Dept. of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University)

16:54 K29.011 BEEM nanoscale studies of the evolution of the aluminum oxide surface

P. G. Mather, A. C. Perrella, A. Yurtsever, R. A. Buhrman (Cornell University)

17:06 K29.012 RESONANT TUNNELING IN DOUBLE BARRIER JUNCTIONS IN THE PRESENCE OF IMPURITIES BETWEEN THE BARRIERS

Alan Kalitsov, Nicholas Kioussis, Aleksander Coho (California State University, Northridge, CA 91330, USA), Anatoly Vedyayev (Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia)

17:18 K29.013 Non equilibrium transport of model magnetic heterostructures.

Alvaro S. Nunez, Allan H. MacDonald (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin.)

14:30 K30.001 On the Electronic State of Mn Impurities in III-V Semiconductors

T. C. Schulthess (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

15:06 K30.002 Energetics and kinetics of Mn on different Ge surfaces

Enge Wang (ICQS and Institute of Physics, CAS, China), Wenguang Zhu (ICQS and Institute of Physics, CAS, China amp; ORNL), Jianxin Zhong, Zhenyu Zhang (ORNL)

15:18 K30.003 Epitaxially stabilized AgGaSe_2 for high-efficiency spin-polarized electron source

Su-Huai Wei, A. Janotti (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

15:30 K30.004 Ab initio theory of ferromagnetism for AlAs/(Ga,Mn)As heterostructures

Stefano Sanvito (Trinity College Dublin)

15:42 K30.005 Role of structural defects on the half-metallic character of Heusler alloys and their junctions with Ge and GaAs

Silvia Picozzi, Alessandra Continenza (INFM - Dip. Fisica, Univ. L'Aquila, Italy), Arthur J. Freeman (Dept. of Physics and Astron., Nortwestern Univ., Evanston, IL)

15:54 K30.006 Electronic and Magnetic Structure of a 1000K Magnetic Semiconductor: alpha-Hematite (Ti)

William Butler, Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Center for Materials for Information Technology, University of Alabama)

16:06 K30.007 Half-Metallic Zinc-Blende Compounds

Peter H. Dederichs, Iosif Galanakis, Phivos Mavropoulos (Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany)

16:18 K30.008 Transmissivity of quantum-coherent spintronic nanodevices

Branislav Nikoli\'c (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University od Delaware, Newark, DE 19716-2570)

16:30 K30.009 Theory of Spin-Polarized Bipolar Transport

Igor Zutic (Condensed Matter Theory Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), Jaroslav Fabian (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Karl-Franzens University, 8010 Graz, Austria), S. Das Sarma (Condensed Matter Theory Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 2074)

16:42 K30.010 Simulations of a Single Spin Measurement Using Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy

Gennady Berman (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 177545), Fausto Borgonovi (Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università Cattolica, via Musei 41 , 25121 Brescia, Italy, and I.N.F.M., Gruppo Collegato di Brescia, Italy, and I.N.F.N., sezione di Pavia , Italy), Vyacheslav Gorshkov (Theoretical Division and CNLS, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 177545), Shmuel Gurvitz (Department of Particle Physics, Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot 76100, Israel), Dmitry Kamenev (Theoretical Division and CNLS, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 177545), Vladimir Tsifrinovich (IDS Department, Polytechnic University, Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn NY 11201)

16:54 K30.011 First-principles calculation of exchange-force-microscope image of antiferromagnetic NiO(001) surface

Hiroyoshi Momida, Tamio Oguchi (ADSM, Hiroshima University)

17:06 K30.012 Skyrmion Nucleation in Ultrathin Magnetic Film by Strong Magnetic Tip

Arman Kirakosyan (Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University), Valery Pokrovsky (Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University and Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics), Condensed Matter Team

14:30 K31.001 Anti-site disorder in double perovskites Sr_2FeMoO_6

Mar Garcia-Hernandez, Diana Sanchez, Jose Antonio Alonso (ICMM (CSIC)), Nieves Menendez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), Jose Luis Martinez, M. Jesus Martinez-Lope, Teresa Casais (ICMM (CSIC), Campus de Cantoblanco, E-28049 Madrid, Spain)

14:42 K31.002 Theoretical study of magnetoresistance in Sr_2MoFeO_6

Miguel A. Hernández, Pablo de la Mora (Depto. de Fís., Fac. de Ciencias, UNAM, CU, Coyoacán, D.F. 04510, México), Gustavo Tavizón (Depto. de Fís. y Quím. Teórica, Fac. de Quím., UNAM, CU, Coyoacán, 04510, D.F., México)

14:54 K31.003 Temperature Dependent Infrared Response in Double-Perovskite Transition Metal Oxides.

N.E. MASSA, F.P. De la Cruz (LANAIS en Espectroscopía Optica-CEQUINOR, U.N.L.P., C.C. 962 (1900) La Plata, Argentina), J.A. ALONSO, M.J. Martinez-Lope, M.T. Casais (ICMM-CSIC, Cantoblanco, E28049- Madrid, Spain.)

15:06 K31.004 Andreev Reflection Spin Spectroscopy of Double Perovskites Sr2FeMoO6 (SFMO)

Raghava Panguluri, Boris Nadgorny (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University), Xu Dheng, Yutaka Moritomo (Department of Applied Physics, Nagoya University)

15:18 K31.005 Mechanism of Large Magnetoresistance in Spin-Glass Ruthenates

I-Wei Chen, Alexander Mamchik (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania), J.M. Kikkawa (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania)

15:30 K31.006 Explanation of the GMR phenomenon in the LaNi_xCo_1-xO_3 solid solution

John Androulakis, John Giapintzakis (Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, FORTH, PO Box 1527, 71110 Heraklion Crete GREECE)

15:42 K31.007 Epitaxial Growth of a Half-Metallic Oxide on Silicon: EuO / Si (001)

Venu Vaithyanathan, James Lettieri, Darrell G. Schlom (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802), S.K. Eah, Jeremy Levy (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260), Jason Stephens, V. Sih, D.D. Awschalom (Department of Physics and Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106), Center for Oxide-Semiconductor Materials for Quantum Computation (COSMQC) Collaboration

15:54 K31.008 Glassy ferromagnetism and magnetic phase separation in LaSrCoO3 (0 < x < 0.70)

J Wu, C Leighton (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota)

16:06 K31.009 Unconventional spin fluctuations in the triangular antiferromagnet YMnO3

T. J. Sato, S. -H Lee (NCNR, National Institute of Standards and Technology), T. Katsufuji (Dept. Phys., Waseda Univ.), M. Masaki (Dept. Adv. Mat. Sci., Univ. Tokyo), S. Park, J. R. D. Copley (NCNR, National Institute of Standards and Technology), H. Takagi (Dept. Adv. Mat. Sci., Univ. Tokyo)

16:18 K31.010 High magnetic-field study on the anomalous Hall effect and magnetization in Nd_2Mo_2O_7

Y. Taguchi, T. Sasaki, S. Awaji, T. Takenobu, Y. Iwasa (IMR, Tohoku Univ., Japan), T. Tayama, T. Sakakibara (ISSP, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), S. Iguchi (Dept. of Appl. Phys., Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), T. Itoh (Correlated Electron Research Center, AIST, Japan), Y. Tokura (Dept. of Appl. Phys., Univ. of Tokyo, and Correlated Electron Research Center, AIST, Japan)

14:30 K32.001 Infrared studies of SrTiO_3 thin films using pulsed terahertz and FTIR spectroscopy

John Cerne, Daniel Wolpert, Konstantin Korolev, Joseph R. Knab, Andrea G. Markelz (Physics Dept., University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY), Tong Zhao, Ramamoorthy Ramesh (Dept. of Materials Science and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD)

14:42 K32.002 PHASE TRANSITIONS IN Pb(ZrTi)O_3 CO-MODIFIED BY La AND Li

V.M. Ishchuk (Institute for Single Crystals of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkov 61001, Ukraine), V.L. Sobolev (Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD 57701)

14:54 K32.003 Diffuse X-ray Scattering Investigations of Structural Disorder in PbTiO_3

B.D. Chapman (Univ. of Wash.), J.O. Cross (PNC-CAT), S.-W. Han (LBNL), G.T. Seidler, E.A. Stern (Univ. of Wash. & PNC-CAT), R.V. Vedrinskii, V.L. Kraizman (Rostov State Univ.)

15:06 K32.004 Ferroelectricity in Ultrathin PbTiO_3 Films

Dillon Fong, G. Brian Stephenson, Jeff Eastman, Stephen Streiffer, Orlando Auciello, Paul Fuoss (Argonne National Laboratory), Carol Thompson, Marian Aanerud (Northern Illinois University)

15:18 K32.005 Finite size effects for phonon mode softening in ferroelectric thin films

J. Knab, D. Wolpert, W. Cox, J. Cerne, A. Markelz (Physics Dept., University at Buffalo, SUNY), C. Friend, P. Prasad (Chem. Dept., University at Buffalo, SUNY), T. Zhao, R. Ramesh (Dept. of Materials Science and Nuclear Engineering, University of Marlyand, College Park, MD)

15:30 K32.006 Low temperature kinetic phase transformation in antiferroelectric Pb_0.97La_0.02(Zr_0.6Sn_0.3Ti_0.1)O_3 ceramic

Eugene V. Colla, M. B. Weissman (Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Wai-Hung Chan, Haydn Chen, Z. Xu (Dept. of Physics and Material Science, City University of Hong Kong)

15:42 K32.007 Local structure of PbZr_1-xTi_xO_3 near MPB studied using pair distrubution function (PDF)

IL-KYOUNG JEONG, T. Darling, R. Heffner (MST-10, Los Alamos National Lab.), J.K. Lee (MST-8, Los Alamos National Lab.), J. S. Park, K.S. Hong (Seoul National University)

15:54 K32.008 Inelastic Neutron Scattering Study of the Relaxor Ferroelectric PZN-xPT

D. La-Orauttapong, J. Toulouse (Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015), B. Hennion (LLB, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France), Z -G. Ye (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6), R. Erwin (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899), J. L. Robertson (ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831)

16:06 K32.009 New Ground State of Relaxor Ferroelectric Pb(Zn_1/3Nb_2/3)O_3 (PZN)

Guangyong Xu (Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973), Zhong Zhong (National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973), Yonghong Bing, Zuo-Guang Ye (Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby,British Columbia, Canada, V5A 1S6), Christopher Stock (Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A7), Gen Shirane (Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973)

16:18 K32.010 Aging and Barkhausen Noise in the Relaxor Ferroelectric SBN:La and PMN/PT

Lambert K. Chao, Eugene V. Colla, M. B. Weissman (Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

16:30 K32.011 Structural transformations of PMN relaxor ferroelectric studied by Raman spectroscopy

O. Svitelskiy, J. Toulouse (Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 18015), Z.-G. Ye (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada)

16:42 K32.012 Long-range strains and the effects of applied field at 180^o ferroelectric domain walls in lithium niobate

Terrence Jach (NIST), Sungwon Kim, Venkatraman Gopalan (Pennsylvania State University), Stephen Durbin (Purdue University), David Bright (NIST)

16:54 K32.013 Observation of single unit-cell atomic steps and possible 180�‹domain patterns on as-grown BaTiO3 by atomic force microscopy

Yukio Watanabe (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan), Hans Peter Lang, J. Georg Bednorz, Christoph Gerber (IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland)

17:06 K32.014 Phase transition of multi-layered ferroelectric copolymer thin film

Jihee Kim, Matt Poulsen, Stephen Ducharme, S Adenwalla (Department of Physicsamp;Astronomy at University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

17:18 K32.015 Asymmetric Dielectrics by Compositionally Broken Inversion Symmetry

Maitri Warusawithana, Eugene Colla, M. B. Weissman, J. N. Eckstein (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.)

14:30 K34.001 Microwave ionization of Rydberg atoms at high scaled frequency

H. Maeda, T.F. Gallagher (Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904)

14:42 K34.002 A Keldysh picture of strong field double ionization

Juana Rudati, Jan Chaloupka, Louis DiMauro (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Ken Kulander (TAMP, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551 USA), Pierre Agostini (SPAM, Centre d Etudes de Saclay, 91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France), DiMauro's Group Collaboration

14:54 K34.003 Modification of nonlinear Faraday effect in the presence of buffer gas

Irina Novikova, Andrey B. Matsko, George R. Welch (Department of Physics and Institute for Quantum Studies, Texas Aamp;M University)

15:06 K34.004 Storing and processing coherent optical information with ultra-slow light in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs)

Zachary Dutton (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8410), Lene Vestergaard Hau (Dept. of Physics and Div. of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138)

15:18 K34.005 Electomagnetically Induced Absorption in hot Rb vapor with buffer gas.

Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, Irina Novikova, Yuri V. Rostovtsev, George R