Program overview

WEDNESDAY MORNING, 5 MARCH 2003

08:00 N1.001 Accelerating Car-Parrinello simulations

Michele Parrinello (Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico (CSCS), CH-6928 Manno and Physical Chemistry, ETH, Hönggerberg HCI, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland)

08:36 N1.002 Million Atom Pseudopotential Manybody Theory of Electronic Structure and Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Quantum Dots

Alex Zunger (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401)

09:12 N1.003 Carbon-Based Nanotechnology on a Supercomputer

David Tomanek (Michigan State University)

09:48 N1.004 Structural and electronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures from first principles calculations

Giulia Galli (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, USA.)

10:24 N1.005 Simulations of Metallic Nanoscale Structures

Karsten W. Jacobsen (CAMP, Dept. of Physics, Technical University of Denmark)

08:00 N2.001 PERSISTENCE EXPONENTS FOR DISCRETE GROWTH MODELS

Magdalena Constantin, Sankar Das Sarma, Chandan Dasgupta, Patcha Punyiandu-Chatraphorn (University of Maryland, Department of Physics, Condensed Matter Theory Center, College Park, MD 20742-4111)

08:12 N2.002 PERSISTENCE OF LARGE DEVIATIONS IN SURFACE GROWTH

Chandan Dasgupta, Magdalena Constantin, Sankar Das Sarma (Department of Physics, Condensed Matter Theory Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111)

08:24 N2.003 Persistence Probability and Step Kinetics

D.B. Dougherty, E.D. Williams (Department of Physics and MRSEC University of Maryland at College Park)

08:36 N2.004 Competing mechanisms for step meandering in unstable growth

Joachim Krug (Fachbereich Physik, University of Essen, 45117 Essen, Germany)

09:12 N2.005 Evolution of Step Profiles on Vicinals of Cu (111) Using Self Teaching Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations

Altaf Karim (Kansas State University), Oleg Trushin (Academy of Sciences of Russia, Yaroslavl, Russia), Abdelkader Kara, Talat S. Rahman (Kansas State University)

09:24 N2.006 Orientation Dependence of Step Stiffness: Non-Ising Experimental Behavior and Implications

Sabine Dieluweit, Harald Ibach, Margret Giesen (Institut für Schichten und Grenzflächen, ISG 3, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany), T. L. Einstein (Dep't of Physics, Univ.of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111)

09:36 N2.007 Electron current effect on the step-edge fluctuation observed for epitaxial Ag film*.

Oleksandr Bondarchuk, Masashi Degawa, Ellen D. Williams (University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)

09:48 N2.008 Evolution of Surface Morphology of Patterned GaAs(100) during Molecular Beam Epitaxial Growth

Hung-Chih Kan, Sonam Shah, Tabassom Tadayyon-Eslami, Raymond Phaneuf (University of Maryland, and Laboratory for Physical Sciences, College Park, MD 20740, USA)

10:00 N2.009 Surface Smoothing During Steady State and Interrupted Growth of GaAs Epitaxial Films

Anders Ballestad, Jens Schmid, Sebastien Tixier, Tom Tiedje (Physics amp; Astronomy, U of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada), Ben Ruck (Victoria U of Wellington, New Zealand)

10:12 N2.010 Structure of GaAs/AlAs ultra-short-period superlattices analyzed by x-ray diffraction

J.H. Li, S.C. Moss (Phys. Dept., Univ. of Houston), Yong Zhang, Angelo Mascarenhas (NREL)

10:24 N2.011 A Monte-Carlo Study of Island Nucleation Behavior during CVD Deposition of Si on Si(111)

K. E. Khor, S. DAS SARMA (Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park)

10:36 N2.012 Transitions and Fluctuations of Adsorption Layers on and in Active Substrates

Hergen Schultze, Reiner Kree (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Goettingen)

08:00 N3.001 Polymer dynamics from the global to the local scale

Dieter Richter (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

08:36 N3.002 Linear Dynamics of Nonlinear Polymers, and Vice Versa

Scott Milner (ExxonMobil Corporate Research)

09:12 N3.003 Chain and Ion Dynamics in Ionomer Melts

Richard A. Register (Chemical Engineering and Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University)

09:48 N3.004 Polymer Dynamics Under Strong Spatial Confinement

Spiros H. Anastasiadis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas and Univeristy of Crete, Heraklion Crete, Greece)

10:24 N3.005 The Role of Melt Dynamics in Flow-Induced Crystallization

Julia A. Kornfield (California Institute of Technology)

08:00 N4.001 Spin – Charge Separation and Localization in One - Dimension Measured Using Momentum Resolved Tunneling

Amir Yacoby (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.)

08:36 N4.002 Interplay between Coulomb Interactions and Confinement in Quantum Wires

Yaroslav Tserkovnyak (Harvard University)

09:12 N4.003 Energy and Phase Relaxation in Mesoscopic Metal Wires

Norman Birge (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI)

09:48 N4.004 Electronic and atomic shell structure in alkali metal nanowires

Alexei Yanson (Kamerlingh Onnes laboratorium, Leiden University, The Netherlands)

10:24 N4.005 Quantum Necking in Stressed Nanowires

Jérôme Bürki (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany)

08:00 N5.001 Persistent Currents in Superconducting Nanowires and Rings

Leonid Glazman (University of Minnesota)

08:36 N5.002 Spontaneous formation of a \pi soliton in a superconducting wire with an odd number of electrons

Victor Yakovenko (Department of Physics, University of Maryland)

09:12 N5.003 Superconductivity in MoGe nanowires

Nina Markovic (Harvard University)

09:48 N5.004 Destructive regime and superconductor-normal metal transition in ultrathin, doubly-connected cylinders

Mari-Anne Rosario (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University)

10:24 N5.005 TRANSPORT IN CUPRATE SANDWICH JUNCTIONS: THE QUEST FOR PREFORMED PAIRS AND SPIN-CHARGE SEPARATION

Ivan Bozovic (Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University)

08:00 N6.001 Glass-forming liquids as nanostructured fluids

Sharon C. Glotzer (University of Michigan, Depts. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI 48109)

08:36 N6.002 Nanoscale Noise in Glass

Nathan Israeloff (Northeastern University)

09:12 N6.003 Single Molecule Studies of Heterogeneous Domains Near The Glass Transition

David Vanden Bout (Dept. of Chemistry amp; Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin)

09:48 N6.004 Local Perturbations of Colloidal Glasses

Eric R. Weeks (Physics Department, Emory University, Atlanta GA)

10:24 N6.005 Local Motion in Attractive Colloidal Glasses

D.A. Weitz (Dept. of Physics and DEAS, Harvard University)

08:00 N7.001 Pressure Dependence of Neutron Diffraction, NMR and MuSR in URu2Si2

Hiroshi Amitsuka (Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan)

08:36 N7.002 Hidden Orbital Order in the Heavy Fermion Metal URu_2Si_2

Premi Chandra (NEC Research Institute)

09:12 N7.003 High Magnetic Field Studies of the Hidden-Order Phase in URu_2Si_2

Marcelo Jaime (MST-NHMFL, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM)

09:48 N7.004 NMR Studies of f-Electron Magnetism in Actinide Compounds

R. E. Walstedt (Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Tokai-mura, Ibaraki-ken, 319-1195 Japan)

10:24 N7.005 Triple-q multipolar ordering in NpO_2

Carsten Detlefs (ESRF, BP 220, 6 rue Jules Horowitz, 38043 Grenoble Cedex, France)

08:00 N8.001 Modeling the SONOS Erase Process

M Sadd (Motorola Inc), J.A. Yater, J. Bu, C.M. Hong, W.M. Paulson, C.T. Swift, R. Singh, L. Parker, M.G. Khazhinsky

08:12 N8.002 Polarization Transitions in Quantum Ring Arrays

Bahman Roostaei, Kieran Mullen (The University of Oklahoma)

08:24 N8.003 Noise power spectrum of single electron transistor (SET) having many electron traps: slave-boson mean field theory

Tetsufumi TANAMOTO, Ryuji OHBA, Ken UCHIDA, Shinobu FUJITA (ADVANCED LSI TECHNOLOGY LABORATOY, TOSHIBA Corporation)

08:36 N8.004 Silicon MOSFETs: Fundamental Limits to Scaling

Thomas Walls, Viktor Sverdlov, Konstantin Likharev (Stony Brook University)

08:48 N8.005 Nonlinear Current-voltage Characteristics of Ilmenite Hematite Ceramic

Padmini Periaswamy, Feng Zhou, Sushma Kotru, R.K Pandey (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0286)

09:00 N8.006 Tunneling studies in SiOxNy thin films on Si

Robert Laibowitz*, Evgeni Gousev, Roger Koch, Harald Okorn-Schmidt (Semiconductor Ramp;D Center, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598)

09:12 N8.007 Detecting incipient fatigue damage with scanning SQUID microscopy

Jr. Morris, Tae-Kyu Lee (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley), Seung-kyun Lee, John Clarke (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley)

09:24 N8.008 Electronic gain Cell for Identification of Large Organic Molecules

Ali Gokirmak, Sandip Tiwari (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University)

09:36 N8.009 A Novel Silicon Based Transistor-Memory Device

Helena Silva, Sandip Tiwari (School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University)

09:48 N8.010 An Eulerian Model for the Physicochemical Hydrodynamics of Spouted Vessel Electrolytic Metal Recovery System

Pezhman Alireza Shirvanian, Joseph Manuel Calo (Brown University, Division of Engineering)

10:00 N8.011 Impedance of the Microstrip SQUID Amplifier

Roy Therrien (U. C. Berkeley and LBNL), Darin Kinion (LLNL), Michael Mueck (U. of Giessen), John Clarke (UCB and LBNL)

10:12 N8.012 SQUID NMR at Millikelvin Temperatures

Jinshan Zhang, B.R. Fink, K.S. White, H.M. Bozler, C.M. Gould (Dept. of Physics amp; Astronomy, Univ. of Southern California), P.K. Day (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

10:24 N8.013 Monolithic Multiloop SQUID magnetometers for high resolution SQUID microscopy

Luis Fong, Krista McBride, Jenny Holzer (Living State Physics Vanderbilt University), Masoud Radparvar (HYPRES), Franz Baudenbacher (Living State Physics Vanderbilt University)

10:36 N8.014 Multifunctional hot-electron sensors with mesoscopic number of quasiparticles

Andrei Sergeev, Vladimir Mitin (ECE, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202), Boris Karasic (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109), Michael Gershenson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854)

N8.015 Superconducting 200 MHz “Phased” Array for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Applications

Jaroslaw Wosik (Texas Center for Supeconductivity and Dept. Electrical and Computer Eng., University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204), Krzysztof Nesteruk (Institute of Physics of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland), Lei-Ming Xie, Lian Xue (Texas Center for Supeconductivity and Dept. Electrical and Computer Eng., University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204), James A. Bankson (Department of Imaging Physics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX), Morteza Naghavi (University of Texas Houston School of Medicine and Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX)

08:00 N9.001 Effects of Tau on Flow-Aligned Microtubule Bundles

Jennifer L. Ross, D. Kuchnir Fygenson (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA)

08:12 N9.002 Microtubule Bundles In Vitro: Structure and Intermolecular Forces

Daniel Needleman, Miguel Ojeda-Lopez, Jayna Jones, Cyrus Safinya (Materials Dept., Physics Dept., UCSB), Herb Miller, Leslie Wilson (MCDB, UCSB)

08:24 N9.003 Stochastic Spectral Dynamics of Single Semiflexible Filaments in Shear Flow

Chris Wiggins (columbia University department of applied physics and applied mathematics), Alberto Montesi, Matteo Pasquali (Rice University Department of Chemical Engineering)

08:36 N9.004 Wavelength-Dependent Hydrodynamics of a Solution of Semiflexible Rods: Microrheology of F-Actin Solutions

David Morse (University of Minnesota)

08:48 N9.005 The observation of hysteresis and the role of Brownian fluctuations in the coil-strech transition

Steven Chu (Department of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University)

09:24 N9.006 Single Molecule Visualization of DNA in Free-Surface Flows of Dilute Solutions

Rajat Duggal, Jordan Pearce, Matteo Pasquali (Rice University)

09:36 N9.007 Nanosphere Arrays for DNA Fractionation using Pulse-Field Electrophoresis

Walter Reisner (Department of Physics, Princeton University), Jonas Tegenfeldt (Department of Physics and Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University), Joseph Peach (Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University), Robert Austin, Paul Chaikin (Department of Physics, Princeton University)

09:48 N9.008 Long DNA Molecules at Liuid-Solid Interfaces

Young-Soo Seo, Vladimir Samuilov, John Sokolov, Miriam Rafailovich (Department of Materials Science, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY), Ben Chu (Depatment of Chemistry, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY)

10:00 N9.009 Dynamics of DNA-Obstacle Collisions

Patrick Doyle, Greg Randall (MIT Department of Chemical Engineering)

10:12 N9.010 The leaf venation as formed in a tensorial field leaf venation as formed in a tensorial field."

Yves Couder (Laboratoire de physique statistique 24 rue Lhomond 75231 Paris cedex 05 France)

10:48 N9.011 "Ruban a godets": An elastic model for ripples in plant leaves

Basile Audoly (Laboratoire de Modelisation en Mecanique, Universite Paris VI), Arezki Boudaoud (Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Superieure)

08:00 N10.001 Applications of Statistical Physics to Understanding the Properties and Function of Noncoding DNA

H. Eugene Stanley (Boston University Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics)

08:36 N10.002 Genomic patterns associated with paternal/maternal distribution of transposable elements

Jerzy Jurka (Genetic Information Research Institute)

09:12 N10.003 The history of mutation pattern in human: A statistical analysis of repetitive sequences

Peter Arndt (Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, UC San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093)

09:48 N10.004 Phlogenetics and the Tree of Life

David Hillis (Univ. Texas at Austin)

08:00 N11.001 Electronic Wavefunction Reorientation Revealed by Femtosecond 2D Spectra

David M. Jonas (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado)

08:36 N11.002 ULTRAFAST THIRD-ORDER OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES OF EXTENDED POLYYNE CHAINS

Aaron Slepkov, Frank Hegmann (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Canada.), Sara Eisler, Erin Elliot, Rik Tykwinski (Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Canada)

08:48 N11.003 Biexcitonic contributions to to third- and fifth-order photon echo signals from nanocrystalline quantum dots

Anne E. Colonna, Vanessa M. Huxter, Xiujuan Yang, Gregory D. Scholes (Lash-Miller Chemical Laboratories, University of Toronto)

09:00 N11.004 Signatures of beta-sheet secondary structure in two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy

Nurettin Demirdöven, Christopher Cheatum, Hoi Sung Chung, Munira Khalil, Andrei Tokmakoff (MIT), Jasper Knoester (University of Groningen)

09:12 N11.005 Anharmonic interactions in peptides by dual frequency heterodyned 2D IR

Robin M. Hochstrasser (University of Pennsylvania)

09:48 N11.006 Dynamics of Vibrational Excitons in Liquid Acetone Studied by Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy

Nien-Hui Ge, Yung Kim, Robin Hochstrasser (Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA)

10:00 N11.007 Observing relaxation processes in a coupled vibrational system using 2D IR spectroscopy

Munira Khalil, Nurettin Demirdöven, Andrei Tokmakoff (Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:36 N11.008 Measurement of LH-HH Raman Coherence Using Three-Beam Transient Four-Wave Mixing

C.N Borca, A.G. Van Engen Spivey, S.T. Cundiff (JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology)

08:00 N12.001 The Identification of Step Atoms by High Resolution Core Level Spectroscopy

Johan Gustafson, Mikael Borg, Anders Mikkelsen, Edvin Lundgren, Jesper Andersen (Dept. of Synchrotron Radiation Research, Lund University, Sweden), Serguei Gorovikov (Max-lab, Lund University, Sweden)

08:12 N12.002 Dynamics of incommensurate Xe/Pt(111).

L. W. Bruch (Department of Physics), R. D. Boutchko (Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

08:24 N12.003 Wetting transition of Xe on Cs-plated graphite

Stefano Curtarolo (MIT, Departmente Materials Science and Engineering), Renee D. Diehl, Milton W. Cole (Penn State University, Department of Physics)

08:36 N12.004 Xe Ordering on the Decagonal Al-Ni-Co Surface

Renee Diehl, Nicola Ferralis (Penn State University)

08:48 N12.005 Formation and reactivity of two-dimensional oxide on Pt(110)

Wei-Xue Li, BJORK Hammer (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Århus, DK-8000 Århus C, Denmark)

09:00 N12.006 The intermediate oxidation of the Pd(100) surface

A Mikkelsen, E Lundgren, J Gustafson, M Borg, J. N Andersen (Department of Synchrotron Radiation Research, University of Lund, Sweden)

09:12 N12.007 Initial oxide formation on the Pd(100)-Surface

Mira Todorova, Karsten Reuter, Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany), Volker Blum (National Renewable Energy Laboratory,1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, CO 80401, USA)

09:24 N12.008 Electronic Structure study of the Cu(210)-O systems

Abdelkader Kara, Talat S. Rahman (Department of Physics, Kansas State University)

09:36 N12.009 Thermal desorption of CO from Mo(110)

S Raaen, M Juel (Physics Dept., NTNU, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway)

09:48 N12.010 The Chemisorptive Bonding of CO on Fe(001)

Gregory A Benesh (Baylor University)

10:00 N12.011 First-principles study of CO adsorption and further reactions on Ni(111) surfaces

Ioannis N. Remediakis, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Jens K. Norskov (Center for Atomic-scale Materials Physics, Technical University of Denmark)

10:12 N12.012 Modulating the Adsorptive Properties of Transition Metal Oxides by Metal Doping

Raj Ganesh Pala, Feng Liu (University of Utah)

10:24 N12.013 Predicting the Adsorptive Properties of Strained Metal Surfaces

Pala Raj, Liu Feng (University of Utah)

10:36 N12.014 Oxygen vacancy mediated O_2 adsorption and CO oxidation on the rutile TiO_2 (110) surface

Xueyuan Wu (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Annabella Selloni (Princeton University), Michele Lazzeri (Laboratoire de Mineralogie Cristallographie de Paris), Saroj Nayak (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

10:48 N12.015 NO oxidation on Pt(111) governed by oxygen coverage

Staffan Ovesson, Bengt I. Lundqvist (Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden), William F. Schneider, Alexander Bogicevic (Scientific Research Laboratories, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn)

08:00 N13.001 Evolution of Aggregate Shape in Simulation of Dense Aggregating Systems

D. Fry, A. Chakrabarti, A. Mohammad, C. M. Sorensen (Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. 66506-2601)

08:12 N13.002 Novel List Method of Generating Fractal Aggregates

A. Mohammad, D. Fry, A. Chakrabarti, C. Sorensen (Department of Physics, Kansas State University)

08:24 N13.003 Observation of Soot Superaggregates in Laminar Acetylene/Air Diffusion Flames with a Fractal Dimension of 2.6^1

W. Kim, C.M. Sorensen, D. Fry, D. Shi, A. Chakrabarti (Dept. of Physics in Kansas State University)

08:36 N13.004 Depletion interactions mediated by semiflexible rods

Keng-Hui Lin (Havard University), Andy W.C. Lau, Arjun G. Yodh (UPenn)

08:48 N13.005 Direct Measurement of DNA Induced Colloidal Interactions

Paul Biancaniello (University of Pennsylvania - Physics and Astronomy Department), Anthony Kim, John Crocker (University of Pennsylvania - Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department)

09:00 N13.006 Brownian dynamics simulation of colloidal self-assembly

Geuorgui Bourov, Aniket Bhattacharya (University of Central Florida)

09:12 N13.007 Formation and Stabilization of Water-in-Carbon Dioxide Miniemulsions

Jasper Dickson, Branden Salinas, Keith Johnston (Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin)

09:24 N13.008 Examining Colloidal Building Blocks

David Stucke, Vincent Crespi (Pennsylvania State University)

09:36 N13.009 Kinetics of Brownian Particles Driven Through Irregular Arrays of Potential Wells

Pamela Korda (UCLA), David Grier (University of Chicago)

09:48 N13.010 Use of a One-dimensional Optical Tweezer to Measure Stochastic Resonance in a Colloidal System

Steven Sundbeck, David Grier (James Franck Institute, University of Chicago)

10:00 N13.011 Micro-manipulation using Novel Optical Traps

G. C. Spalding (Illinois Wesleyan University, University of St. Andrews), D. McGloin, V. Garces-Chavez, M. P. MacDonald, H. Melville, K. Dholakia (University of St. Andrews)

10:12 N13.012 Comparison of structure of monodisperse solid foams and liquid froths

E.A. Miller, D.B. Wells, N.J. Giansiracusa (University of Washington), G.T. Seidler (University of Washington and PNC-CAT)

10:24 N13.013 Speckle Visibility Spectroscopy Studies of Multiply Scattering Colloidal Suspensions

Ranjini Bandyopadhyay (Dept. Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095), P. K. Dixon (Dept. Physics, California State University, San Bernardino, CA 92407), R. P. Ojha, D. J. Durian (Dept. Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095)

10:36 N13.014 Isotropic tetrahedral bubbles in a foam and why they are useful

Sascha Hilgenfeldt, Alexander van Doornum (Applied Physics, University of Twente, The Netherlands)

10:48 N13.015 Ripening of porous media

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

08:00 N14.001 Modeling and experimental investigation of cantilever dynamics in force detected single electron tunneling

Clayton C. Williams, Levente J. Klein (Dept. of Physics, University of Utah)

08:12 N14.002 Seeing the Atomic Orbital: First-Principles Study of the Effect of Tip Geometry on Atomic Force Microscopy

M. H. Huang, Martin Cuma, Feng Liu (University of Utah)

08:24 N14.003 A High Precision Displacement Sensor For Atomic Force Microscopy Based on Fiber-Optic Interferometry

Tien-Ming Chuang, Matthew Delgado, Alex de Lozanne (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin)

08:36 N14.004 Internal friction of Cantilevers

Simon Rast, Urs Gysin, Ernst Meyer (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Klingelbergstr 4056 Basel Switzerland)

08:48 N14.005 The Nanoworkbench: Electron transport on Ge/Silicon Surfaces. First Results.

Joachim Ahner (Seagate Technology, Pittsburgh, PA 15222), Olivier Guise, Hubertus Marbach (Surface Science Center, Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260), Jeremy Levy (Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260), Jr. Yates (Surface Science Center, Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260), Surface Science Center Team, Center for Oxide-Semiconductor Materials for Quantum Computation Team

09:00 N14.006 A novel coarse approach mechanism for a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Ayan Guha, Suenne Kim, Alex de Lozanne (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin)

09:12 N14.007 Noise spectroscopy in STM and point contacts- theory and applications

Zohar Nussinov (Los Alamos National Lab), Michael Crommie (University of California, Berkeley), Alexander Balatsky (Los Alamos National Lab)

09:24 N14.008 Novel Three-Lead Hall Probe for use in Scanned Hall-probe Microscopy

M.A. Topinka, K.A. Moler (Stanford University)

09:36 N14.009 Atomic-scale Spin-polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy studies of the surface magnetic structure of Mn_3N_2 (010)

Haiqiang Yang, Arthur R. Smith (Condensed Matter and Surface Science Program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701), Margarita Prikhodko, Walter R.L. Lambrecht (Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106)

09:48 N14.010 Bias-Voltage-Dependent Magnetic Contrast in Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Rong Yang, Haiqiang Yang, Arthur R. Smith (Condensed Matter and Surface Science Program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701), Margarita Prikhodko, Walter R.L. Lambrecht (Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106)

10:00 N14.011 Tunnelling induced fluorescence as a probe of electromagnetic interaction at nanometer proximity

G. Hoffmann (Universität Hamburg, Germany), J. Aizpurua (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD), S. P. Apell (Kristianstad University, Sweden), R. Berndt (Christian-Albrechts-Universitiat zu Kiel, Germany)

10:12 N14.012 Apertureless near-field scanning optical microscopy: probe depth and vertical contrast

Markus Raschke, Christoph Lienau (Max-Born-Institute, D-12489 Berlin)

10:24 N14.013 Characterization of near-field microwave focusing through a deep sub-wavelength aperture

Chris Brace, Jim Truitt, D. W. van der Weide (Dept of Electrical amp; Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

10:36 N14.014 The Spatial Distribution and Morphology of Supported Nanocatalysts using Rutherford-Scattered Electron Imaging

Pratibha GAI (DuPont, Central Research and Development, Wilmington DE 19880-0356.), Paul Midgley (Department of Materials Scienec, University of Cambridge), Matthew Weyland (Department of materials Science, University of Cambridge), John Thomas (Department of Materials Science, University of cambridge), Edward BOYES (DuPont, Central Research and Development), DuPont-Cambridge Collaboration

N14.015 Novel Scanning Near-Field Microwave Microscopes Capable of Imaging Semiconductors and Metals

Atif Imtiaz, Alexander Tselev, Steven Anlage (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland at College Park, MD 20742)

08:00 N15.001 Exact Results, Scaling Properties, and the Structure of Small-World Networks

Eivind Almaas (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame)

08:36 N15.002

08:48 N15.003 Effects of Random Noise on a Simple Class of Growing Network Models

Jong-Won Kim, Holger Kantz (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)

09:00 N15.004 Probabilistic prediction in scale-free networks: Diameter changes

J.-H. Kim, K.-I. Goh, B. Kahng, D. Kim (School of Physics, Seoul National University)

09:12 N15.005 Geography in a Scale-Free Network Model

Christopher Warren, Leonard Sander (Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Michigan), Igor Sokolov (Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

09:24 N15.006 Stochastic Growth in a Small World

G. Korniss (Rensselaer), M.A. Novotny (Mississippi State University), H. Guclu (Rensselaer), Z. Toroczkai (Los Alamos National Laboratory), P.A. Rikvold (Florida State University)

09:36 N15.007 Scaling in Ordered and Critical Random Boolean Nets

Joshua Socolar (Physics Department and Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Duke University), Stuart Kauffman (Bios Group, Santa Fe, NM)

09:48 N15.008 Rigidity of central-force elastic networks in three dimensions

M.V. Chubynsky, M.F. Thorpe (Michigan State University), D.J. Jacobs (California State University, Northridge), W. Whiteley (York University, Canada)

10:00 N15.009 Inferring network connections from time series data

Anshul Kundaje (Columbia University Department of Computer Science), Chris Wiggins (Columbia University Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics)

10:12 N15.010 Statistics of CrossNet Arrays

Özgür Türel, Konstantin Likharev (SUNY at Stony Brook)

10:24 N15.011 Breakdown Strength in Electrical and Elastic Random Networks

Julio Espinoza Ortiz, Chamith Rajapakse, Gemunu Gunaratne (Department of Physics, University of Houston), Statistical amp; Non Linear Physics Team

10:36 N15.012 Detection of hierarchies and complex networks in cerebral synchronization patterns

Plamen Ch. Ivanov (Boston University and Harvard Medical School), Kun Hu (Boston University), Juergen Dammers, Thomas Fieseler, Peter A. Tass (Research Centre Juelich, Germany)

10:48 N15.013 Read before you cite!

M.V. Simkin, V.P. Roychowdhury (UCLA)

08:00 N16.001 Quantum Dot/Polymer Composites: Nanoscale Characterization With Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy

Valerie Leppert (Dept. of Chem. Eng. and Mat. Sci., University of California, Davis)

08:36 N16.002 Self-assembly of nanoparticles into periodic nanopatterns

Seung-Heon Lee, Frederic S. Diana, Antonio Badolato, Pierre M. Petroff, Edward J. Kramer (Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

08:48 N16.003 Fabrication of cobalt nanocrystals by rapid pyrolysis in inverse PS-PVP micelles and thermal annealing

Frederic S. Diana, Seung-Heon Lee, Rachel A. Segalman, Pierre M. Petroff, Edward J. Kramer (Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

09:00 N16.004 Self-assembled organic-inorganic thin films

Phong Du, Carlos Garcia, Anurag Jain, Ulrich Wiesner (Materials Science amp; Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), Jochen S. Gutmann (Physics, MPI for Polymers Research, Mainz, Germany), Detlef-M. Smilgies (Cornell High Energy Synchrotron, Ithaca, NY), Sol M. Gruner (Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

09:12 N16.005 Templated thin films of bicontinuous cubic nanostructured silica

Ryan C. Hayward, Galen D. Stucky, Bradley F. Chmelka, Edward J. Kramer (University of California, Santa Barbara)

09:24 N16.006 Fabrication of Mesoporous Silicate Films by Three Dimensional Replication of Block Copolymer Templates in Supercritical Fluids

Rajaram Pai, James Watkins (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003)

09:36 N16.007 Nanoimprint-guided self-assembly of block copolymer films for the patterned media templates.

Masatoshi Sakurai, Hiroyuki Hieda, Yoshiyuki Kamata, Akira Kikitsu, Katsuyuki Naito, Koji Asakawa (Corporate Research amp; Development Center, Toshiba Corporation.), Gilles Adjanor (Ecole des Mines Nancy)

09:48 N16.008 Graphoepitaxy Control of the Deposition of Cationic Polymer Micelles on SiO2 Surfaces

Jungseok Hahn, Stephen E. Webber (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 and Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX)

10:00 N16.009 Impact of Shape Selectivity in Molecularly Imprinted Polymers

David Spivak, Ryan Simon (Louisiana State University)

10:12 N16.010 High Speed Microscopy of Breath Figures on a Volatile surface

Mohan Srinivasarao, Jung Ok Park (Georgia Institute of Technology), Rhodri Williams, M Barrow (University of Wales, Swansea), Center for Complex Fluids Collaboration

10:24 N16.011 Nanostructured Polymers to Direct Nanoparticle Organization

Ben O'Shaughnessy (Columbia University Chemical Engineering Department), Jaeup Kim (Columbia University Physics Department)

10:36 N16.012 Directed Growth of CdS Superlattices by Cationic Lipid-DNA Complexes

Hongjun Liang, Thomas Angelini, Lihua Yang, Paul Braun, Gerard Wong (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, and Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

10:48 N16.013 When is template directed mineralization truly template directed?

Elaine DiMasi (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Vishal M. Patel, Matthew J. Olszta, Munisamy Sivakumar, Gajjeraman R. Sivakumar, Yun-Peng Yang, Laurie B. Gower (University of Florida, Gainesville)

08:00 N17.001 X-ray Reflectivity Characterization of Ion Distribution at Biomimetic Membrane Surfaces

Peter Krüger, Jens Pittler (Leipzig University, Inst of Experimental Physics I, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany), David Vaknin (Ames Laboratory and Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, U.S.A.), Mathias Lösche (Leipzig University, Inst of Experimental Physics I, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany)

08:12 N17.002 Characterization of a Biomimetic Polymeric-Lipid Bilayer by Phase Sensitive Neutron Reflectivity

Ursula A Perez-Salas, Susan Krueger, Charles F Majkrzak, Norman F Berk (NIST), Keith M Faucher, Elliot L Chaikof (Department of Surgery, Emory University), NIST Team, Department of Surgery Collaboration

08:24 N17.003 Molecular dynamics investigation on the distribution of volatile anesthetics in biomembranes

Monica Pickholz, Kwangjin Oh, Michael L. Klein (CMM, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 10104, USA)

08:36 N17.004 Coassembly of Fatty Acid Salts and Semicrystalline Ionomers

Katsuyuki Wakabayashi, Richard A. Register (Princeton University)

08:48 N17.005 Aggregation of Ionic Surfactants and Hydrophobically Modified Cellulose Ethers

Ofir Korenberg, Nadav Anker, Moshe Gottlieb (Chemical Engineering Department and Stadler Minerva Center for Mesoscopic Macromolecular Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva 84105, ISRAEL)

09:00 N17.006 Self-Assembly Behavior of Pullulan Abietate

Sheila Gradwell, Alan Esker (Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech), Wolgang Glasser (Department of Wood Science and Forest Products, Virginia Tech), Thomas Heinze (Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry, Univesity of Wuppertal)

09:12 N17.007 Environmentally Responsive Materials Constructed Via Peptide Folding and Consequent Self-Assembly

Darrin Pochan, Bulent Ozbas, Lisa Pakstis (Materials Science and Engineering and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, U. of Delaware), Karthikan Rajagopal, Joel Schneider (Chemistry and Biochemistry, U. of Delaware)

09:24 N17.008 Kinetics of Helix Reversion and Physical Gelation of Gelatin

Ralph H. Colby, Liang Guo (Penn State University), Charles P. Lusignan (Eastman Kodak Company)

09:36 N17.009 Osmotically Induced Helix-Coil Transition in Poly(glutamic acid)

Christopher Stanley, Helmut H. Strey (Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA 01003)

09:48 N17.010 Cationic Liposome-DNA Complexes: From supramolecular assembly toward gene delivery

Heather M. Evans, A Ahmad, K Ewert, A Martin, CR Safinya (UCSB Materials and Physics Depts.)

10:00 N17.011 Templated Biominerization of CaCO3 by cationic lipid-DNA

Lihua Yang, Hongjun Liang, Gerard C.L. Wong (Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, and Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

10:12 N17.012 Observing Dynamics and Spatial Partitioning of Confined DNA

Dmytro Nykypanchuk, David Hoagland, Helmut Strey (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

10:24 N17.013 Dielectrophoresis of surface-bound DNA molecules

Christoph Walti (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HE), W. Andre Germishuizen (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3RA), Paul Tosch, Adam E. Cohen, Rene Wirtz, Michael Pepper (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HE), Anton P. J. Middelberg (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3RA), A. Giles Davies (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HE)

10:36 N17.014 DNA Electrophoresis on nanopatterned surfaces

Y-S Soo, H Luo, V Samuilov, D Gersappe, B Chu, J Sokolov, M Rafailovich (Dept of Materials Science and Engg, SUNY at Stony Brook)

10:48 N17.015 Preparation and Properties of DNA Brushes

Rastislav Levicky, Adrian Horgan, Lei Jin, Patrick Johnson, Gang Shen (Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, NY, NY)

08:00 N18.001 Cylindrical Photonic Bandgap Fibers- Theory, fabrication and measurement

Yoel Fink (MIT Department of Materials Science and the Research Lab of Electronics)

08:36 N18.002 Optical Waves in Nonreciprocal 1D Photonic Crystals

Ion Bita, Edwin L. Thomas (M.I.T.)

08:48 N18.003 Controlling the Physical Properties of 3-D Polymeric Microstructures Created with Multiphoton Absorption

Tommaso Baldacchini, Richard Farrer, Christopher LaFratta, Huzhen Chen, John Fourkas (Deparment of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467), Zeynel Bayindir, Michael Naughton (Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467), Andrew Whiting, Julie Praino, Bahaa Saleh, Malvin Teich (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, 8 Saint Mary's Street, Boston, MA 02215)

09:00 N18.004 Characterization of Ordered Array of Air Bubbles in a Polymer Film

Lulu Song, Jung O. Park, Mohan Srinivasarao (Georgia Institute of Technology)

09:12 N18.005 Ultrawide Bandwidth Modulation of Light Using an Electro-Optic Polymer

Mark Lee (Bell Laboratories - Lucent Technologies)

09:48 N18.006 Poled polymer thin-film gratings studied by near-field second harmonic optical microscopy and far-field optical diffraction

François Lagugné-Labarthet (Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720), Yuen Ron Shen (Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA), Richard Daniel Schaller, Richard Saykally (Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA)

10:00 N18.007 BLOCK COPOLYMER AS HOST FOR POLARIZED EMISSION

Tao Deng, Thomas Breiner (Affiliation), Edwin Thomas (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139), Craig Breen (Affiliation), Timothy Swager (Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139)

10:12 N18.008 Polarization Anisotropy Study of Z-oriented MEH-PPV Nanoparticles

Pradeep Kumar K.K., M.D. Dadmun (Dept.of Chemistry, University of Tennessee,Knoxville TN 37996), A Mehta, M.D. Barnes, T Thundat (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN 37831), R.M. Dickson (Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332)

10:24 N18.009 Electroabsorption in Single-crystal Film of an Organic Molecular Salt (DAST)

Rajendra Swamy, Srivatsa Govindan Kutty, Jitto Titus, Sanchit Khatavkar, Mrinal Thakur (Photonic Materials Research Laboratory,Auburn University,AL)

10:36 N18.010 Electro-optic Modulation in Single-crystal Film of DAST Measured at 1.55 microns

Jitto Titus, Rajendra Swamy, Srivatsa Govindan Kutty, Sanchit Khatavkar, Mrinal Thakur (Photonic Materials Research Laboratory, Auburn University, AL)

08:00 N19.001 Evolution of thin-film surface roughness caused by mechanical and chemical loading

Kyung-Suk Kim (Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912)

08:36 N19.002 Why do grain boundaries exhibit finite facet lengths?

John Hamilton, Don Siegel, Istvan Daruka, Francois Leonard (Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550)

08:48 N19.003 Microscopic Shape Memory and Superelastic Effects in Shape Memory Alloys and Thin Films Studied by Indentation Techniques

Wangyang Ni (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University), Yang-Tse Cheng (Materials and Processes Laboratory, General Motors Ramp;D Center), David S. Grummon (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University)

09:00 N19.004 Bridging the Gap between Macro- and Nanotribology: A Quartz Crystal Microbalance Study of Tricresylphosphate Uptake on Metal and Oxide Surfaces.

J. Krim, M. Abdelmaksoud (Affiliation), J.W. Bender (North Carolina State University)

09:12 N19.005 Frictional Dynamics of Fluorine-terminated Alkanethiol Self-Assembled Monolayers

Byeongwon Park, Michael Chandross, Mark Stevens, Gary Grest (Sandia National Lab.), Oleg Borodin (Univ. Utah)

09:24 N19.006 Defects and Friction in Alkylsilane Self-Assembled Monolayers

M. Chandross, E.B. Webb III, M.J. Stevens, G.S. Grest (Sandia National Labs), S.H. Garofalini (Rutgers University)

09:36 N19.007 Self-Assembled Monolayer Aging in Humid Environments

Byung-Il Kim, Thomas M. Mayer, Matthew G. Hankins, Maarten P. DeBoer, Bruce C. Bunker (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185)

09:48 N19.008 Structure and dynamics of monolayer films of squalane molecules adsorbed on a solid surface

A. D.t Enevoldsen, F.Y. Hansen (Technical University of Denmark), A. Diama, H. Taub (University of Missouri-Columbia)

10:00 N19.009 Molecular Diffusive Motion in a Monolayer of a Model Lubricant

A. DIAMA, L. CRISWELL, H. MO, H. TAUB (University of Missouri-Columbia), K. W. HERWIG (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), F. Y. HANSEN (Technical University of Denmark), U. G. VOLKMANN (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), R. DIMEO, D. NEUMANN (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

10:12 N19.010 Dry Friction due to Adsorbed Molecules

Christopher Daly, Jian Zhang, Jeffrey B. Sokoloff (Physics Department and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115.)

10:24 N19.011 Effect of C60 Molecular Rotation on Nanotribology

Xudong Xiao, Qi Liang, O. K. C. Tsui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong), Yabo Xu, Hongnian Li (Zhejiang University,China), Zhejiang University Collaboration

08:00 N20.001 The role of magnetism in forming the c-axis spectral peak at 400 cm-1 in high temperature superconductors.

Tom Timusk (McMaster University), Chris Homes (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

08:12 N20.002 Resonant soft x-ray scattering study of chain ordering in high-Tc superconductor YBCO

D. L. Feng, I. Elfimov, G. A. Sawatzky, R. Liang, D. Bonn, W. Hardy (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, U. of British Columbia), A. Rusydi, L. Venema (U. of Groningen), P. Abbamonte (Cornell U.), S. Hulbert, C.-C. Kao (National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Lab.)

08:24 N20.003 Optical Studies of Electron-boson Interactions in Nb and Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8+\delta Single Crystals

Jiufeng Tu, Christopher Homes, Gende Gu, Myron Strongin (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

08:36 N20.004 Polarization-Waves and Pairing in Electron Systems

G.S. Atwal (Princeton University), N.W. Ashcroft (Cornell University)

08:48 N20.005 Metallochloronitrides: Electronic Pairing Mechanism in a New Class of Superconductors

Andreas Bill (Condensed Matter Theory, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland), Hans Morawitz (IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120), Vladimir Z. Kresin (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720)

09:00 N20.006 Phonon dispersion and electron-phonon interaction for YBa_2Cu_3O_7 from first principles

Rolf Heid, Klaus-Peter Bohnen (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Festkörperphysik, P.O.B. 3640, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany)

09:12 N20.007 Dynamic effective charges and spin-phonon interaction in the high-Tc superconductors

Przemek Piekarz, Takeshi Egami (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)

09:24 N20.008 Absence of gross inhomogeneity in HTS cuprates

John Loram (IRC in Superconductivity, Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, England), Jeffery Tallon (MacDiarmid Institute, Industrial Research and Victoria University, P.O. Box 31310, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.), W. Yao Liang (IRC in Superconductivity, Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, England)

09:36 N20.009 Structural and electronic properties of n-doped and p-doped SrTiO3

Weidong Luo, Wenhui Duan, Marvin L. Cohen, Steven G. Louie (University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

09:48 N20.010 Electronic Structure of Be_29B_81 and Be_31B_31

Dana Browne (Louisiana State University), Guang-Lin Zhao (Southern University)

10:00 N20.011 Band Structure Effects in Lead

Dermot Coffey (Dept. of Physics, Buffalo State College, Buffalo NY 14222), Nicolas Bock (Dept. of Physics, SUNY Buffalo, Amherst NY14260)

10:12 N20.012 Hybridization-dominated pairing from electron repulsion in a tetramerized lattice

Takashi Kimura (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, and Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University), Yuji Zenitani (Department of Physics, Aoyama-Gakuin University), Kazuhiko Kuroki (Department of Applied Physics and Chemistry, The University of Electro-Communications), Ryotaro Arita, Hideo Aoki (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo)

10:24 N20.013 A New Interpretation of Flux Quantization

Mi-Ae Park (Physics Department, Univ. of Puerto Rico-Humacao), Yong-Jihn Kim (Physics Department, UPR-Mayaguez)

08:00 N21.001 Fermion Monte Carlo calculations of the electronic structure of first row dimers

Malvin H. Kalos, Randolph Q. Hood (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551)

08:12 N21.002 Fermion Monte Carlo calculations on large systems

Leonardo Colletti, Malvin H. Kalos (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551), Francesco Pederiva (Dipartimento di Fisica and INFM Sezione Trento, Universita' di Trento, 38050 Povo, Italy)

08:24 N21.003 Grand Canonical Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of the Electron Gas using analytic backflow

Markus Holzmann (Universite P. et M. Curie, Paris, France), David Ceperley (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Fenghua Zong (Seagate Technology, Bloomington, MN)

08:36 N21.004 Diffusion Monte Carlo Algorithm for Spin Orbit Interaction

Raghu Chatanathody, K. E. Schmidt, John Shumway (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University)

08:48 N21.005 Excitation energies of solids from diffusion Monte Carlo

Cyrus Umrigar (Cornell University)

09:00 N21.006 Computing Accurate Forces in Quantum Monte Carlo With Pulay Corrections and Energy Minimization

Andrew M. Rappe (Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA), Mose Casalegno (Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Fisiche e Matematiche, Universita dell'Insubria, Como, Italy), Massimo Mella (Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)

09:12 N21.007 Pair-correlation functions of the 2D electron gas

Saverio Moroni, Paola Gori-Giorgi, Giovanni B. Bachelet (INFM Center for Statistical Mechanics and Complexity, and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma ``La Sapienza'', Piazzale A. Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy)

09:24 N21.008 Local density functional for short-range electron-electron interaction

Lorenzo Zecca, Saverio Moroni, Paola Gori-Giorgi, Giovanni B. Bachelet (INFM Center for Statistical Mechanics and Complexity, and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma ``La Sapienza'', Piazzale A. Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy)

09:36 N21.009 A Diffusion Monte Carlo Simulation of Quantum Dot hetero-structures using a Stochastic Poisson Solver

Das Dyutiman, Richard Martin (Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Malvin Kalos (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:48 N21.010 Variational Monte Carlo calculations of van der Waals energy in graphite

David Prendergast (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, L-415, Livermore, California 94551), Stephen Fahy (Department of Physics and National Microelectronics Research Centre, University College Cork, Ireland)

10:00 N21.011 Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Transition Metal-Oxygen Systems

Lucas Wagner, Lubos Mitas (North Carolina State University)

10:12 N21.012 The exchange-correlation energy density in silicon: the role of the laplacian of the density

Antonio Cancio (Hanover College), Mei-Yin Chou (Georgia Tech), Aaron Puzder (LLNL)

08:00 N22.001 Thz Pulse Modulation of DC I-V’s in Superlattice Based Bloch Oscillator

Pavlos Savvidis, Borys Kolasa, Edzard Ulrichs, S. James Allen (Center for Terahertz Science and Technology, UCSB), David Chow (HRL Laboratories), Erik Daniel (Mayo Foundation)

08:12 N22.002 Bloch Oscillations of a Uniformly Biased Stark Ladder in Shunted Superlattices

Borys Kolasa, Pavlos Savvidis, Edzard Ulrichs, S. James Allen (Center for Terahertz Science and Technology, UCSB), David Chow (HRL Laboratories), Erik Daniel (Mayo Foundation)

08:24 N22.003 A unified picture of the temporal current self-oscillations in sequential tunneling of superlattices

Z. Z. SUN, X. R. WANG (Physics Department, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, P. R. China), S. Q. DUAN (Physics Department, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, P. R. China; Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing, 100088, China), S. D. WANG (Physics Department, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, P. R. China)

08:36 N22.004 Effects of impurity scattering on electron-phonon resonances in semiconductor superlattice high-field transport

Shaoxin Feng (University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Iowa), Christoph Grein (University of Illinois at Chicago), Michael Flatté (University of Iowa)

08:48 N22.005 Self-consistent calculations of the type II quantum wells and superlattices

Konstantin Kolokolov, Jianzhong Li, Cun-Zheng Ning (NASA Ames Research Center, M/S N229-1, Moffett Field, CA94035-1000)

09:00 N22.006 Thermoelectric Mapping of Nanostructures

Ho-Ki Lyeo (Dept. of Physics, University of Texas at Austin), Li Shi (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin), Ali Shakouri (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univeristy of California at Santa Cruz), C.K. Shih (Dept. of Physics, University of Texas at Austin)

09:12 N22.007 Spatial-dependent effects of AC fields on electron dynamics in multiple quantum wells

J.M. Villas-Boas (UFSCar, Brazil and Ohio University), N. Studart (UFSCar, Brazil), S.E. Ulloa (Ohio University)

09:24 N22.008 Structure of Transverse Electron Current in Resonant Tunneling Diodes and Breakdown of Tsu-Esaki Formula

Titus Sandu (NanoFAB Center, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019), Gerhard Klimeck (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,Pasadena, CA 91109), Wiley P. Kirk (NanoFAB Center, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019)

09:36 N22.009 Lifetime of metastable states in resonant tunneling structures

Oleg Tretiakov, Thomas Gramespacher, Konstantin Matveev (Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0305)

08:00 N24.001 Generating spin currents in unbiased semiconductors using one-photon absorption

F. Nastos, N. Arzate, R.D.R. Bhat, J.E. Sipe (Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George St., Toronto, On. Canada, M5S 1A7)

08:12 N24.002 Spin currents in ferromagnetic metal/semiconductor systems

Maria Calderon, Peter Littlewood (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

08:24 N24.003 Andreev Reflection Spin Spectroscopy in Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors

Boris Nadgorny, Raghava Panguluri (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University), X. Liu, Jacek Furdyna, Tomasz Wojtowicz (Deparment of Physics, Notre-Dame University)

08:36 N24.004 Direct Measurement of Spin Polarization of GaMnAs by Andreev Reflection

Jazcek Braden, Jeffrey Parker, Peng Xiong (MARTECH and Department of Physics, Florida State University), Seunghyun Chun, Nitin Samarth (Department of Physics, Penn State University), MARTECH Collaboration, Penn State Collaboration

08:48 N24.005 In-plane circularly polarized electroluminescence in spin-LED structures

Z. G. Yu, M. E. Flatte (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa)

09:00 N24.006 SPIN-POLARIZED ELECTRON TRANSPORT AT FERROMAGNET / SEMICONDUCTOR SCHOTTKY CONTACTS

J.D. Albrecht, D.L. Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:12 N24.007 Macroscopic spin-diffusion equation at finite electric and magnetic fields

Yunong Qi, Shufeng Zhang (University of Missouri-Columbia)

09:24 N24.008 Evidence for nuclear polarization by electrical spin injection in ferromagnet-semiconductor heterostructures

J. Strand, B.D. Schultz, A.F. Isakovic, C.J. Palmstrom, P.A. Crowell (University of Minnesota)

09:36 N24.009 Voltage Control of Nuclear Spin in Ferromagnetic Schottky Diodes

R.J. Epstein, J. Stephens, Y. Chye, M. Hanson, P.M. Petroff, A.C. Gossard, D.D. Awschalom (Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106)

09:48 N24.010 NMR Investigation of Optical Polarization of Nuclear Spins in GaAs

Anant Paravastu, Sophia Hayes, Birgit Schwickert, Jeffrey Reimer (UC Berkeley Dept. of Chemical Engineering), Long Dinh, Mehdi Balooch (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), UC Berkeley Team, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Team

10:00 N24.011 Gated Induced Nuclear Depolarization in Parabolic Quantum Wells

G.M. Steeves, M. Poggio, R.C. Myers, A.C. Gossard, D.D. Awschalom (Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

10:12 N24.012 Spatial Imaging of Magnetically-Patterned Nuclear Spins in GaAs

J. Stephens, R.K. Kawakami, J. Berezovsky, M. Hanson, D.P. Shepherd, A.C. Gossard, D.D. Awschalom (Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

10:24 N24.013 Nuclear spin dynamics due to the hyperfine interaction in parabolic quantum wells

Ionel Tifrea, Michael E. Flatte (University of Iowa)

10:36 N24.014 Quantum Information Processing with Large Nuclear Spins in GaAs Semiconductors

Michael N. Leuenberger (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, USA), Daniel Loss (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, Switzerland), M. Poggio, D.D. Awschalom (Dept. of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA), University of Basel Team, UCSB Team

10:48 N24.015 Probing Spin State of a Single Electron Trap by Random Telegraph Signal

Ming Xiao, HongWen Jiang (UCLA)

08:00 N25.001 Calculated Electronic Properties of Zinc Oxide

D. Bagayoko, G.L. Zhao (Physics Department, Southern University and A amp; M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813 USA), E.G. Wang (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080, China)

08:12 N25.002 Temperature dependence of free excitons and donor-bound excitons in ZnO

D.C. Reynolds (Semiconductor Research Center,Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 45435 and Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433), C.W. Litton (Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433), T.C. Collins (Oklahoma State University,203 Whitehurst Hall,Stillwater, OK 74078)

08:24 N25.003 Oxygen-induced reduction of the fundamental band gap of ZnOSe alloys

W. Shan, W. Walukiewicz, J.W. Ager, E.E. Haller (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Y. Nabetani (University of Yamanashi)

08:36 N25.004 The Electronic Structure of Mn Doped ZnS Determined by X-ray Spectroscopy

T.M. Schuler, D.L. Ederer, A. Stern (Tulane University), F. Himpsel (University of Wisconsin-Madison), A. Rivera (Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela), S. Itza-Ortiz (Kansas State University)

08:48 N25.005 Chemical trends of band offsets of Be- and Zn-based II-VI semiconductors

David Segev (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Su-Huai Wei (NREL)

09:00 N25.006 Interaction between the host band structure and impurity states

Yong Zhang, Brian Fluegel, Mark Hanna, Angelo Mascarenhas (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO)

09:12 N25.007 Resonant Raman study of GaAs_1-xN_x

M. J. Seong, S. Yoon, Hyeonsik M. Cheong, J. F. Geisz, M. C. Hanna, A. Mascarenhas (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado 80401)

09:24 N25.008 Resonant Raman scattering study of GaP_1-xN_x (0.25 % < x < 2.0 %)

S. Yoon, M. J. Seong, A. Mascarenhas, J. F. Geisz (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401)

09:36 N25.009 Optical Transitions in GaAsN Studied By Modulation Spectroscopy

S. Francoeur, M.C. Hanna, J.F. Geisz, Angelo Mascarenhas (National Renewable Energy Lab.), H.P. Xin, C. Tu (U. of California at San Diego)

09:48 N25.010 Anti-Stokes and Stokes Hot Luminescence from Bulk InAs and InSb

N. Wada (Dept. of Mech. Eng., Toyo Univ.), A.C.H. Rowe (NEC Research Institute), S.A. Solin (Dept. of Phys., Washington Univ. in St. Louis)

10:00 N25.011 Tight-binding calculations of the band structure and total energies of the various polytypes of silicon carbide

HARRY GOTSIS, DIMITRI PAPACONSTANTOPOULOS, MIKE MEHL (Code 6390, Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375.)

10:12 N25.012 Micro-Raman Measurements and Depth Profiling of SiC

Bahram Roughani, Uma Ramabadran (Kettering University)

10:24 N25.013

10:36 N25.014 Atomistic description of the electronic structure of T-shaped quantum wires

J. Aizpurua, Garnett W. Bryant (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD), W. Jaskolski (Instytut Fizyki, UMK, Torun, Poland)

10:48 N25.015 Pressure evolution of localized nitrogen cluster states in GaAsN alloys

P. R. C. Kent, Alex Zunger (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

08:00 N26.001 Generation of diagnostic x-ray radiation using a CNT field emission cathode

Otto Zhou (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy and Curriculum in Applied and Materials Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599)

08:36 N26.002 Controlling the site density of aligned carbon nanotubes array and its application in field emission and nanoelectrode array.

Yi Tu (Boston College, Dept. of Chemistry, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467), Sung-ho Jo (Boston College, Dept. of Physics, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467), Yuehe Lin (Pacific Northwest National lab, Richland, Washington 99352), Zhongping Huang, Zhifeng Ren (Boston College, Dept. of Physics, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467)

08:48 N26.003 The unusual field emission properties of nanotube peapods and related supramolecular assemblies

Brian Smith, Richard Russo, Satishkumar Chikkannanavar, David Luzzi (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Materials Science and Engineering)

09:00 N26.004 A Theoretical Investigation of the Effects of Cs and O2 Adsorbates on Field Emission Properties of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Brahim Akdim (Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials amp; Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio), Xiaofeng Duan (Major Shared Resource Center for High Performance Computing, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio), Ruth Pachter (Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials amp; Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio)

09:12 N26.005 Electron field emission properties of closed, open carbon nanotubes and nanotube-polymer systems

Alper Buldum (Department of Physics, The University of Akron, Akron, OH, 44325), Liming Dai (Department of Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron, OH, 44325), Jianping Lu (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599)

09:24 N26.006 FIELD EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS OF CARBON NANOTUBES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN SENSORS AND DEVICES

Ashok Vaseashta (Department of Physics, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25755)

09:36 N26.007 MODELING OF ENERGY TRANSFER FOR CARBON NANOTUBE-BASED PRECISION MACHINING

Basil T. Wong, M. Pinar Menguc, R. Ryan Vallance (University of Kentucky), Apparao M. Rao (Clemson University)

09:48 N26.008 Nanowicks: nanotubes as templates for mass transfer

B. C. Regan, S. Aloni, A. Zettl (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720)

10:00 N26.009 Single-wall carbon nanotubes dipped in mercury

Neil F. Wilson (University of Warwick), David H. Cobden (University of Washington), Julie V. Macpherson (University of Warwick)

10:12 N26.010 STM Imaging and Spectroscopy using Aligned Single-Walled Nanotubes

Aijun Zhu, Frank Tsui, Jie Tang, Otto Zhou (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

10:24 N26.011 Enhanced functionality of nanotube modified atomic force microscopy tips.

Amol Patil, Andrew G. Rinzler (Dept. of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL)

10:36 N26.012 Drawing carbon nanotubes from liquid: a room temperature process for fabrication of CNT probes and wires

Jie Tang (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uni. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill amp; National Institute for Material Science, Tsukuba, Japan), Huaizhi Geng (Curriculum in Applied and Materials Sciences,Uni. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Qi Qiu, Bao Go (Applied Nanotechnologies, Inc., Chapel Hill), Lu-Chang Qin, Otto Zhou (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uni. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill amp; Curriculum in Applied and Materials Sciences,Uni. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

N26.013 Stability and resolution of carbon-nanotube-based cold-cathode x-ray tube

Jian Zhang, Yuan Cheng, Jianping Lu, Otto Zhou (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy and Curriculum in Applied and Materials Sciences,University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599), Qi Qiu, Bo Gao (Applied Nanotechnologies, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC 27516), Sha Chang (School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599)

08:00 N27.001 Microencapsulated Electrophoretic Films for Electronic Paper Displays

Karl Amundson (E Ink Corporation)

08:36 N27.002 New CNT Composites For FEDs That Do Not Require Activation

Dongsheng Mao, Richard Fink, Greg Monty, L. Thuesen, Zvi Yaniv (Applied Nanotech, Inc.)

08:48 N27.003 Effects of Gas Exposure on the Field Emission Properties of Nanostructured Carbon Films

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

09:00 N27.004 Detonation Nanodiamond-Potential Material For FED

Eiji Osawa (NanoCarbon Research Institute)

09:12 N27.005 Thin Crystal Film Polarizer for Display Application

Michael Paukshto (Optiva, Inc., South San Francisco, CA 94080)

09:48 N27.006 Hierarchical ZnO nanostructures

Jingyu Lao, Jianguo Wen, Jianyu Huang, Dezhi Wang, Zhifeng Ren (Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA)

10:00 N27.007 Surface-enhanced Raman scattering in periodic and semi-periodic metal-dielectric films

Dentcho Genov, Andrey Sarychev (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1285), Alexander Wei (Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038), Vladimir Shalaev (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1285)

08:00 N28.001 Electron Tunneling into Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles: The Role of Spin-Orbit Coupling

Gonzalo Usaj, H. U. Baranger (Duke University)

08:12 N28.002 Shear and Magnetic Field Induced Ordering in Magnetic Nanoparticle

Vemuru Krishanmurthy, Meihua Piao, Ilir Zoto, Anand Bhandar, Dave Nikles, John Weist, Alan Lane, G.J. Mankey (University of Alabama), Lionel Porcar, Charles Glinka (NIST Center for Neutron Research)

08:24 N28.003 Magnetic Properties of Gd Nanoparticles Fabricated by Inert Gas Condensation

David Schmitter (Center for Materials Research and Analysis and Department of Physics and Astronomy; University of Nebraska, Lincoln), P. Shand (Department of Physics, University of Northern Iowa), R. Lemoine (Center for Materials Research and Analysis and Department of Physics and Astronomy; University of Nebraska, Lincoln), T. Pekarek (Department of Physics, University of North Florida), Diandra Leslie-Pelecky (Center for Materials Research and Analysis and Department of Physics and Astronomy; University of Nebraska, Lincoln)

08:36 N28.004 COBALT NANOPARTCILES FOR ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING

David Dunmire, Danilo Romero, Angela Hight Walker (National Institution of Standards and Technology (NIST))

08:48 N28.005 Structural, Thermal, and Magnetic Properties of Surface Passivated Fe(B) Nanoparticles Prepared by Chemical Reduction

Thomas Ekiert, Daniel Lins, Karl Unruh (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware)

09:00 N28.006 Spin-Glass-like Behavior in a Two-Dimensional Fe-Ni-CN Network.^1

J.-H. Park, E. \vCi\vzmár, M.W. Meisel (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Florida), J.T. Culp, D.R. Talham (Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Florida.)

09:12 N28.007 Atomic Resolution Magnetic Resonance Diffraction using Magnetic Probes

Mladen Barbic (Applied Physics Department, California Institute of Technology)

09:48 N28.008 ac-Suceptibility Measurements of 2D Ising Critical Exponent

MJ Dunlavy, DE Venus (McMaster University)

10:00 N28.009 Lattice constants controlled self-assembled patterns of paramagnetic dots on a liquid/liquid interface under strong magnetic field

Hunkyun Pak, Hyuk Yu (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

10:12 N28.010 Mössbauer Effect and X-ray Photoelectron Characterization of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Synthesized by Ion Exchange

P.P. Vaishnava, E. McCullen, E. Kroll, R. Naik, L.E. Wenger (Wayne State University), R. Suryanarayanan (LPCES, Universite Paris-Sud), Qu Tao, P. Boolchand (University of Cincinnati), V.M. Naik (University of MIchigan - Dearborn)

10:24 N28.011 Electron Spin Resonance Studies on the Quantum tunneling in Spinel Ferrite Nanoparticles

Chang-Tsun Hsieh, Juh-Tzeng Lue (Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin Chu 300, Taiwan), Department of Physics Team

10:36 N28.012 High-frequency/High-field Electron Magnetic Resonance Studies of Ferrihydrite Nanoparticles

A. Punnoose (Physics Department, Boise State University, Boise, ID-83725), J. van Tol, L. C. Brunel (NHMFL/FSU, Tallahassee, FL-32310), M. S. Seehra (Physics Department, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV-26506)

08:00 N29.001 Measurement of the Transport Spin-polarization of Fe_1-xCo_xS_2 (x = 0.35 to 1) Single Crystals using Point-contact Andreev Reflection

Shu-fan Cheng, Gerald Woods, Konrad Bussmann, Igor Mazin, Robert J. Soulen Jr., Everett Carpenter, Badri Das, Peter Lubitz (Naval Research Laboratory)

08:12 N29.002 Epitaxial Alloys of CoMnGe: from Highly Spin Polarized Metals to Magnetic Semiconductors

Liang He, Lei Ma, Frank Tsui (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Yong Chu (Argonne National Laboratory)

08:24 N29.003 Destruction of Superconductivity by Spin Injection from a Half-Metal

Fonsie Guilaran, Peng Xiong (MARTECH and Department of Physics, Florida State University)

08:36 N29.004 Spin dependent band structure effects in the magnetotransport of the candidate half-metal CoS2

Lan Wang, C Leighton (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota)

08:48 N29.005 Synthesis and Ordering in Half-Metallic CrO_2/Interlayer/Fe_3O_4 Tunnel-Junctions

D.M. Lind, P.G. Ivanov (Physics and MARTECH, FSU, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4350), P.A. Stampe, R.J. Kennedy (Physics, FAMU, Tallahassee, FL 32307)

09:00 N29.006 A Phenomenological Approach for the Half-Metallic Ferromagnets

Raul Chura, Kevin Bedell (Boston College)

09:12 N29.007 CrO_2-based Superconducting and Magnetic Junctions

Jeffrey Parker (Center for Materials Research and Technology (MARTECH) / Dept. Physics, Florida State University)

09:48 N29.008 Point-contact Andreev Reflection (PCAR) investigation of half-metal thin films with variable temperature and magnetic field control

J. Sanders, P. Poddar, H. Srikanth (Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL), G. Woods, M.S. Osofsky (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC)

10:00 N29.009 The "s-d" exchange coupling in the 3d transition-metal ferromagnets

Peter M. Levy, Jian-Wei Zhang (Physics, New York University, New York, NY 10003), Vladimir P. Antropov (Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames Iowa 50011)

N29.010 Spin Polarization, Magnetic and Transport Properties of Epitaxial MnAs Films

Raghava Panguluri, Georgy Tsoi, Boris Nadgorny (Wayne State University), Seung-Hyun Chun, Nitin Samath (Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University)

08:00 N30.001 Characterization on the Surface of Cd2Re2O7 with Variable Temperature STM

Chenxi Lu, Hongwei Qu (Florida International University), Jian He (University of Tennesse and Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Rongying Jin, D.G Mandrus (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), E.W Plummer (University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jiandi Zhang (Florida International University)

08:12 N30.002 Study of Surface Effects in Pump-Probe Measurements of CMR Manganites

R.I. Miller, S.A. McGill, O. Torrens, J.M. Kikkawa (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104), A. Mamchik, I-Wei Chen (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104)

08:24 N30.003 Evidence of Microscopic Phase Segregation in CMR thin films

Atif Imtiaz, Steven Anlage (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland at College Park, MD 20742)

08:36 N30.004 Superstructures of Magnetoresistive Oxides

Masashi Kawasaki (IMR, Tohoku-U and CERC-AIST)

09:12 N30.005 Exchange bias effect in epitaxial manganites superlattices

María Elena Gómez, Pedro Prieto, Gloria Campillo, Eval Baca (Physics Department, Universidad del Valle, A.A. 25360, Cali, Colombia), Andreas Berger (IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, K63/E3 San Jose, CA 95120, USA), Axel Hoffmann (Materials Science Division. Argonne National Laboratory. 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, USA), N. Haberkorn, Julio Guimpel (Centro Atómico de Bariloche, Bariloche, Argentina), Thin Films Group Team, IBM Almaden Research Center Collaboration, Materials Science Division ANL Collaboration, Centro Atómico de Bariloche Collaboration

09:24 N30.006 Magneto-transport Properties of Magnetic Oxide Heterostructures

Xianglin Ke, Land J. Belenky, C.B. Eom, M.S. Rzchowski (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

09:36 N30.007 Overdamped interlayer exchange coupling and disorder dominated magnetoresistance in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3/LaNiO3 superlattices

Prahallad Padhan, Ramesh C Budhani (Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, India), R. P. S. M. Lobo (Laboratoire de Physique du Solide, Ecole Superierure de Physique, Chime Industrielles de la Ville de Paris, CNRS UPR 5, 75231 Paris, Cedex 5, France.)

09:48 N30.008 Temperature Dependence of Carrier Mobility and Carrier Density in Epitaxial Thin Film La0.8Ca0.2MnO3/Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3 Heterostructure

Ming Zhu, Takeshi Egami, Jay Kikkawa (University of Pennsylvania), Tong Zhao, Ramamoorthy Ramesh (University of Maryland)

10:00 N30.009 Magnetic Coupling in Antiferromagnetic-Ferromagnetic Interface for Colossal Magnetoresistance Materials

Hsiung Chou (Department of Physics and Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Sun Yat-sen University, 804 Kaohsiung, Taiwan , R.O.C.), S.J. Sun (Department of Electronic Engineering, Cheng Shiu Institute of Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.), M.T. Hong (Department of Electrical Engineering, Cheng Shiu Institute of Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.), J.Y. Dee, S.C. Chen, T.G. Huang, W.E. Dan (Department of Physics and Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Sun Yat-sen University, 804 Kaohsiung, Taiwan , R.O.C.), Spintronics Team

10:12 N30.010 Positive magnetoresistance induced by exchange effect between Co and Pr0.67Sr0.33MnO3 thin film

Yufeng Hu, Qi Li (Department of Physics, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802)

10:24 N30.011 Multi-frequency Magnetic Resonance and Spin Waves in LCMO and LSMO films

Johan van Tol (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory/ Florida State University), Corneliu Colesniuc (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory / Florida State University), Andreas Berger (IBM Almaden Research Center), Pedro Prieto, Gloria Campillo (Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia)

10:36 N30.012 Strain Effect of the dielectric anomaly at Néel point for antiferromagnetic RCrO_3 (R: La, Nd)

Hiroaki Nishikawa, Shigeki Hontsu (B. O. S. T., Kinki University), Tomoji Kawai (ISIR-Sanken, Osaka University)

10:48 N30.013 Temperature-dependent MFM study of magnetic domains in LSMO CMR films

Marilyn Hawley (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:00 N31.001 Magnetic ordering in the spin-1 quasi-Kagome Ni_3V_2O_8

A.P. Ramirez (LANL), N. Rogado, R.C. Cava (Princeton University), G. Lawes (LANL)

08:12 N31.002 Magnetic Order in the Kagomé-staircase system Co_3V_2O_8

F. M. Woodward, Q. Huang, J. W. Lynn (NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8562), N. Rogado, R. J. Cava (Department of Chemistry and Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544)

08:24 N31.003 Spin order and fluctuations in the Kagome lattice compound KFe_3(OH)_6(SO_4)_2

Kittiwit Matan, Daniel Grohol, Daniel Nocera, Eric Abel, Young Lee (MIT), Jeff Lynn (NIST Center for Neutron Research)

08:36 N31.004 Neutron scattering study of a classical two-dimensional magnet on a triangular lattice

G. Gasparovic (Johns Hopkins University), M. Kenzelmann, C. Broholm (Johns Hopkins University, NIST), L. N. Demianets, A. Ya. Shapiro (A.V. Shubnikov Institute for Crystallography RAS, Moscow)

08:48 N31.005 Local Lattice Distortions in LiNiO_2, a system with spin and orbital frustration

Takeshi Egami (Univ. of Pennsylvania and Los Alamos NL), Przemek Piekarz (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Thomas Proffen (Los Alamos NL), Despina Louca (Univ. of Virginia), Andre Ghorayeb (SNRS, Marceille)

09:00 N31.006 Spin Glass Freezing and Ferromagnetic Cluster Formation in LiNiO_2

Joost van Duijn, Bruce Gaulin (McMaster University, Hamilton ON, L8P 4M1, Canada), Sungil Park, Seung-Hun Lee, John Copley (NIST, NCNR, Gaithersburg, MD20899)

09:12 N31.007 X-ray-induced disordering of the dimerization pattern and apparent low-temperature enhancement of lattice symmetry in CuIr_2S_4

V. Kiryukhin, H. Ishibashi, T.Y. Koo, Y.S. Hor, A. Borissov, Y. Horibe, S-W. Cheong (Rutgers University), P.G. Radaelli (ISIS)

09:24 N31.008 Lattice distortions in spinels ZnCr_2O_4 and ZnV_2O_4

Daniel Phelan, Kyungsoo Ahn, Despina Louca (University of Virginia)

09:36 N31.009 Spin correlations and interactions in frustrated spinel ferrites, ^110CdFe_2O_4 and ZnFe_2O_4.

Kazuya Kamazawa (Department of Applied Physics, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1, Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8555 Japan), Sungil Park (NIST center for neutron research, National Institute of standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899 and Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742), Seung-Hun Lee (NIST center for neutron research, National Institute of standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899), Yorihiko Tsunoda (Department of Applied Physics, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1, Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8555 Japan)

09:48 N31.010 Structural distortion in the antiferromagnetic phase of frustrated MCr_2O_4 spinel

Hiroaki Ueda (RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Reserch), Japan), Kenichiro Matsuno, Tomoya Sumida (The University of Tokyo, Japan), Hiroko Katori (RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Reserch), Japan), Reiji Kumai (CERC (Correlated Electron Research Center), Japan), Hiroshi Sawa (KEK (High Energy Acceleratior Research Organization), Japan), Hidenori Takagi (RIKEN, CERC, The University of Tokyo)

10:00 N31.011 Cluster glass behavior in CoCr_2O_4

Keisuke TOMIYASU, Junichirou FUKUNAGA, Yorihiko TSUNODA, Kay KOHN (School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan)

08:00 N32.001 Quantum critical properties of a multi-channel Bose-Fermi Kondo model

Lijun Zhu, Qimiao Si (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005-1892), Antoine Georges (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France)

08:12 N32.002

08:24 N32.003 Theoretical Study of Locally Quantum Critical Properties in an Anisotropic Kondo Lattice Model from the Antiferromagnetic Ordered Side

Qimiao Si (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005-1892, USA), Jian-Xin Zhu (Theoretical Division, MS B262, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), D. R. Grempel (CEA-Saclay/DRECAM/SPCSI, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)

08:36 N32.004 Spin-Peierls transitions in a 1D Kondo lattice system

Eugene Pivovarov, Qimiao Si (Rice University)

08:48 N32.005 Inelastic scattering in the field tuned Fermi liquid state of the under-screened Kondo model

Indranil Paul, Piers Coleman (Center for Materials Theory, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08855, USA.), Catherine Pépin (SPhT, L'Orme des Merisiers, CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.)

09:00 N32.006 Thermodynamics of the two-channel Anderson Impurity Model

C. J. Bolech (DPMC, University of Geneva), N. Andrei (Center for Materials Theory, Rutgers University)

09:12 N32.007 Large-N analysis of the quantum critical point in two dimensions

Sergey Pankov, Serge Florens, Antoine Georges, Gabriel Kotliar (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

09:24 N32.008 Quadrupolar phase transitions in UPd3

Keith McEwen (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, U.K.)

10:00 N32.009 H-T Phase Diagram of the Metamagnetic Transition in URu_2Si_2

A. Suslov, Bimal K. Sarma (Physics Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), J. Ketterson (Physics Department, Northwestern University), D. Hinks (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:12 N32.010 Construction of a microscopic model for f-electron systems and its application to plutonium-based superconductor PuCoGa_5

Takashi Hotta (Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute), Kazuo Ueda (Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo)

10:24 N32.011 Mixed moment wave function for magnetic heavy fermion compounds

Yunkyu Bang (Theoretical Division Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545)

10:36 N32.012 Field Tuned Criticality in the underscreened Kondo Model

Catherine Pepin (CEA, Saclay), Piers Coleman (Rutgers University)

10:48 N32.013 Specific heat at the transition in a superconductor with fluctuating magnetic moments

Simon Kos, Ivar Martin (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Chandra Varma (Bell Laboratories)

08:00 N34.001 Shock Compressing Fluids in a Diamond Anvil Cell: Creating New Hot Dense States

Peter M. Celliers (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

08:36 N34.002 Deuterium Equation of State Experiments Using Laser-Driven Shocks

Damien Hicks, Peter Celliers, Gilbert Collins, Steve Moon, Mark Foord, Jon Eggert, Robert Cauble (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Thomas Boehly, Timothy Collins, Elena Vianello, Douglas Jacobs-Perkins, David Meyerhofer (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester)

08:48 N34.003 First-principle study of melting curve of lithium hydride under pressure

Tadashi Ogitsu, Eric Schwegler, Francois Gygi, Giulia Galli (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:00 N34.004 Using laser-induced decaying-shocks to probe material properties

Jon Eggert, David Bradley, Damien Hicks, Steve Moon, Jave Kane, Peter Celliers, Gilbert Collins (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:12 N34.005 Dynamic Compression by Design at LLNL Gas Gun

Jeffrey H. Nguyen, Daniel A. Orlikowski, Fredrick H. Streitz, Neil C. Holmes (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:24 N34.006 Oscillatory Structure of Elastic Precursor in Shocked Crystalline Solids: A Molecular Dynamics Study

Sergey Zybin (The George Washington University), Vasilii Zhakhovskii (Osaka University), Mark Elert (U S Naval Academy), Carter T. White (Naval Research Laboratory)

09:36 N34.007 Theoretical study of high-pressure polymerization of nitrogen

Jianjun Dong (Auburn University), Russell J Hemley (Carnegie Institution of Washington), Otto F Sankey (Arizona State University)

09:48 N34.008 The New Phases of High Pressure Nitrogen

William Matttson, Richard Martin (Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

10:00 N34.009 Vibrational Spectroscopy of Nitrogen above 2000K and 10 GPa

Bruce Baer, Choong-Shik Yoo (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:12 N34.010 Structure and Bonding of Dense Liquid Oxygen from First Principles Simulations

Burkhard Militzer, Francios Gygi, Giulia Galli (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:24 N34.011 Quantum Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Warm, Dense Matter

S. Mazevet, J. Kress, L. Collins (Los Alamos Nat. Lab.)

10:36 N34.012 Thomson Scattering in Strongly Coupled Multicomponent Plasmas

Jerome Daligault, Michael S Murillo (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS K717, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA)

08:00 N35.001 Relativistic Theory of Spin-Orbit Interaction in Metals

Prasanta Misra (Mesa State College, Grand Junction, CO 81501)

08:12 N35.002 The Lorentz transformation enigma.

Russell Collins (U.T. Austin, retired.)

08:24 N35.003 Numerical instabilities in hyperbolic equations with general relativity - type non-linear terms and a stretch-rotation-exponential (SRE) formulation of the Einstein equations

Alexei Khokhlov (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC), Igor Novikov (Theoretical Astrophysics Center, Copenhagen, Denmark)

08:36 N35.004 Massive General Relativity and Gauge Freedom

J. Brian Pitts (University of Notre Dame, History and Philosophy of Science), W.C. Schieve (University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Physics)

08:48 N35.005 Elements of Radiation Mechanics

Yikun Zhang (freelance)

09:00 N35.006 Macro-Quantum Vacuum Origin of Gravity and Quintessence

Jack Sarfatti (Internet Science Education)

09:12 N35.007 Non-scaling behavior in Fractional Diffusion

B. N. Narahari Achar, John W. Hanneken (University of Memphis)

09:24 N35.008 Fractional Radial Diffusion in a Sphere

Ted Clarke, B. N. Narahari Achar, John W. Hanneken (University of Memphis)

09:36 N35.009 Distribution of Zeros of the Mittag-Leffler Function

John W. Hanneken (University of Memphis), David M. Vaught, B.N. Narahari Achar, Ted Clarke

09:48 N35.010 High Precision Regge Poles and Residues for Singular Scattering Potentials

C. J. Tymczak (Los Alamos National Laboratory), C. R. Handy, A. Z. Msezane (Clark Atlanta University)

10:00 N35.011 Three Electrons in a Harmonic Oscillator Potential: Pairs versus Single Particles

M. Taut (Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Physics, Atlanta, GA 30332), K. Pernal (Institute of Physics, University of Szczecin, Wielkopolska 15, 70-451 Szczecin, Poland), J. Cioslowski (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 323006), V. Staemmler (Lehrstuhl fuer Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany)

10:12 N35.012 Results of a New Quantum Model

Jr. Phillips (C.P.I., Inc.)

10:24 N35.013 Spatial Intensity Correlations in Disordered Systems: A Random Matrix Theory Approach

Gabriel A. Cwilich (Yeshiva University), Juan Jose Saenz (Ecole Central Paris)