Program overview

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 6 MARCH 2003

14:30 X1.001 A scalable quantum architecture using efficient non-local gates

Gavin Brennen (National Institutes of Standards and Technology)

15:06 X1.002 An Atomic Abacus: Trapped ion quantum computing experiments at NIST

Brian DeMarco (NIST-Boulder)

15:42 X1.003 Quantum Computing with Photons

Andrew White (Center for Laser Science)

16:18 X1.004 Scalable micro-optical configurations for quantum computation with atomic qubits

Gerhard Birkl (Institute of Quantum Optics, University of Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany)

16:54 X1.005 The one-way quantum computer

R. Raussendorf (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat)

14:30 X2.001 Ab-initio simulations on initial growth steps of high-K oxides on silicon

Peter E. Bloechl (Inst. f. Theoretical Physics, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany, www.pt.tu-clausthal/atp)

15:06 X2.002 Effect of Atomic Structure on Local Dielectric Properties of Oxide Grain Boundaries

Dawn Bonnell (The University of Pennsylvania)

15:42 X2.003 Material, Physical and Electronic Properties of Novel Medium-and High-K Gate Dielectrics

Bich-Yen Nguyen (Digital DNA Laboratories, SPS, Motorola Inc.)

16:18 X2.004 Accelerated Dynamics Simulations of Carbon Nanostructures

Blas Pedro Uberuaga (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:54 X2.005 Atomic Scale Characterization of Defect/Interface Interactions

Nigel Browning (University of California-Davis)

14:30 X3.001 Surface currents and uphill funneling in metal (111) epitaxial growth

Jianguo Yu, Jacques Amar (University of Toledo)

14:42 X3.002 Effects of long-range attraction in metal epitaxial growth

Jacques Amar (University of Toledo)

14:54 X3.003 True upward diffusion via place exchange in Al(110) homoepitaxy

Wenguang Zhu (ICQS and Institute of Physics, CAS, China amp; ORNL), Francesco Buatier de Mongeot, R. Buzio, A. Molle, C. Boragno, U. Valbusa (U of Genova amp; INFM, Italy), Enge Wang (ICQS and Institute of Physics, CAS, China), Zhenyu Zhang (ORNL)

15:06 X3.004 Kinetic Surface Segregation and the Evolution of Nanostructures

J. Tersoff (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights NY 10598)

15:42 X3.005 Step Flow Growth and Step-Bunch Ordering in Strained Multilayer Film

Lugang Bai (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112), Jerry Tersoff (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598), Feng Liu (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112)

15:54 X3.006 Self-organized Nanostructures at Vicinal Surfaces

H.-J. Ernst, L. Douillard, N. Néel, T. Maroutian (CEA Saclay DSM Drecam Spcsi 91191 Gif Sur Yvette France)

16:06 X3.007 Physical self-assembly and the nucleation of 3D nanostructures*

T.-M. Lu, T. Karabacak, Y.-P. Zhao, G.-C. Wang (Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110, 8th St., Troy, NY 12180-3590)

16:18 X3.008 Effects due to wetting on the morphological instability in strained short-period multilayers.

Zhi-Feng Huang (CSIT, Florida State University.), Daniel Kandel (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.), Rashmi C. Desai (Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.)

16:30 X3.009 Surface Coverage Dependent Wetting in Metal Systems

E. B. Webb III, G. S. Grest (Sandia National Laboratories)

16:42 X3.010 Continuous and first-order transitions in wetting processes

Antonio Politi (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata, Firenze Italy)

16:54 X3.011 Br and Cl Electrosorption on Ag(100): Static and Dynamic Monte Carlo Simulations

Ibrahim Abou Hamad (Florida State Univ.), Thomas Wandlowski (Forschungszentrum Julich), Gregory Brown (Oak Ridge Nat. Lab. and Florida State Univ.), Per Anre Rikvold (Florida State Univ. and Virginia Tech.)

17:06 X3.012 Computational Model for Liquid Phase Electro-Epitaxial Crystal Growth on Partially Masked Substrate

Mikhail Khenner (Department of Mathematics, University at Buffalo), Richard J. Braun (Department of Math Sciences, University of Delaware)

14:30 X4.001 Force Transmission in Granular Materials

Robert Behringer (Department of Physics and Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Duke University, Durham, NC)

15:06 X4.002 Erosion patterns in a sediment layer

Adrian Daerr (MSC, University of Paris VII, France)

15:42 X4.003 Electrostatically Driven Granular Media: Phase Transitions, Patterns and Vortices

Igor Aranson (Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Av. Argonne, IL60439)

14:30 X5.001 Our Nuclear Posture

15:06 X5.002 Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

15:42 X5.003 New Nuclear Weapons and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

16:18 X5.004 An Overview of Missile Defense and Spiral Development: A Progress Report

Philip Coyle III (Center for Defense Information)

16:54 X5.005 US Plans for Early Deployment of a Missile Defense System

Lisbeth Gronlund (Union of Concerned Scientists and MIT Security Studies Program)

14:30 X6.001 Starting Up in a Down Market, with a Boost From Entrepreneurship Graduate Programs

Cyrus Taylor (Case Western Reserve University)

15:06 X6.002 "Physics-to-Market Challenges in Nanotechnology"

Dennis W. (Denny) Hamill (Nanotechnologies, Inc.)

15:42 X6.003 The National Network forTechnology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (N2TEC): Bringing New Technologies to Market

Kathleen Allen (University of Southern California)

16:18 X6.004 A Start-Up Company Grown Up

Mark Zou (USA Instruments)

14:30 X8.001 Semiconductor Deep-Level Optoelectronic Devices

Janet Pan (Yale University)

15:06 X8.002 UV-INDUCED CONDUCTANCE ACROSS THIN SILICON NANOPARTICLE FILMS

Osama Nayfeh, Satish Rao, Adam Smith, Joel Therrien, Munir Nayfeh (Dept. of Physics, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:18 X8.003 Optical bistability based on waveguide-coupling enhanced electric field

lan Luan, Gang Wang (Department of physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208), Robin C.B. Huang (OES/ITRI), G.C. Spalding (Physics Department, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL 61702), Guizhong Zhang, John Ketterson (Department of physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208)

15:30 X8.004 Resonance reponse to an ac signal in the high electron mobility transistors: effects of magnetic field, device length, and temperature

Manvir S. Kushwaha (Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan), P. Vasilopoulos (Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montral, Quebec, Canada)

15:42 X8.005 Quasi CW terahertz beam generator using difference-frequency technique

Dong Ho Wu, David Streilein (Naval Research Laboratory)

15:54 X8.006 Diffuse scattering across multi-mode body effect on vibration signature estimation using a laser vibrating sensor

Ngoya Pepela, M.A. Marciniak (Air Force Institute of Technology), M.P. Dierking (Air Force Research Laboratory)

16:06 X8.007 Improvement of Laser Efficiency of YAG:Nd Crystals by Chemical Etching

Cai-Lin Wang, Kelvin Lynn, Stephen Tebaldi, M.H. Weber (Center for Materials Research, Washington State University, Pullman WA 99164-2711), Laser Crystal Lab Team

16:18 X8.008 Characterization of Erbium-Doped Tellurite Glasses and Fibers

Sasha Marjanovic, Jean Toulouse, Volkmar Dierolf, Christian Sandmann (Physics Department, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA), Jain Himanshu (Materials Science and Engineering Department, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA), Ahmet R. Kortan, Nonna Kopylov (OFS Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA), Robert G. Ahrens (Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, USA)

16:30 X8.009 Theoretical Analysis of Propagation of Gaussian Beam in Semi-infinite and Finite Nonlinear Media

S. Crutcher, M.E. Edwards, D. Hillman (Alabama Aamp;M University), N. Kukhtarev Collaboration

16:42 X8.010 Local Frequency-Dependent Microwave Response of Homogeneously Strained SrTiO3 Grown on DyScO3

Patrick Irvin, Jeremy Levy (Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh), Jeff Haeni, Darrell Schlom (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University), Wontae Chang, Steve Kirchoefer (Naval Research Laboratory)

16:54 X8.011 Measurements of Electrooptic Coefficients of Crystals, Isotropic Liquids and Thin Films

M.E. Edwards, D. Edwards, T. Gebre, D. Hillman, A. Batra, M. Aggarwal (Alabama Aamp;M University)

17:06 X8.012 Terahertz quantum cascade laser based on direct LO-phonon-scattering depopulation

Benjamin S. Williams, Hans Callebaut, Sushil Kumar, Qing Hu (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge MA, 02139), John L. Reno (Sandia National Laboratories, Dept 1123, Albuquerque, NM 87185)

14:30 X9.001 Anomalous and Normal Diffusion on Actin Filament Networks

Steven Gross, Clare Yu, Yuan Lin, Joseph Snider (University of California, Irvine)

14:42 X9.002 Gelation, phase separation and bundling in actin networks

Anton Zilman, Samuel Safran (Weizmann Institute of Science)

14:54 X9.003 Role of Chromatin Loops In DNA Replication

John Bechhoefer, Suckjoon Jun (Dept. of Physics, Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada), John Herrick, Aaron Bensimon (Unité de Stabilité des Génomes, Département de Structure et Dynamique des Génomes, Institut Pasteur, 25-28, rue du Dr. Roux, 75724, Paris Cedex 15, France)

15:06 X9.004 Study of stretched fusion transcription protein bind to DNA

Yan Mei Wang, Robert H. Austin (Department of Physics), Jonas O. Tegenfeldt, Edward C. Cox (Department of Molecular Biology), Han Cao, Stephen Y. Chou (Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University)

15:18 X9.005 Observation of HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein induced TAR DNA melting at the single molecule level

Gonzalo Cosa (University of Texas at Austin), Elizabeth Harbron, Donald O'Connor (university of Texas at Austin), Karin Musier-Forsyth (University of Minnesota), Paul Barbara (University of Texas at Austin)

15:30 X9.006 E-Cadherin Adhesion Forces Described Using Specialized Atomic Force Microscope Cantilevers

Robert Rudnitsky, Frauke Drees, W. James Nelson, Thomas Kenny (Stanford University), Stanford Nano-Biology Research Collaboration

15:42 X9.007 Combinatorial Transcription Control in Gene Regulation

Terence Hwa, Nicolas E. Buchler, Ulrich Gerland (Physics Dept, University of California at San Diego)

15:54 X9.008 Molecular Networks and Genetic Computing

Nicolas E. Buchler, Ulrich Gerland, Terence Hwa

16:06 X9.009 Amplification in Gene Regulation

Ulrich Gerland, Nicolas E. Buchler (Physics Dept, University of California at San Diego), William F. Loomis (Biology Dept, University of California at San Diego), Terence Hwa (Physics Dept, University of California at San Diego)

16:18 X9.010 Feedback and Memory in Genetic Circuits

Peter F. Arndt, Nicolas E. Buchler, Ulrich Gerland, Terence Hwa

16:30 X9.011 The Ensemble Method of Biological Circuit Identification

H.-B. Schuttler, D. Battogtokh (U.Georgia), D.K. Asch (Youngstown State U.), M.E. Case, J. Arnold (U.Georgia)

16:42 X9.012 Analysis of in vitro DNA evolution

Morten Kloster (Princeton University), Chao Tang (NEC Labs)

16:54 X9.013 STRUCTURAL AND DYNAMICAL DETAILS OF BIOTIN

Timothy Korter, David Dunmire, Danilo Romero (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)), Chris Middleton, Tim Jenkins, Bruce Hudson (Department of Chemistry, Syracuse University), Angela Hight Walker (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST))

17:06 X9.014 Antifreeze Glycoproteins Alter the Molecular Scale Surface Morphology of Ice

Salvador Zepeda (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis, Chemistry and Materials Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Christine A. Orme, Roger Qiu (Chemistry and Materials Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Yin Yeh (Department of Applied Science, University of California, Davis)

X9.015 Exact Conservation Laws and Exclusion Principle of Biological Evolution

Mark Ya. Azbel' (School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel)

14:30 X10.001 Anti-Cancer Drug Design Through Supercomputing

Frederick H. Hausheer (Bionumerik Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)

15:06 X10.002 Issues in estimating the 3D structures of complexes of blood coagulation proteins

Lee Pedersen (Department of Chemistry, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599)

15:42 X10.003 Computer simulation studies of soft materials: the continuing challenge of bridging length and time scales

Michael L. Klein (University of Pennsylvania, Chemistry Department)

16:18 X10.004 Supply Demand Balance and Metabolic Scaling

Jayanth Banavar (Penn State University)

16:54 X10.005 Prospects for Evolutionary Computation

Melanie Mitchell (Oregon Graduate Institute, Oregon Health and Science University and Santa Fe Institute)

14:30 X11.001 TBD

Sunny Xie (Harvard University)

15:06 X11.002 Single-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics at Nanoscale Interfacial Processes

H. Peter Lu (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Fundamental Science Division, P.O.Box 999, Richland, WA 99352)

15:42 X11.003 Real-time detection of DNA bending caused by protein binding

Sanhita Dixit, Mukta Singh-Zocchi, Vassili Ivanov, Giovanni Zocchi (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 - 1547)

15:54 X11.004 Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy Studies of Rigid Rod Conjugated Polymer Thin Films

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

16:06 X11.005 The Optical Properties of Polymer Mesoporous Silica Composites

Ashley Cadby, Sarah Tolbert (University of California, Los Angeles), Tolbert Group Team

16:18 X11.006 Light Scattering Measurements of Domain Ordering in Photonic Bandgap Composite Films

Suelene Mammana (International Technology Center), John E. Rowe (Army Research Office and NC State University), Stephen H. Foulger, John Ballato (Clemson University), G. E. McGuire (International Technology Center)

16:30 X11.007 Photorefractive Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystals Studied by Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy

Daniel Higgins (Dept. of Chemistry, Kansas State University)

14:06 X11.008 Exciton- polaritons in organic microcavities.

Vladimir Agranovich, M. Litinskaia (Institute for Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences,Troitsk, Moscow obl., 142190 Russia), D.G.Lidzey Collaboration

14:18 X11.009 Barierless electron-hole capture in polymer blend heterojunction light-emitting diodes

Carlos Silva, Arne C. Morteani, Anoop S. Dhoot, Ji-Seon Kim, Neil C. Greenham, Richard H. Friend (University of Cambridge)

14:30 X12.001 Selective Fragmentation In Intense Field Ionization of Clusters

E. Wells, D. Pinkham, R.R. Jones (Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904), C.W.S. Conover (Department of Physics, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901)

14:42 X12.002 Nonadiabatic Processes of Energy Deposition in Large Molecules and Ions in Strong Laser Fields

Dmitri Romanov (Department of Physics amp; Center for Advanced Photonics Research, Temple University, Phildelphia, PA 19002), Alexi Markevitch, Stanley Smith (Department of Chemistry amp; Center for Advanced Photonics Research, Temple University), Misha Ivanov (Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, NRC Canada), Robert Levis (Department of Chemistry amp; Center for Advanced Photonics Research, Temple University)

14:54 X12.003 Control of laser desorption: Experiment and theory

Wayne Hess, Alan Joly, Kenneth Beck (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Daniel Gerrity (Reed College), Peter Sushko, Alexander Shluger (University College London)

15:06 X12.004 Surface Plasmon Nano-Optics in Plasmonic Band Gap Structures

DaiSik Kim (Schoolof Physics, Seoul National University)

15:42 X12.005 Observation, Manipulation and Control of Femtosecond Pulse Propagation in Optical Fibers

Antoinette Taylor (Condensed Matter and Thermal Physics Group, MST-10, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

16:18 X12.006 Magnon Squeezing in MnF_2

Jimin Zhao, A. V. Bragas, R. Merlin (FOCUS Center and Department of Physics, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109), D. J. Lockwood (Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada K1A 0R6)

14:30 X13.001 X-ray Diffraction Studies of Ordering in LC Lattice and Superlattice Structures Formed by Mixtures of a Twin-tapered Dendrimer and a Polymer Containing It as Side-groups

Paul Heiney, V.S.K Balagurusamy (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter), Virgil Percec, Tushar K Bera, Martin Glodde, Qiongying Fu (Department of Chemistry and Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323)

14:42 X13.002 Nematic liquid crystal emulsions in microfluidic channels

Darren R. Link, Alberto Fernandez-Nieves, David A. Weitz (Harvard University)

14:54 X13.003 Liquid crystalline phase transitions in hydrogels

A. M. Alsayed, Z. Dogic, M. F. Islam, A. G. Yodh (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Phialdelphia, PA 19104), A. Angler, D. E. Discher (Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104)

15:06 X13.004 A continuous isotropic-nematic liquid crystalline transition of F-actin solutions

Jorge Viamontes, Jay Tang (Brown University)

15:18 X13.005 Acousto-Optic Effect in Nematic Liquid Crystals

Viktoria Greanya, Mark Spector, Jonathan Selinger, Brian Weslowski, Ranganathan Shashidhar (Center for Bio-Molecular Science and Engineering. U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)

15:30 X13.006 Conformation of semi-flexible actin filaments in a nematic field

Jian Zhang (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania), Zvonimir Dogic, Helim Aranda-Espinoza, Paul A. Heiney, Arjun G. Yodh, Arjun G. Yodh's group Team, Paul A. Janmey's group Collaboration

15:42 X13.007 Self-organization of supramolecular helical dendrimers containing donor/acceptor groups in their core and their co-assembly with electroactive polymers into complex electronic materials

V.S.K. Balagurusamy, Paul Heiney (Department of Physics and Astronomy), Virgil Percec, Martin Glodde, Tushar K Bera, Yoshiko Miura (Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323), I. Shiyanovskaya, K.D. Singer (Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7079), I. Schnell, A. Rapp, H.-W. Spiess (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, D-55021 Mainz, Germany), Steven D Hudson, H. Duan (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8544)

15:54 X13.008 AN X-RAY SCATTERING STUDY OF THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES AND BIOLOGICAL CELLS

Luz J. Martinez-Miranda (University of Maryland, Dept. of Materials and Nuclear Eng.), Isaac Koh, B. Cipriano, D. Williams, S. Ehrman, T. Pulliam-Holoman (University of Maryland, Dept. of Chemical Eng.)

16:06 X13.009 Early Dynamics of Guest-Host Interaction in Dye-Doped Liquid Crystalline Materials

Thai Truong (Affiliation), Yuen-Ron Shen (Department of Physics, University of Caifornia, Berkeley), Lei Xu (Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Fudan University, China)

16:18 X13.010 Foced wetting of complex fluids on cylindrical substrates

Jung O. Park (Georgia Institute of Technology), Alejandro D. Rey (McGill University), Mohan Srinivasarao (Georgia Institute of Technology)

16:30 X13.011 Three-Dimensional Imaging of Bloch Walls in Liquid Crystals

Mohan Srinivasarao, Jian Zhou, Jung O. Park (Georgia Institute of Technology)

16:42 X13.012 Modeling Phase Separation of Binary Liquid Crystalline Isotropic Fluids

Roland Ennis, Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent OH 44242)

16:54 X13.013 Truly random number generator based on turbulent electroconvection

J.T. Gleeson (Kent State University)

17:06 X13.014 Control of the Anchoring Behavior of a nematic fluid at polymer surfaces: Effect of Copolymerization of Acrylate Monomers

Jian Zhou (School of Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Inst. of Tech.), Mohan Srinivasarao (School of Textile and Fiber Engineering, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Inst. of Tech.), David Collard (School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Inst. of Tech.), between Prof. Srinivasarao and Prof. Collard Collaboration

X13.015 Pore Stability and Dynamics of Polymer Membranes

Helim Aranda-Espinoza (Institute for Medicine and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104), Harry Bermudez, Daniel Hammer, Dennis Discher (Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104)

14:30 X14.001 Recent improvements for time resolved x-ray measurements with avalanche photo-diodes.

Alfred Q. R. Baron, Helge Thiess^1, Ishikawa^1

14:42 X14.002 Advanced Si(Li) Detectors for Soft X-ray Beamline Applications*

C.E. Cox (Princeton GammaTech, Inc.), D.A. Fischer (National Institute of Standards and Technology), W.G. Schwarz (Physical Sciences Inc.)

14:54 X14.003 High-speed photon counting camera for X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy

Péter Falus, Matthew A Borthwick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics), Simon GJ Mochrie (Yale University Department of Physics and Applied Physics), IMM-CAT Collaboration

15:06 X14.004 Extending Detector Dynamic Ranges in Synchrotron Radiation Spectroscopy via Non-Linearity Correction

Charles Fadley, Norman Mannella, Alex Kay, Stefano Marchesini, Bongjin Mun, Stephenie Ritchey (Physics, UC Davis amp; MSD LBNL), See-Hun Yang (MSD LBNL amp; IBM Almaden), Thomas Gresch (Physics, U. of Zuerich), Axel Rosenhahn (ALS LBNL), Akira Nambu (MSD LBNL amp; Chemistry, U. of Tokyo)

15:18 X14.005 A Novel Integrating Solid State Detector With Segmentation For Scanning Transmission Soft X-ray Microscopy

Michael Feser, Chris Jacobsen (Department Of Physics And Astronomy, State University Of New York At Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800, USA), Gianluigi DeGeronimo, Pavel Rehak (Instrumentation Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA), Peter Holl (PNSensor GmbH, Roemerstrasse 28, 80803 Muenchen, Germany), Lothar Strueder (Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse, 85740, Garching, Germany)

15:30 X14.006 Ultra High-Speed Detector for Synchrotron Radiation Research

B. Ludewigt, J.-M. Bussat (LBNL), A.W. Kay (Intel Corp.), G. Lebedev, G. Meddeler, M. Press, H. Spieler, B. Turko, M. West, G. Zizka, Z. Hussain, C. Fadley (LBNL)

15:42 X14.007 New Pixel-Array Detectors for Synchrotron Radiation Research

Peter Denes, Bernhard Ludewigt (LBNL), Charles Fadley (Physics, UCD amp; LBNL)

15:54 X14.008 Overview of advanced detector development in Europe

Paul Seller (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

16:30 X14.009 Modern synchrotron experiments: a challenge to detector systems

D. Peter Siddons (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:30 X15.001 Crossover critical behavior in three-dimensional Ising-like systems

Mikhail Anisimov, Jan Sengers, Andrei Kostko (Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)

14:42 X15.002 Exact Domain Wall Energy Distribution of the Two-Dimensional Ising

Paul Beale (University of Colorado at Boulder)

14:54 X15.003 Zeros of the Partition Function and Pseudospinodals in a Near-Mean-Field Ising Model

Natali Gulbahce, Harvey Gould (Clark University, Dept. of Physics, Worcester, MA 01610), William Klein (Dept of Physics and Center for Computational Science, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 and X7, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

15:06 X15.004 Coarse graining, model reduction, and the renormalization group

David Reynolds (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara)

15:18 X15.005 Statistical Mechanics of Short Length Gallager Codes

Kazutaka Nakamura (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Toru Ohira (Sony Computer Science Lab.), Yoshiyuki Kabashima (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

15:30 X15.006 Static Hysteresis in Dynamical Critical Phenomena

Ron Maimon (Gene Network Sciences), J.M. Schwarz (Syracuse University)

15:42 X15.007 ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR IN IDEAL FERMION GASES BELOW 2D

M. Grether (Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Mexico, DF, MEXICO), M. de Llano (IIM-UNAM, Mexico, DF, MEXICO), M.A. Solís (Washington University in St. Louis Missouri, USA and IF-UNAM, Mexico, D.F., MEXICO)

15:54 X15.008 Markets on Networks

Zoltan Toroczkai (Complex Systems Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS B213, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA), Marian Anghel (Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS B258 Los Alamos, Nm, 87545, USA), Kevin Bassler (Department of Physics, 617 Science and Research bld. I, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 77204, USA), Gyorgy Korniss (Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th street, Troy, NY, 12180 USA)

16:06 X15.009 Fractal patterns in Stock Intertrading Times

Ainslie White (Cambridge University), Youngki Lee, Plamen Ch. Ivanov (Boston University)

16:18 X15.010 Probability Structures in Yen-Dollor Exchange Market

Toru Ohira (Sony Computer Science Lab.), Naoya Sazuka (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Kouhei Marumo, Tokiko Shimizu (Bank of Japan), Misako Takayasu (Future University-Hakodate), Hideki Takayasu (Sony Computer Science Lab.)

16:30 X15.011 Agent Collectives Coupled to Markovian Systems

David Wolpert, John Lawson (NASA Ames Research Center)

16:42 X15.012 Vibrations in glasses encounter quantum chaos

Liviu Zârbo, Branislav Nikoli\'c (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716)

16:54 X15.013 Heat conductivity in linear mixing systems

Li Baowen (Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, 117542 Singapore), Casati Giulio (International Center for the Study of Dynamical Systems, Universita' degli studi dell'Insubria, Como, Italy), Wang Jiao (Temasek Laboratory, National University of Singapore, 119260)

17:06 X15.014 Modulation of the nucleation rate pre-exponential in low-temperature dynamic Ising systems

Vitaly A. Shneidman, Gelu M. Nita (Department of Physics, NJIT, Newark, NJ 07102)

X15.015 Dynamical Localization in Microcylinder Lasers with Surface Roughness.

Evgenii Narimanov, Viktor Podolskiy (Princeton University)

X15.016 Scaling properties of one-dimensional Anderson model with diagonal disorder in the regions of fluctuation states

Lev Deych, Mikhail Erementchouk, Alexander Lisyansky (Queens College of CUNY, Flushing, NY 11367)

14:30 X16.001 Performance and Stability of Organic Thin-Film Field-Effect Transistors Based on Pentacene Channels

Christos Dimitrakopoulos (IBM Research, T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.)

15:06 X16.002 Fabrication and IV characteristics of PEDOT-PSS based field effect devices and their applications to electric circuits

J.H. Park, O. Waldmann, F.C. Hsu, N.R. Chiou, V.N. Prigodin, Y. Kim, A.J. Epstein (The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1106)

15:18 X16.003 Gated Nonlinear Transport in Organic Polymer Field Effect Transistors

Behrang Hamadani, Douglas Natelson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University)

15:30 X16.004 Characterization of 50 nm channel length polythiophene transistors

Liang Wang (Microelectronics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758), Saiful Khondaker (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712), Heinz Seggern (Inst. of Materials Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany), Taeho Jung (Microelectronics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758), Zhen Yao (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712), Zhenan Bao (Affiliation), Ananth Dodabalapur (Microelectronics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758)

15:42 X16.005 NANO-SCALE ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR

Zhiwei Liu, Ken K. Chin (Department of Physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology), Zhenan Bao (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies), Jie Zheng (Department of Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology)

15:54 X16.006 Electric force microscopy of pentacene thin film devices

Erik M. Muller, William Silveira, Brian To, John A. Marohn (Cornell University)

16:06 X16.007 Coherent Phonon-Assisted Charge Transport in Pentacene Crystals

Mark Lee, Christian Kloc (Bell Laboratories), Misha Turlakov, Peter Littlewood (Cambridge University)

16:18 X16.008 Electrical Injection from Magnetic Contacts into Conjugated Organic Materials

Brian K. Crone (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos New Mexico), Quanxi Jia, Ian H. Campbell, Darryl L. Smith

16:30 X16.009 Graded n- and p-doping of multilayer OLEDs by strong organic Donor and Acceptor Molecules

Christopher Donald Williams, Sergey Lee, Andrew Washington, John Ferraris, Anvar Zakhidov (NanoTech, Univ.of Texas at Dallas, P.O. Box 830688, M/S: BE26, Richardson, TX 75083), UTD Nanotech Team

16:42 X16.010 Theoretical basis for enhanced electro-luminescent efficiency in organic LEDS.

Eric Bittner, Stoyan Karabunarliev (University of Houston)

16:54 X16.011 Modelling of the dynamics in an excited PPV/C_60

Sven Stafström, Åsa Johansson (Linköping University), Computational Physics Team

17:06 X16.012 Self-assembled Diode with Memory from Protein and Nanoparticles

Vivek Maheshwari, Vivek Shivakumara (Affiliation), Ravi F. Saraf (Department of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061)

17:18 X16.013 SPIN-DEPENDENT EXCITON FORMATION IN FILMS OF PI-CONJUGATED ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS

M. Wohlgenannt (University of Iowa), X. M. Jiang, C. Yang, Z. V. Vardeny (University of Utah)

14:30 X17.001 Pearl size of hydrophobic polyelectrolytes

Claudine E. Williams, Damien Baigl (Collège de France, CNRS UMR 7125, Paris, France), Michele Sferrazza (Univ. of Surrey, Guildford, UK)

14:42 X17.002 Aggregation of Like-Charged Macroions: Formation of Finite Size Bundles

Mark L. Henle, Philip A. Pincus (University of California, Santa Barbara)

14:54 X17.003 How Multivalent Must An Ion Be Before It Can Generate Like-Charge Polyelectrolyte Attraction?

John C. Butler (Materials Science amp; Engineering Dept.), Thomas Angelini (Physics Dept.), Hongjun Liang (Materials Science amp; Engineering Dept.), Gerard C.L. Wong (Materials Science amp; Engineering Dept., Physics Dept., Bioengineering Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:06 X17.004 Manning Counterion Condensation and Evaporation

Qingbo Yang, Ben O'Shaughnessy (Columbia University)

15:18 X17.005 Effect of Counterion Fluctuations in a Polyelectrolyte Brush

C.D. Santangelo (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA), A.W.C. Lau (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA)

15:30 X17.006 Effect of Short-Range Interactions on Polyelectrolyte Adsorption at Charged Surfaces

Andrey Dobrynin (Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science and Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269), Michael Rubinstein (Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599)

15:42 X17.007 Complexes of polyelectrolyte, surfactant, co-surfactant, and oil: A new type of microemulsion.

Waiken Wong, Helmut Strey (UMass Dept. of Polymer Science and Engineering, Amherst, MA, 01003)

15:54 X17.008 On the structure of polyelectrolyte solutions at large Bjerrum lengths

J. P. Donley (The Boeing Company), D. R. Heine (Sandia National Laboratories), D. T. Wu (Colorado School of Mines)

16:06 X17.009 Charge Inversion of a Weakly Charged Macroion in Sphere/Rod Shapes: Effects of Anions, Salt, and Polymer Cations

Motohiko Tanaka (National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-5292, Japan), Alexander Yu. Grosberg (Physics Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN55455)

16:18 X17.010 Polyelectrolyte Self-diffusion: Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching of Sodium Poly(styrenesulfonate) in N-methyl Formamide

Thomas Seery (University of Connecticut), Amit Sehgal (NIST)

16:30 X17.011 Small molecule templating of polyelectrolyte multilayers to enhance absorption

Solar Olugebefola, Anne Mayes, Michael Rubner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Department of Materials Science and Engineering Collaboration

16:42 X17.012 Monte Carlo Simulations of solutions of rod-like charged chains

Min Sun Yeom, Monica Olvera de la Cruz (Dept. of Mats. Science and engineering,Northwestern University)

16:54 X17.013 Polyelectrolyte Chain Dimensions and Concentration Fluctuations near Phase Boundaries

V.M. Prabhu, M. Muthukumar (Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.), G.D. Wignall, Y.B. Melnichenko (Condense Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6393)

17:06 X17.014 Integral Equation Theory for Counterion Interactions in Associating Polymer Melts

Jared Bushey, Kathleen Kolbet (Lebanon Valley College)

17:18 X17.015 Phase Transitions in Stoichiometric Polyelectrolyte - Surfactant Complexes

Michael Leonard, Helmut Strey (Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

14:30 X18.001 Temperature Dependence of Polyethylene Elastic Moduli using Molecular Simulations

Pieter in 't Veld, Gregory Rutledge (Dept. of Chem E, MIT)

14:42 X18.002 Probing the Molecular Mechanisms of the Fracture of Semicrystalline Polyethylene

J. J. Benkoski (University of California, Santa Barbara), P. Flores (California Polytechnic State University), E. J. Kramer (University of California, Santa Barbara)

14:54 X18.003 Ductile Fracture Criteria of Biaxially Oriented Polystyrene Films

C.C. Chau (The Dow Chemical Company), J.C.M. Li (The University of Rochester)

15:06 X18.004 Fracture Simulation of Highly Crosslinked Polymer Networks: Triglyceride-Based Adhesives

Christian Lorenz, Mark Stevens (Sandia National Labs), Richard Wool (U. Delaware)

15:18 X18.005 Effect of the Degree of Cross-linking and Crosslinker Functionality on the Mechanical Behavior of Cross-linked Polymers: A Molecular Dynamics Study

Mesfin Tsige, Chris Lorenz, Mark Stevens (Sandia National Labs.)

15:30 X18.006 Fracture of Polymers and Interfaces: A Universal Molecular Approach

Richard Wool (Dept Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark DE 19716-3144)

15:42 X18.007 Deformation of fluctuating chiral ribbons

Sergey Panyukov (P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia), RYitzhak Rabin Collaboration

15:54 X18.008 Nanometer scale deformation induced by simultaneous exposure of polymer surfaces to solvents and mechanical stress using an atomic force microscope

Ryan Leach, Forrest Stevens, Tom Dickinson (Washington State University)

16:06 X18.009 Studies of Polymer Adhesion Using the Quartz Crystal Microbalance

F. Nelson Nunalee, Kenneth R. Shull, Cynthia Flanigan (Northwestern University)

16:18 X18.010 Contact Mechanics Studies of Monolayer Interactions

Rachel L. McSwain, Kenneth R. Shull, SonBinh T. Nguyen, Hongying Zhou (Northwestern University)

16:30 X18.011 Maximizing adhesion at a solid-elastomer interface

Kiriaki Chrissopoulou, Caroline Tardivat, Liliane Leger (Laboratoire de Physique de la Matiere Condensee, URA CNRS 792, College de France,11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France)

16:42 X18.012 RATE AND TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF ADHESION MEASURED BY A JKR METHOD ON SYNTHETICALLY MODIFIED ACRYLIC PRESSURE SENSITIVE ADHESIVES

Yev Garif, William Gerberich, Christopher Macosko (University of Minnesota), Alphonsus Pocius (3M Company)

16:54 X18.013 Polymer-Solid Adhesion Dependence on Sticker Groups in a Bio-Based PSA

Shana P Bunker, Richard P. Wool (Chhemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark DE 19716-3144)

17:06 X18.014 The Effects of Geometric Confinement on the Adhesive Debonding of Soft Elastic Solids

Rebecca Webber, Kenneth Shull (Northwestern University)

17:18 X18.015 Experimental Studies of Adhesion of a Highly Swollen Gel

Phillip Cole, John Emerson (Sandia National Laboratories), J.L. Lenhart Collaboration, Y.Y. Lin Collaboration, C.Y. Hui Collaboration, J.T. Koberstein Collaboration, D.A. Schneider Collaboration, J.L. Schroeder Collaboration

14:30 X19.001 Vertically coupled InGaAs quantum dots with electric field for quantum gate operations

Y. Lyanda-Geller, T. L. Reinecke (Naval Research Laboratory), M. Bayer (University of Dortmund), A. Forchel (University of Wuerzburg)

14:42 X19.002 Even-odd effect in spontaneously coherent bilayer quantum Hall droplets and quantum computing

K. Park, V.W. Scarola, S. Das Sarma (Condensed Matter Theory Center and Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Maryland)

14:54 X19.003 Universal Quantum Computation using Exchange Interactions and Measurements of Single- and Two-Spin Observables

Daniel A. Lidar, Lian-Ao Wu (Chemical Physics Theory Group, Chemistry Department, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada)

15:06 X19.004 Localization and antiresonant decoupling of excitations in a spin chain with a defect

L. F. Santos, M. I. Dykman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University)

15:18 X19.005 Robust Quantum Computation with Quantum Dots

C. Stephen Hellberg (Naval Research Laboratory)

15:30 X19.006 Single Spin Dynamics and Decoherence in a Quantum Dot via Charge Transport

Hans-Andreas Engel, Daniel Loss (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, Switzerland)

15:42 X19.007 Entangled Bilayer Quantum Hall Droplets

Vito Scarola, K. Park, S. Das Sarma (Condensed Matter Theory Center and Department of Physics, University of Maryland)

15:54 X19.008 Dephasing in tunneling through parallel quantum dots

Christoph Bruder, Florian Marquardt (Departement Physik und Astronomie, Universität Basel, Klingelbergstr. 82, 4056 Basel, Switzerland)

16:06 X19.009 Theory of nuclear induced spectral diffusion: Spin decoherence of phosphorus donors in Si and GaAs quantum dots

Rogerio de Sousa, Sankar Das Sarma (Condensed Matter Theory Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111)

16:18 X19.010 Spin-Orbit Coupling and Time-Symmetric Pulsing of Quantum Gates

D. Stepanenko, N.E. Bonesteel (Dept. of Physics and NHMFL, Florida State University), G. Burkard, D.P. DiVincenzo (IBM Research Division, T. J. Watson Research Center), D. Loss (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel)

16:30 X19.011 Nuclear memory for mesoscopic quantum bits

J. M. Taylor, C. M. Marcus, M. D. Lukin (Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138)

16:42 X19.012 Quantum Hall Quantum Bits - a QH Analog of Cooper Pair Boxes

S.R. Yang (Korea University), John Schliemann (University of Basel), A.H. MacDonald (University of Texas at Austin)

16:54 X19.013 Quantum computation with quantum dots: The case of three or more coupled electron spins

Ari Mizel (Physics Department and Materials Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, 104 Davey Lab, PMB196, University Park, PA 16802-6300), Daniel A. Lidar (Chemical Physics Theory Group, Chemistry Department, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada)

17:06 X19.014 Theoretical Studies of Phosphorous Delta-doped Dilison for Quantum Computing

Gefferey Qian, Yia-Chung Chang, J.R. Tucker (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

17:18 X19.015 Accuracy of circular polarization as a measure of spin polarization in quantum dot qubits

C. E. Pryor, M. E. Flatté (Optical Science and Technology Center and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 52242, USA)

X19.016 Encoded Recoupling and Decoupling: An Alternative to Quantum Error Correcting Codes, Applied to Trapped Ion Quantum Computation

Daniel A. Lidar, Lian-Ao Wu (Chemical Physics Theory Group, Chemistry Department, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada)

14:30 X20.001 Properties of Epitaxial MgB_2 Films Grown by HPCVD

Alexej Pogrebnyakov, Xianghui Zeng, Armen Kotcharov, James Jones, Arsen Soukiassian, Joao Sosa, Xiaoxing Xi, Shengyong Xu, Eric Wertz, Qi Li (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA), Eric Lysczek, Abhishek Jain, Joan Redwing, James Lettiery, Venu Vaithyanathan, Darrell Schlom, Zi-Kui Liu (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA), Wei Tian, Xiaoqing Pan (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)

14:42 X20.002 Anisotropic Superconducting Properies of AAlSi (A=Ca, Sr) Single Crystals

TSUYOSHI TAMEGAI, AJAY KUMAR GHOSH, YOSHIHIKO HIRAOKA, MASASHI TOKUNAGA (Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo)

14:54 X20.003 Superconductivity in the C32 intermetallic compounds CaAl2-xSix and SrAlSi

B. Lorenz, J. Cmaidalka, R. L. Meng, Y. Y. Xue (TCSUH and Dept. of Physics, University of Houston), C. W. Chu (TCSUH and Dept. of Physics, University of Houston and University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

15:06 X20.004 Anisotropy and Penetration Depth in MgB_2 from ^11B NMR

Bo Chen, E.E. Sigmund, P. Sengupta, V. Mitrovic, W.P. Halperin (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL., U.S.A), Moohee Lee (Konkuk University, Seoul 143-701, Korea), B. K. Cho (Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Kwangju 500-712, Korea)

15:18 X20.005 Upper Critical Field of Carbon Doped Magnesium Diboride under Hydrostatic Pressure

Xiaosheng Huang, Alex Zettl (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of California, Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA)

15:30 X20.006 Significant enhancement of the upper critical field in bulk and thin films MgB_2 by alloying

V Braccini, S. Patnaik, A. Gurevich, L.D. Cooley, X. Song, S.D. Bu, D.M. Kim, J.H. Choi, E.J. Belenky, J. Giencke, M.K. Lee, E.E. Hellstrom, C.B. Eom, D.C. Larbalestier (Applied Superconductivity Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.), K.H. Kim, C. Meilke (NHMFL, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM.)

15:42 X20.007 MICROWAVE AND RADIO FREQUENCY RESPONSE OF MgB_2.

Nazih Hakim, Christian Kusko, Srinivas Sridhar (Physics Department, Northeastern University, Boston, Ma 02115.)

15:54 X20.008 Interband phase modes and nonequilibrium soliton structures in two-gap superconductors

A Gurevich (Applied Superconductivity Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI), V.M. Vinokur (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL)

16:06 X20.009 Impurity Scattering in MgB2

Franz Aguirre Farro (Physics Department, Univ. of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez), Yong-Jihn Kim (Physics Department, UPR-Mayaguez)

16:18 X20.010 Open questions in the theory of multigap superconductivity in MgB2

II Mazin (Naval Research Lab), OK Andersen, O Dolgov, J Kortus, O Jepsen (Max Planck Institut Stuttgart), AA Golubov (Twente University)

16:30 X20.011 Infrared Spectra in a Multigap Superconductor: Model Calculations for MgB_2

Sergey V. Barabash, David Stroud (Ohio State University)

16:42 X20.012 Electron Spin Resonance of MgB_2 : test of the Elliott relation in the normal state

R.P.S.M Lobo, M. Elsen, P. Monod (ESPCI / CNRS, Paris, France), R.J. Cava (U. Princeton, NJ, USA)

16:54 X20.013 Experimental indications of surface superconductivity in MgB_2 single crystals

A. Rydh, U. Welp, G. Karapetrov, J. M. Hiller, W. K. Kwok, G. W. Crabtree (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA), K. H. P. Kim, C. U. Jung, H.-S. Lee, B. Kang, S.-I. Lee (NCRICS and Dept. of Physics, Pohang Univ. of Sci. and Technol., Korea)

17:06 X20.014 The pair-breaking critical current density of magnesium diboride

Milind N. Kunchur (University of South Carolina, Department of Physics and Astronomy), Sung-Ik Lee Lee, W. N. Kang (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Department of Physics)

17:18 X20.015 Polycrystalline and single crystal MgB_2: Synthesis and characterization

Mohamed Badr, K.-W. Ng (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0055, U.S.A.)

X20.016 Phonons in MgB_2 Near T_c by Inelastic X-Ray Scattering.

Alfred Q. R. Baron, Hiroshi Uchiyama, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Satoshi Tsutsui^1, Sergey Lee^2, Ishikawa Daisuke^3, Setsuko Tajima^2, Tetsuya Ishikawa^31

14:30 X21.001 FLUX PINNING IN LOW TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS

Lance Cooley (Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY 11973)

15:06 X21.002 Did You Say, "Increase Jc by Decreasing the Pinning Potential?"

Roy Weinstein, Alberto Gandini, Ravi Sawh, Drew Parks (Physics Dept. and Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX 77004-5005)

15:18 X21.003 Measurements of the Pinning Force of Grain Boundaries in Nb_3Sn

Chad Fischer, Peter Lee, Arno Godeke, Lance Cooley, David Larbalestier (Applied Superconductivity Center, University of Wisconsin)

15:30 X21.004 Electrical transport, magnetic, and structural properties of the vortex lattice of V_3Si in the vicinity of the peak effect

Albert A. Gapud, David K. Christen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), James R. Thompson (University of Tennessee Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Mohana Yethiraj (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

15:42 X21.005 Time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau simulations of the voltage-current characteristic of type-II superconductors with pinning

Thomas Winiecki (Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE, UK)

16:18 X21.006 Strong Dependence of JC and TC on the Degree of Crystallinity in MgB2 Thin Films

J. E. Giencke (Applied Superconductivity Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706), D. M. Kim (University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706), E.E. Hellstrom, D.C. Larbalestier, C. B. Eom (Applied Superconductivity Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706)

16:30 X21.007 Critical Currents, Vortex Dynamics and Microstructure in MgB_2

Adriana Serquis, Leonardo Civale, Xiazhou Liao, Martin Maley, Yuntian Zhu, Dean Peterson, Fred Mueller (MST-STC, Loa Alamos National Laboratory)

16:42 X21.008 High –Tc superlight bipolarons in novel superconductors

Sasha Alexandrov (Loughborough University *)

16:54 X21.009 Vortex glass transition in a disordered 3D XY model

Peter Olsson (Dept of Physics, Umea University, Umea, Sweden)

17:06 X21.010 Singular current response from isolated impurities in d-wave superconductors

Shan-Wen Tsai, Peter J. Hirschfeld (University of Florida)

14:30 X22.001 Thermodynamic Properties of One-Dimensional Hubbard Model at Finite Temperatures

Chi Yang (Department of Physics, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan 251, R.O.C.), Armen Kocharian (Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Northridge, CA 91330-8268), You-Ling Chiang (Department of Physics, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan 111, R.O.C.)

14:42 X22.002 Phase Diagram of the One-Dimensional SU(4) Hubbard model

Patrick Azaria (Affiliation), Edouard Boulat (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique des Liquides, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75256 Paris Cedex 05, France), Roland Assaraf (Affiliation), Michel Caffarel (Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75256 Paris Cedex 05, France), Philippe Lecheminant (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modélisation, Université de Cergy Pontoise, 5 Mail Gay-Lussac, Neuville sur Oise, 95301 Cergy Pontoise Cedex, France)

14:54 X22.003 Interaction induced collapse of a section of the Fermi sea in in the zig-zag Hubbard

K. Hamacher (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe), C. Gros (University of the Saarland), W. Wenzel (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)

15:06 X22.004 Broken time-reversal symmetry in strongly correlated ladder structures

Brad Marston (Brown University), U. Schollwoeck (Max Planck Institute Stuttgart), Sudip Chakravarty (University of California Los Angeles), J. O. Fjaerestad (Brown University), M. Troyer (ETH Zurich)

15:18 X22.005 The t-J and Hubbard model with long range Coulomb interaction

Thomas Hand, Steve White (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine)

15:30 X22.006 Competition between ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism in the t-t'-U Hubbard model

Vasyl Hankevych, Bumsoo Kyung, Andre-Marie Tremblay (University of Sherbrooke)

15:42 X22.007 Stripe phase and topological order in a t-J_z model

Jurij Smakov (Condensed Matter Theory Group, Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Center, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden), Cristian Batista, Gerardo Ortiz (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

15:54 X22.008 Staggered flux fluctuations and superconducting quasiparticles in the t-J model

Carsten Honerkamp, Patrick A. Lee (MIT)

16:06 X22.009 Variational Study of Pairing Correlation in the Two-Dimensional t-J model

Yung-Chung Chen, Chi-Tin Shih (Department of Physics, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan), Ting-Kuo Lee (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)

16:18 X22.010 An evolutionary approach to the Hubbard model and the phase diagram of high-Tc cuprates

Tao Zhou (Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, New Jersey 08544)

16:30 X22.011 Nonequilibrium effects in the two-plane Hubbard Model

Petra Schmidt, Hartmut Monien (Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Bonn, Germany)

16:42 X22.012 Orbital Ordering and Phase Transition on the Triangular Lattice.

Anup Mishra, Michael Ma, Fu-Chun Zhang (University of Cincinnati)

16:54 X22.013 Metallic Phase at the CDW-SDW Crossover in the Hubbard-Holstein Model at Half-filling

Y. Takada (ISSP, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan.), A. Chatterjee (School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500 046, India.)

17:06 X22.014 Conductance through a One-Dimensional Correlated System: Relation to Persistent Currents and Role of the Contacts

Rafael A. Molina, Dietmar Weinmann, Rodolfo Jalabert (IPCMS Strasbourg), Gert-Ludwig Ingold (Augsburg), Jean-Louis Pichard (CEA Saclay)

17:18 X22.015 Correlation Effects in LiCoO2

Chris Marianetti (MIT), Gabriel Kotliar (Rutgers), Gerbrand Ceder (MIT)

X22.016 Phase Separation and Polaron Formation in The Hubbard-Holstein model

Massimo Capone, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Claudio Castellani, Carlo Di Castro, Marco Grilli (Physics Department, University of Rome "La Sapienza" and INFM - Rome - Italy)

14:30 X23.001 Photoionization spectroscopy of deep defects responsible for current collapse in GaN-based FETs

PAUL KLEIN (Naval Research Laboratory)

15:06 X23.002 Transport in Metal-Nitride Heterostructure Junctions - A self consistent drift-diffusion-charge-control model

Yuh-renn Wu, Madhusudan Singh, Jasprit Singh (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA), Umesh Mishra (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA), UM amp; UCSB Collaboration

15:18 X23.003 Insulator-gated AlGaN/GaN heterostructure field effect transistors

Zhaoyang Fan, Mim Lal Nakarmi, Jing Li, Jingyu Lin, Hongxing Jiang (Department of Physics, Kansas State University)

15:30 X23.004 Light Propagation Properties of Band-Edge Emissions in III-Nitride Sub-Micron Waveguides

J Shakya, T. N. Oder, J. Y. Lin, H. X. Jiang (Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506)

15:42 X23.005 Correlation of RF dispersion with MBE growth conditions of high power AlGaN/GaN HEMTs

Michael Manfra, Nils Weimann, Oleg Mitrofanov, Thomas Waechtler (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)

15:54 X23.006 Hall resistance hysteresis in AlGaN/GaN 2DEG

K. Tsubaki (Dep. of Electrical amp; Electronic, Toyo University), N. Maeda, T. Saitoh, N. Kobayashi (NTT Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Corporation)

16:06 X23.007 Nitride Microlens Arrays for Blue and UV Wavelength Applications

Tom Oder, Jagat Shakya, Jingyu Lin, Hongxing Jiang (Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506-2601)

16:18 X23.008 Electrical activation studies of Al0.2Ga0.8N implanted with Si

Mee-Yi Ryu, E. Chitwood, E. Claunch, Y. K. Yeo, R. L. Hengehold (Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433), T. Steiner (Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Arlington, Virginia 22203)

16:30 X23.009 Electrical Characterization of AlGaN/GaN Heterostructures Grown on Silicon

S. Elhamri, W. C. Mitchel, W. D. Mitchell, R. Berney (Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433-7707), J. C. Roberts, P. Rajagopal, T. Gehrke, E. L. Piner, K. J. Linthicum (Nitronex Corporation 628 Hutton St., Suite 106 Raleigh, NC 27606)

16:42 X23.010 \hfill Contacts to Semiconducting Boron Nitride

W. C. McGinnis, Jennifer L. Beyer (SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego), P. A. Encarnación, A. Daniel, R. Clarke (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

16:54 X23.011 Optically Pumped Laser Characteristics of Blue Zn_x'Cd_y'Mg_1-x'-y'Se /Zn_xCd_yMg_1-x-ySe Single Quantum Well Lasers Grown on InP

XUECONG ZHOU, MARTIN MUÑOZ, MARIA. C. TAMARGO (The City College and The Graduate Center of CUNY, New York, NY 10031), YING-CHIH CHEN (Hunter College of CUNY, New York, NY 10021)

17:06 X23.012 NMR Relaxation due to Bistable Defects in CdF_2

D. Hilger, Jr. Warren (Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon), S. A. Kazanskii, A. I. Ryskin (S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia)

14:30 X24.001 Ferrimagnetic resonance of high T_c organic-based magnet V[TCNE]_x films.

Y. Bataiev, N.P. Raju, T. Savrin, V.N. Prigodin, K.I. Pokhodnya (The Ohio State University), J.S. Miller (University of Utah), A.J. Epstein (The Ohio State University)

14:42 X24.002 High field positive magnetoresistance in organic-based magnetic semiconductor V(TCNE)_x films

N. P. Raju, V. N. Prigodin (The Ohio State University), K. I. Pokhodnya (The Ohio State University and University of Utah), Joel S. Miller (University of Utah), A. J. Epstein (The Ohio State University)

14:54 X24.003 Group-IV-Based Spintronic Semiconductors

Xuan Luo, S. B. Zhang, S.-H. Wei (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401)

15:06 X24.004 Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida-like ferromagnetism in Mn_xGe_1-x

Yu-Jun Zhao (Northwestern University), Arthur J. Freeman (Northwestern)

15:18 X24.005 Novel Transport Properties of Ge-based Magnetic Semiconductors

Lei Ma, Liang He, Frank Tsui (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

15:30 X24.006 Electronic and magnetic properties of Mn-doped germanium clathrates

Jijun Zhao, Jian Ping Lu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

15:42 X24.007 Magnetism in Cobalt doped Cu2O and CuO thin films with and without Al, V, Zn codopants

S.N. Kale [1], S.B. Ogale, S.R. Shinde, V.N. Kulkarni, R.L. Greene, T. Venkatesan (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), S.E. Lofland (Department of Chemistry and Physics, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028)

15:54 X24.008 High temperature ferromagnetism in Co-doped SnO2

S.B. Ogale, R. Choudhary, S.R. Shinde, S.N. Kale, V.N. Kulkarni, J. Higgins, R.L. Greene, T. Venkatesan (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), J.P. Buban, N.D. Browning (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607), S.E. Lofland, C. Lanci (Department of Chemistry and Physics, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028), S. Das Sarma (Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)

16:06 X24.009 Magnetic properties of transition-metal-doped ZnO

S. Kolesnik, B. Dabrowski, J. Mais (Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL)

16:18 X24.010 Spin Lifetimes for the NV-Center in CVD Diamond at Room Temperature

T.A. Kennedy, J.S. Colton, J.E. Butler (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375), R.C. Linares, P.J. Doering (Apollo Diamond, Sherbourne, MA 01770)

16:30 X24.011 Pressure tuning the ferromagnetic transition in vanadium doped Sb_2Te_3

J. S. Dyck, K. Ahilan (Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109), P. Svanda, P. Lostak (Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic), M. C. Aronson, C. Uher (Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109)

16:42 X24.012 Preparation and Properties of Room-temperature Ferromagnetic Al_1-xCr_xN_y Semiconducting Thin Films

Jun Zhang, D.J. Sellmyer (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Materials Research Analysis, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588)

16:54 X24.013 Resonant electron spin flip Raman scattering and magnetization of Cd_1-xV_xTe, a diluted magnetic semiconductor.

Stanislav Tsoi, Ireneusz Miotkowski, A. K. Ramdas, Sergio Rodriguez (Purdue Uni.), Hussain Alawadhi (Sharjah University, UAE), T. M. Pekarek (University of North Florida)

17:06 X24.014 Modulated reflectivity and resonant electron spin flip Raman scattering in Cd_1-xFe_xTe, a diluted magnetic semiconductor.

Ireneusz Miotkowski, Stanislav Tsoi, A. K. Ramdas, Sergio Rodriguez (Purdue Uni.), Hussain Alawadhi (Sharjah University, UAE), T. M. Pekarek (University of North Florida)

17:18 X24.015 Re-entrant behavior of ferrimagnetic VxCo1-x[TCNE]2 Organic-based magnets*.

Konstantin Pokhodnya, V. Burtman (University of Utah, Ohio State university), J. Raebiger (University of Utah), A. J. Epstein (Ohio State university), J. S. Miller (University of Utah)

14:30 X25.001 Oxygen vacancy defects in tantalum pentoxide: a density functional study

Rampi Ramprasad, Tom Remmel, Doug Roberts, Mark Raymond, Sriram Kalpat, Mel Miller (Motorola, Inc.)

14:42 X25.002 Transition metal atoms on different alumina phases: The role of subsurface sites on catalytic activity

S.N. Rashkeev (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN), K. Sohlberg (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA), M.V. Glazoff, J. Novak (Alcoa Technical Center, Alcoa Center, PA), S.J. Pennycook, S.T. Pantelides (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN)

14:54 X25.003 Ab initio electronic structure calculations for charged states of hydrogen point defects in KDP

C. S. Liu, Nicholas Kioussis (Department of Physics, California State University, Northridge, CA 91330-8268), S. G. Demos, H. B. Radousky (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box, Livermore, CA 94580)

15:06 X25.004 Radiolytic Hydrogen in Silicon Dioxide

Harold P. Hjalmarson, Arthur E. Edwards, Peter A. Schultz, Thomas R. Mattsson (Sandia National Laboratories)

15:18 X25.005 Properties of different types of oxygen vacancies in silica

Peter Sushko, Alexander Shluger, Andrey Myssovski, Sanghamitra Mukhopadhyay (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK), Arthur Edwards (Air Force Research Laboratory, KAFB, NM 87117-5776 USA)

15:30 X25.006 Thermally activated luminescence quenching in thulum doped sol-gel silica

J.K. Krebs (Franklin and Marshall College), S.E. Meidt, D.M. Boye (Davidson College), K.S. Brewer, A.J. Silversmith (Hamilton College)

15:42 X25.007 In-situ infrared spectroscopic analysis of hafnium diethylamide adsorption on hydrogen terminated silicon and oxide surfaces

Michael J Kelly, Gregory N Parsons (NC State University)

15:54 X25.008 Breakdown studies of single crystal SrTiO3 and sputtered Al2O3

Melissa Eblen, Anand Bhattacharya, Neal Staley, Allen Goldman (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota)

16:06 X25.009 PREPARATION OF PMZN PIEZOCERAMIC USING SOL-AUTOCOMBUSTION SYNTHESIZED PZT POWDER AS THE BASE

Sun Huajun (School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Technology), Chen Wen, Xu Qing, Zhou Jing, He Zheng (School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology), Liu Xiaofang (School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Technology)

16:18 X25.010 Neutron Reflectivity Study on Nanoporous Poly(methylsilsesquioxane) Thin Film

Zhaoliang Lin, Sungsook Ahn, Robert M. Briber (U. Maryland), Ho-Cheol Kim, Willi Volksen, Robert D. Miller (IBM Almaden), Kwanwoo Shin (NCNR-NIST)

16:30 X25.011 Supercritical Carbon Dioxide/Hexamethyldisilazane Treatment of Plasma-Damaged Low Dielectric Constant Films

Bashar Lahlouh, T. Rajagopalan, J. Lubguban, N. Biswas, S. Gangopadhyay (Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409), Juan Sun, D.H. Huang, S.L. Simon (Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409), D. Toma, R. Butler (Tokyo Electron America, Inc. Austin, TX 78741)

16:42 X25.012 Thin film growth of NdNiO_3 and SmNiO_3 by pulsed-laser deposition

Weidong Si, Peter Johnson, Stephen Shapiro (Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory), Qiang Li (Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:54 X25.013 Selective Extraction of Porogens in Hybrid Films by Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

J.A. Lubguban, B. Lahlouh, N Biswas, T. Rajagopalan, S. Gangopadhyay (Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409)

17:06 X25.014 PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SUBMICRON AND MICRON SCALE OPTICAL MATERIALS

Baoping Wang, L. L. Isaacs (CCNY and CUNY Graduate Center, Dept of Chemical Engineering, New York, NY.), A. B. Bykov, V. Petricevic, R. R. Alfano (CCNY and CUNY Graduate Center, Dept of Physics, New York, NY.)

14:30 X26.001 Piezoelectricity of Heteropolar Nanotubes

Na Sai, E. J. Mele (University of Pennsylvania)

14:42 X26.002 ELECTROMECHANICAL ACTUATOR PERFORMANCE OF CARBON NANOTUBE FIBERS

Edgar Munoz (UTD NanoTech Institute), Mikhail Kozlov (JDS Uniphase), Steve Collins, Alan B. Dalton, Joselito Razal, Anvar A. Zakhidov, Ray H. Baughman (UTD NanoTech Institute), UTD NanoTech Institute Team

14:54 X26.003 Nanoelectromechanical systems based on Carbon Nanotubes

Adam Fennimore, Thomas Yuzvinzky, Alex Zettl (UC Berkeley)

15:06 X26.004 Nanotube Molecular Devices for NEMS

Slava V Rotkin (Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:18 X26.005 A kinetic approach to strength in nanotubes

Traian Dumitrica, Ming Hua, Georgii Samsonidze, Boris I. Yakobson (Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University)

15:30 X26.006 Computer Simulations of sp^2 Bonded Super-Hard Carbon Nanostructures.

Savas Berber (Michigan State University), Syogo Tejima, Kazuo Minami, Noboru Jimbo, Hisashi Nakamura, Noejung Park (R.I.S.T.), Yasumasa Kanada (University of Tokyo), Eiji Osawa (NanoCarbon Res.\ Inst.), David Tomanek (Michigan State University)

15:42 X26.007 MECHANICS OF DEFORMATION OF SINGLE AND MULTIWALL CARBON NANOTUBES

Antonio Pantano, David M. Parks, Mary C. Boyce (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

15:54 X26.008 Torsion and stiffening of individual multi-walled carbon nanotube springs in nanomechanical devices

S. J. Papadakis, P. A. Williams, A. M. Patel, M. R. Falvo, S. Washburn, R. Superfine (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Physics and Astronomy)

16:06 X26.009 Graphitic tube/substrate interactions

Aleksey N. Kolmogorov, Vincent H. Crespi (Pennsylvania State University)

16:18 X26.010 Thermomechanical Bending of Nanotube-Metal Structures

Onejae Sul (University of North Carolina), Stergios Papadakis (University Of North Carolina), Yoni Fridman, Russell Taylor, Michael Falvo, Sean Washburn, R Superfine` (University of North Carolina)

16:30 X26.011 Shottky Interstitials as Cross-links in Nanotube Arrays

Yufeng Zhao, Boris I. Yakobson (Rice University)

16:42 X26.012 Effects of Processing Conditions and Dimensions on the Mechanical Properties of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Forests

H. Qi, K. Lau, M.C. Boyce, K.K. Gleason (Massachusetts Instutite of Technology, MA USA), K. Teo, J. Robertson, W. Milne (University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK)

16:54 X26.013 Ion irradiation effects on carbon nanotubes

Ananta Adhikari, Mengbing Huang (Dept. of Phys., SUNY-Albany), Katharine Dovidenko (School of NanoScience and NanoEngineering, SUNY Albany), Bingqing Wei, Robert Vajtai, Pulickel Ajayan (Dept. of Materials Science amp; Engineering, RPI), Dept. of Phys. Team, School of NanoScience amp; Nano Enginnering Collaboration, Dept. of Materials Science amp; Engineering Collaboration

17:06 X26.014 Band-gap Variation of "Semi-metallic" Zig-Zag Carbon Nanotubes under Uniaxial Strain: Accurate Ab-initio Studies

Guang-Yu Guo, K. C. Chu (Dept. of Physics, National Taiwan Univ., Taipei 106, Taiwan), Lei Liu, C. S. Jayanthi, Shi-Yu Wu (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292)

17:18 X26.015 Carbon nanocoil mechanics

Xinqi Chen, Dmitriy Dikin, Weiqiang Ding, Rodney S. Ruoff (Northwestern University, Dept of Mechanical Engineering)

17:30 X26.016 The Effects of Catalyst Dynamics and Composition on Nanospring Formation

Abdullah Alkhateeb, Daqinq Zhang, David N. McIlroy (Department of Physics, University of Idaho), M. Grant Norton (School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University)

14:30 X27.001 Computational studies of oxide surfaces

Mike Finnis (Queens University, Belfast)

15:06 X27.002 Defect Ordering Transition on the Surface of Single Crystal Sr3Ru2O7

A.P. Baddorf, L. Petersen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Ismail (University of Tennesse and Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jiandi Zhang (Florida International University), Rongying Jin, D.G. Mandrus (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Y. Maeno (Kyoto University), E.W. Plummer (University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

15:18 X27.003 Doping Dependence of the Surface Lattice Structure and Electronic Inhomogeneity of Ca2-xSrxRuO4

Ismal (University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jiandi Zhang (Florida International University), Rongying Jin (Oak Ridge National University), D.G. Mandrus (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), E.W. Plummer (University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

15:30 X27.004 Microscopic Origin of Differences in Dynamical Properties of Rutile and Anatase TiO_2.

G. Cangiani, M. Posternak, A. Baldereschi (EPF--Lausanne, Switzerland), H. Krakauer (College of William and Mary), S. Massidda (U. of Cagliari, Italy)

15:42 X27.005 Ab-initio molecular-dynamics simulation of amorphous ZrO_2: structural and dielectric properties

Xinyuan Zhao, David Vanderbilt (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019, USA)

15:54 X27.006 Atomic structure and conduction mechanism of hydrous RuO_2.

Wojtek Dmowski, Takeshi Egami (Univ. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.), Karen E. Swider-Lyons, Konrad M. Bussmann (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC. USA.)

16:06 X27.007 Polaron mechanism of transparent conductive behaviour of C12A7

Alexander Shluger, Peter Sushko (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, Uk), Hideo Hosono (TEAM project, ERATO, JST, KSP C-1232, 3-2-1 Sakado, Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki 213-0012, Japan)

16:18 X27.008 Materials for Bulk Acoustic Resonators and Filters

Hans-Peter Loebl (Philips Research, Weisshausstr.2, D-52066 Aachen, Germany)

16:54 X27.009 Finite-temperature properties of Pb(Sc_(1-x)/2Nb_((1-x)/2Ti_x)O_3 solid solution near its morphotropic phase boundary

Abdullah Al-Barakaty, Laurent Bellaiche (Department of physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA)

17:06 X27.010 Effects of atomic short range order on the properties of Pb(Zr_1-x Ti _x)O_3 alloy near its morphotropic phase boundary*

A.M. George (University of Arkansas), Jorge Iñiguez (Rutgers University), Laurent Bellaiche (University of Arkansas)

17:18 X27.011 Anomalous enhancement of tetragonality by negative pressure in PbTiO_3

Silvia Tinte (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019, USA), Karin Rabe, David Vanderbilt, Na Sai (Dept. of Chemistry, U. of Pennsylvania, Philaldelphia, PA 19104-6323, USA)

X27.012 Aluminum Diffusivity and Chemical Shift Measured by Ultra High-Temperature NMR in Liquid Ceramics

Robert F. Marzke, Jeremy Piwowarczyk (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1504), George H. Wolf, Willam T. Petuskey (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1604), Bharath Takulapalli (Science and Engineering Materials Program, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1704)

14:30 X28.001 Solving the Selectivity Problem in MRAMs using Micromagnetics

Anthony Arrott (Virginia State University)

15:06 X28.002 Vortex-Antivortex Interactions in Submicron Permalloy Stadia

Peter Eames, E. Dan Dahlberg (University of Minnesota)

15:18 X28.003 Magnetostatic Interactions in Patterned Submicron Magnetic Element Arrays

D. Wu, W. C. Uhlig, J. Shi (Department of Physics, Univeristy of Utah), D. Keavney (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory)

15:30 X28.004 Gilbert damping enhancement from first principles

M. Zwierzycki, P.J. Kelly (University of Twente, The Netherlands), K. Xia (The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing), G.E.W. Bauer (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), Ilja Turek (Institute of Physics of Materials, Brno)

15:42 X28.005 High-Frequency Magnetic Noise in Micrometer-Dimension Spinvalve Devices

Stephen Russek (NIST)

15:54 X28.006 Precessional Switching of Submicrometer Dimension Spinvalves

Shehzaad Kaka, Stephen Russek (NIST-Boulder)

14:30 X29.001 Infrared Investigation of Low-Temperature Structural and Magnetic Transitions in the (DT TTF)_2Au(mnt)_2 Spin Ladder Candidate

R. Wesolowski, J.T. Haraldsen, J.L. Musfeldt (University of Tennessee), C. Rovira (Institute of Material Sciences, Barcelona)

14:42 X29.002 Molecular Dynamics and Magnons in the Spin Ladder Candidate [(DT-TTF)_2][Au(mnt)_2]

J.T. Haraldsen, R. Wesolowski, J.L. Musfeldt (University of Tennessee), T. Barnes (University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

14:54 X29.003 Magnetization plateau in S=1 spin ladder

Toru Sakai (Physics Department, Tohoku University), Kiyomi Okamoto (Physics Department, Tokyo Institute of Technology), Nobuhisa Okazaki (Himeji Institute of Technology), Koich Kindo, Yasuo Narumi (KYOKUGEN, Osaka University), Yuko Hosokoshi (Institute of Molecular Science), Keiichi Katoh (Institute of Molecuar Science), Katsuya Inoue (Institute of Molecular Science), Tsuneaki Goto (Institute for Solid State Physics, Unversity of Tokyo)

15:06 X29.004 Theory of spin density profile in the magnetization plateaus of SrCu_2(BO_3)_2

Federico Becca (INFM-Democritos, National Simulation Centre, and SISSA, Trieste,Italy), Shin Miyahara, Frederic Mila (Institut de Physique Théorique, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland)

15:18 X29.005 Probing the Spin Gap in SrCu_2(BO_3)_2

C. R. Wiebe, G. M. Luke (Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), I. M. Gat-Malureanu, P. L. Russo, A. T. Savici, Y. J. Uemura (Department of Physics, Columbia University, N.Y., N.Y., U.S.A), A. Lappas (FO.R.T.H.-I.E.S.L., Materials Science Division, Heraklion, Crete, Greece), H. Kageyama (Materials Design and Characterization Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan)

15:30 X29.006 Classification of the symmetry enlarged phases for the 2-leg one dimensional Hubbard ladder.

Edouard Boulat (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08855, USA), Patrick Åzaria (Laboratoire de Physique Theorique des Liquides, Universite Paris 6, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris, France)

15:42 X29.007 High-field ESR investigation of the spin ladder compound Cu(quinoxaline)Br_2.

S.A. Zvyagin, J. Krzystek, J. van Tol, L.-C. Brunel (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, FSU), C.P. Landee (Clark University)

15:54 X29.008 High-Field Magnetization of Molecular-Based Spin Ladders

C.P. Landee, M.M. Turnbull (Department of Physics and Carlson School of Chemistry, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610), Neil Harrison, John Singleton (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MST-NHMFL), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

16:06 X29.009 Optical Properties of (C_5H_9NH_3)_2CuBr_4, A Ladder-Like Molecular Solid

J.D. Woodward, J. Choi, J.L. Musfeldt (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), M.M. Turnbull, C.P. Landee (Clark University), X. Wei (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee), H.J. Koo, M.H. Whangbo (North Carolina State University)

16:18 X29.010 Zero Temperature Phase Diagram of an Asymmetric Spin Ladder

Luca Capriotti (Kavli Institute fo Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara), Federico Becca (INFM-Democritos, National Simulation Centre and SISSA, Italy), Alberto Parola (Dipartimento di Scienze, Universita' dell'Insubria, Italy), Sandro Sorella (INFM-Democritos, National Simulation Centre and SISSA)

16:30 X29.011 Thermodynamics of Disordered Spin Ladders

Eddy Yusuf, Kun Yang (Physics Department, Florida State University and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)

16:42 X29.012 Inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy of single molecule magnets

Jeremy Nesbitt, Arthur Hebard (Department of Physics, University of Florida), Monica Soler, George Christou (Department of Chemistry, University of Florida)

16:54 X29.013 Stoichiometric Effects on the Electronic Structure and Magnetic properties of Fe8 Single Molecule Magnet

Jens Kortus (MPI fur Festkorperforschung, Heisenbergstr. 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany), Tunna Baruah (Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057), Mark Pederson (Center for Computational Materials Science, Code 6390, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375)

17:06 X29.014 Shunted interference and discontinuous instantons in spin tunneling in Fe8 molecules.

Ersin Kececioglu, Anupam Garg (Northwestern University)

17:18 X29.015 Level splittings in exchange-biased spin tunneling

Gwang-Hee Kim (Dept. of Physics, Sejong Univ., Seoul, Republic of Korea)

14:30 X30.001 Charge dynamics of a double-exchange ferromagnet La(1-x)Sr(x)MnO(3)

Koshi Takenaka (Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan)

15:06 X30.002 Double-peak resistivity transport properties of La-Ca-Mn-O ceramics

Shyam Surthi (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA), Sushma Kotru, R. K. Pandey, Patrick Fournier (Département de Physique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, J1K 2R1, Canada)

15:18 X30.003 MAGNETIC AND MAGNETOTRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF SINGLE CRYSTAL GdBaCo_2O_5+\delta

Z.X. Zhou, S. McCall, C.S. Alexander, J.E. Crow (NHMFL-FSU), S.N. Barilo (Institute of Solid state and Semiconductor physics Academy of Science, Minsk, Belarus)

15:30 X30.004 AC conductivity of a phase-separated manganite near the percolation threshold

Leena K Sahoo, Soumyadip Chaudhuri, Navneet K Pandey, Ramesh C Budhani (Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur - 208016, India)

15:42 X30.005 Magnetotransport in ACu_3-xMn_4+xO_12 (A= Ca or rare earth) perovskites

J. Sanchez-Benitez, A. Perez-Junquera, A. de Andres, J.A. Alonso, C. Prieto, J.L. Martinez (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid. Spain)

15:54 X30.006 Abnormal dynamic permeability of Nd1-xSrxMnO3 thin films at microwave frequencies

Leiming Xie (Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials), Jaroslaw Wosik (Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston), P Przyslupski (Institute of Physics of Polish Academy of Sciences), Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials Team, Institute of Physics of Polish Academy of Sciences Collaboration

16:06 X30.007 Metallic conductivity found in the A-type AF La_2-2xSr_1+2xMn_2O_7 (x=0.54)

E. Badica, K. E. Gray, H. Zheng, J. F. Mitchell (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439)

16:18 X30.008 Phenomenological Model of Charge Localization in the Layered Manganites

Kenneth E. Gray, Elvira Badica (Argonne National Laboratory)

16:30 X30.009 Carrier Hopping and Dielectric Response in Insulating and Electron-Doped Manganites

Mihai Peterca, Joshua L. Cohn (Physics Department, University of MIami), John J. Neumeier (Physics Department, Montana State University)

14:30 X31.001 References and Citations in the ADS Abstract Service

Guenther Eichhorn, Alberto Accomazzi, Carolyn S. Grant, Edwin Henneken, Michael J. Kurtz, Stephen S. Murray (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA)

14:42 X31.002 The Jefferson Lab Free Electron Laser Program

Gwyn Williams (Jefferson Lab. 12000 Jefferson Ave. Newport News, VA 23606), FEL Team

14:54 X31.003 Are Sunscreens Bad for You?

Vickie Johnson, Stephen Arnason (University of Massachusetts at Boston)

15:06 X31.004 The Texas Electronic Coalition for Physics - Creation of a Distributed Department

James Espinosa (West Texas Aamp;M University), Henry Leckenby (Texas Aamp;M University-Kingsville), Texas Electronic Coalition for Physics Collaboration

15:18 X31.005 A Flow Visualization Experiment for a First Course in Microfluidics

Shantanu Bhattacharya, Jordan Berg (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX), Shubhra Gangopadhyay (Dept. of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX)

15:30 X31.006 Writing Formal Physics Laboratory Reports During Laboratory Period

Tarlok S. Aurora (University of the Sciences in Philadelphia)

15:42 X31.007 Concepts and Tools for University Physics

Hugo R. Alarcón, Genaro Zavala (Department of Physics, ITESM. Av. E. Garza Sada 2501, Monterrey N. L., México 64849.)

15:54 X31.008 ELVIS has entered the Laboratory

Tim Usher, Paul Dixon (California State Univeristy San Bernardino)

16:06 X31.009 What is missing in teaching and learning calculus-based introductory physics courses for engineering students?

J.-L. Lin, E. Zaki, D.C. Woolston (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

14:30 X32.001 Vortex-glass phase in a quasi two-dimensional superconductor: Sn metal layer sandwiched between graphene sheets

Masatsugu Suzuki, Itsuko Suzuki (SUNY-Binghamton), Jürgen Walter (Osaka University)

14:42 X32.002 Observation of the Spinodal Line in the Vortex Lattice in NbSe2.

O. Dogru (Dept. of Physics Rutgers U.), Z.L. Xiao (Argonne National Labs), E.Y. Andrei (Dept. of Physics Rutgers U.), P. Shuk (Rosemount Anallitical Inc), M. Greenblatt (Dept. of Chemistry Rutgers U.)

14:54 X32.003 Magnetic phase diagram of Josephson vortices in Bi-2212

Kazuto Hirata, Shuuichi Ooi, Takashi Mochiku, El Hadi Sadki (National Institute for Materials Science)

15:06 X32.004 Hexagonal and Square Flux Line Lattices in CeCoIn5

M. R. Eskildsen (DPMC, University of Geneva, Switzerland), C. D. Dewhurst (ILL, Grenoble, France), B. W. Hoogenboom (DPMC, University of Geneva, Switzerland), C. Petrovic, P. C. Canfield (Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University)

15:18 X32.005 First order vortex liquid-solid transition without symmetry change

Mariela Menghini, Yanina Fasano, Francisco de la Cruz (Instituto Balseiro and Centro Atómico Bariloche, CNEA, Bariloche, Argentina), S.S. Banerjee Collaboration

15:30 X32.006 Measuring the Electrical Charge of Vortices in Type-II Superconductors

J. A. Clayhold (Department of Physics, Clemson University), T. S. Fleming (Affiliation), M. J. Skove (Department of Physics, Clemson University)

15:42 X32.007 Vortex Smectic-A in Anisotropic Type II Superconductors

Erica Carlson, Antonio Castro Neto, David Campbell (Boston University)

15:54 X32.008 Macroscopic effects of different anisotropies of H_c2 and \lambda_London. Application to MgB_2.

Vladimir G. Kogan (Ames Lab and ISU, Ames, IA 50011)

16:06 X32.009 Core Delocalization and Core Strings in nanoscale magnetic defect arrays

Jr. Priour (University of Maryland), H.A. Fertig (University of Kentucky Department of Physics and Astronomy), C. Dasgupta (Indian Institute of Science, Department of Physics), Sankar Das Sarma (University of Maryland Physics Department)

16:18 X32.010 Orthogonality Catastrophe for Vortices in d-wave Superconductors

Akakii Melikidze (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106, USA)

16:30 X32.011 Toward an analytic description of Mott-insulator-like behaviour of the Abrikosov flux lattice pinned by columnar defects

A.M. Ettouhami (Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309)

X32.012 Enhancement of the upper critical field by nonmagnetic impurities in dirty two-gap superconductors.

A Gurevich (Applied Superconductivity Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI)

14:30 X33.001 Magnetization Stabilization in Arrays of Fe Nanodots with Exchange Bias.

Igor V. Roshchin, C.P. Li (Physics Dept, UCSD), Kai Liu (Physics Dept, UC Davis), K. Nishio, H. Masuda (Appl. Chemistry Dept., Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.), Ivan K. Schuller (Physics Dept, UCSD)

14:42 X33.002 Tailoring Exchange Bias through Shape Anisotropy

Axel Hoffmann, M. Grimsditch, J.E. Pearson (Argonne National Laboratory), J. Nogués (ICREA and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain), W.A.A. Macedo (Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear, Belo Horizonte, Brazil), I.K. Schuller (University of California -- San Diego)

14:54 X33.003 Origin of complex exchange anisotropy in Fe/MnF_2 bilayers

I.N. Krivorotov (Cornell University), C. Leighton (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota), J. Nogués (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and Departament de Física), Ivan K. Schuller (Department of Physics, University of California - San Diego), E. Dan Dahlberg (Department of Physics, University of Minnesota)

15:06 X33.004 Magnetization Reversal in Exchange Biased Systems

Kai Liu, H. G. Katzgraber, C. R. Pike, L. Zhao, R. T. Scalettar, K. L. Verosub, G. T. Zimanyi (University of California - Davis), I. K. Schuller (University of Califronia - San Diego)

15:18 X33.005 Exchange-induced anisotropies at F/AF interfaces above and below the Néel temperature.

M. Grimsditch, A Hoffmann (Materials Science Div., Argonne Nat. Lab., Argonne, IL), P. Vavassori (INFM UdR of Ferrara- Dip. di Fisica, Univ. di Ferrara, Italy), Hongtao Shi, D. Lederman (Department of Physics, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV)

15:30 X33.006 Determination of Exchange Anisotropy by ac-AMR and Planar Hall Effect

Frank Hunte, E. Dan Dahlberg, Ilya Krivorotov (Affiliation), Thomas Gredig (Tate Laboratory of Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota)

15:42 X33.007 Interfacial domain formation during magnetization reversal in exchange biased CoO/Co bilayers

Florin Radu, Markus Etzkorn, Ralf Siebrecht, Till Schmitte, Kurt Westerholt, Hartmut Zabel (Experimentalphysik/Festkoerperphysik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, D44780 Bochum, Germany)

15:54 X33.008 Variation Of Domain Formation In 15nm NiFe layer Exchange Coupled With NiO Layers Of Different Thicknesses

Shireen Adenwalla, Zhongyuan Liu (Department Of Physics amp; Astronomy, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln)

16:06 X33.009 Exchange Coupling at a Ferro/Antiferro-magnetic Co/FeMn Interface

G. Malcolm Stocks (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Balazs Ujfalussy (University of Tennessee), Markus Eisenbach, Thomas Schulthess (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Andrew Canning (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:18 X33.010 Enhanced Exchange Bias By Strong Antiferromagnetic Coupling In (Pt/Co)3/NiO/(Co/Pt)3 Multilayer With Perpendicular Anisotropy

Zhongyuan Liu, Shireen Adenwalla (Department Of Physics amp; Astronomy, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln)

X33.011 Probing the composition, electronic, and magnetic structures of magnetic multilayer structures with spectroscopy excited by soft x-ray standing waves

See-Hun Yang, Stuart Parkin (IBM Almaden Research), Bongjin Mun (MSD amp; ALS, LBNL), Norman Mannella, Stephenie Ritchey (ldpham@ucdavis.edu), Brian Sell, Long Pham, Charles Fadley (MSD LBNL amp; Physics UC Davis), Akira Nambu (MSD LBNL amp; Chemistry, U. Tokyo)

14:30 X34.001 Pinch-off Dynamics in Liquid ^4He Drops

Justin Burton, Randy Waldrep, Tim Mcmillian, Peter Taborek, James Rutledge (University of California, Irvine, Department of Physics and Astronomy)

14:42 X34.002 Attenuation of the second sound due to pressure quenches near the lambda - line

Andrey Ganshin, Norbert Mulders (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716)

14:54 X34.003 Non-linear second sound in 3He-4He mixtures near the tricritical point

Vladimir Dotsenko, Norbert Mulders (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA), Alfred Nash, Melora Larson (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109)

15:06 X34.004 Phase Separation Near the Tricritical Point in ^3He-^4He Mixtures

Melora Larson, Al Nash, John Panek (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA 91109), Ben Vollmayr-Lee (Department of Physics, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837), Norbert Mulders (University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716)

15:18 X34.005 Helium Mixtures Confined to Zero Dimensions

Mark O. Kimball, Manuel Diaz-Avila, Francis M. Gaspa