Program overview

MONDAY AFTERNOON, 22 MARCH 2004

C1.001 Polymer Physics

C1.002 Magnetism and nuclear magnetic resonance of smectite clays and their polymer nanocomposites

E.M. Levin (Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University (ISU)), A. Rawal (Ames Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, ISU), S.S. Hou (Ames Laboratory, ISU), S.L. Budko (Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, ISU), K. Schmidt-Rohr (Ames Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, ISU)

C1.003 Lamellar Structure and Thermal Stability of isotactic Polypropylene Studied by Atomic Force Microscopy

Lin Li, Jian-Jun Zhou, Xia Gao, Shou-Ke Yan, Charles C. Han (State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Joint laboratories of Polymer Science amp; Materials, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), Beijing 100080 (PR China))

C1.004 Supramolecular complexes: lamellar structure and crystalline transformation

Su-Rong Zhou, Ying Zhao, Yuan-Li Cai, Yong Zhou, Yong-Lai Lu, Zhi-Qiang Su, Du-Jin Wang, Charles C. Han, Du-Fu Xu (State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Joint Laboratory of Polymer Science and Materials, Institute of Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China)

C1.005 Lamellar Single Crystals of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) as Model Substrates for Enzymolysis: Origin of the Splintered Texture

Robert H. Marchessault, Jumpei Kawada (Chemistry Department, McGill University)

C1.006 Depletion Bands in the Crystallization of Thin Isotactic Polystyrene Films

Duan Yongxin, Jiang Shidong, Jiang Yong, Li Lin, Han C. Charles, Yan ShouKe (State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Joint Laboratory of Polymer Scinence and Materials, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Schultz M. Jerold (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 USA)

C1.007 Crystallographic simulation of the crystalline phase of a nonracemic chiral main-chain liquid crystalline polyester

Shi Jin, Feng Bai, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng (Maurice Morton Institute and Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-3909)

C1.008 Tensile Deformation of Polyethylenes: Crystallinity Effects

Buckley Crist (Northwestern Univ.), Costas Metaxas (BP Polymers Americas)

C1.009 Orientation Normal to the Surface in Semicrystalline Poly(lactic acid) Films

Kaoru Aou, Shaw Ling Hsu (Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

C1.010 Heat capacity, magnetic susceptibility, EPR, and dc conductivity of some conducting polymers

Pawan Kahol, James Ho, Stefania Deterich (Wichita State University), Y.Y. Chen, C.R. Wang, S. Neeleshwar, C.B. Tsai (Institute of Physics, Academic Sinica, Taiwan), B. Wessling (Ormecon Gmbh, Germany)

C1.011 Time-Resolved SANS Study of Polyethylene Crystallization from Solution

Howard Wang (Michigan Technological University)

C1.012 Morphological Studies and Thickness Effect on Crystalline P(VDF-TrFE) Copolymer

B. Seyhan Ince, Laurel Powers, Peggy Cebe (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University)

C1.013 Sub-micron Scroll/Tubular single crystals of Nylon 66

Wenwen Cai (Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron), Christopher Y Li, Lingyu Li (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University), Bernard Lotz (Institute Charles Sadron)

C1.014 Optical and X-ray scattering studies on a semicrystalline triblock copolymer

Dongseok Shin, Kyusoon Shin, Khaled Aamer, Gregory N. Tew, Thomas P. Russell (Dept. of Polymer Science and Engineering, Univ. Mass., Amherst MA 01003)

C1.015 Double Reversible Melting of Isotactic Polystyrene

Hui Xu, Peggy Cebe (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts Univ., Medford MA 02155)

C1.016 Thermomechanical Properties of the Semicrystalline Interphase of Polyethylene

Pieter J. in 't Veld, Gregory C. Rutledge (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

C1.017 Crystal Structure of Hydrogenated, Atactic ROMP Polynorbornene.

Li-Bong W. Lee, Richard A. Register (Princeton University)

C1.018 Understanding the Complex Morphologies of Homogeneous Ethylene/α-Olefin Copolymers with Real-Time Small Angle Light Scattering

Ying Li, Yvonne Akpalu (Department of Chemistry, NYS Center for Polymer Synthesis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180)

C1.019 Capillary instabilities of thin nematic liquid crystalline polymer fibers embedded in a flexible polymer matrix

Jian Wu, Patrick T. Mather (University of Connecticut)

C1.020 Surface Microstructure of Injection-Molded Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Copolyesters

Robert Bubeck, Lowell Thomas (Michigan Molecular Institute), Alexander Hexemer (U.C.S.B.), Xuefa Li (Argonne National Lab.), Wesley Burghardt, Stanley Rendon (Northwestern University), Daniel Fischer (N.I.S.T.)

C1.021 The relationship between photooxidation defects and quantum yield loss in a liquid crystalline oligofluorene

E. Jane Wesely (Department of Physics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 14627), Lewis Rothberg (Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY), Yanhou Geng, Shaw Chen (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY)

C1.022 Understanding the Fundamental Mechanism Of Polymer-Substrate Adhesion Loss at a Critical Humidity Level By Combining Neutron Reflectivity and Adhesive Fracture Energy Measurements

Emmett P. O'Brien, Christopher C. White (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

C1.023 Radical initiated polymerization in a bi-functional mixture by a computer simulation model

Keri Diamond, Ras Pandey, Shelby Thames (University of Southern Mississippi)

C1.024 A CONTACT MECHANICS METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING THE ELASTIC PROPERTIES AND PERMEABILITY OF POLYMER GELS

Wei-Chun Lin, Kenneth R. Shull (Northwestern University), Chung-Yuen Hui (Cornell University), Yu Yun Lin, Fu-Chin Chuang (National Cheng Kung University)

C1.025 Study of PVA solutions and gels with Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy

Ariel Michelman Ribeiro (Boston University and National Institutes of Health), Hacene Boukari, Ferenc Horkay (National Institutes of Health)

C1.026 Broadband Dielectric Investigation of Hydrogen Bonded Poly(vinyl ether) Solutions

Shihai Zhang, Xing Jin, Justin Horvath, James Runt (Penn State University)

C1.027 Solvent Quality Based Gel Transitions in Triblock Copolymer Gels

David A. Brass, Kenneth R. Shull (Northwestern University)

C1.028 Exploring Fast Flow Behavior of Entangled Polymers

Prashant Tapadia, Amy Philips, Shi-Qing Wang (University of Akron), Thomas Hu (Unilever Research U.S.)

C1.029 Ultra-high Modulus Nano-Fluoroelastomers

David H. Pan (Xerox Innovation Group)

C1.030 Supramolecular Thin Film Architectures of Oppositely Charged Polyphenylene Dendrimers by Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembly

Dongha Kim, Jose Luis Hernandez-Lopez, Jianyun Liu, George Mihov, Roland Bauer, Linjie Zhi, Klaus Muellen (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research), Silvia Mittler (The University of Western Ontario), Wolfgang Knoll (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research)

C1.031 Self-Consistent Field Calculations of Polyelectrolyte Systems

Qiang Wang (University of California - Santa Barbara), Takashi Taniguchi (Yamagata University), Glenn Fredrickson (University of California - Santa Barbara)

C1.032 PBZO Based Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) for High Temperature Fuel Cells

R.K. Eby, S. Putthanarat (Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3909, USA), D. Ofer, B. Nair (Foster Miller, Inc., Waltham, MA 02451, USA), D. Ott (Department of Biology, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3908, USA)

C1.033 Blend Miscibility of Polystyrene/Sulfonated Polystyrene Blends

Nancy Zhou (Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania), Wes Burghardt (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University), Russ Composto, Karen Winey (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania)

C1.034 Dynamically stabilized lateral patterns in changed blends

Francisco J. Solis (Life Sciences, Arizona State University West), Galen T. Pickett (Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University Long Beach)

C1.035 Influence of chain stiffness on the properties of polyelectrolyte solutions

Seok Yun, Yuri Melnichenko, George Wignall, Kunlun Hong, Jimmy Mays (ORNL)

C1.036 Capillary electrophoresis of small ssDNA molecules

Katerina Kopecka, Gary W. Slater (Department of Physics, University of Ottawa), Guy Drouin (Department of Biology, University of Ottawa)

C1.037 Complex Transformations between Bicontinuous Cubic and Cylinder Phases in a Polystyrene-block-Poly(ethylene oxide) Diblock Copolymer

Lei Zhu, Lu Sun (Inst. of Mater. Sci. amp; Dept. of Chem. Eng., University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3136), Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk, Stephen Z.D. Cheng (Maurice Morton Inst. and Dept. of Polymer Sci., University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325), Benjamin S. Hsiao, Igors Sics, Carlos Avila-Orta (Chemistry Dept., State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794)

C1.038 Electrophoretic collision of a DNA molecule with an insulating post

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

C1.039 Thermo-mechanical properties of semicrystalline sPP-EPR diblock and sPP-EPR-sPP triblock copolymers

A Hotta, V Khanna, J Ruokolainen, GH Fredrickson, EJ Kramer (Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials, UC Santa Barbara), PD Hustad, GW Coates (Cornell University), F Shimizu (Mitsubishi Chemical Co.)

C1.040 Moiré Patterns of 2D Block Copolymer Arrays and Their Defects

A. Hexemer, G. E. Stein, E. J. Kramer (UCSB)

C1.041 Effect of Thermal History on Order of Confined 2D Layers of Block Copolymers

G. E. Stein, A. Hexemer, E. J. Kramer (UCSB)

C1.042 Block Copolymer Ordering in Swollen Films

Matthew Misner (Polymer Science amp; Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts-Amherst), Seung Hyun Kim (Polymer Science amp; Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts -Amherst), Nathaniel Lynd, Marc Hillmyer (Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota), Thomas Russell (Polymer Science amp; Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts -Amherst)

C1.043 Selective Metalization of Block Copolymer Films

James D. Sievert, Garth Brown, Thomas P. Russell, James J. Watkins (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

C1.044 Separation of ABC triblock copolymer using HPLC

Won Kim, Chang Yeol Ryu (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Hoichang Yang (RPI/POSTECH), Kilwon Cho (POSTECH)

C1.045 Thermally Cross-Linked Diblock Copolymer Templates

Julie M. Leiston-Belanger, Thomas P. Russell (University of Massachusetts- Amherst, Polymer Science and Engineering Dept.), Eric Drockenmuller, Craig J. Hawker (IBM Almaden Research Center)

C1.046 Defect trapping in ABC block copolymers

Laurent Corte (Laboratoire Matiere Molle et Chimie, ESPCI, Paris, France), Kazuhiro Yamauchi (Department of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan), Francois Court (CERDATO, ATOFINA, France), Michel Cloitre (Laboratoire Matiere Molle et Chimie, ESPCI, Paris, France), Takeji Hashimoto (Department of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan), Ludwik Leibler (Laboratoire Matiere Molle et Chimie, ESPCI, Paris, France)

C1.047 Optimizing Graphoepitaxial Ordering in Cylindrical Diblock Copolymer Monolayer Films

M. R. Hammond, A. Hexemer, E. J. Kramer (UCSB)

C1.048 CRYSTALLIZATION OF BISPHENOL-A POLYCARBONATE IN POLYCAPROLACTONE/POLYCARBONATE BLENDS

J.C. Zamora, A.J. Müller (Materials Science Department, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Apartado 89000, Caracas 1080-A, Venezuela), E. Laredo (Physics Department, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Apartado 89000, Caracas 1080-A, Venezuela), T.P. Lodge (Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN 55455)

C1.049 The Effect of Molecular Structure of Copolymers formed in-situ on Morphology at Reactive Polymer/Polymer Interface

Hwang Yong Kim, Jin Kon Kim (Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology)

C1.050 Piezo- and pyro-resistivity of carbon nanotube-elastomer nanocomposites

Hilmar Koerner (University of Dayton Research Institute), Nathan Pearce (Miami University, Ohio), Heather Dowty, Shane Juhl, Max Alexander, Richard Vaia (Air Force Research Laboratory)

C1.051 A Bending angle of 180 of Single walled carbon nanotubes:Novel high resolution electron microscopy observations

El-Hami Khalil, Matsushige Kazumi (Dept. of Electronic Science and Engineering. Kyoto University)

C1.052 Morphology and Phase Behavior of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane-Polybutadiene Random Copolymer Blends in Bulk and Thin Films

Engin Burgaz, Lei Zheng, Gregoire Cardoen, E. Bryan Coughlin, Sam Gido (Dept. of Polymer Science and Eng., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)

C1.053 Is Curing Behavior Dependent on Morphology in Reactive Polyurethanes

Young Gyu Jeong, Tomoko Hashida, Jayaraman Krishnamoothy, Shaw Ling Hsu (Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

C1.054 Influence of prepolymer composition on polyurethane morphology

Jayaraman Krishnamoorthy, Young Gyu Jeong, Tomoko Hashida, Shaw Ling Hsu (Polymer Science amp; Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA)

C1.055 Theoretical study of copolymer/homopolymer blends of varying composition.

Amy Gindhart, Kathleen Kolbet (Lebanon Valley College)

C1.056 Structure and Nanomechanical Properties of Electrospun Polystyrene/Clay Fibers

Yuan JI, Shouren GE, Bingquan LI, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, SUNY Stony Brook)

C1.057 P(VDF-TrFE) – Layered Silicate Nanocomposites: Dielectric Relaxation Studies

Peggy Cebe (Tufts University, Physics Department), James Runt (The Pennsylvania State University, Dept. Materials Science and Eng.)

C1.058 Optical Properties of Flowing Carbon Nanotube Suspensions

D. Fry, B. Langhorst, H. Kim, E. Grulke, H. Wang, E. K. Hobbie (NIST)

C1.059 Morphology Quantification Of Thermoset-Layered Silicate Nanocomposites Using Dielectric Spectroscopy

J. David Jacobs (University of Cincinnati), Richard A. Vaia (Air Force Research Laboratory), Hilmar Koerner (University of Dayton Research Institute), John D. Busbee (Air Force Research Laboratory)

C1.060 Curing Kinetics and Gas Barrier Properties of Thermoset Polymer Nanocomposites

Kigook Song, In-Jun Wee, U-Jin Lee (Affiliation), Han-Soo Park (Kyung Hee University, Korea), Young-Kwan Lee (Sung Kyun Kwan University, Korea)

C1.061 Miscibility in Bisphenol-A Polycarbonate/ Poly(\epsilon -caprolactone)

Mario Grimau, Alfredo Bello, Estrella Laredo, Dinorah Herrera, Alejandro Müller, Jean Carlos Zamora (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela)

C1.062 Electrodynamic and Optical Properties of Thin Films in Green's Function Approach

Irina Bariakhtar (Boston College), Valeri Lozovski (National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

C1.063 Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

C1.064 Mossbauer Studies of GdFe2-xHfx Alloys

Imaddin A. Al-Omari, A. Gismelseed, A. Rais, A. Al-Rawas, M. Elzain, A. Yousif (Department of Physics, Sultan Qaboos University, P.O. Box 36, PC 123, Muscat, SULTANATE of OMAN)

C1.065 Grain Boundary Magnetoresistance in bi-axially Textured Manganite Thin Films

K.S Harshavardhan, M. Strikovsky (Neocera Inc.), J. Kim (Neocera Inc,), M. Rajeswari, V. Smolyaninova, M. Overby (Towson University), Towson University Team

C1.066 Magnetoresistance of Nickel films with Striped Domains

D. S. Snowden, S. S. Harberger, J. G. Checkelsky, J. C. Eckert, P. D. Sparks (Harvey Mudd College)

C1.067 Nonuniform magnetization reversals in elliptical permalloy dots

Zung-Hang Wei, Ching-Ray Chang, J.C. Wu, National Changhua University of Education Collaboration

C1.068 Variational Study of the t-U-J Model

Yung-Chung Chen, Hanks Chien (Department of Physics, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan)

C1.069 MAGNETIC QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITION IN YbFe2Ge2 HEAVY FERMION COMPOUND

Julio Antonio Larrea Jiménez (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Rua Xavier Sigaud 150, Brazil), Elisa Baggio Saitovitch Team, Jochen Plessel Collaboration, Abd-Elmeguid Collaboration, C. Geibel Collaboration, A.S Pereira Collaboration, A. Jornada Collaboration

C1.070 Magnetism of Ca_2-xNa_xCuO_2Cl_2 Probed by Muon Spin Relaxation

Kazuki Ohishi, Akihiro Koda, Wataru Higemoto, Ryosuke Kadono (Inst of Mat Structure Sci, High Ener Accel Rsch Org (KEK)), Ikuya Yamada, Masaki Azuma, Mikio Takano (Inst for Chem Rsch, Kyoto Univ), Kenji Kojima (Dept of Phys, Univ of Tokyo)

C1.071 Direct time TDTF computation of the colossal magnetoresistance of a nanowire

Rachid Ouasti, Laurent Berger, Florent Calvayrac (laboratoire PEC UMR 6087 Faculté des Sciences Université du Maine F-72085 Le Mans)

C1.072 Anisotropic Magnetoresistance of Fe_xCo_1-xS_2

J. Checkelsky, P. Sparks, J. Eckert (Physics Department, Harvey Mudd College), L. Wang, K. Umemoto, R. M. Wentzcovitch, C. Leighton (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department, University of Minnesota), E. D. Dahlberg (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota)

C1.073 Spin-polarized transport in semiconductor nanostructures.

Semion Saikin, Min Shen, Ming-Cheng Cheng, Vladimir Privman (Center for Quantum Device Technology, Clarkson University)

C1.074 First-principles calculation of the magnetoresistance in highly responsive Gd_5(Si_2Ge_2) compound.

German Samolyuk, Vladimir Antropov (Ames Laboratory)

C1.075 Geometrical Effect on Spin Current in Magnetic Nano-structures

Masahiko Ichimura, Saburo Takahashi (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University), Kenchi Ito (Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.), Sadamichi Maekawa (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University)

C1.076 Metal-insulator transition in Nd_0.49Sr_0.51MnO_3 films

Y. Ogimoto (Devices Tech.Res.Labs., Sharp Corp.), M. Nakamura, N. Ogawa (Univ.of Tokyo), H. Tamaru, M. Izumi, K. Miyano (RCAST, Univ.of Tokyo)

C1.077 Antisite-defects vs grain boundaries competition in the magnetoresistance of the Sr_2FeMoO_6 double perovskite

D. Niebieskikwiat, F. Prado, A. Caneiro, R.D. Sánchez (Instituto Balseiro, 8400 Bariloche, Argentina)

C1.078 Temperature Dependence of the Spin-Dependent Mean Free Path in Backed Spin Valve Structures

A. C. Tamboli, J. G. Checkelsky, P. D. Sparks, J. C. Eckert (Physics Department, Harvey Mudd College), M. J. Carey (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose Research Center)

C1.079 Perpendicular Ba-Ferrite Films by in situ Sputtering Process*

A. R. Abuzir, Ryan Petrus, W. J. Yeh (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844)

C1.080 Magnetic Anisotropy of Fe, Co and Ni Nanoribbons from First Principles

Arti Kashyap, A. K. Solanki, R. Skomski (CMRA and Department of Physics and Astronomy,UNL, Lincoln, NE 68588), R. F. Sabirianov (CMRA and Department of Physics, UNO, Omaha, NE), S. S. Jaswal, D. J. Sellmyer (CMRA and Department of Physics and Astronomy,UNL, Lincoln, NE 68588)

C1.081 Effect of annealing and external stress on magnetic anisotropy and structure of rare-earth (TbFe amp; CoFe) iron alloy thin films

Jin-Hui Tan (American Physics Society), W.A. Anderson, V.H. Guerrero, R.C. Wetherhold

C1.082 Simultaneous measurements of magnetoresistance and magnetic force microscopy on elliptical permalloy element

Y.C. Chang, J.C. Wu, Lance Horng (Taiwan SPIN research center, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan, 500)

C1.083 Investigation of Switching Fields of Magnetic Nanoparticles With Magnetic Force Microscopy

S. Collins, P. Grutter (McGill University), X. Zhu (University of Alberta), J. Beauvais, J. Beerens (University of Sherbrooke)

C1.084 Size effect on magnetoresistance of ring-shaped ferromagnetic elements

C. C. Chang, J.C. Wu (Taiwan SPIN research center, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan 500), Z.H. Wei, M.F. Lai (Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 106), J.H. Kuo (Institue of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 115), C.R. Chang (Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 106)

C1.085 FMR spectrum of a normally magnetized array of submicron circular magnetic dots

Andrei Slavin (Department of Physics, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 48309), Konstantin Guslienko (Seagate Research, 1251 Waterfront Place, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222), Gleb Kakazei, Philip Wigen (Department of Physics, Ohio State University, 174 West 18th Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43210)

C1.086 Quantum fluctuations in low dimensional easy-plane spin models

A. S. T. Pires, M. E. Gouvea (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Fisica)

C1.087 Roughness Influence on Magnetisation Distribution in Magnetic Bilayers

Fray de Landa Castillo-Alvarado (ESFM-IPN ,Mexico), Anna Urbaniak-Kucharczyk (Solid State Physics Depto.,University of Lodz ,Poland)

C1.088 Quantum phase transition in spin-1/2 XX Heisenberg chain with three-spin interactions

Lou Ping, Wu Wen-Chin, Chang Ming-Che (National Taiwan Normal University)

C1.089 Far-Infrared Spectroscopy and Cluster Simulations of the Shastry-Sutherland Model for SrCu_2(BO_3)_2.

Dan Hyvonen, Urmas Nagel, Toomas Rõõm (Nat.-l Inst. of Chem. Phys. amp; Biophys., Tallinn, Estonia)

C1.090 Phase separation in electron-doped La_0.7Ce_0.3MnO_3 thin films

Wei-Jen Chang, Shyh-Feng Chen, Jenh-Yih Juang (Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jiunn-Yuan Lin (Institute of Physics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tzeng-Ming Uen, Kaung-Hsiung Wu, Yih-Shun Gou (Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)

C1.091 Magnetic Order in Quasi-Two Dimensional Molecular Magnet Cu(pz)_2(ClO_4)_2.

F.M. Woodward (NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD 20899), C.P. Landee (Physics Department, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610), M.M. Turnbull (Chemistry Department, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610)

C1.092 Specific Heat of GeCo_2O_4 and GeNi_2O_4: Frustrated Spinels

R. W. Stevens, B. F. Woodfield, J. Boerio-Goates (Brigham Young University, Provo, UT), M. K. Crawford, R. L. Harlow, R. Flippen (DuPont, Wilmington, DE), P. L. Lee, Y. Zhang (ANL, Argonne, IL), J. Hormadaly (Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheeva, Israel), Q. Huang, J. W. Lynn (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD), R. A. Fisher (LBNL, Berkeley, CA)

C1.093 Composition Dependence of Magnetism in Single Crystal Co/Ni Dichloride Dihydrate

G.C. DeFotis, T.E. Borsari, M.L. Laccheo, D.B. Bodkin, D.K. Havey (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795)

C1.094 Effects of uniaxial anisotropy on a quantum spin-glass model in three dimensions

Jose Ricardo de Sousa (Departamento de Fisica, Universidade do Amazonas, Manaus AM, Brazil), Beatriz Boechat, Claudete Cordeiro (Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi RJ, Brazil), Nilton Branco (Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis SC, Brazil)

C1.095 Damping dependence of the relaxation time of the magnetization of single-domain ferromagnetic particles

William T. Coffey (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland), Yuri P. Kalmykov, Bachir Ouari (Lab. Mathématiques et Physique pour les Systèmes, Groupe de Physique Moléculaire, Université de Perpignan, 52, Avenue de Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France), Sergey V. Titov (Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vvedenskii Square 1, Fryazino, Moscow Region, 141190, Russian Federation)

C1.096 Superparamagnetic behavior in (Fe_3-xCo_x)O_4 films grown by metalorganic decomposition (MOD)

P. Talagala, G. M. Tsoi, R. Naik (Wayne State University), N. LaCasse (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), L. E. Wenger (University of Alabama at Birmingham), R. Suryanarayanan (Universite of Paris - Sud), V. M. Naik (University of Michigan - Dearborn)

C1.097 Magnetic Characterization of Iron Oxide Cross Linked Hydro gels

U Senaratne, N. Powell, E. Kroll, G. Tsoi, R. Naik (Department of Physics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202), V. Naik (Department of Natural Sciences, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI 48128), P.P. Vaishnava (Science and Mathematics Department, Kettering University, Flint, MI 48504), L.E. Wenger (School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294)

C1.098 Magnetoresistive properties of Ni nanowires on nanotube templates

Sergio O. Valenzuela, David Bullon Patton, John U. Free, Michael Tinkham (Physics Department, Harvard University)

C1.099 Patterned Hard-Magnetic Nanostructures with Perpendicular Anisotropy

M. Daniil, R. Skomski, K.D. Sorge, M.L. Yan, D.J. Sellmyer (Center for Materials Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska)

C1.100 Fe3O4 nanostructures grown by electrodeposition

Dany Carlier, Christophe Terrier, Laurent Gravier, Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Institut de Physique des Nanostructures - EPFL - Lausanne Team (EPFL-IPN-Lausanne)

C1.101 Magnetic and transport properties Ti1-xCoxO2 samples synthesized by sol-gel method with various post annealing sequences

Dong Ho Kim, Jong Ho Cho, Y. G. Joh, E. C. Kim, B. Y. Kim, H. D. Kim (Yeungnam University, Korea)

C1.102 Intermediate valence model for colossal magnetoresistance

Mario E Foglio, Gaston E Barberis (IFGW, Universidade Estadual de Campinas)

C1.103 Antiparallel Interface Coupling and High Anisotropy Effect in Fe3O4/Mn3O4 Superlattices Grown on MgO(011)

Gung Chern (Physics Department and SPIN Research Center, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, ROC), Lance Horng (Physics Department, Changhua University of Education, Chunghua, Taiwan, ROC), Y.C. Wang (Physics Department, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, ROC)

C1.104 Polaronic Aspects and Phase Diagram of the 2D Ferromagnetic Kondo Model

Maria Daghofer (Institute for Theoretical and Computational Physics, TU Graz,Patersgasse 16, 8010 Graz, Austria), Winfried Koller (Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ, UK), Hans Gerd Evertz, Wolfgang von der Linden (Institute for Theoretical and Computational Physics, TU Graz,Patersgasse 16, 8010 Graz, Austria)

C1.105 SPIN DYNAMICS AND RELAXATION IN MAGNETICALLY DILUTED MANGANITES: EPR AND NMR STUDIES

N. Noginova, R. R. Rakhimov, R. Bah (Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA, USA), V. A. Atsarkin, D. G. Golovtsev, V.V. Demidov (IRE RAS, Moscow, Russia)

C1.106 Magneto-Transports in CuCr_2Se_4-x:Br_x under Hydrostatic Pressure

Weida Wu, Wei-Li Lee (Department of Physics), Satoshi Watauchi (Department of Chemistry), P.M. Chaikin, N.P. Ong (Department of Physics), R.J. Cava (Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544)

C1.107 TOWARDS A SILICON BASED MAGNETIC TUNNEL TRANSISTOR OPERATING AT ROOM TEMPERATURE

T. Banerjee, B.G. Park, R. Jansen, J.C. Lodder (University of Twente, MESA+ Research Institute, The Netherlands)

C1.108 Mn dimers in GaMnAs

Pawel Redlinski (University of Notre Dame), Gergely Zarand (Technical University Budapest), Boldizsar Janko (University of Notre Dame)

C1.109 Amplification and Relaxation of Electron Spin Polarization in Semiconductor Devices

Yuriy Pershin, Vladimir Privman (Center for Quantum Device Technology)

C1.110 Cobalt doping of a low-energy interface in anatase

Rebecca Janisch (Materials Department, University of California Santa Barbara), Sibylle Gemming, Michael Schreiber (Institute of Physics, Technical University Chemnitz), Nicola Spaldin (Materials Department, University of California Santa Barbara)

C1.111 Measurement of the conduction band offset at CdCr2Se4/AlxGa1-xAs interface

Qiguang Yang, Baozhou Sun, Haibin Zhao, Yuhang Ren, Gunter Luepke (Department of Applied Science, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187), A. T. Hanbicki, Berend T. Jonker (Materials Physics Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375)

C1.112 Complex Materials I

C1.113 Edge Spin Currents in a Confined 2DEG with Rashba Spin-Orbit Interactions.

Alvaro S. Nunez, Yun-Pil Shim, Allan H. MacDonald (Physics Dept. The University of Texas at Austin)

C1.114 Amphiphilic Polyelectrolytes Solubilize Carbon Nanotubes in Aqueous Dispersions

Muhammed K. Gheith, James. P Wicksted (Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078), Vladimir A. Sinani, Nicholas A. Kotov (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48198), Alexander A. Yaroslavov, Anna A. Rakhnyanskaya (School of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119899 Moscow, Leninskie Gory, Russia), Arif A. Mamedov (Nomadics Inc., Stillwater, OK 74074)

C1.115 Electron Lifetime in Armchair Carbon Nanotubes

Chih-Wei Chiu (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C.), F.L. Shyu (Department of Physics, Chinese Military Academy, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.), C.P. Chang (Center for General Education, Tainan Woman's College of Art amp; Technology, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C.), R.B. Chen (Department of Electrical Engineering, Cheng Shiu Institute Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan), D.S. Chuu (Department of Physics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.), Ming-Fa Lin (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

C1.116 Magnetic Moment of Armchair Carbon Tori

Chia-Chang Tsai (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, 701 Tainan, Taiwan), F.L. Shyu (Department of Physics, Chinese Military Academy Kaohsiung, 830 Kaohsiung, Taiwan), M.F. Lin (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, 701 Tainan, Taiwan), C.P. Chang (Center for General Education, Tainan Woman's College of Arts amp; Technology, 701 Tainan, Taiwan), R.B. Chen (Department of Electrical Engineering, Cheng Shiu Institute of Technology, 830 Kaohsiung, Taiwan), C.W. Chiu (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, 701 Tainan, Taiwan)

C1.117 Magnetoelectronic Structures of Double-Walled Armchair Carbon Nanotubes

Yen-Hung Ho (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C.), C.P. Chang (Center for General Education, Tainan Woman's College of Art amp; Technology Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C.), F.L. Shyu (Department of Physics, Chinese Military Academy Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.), C.W. Chiu, S.C. Chen, M.F. Lin (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

C1.118 The workfunction of carbon nanotube studies by first-principles calculation

W.S. Su, T.C. Leung (Department of Physics, National Chung-Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, R.O.C.), C.T. Chan Collaboration

C1.119 The Effects of Alkali Metals on the Radial and Tangential Raman Modes of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes (SWCNTs)

Brahim Akdim (Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials amp; Manufacturing Directorate), Xiaofeng Duan (WPAFB/ASC), Ruth Pachter (WPAFB/ML)

C1.120 Dynamic Properties of Polymer / Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Composites

J. S. Koo, K. E. Geckeler, K. Shin (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, K-JIST, Korea), B. Li, S. Li, M. H. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY), Y. S. Seo, S. Satija (Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, MD)

C1.121 Computational Studies of Mechanisms of Functionalization of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes

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

C1.122 PMMA/Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Nanocomposites Prepared by Melt Blending

Mayu Si (Stony Brook University), Michael Goldman (Harvard University), Jonathan Hefter (Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva for Boys), Gregory Rudomen , Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov (Stony Brook University)

C1.123 Magnetoelectronic Properties of a graphite

Chi-Lang Lu (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kong University, Tainan, Taiwan), C.P. Chang (Center of General Education, Tainan Woman's College of Arts amp; Technology, Tainan, Taiwan), M.F. Lin (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kong University, Tainan, Taiwan)

C1.124 Computational Study of Hydrogen in Nanodiamond

Oren Hershcovitz, Joan Adler (Physics Department, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel), Alon Hoffman (Chemistry Deptartment, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel)

C1.125 Quantization and Low-Temperature Universality of Thermal Conductance of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Takahiro Yamamoto (CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency), Satoshi Watanabe (Department of Material Engineering, University of Tokyo), Kazuyuki Watanabe (Department of Physics, Tokyo University of Science)

C1.126 Partitioned Real-Space Density Functional Calculations: Principles and Applications

Noriyuki Nakaoka, Kazuyuki Watanabe (Tokyo University of Science, CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency)

C1.127 Sensitivity analyses of a H2 molecule in a SWNT

Raul Perez-Enriquez (Departamento de Fisica, Universidad de Sonora), German Campoy, Raul Riera (Departamento de Investigacion en Fisica, Universidad de Sonora)

C1.128 Energy decay pathways in C_60 with electron-phonon coupling coupling

Daniel Jelski (Department of Chemistry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803, USA), Guo-ping Zhang (Department of Physics, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809, USA), Thomas F. George (Departments of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics, University of Missouri - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63121, USA)

C1.129 Opto-electric Transport Properties of Individual GaP Nanowires and Sensor Applications

Byung-Kye Kim, Jae-Ryoung Kim, Ju-Jin Kim (Department of Physics, Chonbuk National University, Chonju 561-756, Korea), Jeong-O Lee, Ki-Jeong Kong (Nanomaterials Team, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, P. O. Box 107, Daejeon 305-600, Korea), Jinhee Kim (Electronic Devices Group, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Sciences, P.O. Box 106, Daejeon 305-600, Korea), Cheol Jin Lee (Department of Nanotechnology, Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Korea)

C1.130 Nanotube and Nanowire Devices in the Space Radiation Environment

B.W. Jacobs, V.M. Ayres, M.A. Crimp (Michigan State University), H.C. Shaw (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

C1.131 Unique applications of Carbon nanotubes in medical imaging, bio-sensors and vaccine delivery

Rebekah Lemon (Dept of Physics, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25755), Lauren Miller (DeDept of Physics, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25755), Ashok Vaseashta (Dept of Physics, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25755)

C1.132 Enhanced diffraction pattern from a Fibonacci chain

Jian Xu, Alfred Hubler (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

C1.133 Energy landscape and rigidity

Gerardo Naumis (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM), Adrian Huerta (Instituto de Fisica)

C1.134 Undergraduate Education

C1.135 “Web-book modules for teaching nanotechnology in introductory physics, chemistry, and engineering courses”

Seyffie Maleki (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308), Michael E. Hagerman (Department of Chemistry, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308), Philip G. Kosky (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308)

C1.136 PR2EPS: Preparation, Recruitment, Retention and Excellence in the Physical Sciences

John Schaumloffel (Department of Chemistry, SUNY - Oneonta), Hugh Gallagher (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, SUNY - Oneonta), Jeremy Miller (Department of Chemistry, SUNY - Oneonta), Sunil Labroo (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, SUNY - Oneonta), Paul Bischoff (Department of Secondary Education, SUNY - Oneonta)

C1.137 Scattering and Diffraction

C1.138 X-ray microdiffraction study on domain structures and intermediate phases of Lead Phosphate

Jaehyun Park (Dept. of Phys., POSTECH, Korea), Jin-Seok Chung (Dept. of Phys., Soongsil Univ.,Korea), Se-Young Jeong (School of nanoscience and technology, Pusan Nat'l Univ.,Korea), Ki Bong Lee (Dept. of Phys., POSTECH, Korea), Hyung-Don Joo, Chung Wung Bark, Yang Mo Koo (Dept. of Material Sci. and Eng., POSTECH, Korea), Hwa Shik Youn (Pohang Accelerator Lab., POSTECH, Korea)

C1.139 Superconductivity: Theory, Materials, Thermodynamics, and Transport

C1.140 High Tc's from the Complete Boson-Fermion Model of Superconductivity

Francisco Javier Sevilla, Miguel Angel Solís, Mauricio Fortes (Instituto de Física, UNAM, Apdo. Postal 20-364, 01000 México, D.F.), Manuel de Llano (Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, UNAM, Apdo. Postal 04510, México, D.F)

C1.141 Phase diagram of the two-dimensional extended Hubbard model

Seiichiro Onari, Ryotaro Arita, Hideo Aoki (Dept of Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan), Kazuhiko Kuroki (Dept of Applied Physics and Chemistry, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan)

C1.142 ^151Eu and ^57Fe Mössbauer study of EuFeO_3.

Dereje Seifu (Morgan State University), Laszlo Takacs (University of Maryland at Baltimore County)

C1.143 Effects of Heat Treatment Condition on the Structural, Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Pr(Ba1-xSrx)2Cu3O7-δ

Tuerxun Wuernisha (Graduate School of Science and Technology Nihon University), Yoshiki Takano, Kazuko Sekizawa (Department of Physics College of Science and Technology Nihon University)

C1.144 Anisotropic Characterization of In-plane Aligned (100) Y_1-xCa_xBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta Thin Films

K.H. Wu, C.W. Luo, M.H. Chen, J.Y. Juang, T.M. Uen, Y.S. Gou (Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.), J.-Y. Lin (Institute of Physics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.), Department of Electrophysics Team, Institute of Physics Team

C1.145 Modification of superconducting properties of YBCO by high-intensity ultrasound

Zhihua Cai (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, 712 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29208), Tanya Prozorov (School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801), Hayun Lu (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, 712 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29208), Ruslan Prozorov (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy and USC NanoCenter, University of South Carolina, 712 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29208), Alexey Snezhko (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, 712 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29208)

C1.146 Specific Heat of HfV_2: Effect of Magnetic Fields

R. A. Fisher, N. E. Phillips (LBNL, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720), F. R. Drymiotis, T. Kimura, G. Lawes, J. L. Smith, D. J. Thoma, J. C. Lashley (LANL, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

C1.147 Two-dimensional nature and superconducting properties of the high-Tc cuprates TlBa2Ca3Cu4Oy

Kyung-Hee Kim, Heon-Jung Kim, Sung-Ik Lee (National Creative Research Initiative Center for Superconductivity and Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea), A Iyo, Y Tanaka (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan), K Tokiwa, T Watanabe (Department of Applied Electronics, Tokyo Univ. of Science, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan)

C1.148 Low-temperature specific heat of an extreme type-II superconductor at high magnetic fields

Sasha Dukan, John Trafton (Goucher College), Amanda Carr (Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland)

C1.149 Angle Dependent Magnetoresistance of the Layered Organic Superconductor \kappa-(ET)_2Cu(NCS)_2 : Simulation and Experiment

P. A. Goddard (NHMFL, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA), S. J. Blundell (Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University, UK), J. Singleton, R. D. McDonald (NHMFL, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA), A. Ardavan, A. Narduzzo (Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University, UK), J. A. Schlueter, A.M. Kini (MSD, Argonne National Laboratory, USA), T. Sasaki (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan)

C1.150 The T-p phase diagram of Y1-xCaxBa2(Cu1-yZny)3O7-d from transport measurements: existence of the pseudogap below Tc0

SALEH NAQIB, JOHN COOPER, JEFF TALLON, RAIHANA ISLAM, RADOSLAV CHAKALOV, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Collaboration

C1.151 Bolometric Technique for Measuring Microwave Surface Resistance of Superconducting Single Crystals

Jake Bobowski (University of British Columbia (UBC)), Patrick Turner (UBC), David Broun (Simon Fraser University), Doug Bonn, Walter Hardy (UBC)

C1.152 Quasiparticle properties at microwave frequencies in the underdoped YBa2Cu3O7-δ thin films

Lai Hsing (Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, 30050, Taiwan.)

C1.153 Enhancement of low temperature Critical current density of MgB_2 thin films by Au coating

Eun-Mi Choi, Hyun-Sook Lee, Heon-Jung Kim, Sung-Ik Lee (National Creative Research Initiative Center for Superconductivity, Postech, Republic of Korea), Hyeong-Jin Kim (Material Science Laboratory, Korea Basic Science Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea), W.N. Kang (Department of Physics, Pukyong National University Pusan 608-737, Republic of Korea)

C1.154 Effects of Chemical Substitution on Properties of Bi-based High temperature Superconductors

Abebe Kebede (North Carolina Aamp;T State University), G.X. Tessema (National Science Foundation), Dereje Seifu (Morgan State University), Misganaw Getaneh (North Carolina Aamp;T State University)

C1.155 Computational Nanoscience

C1.156 Nanomechanical rotations in a single-C_59N aza-fullerene transistor.

Jorge R. Soto, Jordi I. Austrich, Renela M. Valladares, Alexander Valladares, M. L. Marquina, Raul Espejel (Affiliation), Alipio Calles (Faculty of Sciences, National University of Mexico.)

C1.157 Local density of states for nanoscale graphene fragments

W. Schwalm, M. Schwalm, J. Wagner (Physics, Univ. N. Dakota), B. Jang (ME, N. Dakota St. Univ.)

C1.158 Structure and charge transport of Fullerene tunnel junctions

Nicholas Guttenberg, Elvis Pandzic (Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada), Hong Guo Collaboration

C1.159 Transmission resonance through the coupled quantum dots in Aharonov-Bohm rings

Yong Joe, Jiseok Kim, Eric Hedin, Ron Cosby (Center for Computational Nanoscience, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306), Arkady Satanin (Center for Computational Nanoscience, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 4730, Institute for Physics of Microstructures, RAS, GSP-105, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Russia)

C1.160 Effects of Structural Relaxation on Conductance Oscillations in Atomic Chains

Chunping Hu, Shinnosuke Furuya, Satoshi Watanabe (Dept. of Materials Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan, and also CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency), Watanabe Lab Team

C1.161 Ab Initio Study of Capacitance of Nanostructures

Michiko Tanaka, Shinnosuke Furuya, Satoshi Watanabe (Department of Materials Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency), Watanabe Lab. Team

C1.162 Heats of Segregation of BCC Binaries from Ab Initio and Quantum Approximate Calculations

Brian Good (NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH 44135)

C1.163 General Theory

C1.164 Improved Atmospheric Refraction Correction Models in Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR)

Glynn Hulley (University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC))

C1.165 About the calculation of the photon power

Sergej Reissig (EFBR)

C1.166 THE PHOTON POWER AND STEFAN-BOLTZMANN RADIATION LAW

Sergej Reissig (EFBR Research and Development Office Reissig)

C1.167 Scale-Invariant Form of the Planck Law of Energy Distribution and its Connection to the Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution

Siavash Sohrab (Northwestern University)

C1.168 Atonic Mechanics of H and He Spectra

Alfred Phillips (Source Institute)

C1.169 Creating Voids by Annealing a-SiC:O:H Films Prepared by Plasma-enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition

S. Gangopadhyay (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211), B. Lahlouh, T. Rajagopalan, N. Biswas, N. Mehta, J. A. Lubguban (Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409)

C1.170 Statistical Properties of Slowly Sheared Granular Materials

Robert Behringer (Duke University), Lou Kondic (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Karen Daniels, Brian Utter (Duke University)

C1.171 Computational Plasma Physics

C1.172 Hydrodynamic and Fokker-Planck simulations of electron transport in plasmas

Fathallah Alouani Bibi, Jean-Pierre Matte (INRS-EMT, Université du Québec, Varennes, Québec, Canada), David G. Braun, M. John Edwards , Laurence J. Suter (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA)

13:27 C1.173 This abstract has been withdrawn

13:27 C1.174 This abstract has been withdrawn

C1.175 Multiscale Modeling

C1.176 Direct Coupling of Discete and Continuum Diffusion

William Curtin, Juan Tello (Brown University)

C1.177 Computational Fluid Dynamics

C1.178 Numerical simulation of non-newtonian flows in journal bearings

Dana Grecov (Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada), Jean-Robert Clermont (Laboratoire de Rhéologie, UMR 5520 CNRS - Université Joseph-Fourier - Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France)

C1.179 Electronic Structure

C1.180 Pair State Analysis of the Hubbard Hamiltonian in One-Dimension

W. B. Hodge, N. A. W. Holzwarth, W. C. Kerr (Wake Forest University)

C1.181 The reduced density matrix method and the role of three-index representability conditions

Bastiaan J Braams (Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322), Zhengji Zhao, Mituhiro Fukuda, Michael L Overton, Jerome K Percus (New York University, New York, NY 10012)

C1.182 Classical and Quantum Molecular Dynamics

C1.183 Computationally Designed Molecularly Imprinted Materials

Dumitru Pavel, Jolanta Lagowski (Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada), Karim Faid (National Research Council of Canada, Institute for Microstructural Sciences, Ottawa, Canada)

C1.184 Quantum Monte Carlo Method to Estimate the Exact Expectation Values of Non-differential Operators Using Approximate Wavefunctions

Ivana Bosa, Stuart M. Rothstein (Departments of Physics and Chemistry, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada)

C1.185 Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Sulfur

Malliga Suewattana, Henry Krakauer, Shiwei Zhang (College of William and Mary)

C1.186 Many Body

C1.187 Can the eigenstates of a many-body Hamiltonian be represented exactly using a general two-body cluster expansion?

Shai Ronen (School of Chesmitry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel)

C1.188 AC Conductance of a multi-probe conductor and the Generalized Fluctuations

Paula Fekete, Godfrey Gumbs (Hunter College/CUNY)

C1.189 Phase Transitions and Strongly Correlated Electrons

C1.190 The dHvA effect and transport properteis of Ce_xLa_1-xB_6

Motoki Endo, Shintaro Nakamura, Harufumi Yamamoto, Chihiro Shigeoka, Noriaki Kimura, Haruyoshi Aoki (Center for Low Temperature Science, Tohoku University, Japan.), Taichi Terashima, Shinya Uji (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan.), Hidekazu Sato, Satoru Kunii (Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Japan.)

C1.191 Electrical and Thermal Transport in the Ruthenate Bi_3Ru_3O_11

Wei-Li Lee, M. K. Haas (Princeton Univ.), G. Lawes, A. P. Ramirez (Los Alamos National Lab), R. J. Cava, N. P. Ong (Princeton Univ.)

C1.192 Specific heat and materials analysis on U_1-xTh_xPt_3 for 0 \le x \le 0.05

J. D. Hettinger (Rowan University), J. C. Cooley, J. L. Smith, E. J. Peterson, R. E. Hackenberg, A. M. Kelly, P. A. Papin (Los Alamos National Lab.), A. de Visser (Univ. of Amsterdam), M. J. Graf (Boston College)

C1.193 Specific heat of U(Pt_1-xPd_x)_3 for 0 \le x \le 0.10

M. E. Scannell, C. P. Opeil, M. J. Graf (Boston College), J. D. Hettinger (Rowan University), A. de Visser (Univ. of Amsterdam)

C1.194 Renaormalization of the Anderson model: an alternative approach to heavy Fermion behavior

Arnd Hübsch (Department of Physics, University of California, Davis), Klaus Becker (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)

C1.195 A Green's Function Calculation of the dHvA Effective Mass in a Heavy Fermion Superconductor

Emily Townsend, Allen Wasserman (Oregon State University)

C1.196 Phase diagram and magnetic response in the doped two-leg extended Hubbard ladder

Masahisa Tsuchiizu, Yoshikazu Suzumura (Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Japan)

C1.197 Lorentz Microscopy Study in Cobaltites

Masaya Uchida, Ramanathan Mahendiran (ERATO-SSS, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan), Yasuhide Tomioka (CERC, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan), Yoshio Matsui (National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan), Yoshinori Tokura (University of Tokyo, Japan), ERATO-SSS Team, CERC Collaboration, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) Collaboration, University of Tokyo Collaboration

C1.198 Anion ordering effects on the quantum oscillations in Q1D Bechgaard salts

O.H. Chung (Dept. of Physics, Sunchon University, Sunchon 540-742, South Korea), E.S. Choi, D. Graf, J.S. Brooks (NHMFL, 1800 E. Paul Dirac Dr. Tallahassee Fl32310, U.S.A)

C1.199 Temperature and Pressure dependence of the Raman modes in Barium Titanate Films

D. Beloin-St.Pierre (Oakland U., Univ. Sherbrooke), B. Buller, U.D. Venkateswaran (Oakland U.), D. Chen, T. Murphy, J.D. Phillips (Univ. Michigan)

C1.200 Insulating Phases of Spin-One Bosons in Optical Lattices

Adilet Imambekov, Mikhail Lukin, Eugene Demler (Harvard University, Physics Department)

C1.201 Ternary polymer blends in bulk and thin films: a light scattering and AFM study

Petr Cernoch, Petr Stepanek, Lubomir Lochmann (Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Heyrovsky Sq. 2, Prague 6, Czech Republic), Alexander Sidorenko, Manfred Stamm (Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany)

C1.202 Dynamics of Block Copolymer Adsorption

Benedict Reynolds, Megan Ruegg, Nitash Balsara, Clay Radke (UC Berkeley)

C1.203 Localization of polaritons in disordered polar media

Arkady Satanin (Center for Computational Nanoscience, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, Institute for Physics of Microstructures, RAS, GSP-105, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Russia), Yong Joe (Center for Computational Nanoscience, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306), Chang Sub Kim (Department of Physics, Chonnam National University, Kwangju 500-757, Korea), Mikhail Vasilevskiy (Departaminto de Fisica, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal)

C1.203 Localization of polaritons in disordered polar media

Arkady Satanin (Center for Computational Nanoscience, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, Institute for Physics of Microstructures, RAS, GSP-105, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Russia), Yong Joe (Center for Computational Nanoscience, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306), Chang Sub Kim (Department of Physics, Chonnam National University, Kwangju 500-757, Korea), Mikhail Vasilevskiy (Departaminto de Fisica, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal)

C1.205 Deterministic transport of single ions in a linear Paul trap

Jacob Burress, James Rabchuk (Western Illinois University)

C1.206 Optimization of Luminescent Solar Concentrators Using a Triple Dye System

Bruce P. Wittmershaus, Sheldon T. Bailey, Gretchen E. Lokey (School of Science-Pennsylvania State University at Erie, The Behrend College), Yu-Zhong Zhang (Molecular Probes, Inc., Eugene, Oregon)

C1.207 Properties of Fe-Zr-O films.

Misganaw Getaneh (North Carolina Aamp;T University), Dereje Seifu (Morgan State University), Abebe Kebede (North Carolina Aamp;T University), Guebre Tessema (Clemson University)