Program overview

TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 23 MARCH 2004

K1.001 Semiconductor I

K1.002 Electronic Structure at Semiconductor-Vacuum Interface

Chin-Sheng Wu (Center for General Education, Yuan-Ze University, Nei-Li, Taiwan)

K1.003 Ultrafast time-resolved photoluminescence study of Self-Assembled ZnTe/ZnSe Quantum Dots

D.-J Jang, Y.-C. Yeh, Y.-H. Chung, C.-L. Wu (Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaoshiung, 80441, Taiwan, R.O.C), C.-S. Yang, W.-C. Chou (Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, 30056 Taiwan, R.O.C.), Meng-En Lee (Department of Physics, National Kaoshiung Normal University, Kaoshiung, 80264Taiwan, R.O.C.)

K1.004 Electron coupling and strain relaxation in stacked self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots

Jochen Maes, Manus Hayne (Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium), Mohamed Henini, Fabio Pulizzi, Amalia Patanè, Laurence Eaves (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK), Victor V. Moshchalkov (Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium), Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme Team, School of Physics and Astronomy Team

K1.005 Photoluminescence in MoS_2

Luc Charron, Emery Fortin (Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), Leonid Kulyuk (Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Science of Moldova, Kishinau, MD-2028, Republic of Moldova)

K1.006 Structural and electronic properties of CdTe clusters

J. Rufinus (Widener University, 1 University Place, Chester, PA 19013)

K1.007 Optical and magnetic properties of Fe and Co substituted ZnO and TiO_2 films prepared by metalorganic decomposition

Vaman Naik (U. Michigan - Dearborn, Dearborn, MI), P. Talagala, P.S. Khan, G.M. Tsoi, R. Naik, L.E. Wenger (Wayne State U., Detroit, MI), R Suryanarayana (U. Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France), G.W. Auner (Wayne State U., Detroit, MI)

K1.008 Non local effects in the Casimir force: B-exciton in CdS

A. D. H. de la Luz (CIDS-ICUAP, Puebla, Mexico), Gregorio H. Cocoletzi (IFUAP, Puebla, Mexico), R. Esquivel-Sirvent (IFUNAM, Mexico DF, Mexico)

K1.009 Transport measurements in InAsN/InGaAs two-dimensional electron systems

D. R. Hang (Department of Materials Science and Optoelectronic Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 804, Republic of China), D. K. Shih (Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University,Taipei, Taiwan 106, Republic of China), C. F. Huang (National Measurement Laboratory, Center for Measurement Standards,Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan 300, Republic of China), W. K. Hung (Department of Electro-optical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology,Taipei, Taiwan 106, Republic of China), Y. H. Chang, Y. F. Chen (Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 106, Republic of China), H. H. Lin (Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University,Taipei, Taiwan 106, Republic of China)

K1.010 Lateral contraction of a traveling exciton packet

Pierre Leblanc, Emery Fortin (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada), André Mysyrowicz (École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France)

K1.011 electron's self trapping at the field-effect junction of a molecular crystal

Mary Bussac (CPHT, Ecole polytechnique , 91128 Palaiseau- cedex France), Natacha Kirova (CPHT, Ecole Polytechnique , 91128 Palaiseau -cedex France)

K1.012 First principles total energy studies of the adsorption of disilane on Ge(001)-c(2x4)

Gregorio H. Cocoletzi, A. Sanchez-Castillo (IFUAP, Mexico), N. Takeuchi (CCMC-UNAM, Mexico)

K1.013 Optical properties of GaMnAs thin films measured by spectroscopic ellipsometry

Z. J. Weber, F. C. Peiris (Department of Physics, Kenyon College), X. Liu, U. Bindley, J. K. Furdyna (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame)

K1.014 Characteristics of a two-dimensional electron-hole gas in a GaSb/InAs/AlSb heterostructure

Patrick Folkes (Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi Maryland), Godfrey Gumbs, Wen Xu (2. Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia)

K1.015 Self-consistent approach and effective renormalization of band edge in quantum wells

Lev Deych, Vladimir Shuvayev, Alexander Lisyansky, Ilya Ponomarev (Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367)

K1.016 PHOTO-INDUCED CHANGES IN FARADAY ROTATION OF DOPED-InP

Maarij Syed, Azad Siahmakoun (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)

K1.017 Multiple Magnesium Donor Impurities in Silicon

L. T. HO (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC)

K1.018 Magnetoexcitons in type–II semiconductor quantum dots

Gonzalo Fuster, Zdenka Barticevic, Monica Pacheco (Universidad T. Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile), Luiz E. Oliveira (IFGW, Unicamp, Campinas-SP, Brazil)

K1.019 Semiconductor II

K1.020 NMR investigation of atomic ordering in Al_xGa_1-xAs thin films

Christian Degen, Marco Tomaselli, Beat Meier (Physical Chemistry, ETH-Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.), Maarten Voncken, Arno Kentgens (NSRIM Center, University of Nijmegen, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands.)

K1.021 Optical and electrical properties of Titania thin films doped with In3+ and grown by sol-gel process.

Martín Rodolfo Palomino Merino, Rosendo Lozada Morales, Reyna Xoxocotzi Aguilar, Alfonso Díaz Furlong ((25774) Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Facultad de Ciencias Físico Matemáticas, Av. San claudio y Rio verde Col. San Manuel Ciudad Universitaria Puebla Pue. Zip code:72570 Fax: (222)229 56 36)

K1.022 Modulated beam study of adsorption-induced-desorption reaction, H + D/Si(100) → D2

F.H.M. Faridur Rahman, T. Kiyonaga, H. Tsurumaki, S. Inanaga, A. Namiki (Dept. of Elec. Engg., Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)

K1.023 Angular distributions of H-induced HD and D2 desorptions on Si(100) surfaces

Toshihisa Kiyonaga, F.H.M. Faridur Rahman, H. Goto, T. Matsuno, S. Inanaga, H. Tsurumaki, A. Namiki (Dept. of Elec. Engg., Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)

K1.024 Coverage dependence of the desorption dynamics of hydrogen from the Si (100) surface

Toshikazu Matsuno, T. Niida, T. Kiyonaga, H. Tsurumaki, S. Inanaga, A. Namiki (Dept. of Elec. Engg., Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)

K1.025 Growth and Characterization of GaN using high temperature AlN:Si as buffer layer by RF Plasma-assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Ji Hao Huang, Chia Ho Hsieh (Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 804, Republic of China), Kung Yu Hsieh (Nano-technology Ramp;D Div./Emerging Central Lab. Macronix International Co. Ltd, Hsinchu, Taiwan 300, Republic of China), Ikai Lo, Ming Hong Gau, Li Wei Tu (Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 804, Republic of China)

K1.026 Erbia-containing electrospun titania nanofibers as selective emitters for low temperature thermophotovoltaic energy conversion

Randy Teye-Mensah, Vivek Tomer (Department of Physics, University of Akron, Akron OH 44325), Worapon Kataphinam (Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, University of Akron, Akron OH 44325), Justin C Tokash (Department of Physics, University of Akron, Akron OH 44325), Nenad Stojilovic (Departments of Physics and Chemistry, University of Akron, Akron OH 44325), George G Chase, Edward A Evans (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Akron, Akron OH 44325), Rex D Ramsier* (Departments of Physics, Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, University of Akron, Akron OH 44325), Daniel J Smith (Department of Chemistry, University of Akron, Akron OH 44325), Darrell H Reneker (Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, University of Akron, Akron OH 44325)

K1.027 First-Principles Studies of Titanium Overlayer Epitaxy on Diamond (100) Surface: the Earliest Stages

Yu Jia Yu (Department of Physics and Laboratory of Physics Materials, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China), Wenguang Zhu, Enge Wang (International Center for Quantum Structures and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100080, China), Yuping Huo (Department of Physics and Laboratory of Physics Materials, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China), Zhenyu Zhang (Condensed Matter Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-603), Department of Physics and Astronomy Team

K1.028 Light scattering in fractional quantum Hall regime

Keshav N. Shrivastava (Univ. of Hyderabad, India)

K1.029 One-dimensional proton conductor with strong short-range interactions

Ihor Stasyuk, Oleg Vorobyov (Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, Sventsitskii 1 str.)

K1.030 Oscillations in the current-voltage characteristic of an asymmetric ballistic junction

L. Gence, B. Hackens, S. Faniel, C. Gustin, V. Bayot (CERMIN, Université Catholique de Louvain), X. Wallart, S. Bollaert, A. Cappy (IEMN, Cité scientifique, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France)

K1.031 ¡§Mobility gap¡¨ of a spin-split GaAs two-dimensional electron system

Tsai-Yu Huang, Chao-Ping Huang, Yi-Sing Ciou, C.-T. Liang (Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan), M. Y. Simmons (School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia), D. A. Ritchie (Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom)

K1.032 Electron transport through Mn-O-Mn junction

Lev Mourokh (Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 07030), Anatoly Smirnov (D-Wave Systems Inc., 320-1985 W. Broadway, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6J 4Y3), Natalia Noginova (Department Of Physics, Norfolk State University, 4 NNP Trailer, Norfolk, VA 23504)

K1.033 Self-assembly of coherent quantum-dots of ZnO semiconductor

Hur Tae-Bong, Hwang Yoon-Hwae (Affiliation), Kim Hyung-Kook (Department of Physics and Research Center for Dielectric and Advanced Material Physics, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea)

K1.034 Step and terrace structure of the Ge(001) surface

R van Gastel, H.J.W. Zandvliet, O. Gurlu, B. Poelsema (University of Twente, MESA+ Research Institute, Solid State Physics, PO Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands)

K1.035 Semiconductor III

K1.036 Temperature Stable Hall Effect Sensors

D.L. Partin, J.P. Heremans, T. Schroeder, C.M. Thrush, L.A. Flores (Delphi Research Labs, Shelby Twp, MI 48315)

K1.037 Point defects and defect complexes in ZnGeP_2

Xiaoshu Jiang, Maosheng Miao, Walter Lambrecht (Case Western Reserve University)

K1.038 Optical phonons in strained epilayers of GaN_yAs_1-y on GaAs(100)

Lilin Tay, David J. Lockwood, James Gupta (National Research Council Canada)

K1.039 Influence of Arsenic and Silicon doping on the electrical properties of GaN epitaxial layers grown by MOCVD

Mo Ahoujja, Said Elhamri, Rex Berney (Department of Physics, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH), Yung Kee Yeo, Robert Hengehold (ENP/AFIT, WPAFB, Dayton, OH)

K1.040 Observation of ring defects in high Indium content InGaN/GaN MQW

Fatemeh Shahedipour-Sandvik, Muhammad Jamil, James Grandusky, Di Wu (School of NanoSciences and NanoEngineering, University at Albany-State University of New York, NY 12203), Jeff Ramer, Vinod Merai (EMCORE Corporation, 145 Belmont Drive, Somerset, NJ 08873)

K1.041 CVD diamond films: a dosimeter material for the future

M. Barboza-Flores, R. Melendrez, E. Cruz, V. Chernov, M. Pedroza-Montero (Centro de Investigación en Física. P.O. Box 5-088. Universidad de Sonora. CP 83190. Hermosillo, Sonora. MEX.)

K1.042 Ion beam characterization of GaAs1-xNx and GaAs1-x-yNxBiy epitaxial layers

Peng Wei (Université de Montréal), Sebastien Tixier (University of British Columbia), J.-N. Beaudry (École Polytechnique de Montréal), Martin Chicoinea (Université de Montréal), Tom Tiedje, R.A. Masut, Patrick Desjardins (École Polytechnique de Montréal), Sebastien Francoeur, A. Mascarenhas (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Francois Schiettekatte (Université de Montréal)

K1.043 Deep level transient spectroscopy study of particle irradiation induced defects in n-6H-SiC

X. D. Chen (Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong), M. Gong (Department of Physics, Sichuan University), S. Fung, C. D. Beling, C. C. Ling (Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong)

K1.044 Spatial distribution of carrier concentration in un-doped GaN film grown on sapphire

Y. Huang, X. D. Chen, C. D. Beling, S. Fung, C. C. Ling (Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong)

K1.045 TEM investigation of Si nanocrystals formed by ion implantation

Viara Levitcharsky, Alessandra Serventi, Riadh Smirani, Guy Ross, Robert Saint-Jacques (INRS-Energie, Materiaux et Telecommunication)

K1.046 Complex Materials II

K1.047 Magnetoacoustic resonance in magnetoelectric bilayers

D. A. Filippov, M. I. Bichurin, V.M. Petrov (Novgorod State University, Russia), G. Srinivasan (Oakland University, Rochester, MI)

K1.048 Influence of constant and ac electric fields on ferromagnetic resonance in magnetoelectric composites

A. S. Tatarenko, M. I. Bichurin, V. M. Petrov, D. A. Fillipov (Novgorod State University, Russia), G. Srinivasan (Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309)

K1.049 Theory of magnetoelectric effects in ferromagnetic/piezoelectric bulk composites

M. I. Bichurin, V. M. Petrov (Novgorod State University, Russia), V. M. Laletsin, N. Paddubnaya (Institute of Technical Acoustics, 210717 Vitebsk, Belarus), G. Srinivasan (Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309)

K1.050 Maxwell-Wagner relaxation in magnetoelectric composites

V. M. Petrov, M. I. Bichurin, A. S. Tatarenko (Novgorod State University, Russia), G. Srinivasan (Oakland University, Rochester, MI)

K1.051 Mechanical and Thermal Properties of a Natural Nanocomposite: Ivory

Mary Anne White (Departments of Chemistry and Physics and Institute for Research in Materials, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada), Champika Samarasekera (Department of Physics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada)

K1.052 Electronic properties of carbon nanotubes rings: Effects of electric and magnetic fields

Monica Pacheco (Universidad T. Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile), Claudia Rocha (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi-RJ Brazil), Zdenka Barticevic (Universidad T. Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile), Andrea Latge (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi-RJ Brazil)

K1.053 Laser-based synthesis, nanostructure and electrical properties of networks of single wall carbon nanotube bundles

M.A. El Khakani (INRS-EMT, 1650, Bld. Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Qc, CANADA J3X-1S2), J.-H. Yi (INRS-EMT)

K1.054 Insulating to metallic transition in mats of SWNT under pressure

Richard Falconi (Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales UNAM. A. Postal 70-360. México, D. F. MÉXICO 04510.), J. Antonio Azamar (Departamento de Física Aplicada CINVESTAV, Mérida, Yuc. MÉXICO. 97310.), Roberto Escudero (Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales UNAM. A. Postal 70-360. México, D. F. MÉXICO 04510.)

K1.055 Well-Dispersed Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Growth from Iron Nanoparticles Created from Poly(styrene-b-ethylmethylferrocenylsilane) Thin Films

Sarah Lastella, Yung Joon Jung, Hoichang Yang, Robert Vajtai, Pulickel Ajayan, Chang Ryu (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180), David Rider, Ian Manners (University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H6 Canada)

K1.056 Non-linear conductance in quantum point contacts of noble metals

Makoto Yoshida, Kunio Takayanagi (Department physics Tokyo Institute of Technology 2-12-1 O-okayama Meguro-ku Tokyo 152-8550, Japan)

K1.057 Magnetic anisotropy and de Haas - van Alphen oscillations in Bi microwire and nanowire arrays via cantilever magnetometry

M. J. Graf, C. P. Opeil (Boston College), T. E. Huber (Howard University)

K1.058 Enhanced sensitivity of a gas sensor using singlewalled carbon nanotubes-polypyrrole nanocomposites

Jeong Seung Yol, An Kay Hyeok, Lee Young Hee (Department of Physics, Institute of Basic Science, and Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured Composites (CNNC), Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, South Korea), Hwang Ha Ryong (WISE Control, #199, Sanggal-Ri, Kiheung-Eup, Yongin 449-905, South Korea), carbon nanotube research lab Team, Woojin Instrument System and Engineering Collaboration

K1.059 Edge effect in the field emission properties on vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays

Hee Jin Jeong, Seong Chu Lim Lim, Keun Soo Kim, Young Hee Lee (Department of Physics, Institute of Basic Science, and Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured Composites, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea)

K1.060 Development of Ultra-High Vacuum Transmission Electron Microscope (UHV-TEM) Combined with STM for Simultaneous Observation of the Structure and Electric Conductance of the Nanowire

Yasumasa Tanishiro, Ryoji Itoh (Dept. of Cond. Matter Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology), Akiko Arimoto (Dept. of Mat. Sci. Eng., Tokyo Institute of Technology), Kunio Takayanagi (Dept. of Cond. Matter Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

K1.061 One Phonon Resonant Raman Scattering in Quantum Wires and Free Standing Wires

R. Betancourt-Riera, R. Riera (Departamento de Investigacion en Fisica, Universidad de Sonora), R. Rosas (Departamento de Fisica, Universidad de Sonora), J.L. Marín (Departamento de Investigacion en Fisica, Universidad de Sonora)

K1.062 Directed Self-Assembly of Carbon Nanotube Wires for Electronics

Robert Barsotti, Benjamin Wunsch (Affiliation), Francesco Stellacci (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Tan Mau Wu (Affiliation), Rafael Reif (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

K1.063 Frictional Energy Loss of Charged Particles to a Cylindrical Nanotube

Antonios Balassis, Godfrey Gumbs (Hunter College/CUNY)

K1.064 The Effect of Magnetic and Electric Fields on the Plasmon and Single-Particle Excitations for a Metallic Nanotube

Godfrey Gumbs (Hunter College/CUNY)

K1.065 The Development of the High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope (HRTEM)�@Combined with AFM for Simultaneous Observation of Structure and Force of the Nanocontact

Sakiko Shibata (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology), Yasumasa Tanishiro (Affiliation), Yukihito Kondo (JEOL Ltd.), Hiroki Minoda, Kunio Takayanagi (Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

K1.066 Spectroscopic Techniques

K1.067 Antisymmetric Raman tensor: theory and experimental measurements

M.A. Belkin, Y.R. Shen (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley), R.A. Harris (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley)

K1.068 Artificially Structured Materials

K1.069 Nanometric patterning of PLD-grown ferroelectric oxides

Catalin Harnagea, Cristian Cojocaru, Alain Pignolet (INRS-Energie, Materiaux et Telecommunications, Varennes, Canada)

K1.070 two-to-three dimensional transition in the InAs/GaAs(001) heteroepitaxial growth

Ernesto Placidi (Department of Physics, University of Rome ``Tor Vergata'' and Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 1 - 00133 Rome (Italy)), Fabrizio Arciprete, Sandra Nufris, Massimo Fanfoni, Fulvia Patella (Affiliation), Anna Sgarlata, Adalberto Balzarotti

K1.071 Silicon patterning using ion blistering and e-beam lithography

A. Giguere, B. Terreault (INRS, Universite du Quebec), J. Beerens, V. Aimez, J. Beauvais (Universite de Sherbrooke)

K1.072 Stark effect of hydrogenic impurities in a quantum box

Marcelo del Castillo-Mussot, Gerardo J. Vazquez (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM), Carlos I. Mendoza (Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, UNAM), Harold N. Spector (Department of Physics, IIT)

K1.073 Transport Through Disordered Silicon Oxide Quantum Structures

Louis Nemzer, Fredy Zypman (Gerofsky Physics Center - Yeshiva University)

K1.074 Phasor-like interpretation of tight-binding electronic motion in the single-band approximation

Diego Sanjinés (Instituto de Investigaciones Físicas, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Casilla 8635, La Paz, Bolivia), Jean-Pierre Gallinar (Departamento de Física, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Apartado 89000, Caracas 1080-A, Venezuela)

K1.075 DIELECTRIC AND PYROELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF FERROMAGNETIC - PIEZOELECTRIC LAYERED STRUCTURES

Y. K. Fetisov, A. A. Bush, K. E. Kamentsev (Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation, Moscow, Russia), G. Srinivasan (Oakland University, Rochester, MI)

K1.076 Current Driven Electromagnetic Wave Amplification by a Double-Quantum-Wire Superlattice

G.R. Aizin (Kingsborough College/CUNY,Brooklyn, NY), N.J.M. Horing, L.G. Mourokh, V.M. Kovalev (Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ), M.L. Glasser (Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY)

K1.077 Optical Phonon Coupling Effects in Drifted Double-Quantum-Wire Plasmon Instabilities

V. Fessatidis (Fordham University), N.J.M. Horing (Stevens Institute of Technology), M.L. Glasser (Clarkson University)

K1.078 Resonance-forerunners in superlattices

Roberto Romo, Jorge Villavicencio (Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Mexico)

K1.079 An approach to transport measurement of gold nanoparticles chain

J. Y. Ou, W. C. Lyu, J. C. Wu (Department of Physics, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan 500, R.O.C.)

K1.080 Carrier Injection and Transport in Arrays of Monolayer-protected Gold Nanocrystals

A.J. Quinn (Nanotechnology Group, NMRC, Ireland.), M. Biancardo (Dipartimento di Chimica, Universita di Ferrara, Italy.), M. Belloni, J.A. Preece (School of Chemical Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK.), C.A. Bignozzi (Dipartimento di Chimica, Universita di Ferrara, Italy.), G. Redmond (Nanotechnology Group, NMRC, Ireland.)

K1.081 Spin-dependent conductance of two-dimensional mesoscopic structures in the presence of spin-orbit interaction

John Dulka, Alexander Govorov, Hong Chen, Jean Heremans (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701)

K1.082 Stark effect of carriers in spherical quantum dots

Gerardo J. Vazquez, Marcelo del Castillo-Mussot (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM), Carlos I. Mendoza (Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, UNAM)

K1.083 Tuning quantum interference in a three-well semiconductor system

C.-R. Lee, Yi-Ci Li, F.-K. Men, C.-H. Pao, Y.-C. Tsai, Jhih-Fong Wang (Department of Physics, Nat'l Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan 621, R.O.C.)

K1.084 Optical properties of a dielectric-metallic superlattice: the complex photonic bands

Diego Soto-Puebla, Felipe Ramos-Mendieta (Centro de Investigacion en Fisica, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico), Mufei Xiao (Centro de Ciencias de la Materia Condensada de la UNAM, Ensenada, Mexico)

K1.085 Coherent control of Bloch oscillations by means of optical pulse shaping

Riccardo Fanciulli (Physics department, Purdue University), Andrew Weiner (Electrical Engineering department, Purdue University), Marc M. Dignam (Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston), Dirk Meinhold, Karl Leo (Institut für Angewandte Photophysik, Technische Univerität Dresden)

K1.086 Characteristics of silicon nanowire single electron transistor pairs as readout devices in impurity spin qubit structures

Sang-Joon Park, James Alexander Liddle, Thomas Schenkel, Arun Persaud, Joakim Nilsson (E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA94720), Jeffrey Bokor (Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Univ. of California, Berkeley)

K1.087 Rydberg States on the Surface of Liquid Helium as a Quantum Computer

T.J. Peshek, J.A. Heilman, A.J. Dahm, I. Karakurt (Case Western Reserve University)

K1.088 Small metallic contact/isolating barrier/semiconductor structure as a qubit

Zinovi Gribnikov (Institute for Quantum Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824)

K1.089 Temperature-tuning of transmission spectra of 2D photonic crystals made of a semiconductor with free electrons.

Jesus Manzanares-Martinez, Felipe Ramos-Mendieta (Centro de Investigacion en Fisica, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico), Peter Halevi (Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica, Puebla, Mexico)

K1.090 Oxidation of glancing angle deposited silicon rugate filters

Yan Cui, Kate Kaminska, Kevin Robbie (Department of Physics, Queen’s University, Kingston Ontario, K7L 3N6)

K1.091 Modulated Laser Action from Dye Containing Holographic Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals

Rachel Jakubiak, Dean Brown (Materials & Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433), Augustine Urbas (UES, Beavercreek, OH 45432), Vincent Tondigia, Lalgudi Natarajan, Richard Sutherland (SAIC, Beavercreek, OH 45432), Richard Vaia, Timothy Bunning (Materials & Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433)

K1.092 Exciton transfer in close-packed arrays of quantum dots

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), Fan Hu, Ron Cosby, Yong Joe (Center for Computational Nanoscience, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306)

K1.093 Hydrogen and Physisorbed Materials

K1.094 The optical response of thin Pd films in a hydrogen atmosphere

R. J. Matelon, U. G. Volkmann, A. L. Cabrera (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), E. H. Morales, Y. Wang, D. Lederman (Dept. of Physics, West Virginia University)

K1.095 Coaxial impact collision ion scattering spectroscopy study of the adsorption of ethylene on the Si(001)(2x1) surface

J.H. Seo, J.Y. Park, J.Y. Kim (Atomic-scale Surface Science Research Center and Institute of Physics and Applied Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea), S.S. Kim (Department of Physics, Mokwon University, Taejon 301-729, Korea), K.H. Chae (Material Science and Engineering Division, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 130-650, Korea), D.S. Choi (Department of Physics, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 200-701, Korea), C.N. Whang (Atomic-scale Surface Science Research Center and Institute of Physics and Applied Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea)

K1.096 Initial adsorption of diethylsilane on Si (100) studied by XPS and TPD

P. Wood, E. Crandall, J.H. Craig, J. Lozano, K.R. Kimberlin (Bradley University), Paul W. Wang (Department of Physics, Bradley University)

K1.097 Electron induced decomposition of trimethylamine on Si(100) studied by TPD and HREELS

J. Lozano, B.M. Davies, K.R. Kimberlin, D. Early, Jr. Craig, P. Wang (Department of Physics, Bradley University)

K1.098 Adsorption Studies of Triethylsilane on the Si(100) Surface at 100K

Peter Petrany, James Craig, Jose Lozano, Paul Wang (Department of Physics, Bradley University, Peoria, IL 61625)

K1.099 Ternary mixtures with photosensitive chemical reactions: The effect of hydrodynamic interactions.

Olga Kuksenok, Kevin Good, Gavin Buxton (Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA), Valeriy Ginzburg (Dow Chemical Company , Midland, MI), Anna Balazs (Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA)

K1.100 Surface, Interface, and Thin Films

K1.101 Surface and thin film study of initial palladium silicide formation on 6H-SiC

Andrew Woodworth (Physics Department, West Virginia University), Charlie Peng, Charter Stinespring (Department of Chemical Engineering , West Virginia University), Kathleen Meehan (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech)

K1.102 On the critical radius of spiral-shaped islands in YBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta thin films morphology

Aminta Mendoza, Octavio Gúzman, Hernando Ariza (Universidad del Quindio, Armenia Colombia), Pedro Prieto (Thin Films Group), Thin Films Group Collaboration

K1.103 Studies of Surface Morphology Evolution on Si during Ar+ Ion Bombardment

Ahmet S. Ozcan, Gozde Ozaydin, Yiyi Wang, Justin Hotchkiss, Karl F. Ludwig (Boston University, Department of Physics, Boston, MA 02215), Randall L. Headrick, Hua Zhou (University of Vermont, Department of Physics, Burlington, VT 05405), Charles R. Eddy (Naval research Laboratory, Code 6861, Washington, DC 20375)

K1.104 Diffusion barrier properties of ALD deposited TaN in Cu/TaN/SiO2/Si stack structure

Kyoung-Il Na, Won-Nyung Hur, Ki-Yeol Park, Woo-Cheol Jeong, Sung-Eun Boo, Jung-Hee Lee, KyungPook Natl Team, Comtecs Incorporated Team

K1.105 Initial stages of Pt growth on Ge(001) surface studied by STM and DFT

Oguzhan Gurlu, Harold J.W. Zandvliet, Bene Poelsema (MESA+ Research Institute, Solid State Physics Group, University of Twente, P.O. Box. 217, 7500AE, Enschede, The Netherlands.), Sefa Dag, Salim Ciraci (Department of Physics, Bilkent University, Ankara 06800, Turkey.), Solid State Physics Group Team, Physics Department Team

K1.106 Self organization of Pt atoms on Ge(001): Germanide and nanowire formation

Oguzhan Gurlu, Harold J.W. Zandvliet, Bene Poelsema (MESA+ Research Institute, Solid State Physics Group, University of Twente, P.O. Box. 217, 7500AE, Enschede, The Netherlands.), Solid State Physics Group Team

K1.107 First-Principles Studies of Titanium Epitaxy on a Diamond (100) Surface at Submonolayer Coverages*

Jia Yu (Zhengzhou University, China amp; ORNL), Zhu Wenguang (Inst. of Phys. CAS, China amp; ORNL), Wang Enge (Inst. of Phys. CAS, China), Huo Yuping (Zhengzhou University, China), Zhang Zhenyu (ORNL amp; University of Tennessee)

K1.108 Enhanced Vibrational Entropy contribution on Cu_3Au vicinal surfaces

Ahlam N. Al-Rawi, Abdelkader Kara, Talat S. Rahman (Physics Department, Kansas State University)

K1.109 Nanostructures, Formation, and Characterization

K1.110 Characterization of Pd Nanoparticles Produced by One and Two Phase Methods

C. Shonbrun, M. Fourman, R. Isseroff (Stella K Abraham High School), Y. Sun, T. Koga, M.H. Rafailovich, J.C. Sokolov (SUNY at Stony Brook), A. Frenkel (NSLS, Brookhaven National Lab), N.L. Yang (College of Staten Island)

K1.111 Synthesis and Characterization of Alkanethiolate Gold Nanoparticles

Y. Sun, T. Koga (SUNY at Stony Brook), A. Frenkel (NSLS, Brookhaven National Lab), Y.S. Seo (NIST-Center for Neutron Research), M.H. Rafailovich, J.C. Sokolov (SUNY at Stony Brook)

K1.112 Brillouin Scattering Studies of Polymeric Nanostructures

Ryan Hartschuh, Y. Ding, A. Kisliuk, A.P. Sokolov (Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325), C.L. Soles, W.L. Wu (Polymers Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899), A.P. Mahorowala (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598), IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Collaboration

K1.113 Search for positron trapping at quantum-dot like Cu nano particles on the surface of Fe using Positron Annihilation induced Auger Electron Spectroscopy (PAES)

Manori Nadesalingam (University of Texas at Arlington, USA), Seogkyu Kim, Nail G. Fazleev, John L. Fry, Alex H. Weiss (University of Texas at Arlington), Y. Nagai Collaboration, M. Hasegawa Collaboration

K1.114 Structures and Magic Numbers of Adatom Clusters on Metal fcc(001) Surfaces

Jun Zhuang, Zhihua Sun, Wingham Zhang (Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China), Min Zhuang (D¨¦partement de Chimie, Universit¨¦ de Montr¨¦al, Case Postale 6128 Succursale Centre-ville, Montr¨¦al, Qu¨¦bec H3C 3J7, Canada), Xijing Ning (Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China), Lei Liu, Yufen Li (Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China)

K1.115 Synthesis and characterizations of large quantity single crystal germanium nanowires

Yi Ma, D.Z. Wang, J.Y. Huang, Z.F. Ren (Department of Physics,Boston College,Chestnut Hill,MA 02467)

K1.116 Shape transition and dislocation nucleation in strained epitaxial islands

Oleg Trushin (Institute of Microelectronics and Informatics, Academy of Sciences of Russia, Yaroslavl, Russia), Enzo Granato (LAS/INPE, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brasil), See Chen Ying (Department of Physics. Brown University), Jari Jalkanen (Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki Univ. of Tech., Espoo, Finland), Tapio Ala-Nissila (Laboratory of Physics, HUT, Espoo, Finland)

K1.117 Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Thin Films and Nanostructures

K1.118 Roughness dependence of the manganite thin films properties

Maria Elena Gómez, Juan Ramírez, Wilson Lopera (Universidad del Valle, Cali Colombia), Aminta Mendoza (Universidad del Quindio, Armenia Colombia), Pedro Prieto (Universidad del Valle, Cali Colombia), Thin Films Group Collaboration, Laboratory of Optoelectronic Collaboration

K1.119 Superconductivity and Magnetism in Nb/Pd/Fe proximity multilayers.

Alessandro Potenza, Christopher Marrows (University of Leeds)

K1.120 Ferromagnetism in Co doped TiO2 films grown by RF magnetron sputtering

Kelli Griffin (University of Washington), A.B. Pakhomov, Kannan M. Krishnan

K1.121 Magnetoresistance in exchange biased La_1/3Ca_2/3MnO_3/La_2/3Ca_1/3MnO_3 superlattices

Gloria Campillo, Mariaelena Gomez (Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia), Roberto Escudero, Fransisco Morales (Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico), Andreas Berger (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose, CA), Pedro Prieto (Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia), Thin Films Group Collaboration, Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales Collaboration, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Collaboration

K1.122 Thin-Film Field Effect Transistors Based on La-doped SrTiO3 Heterostructures

Feng Pan, David Olaya, Charles Rogers

K1.123 Resistance of Ta/PtMn/Ta thin films

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

K1.124 The zero-voltage conductance of short gold nanowires

Min Zhuang, Matthias Ernzerhof (University of Montreal)

K1.125 Semi-Classical Conduction of Charged and Neutral Particles in Finite Lattices

Scott Chubb (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., 20375-5351)

K1.126 Positive charge creation, stabilization and recombination in solid Ar induced by low-energy electron bombardment

Evgueni Vichnevetski, Andrew Bass, Pierre Cloutier, Léon Sanche (Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada J1H 5N4)

K1.127 Strain Effects in PCMO Films

Michael Deleon, Trevor Tyson (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Daniel Bubb (Seton Hall University)

K1.128 Instrumentation and Techniques

K1.129 Deconvolution of SIMS Depth Profiles of As Multiple Delta Layers in Silicon

Jong-Wan Lee (Department of Physics, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do 200-702, Korea), K. J. Kim, H. K. Kim, D. W. Moon (Surface Analysis Group, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejon 305-600, Korea)

K1.130 A microcantilever-based system for measuring surface stress changes induced in thin films by electrochemical reactions.

Vincent Tabard-Cossa, Michel Godin, L.Y. Beaulieu (McGill University), Antonella Badia (Université de Montréal), Peter Grutter (McGill University)

K1.131 Simulation of Complex Materials

K1.132 Simulation of Nanoscale Spheres and Rods in Multicomponent Mixtures

Michael J.A. Hore, Mohamed Laradji (Department of Physics, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38117)

K1.133 Multiscale simulation of a liquid crystal biosensor

Evelina Kim, Orlando Guzman, Sylvain Grollau, Juan J. de Pablo (Dept. of Chemical and Biologial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

K1.134 Quantum Fluids and Solids: Techniques and Applications

K1.135 A novel approach for magnet leads

Shiroyanagi Yuko, Tony Ragucci, David Pace, Thomas Gramila (Ohio State Univeristy)

K1.136 Transport properties of bulk hydrogen and hydrogen-helium slush at 4MHz using NMR measurements.

J. A. HAMIDA, N. S. SULLIVAN (University of Florida)

K1.137 Spin Relaxation in Hyperpolarized He-3 Fermi Liquids

Liam Stanton (Undergraduate Student, Boston College), Kevin Bedell (Professor of Physics, Boston College)

K1.138 Kirkwood Phase Transition for Boson and Fermion Hard-Sphere Systems

Miguel A. Solís (Instituto de Física, UNAM, Apdo. Postal 20-364, 01000 México, D.F., Mexico), Manuel de Llano (Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, UNAM, Apdo. Postal 70-360, 04510 México, DF, Mexico), John W. Clark (Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA), Jr. Baker (Theoretical Division, University of California, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA)

K1.139 Insulators and Dielectrics

K1.140 High-k titanium silicate dielectric thin films for CMOS applications

D. Brassard, D.K. Sarkar, M.A. El Khakani (Universite du Quebec - INRS-EMT), L. Ouellet (DALSA Semiconductor)

K1.141 Spatially coherent coexistence of three phases of a mixed dielectric crystal

Ricardo Rodriguez-Mijangos (Centro de Investigación en Física, Universidad de Sonora, A. P. 5-88, 83190, Hermosillo, Sonora, MEXICO.), Adolfo Cordero-Borboa (Instituto de Física, UNAM, A. P. 20-364, 01000, México D. F. MEXICO)

K1.142 Optical absorption spectrum in a dimerized extended antiferromagnetic Hubbard chain

Jean El-khoury, Jean-Pierre Gallinar (Departamento de Física, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Apartado 89000, Caracas 1080-A, Venezuela)

K1.143 Direct observation and characterization of domain-patterned ferroelectrics by UV Photo-Electron Emission Microscopy (PEEM)

Brian Rodriguez, Woochul Yang, Robert Nemanich (North Carolina State University, Department of Physics), Alexei Gruverman (North Carolina State University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering)

K1.144 TL and OSL processes in KCl and KBr crystals doped with Eu^2+

R. Melendrez, M. Pedroza-Montero, M. Barboza-Flores (Centro de Investigación en Física. P.O. Box 5-088), B. Castaneda (Departamento de Física. Universidad de Sonora. P.O. Box 1626, CP 83190. Hermosillo, Sonora. MEX.)

K1.145 Numerical simulation method for exciton energy estimation of one- and two-sub-lattice orientationally disorded molecular crystal

Vladimir Rumyantsev, Stanislav Fedorov, Esfir Shtaerman (Donetsk Physical Technical Institute of NASU)

K1.146 EPR and ENDOR of chromium in congruent and stoichiometric lithium niobate

Galina Malovichko (Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA), Valentin Grachev, Ortwin Schirmer (Osnabrueck University, Germany), Edward Kokanyan (Institute for Physical Researches, Ashtarak, Armenia)

K1.147 TiO_2-rich Reconstructions of SrTiO_3 (001): A Theoretical Study of Structural Patterns

Oliver Warschkow (University of Sydney, School of Physics), Mark Asta, Natasha Erdman, Courtney Lanier, Laurence Marks (Northwestern University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering), Kijeong Kong, Hyunju Chang (Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Advanced Materials Division), Donald Ellis (Northwestern University, Department of Physics and Astronomy)

K1.148 Low Frequency Magnetoelectric Interactions in Single Crystal YIG/PMN-PT Bilayers

C. P. DeVreugd, G. Srinivasan (Oakland University, Rochester, MI), J. V. Mantese (Delphi Research Laboratory, Shellby Township, MI)

K1.149 Structural and magnetic characterization of electrodeposited iron-containing oxide films

Shawn Chatman, Timothy Kelly, Kristin M. Poduska (Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, A1B 3X7, Canada)

K1.150 Metals

K1.151 Sublattice Analysis of Elastic Stability in Intermetallic Compounds

Masahiko Katagiri (National Institute for Materials Science), Hidehiro Onodera

K1.152 Deposition geometry and substrate motion effects on crystal texture of copper thin films

Tim Brown, Kevin Robbie (Department of Physics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6)

K1.153 A new universal analytical pseudopotential for the alkalis

Fernando Magana, Gregorio Ruiz, Gerardo J Vazquez (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM)

K1.154 Renormalization of the width of electronic band by interactions

A. Knigavko, J. P. Carbotte (Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University)

K1.155 Pressure induced structural phase transitions and mechanical properties of PtX alloys (X= Sc, Y) investigated by ab initio calculations

A. Bautista-Hernández, V. Pacheco-Espejel (Instituto de Física, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Apdo. Postal J-48, Puebla, Pue., 72570, Mexico), J. F. Rivas-Silva (INAOE, Coordinación de Óptica, Apdo. Postal 51, Puebla, México)

K1.156 Structure properties and local order in liquid and supercooled metals by computer simulation

Efraín Urrutia-Bañuelos, Alvaro Posada-Amarillas (Departamento Investigación en Física, Universidad de Sonora)

K1.157 Electronic structures of barium overlayers on crystalline tungsten.

Zahraa Ibrahim, M.J.G. Lee (University of Toronto)

K1.158 Numerical study of resistivity escalation and saturation in disordered three-dimensional metals.

Yulia Gilman (SUNY Stony Brook), Jamil Tahir-Kheli, William A. Goddard III (California Institute of Technology), Philip B. Allen (SUNY Stony Brook)

K1.159 Photoemission from clean Al(110): experiment and ab-initio theory

M.J.G. Lee (University of Toronto, Canada), A. Shkrebtii (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Canada), M. Gensch (Institute of Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany), T. Herrmann, W. Richter, N. Esser (Technical University of Berlin, Germany), C. Sondergaard, P. Hofmann (University of Aarhus, Denmark)

K1.160 Spectroscopy of the optically excited mercury indium excimer

Santaram Chilukuri (Purdue University North Central, Westville, IN)

K1.161 EPR vs. Electrical Methods of Monitoring Ferroelectric Switching Properties of Potassium Di-hydrogen Phosphate, a Comparative Study

Kenneth Ulibarri, Francisco Rodriguez, Marisela Aparicio, Tim Usher PhD. (California State University San Bernardino)

K1.162 Applications

K1.163 Nanosecond Thermal Processing for Self-Aligned Silicon-On-Insulator Technology

Ayax D. Ramirez, Bruce W. Offord, Jeremy D. Popp, Stephen D. Russell, Jason F. Rowland (Space and Warfare Systems Center, San Diego)

K1.164 Electric Field Directed Collection and Metering of DNA in Microfluidic Devices

Faisal Shaikh, Victor Ugaz (Texas Aamp;M University)

K1.165 Dense hydrogen adsorption on carbon sub-nano pores at 77 K

Koji Kadono, Hisashi Kajiura, Masashi Shiraishi (SONY Corp. Materials Labs.)

K1.166 Novel Flow Geometries to Achieve Passive Mixing in Microfluidic Devices

Arjun Sudarsan, Victor Ugaz (Texas Aamp;M University)

K1.167 Information Transfer During Quantum Measurement

Nima Lashkari

K1.168 Detectors, Sensors, Transducers

K1.169 Elaboration of adaptive photodetectors in the near IR-region

Yuzij Gnatenko, Ivan Faryna, Petro Bukivskij (Institute of Physics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), Roman Gamernyk (Lviv National University), Oleg Shigiltchoff (University of Pittsburg, USA), Shigiltchoff Collaboration

K1.170 Piezoresistive microsensors for detection of volatile organic compounds in water

Tim Porter, Robert Gunter (Northern Arizona University)

K1.171 Development of a Gd-Converter GEM Neutron Detector

R. Berliner (Instrumentation Associates, Inc.)

K1.172 Signal Processing and Analysis

K1.173 Power spectral analysis for optical tweezers: Wavelength dependence in detection

Kirstine Berg-SØrensen (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen), Erwin J. G. Peterman, Meindert van Dijk, Christoph F. Schmidt (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Henrik Flyvbjerg (RisøNational Laboratory, Denmark)

K1.174 Superconductivity: Electronic Properties, Spectroscopy, and Josephson Junctions

K1.175 Interplay between gap sysmmetry and electronic structure in thermodynamics and ARPES

David Quesada (Dpt. of Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Computer Science, St. Thomas University, 16400 NW 32 Ave. Miami FL 33054)

K1.176 Infrared Studies of Single Crystal Single-Layer Bi_2Sr_2CuO_6

Hongjie Yan, B. P. Clayman (Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University)

K1.177 Raman phonons and possible ordering in (Ca,Sr)SiAl superconductors: Experiment and theory

M. Lach-hab, I. I. Mazin (Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375, USA), M. Iliev (Department of Phys. and TCSAM, U. of Houston, TX 77204), C. S. Hellberg (Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375, USA), A. Litvinchuk (Department of Phys. and TCSAM, U. of Houston, TX 77204)

K1.178 Temperature Effect and Fermi Surface Investigation in the Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8

W. C. Wu (National Taiwan Normal Univ.), K.-K. Voo (National Tsing-Hua Univ.), H.-Y. Chen (University of Houston), C.-Y. Mou (National Tsing-Hua Univ.)

K1.179 Gauge-invariant propagators in QED_3

Zlatko Tesanovic, Ashot Melikyan (Johns Hopkins University)

K1.180 Phonons and electron-phonon coupling in nickel borocarbides

W. Reichardt, R. Heid, K.-P. Bohnen (Institut für Festkörperphysik, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany)

K1.181 Structural and Moessbauer characterization of the GdSr_2Ru_1-xFe_xCu_2O_8 system

Vivianne Marquina, Angel Arevalo, Raul Gomez, Jose Luis Perez M, Ma. Luisa Marquina, Rosalia Ridaura (Faculty of Science, UNAM), Tatsuo Akachi, Raul Escamilla (IIM, UNAM)

K1.182 On the origin of photogenerated terahertz radiation from current-biased superconducting YBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta thin films

Po-Iem Lin, Chih-Wei Luo, Kaung-Hsiung Wu, Jenh-Yih Juang (Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University), Jiunn-Yuan Lin (Institute of Physics, National Chiao Tung University), Tseng-Ming Uen, Yih-Shung Gou (Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University)

K1.183 Spatial Symmetry of Superconducting Gap and Pseudogap in Oxygen-deficient YBCO Obtained from Femtosecond Spectroscopy

C.W. Luo, M.H. Chen, S.P. Chen, K.H. Wu, 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

K1.184 Evidence for a metal-insulator transition in overdoped cuprates: new Raman results

Rudi Hackl, Francesca Venturini, Leonardo Tassini, Andreas Erb (Walther Meissner Institute, Bavarian Academy of Sciences, D-85748 Garching, Germany), Thomas P. Devereaux (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1), István Tüttö (Research Insitute for Solid State Physics and Optics, 1525 Budapest, Hungary), Bernard Revaz (Université de Genéve, Genéve 1121, Switzerland)

K1.185 Structural, magnetic and superconducting properties of the Fe doped MgCNi_3

Mariella Alzamora, Dalber Sanchez, Maria Fonseca, Elisa Baggio-Saitovitch (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas. Rua Xavier Sigaud 150, Urca. CEP 22290-180. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil)

K1.186 Relation between the increased transmission in the EXAFS region of X-ray absorption and the increase in the number of Abrikosov Vortices as cuprate superconductors go through Tc

Jaba G. Chigvinadze, Gogi I. Mamniashvilli (E. Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, 0177 Tbilisi, Georgia), Juana V. Acrivos (Department of Chemistry, San Jose' State University)

K1.187 Spontaneous supercurrent in superconducting pi ring

Maria Luisa Della Rocca (Università degli Studi di Salerno, Baronissi (Italy)), Marco Aprili (Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielle CNRS – U.P.R. 005, Paris (France)), Takis Kontos (University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland))

K1.188 Measurements on Perforated Superconducting Films with Nano-size Periodicity*

M. D. Stewart Jr., James M. Valles Jr. (Dept. of Physics, Brown University), Aijun Yin, J. M. Xu (Division of Engineering, Brown University)

K1.189 Enhanced resonant soft X-ray scattering of YBa2Cu3O7-x (YBCO) 50 nm c-axis film on bi-crystalline substrates

Maria A. Anavacerrada (CES Felipe II (Complutense University), Spain), Hizam Sahibudeen, Juana V Acrivos (San Jose' State University), Jeff B. Kortright (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

K1.190 Chemical Physics

K1.191 Structure, stability, and reactions of complexes of the Criegee intermediate with water H2COO-(H2O)n, n=1-3: density functional theory investigation

Ryzhkov Andrew, Ariya Parisa (Departments of Chemistry, and Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA)

K1.192 The Influence of Cluster Formation on the Photodissociation of SO^2

Jr. Knappenberger, Jr. Castleman (The Pennsylvania State University)

K1.193 Transfer matrices for surface adsorption on terraces and nanotubes with first and higher order neighbor interactions

Alain Phares, Francis Wunderlich (Villanova University)

K1.194 Recent Developments with Local and Nonlocal Functionals in Magnetic Field Density Functional Theoru

Jared Hill, Jr. Salsbury (Wake Forest University)

K1.195 Mixed Quantum/Classical Dynamics of Electronically Excited Molecular Systems: A Model of Near Resonant Electron Transfer

Brian Thorndyke, David A. Micha (Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida)

K1.196 Expanding the range of agreement for perturbation theory energies in the anharmonic oscillator

Samuel Bowen, Jay Mancini, Jeremy Harrison (Chicago State University)

K1.197 Charge Redistribution on Complex Formation.

David W. Pratt (Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh)

K1.198 T = 0 superconducting properties of a 2D plane of exchange-coupled chains

Saurabh Basu (Dept. of Physics, I.I.T. Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam 781 039, India), R.J. Gooding (Dept. of Physics, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada)

K1.199 Surfaces and Interfaces

K1.200 A study of CH_3 islanding on Cu(111) by STM and LEED

Y.L. Chan, W.W. Pai (Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan Univ. Taiwan), T.J. Chuang (Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica,Taiwan)

K1.201 Nanostructures of Self-Assembled Cyanuric acid through Hydrogen bond Networks on HOPG

Kavita Kannappan, George W Flynn, Thomas Mueller, Kwang Taeg Rim, Gina Florio (Chemistry Department, Columbia University, New York, NY-10027), Markus Lackinger, Michael Hietschold (Chemnitz University of Technology, Institute of Physics, Reichenhainer Str 70, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany.)

K1.202 Measurement of electron traps in molecular solids by photodetachment

Etienne M. Hebert, Pierre Cloutier, Leon Sanche (Universite de Sherbrooke)

K1.203 Photochemical Processing of Simple Ices and Ice Mixtures

T. Randy Dillingham (Dept. of Physics amp; Astronomy, Northern Arizona University), David Cornelison, Joshua Martin (Northern Arizona University)

K1.204 The correlation length amplitude for eight-arm star polystyrene in methylcyclohexane near the critical point

Andy P. Brinck, Nithya L. Venkataraman, D.T. Jacobs (Department of Physics, The College of Wooster, Wooster OH 44691)

K1.205 Two-dimensional dynamics of single actin filaments bound to fluid lipid membranes by processive motors

Christian Daniel, Junshan Zhang, Michael Baermann, Erich Sackmann (Techn. Univ. Muenchen, Phys. Dep. E22-Biophysik; 85747 Garching; Germany)

K1.206 Brownian Dynamics Simulation of a Polymer Model for Artificial Molecular Motors

Martin Zuckermann, Michael Plischke (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC), Erin Craig, Heiner Linke (University of Oregon, Eugene, OR)

K1.207 Collisions and Reactions of Protic Gases with Surfactant-Coated Sulfuric Acid

Seong-Chan Park, Samuel Glass, Jennifer Lawrence, Gilbert Nathanson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

K1.208 Self-Diffusion of o-Terphenyl Near the Glass Transition Temperature

Marie K. Mapes, Stephen F. Swallen, M.D. Ediger (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

K1.209 Multiscale model of particle dynamics in nonequilibrium systems

Alexandra TEN BOSCH (CNRS)

K1.210 Nano-particle Enhanced Spectroscopies

K1.211 Algorithm for Correlation of Metal Enhanced Fluorescence with NanoParticle Size and Spacing

Shy-Hauh Guo, Tim Corrigan, Ray Phaneuf (University of Maryland), Erik Rencs (Microcosm, Inc)

K1.212 All-optical constant force scanning-line laser tweezers.

R. Nambiar, A. Gajraj, J.-C. Meiners (University of Michigan)

K1.213 An STM and TEM study of atomically-flat single-crystal gold nanoparticles on indium tin oxide.

L.A. Bumm, D. Dahanayaka, S. Hossain, S. Ross, J. Dizikes, J. Wang

K1.214 Single-Molecule Protein Folding: A Study of the Surface-Mediated Conformational Dynamics of a Model Amphipathic Peptide

Joy Cunningham (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland-College Park), Douglas English (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry-College Park)

K1.215 Time-resolved emission spectroscopy of CdSe quantum dots in polar and nonpolar solvents

Jeremiah Kloepfer (California Institute of Technology), Stephen Bradforth (University of Southern California), Jay Nadeau (California Institute of Technology)

K1.216 Quantum calculations of vibrational energies of H3O2(-) and H5O2(+) with new ab initio potentials

Xinchuan Huang (Dept of Chemistry, Emory University), Bastiaan J Braams (Dept of Mathematics and CS, Emory University), Stuart Carter (Dept of Chemistry, University of Reading, UK), Joel M Bowman (Dept of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322)

K1.217 Direct reduction of hydrogen peroxides into hydroxyl ions in peroxide-based fuel cells

Nie Luo, George Miley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Don Noid (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Scott Chubb (Naval Research Laboratory)

K1.218 Magic number silicon dioxide-based clusters: Laser ablation-mass spectrometric and density functional theory studies

Qingyu Kong, Li Zhao (Department of Physics), Wenning Wang (Department of Chemistry), Chen Wang, Can Xu, Wingham Zhang, Lei Liu (Department of Physics), Kangnian Fan (Department of Chemistry), Yufen Li, Jun Zhuang (Department of Optical Science and Engineering,State Key Joint Laboratory for Materials Modification by Laser, Ion and Electron Beams,Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China)

K1.219 General Physics

K1.220 Progress in physics through small advances without paradigm change: Development of Smoluchowski's coagulation theory into a generic model of growth in contemporary physics

Ismo T Koponen, Saija Miettinen (Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki)

K1.221 Practical considerations in the construction of pulseshapers for ultrafast spectroscopy

Anthony Link, John Prineas (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa)

K1.222 Erbium Doped Fiber Laser Modeling

Katherine Kirkwood, Henry Yochum (Sweet Briar College)

K1.223 Experimental measurements and finite element models of High Displacement Piezoelectric Actuators.

Gilberto Camargo, Gevale Ashford, Eris Naco, Tim Usher (California State University of San Bernardino)

K1.224 Geometry and Topology of Quamtum Dynamical Manifolds. Electroweak Many-body Systems.

Dillon Scofield (Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078 and ApplSci, Inc., 128 Country Flower Rd., Newark, DE 19711)

K1.225 Development of improved analysis of non-local electron parallel heat transport in divertor plasmas

Fabrice Allais, Fathallah Alouani Bibi, Chang-Geun Kim, Jean-Pierre Matte (INRS-EMT, Un. du Quebec, Varennes, Quebec), Daren P. Stotler (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ), Thomas D. Rognlien

K1.226 Mossbauer Study of Uniaxial Anisotropy of Fe/Gd Multilayers

ATAUR CHOWDHURY (University of Alaska Fairbanks), ANDREA FREITAG (Borrkhaven National Laboratory)

K1.227 Molecular dynamics study of tethered polymers in shear flow: freely jointed and worm like chains.

Yannick Gratton, Gary W. Slater (University of Ottawa)

K1.228 Anomalous shift and attenuation of CO stretching vibrations in Ice/CO/Rh(111) by electron irradiation and heating

Susumu YAMAMOTO, Kozo MUKAI, Yoshiyuki YAMASHITA, Jun YOSHINOBU (ISSP, University of Tokyo)

K1.229 RECOMBINATION MECHANISMS IN UV LIGTH IRRADIATED KCl:Eu AND KBr:Eu

B. Castaneda* (*Departamento de Fisica UNISON), M. Pedroza-Montero, R. Melendrez, M. Barboza-Flores (Centro de Investigacion en Fisica UNISON)

K1.230 First-principles study of the high-spin to low-spin transition of iron in ferropericlase

Xing Gao, John Tse (SIMS, National Research Council of Canada)

14:00 K21.001 PANEL DISCUSSION WITH PR/PRL EDITORS

Anthony Begley (Physical Review B), Michael Brenner (Physical Review E, Harvard University), Reinhardt Schuhmann (Physical Review Letters), Jack Sandweiss (Physical Review Letters, Yale University)