Program overview

THURSDAY MORNING, 20 MARCH 1997

08:00 M1.01 Comparison of the Transport Properties of Overdoped BSCO and Optimally Doped NCCO at High Fields and Low Temperatures.

Michael Osofsky (Naval Research Laboratory)

08:36 M1.02 Electronic Raman scattering of overdoped Tl_2Ba_2CuO_6+\delta in high magnetic fields

Girsh Blumberg (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL 61801.)

08:00 M2.01 Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy of Localized Excitons in Narrow Quantum Wells with Applied Electric and Magnetic Fields

Gerhard Abstreiter (Walter Schottky Institute)

08:36 M2.02 Near-field Spectroscopy of the Quantum Constituents of Luminescence

Harald Hess (Bell-Labs)

09:12 M2.03 Spectroscopy of Single GaAs Quantum Dots

Daniel Gammon (Naval Research Laboratory)

09:48 M2.04 Disorder-Localized Excitons and Luminescence Kinetics in Quantum Wells

Roland Zimmermann (Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Hausvogteiplatz 5-7, D-10117 Berlin, FRG)

08:00 M3.01 Novel Magnetic and Mechanical Properties of Nanotubes

Jianping Lu (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

08:36 M3.02 Size, Shape and Low Energy Electronic Structure of Carbon Nanotubes

Charles L. Kane (University of Pennsylvania)

09:12 M3.03 Morphology, Growth and Destruction of Carbon Nanotubes.

David Tománek (Michigan State University)

08:00 M4.01 Advanced Photon Source: A Unique Facility for the Production of High Brilliance X-Rays

Gopal K. Shenoy (Argonne National Laboratory)

08:36 M4.02 New-Generation Synchrotron Sources and Condensed-Matter Physics

Bruce A. Bunker (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame)

09:12 M4.03 X-ray Microbeam Techniques and Applications

E.D. Isaacs (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07974)

09:48 M4.04 High Energy-resolution X-ray Measurements Using Synchrotron Radiation

Thomas S. Toellner (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439)

10:24 M4.05 Using Third Generation Synchrotron Sources to Study Magnetism in Solids

Alan I. Goldman (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Ames Laboratory)

08:00 M5.01 Theory of Wetting Transitions: Triple Point Dewetting, Continuous Wetting, and Materials Design

William F. Saam (Physics Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210)

08:36 M5.02 Wetting Transitions in ^4He/^3He Mixtures on Cesium

David Ross (University of California, Irvine)

09:12 M5.03 The contact angle between liquid He4 and Cs

Adrian Wyatt (University of Exeter)

09:48 M5.04 Wetting and Non-wetting of Near-Critical Neon on Alkali Metal Surfaces

George B. Hess (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901)

10:24 M5.05 Experimental Observations of Critical Wetting

D. Bonn (Ecole Normal Superieure)

08:00 M7.01 Structure Property Relations for Optimizing the Real and Imaginary Third Order Nonlinearities of Organic Molecules

Seth Marder (Caltech)

08:36 M7.02 Absorption and Photoinduced Absorption of Aniline Oligomers.

A. Saprigin, A.J. Epstein (The Ohio State University), J. Feng, W.J. Zhang, A.G. MacDiarmid (University of Pennsylvania)

08:48 M7.03 Photoluminescence and Electroluminescence of a Non-Conjugated Polymer 6FPBO-OD.

G. Du, M. D. Alexander Jr., J. B. Ferguson, B. A. Reinhardt, R. J. Spry (Materials Directorate, Wright Lab.), B. E. Taylor (Miami Univ.), J. L. Burkett (Univ. Dayton Res. Int.)

09:00 M7.04 Charge Transfer Polymers: A New Class of Nonlinear Optical Materials

Alan Heeger (University of California-Santa Barbara)

09:36 M7.05 Characteristics of Superfluorescence in PPV Thin Films.

M.N. Shkunov (University of Utah), S.V. Frolov, W. Gellermann (), Z.V. Vardeny (University of Utah)

09:48 M7.06 Interchain Effects in Phenylene-Based Strapped Copolymers

S. W. Jessen, N. V. Piskun, I. V. Lebedenko, D. D. Gebler, H. L. Andrews, T. L. Gustafson, A. J. Epstein (Ohio State Univ.), D.-K. Fu, T. M. Swager (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.)

10:00 M7.07 Nonlinear Chiral-Optical Effects in Polymer Films

Andre Persoons (University of Leuven, Belgium)

08:00 M8.01 Full-Dimensional Quantum Dynamics of Large Amplitude Vibrations of HCl Dimer

Zlatko Ba\v ci\'c (Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY 10003)

08:36 M8.02 Comparison of Spectroscopic Measurements and MM2 Calculations of the Structure of Hydrogen-Bonded Complexes of Polar and Nonpolar Aromatic Molecules

B.A. Pryor, P.M. Andrews, P.M. Palmer, M.B. Berger, M.R. Topp (University of Pennsylvania)

08:48 M8.03 Determination of the Barrier to Free Pseudorotation in the Sodium Trimer

Wolfgang E. Ernst, David T. Vituccio, Oleg Golonzka (The Pennsylvania State University)

09:00 M8.04 Covariance Mapping and the Cluster Fragmentation Problem: Application to Toluene/Water Clusters

Elliot Bernstein (Colorado State University)

09:36 M8.05 Approaching Water Through Clusters: A New Determination of the Band Gap, Conduction Band Edge, and Vacuum Level of Water from Cluster Studies

James Coe, Michael Cohen, Alan Earhart, Wan Yong Feng, Ellen Gundlach, Michael Tissandier (The Ohio State University)

09:48 M8.06 Quantum simulations of water clusters

Davis C. Clary (University of College London)

08:00 M9.01 Magneto-Optical Observation of Twisted Vortices in Type-II Superconductors.

M.V. Indenbom, G. D'Anna, C.J. van der Beek, V. Berseth (Institut de Génie Atomique, Département de Physique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland), A. Erb, E. Walker, R. Flükiger (Département de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland)

08:12 M9.02 Magneto-Optical Observations of Flux Instabilities in Superconductors in Rotating Magnetic Fields

Vitalii K. Vlasko-Vlasov, Ulrich Welp, George W. Crabtree, Vyacheslav V. Kabanov, Valerian I. Nikitenko, Lisa M. Paulius (^\astMaterials Science Division and Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity, Argonne National Lab, Argonne IL 60435, Institute of Solid State Physics, 142432 Chernogolovka, Russia, Department of Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008)

08:24 M9.03 Imaging of Current Sharing in (BiPb)_2Sr_2Ca_2Cu_3O_x Composite Conductors.

Ted B. Peterson, U. Welp, G.W. Crabtree, N. Vasanthamohan, J.P. Singh, M.T. Lanagan, V.K. Vlasko-Vlasov, V.I. Nikitenko (Materials Science and Energy Technology Divisions, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439)

08:36 M9.04 STM observation of a square vortex lattice in LuNi_2B_2C.

Yannick De Wilde, Maria Iavarone, George W. Crabtree (Materials Science Division amp; Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439), Paul C. Canfield (Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011)

08:48 M9.05 Direct Measurement of the Pair Potential for Flux Lines in a Type-II Superconductor

Chorng-Haur Sow, David G. Grier (The University of Chicago), George W. Crabtree (Argonne National Laboratory), Akira Tonomura (Hitachi Advanced Research Laboratory)

09:00 M9.06 Achieving Submicron Magnetic Imaging by Scanning Josephson Junction Microscopy

B. L. T. Plourde, D. J. Van Harlingen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

09:12 M9.07 Time-Resolved Analysis of Dynamics of Vortices with Lorentz Microscopy

Nobuyuki Osakabe, Hiroto Kasai, Akira Tonomura (ARL, Hitachi), Tetsuji Kodama (Nagoya Univ.)

09:24 M9.08 Magnetic Field Distributions in a Large Single Crystal of YBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta with Y_2Ba_1Cu_1O_y Inclusions

Y. X. Dai, W. J. Kossler, K. G. Petzinger (Physics Department, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795), A. J. Greer (Gonzaga University), D. Ll Williams, E. Koster (University of British Columbia), M. Strasik (Boeing Defense amp; Space Group)

09:36 M9.09 Two Dimensional NMR and Vortex Dynamics in \mboxYBa_2\mboxCu_3\mboxO_7

K.R. Górny, C.H. Pennington, J.A. Martindale (The Ohio State University), W.L. Hults, J.L. Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:00 M10.01 High-Frequency Electrodynamics in BSCCO: Nonlinear Response in the Vortex State

Richard Mallozzi (), Joe Orenstein (UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), J.N. Eckstein (), I. Bozovic (E.L. Ginzton Research Center, Varian Associates, Inc.)

08:12 M10.02 Far-infrared magneto-transmission of type II superconductors: the role of vortex dynamics and quasiparticle cyclotron resonance

J. Cerne, S. Wu, H.-T.S. Lihn, H.D. Drew (Physics Department, University of Maryland, College Park and Laboratory for Physical Sciences, College Park, MD)

08:24 M10.03 Optical Properties of Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8+x from Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

Peter Abbamonte, Miles V. Klein (Department of Physics and Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801), Chris Kendziora (Naval Research Labs, Washington, DC, 20375)

08:36 M10.04 Infrared Absorption Spectra of Sr_2CuO_2Cl_2 from 10 K to 600 K

H. S. Choi, T. W. Noh (Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Korea), E. J. Choi (Department of Physics, Seoul City University, Korea)

08:48 M10.05 Mid-infrared Absorbance of La_2-xSr_xCuO_4+\delta

A. Hamed, S.T. Ting, P.H. Hor (Department of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity at University of Houston)

09:00 M10.06 Direct Absorptivity Measurement of Untwinned Single Crystal YBa_2Cu_3O_6.5 in the Far Infrared

Warren Holmes, P.L. Richards (UC Berkeley Physics and MSD at LBL), J. Kircher, M. Cardona (MPI Stuttagrt), A. Erb, G. Müller-Vogt (Universität Karlsruhe)

09:12 M10.07 Nonlinear Transmission of a High-Intensity Terahertz Pulse Through a Thin YBCO Film

J. Corson, E. Budiarto, R. Mallozzi, J. Orenstein (), J. Bokor (UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), E. Dantsker (), J. Clarke (UC Berkeley), J.N. Eckstein (), I. Bozovic (E.L. Ginzton Research Center, Varian Associates, Inc.)

09:24 M10.08 Doping-Induced Change of Optical Properties in Underdoped High-Tc Superconductors.

H.L. Liu, D.B. Tanner (University of Florida), H. Berger, L. Forro, G. Margaritondo (Inst. de phys. Appliquée, EPF de Lausanne, Switzerland)

09:36 M10.09 Optical Study of Charge/Spin Order Phase, La_1.6-xNd_0.4Sr_xCuO_4

Setsuko Tajima, Nan-LiN Wang (Superconductivity Research Laboratory, ISTEC, Tokyo, JAPAN), Noriya Ichikawa, Shin-Ichi Uchida (Dept. of Superconductivity, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN)

09:48 M10.10 Probing the Superconductor-Insulator Transition in YBa_2(Cu_1- xZn_x)_4O_8 with Infrared Spectroscopy

Dimitri Basov (Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0314), Bogdan Dabrowski (Department of Physics, University of Northern Illinois, De Kalb, IL 60115), Tom Timusk (Department of Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4M9)

10:00 M10.11 The optical conductivity of a \boldmath Nd_1.85Ce_0.15CuO_4 \unboldmath single crystal above and below \boldmath T_c \unboldmath

C.C. Homes (Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory), B.P. Clayman (Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada), J.-L. Peng, R.L. Greene (Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland)

10:12 M10.12 Optical spectroscopy of the charge ordering in La_2-xSr_xNiO_4 crystals

T. Katsufuji, T. Tanabe, T. Ishikawa, Y. Tokura (Dept. of Appl. Phys., Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

10:24 M10.13 Terahertz third-harmonic generation due to pair-breaking in high-T_c thin films

F. A. Hegmann, M. C. Wanke, M. S. Sherwin (Quantum Institute and Center for THz Science and Technology, UC Santa Barbara), R. A. Hughes, J. S. Preston (Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University), J. N. Eckstein, I. Bozovic (Ginzton Research Center, Varian Associates), J. Orenstein (Department of Physics, UC Berkeley), D. J. Scalapino (Department of Physics, UC Santa Barbara)

08:00 M11.01 Path Integral Monte Carlo Calculation of Interatomic Forces

Fenghua Zong, David Ceperley (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

08:12 M11.02 Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of the critical temperature of a hard sphere Bose gas

Peter Grüter, David Ceperley (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois), Franck Laloë (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)

08:24 M11.03 Quantum Monte Carlo study of electronic excitations in the MnO solid.

Lubos Mitas (NCSA, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801)

08:36 M11.04 Generalized Metropolis Algorithm for Quantum Monte Carlo

Richard Fye (Sandia National Laboratories), Christopher Martin, Douglas Scalapino, Robert Sugar (UCSB)

08:48 M11.05 Enhanced d_x^2-y^2 pairing correlations in the two-leg Hubbard ladder

N. Bulut, T. Dahm (UCSB), R.M. Noack (Universität Würzburg)

09:00 M11.06 Elastic constants of Si from HtN Monte Carlo simulations

Henry Yates, M. Karimi, J. Matolyak (Physics Department, Indiana University of PA), T. Kaplan, M. Mostoller (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Lab.)

09:12 M11.07 Monte Carlo simulations in the RP\mu ensemble

M. Karimi, B. Ziman, J. Matolyak (Physics Department, Indiana University of PA), T. Kaplan, M. Mostoller (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Lab.)

09:24 M11.08 A Variational Feynman- Kac Path Integral Method

S. Datta, J.L. Fry, N.G. Fazleev, J. Rejcek, S. Alexander (Univ. of Texas at Arlington)

09:36 M11.09 Imaginary Time Correlation Functions from Constrained Path Monte Carlo Simulations

J. E. Gubernatis (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory), R.Torsten Clay, D. K. Campbell (Department of Physics, University of Illinois), Shiwei Zhang (Department of Physics, College of William and Mary)

09:48 M11.10 Stochastic Approach to Lattice Fermions in Magnetic Fields (Supported by the Department of Energy)

G. Ortiz, J. E. Gubernatis, J. Carlson (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:00 M11.11 Path Integral Monte Carlo Simulations of Charged Particles in a Magnetic Field.

Sean Pearson (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

M11.12 Realistic Grand Canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) surface simulations applied to reentrant layering transition.

Franck Celestini, Daniele Passerone, Furio Ercolessi (SISSA-ISAS, I-34014 Trieste, Italy and INFM, Italy), Erio Tosatti (SISSA-ISAS, I-34014 Trieste, Italy. ICTP, I-34014 Trieste, Italy and INFM, Italy)

08:00 M12.01 Memory Switching Simulation in Resonant Tunneling Devices

Olin Hartin, Dean Neikirk, Alex Anselm, Ben Streetman (University of Texas at Austin)

08:12 M12.02 Random Telegraph Signal in Tunneling Transport through a Single 0-D Impurity State

M. R. Deshpande, R. G. Wheeler, M. A. Reed (Center for Microelectronics, Yale University, P. O. Box 208284, New Haven, CT 06511), R. J. Matyi (Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX 75265)

08:24 M12.03 Difference Equation Method for I-V Characteristics of Resonant Tunneling Structures

A.-B. Chen (Auburn University), S. Krishnamurthy, A. Sher (SRI International)

08:36 M12.04 Semiclassical Theory of the Resonant Tunneling in a Quantum Well in Tilted Magnetic Field

E. Narimanov, A.D. Stone (Applied Physics, Yale University, P.O.Box 208284, New Haven CT 06520-8284)

08:48 M12.05 Self-sustained oscillations in magneto-tunneling through an asymmetric double barrier system

Francisco Claro (PUC, Chile), Pedro Orellana (USACH, Chile), Enrique Anda (UFF Niteroi, Brasil)

09:00 M12.06 Interaction-induced oscillations of the tunneling density of states in a non-quantizing magnetic field(This work was supported by NSF Grant DMR-9423244.)

A.M. Rudin (TPI, Univ. of Minnesota), I.L. Aleiner (NEC Research Institute, Princeton), L.I. Glazman (TPI, Univ. of Minnesota)

09:12 M12.07 Novel Type of Oscillations in Resonant Tunneling Diode (RTD).

Viacheslav Kochelap, Boris Glavin, Vladimir Mitin (Department of ECE, Wayne State University)

09:24 M12.08 Resonant Magnetotunneling in Asymmetric Multiple-Barrier Semiconductor Heterostructures

Robert D. Teachey (Materials Science Research Center, Howard University), Steven L. Richardson (Materials Science Research Center, Howard University)

09:36 M12.09 Single Electron Transistor with SiGe/Si double-barrier structure

Chomsik Lee (Electronic Eng. Honam University, Kwangju, Korea, 506-090)

09:48 M12.10 Magneto-Transport Experiments in GaSb/AlSb Resonant Tunneling Diodes

J.L. Jimenez (Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), E.E. Mendez (SUNY at StonyBrook), W.I. Wang (Columbia University)

10:00 M12.11 Calculation of Transmission Resonances in the Bipolar Quantum Resonant Tunneling Transistor.

A.R. Mondragon, R.E. Allen (Texas Aamp;M University)

10:12 M12.12 The Ultimate Size Limit of a Transistor: Experimental Realization of a 20 nm Channel-Length Tunneling Transistor

Fu-Cheng Wang, C.H. Yang (U. of Maryland at College Park), M.J. Yang, B.R. Bennett (NRL)

10:24 M12.13 Suppressed Noise in Resonant Tunneling Diodes at Microwave Frequencies

A Przadka, K.J. Webb, D.B. Janes (Purdue University), H.C. Liu (National Research Council of Canada)

M12.14 Resonant Tunneling via States belonging to different Conduction Band Valleys. A negative Experiment

J.L. Jimenez (Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), E.E. Mendez (SUNY at StonyBrook), W.I. Wang (Columbia University)

08:00 M13.01 Pulsed Magnetic Field Investigation of the Fermi Surface of SmSb\(_2\)

Charles H. Mielke, Alex H. Lacerda (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Paul C. Canfield, Sergey L. Bud'ko (Ames Laboratory)

08:12 M13.02 Anisotropic Magnetization and Magnetoresistivity of RSb_2 (R = La, Ce, Pr, Nd, and Sm)

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

08:24 M13.03 Stripe order of holes and spins in La_2NiO_4+\delta

P. Wochner, J. M. Tranquada (Brookhaven National Lab.), D. J. Buttrey, V. Sachan (U. Delaware)

08:36 M13.04 Valence Band PES in \delta-Pu using a Laboratory Based Light Source

A.J. Arko, J.J. Joyce, L.E. Cox, S. Czuchlewski (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:48 M13.05 Ru Perovskites: Band or Hubbard Magnets?

D.J. Singh (NRL), I.I. Mazin (George Mason University and NRL)

09:00 M13.06 Electrical Transport Properties of Epitaxial Sr_2RuO_4 Films.

Jeffrey A. Mitchell, Stanley J. Briczinski, Ying Liu, Sriram Madhavan, Darrell G. Schlom (Penn State University, University Park), A. Dabkowski, H. A. Dabkowska (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.)

09:12 M13.07 Polarized Neutron Diffraction Study of SrRuO_3

S.E. Nagler, B.C. Chakoumakos (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

09:24 M13.08 Itinerant Ferromagnetism in Layered Sr_3Ru_2O_7 and Its Derivative Single Crystals.

J.E. Crow, G. Cao, S. McCall (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University,), R.P. Guertin (Tufts University.)

09:36 M13.09 ^17O NMR Study of Itinerant Magnetism in (Sr_xCa_1-x)RuO_3

K. Yoshimura (Dept. of Physics, M. I. T.; Dept. of Chemistry, Kyoto University), T. Imai, A. W. Hunt, K. A. Thurber (Dept. of Physics, M. I. T., Cambridge MA 02139), T. Kiyama, K. Kosuge (Dept. of Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-01)

09:48 M13.10 Search for Giant Magnetic Moments in Paramagnetic Ruthenates.

R.P. Guertin (Tufts University,), G. Cao, J.E. Crow, S. McCall, M. Shepard (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University.)

10:00 M13.11 Metallic Antiferromagnetism and Metal Insulator Transition in Single Crystal Ca_3Ru_2O_7.

G. Cao, S. McCall, J.E. Crow (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University,), R.P. Guertin (Tufts University.)

M13.12 Electronic properties of (Sr/Ca)_3Ru_2O_7: the ARPES results.

Anton Puchkov, P.J. White, Z.-x. Shen (Stanford University), Gang Cao, J. Crow (Florida State University)

08:00 M14.01 Interaction-induced Interlayer Charge Transfer at High Magnetic Fields

H.C. Manoharan, Y.W. Suen, T.S. Lay, M.B. Santos, M. Shayegan (Princeton University)

08:12 M14.02 Exchange Instabilities in Semiconductor Double-Quantum-Well Systems

Lian Zheng, M.W. Ortalano, S. Das Sarma (University of Maryland)

08:24 M14.03 Transport of Surface States in the Bulk Quantum Hall Effect

Sora Cho (University of California, Santa Barbara), Matthew P.A. Fisher (Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB)

08:36 M14.04 Exact shape of the lowest Landau level in multilayer systems

M.E. Raikh (University of Utah), T.V. Shahbazyan (Ohio University)

08:48 M14.05 Quantum Hall effect in a double-layer system with a smooth disorder

A. Gramada, M.E. Raikh (University of Utah)

09:00 M14.06 Transport Anisotropy of Quantum Hall Domain-Wall String Solitons

Kyungsun Moon, Kieran Mullen (University of Oklahoma, Norman OK 73019)

09:12 M14.07 Effects of Layer Imbalance on the Double-Layer Quantum Hall Effect

C. B. Hanna (Boise State University)

09:24 M14.08 Chiral Metal as a Heisenberg Ferromagnet

Harsh Mathur (Case Western Reserve University)

M14.09 Asymmetry and Matrix Element Effects on Antiferromagnetically Correlated Double Quantum Wells

R. J. Radtke (Harvard University), A. H. MacDonald (Indiana University), S. Das Sarma (University of Maryland)

08:00 M15.01 ^4He Prewetting Transition on Rubidium

J. A. Phillips, P. Taborek, J. E. Rutledge, D. Ross (University of California, Irvine)

08:12 M15.02 Path Integral Monte Carlo Simulation of the Second Adsorbed Layer of Helium on Graphite

Marlon Pierce, Efstratios Manousakis (Florida State University)

08:24 M15.03 On the finite-size scaling of the superfluid density of ^4He

Efstratios Manousakis (Florida State University), Norbert Schultka (Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany)

08:36 M15.04 Heat Capacity and Desorption of Monolayer ^3He adsorbed on H_2-plated Graphite

Roberto C. Ramos Jr., Oscar E. Vilches (University of Washington)

M15.05

09:00 M15.06 Vortex-Ring Specific Heat of Superfluid Helium in Porous Materials

Gary A. Williams (Physics Dept., UCLA)

09:12 M15.07 Critical Velocities and Vortex Nucleation Energies in Direct Current Superfluid ^4He Flow Through a 2 \mu m Square Aperture

C. A. Lindensmith (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), J. A. Flaten, W. Zimmermann Jr. (University of Minnesota)

09:24 M15.08 Vortex Core Size in Superfluid ^3He-^4He Mixture Films

Hyung Cho, Gary A. Williams (Physics Dept., UCLA)

09:36 M15.09 Quantum Nucleation of Superfluid Vortices

José Freire, Daniel P. Arovas, Herbert Levine (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of California, San Diego)

09:48 M15.10 Superfluid vortex lines subject to a normal fluid ABC flow.

Gregory H. Bauer (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), C.F. Barenghi, D.C. Samuels (University of Newcastle, UK), R.J. Donnelly (University of Oregon)

10:00 M15.11 First to second sound conversion through scattering by quantum vorticity in superfluid Helium

Christophe Coste (Laboratoire de Physique, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France), Fernando Lund (Departamento de Física, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile)

10:12 M15.12 Effective Vortex Dynamics in Superfluid Systems

Carlos Wexler, David J. Thouless (Department of Physics, University of Washington)

10:24 M15.13 Proposed Ripplon Induced Weak Localization

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

08:00 M16.01 Renormalization-Group Calculation of Local Magnetizations and Correlations: Random-Bond, Random-Field, and Spin-Glass Systems

Dicle Yesilleten, A. Nihat Berker (MIT)

08:12 M16.02 The Blume-Emery-Griffiths Model and Random Biquadratic Interactions

Daniel P. Snowman (Rhode Island College), Susan R. McKay (University of Maine)

08:24 M16.03 Global Random-Field Spin-Glass Phase Diagrams in Two and Three Dimensions

Gabriele Migliorini, A. Nihat Berker (MIT)

08:36 M16.04 A Statistical Theory of Local Structure and Phase Transitions in Condensed Systems

Alexander Patashinski, Mark A. Ratner (Northwestern University)

08:48 M16.05 Avoided Critical Behaviour in O(n) systems

Zohar Nussinov, Joseph Rudnick, Steven Kivelson, Lincoln Chayes (UCLA)

09:00 M16.06 Coupling between a percolative conductor--insulator phase transition and an amorphous--semicrystalline polymer phase transition

M.B. Heaney, V.N. Reddy (Raychem Corporation)

09:12 M16.07 Similarity Between Temperature Dependence of Magnetooptical Effect of Magentic Fluids and Its Spin-Glass-like Behavior in Frozen State

S. Taketomi (Dept. of Material Science amp; Engineering, Univ. of Washington-Seattle)

09:24 M16.08 Monte Carlo studies of a soft-mode phase transition.

E. Roger Cowley (Rutgers University)

09:36 M16.09 Pulsed Laser Induced Transformations in Glassy Ferromagnets

M. Sorescu (Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA)

09:48 M16.10 Magnetic phase diagram of the half-filled three-dimensional Hubbard model

Kok-Kwei Pan (Chang Gung College of Medicine and Technology, Kwei-San, Tao-Yuan, Republic of China), Yung-Li Wang (FSU, USA)

10:00 M16.11 Microcanonical vs. canonical thermodynamics

D.H.E. Gross (Hahn-Meitner Inst., D14109 Berlin), Mohammed Madjet (Hahn-Meitner Inst., D14129 Berlin)

10:12 M16.12 Zeno: Location of the Coexistence Line near Tc with 20 \muK Precision in Microgravity

Robert W. Gammon, J.N. Shaumeyer, Matthew E. Briggs, Hacéne Boukari, David A. Gent (Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742)

10:24 M16.13 A continuum theory of solvation for supercritical carbon dioxide

Shirish Chitanvis (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:36 M16.14 Quantum Phase Transitions in One-Dimensional Electron-Phonon Systems

Loredana Valente, David K Campbell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

08:00 M17.01 Structure and Dynamics of the Sn/Ge(111) CDW.

A. P. Baddorf, V. Jahns (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), E. W. Plummer, J. Zhang (U. of Tennessee)

08:12 M17.02 Surface Charge Density Wave Induced Lattice Distortion: a LEED study of the Sn/Ge(111) and Pb/Ge(111) systems

J Zhang, Ismail, J.M. Carpinelli, E.W. Plummer (University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory*), P.J. Rous (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Cantonville)

08:24 M17.03 Temperature and momentum dependence of the spectral function of the charge-density wave and of the normal \alpha phase of Pb/Ge(111) and Sn/Ge(111)

Silvio Modesti, Andrea Goldoni, Cinzia Cepek (TASC-INFM,Padriciano 99, I-34012 Trieste, Italy)

08:36 M17.04 Evolution of Step Structures on Vicinal Si(111) Surfaces during Metal Deposition

C. Schwennicke, X.-S. Wang, E.D. Wlliams (University of Maryland)

08:48 M17.05 Adsorbate-induced planarization of a high-index substrate: structure and energetics of Ga:Si(112)

S.C. Erwin, A.A. Baski, L.J. Whitman (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC)

09:00 M17.06 Metal-atom Structures Fabricated on the Si(100) Surface

Tomihiro Hashizume, S. Heike, M. I. Lutwyche, S. Watanabe, Y. Wada (Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.)

09:12 M17.07 Theoretical Study of Atomic and Electronic Structures of Atomic Wires on an H-terminated Si(100)2\times1 Surface

S. Watanabe, Y.A. Ono, T. Hashizume, Y. Wada (Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.)

09:24 M17.08 Nanometer Scale Selective Deposition of Aluminum on Si(100) using High Temperature STM

Glenn Abeln, Hyungsoo Choi, Zhenxi Dai, Sang Lee, Philip Scott, Joseph Lyding (Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

09:36 M17.09 Acute-angled triangle step edge formed during high dosing of Bi to Si(001) surface at its desorption temperature

Kazushi Miki (Electrotechnical Laboratory), J.H.G. Owen, D.R. Bowler, G.A.D. Briggs, D.G. Pettifor (Oxford University)

09:48 M17.10 Initial stages of Au adsorption on the Si(111) 7x7 surface studied by scanning tunneling microscopy

Ilya Chizhov, Geunseop Lee, Roy F. Willis (Pennsylvania State University)

10:00 M17.11 Unoccupied Surface States on Si(111) \sqrt3\times\sqrt3 - Ag

J. Viernow (Univ. Hannover, Germany), D. Petrovykh, J.L. Lin, W.L. O'Brien, F.M. Leibsle, F.J. Himpsel (Univ. Wisconsin Madison), F.K. Men (Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan, ROC)

10:12 M17.12 Absolute Coverage of Cs on Si Faces using MEIS

William Sherman (University of Pennsylvania), Rajarshi Banerjee, N. John DiNardo (Drexel University), William Graham (University of Pennsylvania)

10:24 M17.13 An ab initio study of the atomic and electronic structure of Li adsorbed Si(100) surfaces

Young-Jo Ko, K. J. Chang (Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea), Jae-Yel Yi (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Korea)

08:00 M18.01 Unique Phasing of X-Ray Reflectivity Data from Organic Overlayers on Solid Substrates via Interferometry and Holography

Joseph Strzalka, J. Kent Blasie (Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania), John C. Bean (Bell Laboratories / Lucent Technologies)

08:12 M18.02 Exact Determination of the Phase in Neutron Reflectometry

C.F. Majkrzak, N.F. Berk (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899)

08:24 M18.03 Inverting Specular Reflectivity from Symmetric Films

N.F. Berk, C.F. Majkrzak (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899)

08:36 M18.04 Determination of discontinuities of potentials from reflectivity data

Paul Sacks (Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University)

08:48 M18.05 Specular Magnetic Reflectivity Measurements of UO_2

Gavin Watson (UMBC), Doon Gibbs, Lonny Berman (BNL), Gerry Lander, Hj. Matzke (ITE, Karlsruhle, Germany), Bruce Gaulin (McMaster Univ.), Walt Ellis (LANL)

09:00 M18.06 X-ray Scattering From Discotic Liquid Crystalline Compounds at the Air-Water Interface

David Gidalevitz (University of Pennsylvania), Oksana Mindyuk, Joseph Strzalka (), Paul. A. Heiney (University of Pennsylvania), Benjamin Ocko (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:12 M18.07 Diffuse x-ray reflectivity measurements of correlated roughness of a Mo/Si multilayer

K.-B. Lee, D. R. Lee, Yoon Hee Jeong, D. Kim (Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology), Y.J. Park (Pohang Light Source, Pohang University of Science and Technology)

09:24 M18.08 Glancing Angle XAFS Studies of Cu Thermal Vibration at the Cu/Al_2O_3 Interface

A. Jeremy Kropf, Bruce. A. Bunker, Q. Lu (University of Notre Dame), R. A. Mayanovic (Southwest Missouri State University)

09:36 M18.09 Temperature Dependence of X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism at the L_3 Edge of REFe_2 Compounds

J.C. Lang, G. Srajer, C.S. Nelson (Advanced Photon Source,^* Argonne National Lab), C. Detlefs, Z. Islam, A.I. Goldman, B.N. Harmon (Ames Laboratory^* and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy), R.W. McCallum (Ames Laboratory^* and Dept. of Material Science and Eng.)

09:48 M18.10 Determination of magnetic moment directions using x-ray resonant exchange scattering

Carsten Detlefs, A. H. M. Z. Islam, A. I. Goldman, P. C. Canfield (Physics Department, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011), J. P. Hill, D. Gibbs (Deparment of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973)

10:00 M18.11 Angle- and Temperature- Dependent Magnetic Circular Dichroism in Core Photoelectron Emission from Gd(0001)

R. Denecke, J. Morais, R. X. Ynzunza, J. Liesegang, C. S. Fadley (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

10:12 M18.12 Strong Non-linear MCD-effects due to Partially Circular Polarized Light Sources

Hartmut Höchst, Dai Zhao, David L. Huber (SRC, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

10:24 M18.13 A Classical Interpretation of Magnetic Dichroism Sum Rules in X-ray reflection Spectroscopy

D. Zhao, H. Höchst, D.L. Huber (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

08:00 M19.01 Magnetostrictive Composites

F. E. Pinkerton, T. W. Capehart, J. F. Herbst, E. G. Brewer, C. B. Murphy (General Motors R&D Center)

08:12 M19.02 Estimating the Effective Magnetostriction of a Composite: A Simple Model

J. F. Herbst, T. W. Capehart, F. E. Pinkerton (General Motors R&D Center)

08:24 M19.03 Functional Form of Magnetomechanical Damping

D.N. Beshers (Henry Krumb School of Mines, Columbia Univ., New York, NY.)

08:36 M19.04 Infrared Studies of Magnetoelastic Coupling in the GeCuO_3 Spin--Peierls System

G. Li, J.L. Musfeldt (State University of New York at Binghamton), Y.J. Wang (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory), S. Jandl, M. Poirier (Université de Sherbrooke), A. Revcolevschi, G. Dhalenne (Université Paris--Sud)

08:48 M19.05 Relationship Between Yield Stress and Magnetic Properties in Plastically Deformed Low Carbon Sheet Steel

Lydon J Swartzendruber, George E. Hicho (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899), Harsh Deep Chopra (Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755-8000.)

09:00 M19.06 Magnetic and Electrical Properties of Sr(Fe_0.7,cO_0.3 )o_3/MTiO_3 (M=Sr,Ca) Multi Layered System

H. Tanaka, N. Matsuoka, H. Tabata, T. Kawai (Osaka University)

09:12 M19.07 AC Susceptibility of Titanomagnetites

P.M. Shand, M.L. Leonard (Univ. of Northern Iowa)

09:24 M19.08 Magnetic State of Aerogel ZnFe_2O_4 Ferrite Fine Powders

H.H. Hamdeh, J.C. Ho (Wichita State University.)

09:36 M19.09 Studies of Zero Field Magnetic Structures of TbNi_2Ge_2 Single Crystal

A. H. M. Z. Islam, C. Detlefs, A. I. Goldman, P. C. Canfield (Ames Laboratory^* and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011), J. P. Hill, D. Gibbs (Dept. of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973)

09:48 M19.10 Ferromagnetism in La_5Pb_3Mn.

M.E. Torelli, J.L. Sarrao, Z. Fisk (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State Universtiy), E. Moshopoulou, J.D. Thompson (Los Alomos National Laboratory)

10:00 M19.11 Effect of Temperature and Grain Size on Magnetic Properties of Soft Magnetic Iron-Cobalt Alloys

G. Kozlowski, R.T. Fingers, J.E. Coate (WPAFB), K. Rogacki, B. Dabrowski (NIU)

10:12 M19.12 Accommodation and Aftereffect in Magnetic Materials

L.H. Bennett, E. Della Torre (Institute for Magnetics Research, George Washington Universiy, Ashburn, VA), L.J. Swartzendruber (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD), F. Vajda (Digital Measurements Systems, Inc., Boston, MA.)

10:24 M19.13 Dependence of Barkhausen Pattern Reproducibility on Hysteresis Loop Size

J. R. Petta, M. B. Weissman (U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

08:00 M20.01 Strained InAsSb Heterostructures for Multi-Stage Lasers and LEDs

Steven R. Kurtz (Sandia National Laboratories)

08:36 M20.02 Calculated Auger rates in small gap semiconductor alloys

S. Krishnamurthy, A. Sher (SRI International), A.-B. Chen (Auburn University)

08:48 M20.03 Auger Lifetimes and Threshold Current Densities of Strained Layer Type II Superlattice-Based MWIR Lasers

C.H. Grein (University of Illinois at Chicago), M.E. Flatté (University of Iowa), H. Ehrenreich (Harvard University)

09:00 M20.04 Application of Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Upconversion to the Study of Hot Carrier Dynamics and Carrier Recombination in a Mid-Infrared Superlattice

D.-J. Jang, J. T. Olesberg, M. E. Flatté, Thomas F. Boggess (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA), T. C. Hasenberg (Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, CA)

09:12 M20.05 Time Resolved Measurements of Gain Spectra in Narrow Band Gap Superlattices.

S. A. Anson, J. T. Olesberg, M. E. Flatté, Thomas F. Boggess (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA), T. C. Hasenberg (Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, CA), C. H. Grein (University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.)

09:24 M20.06 Four-Layer Superlattice Structures for Mid-Infrared Diode Lasers.

J. T. Olesberg, M. E. Flatté, S. A. Anson, Thomas F. Boggess (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA), T. C. Hasenberg (Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, CA), C. H. Grein (University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.)

M20.07 Modeling of Type-II Mid-IR Semiconductor Lasers

I. Vurgaftman, J.R. Meyer (Naval Research Laboratory), L.R. Ram-Mohan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

M20.08 Type-II Quantum-Well Lasers

C.-H. Lin, Rui Q. Yang, S. S. Pei (Space Vacuum Epitaxy Center, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5507), H. Q. Le (Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, MA 02173), C. L. Felix, J. R. Meyer, I. Vurgaftman (Code 5613, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375)

M20.09 Electron and Hole Auger Processes in Mid-Infrared Strained InAsSb/InGaAs Heterostructures

H. P. Hjalmarson, S. R. Kurtz (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque NM 87185-0603)

08:00 M21.01 The Primary Folding Events of Apomyoglobin

Robert Callender (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

08:36 M21.02 Protein Folding Triggered by Electron Transfer

Jay Winkler (Beckman Institute)

09:12 M21.03 Dynamics of Solvation Destabilization of Proteins

Charles M. Phillips (Department of Chemistry and Regional Laser and Biotechnology Laboratories, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323)

09:48 M21.04 Temperature-Jump-Induced Fast Protein Folding

Martin Gruebele (University of Illinois)

10:24 M21.05 Folding of Cytochrome c Initiated by Submillisecond Mixing

Denis Rousseau (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY USA)

08:00 M22.01 Oscillatory Behavior in the Electrical Resistivity of Transition Metal Superlattices

Sihong Kim, Ivan K. Schuller (Physics Department, University of California - San Diego), D. Lederman (West Verginia University), J. M. Gallego (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid - C.S.I.C)

08:12 M22.02 Role of interface scattering on the resistivity in metallic multilayer wires.

Tat-Sang Choy, Jian Chen, Selman Hershfield (Physics Dept., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.)

08:24 M22.03 Thin Film Conductivity without the Relaxation Time Approximation

David R. Penn, M. D. Stiles (Electron Physics Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899)

08:36 M22.04 Interplay of the specular and diffuse scattering at interfaces of magnetic multilayers

Shufeng Zhang, Peter M. Levy (New York University)

08:48 M22.05 The effect of surface roughness on the galvanomagnetic coefficients of thin metallic films.

Raul Munoz, Lorena Cespedes, German Kremer, Luis Moraga, Marcelo Mulsow (Universidad de Chile)

09:00 M22.06 Interface Resistances of Magnetic Multilayers

Paul J. Kelly (Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven), Kees M. Schep, Gerrit E.W. Bauer (Delft University of Technology), Jeroen B.A.N. van Hoof (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands), John E. Inglesfield (University of Wales Cardiff, UK)

09:12 M22.07 Search for Point-Contact Giant Magnetoresistance in Co/Cu Multilayers.

M.V. Tsoi, A.G.M. Jansen, J. Bass (Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory, MPI-FKF and CNRS, BP166-F38042 Grenoble, France.)

09:24 M22.08 Giant Magnetoresistance in a FeCr_2(001) Superlattice: Effect of Spin-orbit Coupling Induced Spin-channel Mixing^*

Fangyi Rao, A. J. Freeman (Northwestern U.)

09:36 M22.09 Effect of spin-flip scattering on giant magnetoresistance with current-in-plane.

Jian Chen, Selman Hershfield (Physics Dept., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.)

09:48 M22.10 Resistivity due to Domain Wall Scattering

Peter M. Levy, Shufeng Zhang (New York University)

10:00 M22.11 Calculation of Giant Magnetoresistance in Laterally Confined Multilayers

Kingshuk Majumdar, Jian Chen, Selman Hershfield (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL)

10:12 M22.12 The GMR Effect in Melt-Spun Co-Cu Granular Magnetic Materials

J. S. Jiang, J. Pearson, D. G. Hinks, S. D. Bader (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory)

M22.13

08:00 M23.01 Effects of Co and Ni Incorporated In La_2/3Ca_1/3(Mn_xNi/Co_1-x)O_3, a Colossal Magnetoresisive System

Mark Rubinstein, Darrell Gillespie (NRL), Tritt Terry (Clemson U.), Snyder John (NRL)

08:12 M23.02 Unconventional Magnetostriction in Layered La_1.2Sr_1.8Mn_2O_7: Evidence for Spin-Lattice Coupling Above T_c

D. N. Argyriou, J. F. Mitchell, C. D. Potter, S. D. Bader, R. Kleb, J. D. Jorgensen (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439)

08:24 M23.03 Tunneling Spectroscopy of the Colossal Magnetoresistive La_0.7Ca_0.3MnO_3 Epitaxial Films: Evidence of Half-Metallic Band Structure in the Ferromagnetic State

Nai-Chang Yeh, John Y.T. Wei, Sebastian M. Maurer (California Institute of Technology), Richard P. Vasquez (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

08:36 M23.04 e^--e^- correlations in La_1-x(A)_xMnO_3 (A=Ca, Pb, Sr) single crystals

P. Lin, M. Jaime, M.B. Salamon, P. Han (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), J.J. Neumeier (Florida Atlantic University)

08:48 M23.05 Oxygen stoichiometry and transport in La_1-xCa_xMnO_3-\delta polycrystals.

M. Jaime, P. Lin, M.B. Salamon (Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), F. Prado, A. Caneiro (Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina)

09:00 M23.06 Anneal Tunable T_c and Electrical Transport of La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO_3

D.C. Worledge, G.J. Snyder, M.R. Beasley, T.H. Geballe (Stanford University), R. Hiskes, S. Dicarolis (Hewlett-Packard)

09:12 M23.07 Effects of Lattice Distortion and Mixed Valences on the Magnetic and Electrical Transport Properties of Magnetoresistive Manganites with A- and B-site Doping

Chu-Chen Fu, Geoff Beach, Arkadii V. Samoilov, Nai-Chang Yeh (California Institute of Technology), Richard Vasquez (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

09:24 M23.08 Defect-Driven Magnetic and Transport Behavior in (LaMn_0.98 ^57Fe_0.02)_1-\deltaO_3

A. Tkachuk, B. Dabrowski, K. Rogacki, D.E. Brown, B. Pyles, R.T. Soliday, C.W. Kimball (Northern Illinois University, DeKalb,IL), B.D. Dunlap (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne,IL)

09:36 M23.09 Magnetic and Transport Properties of pure and Fe substituted La_1-xSr_xMnO_3

K. Rogacki, B. Dabrowski, A. Tkachuk, C.W Kimball (Physics Department, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL 60115)

09:48 M23.10 Tuning Magnetic and Transport Properties of La_0.83 Sr_0.17 Mn_1-y ^57Fe_y O_3 by Fe Substitution.

D. E. Brown, B. Dabrowski, K. Rogacki, A. Tkachuk, B. Pyles, R. T. Soliday, C. W. Kimball (Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL), B. D. Dunlap (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL)

10:00 M23.11 Response of the Elastic Moduli of La_0.83Sr_0.17MnO_3 to Magnetic Fields near the CMR Transition Temperature

Timothy W. Darling, Albert Migliori (), John J. Neumeier (Los Alamos National Laboratory), John L. Sarrao (NHMFL - Florida State University)

10:12 M23.12 High Temperature Conduction in La_1-xSr_xCoO_3

Vladimir Golovanov, Laszlo Mihaly (Department of Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook, New York), Arnie Moodenbaugh (Department of Applied Sciences, BNL, Upton, New York)

M23.13 Anisotropy of the magnetoresistance in La_0.7Ca_0.3MnO_3

Joseph J. Betouras, Dirk K. Morr, James O'Donnell, Mark S. Rzchowski (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

08:00 M24.01 Density functional calculations of ionization potentials and electron affinities with a mixing orbital dependent exchange-correlation energy functional

Jiqiang Chen, J. B. Krieger (Brooklyn College, CUNY), G. J. Iafrate (ARO, NC.)

08:12 M24.02 The Exchange-Correlation Functional of Density and Polarization

Richard M. Martin (Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana), Gerardo Ortiz (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:24 M24.03 Application of a Simplified GGA to a Database of Small Molecules

David C. Patton, Mark R. Pederson (Complex Systems Theory Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375), Dirk V. Porezag (Department of Physics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz Germany)

08:36 M24.04 A critical assessment of the Self-Interaction Corrected Local Density Functional method and its algorithmic implementation

Stefan Goedecker (Max-Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany), Cyrus Umrigar (Cornell Theory Center and Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University)

08:48 M24.05 Dynamical mean field band structure: LDA++ approach.

A.I. Liechtenstein (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany), M.I. Katsnelson (Institute of Metal Physics, Yekaterinburg, Russia)

09:00 M24.06 Local Orbital Basis Evaluation of a Hubbard U Matrix.

E. C. Ethridge, S. C. Erwin, W. E. Pickett (Naval Research Laboratory)

09:12 M24.07 Study of 2 D limit of exchange-correlation density energy functionals

Y. Hoon Kim (Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801), Richard M. Martin (Department of Physics and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801)

09:24 M24.08 Quasiparticle Band Structure of ZrO_2

Balázs Králik, Eric K. Chang, Steven G. Louie (Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley)

09:36 M24.09 Quasiparticle gaps and self-energy corrections in Si quantum dots.

Serdar Ogut, James R. Chelikowsky (University of Minnesota), Steven G. Louie (University of California at Berkeley)

09:48 M24.10 Core-hole effects in x-ray absorption and resonant fluorescence

Eric L. Shirley (NIST, Gaithersburg MD)

10:00 M24.11 Design of Conducting Polymers Employing Density Functional Theory

U. Salzner, J.B. Lagowski, P.G. Pickup, R.A. Poirier (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

10:12 M24.12 Observations on the Screened Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker Method (Work supported by Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Science and Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division, US-DOE, under subcontract DEAC05-960R22464 with Lockheed-Martin Energy Research Corporation.)

Nassrin Y. Moghadam, G. Malcolm Stocks (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), B. Újfalussy (Research Institute for Solid State Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences), J. S. Faulkner (Florida Atlantic University)

10:24 M24.13 New Solution for Electrons and Elastic Waves in a One-Dimensional Periodic Layered Medium

Frank Szmulowicz (University of Dayton Research Institute)

08:00 M25.01 Evolution of Surface Morphology During Ion Irradiation of Au(111)

M.V. Ramana Murty, T. Curcic, A. Judy, B.H. Cooper, A. Woll, J.D. Brock (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853), S. Kycia, R.L. Headrick (Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, Wilson Laboratory, Cornell University, NY 14853)

08:12 M25.02 New Method for Simulating Growth by Energetic Depositions.

J. Jacobsen, B. Cooper, J.P. Sethna (LASSP, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY 14853)

08:24 M25.03 Morphology of epitaxial TiN(001) grown by magnetron sputtering

B. W. Karr, I. Petrov, D. G. Cahill, J. E. Greene (University of Illinois)

08:36 M25.04 Mound Formation and Coarsening in Epitaxial Growth

Fereydoon Family, Jacques G. Amar (Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322)

08:48 M25.05 Kinetic Roughening During Ag Homoepitaxy

W.C. Elliott, P.F. Miceli (University of Missouri-Columbia), T. Tse, P.W. Stephens (SUNY-Stony Brook)

09:00 M25.06 Temperature Dependence of Metal(100) Homoepitaxial Growth: Kinetic Phase Transition from Mounding to Re-entrant Smooth Growth

J.W. Evans (Iowa State University, Ames, IA), M.C. Bartelt (Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, CA)

09:12 M25.07 Impurity-Induced Diffusion Bias in Epitaxial Growth.

Luís A. Nunes Amaral (IFF, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany), Joachim Krug (Universität-GH Essen, Germany)

09:24 M25.08 Step-Adatom Attraction as a New Mechanism for Instability in Epitaxial Growth

Jacques G. Amar, Fereydoon Family (Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322)

09:36 M25.09 Growth Anisotropy and Pattern Formation during Metal Epitaxy

Bene Poelsema, Louis C. Jorritsma (Faculty of Applied Physics, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, NL-7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands), Georg Rosenfeld (IGV-KFA Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany)

09:48 M25.10 Evolution of Mound Morphology In Reversible Homoepitaxy On Cu(100)

J.-K. Zuo (Southwest Missouri State University), JF Wendelken (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:00 M25.11 Monte Carlo Simulation of Thin Film Growth by MBE in 1+1 Dimensions

John Lees, Somnath Pal, D.P. Landau (Center for Simulational Physics, University of Georgia)

10:12 M25.12 Directed polymer in a random potential on dimensions d=4+1

Jin Min Kim (Hallym University, Chunchon, Korea)

08:00 M26.01 Photo-Pumped Red, Green and Blue (R-G-B) ZnCdMgSe/ZnCdSe Lasers Grown on InP Substrates

L. Zeng, B. X. Yang, A. Cavus, M. C. Tamargo (City College-CUNY, Department of Chemistry, New York, NY 10031), Y. Guo, Y. C. Chen

08:12 M26.02 Spectral ellipsometry of Zn_0.53Cd_0.47Se lattice matched to InP

B.X. Yang, M.C. Tamargo (City College of CUNY, New York, NY 10031), T. Holden, P. Ram, F.H. Pollak (Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, NY 11210), J.L. Freeouf (Interface Studies, Inc., Katonah, NY 10536)

08:24 M26.03 Electrical Characterization of Lattice-Matched n-type ZnCdSe and ZnCdMgSe on InP Substrates

A. Cavus, W.C. Lin, M. Wright, W. Pereyra, M. C. Tamargo (City College-CUNY, Department of Chemistry, New York, NY 10031)

08:36 M26.04 Stimulated emission and gain in II-VI Semiconductor Microcavities

P. V. Kelkar, A.V. Nurmikko (Brown University), C.-C. Chu, J. Han, R.L. Gunshor (Purdue University)

08:48 M26.05 Spectroscopy of ZnCdSe/ZnSSe Quantum Well Diode Laser under Strong Magnetic Field: Excitonic Lasing at Room Temperature

Y.-K. Song, K. Hara, A.V. Nurmikko (Brown University, Providence, RI 02912), C.-C. Chu, J. Han, R.L. Gunshor (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907)

09:00 M26.06 Spectral Shifts Associated with Dark Line Defects in Degraded II-VI Laser Diodes

L.-L. Chao, G. S. Cargill III (Columbia Univ., New York, NY 10027), T. Marshall, E. Snoeks, J. Petruzzello, M. Pashley (Philips Research, Philips Electronics North America Corp., Briarcliff, NY 10510)

09:12 M26.07 Beryllium containing II-VI semiconductors as Alternative Materiasl for Blue-Green LEDs and Laser Diodes

Andreas Waag (Purdue University)

09:48 M26.08 Observation of exciton features in ZnSe/ZnMgSSe multiple quantum wells by normalized Kelvin probe spectroscopy at low temperatures

L. Aigouy, F.H. Pollak (Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, New York 11210), J. Petruzzello, K. Shahzad (Philips Research, Braircliff Manor, NY 10510)

10:00 M26.09 Time-Resolved Photoluminescence of ZnSe:N Epilayers

M. Moldovan, S.D. Setzler, T.H. Myers, N.C. Giles (Dept. of Physics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 26506)

10:12 M26.10 Shear deformation potential of k=0 states and elastic properties of ZnSe and ZnS under pressure

R.A. Casali, N.E. Christensen (^1Institute of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark)

10:24 M26.11 Calculation of Linear and Second-Order Optical Response in Zinc-Blende and Wurtzite II-VI Semiconductors

James L.P. Hughes, J.E. Sipe (University of Toronto)

08:00 M27.01 Thermal Disordering and Diffusion in Al Surfaces via Ensemble-DFT Molecular Dynamics.

Nicola Marzari, David Vanderbilt (Rutgers University), M. C. Payne (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (UK))

08:12 M27.02 Theoretical Description of Cluster Diffusion and Adlayer Coarsening

rex skodje (Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309), David S. sholl, Alan Lo (Department of Chemistry,University of Colorado,Boulder,CO,80309)

08:24 M27.03 Computer Simulations of Crystal Growth Processes: Pt, Si and Ice

Hannes Jónsson (Chemistry Department, University of Washington)

09:00 M27.04 Microscopic Processes behind Homoepitaxial Growth of Metallic Systems

Paolo Ruggerone, Alex Kley, Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany)

09:12 M27.05 Adatom vacancies and diffusion of adatom on the Si(111)(7x7) surface

B.C. Pan, C.Z. Wang, K.M. Ho (Ames Laboratory-U.S. DOE. and Dept. of Physics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa)

09:24 M27.06 Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Reactive Ion Etching of Si by Energetic Cl Ions.

David E. Hanson, Joel D. Kress, Arthur F. Voter (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

09:36 M27.07 Structures and Properties of C(111) and C(100) surfaces at High Temperature

C.Z. Wang, B.C. Pan, K.M. Ho (Ames Laboratory-U.S. DOE. and Dept. of Physics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa)

09:48 M27.08 Growth Dynamics of Crystalline Tensionless Surfaces

Esteban Moro, Rodolfo Cuerno, Angel Sánchez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

10:00 M27.09 Vibrational Free Energy Contributions to Surface Diffusion

Ulrike Kürpick, Talat. S. Rahman (Kansas State University)

10:12 M27.10 A Study of Kinetic Ordering by Monte Carlo Simulation of A_xB_1-x Film Growth

Y. Shim, S. Pal, D. P. Landau (Center for Simulational Physics, The University of Georgia.)

10:24 M27.11 Step dynamics and morphological evolution on surfaces

B. Blagojevic, P.M. Duxbury, S. Palmer (Michigan State Univ., Dept. of Phys. amp; Astr.)

10:36 M27.12 Multifractality in Discrete MBE Growth Models

P. Punyindu, S. Das Sarma (Department of Physics, University of Maryland)

M27.13 Vibrational Dynamics of H Atoms Chemisorbed on Metal (110) Surfaces; The Monolayer

E. S. Altshuler, D. L. Mills (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine 92697-4575), R. B. Gerber (Department of Physical Chemistry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)

08:00 M28.01 X-ray Absorption Studies of Mn Based Cathodes in Rechargeable Hydrogen Ion Batteries

S. Kostov, M. L. denBoer, S. Greenbaum (Hunter College CUNY), N. A. Fleischer, J. Lang, E. Rosh-Chodesh (ECR Ltd, Rehovot, Israel)

08:12 M28.02 Characterization of CdS/CdTe solar cells using x-ray scattering, absorption and fluorescence methods

Y.H. Kao, Y.L. Soo, S.W. Huang (SUNY at Buffalo), A. Compaan (University of Toledo)

08:24 M28.03 Understanding the Role of Li Ion in Improving Zn Electrodes: Direct Evidence for Zn Hydroxide-Hydrated Li Ion Interaction from Zn K-edge XAFS Data

X. Qian, D.E. Ramaker (George Washington University), K.I. Pandya (North Carolina State University), A.E. Russell (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), J. McBreen (Brookhaven National Lab), W.E. O'Grady (Naval Research Lab)

08:36 M28.04 Electrical, Thermal and NMR Investigation of Composite Solid Electrolytes Based on PEO, Lil and High Surface Area Inorganic Oxides

Y Dai, Y Wang, S. G. Greenbaum, S. A. Bajue (Physics Department, Hunter College/CUNY, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021), D Golodnitsky, G Ardel, E Strauss, E Peled (Tel Aviv University)

08:48 M28.05 The Role of the Hard Segment in Phase Mixed Polyurethane Polymer Electrolytes II

Edward Balizer, Jeffrey Fedderly, Glenn Zoski, Patricia Smith (NSWC White Oak Lab, Silver Spring, MD.)

09:00 M28.06 Low-\(T_g\) Block Copolymer Electrolytes for Lithium Ion Batteries

P.P. Soo, A.M. Mayes (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

09:12 M28.07 Cyclic Voltammetric Analysis of Hydrogen Uptake by Pd-capped Ti-Ni, Nb-Ni and Zr-Ni Films

Mark Ruckman, Harold Wiesmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:24 M28.08 Deposition of Lithium Films for Battery Development

Larry L. Long (Pittsburg State University)

09:36 M28.09 Surface Film Formation on Highly Ordered Pyrolytic Graphite: Comparison in Non-Aqueous Electrolytes using Electrochemical Atomic Force Microscopy (ECAFM)

Andrew Chu, Gregory Farrington (University of Pennsylvania), Jack Josefowicz (Hughes Research Laboratories)

09:48 M28.10 Study of the Formation of an Artificial Passivation Layer on Carbon Anodes for Li-Ion Cells

R.A. Guidotti (Sandia, Albuquerque, NM), W.R. Even Jr. (Sandia, Livermore, CA)

10:00 M28.11 New Vanadium and Manganese Oxides for Lithium Batteries

M. Stanley Whittingham, Peter Y. Zavalij, Thomas Chirayil, Rongji Chen (Institute for Materials Research, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902-6016)

M29.01 Reptation in a Weak Driving Field

Daniel Aalberts (Rockefeller Univ. and Leiden Univ.), J.M.J. van Leeuwen (Leiden Univ.)

M29.02 A Gaussian Chain in a Modified Harmonic External Field

Gary Washington (Chemistry Department, United States Military Academy, West Point NY)

M29.03 ^13C NMR Studies of Local Dynamics in Atactic Polypropylene Melts

Neil E. Moe (), M. D. Ediger (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

M29.04 Towards understanding the dynamics of entangled polymers

Grzegorz Szamel (Colorado State University)

M29.05 Effect of Temperature on Charged Polymer Chains in a Porous Medium.

Grace M. Foo (National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260), R. B. Pandey (University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5046)

M29.06 Microscopic Model of True Strain Softening and Hardening in a Polymer Glass

Tom Krupenkin (University of California, Santa Barbara)

M29.07 Investigations of Fluoropolymer Degradation By Semiempirical Molecular Orbital Calculations

David B. Holt, Barry L. Farmer (Univ. of Virginia), Alan D. English (DuPont)

M29.08 Supramolecular Polymers

S.I. Stupp, M. Keser, K.E. Huggins, G. Tew, L.S. Li (), C. Whitaker (Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemistry, \Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Materials Research Laboratory, \University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

M29.09 Linear Growth Rates and Morphology of Metallocenes and Ziegler-Type Polypropylenes

R.G. Alamo, C. Chi (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and Florida State University College of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering. Tallahassee, FL 32310-6046)

M29.10 Electron Microscopy and Diffraction Studies of the Morphology and Crystal Structure of CTFMP Poly(tri-, penta- and hexa-methylene terephthalate); 3GT, 5GT and 6GT

P. H. Geil, J. Liu (Univ. of Illinois)

M29.11 Morphology/Melting Relationships in Nascent UHMW PE

R.A. Phillips (Montell USA Inc.)

M29.12 Investigating the Morphology of UHMWPE

JTE Cook, PG Klein, IM Ward (University of Leeds)

M29.13 The Two Phase Model and the Time Dependent Properties of Semicrystalline Polymers Above Tg.

H. Marand, V. Velikov, R.K. Verma, S. Srinivas, S. Christian (NSF Science and Technology Center for High Performance Polymeric Adhesives and Composites, Chemistry Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0212.)

M29.14 Crystallization Kinetics and Microstructure of Poly(L-lactide-co-Meso-lactide)s

J. Runt, J. Huang (Penn State University), E. Hall, R. Kean, N. Buehler (Central Research, Cargill Inc.), J. S. Lin (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

M29.15 Microstructure Development and Crystallization of Poly(ethylene oxide) and Melt-Miscible PEO Blends

J. Runt, S. Talibuddin (Penn State University), L. Z. Liu, B. Chu (SUNY - Stony Brook)

M29.16 Characterization of Polymer Phase Separation of Reacting Systems

D.J. Yontz, S.L. Hsu (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), D. Gier, W. Lidy, M. Mazor (Dow Chemical, Texas)

M29.17 On-line Simultaneous SAXS and WAXD Studies during Fiber Spinning of Polyethylene and Poly(vinylidene fluoride)

S. Seifert (Northwestern U.), B. Hsiao (DuPont), J. Schultz, J. Samon (U. Delaware), I. Gurke, N. Stribeck (U. Hamburg), C. Saw, G. Collins (Hoechst-Celanses)

M29.18 Morphology and Crystal Structure of CTFMP Poly(naphthalic anhydride)

J. Liu, P. H. Geil (Univ. of Illinois)

M29.19

M29.20 Comparison of Dynamic DSC Studies on Concentrated Aqueous Salt Solutions and Polymers

W.K. Cheong, E.W. Hellmuth (University of Missouri-Kansas City)

M29.21 Fold Surfaces of Polyethylene Lamellar Crystals

Darrell H. Reneker

M29.22 Some Possible Evidences of Density Fluctuations as Precursors of Crystallization in Ethylene-1-Octene Copolymers

B.S. Hsiao (DuPont), A. Nogales, T.A. Ezquerra, F.J. Balta Calleja (C.S.I.C.), B.B. Sauer, S. Seifert (DuPont), Y. Kapalu, R. Stein, M. Muthukuman (UMASS), M. Koch (EMBL)

M29.23 Comparisons of Morphological Evaluation on Nylon 66 Fibers Via SAXS, WAXS and Radial Distribution Function Methods

J.R. Sharrow, J.M. Schultz (U.Delaware), B.S. Hsiao, H. Chang (DuPont)

M29.24 Thermal Behavior of Poly(1,4-cyclohexylene dimethylene terephthalate)

S. Lee, S. Yoon (LG Chemical Ltd., Polymer Research Institute, Science Town, Taejon, Korea)

M29.25 Crystal Structure of Bombyx mori Silk Foams

Shi-Juang He (Chemical Engineering Dept., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003), Regina Valluzzi, Samuel Gido (Polymer Science & Eng. Dept., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003)

M29.26 Transmission Electron Microscopy of Bombyx Mori Silk Fibers

Y. Shen, D. C. Martin (The University of Michigan)

M29.27 Evolution of Viscoelastic and Morphological Characteristics in the Biphase of a Thermotropic Polyether

P.T. Mather, A. Romo-Uribe, K.P. Chaffee (USAF Phillips Laboratory, Edwards AFB, CA), A.D. Asandei, V. Percec (Department of Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH)

M29.28 Monte Carlo Simulation of Liquid Crystal Polyesters in the Solid State

G.C. Rutledge, S.H. Foulger (Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT)

M29.29 Molecular Modeling of Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polysiloxanes

B. L. Farmer, G. M. Podojil (University of Virginia), R. Pachter, W. W. Adams (Materials Directorate, Wright Laboratory, WPAFB)

M29.30 Size-Dependent Phase Stability in the Nematic Phase of Liquid Crystalline Polymers

J.L. Feijoo, I. Rivero, M. Grimau (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela)

M29.31 Water Sorption and Low Temperature Relaxations of Polyarylate Poly(DTH succinate).

N. Suárez, E. Laredo (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela), J. Kohn (Rutgers University, U.S.A.)

M29.32 Process-Property Relationships in Ferroelectric Copolymers of Vinylidene Fluoride and Trifluoroethylene: The Effects of Uniaxial Orientation and Annealing

Michael Christie, Jerry Scheinbeim (), Brian Newman (Rutgers University, Polymer Electroprocessing Laboratory, Department of Chemical amp; Biochemical Engineering, Piscataway, NJ 08855-0909)

M29.33 Dispersive Aspects of High-Field Hopping Mobility in Molecular Solids with Dipolar Disorder.

P.E. Parris (University of Missouri-Rolla), D.H. Dunlap, V.M. Kenkre (University of New Mexico)

M29.34 Effects of Matrix Viscoelacticity on the Orientational Relaxation of Dopants in Guest-Host Polymers for Nonlinear Optics

S.-J. Lee, G.A. Medvedev, H.S. Lackritz, J.M. Caruthers (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN)

M29.35 Structural Investigation of Polyaniline (PANI)/Nylon 6 blends by Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) and Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS and WAXS)

B. K. Annis, G. D. Wignall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), A. R. Hopkins, P. G. Rasmussen (University of Michigan), R. A. Basheer (GM Research and Development Center)

M29.36 Coupling of Probe Rotation to Sub-T_g Polymer Dynamics in Electro-optic Polymers

Shane Brower (Youngstown State University), L. Michael Hayden (University of Maryland Baltimore County)

M29.37 Elastic Polymer Matrices for High Damage Threshold Guest-Host Optical Limiters

M.E. De Rosa (Materials Directorate, Wright Laboratory), M.C. Brant (Science Applications International Corporation), D.G. McLean, S. Lakhia (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Dayton)

M29.38 Deformation and Electrorotation in Fluid Polymer Blends

Preeti Chandratreya, Sonja Krause (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

M29.39 Lattice Imaging of Electro-optically Active Poly(nonyl-bithiazole)

L. Gonzalez Ronda, D. C. Martin (The University of Michigan)

M29.40 Effect of Architecture on the Self-Diffusion in Block Copolymer Solutions: I_2S Simple Grafts

G. Fleischer (Univ. of Leipzig, Germany), S. H. Anastasiadis, K. Chrissopoulou, G. Fytas (FO.R.T.H.-I.E.S.L., Greece), S. Pispas, M. Pitsikalis, J. Mays (Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham,USA), N. Hadjichristidis (Univ. of Athens, Greece)

M29.41 Nonlinear Electrophoretic Flow of Polymer Chains.

Grace M. Foo (National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260), R. B. Pandey (University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5046)

M29.42 Diffusant Motions in Simple Polymer Melts

Dana Rottach, Patrick Tillman, John McCoy (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), Steve Plimpton, John Curro (Sandia National Labs)

M29.43 Gas and Hydrocarbon Vapor Permeation in Poly(1-trimethylsilyl-1-propyne)/Poly(1-phenyl-1-propyne) Blends

R.J. Spontak (), L.G. Toy, B.D. Freeman (North Carolina State University), A. Morisato, I. Pinnau (Membrane Technology and Research, Inc., Menlo Park, CA 94025)

M29.44 Tackifier Mobility in Model Pressure Sensitive Adhesives

Adriana Paiva, Xiaoqing Li (The University of Akron)

M29.45 Investigation of Termination in Free Radical Polymerization by Use of >Diffusion-Limited Interactions in Polymer Solutions

Marc Wisnudel, John Torkelson (Northwestern Univ.)

M29.46 Environmental Effects on the Stress Cracking of Polyethylene

Charles E. Rogers, Rachel M. Thurston (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7202)

M29.47 Fluctuations Effects on Block Copolymer Dynamics: Self-Diffusion Coefficient.

Hai Tang, Marina Guenza, Kenneth S. Schweizer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

M29.48 Experimental Evaluations of the Major Theories for the Gel Effect in Free Radical Polymerization

G.A. O'Neil, J.M. Torkelson (Northwestern University)

M29.49 Diffusion and Viscosity Studies in Concentrated Polymer Solutions

H. Tao, T. P. Lodge (University of Minnesota), E. D. Von Meerwall (University of Akron)

M29.50 Gas Permeations Studied by Positron Annihilation

Jen-Pwu Yuan, Huimin Cao, X. Jean (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Y.C. Yang (Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport)

09:12 M'1.01 Critical Fields in Molecular Superconductors

M.J. Naughton (Department of Physics, State University of New York, Buffalo, N.Y. 14260)

09:48 M'1.02 Reentrant Superconductivity in Quasi-One Dimensional Molecular Superconductors in High Magnetic Fields.

C. A. R. Sá de Melo (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:48 M'3.01 Crystalline Ropes of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes: Electronic Transport and Doping

John E. Fischer (University of Pennsylvania)

10:24 M'3.02 Nanotube Derived Materials

Charles M. Lieber (Harvard University)