Program overview

THURSDAY MORNING, 6 NOVEMBER 1997

09:00 AA.01 Probing the limits of nuclear world

Krzysztof Rykaczewski (ORNL)

09:35 AA.02 On the Extension of the Periodic System into the Sectors of Superheavy Elements, Strangeness and Antimatter

Walter Greiner (Institute fur Tcheoretische Physik der Universitat Frankfurt/Main, D-60054, Germany)

10:10 AA.03 A Search for Strange Matter Production: Recent Results from Experiment 864

Senta V. Greene (Vanderbilt University)

10:45 AA.04 Synthesis and Properties of Superheavy Elements

Yuri Oganessian (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

11:20 AA.05 The New HRIBF Recoil Mass Spectrometer - Performance and First Results

T. N. Ginter (Vanderbilt University)

09:00 AB.01 The Physics Multimedia Laboratory at Arkansas State University

Andrew Sustich (Arkansas State University)

09:35 AB.02 Simple Demonstrations for Simple Physicists - Part I

D. Rae Carpenter, Richard B. Minnix (Virginia Military Institute)

09:47 AB.03 Simple Demonstrations for Simple Physicists - Part II

Richard B. Minnix, D. Rae Carpenter (Virginia Military Institute)

09:59 AB.04 Implementation of Zap! - Hands-on, Take-home Experiments in Electricity and Magnetism

R. Surman, D. Holmgren (University of North Carolina)

10:11 AB.05 A Physics Course for Non-Physical Science Teachers

Paul D. Cottle (Florida State University)

10:23 AB.06 Ancient Indian Astronomy in Introductory Text Books

B. N. Narahari Achar (University of Memphis)

10:35 AB.07 The Nature of Wave-Particle Duality

Wendell G. Holladay (Vanderbilt University)

10:47 AB.08 Density Functional Theory for Undergraduates

H. L. Neal (Department of Physics and CTSPS, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta. GA 30314)

10:59 AB.09 The UT Internet Spectrograph

Marianne Breinig, James E. Parks, Andrew Glenn, Terri Norton (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1200)

11:11 AB.10 Constructing Physics Understanding

Lawrence A. Mink, Andrew Sustich (Arkansas State University)

09:00 AC.01 NMR Investigation of H Slow Motion in a-Si:H

Jonathan Baugh

09:12 AC.02 Selective Defect Modification in Hydrogen Implanted Si Using Intense Infrared Radiation

J. C. Keay, C. Chaney, N. H. Tolk, G. Lüpke, L. C. Feldman (Vanderbilt University), Y. Tung, D. Henderson (Fisk University)

09:24 AC.03 Theory for the nucleation and growth of hydrogen platelets in silicon

Fernando A. Reboredo, Maurizio Ferconi, Sokrates T. Pantelides (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University)

09:36 AC.04 Photoluminescence Excitation Spectroscopy of a-si:H Using a Free Electron Laser

Glennys Mensing, J. Gilligan, E. Hurt, N. Tolk (Vanderbilt University), P. C. Taylor (University of Utah)

09:48 AC.05 Defect Engineered Solutions for Processing of Silicon and Silicon-on-Insulator

E. G. Roth, O. W. Holland (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:00 AC.06 Devices and Growth Issues Using Si/Ge Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Phillip Thompson (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375)

10:12 AC.07 Electroluminescence from amorphous silicon oxynitride films

K.J. Price (Departments of Physics and Astronomy and Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), L.R. Sharpe, L.E. McNeil, E.A. Irene

10:24 AC.08 Ion Beam Analysis of Thin Silicon Oxide Films on Silicon and Silicon Carbide

Kyle McDonald, J. C. Keay, R. A. Weller, Gunther Luepke, L. C. Feldman (Vanderbilt University)

10:36 AC.09 Etch rate study of SiO_2 films thermally grown on SiC substrates

Otha Richardson Jr., P. J. MacFarlane, M. E. Zvanut (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

10:48 AC.10 Process Techniques and Benefits of the Formation of Titanium Nitride at Room Temperature on Silicon Substrates

Ted Edwin Cook Jr., Robert J. Nemanich (North Carolina State University)

11:00 AC.11 XPS/AES Study of Electrical and Chemical Properties of Pd/SiC Interface

D.T. Shi, W. Lu, E. Bryant, K. Elshot, K. Lafate, H. Chen, A. Burger, W.E. Collins (Fisk University)

11:12 AC.12 Surface Morphology and Compositions for Pd/SiC by Scanning Probe Microscopy and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

W. Lu, D.T. Shi, K. Elshot, E. Bryant, K. Lafate, H. Chen, A. Burger, W.E. Collins (Fisk University)

11:24 AC.13 Resistivity and oxygen content of indium tin oxide films deposited by room temperature pulsed laser ablation

Y. Wu, C.H.M. Maree, R.A. Weller, R.F. Haglund, J. Hamilton, L.C. Feldman (Vanderbilt University)

09:00 AD.01 A Kinematic Explanation for the Observation of Very Narrow Dissociative Recombination Final Product State Line Widths in Time of Flight Measurements

Kenneth A. Hardy (Florida International University, Miami, Fl 33199)

09:22 AD.02 A numerical fragment basis approach to SCF calculations.

Robert J. Hinde (Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1600)

09:34 AD.03 Neural Network predictions of Diatomic and Triatomic Molecular Data

W. Blake Laing (Southern Adventist University)

09:46 AD.04 Relative Cross Sections for K-Shell Ionization of the Atomic Constituents of Fluorocarbons by 2 MeV Protons Using Rutherford Scattering to Determine Atomic Density.

A.M. Williams, C. Moreau, J.L. Shinpaugh, L.H. Toburen (East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C.)

09:58 AD.05 K-Shell Ionization of Fluorocarbons Constituents by 2.0 MeV H^+.

C. Moreau, A.M. Williams, J.L. Shinpaugh, L.H. Toburen (East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C.)

10:10 AD.06 Line Assignments in the \nu_1 Torsion Ro-vibrational Band of CD_3OH

Orville Bignall, R. Dwayne Ramey (Tennessee State University)

10:22 AD.07 Electron Flow to a Spherical Satellite at High Positive Potential

J.W. Sheldon, K.A. Hardy (Physics Department, Florida International University, Miami, Fl, 33199)

10:34 AD.08 Kinetics of a bose gas in harmonic traps: nonergodic behavior

Wolfgang Geist, Li You, Brian Kennedy (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430)

10:46 AD.09 Enhancement of Sputtering Yields by Low-Energy Molecular Ions

Zsuzsanna Hargitai, Y. Yao, M. M. Albert, A. V. Barnes, J. M. Gilligan, V. D. Gordon, G. Lüpke, B. Pratt-Ferguson, A. Puckett, N. H. Tolk (Vanderbilt University), G. Betz (Technische Universität Wien), J. Tully (Yale University)

10:58 AD.10 Initial measurements in the Fisk Plasma Source

Kent Wallace, Gregory Lampkin, Edward Thomas, Henry Chen (Fisk University)

11:10 AD.11 Observations of low frequency oscillations in the Fisk Plasma Source

Edward Thomas, Michael Watson, Gregory Lampkin, Kent Wallace (Fisk University)

11:22 AD.12 Magnetic field dependence of the transition probability of EPR forbidden transitions in NH_2 free radicals from irradiated, solid ammonia.

A.R. Airne, A.S. Brill (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Virginia)

AD.13 Observation of Final Product States in the Dissociative Recombination of N_2^+

Kenneth Hardy, S. Oddone (Physics Department, Florida International University, Miami,Fl 33199)