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Symposium AA: Inorganic Nanowires and Nanotubes–Synthesis, Properties, and Device Applications

• 2012 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

• April 9 - April 13, 2012
• Moscone West Convention Center | Marriott Marquis - San Francisco, California-
• Meeting Chairs: Lara A. Estroff, Jun Liu, Kornelius Nielsch, Kazumi Wada

Inorganic Nanowires and Nanotubes–Synthesis, Properties, and Device Applications

This symposium is co-sponsored by the Japan Society of Applied Physics  

Inorganic nanowires and nanotubes, including elemental semiconductors, compound semiconductors, metals, and metal oxides, are emerging building blocks for integrated optical, electronic, magnetic, energy-generation devices with novel function and enhanced performance, including more efficient energy utilization.  In addition, the feasibility of nanowires and nanotubes for health and biomedical applications has been demonstrated.  In order to direct nanowire/nanotube research toward the advancement of novel devices, a multidisciplinary discussion of nanowire synthesis, its fundamental physical properties, and device characteristics is essential.

This first JSAP-MRS joint symposium aims to promote an international exchange of the latest advances and challenges in research of nanowires and nanotubes between researchers from the U.S., Japan, Europe, Asia, and elsewhere.  This symposium will focus on research on the synthesis, fundamental properties, and device applications of various nanowire and nanotube structures in a multidisciplinary context.

Session Topics will include:

• Advances in fundamental understanding and control of nanowire/nanotube synthesis methods, including modeling and statistical study
• Nanowire heterostructures
• Physical properties of nanowires
• Nanowires as electrical, optical, and sensors
• Devices and sensors utilizing nanotubes
• Large-scale integration of nanowires and nanowire devices
• Integrated nanowire device architectures for multifunctionality
• Nanowires in energy applications: solar cells, batteries, and thermoelectrics
• Advances in nanowire/nanotube characterization
• Modeling of nanowire/nanotube properties including electronic, optical, magnetic, and mechanical
• Nanowires and nanotubes for electronics and photonics

Joint sessions focusing on the application to energy conversion (solar cells, etc.) and storage are being considered with Symposia N: One-Dimensional Nanostructured Materials for Energy Conversion, and W: Nanostructured Solar Cells.

Abstracts related to carbon nanotubes should be submitted to Symposia DD: De Novo Carbon Nanomaterials, or EE: New Functional Nanocarbon Devices.

Invited speakers include:

Erik Bakkers (Technical Univ. of Delft/Technical Univ. of Eindhoven, Netherlands), Kristine Bertness (National Inst. of Standards and Technology), Mikael Bjork (IBM Zurich, Switzerland), Yi Gu (Washington State Univ.), Shinjiro Hara (Hokkaido Univ., Japan), Kenji Hiruma (Hitachi Co., Japan), Andrei Kolmakov (Southern Illinois Univ.), Charles Lieber (Harvard Univ.), Toru Nakagawa (Panasonic, Japan), Joan Redwing (Pennsylvania State Univ.), Frances Ross (IBM T. J. Watson Research Ctr.), Seiji Takeda (Osaka Univ., Japan), Reshef Tenne (Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel), Hong Wei (Chinese Academy of Science, China), Hongqi Xu (Lund Univ., Sweden), Peidong Yang (Univ. of California, Berkeley).

Symposium Organizers

Junichi Motohisa
Hokkaido University
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
North 14 West 9
Sapporo 060-0814, Japan
Tel 81-11-706-6508, Fax 81-11-716-6004
motohisa@ist.hokudai.ac.jp 

Lincoln J. Lauhon
Northwestern University
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
2220 Campus Dr.
Evanston, IL 60208-3108
Tel 847-491-2232, Fax 847-491-7820
lauhon@northwestern.edu 

Deli Wang
University of California, San Diego
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
MC 0407, 9500 Gilman Dr.
La Jolla, CA 92093-0407
Tel 858-822-4723, Fax 858-534-0556
dwang@ece.ucsd.edu 

Takeshi Yanagida
Osaka University, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research
8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan
Tel 81-6-6879-4294, Fax 81-6-6879-4295
yanagi32@sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp