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Symposium N: Molecular-Scale Electronics

Symposium N: Molecular-Scale Electronics Image

Chairs | Original Call for Papers

Tuesday Sessions | Wednesday Sessions | Thursday Sessions | Friday Sessions

April 18 - 21, 2006
Chairs
Ranganathan Shashidhar     Geo-Centers Inc.
James G. Kushmerick     National Institute of Standards and Technology
Heiko B. Weber     University of Erlangen-Nurnberg
Nongjian J. Tao     Arizona State University
 
Symposium Support
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Forschungszentrum Kalsruhe Institute for Nanotechnology
National Institute of Standards and Technology
 


* Invited paper

SESSION N1: Theory of Charge Transport
Chair: Ranganathan Shashidhar
Tuesday Afternoon, April 18, 2006
Room 3014 (Moscone West)


1:30 PM OPENING REMARKS

1:45 PM *N1.1
Molecular Electronics: In Search of New Paradigms Avik W. Ghosh2 and Supriyo Datta1; 1Electrical & Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; 2Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.

2:15 PM *N1.2
Current-induced Mechanical Effects in Nanoscale Junctions. Massimiliano Di Ventra, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.

2:45 PM N1.3
First Principles of Modeling of Spin-Dependent Transport Through Molecules. Soren Smidstrup, Atomistix, Copenhagen, Denmark.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM *N1.4
Parametric Flow of Effective Hamiltonians in ab initio Transport Calculations. Ferdinand Evers, Institute of Nanotechnology, Research Center Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany.

4:00 PM N1.5
Ab inito calculation of electron transport through single molecules by the RTM/NEGF method Kenji Hirose1 and Nobuhiko Kobayashi2; 1Fundamental Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; 2Nanotechnology Research Institute (NRI), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

4:15 PM N1.6
ð-logic: A New Approach Allowing for all Boolean Logic Operations to be Performed in Single Molecules. Marleen van der Veen, Harry T Jonkman and Jan Cornelis Hummelen; Molecular Electronics, Materials Science Centre Plus, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.

4:30 PM N1.7
Microscopic Near-field Physics of Single-molecules. Yongqiang Xue, College of nanoscale Science & Engineering, University at Albany-SUNY, Albany, New York.

4:45 PM N1.8
Electronic Transport Properties through Nanoscale Materials by First Principles Calculations. Hiroshi Mizuseki1, Rodion V. Belosludov1, Amir A. Farajian1, Olga V. Pupysheva1, Chiranjib Majumder2, Jian-Tao Wang3, Hao Chen4, Nobuaki Igarashi1, Tomoki Uehara1 and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe1; 1Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan; 2Novel Materials and Structural Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India; 3Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; 4Physics Department, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

SESSION N2: Transport in Molecular Electronics
Chair: Heiko Weber
Wednesday Morning, April 19, 2006
Room 3014 (Moscone West)


NOTE EARLY START

8:00 AM *N2.1
Single Molecule, Single Electron Transistors and Self-assembled Molecular Electronic Circuitry. Thomas Bjornholm, Nano-Science Center & Dept of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

8:30 AM *N2.2
A Statistical Approach for Electrical Transport Investigations Through Single Molecules. Emanuel Loertscher1, Heiko B. Weber2 and Heike Riel1; 1Science & Technology, IBM Research GmbH, Rueschlikon, Switzerland; 2University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.

9:00 AM *N2.3
Intrinsic Electron Conduction Mechanisms in Molecules. Mark Reed, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

9:30 AM *N2.4
Transport Mechanisms and Inelastic Tunneling in Molecular Junctions. Jeremy M. Beebe, Process Measurements Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *N2.5
The Nature of "Conduction Channels" Through Molecular Electronic Devices. Jeffrey R Reimers1, Gemma C Solomon1, Noel S Hush2, Alessio Gagliardi3,4, Alessandro Pecchia5, Thomas Frauenheim3 and Aldo Di Carlo5; 1School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; 2School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; 3Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany; 4PaSCO Graduate School, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany; 5INFM- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica, University di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.

11:00 AM *N2.6
Temperature Dependence of Conductance in Single Molecule Junctions. Joshua Hihath, Xiulan Li, Fang Chen and Nongjian Tao; Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

11:30 AM *N2.7
Simple Molecules as Benchmark Systems for Molecular Electronics. Darko Djukic and Jan M. van Ruitenbeek; Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratorium, Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands.

SESSION N3: Molecules and Monolayers
Chair: Nongjian Tao
Wednesday Afternoon, April 19, 2006
Room 3014 (Moscone West)


1:30 PM *N3.1
Designing, Measuring and Controlling Molecular- and Supramolecular-Scale Properties for Molecular Devices Paul S. Weiss, Chemistry and Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

2:00 PM *N3.2
Molecules in Electronic Circuits - from Integrated Single Molecules to SAMs in CMOS Technology. Marcel Mayor, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; FZK Karlsruhe GmbH, Institute for Nanotechnology, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.

2:30 PM *N3.3
Correlating Electronic Structure and Transport in Molecular Junctions Based on Conjugated Molecules C. Daniel Frisbie1, Xioayang Zhu2 and BongSoo Kim2; 1Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 2Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM N3.4
Vapor Phase Deposition of OPEs. Nadine Emily Gergel-Hackett1, Michael J. Cabral1, Timothy L. Pernell1, Lloyd R. Harriott1, John C. Bean1, Bo Chen2, Meng Lu2 and James M. Tour2; 1Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; 2Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

3:45 PM N3.5
Atomically-Flat Nanophotonic Antennae: Optically Resonant Gold Nanoparticle Substrates for Single-molecule Optoelectronics. Lloyd A. Bumm, Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.

4:00 PM N3.6
The Effects of Hydration on Molecular Junctions. David P. Long1, Jason L. Lazorcik1, Brent A. Mantooth1, Martin H. Moore2, Mark A. Ratner3, Alessandro Troisi4, James M. Tour5 and Ranganathan Shashidhar1; 1SAIC, Manassas, Virginia; 2NRL, Washington, DC; 3Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; 4University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; 5Rice University, Houston, Texas.

4:15 PM N3.7
Dithiocarbamates: Functional and Versatile Linkers for the Formation of Self-assembled Monolayers. Peter Morf1, Fabio Raimondi2, Heinz-Georg Nothofer3, Bernhard Schnyder2, Akio Yasuda3, Jurina M. Wessels3 and Thomas A. Jung1; 1Laboratory for micro- and nanotechnology, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland; 2Laboratory for Electrochemistry, Paul Scherrer Insitute, Villigen, Switzerland; 3Materials Science Laboratories, Sony Deutschland GmbH, Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.

4:30 PM *N3.8
Highly Functional Molecular Wires Through Rational Chemical Design. Dwight S. Seferos1, Alexander Hexamer1, Edward J Kramer1, James G. Kushmerick2 and Guillermo C. Bazan1; 1Department of Chemistry and Materials, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 2Surface and Microanalysis Science Division, NIST, Gatherberg, Maryland.

SESSION N4: Semiconductor Based Molecular Electronics
Chair: Ranganathan Shashidhar
Thursday Morning, April 20, 2006
Room 3014 (Moscone West)

8:30 AM *N4.1
Forming Molecular Monolayers and Molecular Diodes on GaAs. Julia W. P. Hsu1, Wenjie Li2, Yong Jun3, Clark Highstrete1, Carolyn M. Matzke1, Karen L. Kavanagh2, X. Y. Zhu3, A. Alec Talin4, Sergey V. Faleev4 and Francois Leonard4; 1Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Alberta, Canada; 3Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 4Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California.

9:00 AM N4.2
Hot Electron Transport in Si and GaAs Molecular Diodes. Wenjie Li1, M. Kuikka2, H.-Z. Yu2, C.M. Matzke3, J.W.P. Hsu3, C. Highstrete3, A.A. Talin4, F. Leonard4, S. Faleev4 and Karen L. Kavanagh1; 1Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; 2Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; 3Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 4Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California.

9:15 AM N4.3
A New Approach for Silicon-based Single Molecular Device Based on Dopant-Molecule Interaction. Jixin Yu, Department of Electrical Engineering and USC NanoCenter, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.

9:30 AM *N4.4
Role of Interfaces on the Direct Tunneling and the Inelastic Tunneling Behaviors in metal/alkylsilane/silicon Junctions. Dominique Vuillaume1, Dinesh K Aswal1,3, David Guerin1, Stephane Lenfant1, Christian Petit2, Guy Salace2 and Jatinder V Yakhmi3; 1IEMN-CNRS, Villeneuve d Ascq, France; 2Univ. de Reims, Reims, France; 3BARC, Mumbai, India.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *N4.5
Optoelectronic and Charge-transport Properties of Molecularly Controlled Organic-organic Semiconductor Interfaces. Ji-Seon Kim, Keng-Hoong Yim, Annamaria Petrozza, Linus Lu and Richard Friend; Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

11:00 AM *N4.6
Metal-Molecule-Semiconductor Device Structures. David B. Janes, Purdue Univ., W. Lafayette, Indiana.

11:30 AM N4.7
Electronic Structure of Si-bound Alkyl Monolayers.  Fabrice Amy, Antoine Kahn, Calvin Chan, Adi Salomon, David Cahen; Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

SESSION N5: Molecular Spectroscopies
Chair: James Kushmerick
Thursday Afternoon, April 20, 2006
Room 3014 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *N5.1
Electronic Transport through Organic Monolayer Devices Duncan Stewart, Jason J. Blackstock, Carrie L. Donley, Douglas A.A. Ohlberg, Zhiyong Li and R. Stanley Williams; Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, California.

2:00 PM N5.2
Simulating IETS: The Molecular Signature In Single Molecule Conduction. Gemma Clare Solomon1, Alessio Gagliardi2,3, Alessandro Pecchia4, Thomas Frauenheim2, Aldo Di Carlo4, Jeffrey R Reimers1 and Noel S Hush1,5; 1School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; 2Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany; 3PASCO Graduate School, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany; 4INFM- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica, Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy; 5School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

2:15 PM *N5.3
Energy-level Alignment of Self-Assembled Monolayers on Metals Roger D van Zee, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

2:45 PM N5.4
Electronic Level Alignment at Metal-molecule Interfaces from First Principles. Jeffrey B Neaton1, Mark S Hybertsen2,3 and Steven G Louie1,4; 1The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California; 2Center for Transport in Molecular Nanostructures, Columbia University, New York, New York; 3Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York; 4Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM *N5.5
Spectroscopic Probes of Electron Transport at Thiolate SAM/Au(111) Interfaces. Xiaoyang Zhu, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

4:00 PM N5.6
Measurement of Bond Strength in gold-alkanedithiol-gold junctions. zhifeng huang1,2, Bingqian Xu2 and Nongjian Tao2,1; 1SEM, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, Arizona; 2EE, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, Arizona.

4:15 PM N5.7
Chemical and Physical Structure of Buried Inorganic/Organic Interfaces From In-Situ X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Infrared Spectroscopy. Carrie L. Donley1, Jason J. Blackstock1, William F. Stickle2, Doug Ohlberg1 and Duncan R. Stewart1; 1Quantum Science Research, Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, California; 2Hewlett Packard, Corvallis, Oregon.

4:30 PM N5.8
The Electronic Structure of Diamondoids Measured with NEXAFS and Soft X-ray Emission Trevor M. Willey1, Christoph Bostedt2, J. E. Dahl3, R. M. K. Carlson3, S. G. Liu3, R. W. Meulenberg1, T. van Buuren1, L. J. Terminello1 and Thomas Moller2; 1Chemistry and Materials Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; 2Technische Universitat, Berlin, Germany; 3MolecularDiamond Technologies, ChevronTexaco, Richmond, California.

4:45 PM N5.9
Simultaneous Spectroscopic and Electronic Characterization on a Simple Molecular Electronics Test Platform. David B. Robinson, A. Alec Talin, Paul M. Dentinger and Richard J. Anderson; Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California.

SESSION N6: Poster Session: Molecular-Scale Electronics Poster Session
Chair: James Kushmerick
Thursday Evening, April 20, 2006
8:00 PM
Salons 8-15 (Marriott)


N6.1
Nanosized Paramagnetic Transition Metal Complexes with Redox Active Ligands. Lahcene Ouahab, Universite de Rennes, Rennes, France.

N6.2
Two-Dimensional Self-Assembly of 1-Pyrylphosphonic Acid: Transfer of Stacks on Structured Surface Hin-Lap Yip1, Hong Ma1, Alex K.-Y. Jen1,2, Jianchun Dong3 and Babak Parviz3; 1Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; 2Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; 3Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

N6.3
Abstract Withdrawn

N6.4
Synthesis and Characterization of Novel 2D Oligomers and Polymers for Molecular Electronics Suresh Valiyaveettil, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

N6.5
Valence Electronic Structure of Oligo(phenylene vinylene)Thiolate Self-assembled Monolayers on Gold. Laura B. Picraux1, Christopher D. Zangmeister1, Steven W. Robey1, Lawrence R. Sita2 and Roger D. van Zee1; 1Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland; 2Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

N6.6
Controlled Nanogap Manufacturing for Single Molecule Contacts by Electromigration. Arne Hoppe, Joerg Seekamp and Veit Wagner; School of Engineering and Science, International University Bremen, Bremen, Germany.

N6.7
Abstract Withdrawn

N6.8
Electrical Properties of Alkyl Monolayers on Silicon. S. J. Fishwick1, N. G. Wright1, A. Houlton2 and B. R. Horrocks2; 1School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom; 2School of Natural Sciences, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

N6.9
DNA Templated CdS Nanowires as Microelectronic Interconnects. T. A. Hollis1, S. J. Fishwick1, L. Dong2, B. A. Connolly2, A. Houlton2, B. R. Horrocks2 and N. G. Wright1; 1School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom; 2School of Natural Sciences, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

N6.10
Ab-initio Green's function method with GAUSSIAN for electrical transport through atomic and molecular wires Tomofumi Tada1,2 and Satoshi Watanabe1,2; 1Department of Materials Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; 2CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan.

SESSION N7: Bio-Electronics and Carbon Nanotubes
Chair: Heiko Weber
Friday Morning, April 21, 2006
Room 2000 (Moscone West)

8:30 AM N7.1
Engineering of Semiconductor Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces for Biosensing Applications Edward Eteshola1,5, Matthew T. Keener4,1,5, Dharma R. Tokachichu6, Benjamin R. Cipriany4, Min Gao4, Philip D. Barnes1,5, Leonard J. Brillson4, Bhushan Bharat6 and Stephen Craig Lee1,3,5; 1Biomedical Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; 2Cellular and Molecular Biochemistry, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; 3Chemical Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; 4Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; 5Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; 6Nanotribology Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

8:45 AM *N7.2
Single Molecule Conductance Determination Using the I(s) and I(t) STM Methods. Richard John Nichols, The Department of Chemistry, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom; Chemistry, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom; Chemistry, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom; Chemistry, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom; Chemistry, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom; Chemistry, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

9:15 AM N7.3
Theoretical Analysis of metallo-DNA Electrical Conductivity. Olga V. Pupysheva, Amir A. Farajian and Boris I. Yakobson; Dept. of ME&MS, and Dept. of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

9:30 AM N7.4
Oligonucleotide Based Self Assembly of Carbon Nanotubes. Cengiz Sinan Ozkan1, Xu Wang2 and Senthil Gurusamy-Thangavelu1; 1Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California; 2Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside, California.

9:45 AM N7.5
UHV-STM Characterization of Protein Functionalized SWNTs on the Si(100) surfaces Wei Ye1,3 and Joseph W Lyding2,3; 1Materials Science & Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois; 2Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinoins, Urbana, Illinois; 3Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinoins, Urbana, Illinois.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *N7.6
Electrically-Induced Infrared Emission from Carbon Nanotube Devices. Jia Chen, V. Perebeinos, M. Freitag, J. Tsang and Ph. Avouris; IBM T. J. Watson Reserach Center, Yorktown Heights, New York.

11:00 AM N7.7
Nonvolatile Carbon Nanotube Memory Device With Molecular Charge Storage Volker J. Sorger and Zhen Yao; Physics, Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology and Texas Materials Institute, University of Texas, Austin, Texas.

11:15 AM N7.8
Thermoelectric Properties of a Nanocontact. Keivan Esfarjani1, Mona Zebarjadi2 and Ali Shakouri2; 1Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran; 2Electrical Engineering, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California.

11:30 AM N7.9
Probing Optoelectronic Properties of Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes Through Field Effect Transistor Response. Jordan Poler1,2 and Harsh Chaturvedi2,1; 1Chemistry, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina; 2Center for Optoelectrics and Optical Communications, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina.

11:45 AM N7.10
A Novel Nanotube-on-Insulator (NOI) Approach toward Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Devices Xiaolei Liu, Song Han, Daihua Zhang, Koungmin Ryu and chongwu zhou; Electrical Engineering, University of Souther California, Los Angeles, California.

SESSION N8: Devices and Molecular Switching
Chair: Nongjian Tao
Friday Afternoon, April 21, 2006
Room 2000 (Moscone West)


1:30 PM N8.1
A Novel Non-destructive Interfacing Technique for Molecular Scale Switching Junctions. Chad Johns1, Ibrahim Kimukin1, M. Saif Islam1, Doug A. A. Ohlberg2, Duncan R Stewart2, Carrie Donley2, Shih-Yuan Wang2 and R. Stanley Williams2; 1Electrical Engineering, UC Davis, Davis, California; 2Quantum Science Research, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California.

1:45 PM N8.2
Self-Assembled Monolayer Sandwich Electronic Junctions Xiaojuan Fan, Dat T. Tran, Daniel P. Brennan, Tolulope O. Salami and Scott R. J. Oliver; Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California.

2:00 PM N8.3
Etched Edge of Metal/Insulator/Metal Pattern for Molecular Scale Contacts Bruce Jackson Hinds1,2, Pawan Tyagi1 and Steve M Holmes2; 1Chemical and Materials Engineering, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky; 2Chemistry, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

2:15 PM N8.4
Large-area Molecular Diodes Hylke B. Akkerman1, Paul W. M. Blom1, Dago M. de Leeuw2 and Bert de Boer1; 1Molecular Electronics, Materials Science Centre, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; 2Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

2:30 PM N8.5
Molecular-Electronic Device Fabrication Enabling Complete Chemical and Physical Characterization Jason J Blackstock, Duncan R Stewart, Zhiyong Li, Carrie Donley, Douglas Ohlberg, Pamela Long, Sehun Kim, Regina Ragan and R. Stanley Williams; Quantum Science Research, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, California.

2:45 PM BREAK

3:15 PM N8.6
A Soft Top Contact Deposition Technique for Forming Large Area Molecular Junctions. Jason D. Fabbri, Ken T. Shimizu, Jim J. Jelincic and Nicholas A. Melosh; Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

3:30 PM N8.7
Solid Electrolyte Based Switching Junctions Fabricated Using an Organic Monolayer for Nanoscale Separation Between Electrodes. Doug A. A. Ohlberg2, Duncan R Stewart2, Shih-Yuan Wang2, R. Stanley Williams2, Chad Johns1, Long Do1, Ibrahim Kimukin1 and M. Saif Islam1; 1Electrical Engineering, UC Davis, Davis, California; 2Quantum Science Research, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California.

3:45 PM N8.8
Low Temperature Transport Study of the "nitro" Molecules. Nabanita Majumdar1, Zena Martin1, Nathan Swami1, L. R. Harriott1, Y. Yao2, James M. Tour2, Dave Long3 and R. Shashidhar3; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; 2Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, Texas; 3Geo-Centers R&D Center, Arlington, Virginia.

4:00 PM N8.9
In-Situ Surface Plasmon Spectroscopy of Molecule-based Switching Devices Kentaro Shimizu, Ragip Pala, Jason Fabbri, Jim Jelincic, Mark Brongersma and Nicholas Melosh; Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

4:15 PM N8.10
Abstract Withdrawn

4:30 PM N8.11
Electrical conductivity measurements on functionalized, Mn12 acetate-based complexes, for potential use as molecular wires integrated with storage devices Prabhakar Bandaru1,2, Chinung Ni1,2, Chris Beedle3, David Hendrickson3 and Sonali Shah3; 1MAE, UC, San Diego, La Jolla, California; 2Materials Science Program, UC, San Diego, La Jolla, California; 3Department of Chemistry, UC, San Diego, La Jolla, California.

4:45 PM N8.12
Interfacial Molecular Charge Transport in Patterned Monolayer Films for OLED Applications Lucile Caroline Teague and James G. Kushmerick; Surface and Microanalysis Science Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland.



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