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Symposium EE: Applications of Nanotubes and Nanowires

Symposium EE: Applications of Nanotubes and Nanowires Image
April 9 - 13, 2007
Chairs
Wei Zhao     University of Arkansas
Pehr E. Pehrsson     Naval Research Laboratory
Stephen K. Doorn     Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jie Liu     Duke University
Phaedon Avouris     IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Symposium Support
USARL Army Research Office


* Invited paper

SESSION EE1/DD1: Joint Session: Synthesis of Nanotubes and Nanowires
Chair: Jie Liu
Monday Morning, April 9, 2007
Room 2001 (Moscone West)


NOTE EARLY START

8:00 AM EE1.1/DD1.1
Controlling Growth of Carbon Nanotubes for Devices. John Robertson, Stephan Hofmann, Mirco Cantoro and Guofang Zhong; Engineering, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

8:15 AM EE1.2/DD1.2
Combinatorial Control of Catalysts for Carbon Nanotube Growth: From Sparse Networks for Transparent Electrodes to Dense Forests for Mass Production. Suguru Noda1, Hisashi Sugime1, Kei Hasegawa1, Ryuhei Itoh1, Shingo Morokuma1, Kazunori Kakehi1, Toshio Osawa1, Shigeo Maruyama2 and Yukio Yamaguchi1; 1Department of Chemical System Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

8:30 AM EE1.3/DD1.3
Dependence of Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Length and Growth Rate upon Temperature in the Growth of CNT by Metal-catalyzed Chemical Vapor Deposition. Michael J. Bronikowski, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

8:45 AM EE1.4/DD1.4
Control of Catalyst Nanoparticles for Selective CVD Growth of Carbon Nanotubes. Yunyu Wang1, Bin Li1, Zhiquan Luo1, Li Shi2, Zhen Yao3, Eugene Bryan4, Robert J. Nemanich5 and Paul S. Ho1,2; 1Microelectronics Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; 2The Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; 3The Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; 4The Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; 5The Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

9:00 AM EE1.5/DD1.5
Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Sapphire and Quartz Substrates. Lewis Gomez1, Bo Lei2, Koungmin Ryu2, Alexander Badmaev2, Xiaolei Liu2, Steve Cronin2 and Chongwu Zhou2; 1Chemistry, USC, Los Angeles, California; 2Electrophysics, USC, Los Angeles, California.

9:15 AM EE1.6/DD1.6
Influence of Hydrogen Level During the Growth Process on the Properties of Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes. Alexandru S. Biris1,2, Alexandru R. Biris3, Dan Lupu3, Zhongrui Li2, Enkeleda Dervishi1,2 and Viney Saini1,2; 1Applied Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas; 2Nanotechnology Center, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas; 3National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Cluj Napoca, Romania.

9:30 AM EE1.7/DD1.7
High Yield Multiwall Carbon Nanotube Synthesis in Supercritical Fluids. Danielle Kristin Smith, Doh C. Lee and Brian A. Korgel; Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

9:45 AM *EE1.8/DD1.8
Synthesis and Applications of Classes of Non-carbonaceous Nanostructures. Stanislaus Wong, Department of Chemistry, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York; Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York.

10:15 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *EE1.9/DD1.9
Nanowires and Nanotubes Synthesized in Solution: Their Chemistry, Twins and Branching. Brian A. Korgel, Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

11:00 AM EE1.10/DD1.10
Alternative Catalysts For Si-Technology Compatible Growth Of Si Nanowires. Francesca Iacopi1, Philippe M Vereecken1, Nele Moelans2, Bart Blanpain2 and Hefin Griffiths3; 1IMEC, Leuven, Belgium; 2MTM, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 3Oxford Instruments, Bristol, United Kingdom.

11:15 AM EE1.11/DD1.11
Plasma-stimulated Control of Silicon Nanowire Nucleation, Orientation and Growth Kinetics. Pavan Reddy K Aella1,4, W. T. Petuskey1,4 and S. T. Picraux2,3,4; 1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; 2Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; 3Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico; 4Science and Engineering of Materials Graduate Program, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

11:30 AM EE1.12/DD1.12
Quantitative Determination of the Nucleation Kinetics of Si Nanowires Grown on Si3N4 Substrates by the VLS Mechanism. Bong-Joong Kim1, Suneel Kodambaka2, Mark Reuter2, Kathy Reuter2, Eric Stach1 and Frances Ross2; 1Eric Stach, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; 2IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York.

11:45 AM EE1.13/DD1.13
Self-assembled Tm Silicide Nanowires on Si(001) Studied by STM and TEM. Jiaming Zhang1, M. A. Crimp1, Yan Cui2 and J. Nogami2; 1Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East lansing, Michigan; 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

SESSION EE2/DD3: Joint Session: Synthesis of Nanotubes and Nanowires II
Chair: Jie Liu
Monday Afternoon, April 9, 2007
Room 2001 (Moscone West)


1:30 PM EE2.1/DD3.1
Growth of SiC Nanowires in Different Directions on Sapphire Substrates Qingkai Yu1, Shin-Shem Pei1, Jian Shi2 and Hao Li2; 1Univ of Houston, Houston, Texas; 2University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.

1:45 PM EE2.2/DD3.2
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Germanium Nanowire Nucleation and Growth Hemant Adhikari1, Paul C McIntyre1, Christopher E.D. Chidsey2 and Ann F Marshall3; 1Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California; 2Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California; 3Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

2:00 PM EE2.3/DD3.3
Vapor-liquid-solid Growth of Ge Nanowires at Temperatures Below the Eutectic Temperature. Suneel Kodambaka1,2, Jerry Tersoff1, Kathleen B Reuter1 and Frances M Ross1; 1Physical Sciences, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York; 2Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California.

2:15 PM EE2.4/DD3.4
Growth of Boron Nanowires by Chemical Vapor Deposition Li Guo and Raj N. Singh; Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.

2:30 PM EE2.5/DD3.5
Plasmon-assisted Local Growth of Individual Semiconductor Nanowires Linyou Cao1,2, David N Barsic1,2, Alex R Guichard1,2 and Mark L. Brongersma1,2; 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California; 2Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

2:45 PM EE2.6/DD3.6
Growth Direction Control in Zinc Oxide Nanowires Husnu Emrah Unalan, Pritesh Hiralal, Yang Yang, Tim Butler, Nalin Rupesinghe, Ken Teo and Gehan Amaratunga; Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Dept., University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:15 PM EE2.7/DD3.7
Synthesis and Photoluminescence Properties of Ultrathin Alumina-coated ZnO Nanotubes Grown on Si Wafer. Chi-Sheng Hsiao, San-Yuan Chen and Wan-Lin Kuo; Department of materials science and engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

3:30 PM EE2.8/DD3.8
Formation and Applications of Biphasic GaN Nanowires as a Function of Growth Parameters. Kaylee McElroy1, Benjamin W. Jacobs1, Andrew D. Baczewski1, Virginia M. Ayres1, Joshua B. Halpern2, Mao Q. He2, Mihail P. Petkov3, Martin A. Crimp1 and Harry C. Shaw4; 1College of Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; 2Department of Chemistry, Howard University, Washington D. C., District of Columbia; 3NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California; 4NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.

3:45 PM EE2.9/DD3.9
Single-Crystalline Nanotubes of II3-V2 Semiconductors. Guozhen Shen, Yoshio Bando and Dmitri Golberg; Nanoscale Materials Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan.

4:00 PM EE2.10/DD3.10
PLD Synthesis of Aligned Fe3O4 and ε-Fe2O3 Nanowires and Nanobelts. Jenny Ruth Morber1, Yong Ding1, Michael Stephan Haluska1, Yang Li2, J. Ping Liu2, Zhong Lin Wang1 and Robert Snyder1; 1Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; 2Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas.

4:15 PM EE2.11/DD3.11
Pulsed-Potential Regimes for the Electrodeposition of Bismuth Telluride Nanowires in Porous Alumina. Lynn Trahey1, Catherine R. Becker1, Jeff Sharp2 and Angelica M. Stacy1; 1Chemistry, University of CA, Berkeley, Berkeley, California; 2Marlow Industries, Inc., a Subsidiary of II-VI Incorporated, Dallas, Texas.

4:30 PM EE2.12/DD3.12
Microwave-assisted Rapid Synthesis of Silver Nanowires. Linfeng Gou and Jeffery M. Zaleski; Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

4:45 PM EE2.13/DD3.13
Multicolor Nanolasers from Individual Multi-quantum Well Nanowire Heterostructures. Fang Qian1, Yat Li1, Silvija Gradecak1, Hong-Gyu Park1, Yong Ding2, Zhong Lin Wang2 and Charles M. Lieber1; 1Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 2School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

SESSION EE3: Functionalization, Charge Transfer and Redox of Nanotubes and Nanowires
Chairs: Wei Zhao and Stephen Doorn 
Tuesday Morning, April 10, 2007
Room 2016 (Moscone West)


NOTE EARLY START

8:00 AM *EE3.1
Chemistry and Applications of Carbon Nanostructures Robert C. Haddon, University of California, Riverside, California.

8:30 AM EE3.2
A Study of Nanotubes Dispersion Mechanism by Gold-Labeled Protein Molecules Oren Regev and Pola Goldberg; Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

8:45 AM *EE3.3
Chirality-Resolved Separation and Chemistry of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes. Ming Zheng, DuPont Central Research and Devleopment, Wilmington, Delaware.

9:15 AM EE3.4
Chirality Dependent Aggregation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Sandip Niyogi, Sofiane Boukhalfa, Satishkumar B Chikkannanavar and Stephen K Doorn; C-CSE, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

9:30 AM *EE3.5
Surfactant-templated Assembly of Carbon Nanotube in Multi-functional Nanoconjugates. Dan Wang1, Ru Zhang2, Maureen Heines1 and Liwei Chen1; 1Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio; 2Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:15 AM *EE3.6
Separation and (n,m)-Abundance Evaluation of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.

10:45 AM EE3.7
Using DNA's Molecular Biology Tools for Carbon Nanotube Purification and Assembly Jennifer Cha1, Christine Micheel1, Bob Shelby1, Donald Bethune1 and Marcus Freitag2; 1IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California; 2IBM T.J. Watson, Yorktown Heights, New York.

11:00 AM *EE3.8
Controlling the Properties of Carbon Nanotubes Through Noncovalent Functionalization with Designed Peptide Systems. Gregg R. Dieckmann1,2, Eric J. Becraft1, Ray H. Baughman1,2, Alan B. Dalton3, Rockford K. Draper1,2,4, Inga H. Musselman1,2 and Paul Pantano1,2; 1Chemistry Department, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas; 2The NanoTech Institute, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas; 3Department of Physics, The University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom; 4Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas.

11:30 AM EE3.9
Ion Exclusion in the Surface-modified Carbon Nanotube Membranes. Hyung Gyu Park1,2, Jason K Holt2, Greg Klunder2, Costas P. Grigoropoulos1, Aleksandr Noy2 and Olgica Bakajin2; 1Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California; 2Chemistry, Materials and Life Sciences, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California.

11:45 AM EE3.10
Patterned Growth of Organic Semiconducting Single Crystals on Carbon Nanotube Templates. Shuhong Liu, Alejandro L. Briseno, Stefan C.B. Mannsfeld, Wei You, Jason Locklin and Zhenan Bao; Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

SESSION EE4: Spectroscopic Properties and Medical and Clinical Applications of Nanotubes and Nanowires
Chairs: Stephen Doorn, Wei Zhao and Phaedon Avouris 
Tuesday Afternoon, April 10, 2007
Room 2016 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *EE4.1
On-Wire Lithography Chad A. Mirkin and Matthew Banholzer, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

2:00 PM EE4.2
The Structure and Transport of Water and Hydrated Ions Within Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes. Jason Knowles Holt1, Jason Giuliani1, Julie Herberg1, Samuel Webb2 and Apurva Mehta2; 1Chemistry Materials and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; 2Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Menlo Park, California.

2:15 PM *EE4.3
Near-infrared Fluorescence Studies of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes R. Bruce Weisman, Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

2:45 PM EE4.4
Direct Measurement of the Fluorescence Quantum Yield for Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Todd D Krauss and Lisa Carlson; Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:15 PM *EE4.5
Nanorod and Nanowire Optical Properties. Alexander Efros, Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia.

3:45 PM EE4.6
The Temperature Dependence of Excitonic Decay in Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes. Michael J Heben1, Wyatt K Metzger1, Timothy J. McDonald1,2, Chaiwat Engtrakul1, Jeffrey L Blackburn1, Gregory D Scholes3 and Garry Rumbles1; 1Basic Science, National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, Colorado; 2Department of Applied Physics, National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, Colorado; 3Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control, and Institute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

4:00 PM *EE4.7
Hollow Gold Nanoshells and Nanotubes: Interesting Optical Properties and SERS applications Jin Z Zhang1, Adam Schwartzberg1,2, Tammy Olson1,2 and Chad Talley2; 1Chemistry, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California; 2LLNL, Livermore, California.

4:30 PM EE4.8
Absolute potential of the Fermi level of single-walled carbon nanotubes via hydrogenase charge-transfer complex formation Timothy J. McDonald1,2, Drazenka Svedruzic1, Jeffrey Blackburn1, Paul King1 and Michael Heben1; 1Basic Science, National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, Colorado; 2Department of Applied Physics, Columbia Unviersity, New York, New York.

4:45 PM EE4.9
Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Scaffolds Promote Stem Cell Differentiation into Bone Forming Cells. Xiaomin Tu1, Charles M Skinner2, Xiao-Dong Chen2 and Wei Zhao1; 1Department of Chemistry, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas; 2Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Center for Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Little Rock, Arkansas.

SESSION EE5: Poster Session: Synthesis
Chairs: Wei Zhao, Pehr Pehrsson, Stephen Doorn, Jie Liu and Phaedon Avouris
Tuesday Evening, April 10, 2007
8:00 PM
Salon Level (Marriott)

EE5.1
Growth of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes Investigated by In-situ Mass Spectroscopy. SeongMin Kim1, Kenneth B.K. Teo1, Aun Shih Teh1, Yan Zhang1, Martin Bell1, Mark Mann1, Bill Milne1 and Seungbek Lee2; 1Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2Division of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea.

EE5.2
Synthesis of Controllably Grown Carbon Nanotubes Interconnects. Seon Woo Lee1, David Katz1, Haim Grebel1, Avi Kornblit2 and Daniel Lopez2; 1Electrical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey; 2New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium (NJNC), Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey.

EE5.3
Synthesis of Magnetic Coating on Carbon-Based Nanopaper Sheets by Electrochemical Deposition. Jan Gou1, Roy Blanco1, Hao Xing2, Li Sun2, Gangbing Song2, Shih-Hsin Chang3 and Yaowu Hao3; 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama; 2Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas; 3Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas.

EE5.4
Fabrication and Characterization of Carbon Nanotube Tip Modified by Focused Ion Beam. Young-Hyun Shin, Yeo-Hwan Yoon, Eung-Sug Lee and Chang-Soo Han; Nano-Mechanical Systems Research Center, Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials, Daejeon, South Korea.

EE5.5
Controlled Growth of Single-walled and Double-walled Carbon Nanotubes using Catalytic Vapor Phase Growth Method. SeungChul Lyu, WanSik Hong, Kyungwan Park and Junghyun Sok; nanotechnology, University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea.

EE5.6
Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes from Ethanol Using Fe, Co, and Ni Catalysts. Kazunori Kakehi1, Suguru Noda1, Shigeo Maruyama2 and Yukio Yamaguchi1; 1Department of Chemical System Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

EE5.7
Understanding the Role of Metal Catalysts in the Nucleation of Carbon Nanotubes. Santiago Esconjauregui1,2, Caroline M. Whelan1, Philippe Vereecken1, Guido Groeseneken1,2 and Karen Maex1,2; 1IMEC, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium; 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium.

EE5.8
QCM Platforms for Carbon Nanotube Inspection. Stephanie A Hooker1, Ryan Schilt2,1 and Aparna Kar3,1; 1Materials Reliability, NIST, Boulder, Colorado; 2University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado; 3Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

EE5.9
Abstract Withdrawn

EE5.10
Direct Growth of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes on Sharp Tips for Electron Microscopy Mark Mann, Ken Teo and Bill Milne; Engineering, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

EE5.11
Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotube Synthesis, Characterization, and Utilization. Roberta DiLeo, Brian Landi, Seth Hubbard and Ryne Raffaelle; Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York.

EE5.12
Investigation on Site Density of Carbon Nanotube Forests Zhengchun Liu1, Sang-Hwui Lee1, Navdeep Bajwa2, Lijie Ci2, Swastik Kar2, Pulickel Ajayan2 and James Jian-Qiang Lu1; 1Center for Integrated Electronics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

EE5.13
Abstract Withdrawn

EE5.14
Combined Experimental and Theoretical Investigation on Synthesis of Massively Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Koungmin Ryu, Alexander Badmaev, Xiaolei Liu, Bo Lei, Lewis Gomez-De Arco and Chongwu Zhou; Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

EE5.15
Growth of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Films with Self-Assembled Conical Tips by Control of Catalyst Preparation Mineo Hiramatsu1 and Masaru Hori2; 1Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan; 2Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.

EE5.16
Abstract Withdrawn

EE5.17
Single-walled Nanotube / Silica Composites through High-pressure Techniques. Monica Jung de Andrade1,2, Márcio Dias Lima1,2, Carlos Pérez Bergmann2, Naira Balzaretti3, Tania Costa4 and Márcia Gallas3; 1Von Klitzing, Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany; 2Materials Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil; 3Institute of Physics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil; 4Institute of Chemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

EE5.18
Electric Field Assisted Synthesis of Nanostructured metallic Architecture over Carbon Nanotubes Sundara Ramaprabhu and M. Krishnakumar; Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.

EE5.19
Low Temperature Growth and Application of Zinc Oxide Nanowires using Zinc Oxide Seeds. Lee Sunyoung, Hey Jin Myoung, Sunglyul Maeng and Sang Hyeob Kim; ETRI, Daejeon, South Korea.

EE5.20
Doping of Al-catalyzed Vapor-liquid-solid Grown Si Nnanowires. Sung Jin Whang1, Sung Joo Lee1, Wei Feng Yang1, Hai Chen Zhu1, Han Lu Gu1, Byung Jin Cho1 and Yun Fook Liew2,1; 1ECE, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; 2Data Storage Institute, Singapore, Singapore.

EE5.21
Heterogeneous Catalysis of GaN Nanowires: Growth, Structure and Chemistry using In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Mitra L. Taheri1, Blake Simpkins2 and Nigel D Browning1; 1Chemistry, Materials and Life Sciences, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; 2Surface Chemistry Division, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia.

EE5.22
Sonoelectrochemical Synthesis of Crystalline Semiconducting Copper Sulfide Nanorods. Krishna Veer Singh1, Mihri Ozkan2, Alfredo Martinez2, Senthil Andavan Gt2 and Krassimir N. Bozhilov3; 1Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside, Riverside, California; 2Electrical Engineering, UC Riverside, Riverside, California; 3Earth Sciences, UC Riverside, Riverside, California.

EE5.23
In situ Gas Phase Nanoparticle Seed - Nanowire Integration. Chad R. Barry, Jesse J. Cole and Heiko O. Jacobs; Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

EE5.24
Growth of Cadmium Telluride Nanowires via Electrodeposition on Gold in AAO Templates. Subarna Banerjee1, Matthew L. Taylor1, Glenn P. Sklar2, Matthew N. Savage1 and Jeffrey C. LaCombe1; 1Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada; 2Xtalic Corporation, Medford, Massachusetts.

EE5.25
Controlled Growth of ZnO/TiO2 Nanocables by Using Atomic Layer Deposition Jae Kwon Hwang and Myung Mo Sung; Chemistry, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea.

EE5.26
Hierarchical Heterostructures based on 1-D Semiconductor Nanostructures. Guozhen Shen, Yoshio Bando and Dmitri Golberg; Nanoscale Materials Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan.

EE5.27
Ultralong Aligned ZnS/SiO2 Core-Shell Nanowires. Daniel Moore, Jenny Ruth Morber, Robert L. Snyder and Zhong Lin Wang; Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

EE5.28
Nanostructured Boron Nitride Films by Chemical Vapor Deposition with Catalyst Fe2O3 and NiO. Jose Eneider Nocua, Olga Lucia Medina and Gerardo Morell; Departmet of physic, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

EE5.29
Synthesis of Boron Nitride Nanotubes (BNNTs) from a Single Source Precursor on a Metal Deposited Porous Alumina Ching-Wen Hsieh1, Susanta Kumar Mohapatra2, Indu B Mishra3 and Mano Misra4; 1Chem/Met Engr., University of Nevada Reno, Reno, Nevada; 2Chem/Met Engr., University of Nevada Reno, Reno, Nevada; 3Chem/Met Engr., University of Nevada Reno, Reno, Nevada; 4Chem/Met. Engr., University of Nevada Reno, Reno, Nevada.

EE5.30
Si Whisker Growth by Hydrogen Radical using Hot Filament CVD Reactor Hiroshi Nagayoshi1, Nobuo Matsumoto2, Suzuka Nishimura2 and Kazutaka Terashima2; 1Tokyo National College of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; 2Shonan Institute of Technology, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan.

EE5.31
Isotopic Boron 10 Nitride Nanotubes as Radiation Shielding Materials. Ying Chen1, Jun Yu1, Robert Elliman1 and Dehong Yu2; 1Electronic Materials Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; 2Bragg Institute, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Lucas Height, New South Wales, Australia.

EE5.32
Several Forms of GaN Nanowires Grown by Ni Catalyst and their Growth Mechanism. Gary Lynn Harris1, M. He1, J. Halpern1, J. W Mitchell1 and R. D Vispute2; 1HNF, Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia; 2Bluewave Semiconductor, Columbia, Maryland.

EE5.33
Patterned Metal Nanowire from Nanolithographically Modified Templates and Microwave Filters Feng Li1, Minghui Yu2, Mo Zhu2, Weilie Zhou2, Leonard Spinu2 and John B. Wiley1; 1Department of Chemistry and Advanced Materials Research Institute, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana; 2Advanced Materials Institute, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana.

EE5.34
Carbon Nanotubes From Charcoal By High Energy Planetary Ball Milling Using Novel Hydride Catalysts. Sundara Ramaprabhu, M. Krishnakumar and Vimal Thomas; IITM, Chennai, India.

SESSION EE6: Poster Session: Nanotubes and Nanowires: Functionalization, Charge Transfer, and Redox
Chairs: Wei Zhao, Pehr Pehrsson, Stephen Doorn, Jie Liu and Phaedon Avouris
Tuesday Evening, April 10, 2007
8:00 PM
Salon Level (Marriott)

EE6.1
Germanium Nanowires: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications. Tong Wang, Lauren Klein and Eric Garfunkel; Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.

EE6.2
Systematic Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes Functionalized by CF4 Plasma Fluorination by Means of Transmission Electron Microscopy. Kaoru Shoda and Seiji Takeda; Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-16 Machikane-yama, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan.

EE6.3
Microscopic and Spectroscopic Study of Interactions Between Amphiphilic Peptides and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Vasiliki Zorbas Poenitzsch1, Hui Xie2, Alan B Dalton3, Gregg Dieckmann1,2 and Inga Holl Musselman1,2; 1Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas; 2NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas; 3Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom.

EE6.4
Grafting BN Nanotubes with Polymers and Carbon. Chunyi Zhi1, Tang ChengChun1, Bando Yoshio1, Golberg Dmitri1 and H. Kuwahara2; 1National Institute for Materials Science,, Tsukuba, Japan; 2Innovation Research Institute,Teijin Ltd., Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, Japan.

EE6.5
Dispersion of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes in Water with a Polyphosphazene Polyelectrolyte and Preparation of a Carbon Nanotube/polymer Nanocomposite Thin Film. Hye Jin Park1, Hye Young Heo1, Seung Cheol Lee1, Min Park2, Sang-Soo Lee2, Junkyung Kim2 and Ji Young Chang1; 1School of materials science and engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; 2Polymer Hybrids Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea.

EE6.6
Abstract Withdrawn

EE6.7
Abstract Withdrawn

EE6.8
Design of Chemical Structure of a Dispersant for Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Organic Solvent Jin-Hyon Lee1, In-Sung Cha1, Ki Kang Kim2, Seon-Mi Yoon3, Jae-Young Choi3, Jeonghee Lee3, Kay Hyeok An2, Young Hee Lee2 and Ungyu Paik1; 1Division of Advanced Materials Science Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea; 2Carbon Nanotube Research Laboratory, Department of Physics, Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured Composites, Sungkyunkwan Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea; 3Display Device & Material Lab., AE Center, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Suwon, South Korea.

EE6.9
Relation of the Number of Cross-links and Mechanical Properties of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Films Formed by a Dehydration Condensation Reaction Yoshinori Sato1, Shin-ichi Ogino1, Go Yamamoto2,3, Kenichiro Sasamori4, Hisamichi Kimura4, Toshiyuki Hashida3, Kenichi Motomiya1, Jeyadevan Balachandran1 and Kazuyuki Tohji1; 1Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; 2Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; 3Fracture and Reliability Research Institute, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; 4Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

EE6.10
Organic Functionalization of Water Soluble Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Seonghwa Ju, Yeong-ri Jung and Sung-Jin Kim; Nanoscience, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea.

EE6.11
Abstract Withdrawn

EE6.12
Silica Nanotubes for Enzyme Immobilization Sonal Padalkar1 and Lia Stanciu1,2; 1School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

EE6.13
Behavior of Different Assemblies of Carbon Nanotube in Chitosan and DNA Solutions with Porphyrins. Hao Jiang, Weijie Su and Augustine Urbas; MLPJ, AFRL, WPafb, Ohio.

EE6.14
Functionalized DNA for Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Patterning Christine M. Micheel, Luisa Bozano and Jennifer Cha; IBM, San Jose, California.

SESSION EE7: Poster Session: Nanotubes and Nanowires; Spectroscopic Properties and Medical and Clinical Applications
Chairs: Wei Zhao, Pehr Pehrsson, Stephen Doorn, Jie Liu and Phaedon Avouris
Tuesday Evening, April 10, 2007
8:00 PM
Salon Level (Marriott)

EE7.1
Evaluation of Nanotubes Concentration in Solution via UV - Visible SpectroscopySpectroscopy. Oren Regev, Rajagopalan Thiruvengadathan and Attal Shay; Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

EE7.2
Single Particle SERS Investigations of Individual Carbon Nanotubes. Matteo Scolari1, Tilman Assmus2, Fu Nan1, Anton Myalitsin1, Marko Burghard2 and Alf Mews1; 1University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany; 2Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany.

EE7.3
Possible Role Of Defects In The Visible Photoluminescence From Single Walled And Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes. Pravat Kr. Giri1,2 and Dilip Kr Singh2; 1Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India; 2Centre for Nanotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India.

EE7.4
Abstract Withdrawn

EE7.5
Assembly and Optical Properties of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Functionalized with Streptavidin-Coated Gold Nanoparticles Samuel B Penwell1, Kevin M Metz1, John C Wright1, Robert J Hamers1 and Wei Zhao2; 1Chemistry Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; 2Chemistry Department, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas.

EE7.6
Abstract Withdrawn

SESSION EE8: Electrical Properties and Electronics of Nanotubes and Nanowires I
Chair: Lincoln Lauhon
Wednesday Morning, April 11, 2007
Room 2016 (Moscone West)


NOTE EARLY START

8:00 AM *EE8.1
Challenges in Carbon Nanotube Electronics. Moonsub Shim, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.

8:30 AM EE8.2
Abstract Withdrawn

8:45 AM EE8.3
Prediction of Five-fold Increase in Current Gain of Optimally Aligned CNT Network over Random Networks Ninad Pimparkar1, Coskun Kocabas2, Seong Jun Kang3, John Rogers2,3,4 and Muhammad Alam1; 1School of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; 2Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois; 3Materials and Science Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois; 4Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.

9:00 AM EE8.4
Effects of High Energy Proton Irradiation on Electrical Properties of One-Dimensional Nanostructure Field Effect Transistors Woong-Ki Hong1, Tae-Wook Kim1, Gunho Jo1, Sunghoon Song1, Soon-seen Kwon1, Kurt E. Geckeler1, Kwanwoo Shin2 and Takhee Lee1; 1GIST, Gwangju, South Korea; 2Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea.

9:15 AM EE8.5
Excitons and Biexcitons in Carbon Nanotube Devices. Thomas Garm Pedersen, Dept. of Physics and Nanotechnology, Aalborg University, Aalborg East, Denmark.

9:30 AM EE8.6
Upscaling Dielectrophoretic Nanotube Separation and Probing Dielectrophoretic Force Fields. Sabine Blatt1, Christoph Wolfgang Marquardt1, Ines Klugius1, Aravind Vijayaraghavan1 and Ralph Krupke1,2; 1Institut für Nanotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; 2Physikalisches Institut, Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany.

9:45 AM BREAK

10:00 AM EE8.7
Scaffolding Carbon Nanotubes into Single-Molecule Circuitry Philip G. Collins1, Brett R. Goldsmith1, Vaikunth R. Khalap1, John G. Coroneus2, Alex Kane1 and Gregory A. Weiss3; 1Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, California; 2Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, California; 3Chemistry, Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, California.

10:15 AM EE8.8
High Performance Electronics Based on Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays. Coskun Kocabas1, Seong Jun Kang2 and John A Rogers2; 1Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; 2Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

10:30 AM EE8.9
Aligned Carbon Nanotubes Composites.  Shamim M Mirza and Haim Grebel; Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey.

10:45 AM EE8.10
Correlating Nanostructure with Electrical Transport Characteristics in Carbon Nanotube Y-junctions for Novel Electronics. Jeongwon Park1, Chiara Daraio3, Sungho Jin1, Apparao Rao2 and Prabhakar Bandaru1; 1Materials Science program, UC, San Diego, La Jolla, California; 2Department of Physics, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina; 3Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

11:00 AM EE8.11
Use of Multisegmented 1-Dimensional Hybrid Structures of Carbon Nanotube and Metal Nanowires for High Performance Battery and Supercapacitor Applications. Fung Suong Ou, Manikoth M Shaijumon and Pulickel M. Ajayan; Department of Material Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

11:15 AM EE8.12
Nanoelectromechanical Structures Suspended by Carbon Nanotube Networks. Seung Sae Hong1,2, Jung Hoon Bak1,2, Byung Yang Lee2, Sung Woon Cho1,2, Young Duck Kim1,2, Seunghun Hong2 and Yun Daniel Park1,2; 1CSCMR, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.

11:30 AM EE8.13
Carbon Nanotube-Based Electrically Conductive and Optically Transparent Thin Films Zhongrui Li2, Enkeleda Dervishi1,2, Viney Saini1,2, Alexandru R. Biris3, Dan Lupu3 and Alexandru S. Biris1,2; 1Applied Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas; 2Nanotechnology Center, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas; 3National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Cluj Napoca, Romania.

11:45 AM *EE8.14
Self Assembled Carbon Nanotubes and Electronic Functionality. Cengiz Sinan Ozkan, Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California.

SESSION EE9: Electrical Properties and Electronics of Nanotubes and Nanowires II
Chair: Phaedon Avouris
Wednesday Afternoon, April 11, 2007
Room 2016 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *EE9.1
Electro-thermal Light Emission in Individual Metallic Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes. David A. Mann, Yuichiro K Kato, Eric Pop and Hongjie Dai; Stanford University, Stanford, California.

2:00 PM *EE9.2
Super Growth: Mass Production of Catalyst-Free SWNTs, DWNT forests for FEDs, SWNT Solids for Super-Capacitors. Kenji Hata, esearch Center for Advanced Carbon Materials, AIST, Japan, Tsukuba, Japan.

2:30 PM EE9.3
Position Controlled Growth of Aligned Nanotubes for Transistor Applications Bo Lei1, Koungmin Ryu1, Alexander Badmaev1, Lewis Gomez De-Arco1, Xiaolei Liu1, Song Han2, Kang L. Wang2 and Chongwu Zhou1; 1EE. Electrophysics, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; 2EE, UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

2:45 PM EE9.4
Novel Low Temperature Contact Transfer Methodology for Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Bundle Applications. Ashavani Kumar2, Rajashree Baskaran1, Alejandra Camacho1 and Pulikel M Ajayan2; 1Components Research, Intel Corp, Chandler, Arizona; 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

3:00 PM EE9.5
Heterogeneously Integrated, Three Dimensional Electronics by Use of Printed Semiconductor Nanomaterials. Jong-Hyun Ahn1,2,3, Hoon-Sik Kim5, Keon Jae Lee1,3, Seokwoo Jeon1,2,3, Seong Jun Kang1,2,3, Yugang Sun1,2,3, Ralph G Nuzzo1,3,4 and John A Rogers1,3,4; 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; 2Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; 3Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; 4Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; 5Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

3:15 PM BREAK

3:30 PM *EE9.6
Piezoelectric Nanogenerators for Self-powered Nanosystems. Zhong L. Wang, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

4:00 PM EE9.7
Abstract Withdrawn

4:15 PM EE9.8
Scaling Effects of Channel Length in In2O3 Nanowire Field Effect Transistors Studied by Conducting Atomic Force Microscopy. Gunho Jo, Jongsun Maeng, Tae-Wook Kim, Woong-Ki Hong, Minseok Jo, Hyunsang Hwang and Takhee Lee; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, South Korea.

4:30 PM EE9.9
Nanowire MOSFET with Doped Epitaxial Contacts for Source and Drain. G. M. Cohen, M. J. Rooks, J. O. Chu, P. M. Solomon, S. E. Laux, J. A. Ott, R. J. Miller and W. Haensch; IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York.

4:45 PM EE9.10
Integrated Complementary Nanowire Logic Gates towards Power Efficient Circuitries Dunwei Wang and James R. Heath; Caltech, Pasadena, California.

SESSION EE10: Poster Session: Electrical Properties and Electronics of Nanotubes and Nanowires
Chairs: Wei Zhao, Pehr Pehrsson, Stephen Doorn, Jie Liu and Phaedon Avouris
Wednesday Evening, April 11, 2007
8:00 PM
Salon Level (Marriott)

EE10.1
Nano-Silicon Thermoelectrics. Akram Boukai, Yuri Bunimovich and James R Heath; Chemistry, Caltech, Pasadena, California.

EE10.2
Abstract Withdrawn

EE10.3
Ultra-thick Freestanding Aligned Carbon Nanotube Films by a Self-releasing Technique. Lijie Ci, Shaijumon M. Manikoth Manikoth, Xuesong Li, Robert Vajtai and Pulickel M. Ajayan; Department of Material Science and Engineering, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

EE10.4
Abstract Withdrawn

EE10.5
Abstract Withdrawn

EE10.6
Self Assembly of TiO2 Nanowires on Devices by Dielectrophoresis. Steven Kuo1,2, Geetha R. Dholakia1 and E. L. Allen2; 1Center for Advanced Aerospace Materials and Devices, ELORET\NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California; 2Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose, California.

EE10.7
High-Current Reliability of Carbon Nanofibers for Interconnect Applications. Makoto Suzuki1, Hirohiko Kitsuki1, Quoc Ngo1,2, Alan M. Cassell2, Christopher Moylan2, Yusuke Ominami1, Jun Li2 and Cary Y. Yang1; 1Center for Nanostructures, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California; 2NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

EE10.8
Gate Effects in a Field Effect Transistor based on an Individual Single-crystalline Bi Nanowire Seunghyun Lee, Wooyoung Shim, Jinhee Ham, Kyoungil Lee and Wooyoung Lee; Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Shinchon, Seoul, South Korea.

EE10.9
Abstract Withdrawn

EE10.10
Bromine doped, High Performance Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin Film Transistors. Husnu Emrah Unalan1, Giovanni Fanchini2 and Manish Chhowalla2; 1Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Dept., University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.

EE10.11
Characterization of Bending Eigenmodes of Carbon Nanotube Resonator Devices. Daniel Garcia-Sanchez2, Alvaro San Paulo1, Maria Jose Esplandiu2, Francesc Perez-Murano1, Albert Aguasca3 and Adrian Bachtold2; 1Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, Bellaterra, Spain; 2Institut Catala de Nanotecnologia, Bellaterra, Spain; 3Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

EE10.12
Resistance Switching in Ionic Nanowires. David Schoen, Chong Xie and Yi Cui; Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

EE10.13
Towards Understanding of the Interplay between Surface Processes and Electron Transport in quasi-1D Metal Oxides Andrei Kolmakov, Physics, SIUC, Carbondale, Illinois.

EE10.14
Thermomechanically Compliant Metal/Carbon Nanotube/Thermoelectric Contacts Himanshu Mishra1,4, Kalapi G. Biswas2,4, Timothy S. Fisher1,4 and Timothy D. Sands2,3,4; 1Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; 2Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; 3Electrical & Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; 4Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

EE10.15
The Carbon Nanotube Enhanced Tunneling Diode Via In Situ Highly Controlled Electric Field Induced Surface Functionalization Alexander Austin1,2, Christian Estonilo1, Quoc Ngo1,2, Cattien Nguyen2 and Shoba Krishnan1; 1Electrical Engineering, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California; 2ELORET Corporation/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, California.

EE10.16
Abstract Withdrawn

EE10.17
Modeling and Simulation of n-Type Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors Using Ca as Contact Electrodes. Aurangzeb Khan1, Syed Shah Abdul Qader Quadri1 and Jihua Gou2; 1Electrical and computer engineering, University Of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama; 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama.

EE10.18
Transport Properties of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes with Defects. Yong Sun Kim, Youngmu Oh and Ji-Yong Park; Division of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea.

EE10.19
Electrical Characterization and Manipulation of ZnO Nanorods with Atomic Force Microscopy. Youngmu Oh, Yong Sun Kim and Ji-Yong Park; Division of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea.

EE10.20
Abstract Withdrawn

EE10.21
Electrothermal Contact Characterization of Metal-carbon Nanofiber Junctions for Interconnect Applications. Quoc Ngo1,2, Toshishige Yamada2,1, Alan M. Cassell2, Jun Li2 and Cary Y. Yang1; 1Center for Nanostructures, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California; 2Center for Advanced Aerospace Materials and Devices, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

EE10.22
Electrodeposition of Bismuth Telluride Nanowires for Thermoelectric Applications. Qi Laura Ye1, Raymond Scheffler1,2 and Melanie McNeil2; 1Center for Advanced Aerospace Materials and Devices, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California; 2Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose, California.

EE10.23
Synthesis and Atomic Force Microscopy studies on Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) Nanowires Thulasidharan Gandhi, Krishnan S Raja and Manoranjan Misra; Material Science and Metallurgical, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada.

EE10.24
Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Polymer-CNT Composites at Cryogenic Temperature. Justin Schwartz, Anita Oliver, Abdallah Mbaruku and Quang Van Le; NHMFL, FSU, Tallahassee, Florida.

EE10.25
Size and Composition Dependent Memory Switching Behavior in Sub-Lithographic Ge-Sb-Te Phase-Transition Nanowires. Yeonwoong Jung, Se-Ho Lee, Dong-Kyun Ko and Ritesh Agarwal; Materials Science & Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

EE10.26
Assembly of Si and Si-Ge Core-Shell Nanowire Devices by Holographic Optical Tweezers Yohai Roichman1, Jessica L. Lensch2, Lincoln J. Lauhon2 and David G. Grier1; 1Physics Department, New-York University, New-York, New York; 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

EE10.27
Carbon Nanotube-Titania Hybrid Nanostructures. Shaijumon M Manikoth, Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

EE10.28
Field-, Diameter-, and Surface State- Dependent Transport Behavior in Semiconductor Nanowires Shadi Ahmad Dayeh, Paul K. L. Yu, Edward T. Yu and Deli Wang; Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California.

SESSION EE11: Electrical Properties and Electronics of Nanotubes and Nanowires III
Chairs: Pehr Pehrsson and Jie Liu
Thursday Morning, April 12, 2007
Room 2016 (Moscone West)


NOTE EARLY START

8:00 AM *EE11.1
Scanning Probe Studies of Minority Carrier Transport in Semiconductor Nanowire Devices. Lincoln J Lauhon, Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Research Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

8:30 AM *EE11.2
Efficient Silicon Nanowire Thermoelectrics. James Heath, Akram Boukai and Yuri L. Bunimovich; Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

9:00 AM EE11.3
High Performance Circuits Based On Ultra Dense Si NW Arrays. B. A. Sheriff1, T. Karnik2 and J. R. Heath1; 1Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; 2Circuits Research Lab, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon.

9:15 AM EE11.4
Transparent and Flexible Zinc Oxide Nanowire Network Transistors Husnu Emrah Unalan1, Pritesh Hiralal1, Seung Nam Cha2, Jae Eun Jang2, Nalin Rupesinghe1, Y. W Jin2, Gehan Amaratunga1 and Jong Min Kim1; 1Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Dept., University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Suwon, South Korea.

9:30 AM EE11.5
Low Frequency Noise of a Single Individual ZnO Nanowire and Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes. Kanghyun Kim1, Kangho Lee1, Haeyong Kang2, Byeong Yong Yoo2, Jung Il Lee2 and Gyu-Tae Kim1; 1School of Electrical engineering, Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea; 2Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea.

9:45 AM EE11.6
Versatile Metal Oxide Nanowire Devices Achieved via Controlled Doping. Eric Dattoli, Qing Wan and Wei Lu; Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *EE11.7
Sorting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Their Electronic Structure using Density Gradient Ultracentrifugation. Mark C. Hersam, Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

11:00 AM EE11.8
Nanoelectromechanical Pillar Operating as a Radio-frequency Mixer in the Nonlinear Regime. Hyun S. Kim, Hua Qin and Robert H. Blick; Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.

11:15 AM EE11.9
Abstract Withdrawn

SESSION EE12: Photonics, Optics and Optoelectronics of Nanotubes and Nanowires
Chairs: Pehr Pehrsson, Stephen Doorn, Wei Zhao and Phaedon Avouris
Thursday Afternoon, April 12, 2007
Room 2016 (Moscone West)


1:30 PM *EE12.1
Optics and Optoelectronic of Carbon Nanotubes Vasili Perebeinos, Watson Research Center, IBM - Watson, Yorktown Heights, New York.

2:00 PM *EE12.2
Advances in Nanowire Photonics. Charles M. Lieber1,2 and Fang Qian1; 1Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 2Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2:30 PM EE12.3
CuIn(Ga)Se2 Nanowires for Solar Cell Applications Yi Cui and Hailin Peng; Stanford University, Stanford, California.

2:45 PM EE12.4
Organic Light-emitting Diodes Having Carbon Nanotube Anodes. Jianfeng Li1, Liangbing Hu2, George Grüner2 and Tobin Marks1; 1Chemistry Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; 2Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:15 PM EE12.5
Novel Phase Transformation and Pseudoelasticity in ZnO Nanowires. Ambarish Jayant Kulkarni1, Kanoknan Sarasamak2, Sukit Limpijumnong2 and Min Zhou1; 1GWW School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; 2School of Physics, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.

3:30 PM EE12.6
TiO2 Nanowire Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. Janice Boercker, Emil Enache-Pommer and Eray Aydil; Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 
3:45 PM EE12.7
Transparent Conductive Carbon Nanotube Films for Organic Photovoltaic Cell Processing Koungmin Ryu1, Cody Schlenker2, Daihua Zhang1, Xiaolei Liu1, Thomas Fijin1, Youngki Choe1, Mark Thompson2 and Chongwu Zhou1; 1Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; 2Chemistry, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

4:00 PM EE12.8
Electroluminescence of ZnO Nanowire/p-GaN Heterojunction Light Emitting Diodes. Xinyu Wang1, Amir M. Dabiran2 and Heiko O. Jacobs1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 2SVT Associates, Inc, Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

4:15 PM EE12.9
Phase-Correlated Non-Directional Laser Emission from the End-Facets of a Semiconductor Nanowire. Lambert Karel van Vugt, Sven Ruhle and Daniel Vanmaekelbergh; Condensed Matter and Interfaces, Debye Institute, Utrecht University, TA Utrecht, Netherlands.

4:30 PM EE12.10
New Insight on a Vertically Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Film and an Application to All-Fiber Passive Mode-Locker Shigeo Maruyama1, Yong-Won Song2, Erik Einarsson1 and Shinji Yamashita2; 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; 2Department of Electronic Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

4:45 PM EE12.11
Single-crystalline Branched Zinc Phosphide Nanostructures: Synthesis, Properties and Opotoelectronic Devices. Rusen Yang1, Yu-Lun Chueh1,2, Jenny Ruth Morber1, Robert Snyde1, Li-Jen Chou2 and Zhong Lin Wang1; 1Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

SESSION EE13: Poster Session: Photonics, Optics and Optoelectronics of Nanotubes and Nanowires
Chairs: Wei Zhao, Pehr Pehrsson, Stephen Doorn, Jie Liu and Phaedon Avouris
Thursday Evening, April 12, 2007
8:00 PM
Salon Level (Marriott)

EE13.1
Photoacoustic, Photoelectrochemical Current, and Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics Characterizations of TiO2 Electrodes Composed of Nanotubes and Nanowires Adsorbed with CdSe Quantum Dots. Taro Toyoda, Department of Applied Physics and Chemistry, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan.

EE13.2
Abstract Withdrawn

EE13.3
Micro-Raman Spectroscopy of Wurtzite ZnO Nanowires and Nanocrystals. Irene Gonzales Calizo, Manu Shamsa, Sivashankar Krishnakumar, Vladimir A. Fonoberov and Alexander A. Balandin; Nano-Device Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California.

EE13.4
Highly Ordered TiO2 Nanotube & Nanorod Arrays for Solar Cell Applications Tae-Sik Kang, Barney E Taylor and Michael F Durstock; Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio.

EE13.5
Electrical and Thermal Properties of Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composite Materials Enkeleda Dervishi1,2, Zhongrui Li2, Viney Saini1,2, Alexandru R. Biris3, Dan Lupu3, Steve Trigwell4 and Alexandru S. Biris2,1; 1Applied Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas; 2Nanotechnology Center, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas; 3National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Cluj Napoca, Romania; 4Electrostatic & Surface Physics Laboratory, Kennedy Space Center, Orlando, Florida.

EE13.6
Using Photochemistry in Molecular Crystal Nanostructures to Generate Reversible Micron-Scale Motions Rabih Omran Al-Kaysi and Christopher J. Bardeen; Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California.

EE13.7
High Density, Vertically Aligned ZnO Nanorectifier Arrays at Low Temperature. Sudip K. Batabyal, Basudev Pradhan and Amlan J Pal; Dept. of Solid State Physics, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

EE13.8
Abstract Withdrawn

EE13.9
Ultrahigh Sensitivity Zinc Oxide Nanowire UV Detectors Cesare Soci, Arthur Zhang, Bin Xiang, Shadi Dayeh, David P. R. Aplin, Xinyu Bao, YuHwa Lo and Deli Wang; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of california, San Diego, La Jolla, California.

EE13.10
Abstract Withdrawn

EE13.11
Infrared Photodetectors from Electrodeposited InSb Nanowires. M. Ibrahim Khan1,3, Xu Wang2, Xiaoye Jing3 and Cengiz S. Ozkan1; 1Mechanical Engineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California; 2Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California; 3Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California.

EE13.12
Metallized DNA Nanotemplates for the Fabrication of ZnO Nanostructures for Optoelectronic Applications Xu Wang1, Fei Liu2, Kang Wang3 and Cengiz Ozkan4; 1Chemical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California; 2IBM, New York, New York; 3University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; 4Mechanial Engieering, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California.

EE13.13
Optical Characterization of Er-doped Y2O3 Nanostructures. Yuanbing Mao and Jane P. Chang; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

SESSION EE14: Poster Session: Sensors, Emitters and Structural Materials
Chairs: Wei Zhao, Pehr Pehrsson, Stephen Doorn, Jie Liu and Phaedon Avouris
Thursday Evening, April 12, 2007
8:00 PM
Salon Level (Marriott)

EE14.1
High Yield, High Sensitivity Aqueous Solution Ion Concentration Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Sensor Formed by Etching-Free Liquid Phase Deposition Silicon Oxide and Lift off Processes Jeng-Hua Wei, Ying-Ren Chen and HorngJiunn Lin; Electronics Engineering, Ching Yun University, Jung-Li, Taiwan.

EE14.2
Freely Suspended Hybrid Nanotube Forests for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Hyunhyub Ko, Chaoyang Jiang and Vladimir V Tsukruk; School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

EE14.3
The Dielectrophoresis Aligned Ni Silicide Nanowire as a Microscopy Tip Joondong Kim1, Young-Hyun Shin1, Jin-Won Song1, Hee Won Seo1, Eung-Sug Lee1, Wayne A. Anderson2 and Chang-Soo Han1; 1Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials, Daejeon, South Korea; 2Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York.

EE14.4
Characterization of Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Network Gas Sensor under a High-vacuum Environment. Winadda Wongwiriyapan1, Shin-ichi Honda1, Takafumi Ohmori1, Satoshi Inoue1, Tatsuya Ito2, Ryotatro Shimazaki2, Toru Maekawa2, Kengo Suzuki2, Hiroshi Ishikawa2, Kenjiro Oura3 and Mitsuhiro Katayama1; 1Division of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan; 2New Cosmos Electric Co., Ltd, Osaka, Japan; 3Research Center for Ultrahigh Voltage Electron Microscopy, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.

EE14.5
Gas Pressure Sensor Based on PECVD Grown Carbon Nanotubes. Richard Ficek2, Lenka Zajickova1, Marek Elias1, Ondrej Jasek1, Frantisek Matejka3 and Radimir Vrba2; 1Department of Physical Electronics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; 2Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Technical University, Brno, Czech Republic; 3Institute of Scientific Instruments, Brno, Czech Republic.

EE14.6
Environment-responsive Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Dispersion. Dan Wang and Liwei Chen; Chemistry & Biochemistry, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

EE14.7
Mechanical Resonance of Clamped Silicon Nanowires Measured by Optical Interferometry. Miro Belov1,2, Nathaniel J. Quitoriano3, Shashank Sharma3, Ted I. Kamins3 and Stephane Evoy1,2; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; 2National Institute for Nanotechnology, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; 3Quantum Science Research, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California.

EE14.8
Effects of Ag+ on the Redox Chemistry of ssDNA-Encased HiPco Carbon Nanotubes with Hydrogen Peroxide. Xiaomin Tu and Wei Zhao; Department of Chemistry, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas.

EE14.9
Hydrogen Sensing Properties of Pd Single Nanowires Fabricated by Electron-beam Lithography Eunsongyi Lee, Minhong Jeun and Wooyoung Lee; Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.

EE14.10
Carbon felt/ carbon nanotubes/Pani as pH sensor. Marcelo Mulato1, Glaucio Ribeiro Silva1, Paola Corio3, Elaine Yoshito Matsubara2 and Jose Mauricio Rosolen2; 1Physics and Mathematics, University of São Paulo, Ribeirao Preto-SP, SP, Brazil; 2Chemistry, FFCLRP-USP, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil; 3IQ-USP, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.

EE14.11
Hydrogen Interaction with Polyaniline Nanofibers Shabnam Virji, Jesse Fowler and Bruce H. Weiller; The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California.

EE14.12
Carbon Nanotube-Based Fluid Flow Sensing Chinung Ni, Christian Deck, Kenneth Vecchio and Prabhakar Bandaru; Materials Science program, MEchanical Engineering department,, UC, San Diego, La Jolla, California.

EE14.13
Fabrication and Functionalization of Composite Nanowires for Bimolecular Sensor. Xu Wang1 and Cengiz Ozkan2; 1Chemical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California; 2Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California.

EE14.14
Integration of Nanowire Chemical Sensors with Micromachined Hotplates PoChiang Chen1,2, Koungmin Ryu1,2, Ishikawa Fumiaki1,2, Daihua Zhang2 and Chongwu Zhou2; 1Material Science and Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; 2E.E. Electrophysics, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

EE14.15
Transferred to EE12.5

EE14.16
Processing, Microstructure & Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotube/Niobium-Reinforced Alumina Nanocomposites K. E. Thomson1, D. Jiang1, S. W. Robertson2, R. O. Ritchie2 and A. K. Mukherjee1; 1Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of California, Davis, California; 2Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California.

EE14.17
ALD of Ta-based Adhesion Layers for CNT-Cu Matrix Composite Film Growth. S. B. Menzel1, C. Hossbach2, J. Thomas1, M. Albert2, T. Gemming1, M. Stangl1 and S. Hampel1; 1IFW Dresden, P.O. Box 270116, D-01171 Dresden, Germany; 2Dresden University of Technology, Mommsenstr. 13, D-01069 Dresden, Germany.

EE14.18
Doped Nanotubes Vanadium Oxide Macrocellular Foams: Integrative Chemistry toward Designing Lithium Batteries Positive Electrode. Florent Carn1, Mathieu Morcrette2, Nathalie Steunou3, Cristine Surcin2, Bathelemy Desporte1, Jacques Livage3 and Renal Backov1; 1CNRS-Universite Bordeaux-I, Pessac, France; 2CNRS-Université de Picardie, Amiens, France; 3CNRS-Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.

EE14.19
Gas Preconcentration, Separation And Detection With Carbon Nanotubes. Michael Stadermann1, Aleksandr Noy1, Olgica Bakajin1, Vanessa Reid2, Adam McBrady2 and Robert Synovec2; 1Chemistry, Materials and Life Sciences, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; 2Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

EE14.20
Abstract Withdrawn

EE14.21
Improvement of Hydrogen Adsorption on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Activated Carbon Lyubov F. Lafi, Richard Chahine, Éric Poirier and Pierre Bénard; Hydrogen Research Institute, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada.

EE14.22
Abstract Withdrawn

EE14.23
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Hypersonic Velocity Impact Protection in Carbon Nanotube Reinforced a-SiC Composites Maxim Makeev and Deepak Srivastava; NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

EE14.24
Abstract Withdrawn

EE14.25
Improved Field Emission Properties of Thiolated Carbon Nanotubes on Carbon Cloth. Pai-Yen Chen1, Fang-Tzu Chuang2 and Tsung-Chieh Cheng1; 1National Nano Device Laboratories, Hsinchu, Taiwan; 2Material Science and Engineering, National Chiao- Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

EE14.26
Field Emission Properties of Large Area Carbon Nanotube Cathode in Different Electric Field Mode. Qingliang Liao1, Yue Zhang1,2, Liansheng Xia3, Yunhua Huang1, Zhanjun Gao1, Junjie Qi1, Ruiping Gao4 and Kexin Chen4; 1Department of Materials Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, Beijing, China; 2State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, Beijing, China; 3Institute of Fluid Physics, Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang, Sichuan, China; 4National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing, Beijing, China.

EE14.27
Stable Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotube Field Emission Electron Microscope operating in Low Vacuum Hiroshi Suga2,1, Teruaki Ohno3, Miyuki Tanaka1, Hiroshi Tokumoto4, Yasushiro Nishioka2 and Tetsuo Shimizu1; 1NRI, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan; 2Nihon Univ., Funabashi, Japan; 3Technex Lab., Machida, Japan; 4Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan.

EE14.28
Fabrication of Reliable Individual Carbon Nanotube Field Emitters for Applications as Electron Beam Sources Bryan P. Ribaya1,3, Joseph Leung2, Philip Brown4, Mahmud Rahman3 and Cattien V. Nguyen1,3; 1ELORET/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California; 2NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California; 3Electrical Engineering, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California; 4Union College, Schenectady, New York.

EE14.29
Patterned Carbon-nanotube Field-emitter Arrays: A Study of Pattern Dimensions and Growth Conditions. Andrew H. Monica, Stergios J. Papadakis and Robert Osiander; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland.

EE14.30
Demonstration of a Microfabricated Carbon Nanotube Ionization Source. Srividya Natarajan1,2, Christopher A. Bower2, Jeffrey R. Piascik2, Brian R. Stoner2, Charles B Parker1, Scott D. Wolter1 and Jeffrey T. Glass1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; 2RTI International, Durham, North Carolina.

EE14.31
Uniform Carbon Nanotube Films with High Field Emission Currents Fabricated Using Small Organic Molecules as Surfactants Lei An and Otto Zhou; Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

EE14.32
Efficient and Long-lifetime Field Emission from Individual Carbon Nanotube Pillar Bundles Shunjiro Fujii1, Shin-ichi Honda1, Hideyasu Kawai1, Kazuhiro Ishida1, Hiroshi Furuta2, Takashi Hirao2, Kenjiro Oura3 and Mitsuhiro Katayama1; 1Dept. of Electronic Eng., Grad. Sch. of Eng., Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan; 2Dept. of Electronic and Photonic Systems Eng., Grad. Sch. of Eng., Kochi Univ. of Tech., Kochi, Japan; 3Research Center for UHVEM, Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan.

EE14.33
Abstract Withdrawn

EE14.34
Vertically Aligned CNTs Embedded in Cr/TiO2 Membranes for the Realization of Ion Sources. Yaser - Abdi, Shams - Mohajerzadeh, Javad - Koohsorkhi and Bahman - Hekmatshoar; Electrical and Computer Eng., University of Tehran, Tehran, -, Iran.

SESSION EE15: Sensors, Emitters and Structural Materials
Chair: Rod Ruoff
Friday Morning, April 13, 2007
Room 2016 (Moscone West)


NOTE EARLY START

8:00 AM *EE15.1
Influence of Redox Molecules on the Electronic Cnductance of Single-walled Carbon nanotubes: Application to DNA Sensing. Bruce A Diner, Salah Boussaad, Xueping Jiang, Janine Fan and Kristin D Ruebling-Jass; CR&D, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Delaware.

8:30 AM *EE15.2
Trace Chemical Detection Using Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Eric Snow, Joshua Robinson, Keith Perkins, Mike Papantonakis, Jennifer Stepnowski, Duane Simonson and Andy McGill; Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia.

9:00 AM EE15.3
Fluorescein as a Simultaneous Noncovalent Anchor and Fluorescent Marker of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes. Sarunya Bangsaruntip, Nozomi Nakayama-Ratchford, Xiaoming Sun and Hongjie Dai; Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

9:15 AM EE15.4
Supported Lipid Bilayer/Carbon Nanotube Hybrids. Xinjian Zhou1, Jose Moran-Mirabal2, Harold Craighead2 and Paul McEuen1; 1Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 2Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

9:30 AM EE15.5
CNT Uptake in Human Ovarian Cancer Cells: Changes in Fluorescence Emission of CNT-Fluorescein in SKOV-3 Ovarian Cancer Cells Meng-Tse Chen1, Lewis Gomez-De Arco2, Yinghua Sun1, P. Thomas Vernier3,4, Fumiaki Ishikawa1, Chongwu Zhou3 and Martin Gundersen1,3; 1Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; 2Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; 3Department of Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; 4MOSIS, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

9:45 AM EE15.6
Perfectly Aligned Nanowires on Plastic Substrates for Ultra-Sensitive Flexible Sensors. Michael C. McAlpine and James R. Heath; Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *EE15.7
Applications and Properties of Nanowire Meshes Brian A. Korgel, Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

11:00 AM EE15.8
Polarization-sensitive Photodetectors based on Solution-synthesized CdSe and CdTe Quantum Wire Solids. Amol Singh1, Debdeep Jena1, Vladimir Protasenko2, Masaru Kuno2 and Huili Xing1; 1Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana; 2Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.

11:15 AM EE15.9
Bio-functional Subwavelength Optical Waveguides for Chemical Detection Donald J Sirbuly, Olgica Bakajin and Aleksandr Noy; Chemistry, Materials, and Life Sciences, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California.

11:30 AM EE15.10
Fabrication and Characterization of Single TiO2 Nanotube Enhanced Humidity Sensor Device by UV Treatment. Dongkyu Cha1, Bongki Lee1, Moon J. Kim1, Hyunjung Shin2, Jaegab Lee2 and Jiyoung Kim1; 1MSE, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas; 2School of Advanced Engineering, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea.

SESSION EE16: : Sensors, Emitters and Structural Materials II
Chair: Eric Snow
Friday Afternoon, April 13, 2007
Room 2016 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *EE16.1
Carbon Nanotubes and Inorganic Nanowires for Sensors and Nanodevices Meyya Meyyappan, Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

2:00 PM EE16.2
Carbon Nanotube Coatings for Pyroelectric Detectors Used for Precise Measurement of Laser Power Anne C. Dillon1, Rohit Deshpande1, Paul Rice2, Kathrine E. Hurst2 and John H. Lehman2; 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado; 2National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado.

2:15 PM EE16.3
Graphene Sheet Research and Fracture of SWCNTs. Rod Ruoff1, Dima Dikin1, James Hone2, Weiqiang Ding1 and Mingyuan Huang2; 1Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; 2Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York.

2:30 PM EE16.4
Hydrogen Storage in Carbon Nanotubes Through the Formation of C-H Bonds Anton Nikitin1, XiaoLin Li3, Zhiyong Zhang2, David Mann3, Hirohito Ogasawara1, Ali Pour Merhabi4, Hongjie Dai3 and Anders Nilsson1,4; 1Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Menlo Park, California; 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California; 3Department of of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California; 4FYSIKUM, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

2:45 PM EE16.5
Novel Nanowire-micropillar Functionalized Hierarchical Surfaces for Photo-controlled Movement of Fluids. Dongqing Yang1, P. Aella1, Antonio A. Garcia2, Devens Gust3, Mark A. Hayes3 and S. T. Picraux1,4; 1School of Materials, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; 2Harrington Department of Bioengineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; 3Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; 4Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.



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