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Symposium DD: Low-Dimensional Materials--Synthesis, Assembly, Property Scaling, and Modeling

Symposium DD: Low-Dimensional Materials--Synthesis, Assembly, Property Scaling, and Modeling Image
April 9 - 13, 2007
Chairs
Moonsub Shim     University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Masaru Kuno     University of Notre Dame
Xiao-Min Lin     Argonne National Laboratory
Ruth Pachter     Air Force Research Laboratory
Sanat Kumar     Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Symposium Support
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research, AFRL
The Dow Chemical Company
Evident Technologies


* Invited paper

SESSION DD1/EE1: 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 DD1.1/EE1.1
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 DD1.2/EE1.2
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 DD1.3/EE1.3
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 DD1.4/EE1.4
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 DD1.5/EE1.5
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 DD1.6/EE1.6
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 DD1.7/EE1.7
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 *DD1.8/EE1.8
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 *DD1.9/EE1.9
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 DD1.10/EE1.10
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 DD1.11/EE1.11
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 DD1.12/EE1.12
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 DD1.13/EE1.13
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 DD2:
Chairs: Sanat Kumar and Ruth Pachter
Monday Morning, April 9, 2007
Room 2003 (Moscone West)


NOTE EARLY START

8:00 AM *DD2.1
Origin of Molecular Stability and Magnetism Revealed by the Complete Solution of Many-electron Schroedinger Equation. Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, Kenta Hongo, Takayuki Oyamada, Yohei Maruyama and Hiroshi Yasuhara; Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

8:30 AM *DD2.2
First Principles Structures and Properties of Nanotubes. William A. Goddard, Materials and Process Simulation Center, Caltech, Pasadena, California.

9:00 AM *DD2.3
Atomic Scale Design of Nanostructures Jerry Bernholc1,2, W. Lu1, M. Buongiorno Nardelli1,2, V. Meunier2, F. Ribeiro1, S. Wang1 and Q. Zhao1; 1Physics, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; 2CSMD, ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

9:30 AM DD2.4
Modeling the Conductance of a Nanotube Bundle Connected to a Copper Surface Steven Compernolle1,2, Geoffrey Pourtois2, Bart Soree2, Wim Magnus2 and Arnout Ceulemans1; 1Laboratorium voor kwantumchemie, and INPAC - Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 2IMEC, Leuven, Belgium.

9:45 AM BREAK

10:00 AM *DD2.5
Equilibrium and Dynamics in Polymer-Nanoparticle Mixtures. Venkat Ganesan, Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

10:30 AM *DD2.6
Theory of Effective Interactions, Structure and Phase Behavior of Polymer Nanocomposites Kenneth S. Schweizer1, Justin B. Hooper1,2 and Lisa Hall1; 1Materials Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois; 2Materials Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

11:00 AM *DD2.7
Nanoscale Phenomena in Polymer - Nanoparticle Blends. Michael E Mackay, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

11:30 AM *DD2.8
Polymer-Inorganic Nanocomposites: Theoretical Studies of Thermodynamics and Phase Behavior Valeriy V. Ginzburg, The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan.

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


1:30 PM DD3.1/EE2.1
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 DD3.2/EE2.2
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 DD3.3/EE2.3
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 DD3.4/EE2.4
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 DD3.5/EE2.5
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 DD3.6/EE2.6
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 DD3.7/EE2.7
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 DD3.8/EE2.8
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 DD3.9/EE2.9
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 DD3.10/EE2.10
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 DD3.11/EE2.11
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 DD3.12/EE2.12
Microwave-assisted Rapid Synthesis of Silver Nanowires. Linfeng Gou and Jeffery M. Zaleski; Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

4:45 PM DD3.13/EE2.13
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 DD4:
Chair: Ruth Pachter
Monday Afternoon, April 9, 2007
Room 2003 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM DD4.1
Limit of Coherency in Core-shell and Axially Heterogeneous Metallic and Semiconductor Nanowires via Molecular Dynamics. Arvind Arumbakkam1, Yumi Park1, Amritanshu Palaria2 and Alejandro Strachan1; 1School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; 2Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

1:45 PM DD4.2
One Dimensional Silicon Nanostructures: Atomic Level Structures and Properties from MD and DFT. Amritanshu Palaria1,2 and Alejandro Strachan2; 1School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; 2School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

2:00 PM DD4.3
Electronic Structure of Silicon-Based Nanostructures Lok C Lew Yan Voon1 and Gian Guzman-Verri2; 1Physics, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; 2Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencia e Ingeniería de los Materiales, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.

2:15 PM DD4.4
Study of Charged Exciton in Silicon Quantum Dot. Gian Franco Sacco, Paul von Allmen and Seungwon Lee; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

2:30 PM DD4.5
Shape and Size Dependent Exciton Fine Structure of CdSe Nanocrystals. Qingzhong Zhao1, Kwiseon Kim1, Peter A. Graf1, Alberto Franceschetti1, Wesley B. Jones1 and Lin-Wang Wang2; 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado; 2Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California.

2:45 PM BREAK

3:15 PM DD4.6
Fully Ordered Array Of Subnano II-VI Semiconductor Wires Coordinated By Organic Molecules: Electronic And Optical Properties. Yong Zhang1, Brian Fluegel1, Angelo Mascarenhas1, Lin-Wang Wang2, Xiao-Ying Huang3 and Jing Li3; 1Materials Science Center, National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, Colorado; 2Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California; 3Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.

3:30 PM DD4.7
Switching Behavior in Silicon-Molecule-SWCNTs Devices: A Density Functional Theory Study Brahim Akdim and Ruth Pachter; AFRL/ML, Wpafb, Ohio.

3:45 PM DD4.8
Multiscale Modeling of Low-Dimensional Quantum Nanostructures in Semiconductors. Vinod K. Tewary1, David Read1 and Bo Yang2; 1Materials Reliability, National Institute of Standards & Technology, Boulder, Colorado; 2Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida.

4:00 PM DD4.9
Chemical Tension in VLS Nanostructure Growth Process: From Nanohillocks to Nanowires. Na Li1, Ulrich Gösele2 and Teh Yu Tan1; 1Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; 2Max-Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany.

4:15 PM DD4.10
Growth Mechanism of Group III-Nitride Nanorods Using Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy Yong Sun Won2,1, Young Seok Kim2, Olga Kryliouk2 and Tim Anderson2; 1Guest Scientist, Metallurgy, MSEL, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland; 2Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

4:30 PM DD4.11
Composition and Strain Dependence of the Piezoelectric Coefficients in Semiconductor Alloys. Max Migliorato, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Shefield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.

4:45 PM DD4.12
Modeling and Experimental Investigation of Nanometer Scale Cold Field Emitters For Multi-length Scale Integration Darrell L. Niemann1,2, Bryan P. Ribaya1,2, Norman Gunther1, Mahmud Rahman1, Cattien V. Nguyen1,3 and Joseph Leung2; 1Electrical Engineering, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California; 2NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California; 3ELORET/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.


SESSION DD5: Properties of Nanocrystals
Chairs: Philippe Guyot-Sionnest and Moonsub Shim
Tuesday Morning, April 10, 2007
Room 2001 (Moscone West)


NOTE EARLY START

8:00 AM DD5.1
The Role of Particle Size Volume Fraction in Bimodal Metals for Optimized Mechanical Properties at Varying Temperatures. Tammy R Smith, Alla V Sergueeva, Umberto Anselmi-Tamburini and Amiya K Mukherjee; Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, UC Davis, Davis, California.

8:15 AM DD5.2
Structural and Magnetic Properties of Self-Assembled Gold Nanoparticles Alumina Thin Films. Jeremiah T. Abiade1 and Dhananjay Kumar1,2, 1Mechanical & Chemical Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, North Carolina, 2Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

8:30 AM *DD5.3
Surface Functionalization of Semiconductor Nanostructures. Alf Mews, Ma Xuedan, Zhou Xiaoyin, Maxime Tchaya and Lars Birlenbach; Physical Chemistry, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany.

9:00 AM DD5.4
Hydroxyl-Quenching Effects on the Photoluminescence Properties of SnO2:Eu3+ Nanoparticles. Taeho Moon, Dae-Ryong Jung, Sun-Tae Hwang, Dongyeon Son, Jongmin Kim, Myunggoo Kang and Byungwoo Park; Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.

9:15 AM DD5.5
Synthesis and Photoluminescence of Mn-Doped Zinc-Sulfide Nanoparticles. Dongyeon Son, Dae-Ryong Jung, Jongmin Kim, Taeho Moon and Byungwoo Park; Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.

9:30 AM BREAK

9:45 AM DD5.6
Parity Forbidden Transitions in PbSe Nanocrystals Jeffrey Peterson and Todd D. Krauss; Dept of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.

10:00 AM *DD5.7
New Paradigm for Nanocrystal Lasing Using Engineered Exciton-Exciton Interactions Victor I. Klimov, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

10:30 AM DD5.8
Dopant-Carrier Exchange Interactions in Colloidal Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals. Daniel R. Gamelin, Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

10:45 AM DD5.9
Effect of Er Doping on the Electronic and Optical Properties of Group IV Nanoparticles. Anthony van Buuren1,2, Rob Meulenberg1, Trevor Willey1, April Montoya Vaverka1,3 and Lou Terminello1; 1LLNL, Livermore, California; 2Dept. of Natural Sciences, UC Merced, Merced, California; 3Department of Materials Science, UC Davis, Davis, California.

11:00 AM *DD5.10
Photoluminescence of Charged Colloidal Quantum Dot. Philippe Guyot-Sionnest and Praket Jha; University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

11:30 AM DD5.11
Solution-Phase Single Quantum Dot Fluorescence Resonant Energy Transfer: Probing Nanoparticle-Conjugate Heterogeneity Thomas Pons1, Igor L Medintz2, Xiang Wang3, Doug S English3 and Hedi Mattoussi1; 1Optical Sciences Division, Code 5611, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia; 2Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland; 3Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Code 6900, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia.

11:45 AM DD5.12
Indirect Excitation of Er in Si Rich SiO2 Films - Defects vs. Nanocrystals. Oleksandr Savchyn1, Forrest Ruhge1, Pieter Kik1, Ravi Todi2 and Kevin Coffey2; 1College of Optics and Photonics: CREOL & FPCE, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida; 2School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.

SESSION DD6: Properties of Nanorods
Chairs: Alf Mews and Moonsub Shim
Tuesday Afternoon, April 10, 2007
Room 2001 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *DD6.1
Surface Induced Localized Charge of Single Imperfect CdSe Quantum Rods Todd D Krauss1, Rishikesh Karishnan4, Philippe Fauchet4, Zhiheng Yu3, Sara E Maccagnano2, Joaquin Calcines1, Julie Smyder1 and John Silcox2; 1Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York; 2Applied Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 3Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 4Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.

2:00 PM DD6.2
Rayleigh Instability in Gold Nanorods. Carolina Novo and Paul Mulvaney; School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

2:15 PM DD6.3
Abstract Withdrawn

2:30 PM DD6.4
Synthesis and Characterization of Self-assembled (In,Ga)As Quantum Posts on GaAs. Jun He1, Hubert J Krenner1, Craig Pryor2, Jinping Zhang1, Yuan Wu1, Dan Allen3, Chris Morris3, Mark Sherwin3 and Pierre M Petroff1,4; 1Department of Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; 3Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 4Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California.

2:45 PM DD6.5
Local Electronic Property of ZnO Tetrapods Jong Soo Lee1, Junghwan Huh2, Gyu Tae Kim2, Shareghe Mehraeen1, Nigel Browning1 and Sangtae Kim1; 1Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis, Davis, California; 2Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.

3:00 PM BREAK

SESSION DD7: Properties of Nanowires
Chairs: Todd Krauss and Moonsub Shim
Tuesday Afternoon, April 10, 2007
Room 2001 (Moscone West)

3:30 PM DD7.1
Absorption Anisotropy of Aligned CdSe and CdTe Nanowires Aidong Lan, Vladimir Protasenko and Masaru Kuno; Chemistry and Biochemistry, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.

3:45 PM *DD7.2
Fluorescence Behavior of Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Wires. John J. Glennon, Rui Tang, Richard A. Loomis and William E. Buhro; Dept. of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

4:15 PM DD7.3
Far-Field Imaging of Optical Second-Harmonic Generation in Single GaN Nanowires. Jim P Long1, Blake S Simpkins1, David J Rowenhorst2 and Pehr E Perhsson1; 1Surface Chemistry, Naval Research Lab, Washington, District of Columbia; 2Materials Science and Technology, Naval Research Lab, Washington, District of Columbia.

4:30 PM DD7.4
Orientation-dependent Raman Spectroscopy of Single Wurtzite CdS Nanowires. Hai Ming Fan1, Zhenhua Ni1, Yuanping Feng1 and Zexiang Shen2; 1physics department, national university of singapore, Singapore, Singapore; 2Physics and Applied Physics, Nanyang Technological University, singapore, Singapore.

4:45 PM DD7.5
Piezoelectric Nanowires Scott Mao1 and C. Jiang2; 1Department of Mechanical Engineeringand Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 2Shenyang Interfacial Material Center, IMR, Shengyang, Liaoning, China.

SESSION DD8: Poster Session: Assembly, Modeling and Applications
Chairs: Sanat Kumar, Masaru Kuno, Xiao-Min Lin, Ruth Pachter and Moonsub Shim
Tuesday Evening, April 10, 2007
8:00 PM
Salon Level (Marriott)


DD8.1
Freestanding Polymer Colloid Crystal Wires and Metal Reverse Colloid crystal Wires: Magnetic Field Directed Assembly Behavior Feng Li and John B. Wiley; Department of Chemistry and Advanced Materials Research Institute, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana.

DD8.2
Hierarchically Organized Nanocrystal Metamaterials Formed through Building Block Self-Assembly. Hongyou Fan1,2, Adam Wright2, John Gabaldon2, Erik W Leve2, Darren Dunphy2, Jeffrey Brinker1,2, Kevin Malloy2, Thomas Sigmon2 and Kai Yang2; 1Sandia National Lab, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

DD8.3
Ordered Monolayer Array of Gold Nanoparticles by Self-Assembly Process on Functionalized Solid Substrates Geun-Tae Cho, Hye Jin Nam, Ju Yeon Chang, Jong-Hyeon Lee and Duk-Young Jung; Chemistry, Sung Kyun Kwan Univ., Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.

DD8.4
Abstract Withdrawn

DD8.5
Lattice Engineering Synthesis of Heterostructured Metal Oxide Nanoparticle-Layered Titanate Nanohybrids. Tae Woo Kim and Seong-Ju Hwang; Division of Nano Sciences, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea.

DD8.6
The Sodium Salt Effects on the Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembled Carbon Nanotubes Multilayers Kye Ung Lee1, Byung Tae Ahn1, Mike C Petty2 and Do Jin Kim3; 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea; 2School of Engineering and Centre for Molecular and Nanoscale Electronics, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom; 3Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea.

DD8.7
Directed Assembly of Colloidal Particles on a Complex Physicochemical Nano Template. Yong Hoon Kim1, Juhyun Park2, Pil J. Yoo1 and Paula T. Hammond1; 1Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

DD8.8
Hierarchial Co-Doped ZnO Hexagonal Rings and Plates Composed of Self-Assembled Hexagonal ZnO Nanorods Yi Jing Li, Chiu-Yen Wang, Ming-Yen Lu, Kun-Mu Li and Lih-Juann Chen; National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

DD8.9
Formation of Highly Ordered Arrays of Dimples on Tantalum at the Nanoscale. Peter Kruse, Sherdeep Singh, Warren Barden, Subir Ghosh, Mark Greiner and Hany El-Sayed; Chemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

DD8.10
2D Growth of Nanomeshes in 3D Colloidal Crystal Templates. Ji Zhou and Ming Fu; Material Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, Beijing, China.

DD8.11
Exfoliation and Reassembling Route to Nanoparticle-Lamellar Oxide Hybrid: TiO2-Pillared Layered Manganate. Joo-Hee Kang1, Seung-Min Paek2 and Jin-Ho Choy1; 1Division of Nanoscience and Department of Chemistry, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea; 2School of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.

DD8.12
Controlling Size, Shape, and Distribution of Platinum Nanoparticles Electrodeposited on Carbon Supports. S.M.Shahinoor I. Dulal, Chang-Koo Kim, Wonjin Jeon and Chee Burm Shin; Chemical Engineering, Division of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea.

DD8.13
Highly Mesoporous TiO2 Nanohybrid as an Electrode for a Lithium Battery. Seung-Min Paek1,2, Joo-Hee Kang3, Hyun Jung3, Young-Jun Lee2, Seong-Ju Hwang3 and Jin-Ho Choy3; 1Advanced Materials Applications, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio; 2School of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; 3Center for Intelligent Nano-Bio Materials, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea.

DD8.14
Electronic Properties of C-face and Si-face SiC 3C/4H Heterostrucutures and Devices. Jie Lu, Chris Thomas, Mvs Chandrashekhar and Michael Spencer; Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

DD8.15
A New Route to the Production and Patterning of Highly Smooth, Nanometer Thin Zirconium Oxide Films. Karl Coleman and Scott Watson; Department of Chemistry, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom.

DD8.16
Development of a Bath And Optimization of Electrochemical Parameters for the Deposition of Platinum Nanoparticles on Graphite. S.M.Shahinoor I. Dulal, Tae Ho Kim, Hyeong Jin Yun, Chang-Koo Kim and Chee Burm Shin; Chemical Engineering, Division of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea.

DD8.17
Broadband Asymmetric Mirrors using Metal-dielectric Nano-composite Coatings Aiqing Chen, Keisuke Hasegawa and Miriam Deutsch; University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.

DD8.18
Enhanced Tunneling through sub 30 Angstroms thick Gallium Nitride Cap Layers on Silicon Carbide for Low Contact Resistance Choudhury Jayant Praharaj, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California; ( formerly with ) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, (formerly with ) Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

DD8.19
Nanogap Fabrication by Pd Hydrogen Embrittlement for Field-Emission Applications. Fu-Ming Pan1, Chih-Hao Tsai1, Kuan-Jung Chen1, Cheng-Yang Kuo1, Mai Liu2 and Chi-Neng Mo2; 1Dept. Mat. Sci. Eng., National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan; 2Chunghwa Picture Tubes,Ltd, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

DD8.20
Electrical Properties of a Single TiO2 Nanotubes Depending on Annealing Ambient (vacuum and O2) and Temperature. Sanghee Won1, Kyunghun Jeong1, Seunghee Ko1, Dongkyu Cha2, Moon J. Kim2, Jiyoung Kim2 and Jaegab Lee1; 1School of Advanced Materials Engineering, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea; 2Electrical Engineering, The Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas.

DD8.21
Dual-gate ZnO Nanowire FETs Aligned by Dielectrophoresis Seung-Yong Lee, Duk-Il Suh, Tae-Hong Kim, Jung-Hwan Hyung, Ji-Eun Park and Sang-Kwon Lee; Dept. of Semiconductor Science and Technology, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea.

DD8.22
Fabrication and Characterization of high-efficiency ZnO Nanowire Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with a Branched Structure Dul-Il Suh1, Seung-Yong Lee1, J. Chun2, Tae-Hong Kim1, Chan-O Jang1, O-Bong Yang2 and Sang-Kwon Lee1; 1Dept. of Semiconductor Science and Technology, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea; 2School of Environment and Chemical Engineering, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea.

DD8.23
Magnetic-field Dependence of Valley Splitting for Si Quantum Wells Grown on Tilted SiGe Substrates. Seungwon Lee and Paul von Allmen; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

DD8.24
Abstract Withdrawn

DD8.25
Computer Simulation of Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth. Hee-Soo Kim1, Pil-Ryung Cha2 and Hee Seok Park1; 1Central R&D Institute, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Suwon, South Korea; 2School of Advanced Materials Engineering, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea.

DD8.26
Transferred to DD4.12

DD8.27
A Simple Phenomenological Model for Growth of Nanodots with ``magical sizes" Stabilized by Quantum Size Effect. Heikki Ristolainen and Ismo T. Koponen; Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

DD8.28
Calculation of Photosensitivity of Porous Silicon for Optoelectronic Devices. Liubomyr S Monastyrskii and Bogdan S. Sokolovskii; Electronics, Ivan Franko Natl Univ, Lviv, Ukraine.

DD8.29
Permittivity in Molecular Nanorods Sinisa Vucenovic1, Dusan Ilic2, Jovan Setrajcic3, Vjekoslav Sajfert4 and Dragoljub Mirjanic1; 1Medical faculty, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina; 2Faculty of technical sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia; 3Departmet of Physics, Faculty of natural sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia; 4Technical faculty "Mihajlo Pupin", University of Novi Sad, Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia.

DD8.30
Electron Energy Spectra of Single and Multiple AlGaN/GaN Quantum Dots with Spontaneous and Piezoelectric Polarization Effects Choudhury Jayant Praharaj, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California; ( formerly with ) Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

DD8.31
Abstract Withdrawn

DD8.32
Melting of Transition Metal Nanoclusters: Application to Carbon Nanotube Synthesis. Nikhil Joshi1, Douglas E. Spearot1,2 and Deepak Bhat1,2; 1MicroEp Program, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas; 2Mechanical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

DD8.33
Tetrahedral Silver Nanoparticles Produced by Inert Gas Condensation: An Experimental/simulation Study. Miguel Angel Gracia Pinilla1, Joel Antúnez-García1, Alfredo Tlahuice-Flores1, Carlos Fernández-Navarro1, Sergio Mejía-Rosales1, Eduardo Pérez-Tijerina1 and Miguel José-Yacamán2; 1Laboratorio de Nanociencias y Nanotecnología - Facultad de Ciencias Físico Matemáticas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico; 2Chemical Engineering Department and Texas Advanced Materials Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

DD8.34
Abstract Withdrawn

DD8.35
Abstract Withdrawn

DD8.36
Chains of Hydrocarbon Molecules Deposited onto Monolayer Steps on Si(100): A study of Adsorption and Conductance. Anna Mazzone, IMM Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

DD8.37
Abstract Withdrawn

DD8.38
A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study of CdSe Nanocrystal Formation Haitao Liu1,2, Jonathan S Owen1, Jeffrey Grossman3 and A. Paul Alivisatos1,2; 1Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California; 2Material Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California; 3Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California.

DD8.39
Simulating Light Emission in Silicon Nanocrystal Field Effect Light Emitting Devices. Robert J. Walters1, Douglas Bell2 and Harry A. Atwater1; 1Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; 2Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

DD8.40
Position Sensitive Growth of Mn Doped ZnO Nanowires on Si Substrate by CVD. Xiaomei Zhang1, Yue Zhang1, Yousong Gu1, Xiaoyuan Zhan1, Ruiping Gao2 and Kexin Chen2; 1Department of Materials Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China; 2National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing, China.

DD8.41
Initial Stages of the Formation of InAs/InP(001) Quantum Wires Studied by High-resolution Z Contrast Imaging. Sergio I Molina1,2, Maria Varela1, Stephen J Pennycook1, David L Sales2, Teresa Ben2, Joaquin Pizarro3, Pedro Galindo3, David Fuster4, Yolanda Gonzalez4 and Luisa Gonzalez4; 1Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, Tennessee; 2Departamento de Ciencia de los Materiales e IM y QI, Universidad de Cadiz, Puerto Real, Cadiz, Spain; 3Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos, Universidad de Cadiz, Puerto Real, Cadiz, Spain; 4Instituto de Microelectronica de Madrid IMM-CNM, Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

DD8.42
Electrical Characterization and Modeling of Geometry-dependent Resistivity Scaling in Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Films. Ashkan Behnam and Ant Ural; Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

DD8.43
Ferroelectricity in Ultra-thin BaTiO3 Films by LEED I-V and STS. Junsoo Shin1,2, V. B Nascimento1,2, S. V Kalinin2,3, E. W Plummer1,2,3 and A. P Baddorf2,3; 1Physics, Universtiy of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; 2Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; 3Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

DD8.44
Scaling of nanoporous materials: processing and mechanical properties Andrea Maria Hodge, Juergen Biener, Monika Biener, Octavio Cervantes and Alex Hamza; Nanoscale Synthesis and Characterization Laboratory, LLNL, Livermore, California.

DD8.45
In situ Observation of Dewetting and Pattern Formation of Au and Ag Nanocrystalline Thin Films on Reeconstructed c- and m-planes of Sapphire. Joysurya Basu1, Divakar Ramachandran1, Ravishankar Narayanan2 and C. Barry Carter1; 1Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 2Materials Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

DD8.46
In situ TEM Study of Dewetting and Solid-state Reactions of Nanocrystalline Thin-film Oxides on Sapphire. Divakar Ramachandran, Joysurya Basu and C. Barry Carter; Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

DD8.47
Characterization of Ge Nanocrystal/SiO2 multilayers Fabricated by Ion Beam Sputtering and Annealing. Seung Hui Hong1, Do Kyu Lee1, Sung Won Hwang1, Phil Sung Jung1, Suk-Ho Choi1 and Kyung Joong Kim2; 1College of Electronics and Information, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Kyungkido, South Korea; 2Division of Advanced Technology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon, South Korea.

DD8.48
Effect of Electron Irradiation on Nanogroove-networked Single-crystalline and Dendritic Polycrystalline Platinum Nanosheets. Masafumi Uota1, Takumi Yoshimura2,1, Takeshi Kuwahara2, Daisuke Fujikawa2,1, Hideya Kawasaki3,1, Go Sakai2,1 and Tsuyoshi Kijima2,1; 1Japan Science and Technology Agency, Miyazaki, Japan; 2Applied Chemistry, Miyazaki University, Miyazaki, Japan; 3Applied Chemistry, Kansai University, Suita, Japan.

DD8.49
Effects of Chirality and Diameter on Electron Transport Properties in Individual Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes. M. Z. Kauser and P. P. Ruden; Dept. of ECE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

DD8.50
Phonon Spectra and Thermodynamic Properties Of Crystalline Nanowires Dusan Ilic1, Siniša Vučenović2, Stevo Jaćimovski3, Vojkan Zorić3 and Jovan Šetrajčić3; 1Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Yugoslavia; 2Faculty of Medicine, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina; 3Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Yugoslavia.


SESSION DD9: Properties of Nanowires II
Chairs: Marija Drndic and Masaru Kuno
Wednesday Morning, April 11, 2007
Room 2001 (Moscone West)


NOTE EARLY START

8:00 AM DD9.1
Determination of the Young's modulus of individual electrospun nanofibers by microcantilever vibration method. Philip A. Yuya1, Yongkui Wen1, Zheng Li2, Joseph A. Turner1 and Yuris A. Dzenis1; 1Engineering Mechanics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska; 2Mechanics & Engineering Science, Peking University, Beijing, China.

8:15 AM DD9.2
Suspended Mechanical Structures Based on Elastic Silicon Nanowire Arrays. Alvaro San Paulo1,2, Noel Arellano2, Jose Antonio Plaza1, Rongrui He2, Carlo Carraro2, Roya Maboudian2, Roger T Howe3, Jeff Bokor2 and Peidong Yang2; 1Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, Bellaterra, Spain; 2University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California; 3University of Stanford, Stanford, California.

8:30 AM DD9.3
STM of Polydiacetylene Nanowires: Electrode Interactions and Stability . Rajiv Giridharagopal and Kevin F Kelly; Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

8:45 AM DD9.4
Investigation of the Heterojunction Sharpness of Nanowhiskers by Analytical TEM Measurements. Daniela Sudfeld1, Jochen Kästner1, Günter Dumpich1, Ingo Regolin2, Werner Prost2 and Franz-J. Tegude2; 1Experimental Physics - AG Farle, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany; 2Solid State Electronics Dept., University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany.

9:00 AM DD9.5
Size Effect of TiO2 Nanotubular Structures on Their Electrical Properties Sihyeong Kim, Bokyung Ahn, Changdeuck Bae and Hyunjung Shin; School of Advanced Materials Engineering, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea.

9:15 AM DD9.6
Measuring Thermal Conductivity and Electrical Breakdown of GaN Nanowires Elaine Lai, Reese Jones, George Wang, Richard Anderson, Bhavin Rokad and Alec Talin; Sandia National Labs, Livermore, California.

9:30 AM BREAK

SESSION DD10: Assembly, Patterning and Collective Properties
Chairs: Heinrich Jaeger and Masaru Kuno
Wednesday Morning, April 11, 2007
Room 2001 (Moscone West)

9:45 AM *DD10.1
Nanoparticle Electronics: Controlled Nanocrystal Assembly and High-resolution Device Fabrication on Silicon Nitride Membranes using Transmission Selectron Beams. Marija Drndic, Michael Fischbein, Claudia Querner and Zonghai Hu; Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

10:15 AM DD10.2
ENFilADIng: An Innovative Route to Nanowire Growth and Interfacing. Bret N. Flanders and Birol Ozturk; Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

10:30 AM DD10.3
Electron Transport Properties of Solution-Processed Semiconducting Quantum-Wire Solids. Debdeep Jena1, Amol Singh1, Vladimir Protasenko2, Huili Xing1 and Masaru Kuno2; 1Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana; 2Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.

10:45 AM DD10.4
Precise Nanoparticle Placement via Electrostatic Funneling* Vishva Ray, Hong-Wen Huang, Ramkumar Subramanian, Liang-Chieh Ma, Choong-Un Kim and Seong Jin Koh; The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas.

11:00 AM DD10.5
Strain-induced Self-assembled Oxide Nanostructures from Chemical Solutions. Marta Gibert Gutierrez1, P. Abellán1, C. Moreno1, F. Sandiumenge1, R. Hühne2, T. Puig1 and X. Obradors1; 1Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona ICMAB-CSIC, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain; 2Institute for Metallic Materials, IFW-Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

11:15 AM DD10.6
Direct Assembly of Quantum Confined Nano-particles. Ingo Pluemel1,2, Klemens Hitzbleck2, Ivo W. Rangelow4, Jan Meijer3 and Hartmut Wiggers2; 1Experimental Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany; 2Institute of Combustion and Gasdynamics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany; 3RUBION, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany; 4Institute for Micro- and Nanoelectronics, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany.

11:30 AM DD10.7
Lipid Nanotubes as Scaffolds for Selective Deposition of CdS Nanodots Yong Zhou1 and Shimizu Toshimi1,2; 1SORST, Tsukuba Central 5, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; 2Nanoarhcitectonics Research Center (NARC), Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

11:45 AM DD10.8
High Resolution DNA Arrays by Supramolecular Nanostamping Ozge Akbulut1, Jin-Mi Jung2, Ryan Bennett3, Robert Cohen3, Anne Mayes1 and Francesco Stellacci1; 1DMSE, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 2Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea; 3Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

SESSION DD11: Assembly, Patterning and Collective Properties II
Chairs: Bret Flanders and Masaru Kuno
Wednesday Afternoon, April 11, 2007
Room 2001 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM DD11.1
Drying Mediated Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles from a Sphere-on-Flat Geometry. Zhiqun Lin and Jun Xu; Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

1:45 PM DD11.2
One-Nanometer-Scale Size-Controlled Synthesis and 2D Self-Assembly of Monodisperse Gold Nanoparticles. Sang-Kee Eah and James Ian Basham; Department of Physics, Applied Phyics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

2:00 PM *DD11.3
Dried to Order: Metal Nanocrystal Superlattices Self-Assembled from Solution Heinrich Jaeger, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

2:30 PM DD11.4
Fabrication, Optimization and Modeling of Highly Ordered Assemblies of Monodisperse Metallic Nanostructure Arrays. Aniketa Shinde2,1, Chulsu Jo2, Jiun Pyng You1, Ju Hyeon Choi1, Ruqian Wu1 and Regina Ragan2; 1CheMS, UC Irvine, Irvine, California; 2Physics & Astronomy, UC Irvine, Irvine, California.

2:45 PM DD11.5
Templated Growth of Complex Hybrid Nanostructures Erik D. Spoerke, Thomas Sounart, Julia W.P. Hsu and James Voigt; Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

3:00 PM DD11.6
Quantum Dot Microrods. Arya Ghadimi, Ludovico Cademartiri, Reihaneh Malakooti and Geoffrey A. Ozin; Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

3:15 PM BREAK

3:30 PM DD11.7
Hierarchically Organized Nanoparticle Mesostructure Arrays Formed through Hydrothermal Self-Assembly. Hongyou Fan1,2, Adam Wright2, John Gabaldon2, Bruce Burckel1, Jeffrey Brinker1, Ryan Tian1 and Jun Liu1; 1Sandia National Lab, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

3:45 PM DD11.8
General Approach to Large Area Films of Aligned Nanowires and Carbon Nanotubes via Bubble Expansion Guihua Yu1, Anyuan Cao2 and Charles M. Lieber1,3; 1Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 2Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii; 3Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

4:00 PM DD11.9
Nano-Polymers. Gretchen A DeVries1, Frajovon R. Talley2 and Francesco Stellacci1; 1DMSE, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 2Howard University, Washington D.C., District of Columbia.

4:15 PM DD11.10
Silica Nanoparticles Three Dimensional Assembly: an Integrative Chemistry Approach toward Designing Opal-Like Silica Foams Renal Backov and Florent Carn; CNRS-Universite Bordeaux-I, Pessac, France.

4:30 PM DD11.11
Tailoring ``Internal" Microstructure of Functional Inorganic Nanopatterns. Suresh Kumar Donthu1,2, Zixiao Pan1,2 and Vinayak P Dravid1,2; 1Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, evanston, Illinois; 2International Institute for Nanotechnology, Evanston, Illinois.

4:45 PM DD11.12
MOCVD Behaviors of Two-sized InGaAs Ordered Nano-bar Arrays Grown Selectively on a GaAs Substrate. Benzhong Wang and Soo-Jin Chua; Opto-and Electronic Systems Cluster, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore, Singapore.

SESSION DD12: Poster Session: Synthesis and Characterization I
Chairs: Sanat Kumar, Masaru Kuno, Xiao-Min Lin, Ruth Pachter and Moonsub Shim
Wednesday Evening, April 11, 2007
8:00 PM
Salon Level (Marriott)

DD12.1
Imaging and Nanopatterning in Liquids: in situ Studies of Electron Beam Induced Catalytic Deposition of Ag on TiO2 Nanowires from Aqueous Solutions Natalia Kolmakova1, John Bozzola2 and Andrei Kolmakov1; 1Physics, SIUC, Carbondale, Illinois; 2IMAGE Center, SIUC, Carbondale, Illinois.

DD12.2
Polarization Photo-sensitivity of Randomly Oriented CdSe and CdTe Nanowires. Vladimir Protasenko1, Gabor Galantai1, Huili(Grace) Xing2, Debdeep Jena2 and Masaru Kuno1; 1Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana; 2Electronic Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.

DD12.3
One-dimensional Necklace of Metal Nanoparticles that Exhibits Coulomb Blockade at Room Temperature. Jennifer Kane, Vivek Maheshwari and Ravi Saraf; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska.

DD12.4
Size-dependent Quantum Efficiency and Radiative Lifetime of Si Nanocrystals Embedded in SiNx Films. Jae-Heon Shin1, Chul Huh1, Kyung-Hyun Kim1, Jongcheol Hong1, Gun Yong Sung1, Yong-Hwan Kim2, Yong-Hoon Cho2 and Joong-Kon Son3; 1IT-Convergence Technology Research Div., Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, South Korea; 2Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea; 3Photonics Program Team, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Suwon, South Korea.

DD12.5
Abstract Withdrawn

DD12.6
Deformation of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Metallic Nanowires. Austin Miles Leach1, Matt McDowell1 and Ken Gall1,2; 1Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; 2George Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

DD12.7
Optical Properties of III-metal Nanoparticles/semiconductor Systems. Pae C Wu1, Maria Losurdo1,2, Tong-Ho Kim1, Giovanni Bruno2 and April S. Brown1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; 2Institute of Inorganic Methodologies and of Plasmas - CNR and INSTM, Bari, Italy.

DD12.8
Enhanced Optical Properties of Au/ZnO core/shell Nanocrystals. Myung-Ki Lee and Yun-Mo Sung; Materials Sci. & Eng., Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.

DD12.9
Multi-Phase Titania Nanoparticles for High-Performance Photocatalyst Yun-Mo Sung and Jun-Su Park; Materials Sci. & Eng., Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.

DD12.10
Characterization and Preparation of the ITO Target which Make use of Various Sizes of Tin Oxide. Ji-Hoon Rhee, Myung Geun Song, Pil-Sang Yun, Kyung Koo Jeong, Yun Ju Cho and Ju Ok Park; Nano Materials Lab, Samsung Corning, Suwon, South Korea.

DD12.11
Photoreflectance Spectroscopy in InAs/GaAs Heterostructures Jun Oh Kim1,2, Sang Jun Lee2, Sam Kyu Noh2, Kyu-Seok Lee3 and Jung Woo Choe1; 1Physics and Applied Physics, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, South Korea; 2Quantum Dot Technology Laboratory, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon, South Korea; 3Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute, Daejeon, South Korea.

DD12.12
Fabrication and Optical Properties of Nanocrystalline ZnO Composite Films on Si Substrates. Young-Hwan Kim1, Woon-Jo Cho2, Seong-Il Kim1 and Yong Tae Kim1; 1Semiconductor Materials and Devices Laboratory, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea; 2Nano Device Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea.

DD12.13
Electrical Characteristics of HgTe Nanocrystal-based Thin-film Transistors Fabricated on Flexible Plastic Substrates. Jaewon Jang, Dong-Won Kim, Kyoungah Cho and Sangsig Kim; Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.

DD12.14
Boundaries Between MgO Smoke Particles. Julia Deneen Nowak and C. Barry Carter; Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

DD12.15
Structural and Magnetic Characteristics of Self-Assembled Nickel Nanoparticles in CeO2 Thin Films Adero Paige1, Jeremiah Abiade1, Dhananjay Kumar1 and A. K. Majumdar2; 1North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, North Carolina; 2S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India.

DD12.16
In situ Synchrotron Absorption Experiments and Modelling of the Growth Rates of Electrochemically Deposited ZnO Nanostructures. Bridget Ingham1,2, Benoit Illy3, Jade Mackay4, Stephen White1, Shaun Hendy1,5 and Mary Ryan3; 1Industrial Research Limited, Lower Hutt, New Zealand; 2SSRL, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Palo Alto, California; 3Department of Materials, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom; 4School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand; 5MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Wellington, New Zealand.

DD12.17
Fabrication and Applications of Se-coated CdSe Nanowires Prepared by Chemical Treatments and Molecular Surface Engineering. Ngai Sze Lam, Ka Wai Wong and Quan Li; Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

DD12.18
CNT Growth by Direct-Writing Wu Yu-Tsung and Tri-Rung Yew; National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

DD12.19
Rational Synthesis of P-type Zinc Oxide Nanowire Arrays Bin Xiang1, Pengwei Wang2, Xingzheng Zhang2, Shadi Dayeh1, David Aplin1, Cesare Soci1, Dapeng Yu2 and Deli Wang1; 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California; 2Electron Microscopy Laboratory, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China.

DD12.20
Fabrication Of Piezoelectric Lead Zirconate Titanate Nanotubes By Spin Coating Of Sol-Gel Solution Using Porous Alumina Membranes. Sang Don Bu, Jongok Kim, Yong Chan Choi and Jin Kyu Han; Physics, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea.

DD12.21
Synthesis of Unit Oriented MWNTs on SiO2 Particle. Junming Xu and Huibin Qin; College of electronic information, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

DD12.22
Controlled Synthesis of Single-Crystal Organic Nanowires of Cu-Phthalocyanine by Organic Vapor-Phase Deposition (OVPD) Method Kai Xiao1, Jing Tao2, Ilia Ivanov1, Alex Puretzky1, HoNyung Lee2, Stephen Pennycook2 and David Geohegan1,2; 1Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; 2Materials Science and Techonology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

DD12.23
Synthesis and Properties of Boron Nitride Nanotubes, Nanowires and Nanorods. Ying Chen, Hua Chen, Jun Yu, Yongjun Chen and Hongzhou Zhang; Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

DD12.24
Transferred to DD3.11/EE2.11

DD12.25
Synthesis and Transport Properties of Vapor-liquid-solid Grown Si1-xGex Nanowire. 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.

DD12.26
General Route to Template-Directed Gas-Phase Fabrication of Oxide Nanotubes Changdeuck Bae1, Bokyung Ahn1, Moonchul Kang1, Jiyoung Kim2, Myung M. Sung3 and Hyunjung Shin1; 1School of Advanced Materials Engineering, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea; 2Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas, Dallas, Texas; 3Department of Chemistry, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea.

DD12.27
Self-Assembled Fluorocarbon Template for Growth of Nano-Scale Platinum. Sang Hwui Lee, Zhengchun Liu, J. Jay McMahon and Jian-Qiang Lu; CIE, RPI, Troy, New York.

DD12.28
Single-Crystalline Bismuth Telluride Nanowires Grown by a Stress-induced Method Jinhee Ham, Wooyoung Shim, Seunghyun Lee and Wooyoung Lee; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.

DD12.29
Nitrogen Mediated Synthesis of Au/Carbon Nanotubes Weon Ho Shin, Seong Ho Yang and Jeung Ku Kang; MSE, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea.

DD12.30
Pinching of Alkoxide Jets - a Route for Preparing Nanometre Level Sharp Oxide Fibres. Tanel Tätte1, Kristjan Saal1, Ilmar Kink1, Uno Mäeorg2, Rünno Lõhmus1 and Ants Lõhmus1; 1Lab. Of Low Temperatures, Institute of Physics, Tartu, Tatu, Estonia; 2Department of Organic Chemistry, Institute of Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry, Tartu, Estonia.

DD12.31
Electron-beam Induced Growth of Silica Nanowires and Silica/Carbon Heterostructures Francisco Sola, Oscar Resto, Azlin Biaggi-Labiosa and Luis F Fonseca; Physics, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

DD12.32
Ex-situ Doping and Characterization of Silicon Nanowires. Sarang Ingole1, Pavan Aella1, Teresa Clement1, E. Akhadov2 and S. T. Picraux2,1; 1School of Materials, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; 2Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

DD12.33
Fabrication of Thermal Reduced Ag Nano-wires with Titanium Dioxide. Hsien-Tse Tung1, Cheng-Wei Yen1, Tzu-Hsuan Kao1, Jenn-Ming Song2, Chang-Shu Kuo1 and In-Gann Chen1; 1Materials Science and Engineering, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; 2Materials Science and Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan.

DD12.34
Selective Area Growth of ZnO Nanowires on Group III Oxide Nanowires/nanoparticles using Implantation-assisted Technique and MOCVD. Kwong Chun Lo, Hui Wang and Ho Pui Ho; Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

DD12.35
Mesoporous Nanowires and Nanotubes Prepared from a Confined-Passembly-template Assisted Electrodeposition. Hongmei Luo1, Yunfeng Lu2 and Quanxi Jia1; 1Superconductivity Technology Center, Materials Physics and Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico; 2Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

DD12.36
Synthesis of Pyramidal Lead Sulphide (PbS) Thin Films by Employing Liquid-liquid Interface. Dongbo Fan, Peter John Thomas and Paul O'Brien; Shool of chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.

DD12.37
Polyol Mediated Design of Core-Shell Pd-on-Au Bimetallic Nanoparticles. Domingo Ferrer1, Alejandro Torres-Castro1, Xiaoxia Gao1, Selene Sepulveda-Guzman1 and Miguel Jose-Yacaman1,2; 1Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; 2Texas Advanced Materials Center, Austin, Texas.

DD12.38
Highly Water-Soluble Monodisperse Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanocrystals Yadong Yin, Jianping Ge and Yongxing Hu; Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California.

DD12.39
Mixed-Surfactant-Templated Synthesis of Nanogroove-Network Structured Platinum Nanosheets and Their Electrochemical Characterization. Tsuyoshi Kijima1,2, Takumi Yoshimura1,2, Go Sakai1,2, Shusaku Isohata1, Masafumi Uota2, Hideya Kawasaki3,2 and Daisuke Fujikawa1,2; 1Applied Chemistry, Miyazaki University, Miyazki-city, Japan; 2CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Miyazaki, Japan; 3Applied Chemistry, Kansai University, Suita, Japan.

DD12.40
Understanding Shape Control in Nanoparticle Synthesis. Jeremy J Gray1, Danxu Du2, David Srolovitz3 and Christine A Orme1; 1Chemistry, Materials and life sciences, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livemore, California; 2Department of mechanical and aerospace engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; 3Department of Physics, Yeshiva University, New York, New York.

DD12.41
Microwave Assisted Synthesis of Iron Oxide and Mixed Iron Oxide Nanoparticles. Jason G. Parsons1, C. Luna1, C. Botez2, J. Elizalde2, J. Peralta Videa1 and J. L Gardea-Torresdey1; 1Chemistry, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas; 2Physics, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas.

DD12.42
Synthesis and Characterization of Nanoscale ZnO and MgO. Peter Yaron1, Zhengwei Pan2, Andi Barbour1 and J. Z. Larese1,2; 1Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; 2Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

DD12.43
Formation of Silver Nanostructures on MgZnO hexagonal and Cubic Alloys Shiva S Hullavarad and Nilima V Hullavarad; Office of Electronic Miniaturization, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska.

DD12.44
Probing and Tuning the Chemistry and Structure of Nanocrystalline Cerium Oxide. Satyanarayana VNT Kuchibhatla1,2, Ajay S Karakoti1, Sudipta Seal1,3, Mark H Engelhard2, Donald R Baer2 and Thevuthasan Suntharampillai2; 1Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center, University of Central Florida, Richland, Washington; 2Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory,Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Florida; 3Nanoscience and Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.

DD12.45
Synthesis and Characterization of Variable Pore Size, Ordered Cylindrical Nanopores in Alumina. Michael Felty1, Paige Landry1, Andi Barbour1 and J. Z. Larese1,2; 1Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; 2Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

DD12.46
Nanoscale Site-Selective Nucleation and Growth on Planar and Colloidal Surfaces Changdeuck Bae and Hyunjung Shin; School of Advanced Materials Engineering, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea.

DD12.47
Fabrication of Doped ZnO(Mn, Co) Nanostructures with Room Temperature Ferromagnetism by Chemical Vapo Deposition. Jingjing Liu, Amber West, Minghui Yu and Weilie Zhou; Advanced Materials Research Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana.

DD12.48
Position-controlled Heteroepitaxial Growth of InAs Nanowires on Lattice-mismatched Substrates by Selective Area Metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy. Katsuhiro Tomioka, Junichiro Takeda, Ling Yang, Shinjiroh Hara, Junichi Motohisa and Takashi Fukui; Graduate School of Information Science and Technology and Research Center for Integrated Quantum Electronics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

SESSION DD13: Devices and Applications of Low Dimensional Materials
Chairs: Robert Hamers, Margaret Hines and Xiao-Min Lin
Thursday Morning, April 12, 2007
Room 2001 (Moscone West)


NOTE EARLY START

8:00 AM DD13.1
Architectural Design, 1-D Walls, 3-D Plumbing, and Interior Design en route to Multifunctional Nanoarchitectures Debra R. Rolison and Jeffrey W. Long; Surface Chemistry Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia.

8:15 AM DD13.2
Fabrication and Transport Characterization of Embedded Vertical Ge Nanowires Paul W Leu1, Terry Hou2, Kyeongjae Cho3 and Paul McIntyre2; 1Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California; 2Materials Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California; 3Physics, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas.

8:30 AM DD13.3
Magnetic Separation and Water Treatment with Monodisperse Fe3O4 Nanocrystals. John Thomas Mayo1, Cafer Yavuz1, William Yu1, Arjun Prakash2, Joshua Falkner1, Sujin Yean3, Lili Cong3, Heather Shipley3, Amy Kan3, Mason Tomson3, Douglas Natelson4 and Vicki Colvin1; 1Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas; 2Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas; 3Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas; 4Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

8:45 AM DD13.4
Biological Applications of Phase Separated Gold Nanoparticles. Oktay Uzun, Darrell Irvine and Francesco Stellacci; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

9:00 AM *DD13.5
Directed Assembly and Real-time Detection of Nanowire Bridges for Direct Digital Sensing Robert J. Hamers1, Bo Li1, Lu Shang1, Joe Beck1 and Ed Perkins2; 1University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; 2Army Environmental Lab, Vicksburg, Mississippi.

9:30 AM DD13.6
A Self-Assembled, Nanoparticle Based Tactile Sensor with Sensitivity & Resolution of Human Finger. Vivek Maheshwari and Ravi Saraf; Chemical Engineering, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska.

9:45 AM DD13.7
Glycine-coated Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors (SWNT-FETs) for Alcohol Specific Sensor Applications. Hyun Jae Song and Hee Cheul Choi; Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Kyungbuk, South Korea.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM DD13.8
Schottky, p-n Junction and Light Emitting Diodes Employing (In,Ga)N Nanorod Heterostructures. Parijat Pramil Deb1,2, Hogyoung Kim4,2, Yexian Qin4,2, Roya Lahiji4,2, Mark Oliver1,2, David Ewoldt1,2, Ron Reifenberger4,2 and Timothy Sands2,1,3; 1Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; 2Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; 3Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; 4Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

10:45 AM DD13.9
Lead Chalcogenide Nanowires and Hyperbranches for Multiexciton Generation Solar Cells Yi Cui, Jia Zhu and Hailin Peng; Stanford University, Stanford, California.

11:00 AM *DD13.10
Quantum Dot Synthesis - The Journey from Milligram to Kilogram. Margaret A. Hines, Evident Technologies, Troy, New York.

11:30 AM DD13.11
Growth and Characterization of InAs Quantum Dot Enhanced Photovoltaic Devices. Seth Hubbard1, Ryne Raffaelle1, Ross Robinson1, David Wilt2 and Sheila Bailey2; 1Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; 2Photovoltaic and Space Environment Branch, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio.

11:45 AM DD13.12
Silicon and Silicon-Germanium Nanorod and Nanorod Array Synthesis for Solar Cell Applications. Brendan M. Kayes, Michael A. Filler, Morgan C. Putnam, Michael D. Kelzenberg, Julie S. Biteen and Harry A. Atwater; Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

SESSION DD14: Devices and Applications of Low Dimensional Materials II
Chairs: Yi Cui and Xiao-Min Lin
Thursday Afternoon, April 12, 2007
Room 2001 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *DD14.1
Nanowire Building Blocks for Photonics & Electronics Peidong Yang, University of California, Berkeley, California.

2:00 PM DD14.2
New Maskless Process for Directed Assembly of Nanowire Electrical Contacts. Sarang Ingole1, Pavan Aella1, S. J. Hearne2 and S. T. Picraux3,1; 1School of Materials, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; 2Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 3Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

2:15 PM DD14.3
High Performance Silicon Nanowire Transistors by the Self-assembling ``Grow-in-Place" Approach. Yinghui Shan and Stephen J. Fonash; Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

2:30 PM DD14.4
Ultra-large Scale Directed Assembly of Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Devices. Aravind Vijayaraghavan, Sabine Blatt, Matti Oron-Carl, Frank Hennrich, Horst Hahn and Ralph Krupke; Institut für Nanotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany.

2:45 PM DD14.5
Schottky-Barrier Si Nanowire MOSFET: Effects of Source/Drain Metals and Gate Dielectrics. Weifeng Yang, Sung Jin Whang, Sung Joo Lee, Haichen Zhu, Hanlu Gu and Byung Jin Cho; ECE department, SNDL, NUS, Singapore, Singapore.

3:00 PM DD14.6
Modeling the Carrier Mobility in InAs Nanowire Channel FET. Werner Prost, Quoc-Thai Do, Ingo Regolin, Kai Blekker and Franz-Josef Tegude; Solid-State Electronics Department, University Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany.

3:15 PM BREAK

SESSION DD15: Synthesis and Characterization of Nanoscale Materials
Chairs: Masaru Kuno, Moonsub Shim and Peidon Yang
Thursday Afternoon, April 12, 2007
Room 2001 (Moscone West)

3:30 PM *DD15.1
Synthesis and Characterization of Ultrathin Nanorods, Nanowires, and Nanoribbons of Oxides and Chalcogenides Taeghwan Hyeon1,2, Taekyung Yu1,2, Kwangjin An1,2, Sang-Hyun Choi1,2, Jung Ho Yu1,2 and Jin Joo1,2; 1School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; 2National Creative Research Center for Oxide Nanocrystalline Materials, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.

4:00 PM DD15.2
Growth and Properties of Superconducting Anisotropic Lead Nanoprisms Xiao-Min Lin1, Helmut Claus2, Ulrich Welp2, Igor Beloborodov2, Laura Adams3, Wai-Kwong Kwok2, George Crabtree2 and Heinrich Jaeger3; 1Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Lab, Argonne, Illinois; 2Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois; 3The James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

4:15 PM DD15.3
Cetyltrialkylammonium Bromide Mediated Growth of Gold Nanorods and Bipyramids Chia-kuang (Frank) Tsung1,2, Xiaoshan Kou2, Jianfang Wang2 and Galen D Stucky1; 1Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 2Department of Physics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.

4:30 PM DD15.4
Plasmonic and Structural Effects in the Growth of Ag Triangular Nanoplates Tulio Rizzuti Rocha2,1, Herbert Winnischofer3, Eduard Westphal4, Sócrates Dantas2, Douglas Galvão2 and Daniela Zanchet1; 1Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron, Campinas, São paulo, Brazil; 2Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil; 3Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil; 4Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil.

4:45 PM DD15.5
Kinetically Controlled Synthesis of Pd Nanoplates and Nanorods: Two Anisotropic Shapes with Tunable Plasmonic Properties Yujie Xiong and Younan Xia; Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

SESSION DD16: Poster Session: Synthesis and Characterization II
Chairs: Sanat Kumar, Masaru Kuno, Xiao-Min Lin, Ruth Pachter and Moonsub Shim
Thursday Evening, April 12, 2007
8:00 PM
Salon Level (Marriott)

DD16.1
Abstract Withdrawn

DD16.2
Solvothermal Synthesis and Self-assembly of One-Dimensional FePt and Fe3O4 Nanoparticles Min Chen1,2 and Hongyou Fan1; 1Advanced Materials Lab, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2Center for Micro-Engineered Materials, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

DD16.3
Single-crystalline Si Nanotip Array Fabricated Using Si-based Porous Anodic Alumina Template. GaoShan Huang1, XingLong Wu1 and Paul K. Chu2; 1National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China; 2Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

DD16.4
Sol Gel Synthesis of Ge Nanophases in Silica Matrix. Norberto Chiodini, Sergio Brovelli, Alessandro Lauria and Alberto Paleari; Dip. di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.

DD16.5
Surface Modification of Si Nanocones Fabricated by Porous Anodic Aluminum Oxide Templation. Te-Ming Chen1, Jui-Yi Hung1, Fu-Ming Pan1, Shich-Chuan Wu2 and L. Chang1; 1Dept. Mat. Sci. Eng., National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan; 2National Nano Device Laboratories, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

DD16.6
Post-annealing Induced Formation of ZnO Nanowires on the ZnO Films in the N2O Ambient. Ping-Yuan Lin1, Wei-Tsai Liao1, Kuo-Yi Yan1, Chia-Chi Chang1, Jyh-Rong Gong1, Jian-Hao Lin2 and Tai-Yuan Lin2; 1Department of Physics, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung City, Taiwan; 2Institute of Optoelectronic Sciences, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan.

DD16.7
Controlled Synthesis of Highly Branched TiO2 Nanowire Heawon Chung1,2, Young-wook Jun1, Mi-yun Kim1 and Jinwoo Cheon1,2; 1Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; 2Nanomedical National Core Research Center, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.

DD16.8
Biosynthesis of CdS and ZnS nanoparticles by two different Fungus Luis Reyes1, Idalia Gomez1, Teresa Garza1 and Patricia Zambrano2; 1Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico; 2Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica, UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico.

DD16.9
Templated Growth of Semiconductor Nanostructures Using Block Copolymer Lithography Seth Taylor1, Azar Alizadeh1, David Hays1, Kasi Krishnan1, Chris Keimel1, Lauraine Denault1, Rosalyn Neander1, Ken Conway1, Oliver Boomhower1, Sanjay Krishna2, Andreas Stintz2, Jay Brown2, Edit Braunstein3 and Colin Jones3; 1GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York; 2University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 3Lockheed Martin, Orlando, Florida.

DD16.10
Size and Shape Control of Nickel Nanoparticles. Yi Yang, Yang Xiang, Chandra Khadilkar and Aziz Shaikh; Ferro Corporation, Independence, Ohio.

DD16.11
Scalable Synthesis of Silver Nanocubes in Less than a Minute under Microwave irradiation Subrata Kundu and Ravi F Saraf; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Department of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, Lincoln, Nebraska.

DD16.12
Crystallografy of the Catalytic System of Small Metallic Gold Particles Supported on Coexisting Titania Phases. Amado F. Garcia-Ruiz, Physics, UPIICSA-IPN, México, D. F., Mexico.

DD16.13
One-Step Microwave Preparation of Well-defined Polymeric Nanoparticles Zesheng An1,3, Wei Tang1, Craig J. Hawker1,2,3 and Galen D Stucky1,2,3; 1Chemistry, UCSB, Santa Barbara, California; 2Materials Research Laboratory, UCSB, Santa Barbara, California; 3Mitsubishi Center for Advanced Materials, UCSB, Santa Barbara, California.

DD16.14
Abstract Withdrawn

DD16.15
Enhanced Near UV Emission from Sunflower-like Nanostructures Composed of SiOx Nanorods with Spotty SnO2 Nanoparticles Kum M. Li, Yi-Jing Li, Ming-Yen Lu, Jr-Hau He and Lih-J. Chen; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

DD16.16
III-VI Compound Semiconductor Indium Selenide (In2Se3) Nanowires: Synthesis and Characterization Xuhui Sun, Garrick Ng, Thuc Dinh Nguyen and Bin Yu; Ames Center for Advanced Aerospace Materials and Devices, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

DD16.17
Syntheses, Structures and Magnetic Properties of 1D Metallomacrocyclic Complexes. Mi Hyang Jeong, Ju Chang Kim and Young Soo Kang; Chemistry, Pukyong National Univ., Busan, South Korea.

DD16.18
Transferred to DD17.2

DD16.19
Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes Grown by a Non-Metal Catalyst Method Shanee Houston, Gail Brown, Bill Mitchel and John Boeckl; Wright Patterson Air Force Base/Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson, Ohio.

DD14.20
The Significance of Catalyst to Hydrocarbon Ratio in the CVD Synthesis of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Gregg S. B. McKee and Kenneth Scott Vecchio; Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.

DD16.21
One step synthesis and densification of Nanocrystalline NbSi2-Si3N4 Composite by High-Frequency Induction heated Combustion In-Jin Shon1, Hyun-Kuk Park2, In-Kyoon Jeong3, In-Yong Ko4 and Jin-Kook Yoon5; 1Advanced Materials, Chonbuk University, JeonJu, Jeonbuk, South Korea; 2Advanced Materials, Chonbuk University, Jeonju, Jeonbuk, South Korea; 3Advanced Materials, Chonbuk University, JeonJu, Jeonbuk, South Korea; 4Advanced Materials, Chonbuk University, JeonJu, Jeonbuk, South Korea; 5Metal Processing Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Seoul, South Korea.

DD16.22
Ultrafast Pulsed Laser Ablation as a Method for Synthesis of Nanocrystals Bing Liu1, Zhendong Hu1, Yanbin Chen2, Xiaoqing Pan2 and Yong Che1; 1IMRA America Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan; 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

DD16.23
Paramagnetic Polynuclear Transition Metal Clusters with Redox Active Ligands Derived from TTFs. Lahcene Ouahab, Kostyantyn Gavrylenko, Yann Le Gal, Olvier Cador and Stephane Golhen; Chemistry, UMR CNRS 6226 University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France.

DD16.24
Abstract Withdrawn

DD16.25
The Effect of Ge Layers on the Kinetics of NiSi2 Islands Formation Ling-Hui Wu and Cho-Jen Tsai; Material Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

DD16.26
New Palladium Nanomaterials for Catalysis : Mechanisms Controlling Formation and Evolution of Nanostructures in a Seed-mediated Synthesis. Laure Bisson1,2, Cedric Boissiere1, Clément Sanchez1, Cecile Thomazeau2 and Denis Uzio2; 1Catalyse et Séparation, Institut Français du pétrole, Vernaison, France; 2Laboratoire Chimie de la Matière Condensée, UPMC, Paris, France.

DD16.27
Low Density Aerogels and Foams: Self-assembled Macroscopic Structures Controlled on the Nanometer Scale. John Joseph Karnes, Streit John and Nicole Petta; Schafer Corporation, Livermore, California.

DD16.28
Formation of Zinc Layered Double Hydroxide in Colloidal ZnO Nanoparticles Dazhi Sun1, Minhao Wong2, Nobuo Miyatake3 and Hung-Jue Sue1; 1Mechanical Engineering Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; 2Kaneka Corporation, Takasago, Hyogo, Japan; 3Kaneka Texas Corporation, Pasadena, Texas.

DD16.29
IB Element Doped p-ZnO Nanorods and their Optical Properties. Ji-Won Choi1, Jung-Wook Lee1, Heung-Chun Park1, Hyunmi Hwang2, Jaeyong Lee2 and Won-Kook Choi1; 1Thin Film Materials Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea; 2Department of Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.

DD16.30
In-Situ Core/Shell Structured FePt/ZnFe2O4 Magnetic Nanoparticles Ki-Eun Kim and Yun-Mo Sung; Materials Sci. & Eng., Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.

DD16.31
Structural Control of Carbon Nanowalls and Their Properties as a Transparent Conducting Material Suguru Noda, Rie Nishimoto, Hisashi Sugime, Susumu Inasawa, Yoshiko Tsuji and Yukio Yamaguchi; Department of Chemical System Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

DD16.32
Expansion and Characterization of Mesostructures in Aerosol-generated Particles. Malin Sorensen1, Juan Jose Valle-Delgado2, Robert Corkery1 and Peter Alberius1; 1Institute for Surface Chemistry, Stockholm, Sweden; 2Department of Chemistry, Surface Chemistry, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

DD16.33
Vertically Aligned Growth and Characterization of III-Nitride Nanowires and Heterostructure Nanowires. George T Wang1, A. Alec Talin1, J. Randall Creighton1, Donald J. Werder2, Elaine Lai1, Richard J. Anderson1 and Ilke Arslan1; 1Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

DD16.34
Synthesis of 1D Nanorods of Phthalocyanine Using Porous Alumina as a Template and Magnetic Control of the Molecular Orientation During Solidification. Seiichi Takami, Yasuhiro Shirai, Yutaka Wakayama and Toyohiro Chikyow; Advanced Electronic Materials Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

DD16.35
CoP-based Material as a Catalyst for Carbon Nanotube Via Formation at 400C Guo-Dung Chen, Tri-Rung Yew and Chung-Min Tsai; Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Taiwan.

DD16.36
Study on the Growth of ZnO Micro and Nano-structures at Low Temperature and Atmospheric Pressure. Monica Morales1, B. Claflin1,2, G. C. Farlow1 and D. C. Look1,2; 1Physics, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; 2Semiconductor Research Center, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.

DD16.37
Synthesis of Zinc-Blende CdSe Core Based Type I (Core)Shell and (Core) Double Shell Quantum Dots and Their Optical Properties. Sung Jun Lim, Yongwook Kim and Seung Koo Shin; Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Kyungbuk, South Korea.

DD16.38
Novel Aapproach to the Synthesis of Mn-doped CdSe Nanocrystals. Woo-Chul Kwak and Yun-Mo Sung; Materials Sci. & Eng., Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.

DD16.39
Water-soluble TOPO-Free All Zinc-Blende Structure (Core)Shell Quantum Dots: Synthesis, Characterization and Fluorescence Tagging on Biomolecules. Yongwook Kim, Sung Jun Lim, Min-Soo Suh, Hye Jin Ham, Hye-Joo Yoon, Bonghwan Chon, Taiha Joo and Seung Koo Shin; Dept. of chemistry, POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea.

DD16.40
Roles of Pre-Laser-Ablation of Mn in Growth of ZnO Nanorods by Chemical Vapor Deposition Takashi Hirate, Hiroshi Miyashita and Tomomasa Satoh; Electronics and Informatics Frontiers, Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan.

DD16.41
PLA-CVD Growth of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays. Zuqin Liu1, Alex Puretzky1,2, David Styers-Barnett1, Chris Rouleau1,2, Gyula Eres1,2 and David Geohegan1,2; 1Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; 22Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

DD16.42
Fabrication Of Metallic Chromium Nano- And Micro-Structures By Gas Phase Reaction. Luis A Valentin, Luis F Fonseca and Oscar Resto; Physics, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

DD16.43
A Study of the Effects of Electrolyte on the Formation of Porous Alumina Loosineh Avakians, Lynn Trahey and Angelica Stacy; Chemistry, University of Berkeley California, Berkeley, California.

DD16.44
Understanding the Growth Mechanism of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Using ``Spin-on-Catalyst" Method. Seung Min Kim1, Mark Pender2, Tyson C. Back3, Allison Jacques2, Benji Maruyama2 and Eric A. Stach1; 1School of Materials Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; 2Materials & Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio; 3Materials Engineering, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio.

DD16.45
Low Temperature Synthesis of Thick Diamond Films based on Low Power CVD Techniques. Xinpeng Wang, Physics, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

DD16.46
Abstract Withdrawn

DD16.47
Abstract Withdrawn

DD16.48
Controlled Growth of Heterophase TiO2 Nanowires via CVD Jung-Chul Lee and Yun-Mo Sung; Materials Sci. & Eng., Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.

SESSION DD17: Synthesis and Characterization of Nanoscale Materials II
Chairs: Xiao-Min Lin and Horst Weller
Friday Morning, April 13, 2007
Room 2001 (Moscone West)

8:30 AM *DD17.1
Synthesis of Luminescent and Magnetic Nanoparticles and their Use in Materials- and Life Sciences Horst Weller, Physical Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

9:00 AM DD17.2
Synthesis of Crystalline BaTiO3 Nanocrystals with Surface Capping Ligands and Self-Assembly of Nanocrystals. Zhuoying Chen1,2, Jiaqing He3, Yimei Zhu3 and Stephen O'Brien1,2; 1Applied Physics and Applied Math, Columbia University, New York, New York; 2Columbia Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), Columbia University, New York, New York; 3Center for Functional nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York.

9:15 AM DD17.3
Synthesis, Characterisation and Understanding of the Crystal Growth Mechanism in PbS Nanocrystals Deborah Berhanu1 and Paul O'Brien2; 1The School of Chemistry and the School of Materials, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; 2The School of Chemistry and the School of Materials, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.

9:30 AM DD17.4
Synthesis and Spectroscopic Studies of Doped II-VI Chalcogenide Quantum Dots Paul Irving Archer, Daniel R Gamelin and Nick S Norberg; Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

9:45 AM DD17.5
Oxide-supported Metal Nanoparticles and their Applications. Nanfeng Zheng and Galen D. Stucky; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, California.

10:00 AM DD17.6
Ultra Large Scale and Green Synthesis of Monodisperse Magnetite Nanocrystals. Cafer T. Yavuz1,2, Jessica Cox4, Carmen Suchecki5, Angelina Tran4 and Vicki L Colvin1,2,3; 1Chemistry Dept., Rice University, Houston, Texas; 2Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN), Rice University, Houston, Texas; 3Chemical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas; 4Rice University, Houston, Texas; 5Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

10:15 AM BREAK

10:30 AM DD17.7
Position-Controlled Doping of Semiconductor Nanocrystals Y. Charles Cao, Yongan Yang, Ou Chen and Alexander Angerhofer; Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

10:45 AM DD17.8
Surface Passivation Effects on Optical and Material Characteristics of Silicon Nanocrystals by High Pressure Water Annealing and Forming Gas Annealing. Hiroyuki Sanda, Maria Makarova, Jenna Hagemeier, James McVittie, Jelena Vuckovic and Yoshio Nishi; Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

11:00 AM DD17.9
Optical Properties of Chromophoric Thiol Coated Nanoparticles Prepared by Place Exchange Reactions. Wojciech Haske, Michal Malicki, Seth R. Marder and Joseph W. Perry; Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

11:15 AM DD17.10
Electric Field-Driven Route for Nanocrystal Synthesis Dong Soo Yun1 and Angela M Belcher1,2; 1Materials Science, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 2Biological Engineering Division, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

11:30 AM DD17.11
Galvanic Replacement Reaction on Mutiply-twinned Ag Nanoparticles in an Organic Medium. Xianmao Lu1, Marquez-Sanchez Manuel2 and Younan Xia1; 1Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; 2I'NEST Group, Philip Morris USA, Richmond, Virginia.

11:45 AM DD17.12
Heterostructured Nanoparticles Directly Synthesized from Gas Phase YunHao Xu1, Jianmin Bai1,2 and Jian-Ping Wang1; 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 2Research Institute of Magnetic Materials, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China.

SESSION DD18: Synthesis and Characterization of Nanoscale Materials III
Chairs: Masaru Kuno, Xiao-Min Lin, Ruth Pachter and Moonsub Shim
Friday Afternoon, April 13, 2007
Room 2001 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM DD18.1
Directed Synthesis of High-aspect-ratio Single crystal PbTe nanorods. Arup Purkayastha1, Qingyu Yan1, Darshan D Gandhi1, Binay Singh1, Theodarian Borca-Tasciuc2 and Ganapathiraman Ramanath1; 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, purkaa@rpi.edu, Troy, New York; 2Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, Resselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

1:45 PM DD18.2
Interfacial Synthesis of Platinum Nanowire Networks, Yujiang Song1, Robert M. Garcia1,2, Rachel M. Dorin1,2, Haorong Wang1,2, Yan Qiu1,2 and John A. Shelnutt1,3; 1Nanostructure and Semiconductor Physics, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2Chemistry, Chemical & Nuclear Engineering, and Biology Department, The Univeristy of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 3Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

2:00 PM DD18.3
Synthesis of Si/Ge Nanowire Heterostructures for Strain-Controlled Bandstructure Modification. Teresa J. Clement1, David J. Smith2, Jeff Drucker3 and S. Thomas Picraux1,4; 1School of Materials, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; 2Center for Solid State Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; 4Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

2:15 PM DD18.4
Synthesis of Epitaxially Aligned Ge/Si Core-shell Nanowires. Irene A. Goldthorpe1, Joshua B. Ratchford2, Christopher E.D. Chidsey2 and Paul C. McIntyre1; 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California; 2Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

2:30 PM DD18.5
Diameter Dependence of Interfacial Abruptness in Si/Si1-x Gel: Heterostructure Nanowires Grown via Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth. Trevor Edward Clark1,2, Elizabeth C. Dickey1,2, Kok-Keong Lew1,2, Pramod Nimmatoori1,3, Ling Pan1 and Joan M. Redwing1,2,3; 1Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State, University Park, Pennsylvania; 2Materials Reserch Institute, Penn State, University Park, Pennsylvania; 3Chemical Engineering, Penn State, University Park, Pennsylvania.

2:45 PM DD18.6
Growth and Electrical Properties of Epitaxial Silicon Nanowires grown by Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth on (111)Si Substrates Sarah M. Dilts1, Rebeca C. Diaz2, Chad M. Eichfeld1, Bangzhi Liu1, Suzanne E. Mohney1, Theresa S. Mayer2 and Joan M. Redwing1,2; 1Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; 2Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM DD18.7
Atomic, Electronic, and Three-Dimensional Characterization of Core/Shell Nitride Nanowires. Ilke Arslan1, Alec Talin1, Francois Leonard1 and George T. Wang2; 1Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California; 2Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

3:45 PM DD18.8
Selective Plating on n-Type Silicon Nanowires for Junction Delineation and Nanostructure Fabrication Chad M Eichfeld1,2, Carolyn Wood2,3, Sarah M Dilts1, Bangzhi Liu1, Joan M Redwing1,2 and Suzanne E Mohney1,2; 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; 2Center for Nanoscale Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; 3Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois.

4:00 PM DD18.9
Springs, Rings, and Spirals of Rutile-Structured Tin Oxide Nanobelts. Rusen Yang and Zhong Lin Wang; Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

4:15 PM DD18.10
Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials. Xiaofeng Qiu1,2 and Clemens Burda1,2; 1Center for Chemical Dynamics and Nanomaterials Research, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; 2Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

4:30 PM DD18.11
Synthesis of Diameter-controlled Bismuth Nanowires using Porous Anodic Alumina Template Coated by Atomic Layer Deposition. Kyungeun Lee, Bo Kyung Ahn, Sihyeong Kim, Changdeuck Bae and Hyunjung Shin; School of Advanced Materials Engineering, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea.

4:45 PM DD18.12
High Aspect Ratio Nanowires: New Opportunities in Synthesis and Assembly Byron Gates, Nazanin Mobrhan-Shafiee, Nathanael Sieb and Elham Majidi; Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.



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