Poster Session (5:00-6:30 PM)

Presentations

• Temperature Dependence of the Electrostatic Breakdown of Polymeric Insulators

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  Authors

  • Charles Sim

    • Utah State University

  • J.R. Dennison

    • Utah State University

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• Charge Dynamics in Disordered Insulating Materials

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  Authors

  • Alec Sim

    • Utah State University

  • J.R. Dennison

    • Utah State University

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• Reduction and Characterization of Error in Low Current Measurements

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  Authors

  • Justin Dekany

    • Utah State University

  • J.R. Dennison

    • Utah State University

  • Alec Sim

    • Utah State University

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• The Effects of Surface Contamination and Roughening on Diffuse Optical Reflection and Photoyields of Spacecraft Materials

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  Authors

  • Amberly Evans

    • Utah State University

  • J.R. Dennison

    • Utah State University

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• Carbon Nanotube templated structures

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  Authors

  • Ricky Wyman

    • Brigham Young University

  • Robert Davis

  • Richard Vanfleet

  • Jun Song

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• Ultrafast Laser-induced Structural and Electron Dynamics in Graphite

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  Authors

  • Zhibin Lin

    • REMRSEC and Dept. of Physics, Colorado School of Mines
    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Roland Allen

    • Dept. of Physics, Texas A\&M Univ.

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• Synchrotron Studies on Copper-Phthalocyanine

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  Authors

  • Robert Call

    • Utah State University

  • Trevor Willey

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• Quasiparticle Spectrum of 2-d Dirac Vortices in Optical Lattices

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  Authors

  • Laith Haddad

    • Colorado School of Mines

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• Controlled Ag Nanopattern Formation through UV Wavelength Dependent Photochemical Interactions on PPLN

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  Authors

  • Yang Sun

    • Department of Physics, Arizona State University
    • Department of Physcis, Arizona State University

  • Robert Nemanich

    • Department of Physics, Arizona State University
    • Department of Physcis, Arizona State University

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• Anomalous non-magnetic high field loss peak for a high Q copper TE011 microwave cavity

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  Authors

  • Liam Kilcommons

    • Colorado State University

  • Falko Kuester

  • Carl Patton

    • Colorado State University

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• Large N model of bose gases

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  Authors

  • Ke Ke

    • University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Leo Radzihovsky

    • University of Colorado at Boulder

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• Thickness Dependency of Ferromagnetic Domains in CoPt Multilayers

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  Authors

  • Andrew Westover

  • Nathan Gay

  • Karine Chesnel

  • Olav Hellwig

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• Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging Techniques for Piezoelectric Materials

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  Authors

  • Jeremy Kunz

    • Physics Department, Weber State University

  • Colin Inglefield

    • Physics Department, Weber State University

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• Monte Carlo modeling of the spatially dispersive carrier transport in P3HT and P3HT:PCBM blends

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  Authors

  • Xin Jiang

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• Ab Initio Study of Carboxylated Graphene

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  Authors

  • Nabil Al-Aqtash

    • New Mexico State UniVersity

  • Igor Vasiliev

    • New Mexico State UniVersity

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• Positive, Neutral, and Negative Mass-Charges in General Relativity

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  Authors

  • Dmitri Rabounski

  • Florentin Smarandache

    • University of New Mexico - Gallup
    • University of New Mexico

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• Less Mundane Explanation of Pioneer Anomaly from Q-Relativity

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  Authors

  • Florentin Smarandache

    • University of New Mexico - Gallup
    • University of New Mexico

  • Vic Christianto

    • Sciprint.org

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• Development of a Pressure Switched Microfluidic Cell Sorter

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  Authors

  • Baris Ozbay

    • Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver

  • Alex Jones

    • Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver

  • Emily Gibson

    • University of Colorado Denver, Dept of Physics
    • Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver
    • University of Colorado Denver

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• Vector Inverses and Other Powerful Applications of Geometric Algebra

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  Authors

  • Tim Wendler

    • Brigham Young University

  • Manuel Berrondo

    • Brigham Young University

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• A fully connected qubit network model for quantum information processing applications

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  Authors

  • Mark Coffey

    • Colorado School of Mines

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• Loss Induced via 5P$_{3/2}$ to 5D$_{5/2}$ Resonant Light in an $^{85}$Rb MOT

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  Authors

  • Truman Wilson

  • Jacob Roberts

    • Colorado State University

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• Self-trapped dynamics in a 2D optical lattice

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  Authors

  • Shuming Li

    • JILA \& Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Rafael Hipolito

    • Department of Physics, Boston University

  • Jean-Felix Riou

    • Physics Department, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park

  • David Weiss

    • Physics Department, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park

  • Anatoli Polkovnikov

    • Department of Physics, Boston University

  • Ana Rey

    • JILA \& Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Spectroscopy of High-L Rydberg States of Nickel

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  Authors

  • Kristen Voigt

    • Colorado State University

  • Stephen Lundeen

    • Colorado State University

  • Julie Keele

    • Colorado State University

  • Shannon Woods

    • Colorado State University

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• Resolution Enhancement Through Focal Field Polarization Control in Third Harmonic Generation Microscopy

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  Authors

  • Omid Masihzadeh

    • Colorado State University

  • Philip Schlup

    • Colorado State University

  • Randy Bartels

    • Colorado State University

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• Metastable states and macroscopic quantum tunneling in a cold atom Josephson ring

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  Authors

  • Dmitry Solenov

    • Theoretical Division (T-4), Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Dmitry Mozyrsky

    • Theoretical Division (T-4), Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Microscopy of extreme ultraviolet lithography masks with 13.2 nm tabletop laser illumination

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  Authors

  • S. Carbajo

  • F. Brizuela

  • Y. Wang

  • C.A. Brewer

  • F. Pedaci

  • W. Chao

  • E.H. Anderson

  • Y. Liu

  • K.A. Goldberg

  • P. Naulleau

  • P. Wachulak

  • M.C. Marconi

  • D.T. Attwood

  • J.J. Rocca

  • C.S. Menoni

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• Matter-Wave Interferometery at BYU

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  Authors

  • Christopher Erickson

    • BYU

  • James Archibald

    • BYU

  • Daniel Merrill

    • Purdue University

  • Aaron Bennett

    • BYU

  • Dallin Durfee

    • BYU

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• Intra-Annual Comparison of Mesospheric Gravity Waves Over Halley and Rothera Stations, Antarctica

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  Authors

  • Jonathan Pugmire

    • Utah State University, Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences

  • Michael Taylor

    • Utah State University, Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences

  • Kim Nielsen

    • Utah State University, Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences

  • Allen Wall

    • Utah State University, Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences

  • Jonathan Thompson

    • Utah State University, Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences

  • Dominique Pautet

    • Utah State University, Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences

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• A Quantitative Analysis of the Clustering around Intermediate-Mass Pre-Main Sequence Stars

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  Authors

  • Will Flanagan

    • University of Colorado

  • Nicole van der Bliek

    • Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory

  • Jayadev Rajagopal

    • Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory

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• Study of Galaxy NGC 3885 Centered at 100 micro meter Far Infrared Cavity

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  Authors

  • Barun Gupta

    • University of Utah

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• Characterization of Enzyme Structure-Function Relationship of Adenylosuccinate Lyase

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  Authors

  • Stephen Ray

    • University of Denver (DU)

  • David Patterson

    • Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (ERI)

  • Kingshuk Ghosh

    • DU

  • Terry Wilkinson

    • ERI

  • Sean Shaheen

    • DU

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• Field Friendly Tuberculosis Biosensor

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  Authors

  • N. Proper

    • Colorado State University

  • M.S. Scherman

    • Colorado State University

  • K.L. Jevsevar

    • Colorado State University

  • J. Stone

    • Colorado State University

  • M.R. McNeil

    • Colorado State University

  • D. Krapf

    • Colorado State University

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• UV Photo-enhanced Adsorption of DNA on Mica

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  Authors

  • Sarah Rupprecht

    • Department of Physics, Arizona State University

  • Yang Sun

    • Department of Physics, Arizona State University
    • Department of Physcis, Arizona State University

  • Robert Nemanich

    • Department of Physics, Arizona State University
    • Department of Physcis, Arizona State University

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• Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy to measure the metabolism of high-density lipoprotein

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  Authors

  • Russell Deitrick

    • University of Colorado Denver, Dept of Physics

  • Emily Gibson

    • University of Colorado Denver, Dept of Physics
    • Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver
    • University of Colorado Denver

  • Hamid Razzaghi

    • University of Colorado Denver, Dept of Cardiology

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• Solvation and Deprotonation Dynamics in Reverse Micelles via Broadband Femtoseond Transient Absorption (BFTA) Spectroscopy

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  Authors

  • Richard Cole

    • Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University

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• Reactive Inorganic Membranes for CO$_{2}$/N$_{2}$ separations: Ab-initio Density Functional Theory Calculations

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  Authors

  • M. Ostwal

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • J.D. Way

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • M. Lusk

    • Colorado School of Mines

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• Strain and edge passivation induced band gap modulation and effective mass tuning in Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons

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  Authors

  • Selina Velasquez

    • Arizona State University

  • Paul Logan

    • Arizona State University

  • Xihong Peng

    • Arizona State University

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• Quantum Confinement in Strained Si/Ge Core-Shell Nanowires

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  Authors

  • Paul Logan

    • Arizona State University

  • Xihong Peng

    • Arizona State University

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• Nanoparticle Interactions with Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields for Ablation Therapy

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  Authors

  • Scott Jensen

  • Timothy Doyle

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• Ge and Ge-rich Group IV Alloys on Si for Photonic Device Applications

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  Authors

  • Jay Mathews

    • Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287-1504, USA

  • Jose Menendez

    • Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287-1504, USA

  • Vijay D'Costa

    • Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287-1504, USA

  • Shui-Qing Yu

    • Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA

  • Radek Roucka

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287- 1604, USA

  • Junqi Xie

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287- 1604, USA

  • Yanyan Fang

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287- 1604, USA

  • John Kouvetakis

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287- 1604, USA

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• Mechanical Strength of Composite Nanowires

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  Authors

  • Howard Horton

    • Brigham Young University

  • Bret Hess

    • Brigham Young University

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• Explicit Cross-Property connection between overall electric conductivity and fluid permeability of a porous conductor

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  Authors

  • Manjita Shrestha

    • New Mexico State University

  • Igor Sevostianov

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• Hydrogen Storage in Clathrate Hydrates

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  Authors

  • Joanna Haag

  • Takeshi Sugahara

  • Pinnelli S.R. Prasad

  • Ashleigh Warntjes

  • E. Dendy Sloan

  • Amadeu Sum

  • Carolyn Koh

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• Metal Oxide Surface Modification for Organic Photovoltaics

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  Authors

  • K. Xerxes Steirer

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • David S. Ginley

  • Reuben T. Collins

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• Reduction of Zinc Oxide Thin Films to Form Zinc Metallic Seeds for Silicon Nanowire Growth

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  Authors

  • Louis Gerstenberger

    • Colorado School of Mines Undergraduate

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• Use of planar organic-inorganic heterojunction architectures for understanding charge separation in hybrid solar cells

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  Authors

  • Jamie Adamson

    • Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

  • Dana Olson

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory
    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO

  • Matthew White

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO

  • Joseph Berry

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory
    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO

  • Reuben Collins

    • Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines
    • Colorado School of Mines
    • Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

  • David Ginley

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory
    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO

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• Charge generation/dissociation mechanisms at the interface oxide/polymer hybrid heterojunctions studied by microwave conductivity measurements

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  Authors

  • Alexandre Nardes

    • University of Denver

  • Matthew White

    • NREL

  • Dana Olson

    • NREL

  • Joseph Berry

    • NREL

  • Nikos Kopidakis

    • NREL

  • Sean Shaheen

    • University of Denver

  • David Ginley

    • NREL

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• Growth and Characterization of Digitally Alloyed Zinc Oxide Based TCOs

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  Authors

  • Ajaya Sigdel

    • University of Denver

  • Sean Shaheen

    • University of Denver

  • John Perkins

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  • David Ginley

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory
    • NREL

  • Joseph Berry

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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• Solution-processed Gallium Zinc Oxide for Inverted Organic Photovoltaics

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  Authors

  • Alisha Humphries

    • University of Denver

  • Dana Olson

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory
    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO

  • Joseph Berry

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory
    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO

  • David Ginley

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory
    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO

  • Sean Shaheen

    • University of Denver

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• Nickel Oxide as an Inorganic Hole Transport Layer in Organic Photovoltaics

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  Authors

  • Brian Bailey

    • University of Denver

  • N. Edwin Widjonarko

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Joseph J. Berry

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  • Sean E. Shaheen

    • University of Denver

  • David S. Ginley

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  • Dana C. Olson

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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• Properties of CuO Deposited by Spray Pyrolysis for Photovoltaics

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  Authors

  • Cary Tippetts

    • BYU

  • Robert Davis

    • Brigham Young University
    • BYU

  • Matthew Bell

    • BYU

  • Richard Vanfleet

    • Brigham Young University
    • BYU

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• Free-Standing Silicon Nanocrystals using Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition

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  Authors

  • Bhavin Jariwala

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • P. Stradins

    • National Renewable Energy Lab

  • Joe Beach

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Reuben Collins

    • Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines
    • Colorado School of Mines
    • Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

  • J. Fields

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Somilkumar Rathi

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Sumit Agarwal

    • Colorado School of Mines

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• Octadecanethiol Island Formation on Single Crystal Zinc Oxide Surfaces

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  Authors

  • Andrea Yocom

    • Colorado School of Mines

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• Factor Analysis and the Force Concept Inventory

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  Authors

  • Matthew Semak

    • Physics, University of Northern Colorado

  • Courtney Willis

    • Physics, University of Northern Colorado

  • Richard Dietz

    • Physics, University of Northern Colorado

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• Upper-Division Transformation in Physics

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  Authors

  • Steven Goldhaber

    • University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Stephanie Chasteen

    • University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Steven Pollock

    • University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Michael Dubson

    • University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Ed Kinney

    • University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Oliver DeWolfe

    • University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Paul Beale

    • University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Katherine Perkins

    • University of Colorado at Boulder
    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Rachel Pepper

    • University of Colorado at Boulder

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• The Harmony of Physics, Mathematics, and Music: A discovery in mathematical music theory is found to apply in physics

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  Authors

  • Richard Krantz

    • Metropolitan State College of Denver

  • Jack Douthett

    • Central New Mexico Community College (retired)

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• Comparison of Van der Waals Potential calculations to experimental results

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  Authors

  • Cathy Klauss

    • University of Arizona

  • Vincent Lonij

    • University of Arizona

  • Will Holmgren

    • University of Arizona

  • Alex Cronin

    • University of Arizona

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• Towards Spin Squeezing via Collective Quantum Non-Demolition Measurements

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  Authors

  • Zilong Chen

    • JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Jiayan (Phoenix) Dai

    • JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Justin G. Bohnet

    • JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder

  • James K. Thompson

    • JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder, NIST

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• Fluorescence OPA FROG of NIR Dyes

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  Authors

  • Colleen Woodward

    • Colorado State University

  • Nancy Levinger

    • Colorado State University

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• Two Photon Resonant Ionization of $^{28}$Si Isotopes: Experimental Methods

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  Authors

  • Jonathan Kluck*

    • Colorado State University

  • William Czajkowski*

    • Colorado State University

  • Siu Au Lee

    • Colorado State University

  • William Fairbank

    • Colorado State University

  • Katherine Zaunbrecher

    • Colorado State University

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• Simultaneous loading of $^{85}$Rb and $^{87}$Rb into a shallow FORT

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  Authors

  • Mathew Hamilton

    • Colorado State University

  • Anthony Gorges

  • Jacob Roberts

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• Growth and characterization of transition metal oxide thin films by dual ion beam sputtering

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  Authors

  • Erik Krous

    • Colorado State University

  • Peter Langston

    • Colorado State University

  • Dinesh Patel

    • Colorado State University

  • Federico Furch

    • Colorado State University

  • Brendan Reagan

    • Colorado State University

  • Jorge Rocca

    • Colorado State University

  • Carmen Menoni

    • Colorado State University

  • Ashot Markosyan

    • Stanford University

  • Roger Route

    • Stanford University

  • Marty Fejer

    • Stanford University

  • Luke Emmert

    • University of New Mexico

  • Duy Nguyen

    • University of New Mexico

  • Wolfgang Rudolph

    • University of New Mexico

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

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• Novel Numerical Solution to the Plasma Kinetic Equation

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  Authors

  • Joseph Spencer

    • Utah State University

  • Eric Held

    • Utah State University

  • Jeong-Young Ji

    • Utah State University

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• Laboratory plasma with cold electron temperature of the lower ionosphere

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  Authors

  • Shannon Dickson

    • University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Scott Robertson

    • University of Colorado at Boulder

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• Design Fundamentals for Cost-Optimized Neutron Detectors Based on an Array of Helium-3 Tubes

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  Authors

  • Randy Spaulding

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Chris Morris

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Steve Greene

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Mark Makela

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Tony Forest

    • Idaho State University

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