Materials/Nanomaterials Science

Presentations

• Atomic and electronic structures of GaN:ZnO Alloys

  ORAL

  Nov. 13, 2009, 10:00 AM – Nov. 13, 2009, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Shuzhi Wang

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Lin-Wang Wang

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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• GW study of the half metallic band gap of zinc blende CrAs

  ORAL

  Nov. 13, 2009, 10:12 AM – Nov. 13, 2009, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Liam Damewood

    • UC Davis

  • Ching Yao Fong

    • UC Davis

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• Creating wide-band negative-index-of-refraction metamaterials with fractal-based geometry

  ORAL

  Nov. 13, 2009, 10:24 AM – Nov. 13, 2009, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Keith Penney

    • Cal State University East Bay

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• Influence of Nanostructuring and Heterogeneous Nucleation on the Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in AgSbTe2

  ORAL

  Nov. 13, 2009, 10:36 AM – Nov. 13, 2009, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Peter Sharma

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Joshua Sugar

  • Douglas Medlin

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• Electro-optical properties of quantum dots dispersed in chiral nematic liquid crystal

  ORAL

  Nov. 13, 2009, 10:48 AM – Nov. 13, 2009, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • J. Kirchhoff

    • Florida State University

  • R.H. Inman

    • University of California, Merced, School of Natural Scienses
    • University of California Merced

  • S. Ghosh

    • University of California, Merced, School of Natural Scienses
    • University of California Merced

  • L.S. Hirst

    • University of California, Merced
    • University of California Merced

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• Comparative analysis of the hydrogen-vacancy interaction in Mg and Al based on density functional theory

  ORAL

  Nov. 13, 2009, 11:00 AM – Nov. 13, 2009, 11:12 AM

  Authors

  • Lars Ismer

    • Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5050

  • A. Janotti

    • Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5050

  • C.G. Van de Walle

    • Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5050

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• Strain-induced isosymmetric phase transition in multiferroic BiFeO$_3$

  ORAL

  Nov. 13, 2009, 11:12 AM – Nov. 13, 2009, 11:24 AM

  Authors

  • Alison Hatt

    • UC Santa Barbara

  • Nicola Spaldin

    • UC Santa Barbara

  • Claude Ederer

    • Trinity College Dublin

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• Superparamagnetic Magnetite Nanoparticles for Optical Modulation/Chopping

  ORAL

  Nov. 13, 2009, 11:24 AM – Nov. 13, 2009, 11:36 AM

  Authors

  • Serkan Zorba

    • Whittier College

  • Yadong Yin

    • University of California, Riverside

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• Phonon Transport in Graphene: Umklapp Quenching and Heat Conduction

  ORAL

  Nov. 13, 2009, 11:36 AM – Nov. 13, 2009, 11:48 AM

  Authors

  • Alexander Balandin

    • University of California - Riverside

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• Computational Approach for Quantifying Structural Disorder in Biomolecular Lattices

  ORAL

  Nov. 13, 2009, 11:48 AM – Nov. 13, 2009, 12:00 PM

  Authors

  • Clayton Bratton

    • University of California, Davis - Physics

  • Karen Reiser

    • University of California, Davis - Neurosurgery

  • Andre Knoesen

    • University of California, Davis - Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Diego Yankelevich

    • University of California, Davis - Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Mingshi Wang

    • University of California, Davis - Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Israel Rocha - Mendoza

    • Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales - Cardiff School of Biosciences

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• Studies of singly doping of Me and Fe in Si to deduce simple guidelines in selecting transition metal elements for Si-based spintronic materials

  ORAL

  Nov. 13, 2009, 12:00 PM – Nov. 13, 2009, 12:12 PM

  Authors

  • Michael Shaughnessy

    • UC Davis/LLNL

  • Ching Yao Fong

    • UC Davis

  • Ryan Snow

    • UC Davis

  • Lin Yang

    • LLNL

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  Nov. 13, 2009, 12:12 PM – Nov. 13, 2009, 12:24 PM

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• Faraday Effect in Magnetic and Non-Magnetic Colloidal Nanoparticles in Water

  POSTER

  Nov. 13, 2009, 12:24 PM – Nov. 13, 2009, 12:36 PM

  Authors

  • Constantine Farah

    • Whittier College

  • Serkan Zorba

    • Whittier College

  • Thomas Maxwell

    • Whittier College

  • Yadong Yin

    • University of California Riverside

  • L. He

    • University of California Riverside

  • M. Ye

    • University of California Riverside

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• Computational study of the adsorption of methanol, formic acid, and formaldehyde on the $\beta $-SiC(100)-3x2 surface

  ORAL

  Nov. 13, 2009, 12:36 PM – Nov. 13, 2009, 12:48 PM

  Authors

  • Lekh Adhikari

    • University of Nevada, Reno

  • Sean Casey

    • University of Nevada, Reno

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• Band-gap bowing, band offsets, and electron affinities for AlN, GaN, InN and InGaN: A DFT study

  ORAL

  Nov. 13, 2009, 12:48 PM – Nov. 13, 2009, 1:00 PM

  Authors

  • Poul Georg Moses

    • University Of California Santa Barbara

  • Chris G. Van de Walle

    • Materials Department, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
    • University of California Santa Barbara

  • Maosheng Miao

    • University of California Santa Barbara

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• Strain effect in group-III nitride semiconductors and their alloys

  ORAL

  Nov. 13, 2009, 1:00 PM – Nov. 13, 2009, 1:12 PM

  Authors

  • Qimin Yan

    • Materials Department, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

  • Patrick Rinke

    • Materials Department, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

  • Matthias Scheffler

    • Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany

  • Chris G. Van de Walle

    • Materials Department, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
    • University of California Santa Barbara

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