Focus Session: Nanoscale Materials Physics of Phase Transitions I

Presentations

• Adsorbate-Induced Ferroelectricity in Nanostructures

  ORAL

  March 14, 2006, 8:00 AM – March 14, 2006, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • J. E. Spanier

    • Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University
    • Drexel University
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the A. J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA

  • Alexie Kolpak

  • Ilya Grinberg

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Jeffrey Urban

  • Lian Ouyang

  • Wansoo Yun

    • Harvard University

  • Andrew Rappe

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Hongkun Park

    • Harvard University

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• Nucleation process on the 180${^\circ}$ domain wall of PbTiO$_{3}$ by the external electric field

  ORAL

  March 14, 2006, 8:12 AM – March 14, 2006, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Young-Han Shin

  • Ilya Grinberg

    • Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania

  • I-Wei Chen

    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA19104-6272, USA

  • Andrew Rappe

    • University of Pennsylvania
    • Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania

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• Critical Behaviors in Pb(Zr,Ti)O$_{3}$ Ultrathin films

  ORAL

  March 14, 2006, 8:24 AM – March 14, 2006, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Emad Almahmoud

  • Igor Kornev

  • Laurent Bellaiche

    • University of Arkansas
    • Physics Department, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA

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• Phase transitions in ferroelectric superlattices

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 14, 2006, 8:36 AM – March 14, 2006, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Matthew Dawber

    • DPMC, University of Geneva

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• Generalized thermodynamics of solid surfaces applied to size effects on equilibrium

  ORAL

  March 14, 2006, 9:12 AM – March 14, 2006, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Robert Cammarata

    • Johns Hopkins University

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• Theory of the Melting of Confined Nanocrystals

  ORAL

  March 14, 2006, 9:24 AM – March 14, 2006, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Daryl Chrzan

    • The University of California at Berkeley

  • Q. Xu

  • I.D. Sharp

    • Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • D.O. Yi

    • Applied Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley

  • C.W. Yuan

  • C.Y. Liao

  • A.M. Glaeser

    • Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • J.W. Ager III

    • Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • E.E. Haller

    • Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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• Theory of the Jahn-Teller Soliton

  ORAL

  March 14, 2006, 9:36 AM – March 14, 2006, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Dennis Clougherty

    • University of Vermont

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• Finite-size scaling of the critical temperatures of magnetic thin films with variable range of interactions.

  ORAL

  March 14, 2006, 9:48 AM – March 14, 2006, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Timothy Bramfeld

    • The Pennsylvania State University

  • Roy F. Willis

    • The Pennsylvania State University
    • Penn State Univ.

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• Phase Diagrams, Crossovers and Charge-Spin Separation in Small Clusters

  ORAL

  March 14, 2006, 10:00 AM – March 14, 2006, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Armen Kocharian

    • California State University

  • Gayanath Fernando

  • Kalum Palandage

    • University of Connecticut

  • James Davenport

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory

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• Electron-Spin Resonance of Chromium-Doped Vanadium Dioxide

  ORAL

  March 14, 2006, 10:12 AM – March 14, 2006, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • P.H. Bunton

    • William Jewell College

  • D. Blane Baker

  • Kenneth Maynes

  • Kenneth Hartman

    • William Jewell College

  • Andrej Halabica

  • Rene Lopez

  • Richard Haglund

    • Deparment of Physics and Astronomy \& Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235
    • Vanderbilt University

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• Percolation effects in networks of vanadium dioxide nanocrystals

  ORAL

  March 14, 2006, 10:24 AM – March 14, 2006, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • John Rozen

  • Ren\'e Lopez

  • Richard Haglund

    • Deparment of Physics and Astronomy \& Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235
    • Vanderbilt University

  • Leonard Feldman

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy \& Interdisciplinary Materials Science Program, Vanderbilt University
    • Vanderbilt University
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy \& Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235

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• Transmission modulation through sub-wavelength hole arrays in metal-VO$_{2}$ double-layer nanostructures

  ORAL

  March 14, 2006, 10:36 AM – March 14, 2006, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • J. Y. Suh

  • E. U. Donev

  • R. Lopez

  • L. C. Feldman

  • R. F. Haglund Jr.

    • Vanderbilt University

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• Optical diffraction in ordered VO$_{2}$ nanoparticle arrays

  ORAL

  March 14, 2006, 10:48 AM – March 14, 2006, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Ren\'e Lopez

  • Leonard Feldman

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy \& Interdisciplinary Materials Science Program, Vanderbilt University
    • Vanderbilt University
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy \& Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235

  • Richard Haglund

    • Deparment of Physics and Astronomy \& Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235
    • Vanderbilt University

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