Focus Session: Transport in Nanostructures V: Optics, Mechanics, and Networks

Presentations

• Simultaneous measurements of single-molecule electrical conduction and Raman response

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 10:15 AM – March 12, 2008, 10:27 AM

  Authors

  • Daniel Ward

    • Rice University

  • Naomi Halas

    • Rice University
    • Department of Chemistry, Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Douglas Natelson

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University
    • Rice University
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, TX 77005

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• Local luminescence characterizations of ZnO nanostructures and their electrical transport characteristics

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 10:27 AM – March 12, 2008, 10:39 AM

  Authors

  • Ji-Yong Park

    • Ajou University

  • Young Mu Oh

    • Ajou University

  • Kyung Moon Lee

    • Ajou University

  • Kyung Ho Park

    • Korean Advanced Nanofab Center

  • Yongsun Kim

    • Ajou University

  • Y.H. Ahn

    • Ajou University

  • Soonil Lee

    • Ajou University

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• Transport properties of a novel molecular rotor

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 10:39 AM – March 12, 2008, 10:51 AM

  Authors

  • Mei Xue

    • UCLA

  • Kang L. Wang

    • UCLA

  • Sanaz Kabehie

    • UCLA

  • Jeffrey I. Zink

    • UCLA

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• Simultaneous Measurements of Force and Conductance through Single Molecular Junctions

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 10:51 AM – March 12, 2008, 11:03 AM

  Authors

  • Michael Frei

    • Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York

  • Maria Kamenetska

  • Mark S. Hybertsen

    • Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Labs, Upton, New York

  • Latha Venkataraman

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• Dielectrophoretic Trapping of Au Nanoparticles using High Quality Nanogap Electrodes

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 11:03 AM – March 12, 2008, 11:15 AM

  Authors

  • Ye Lu

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • D. E. Johnston

    • University of Pennsylvania
    • Univ. of Pennsylvania

  • Douglas R. Strachan

    • University of Pennsylvania
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania

  • Beth S. Guiton

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Peter K. Davies

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Tae-Hong Park

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Michael J. Therien

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • A. T. Johnson

    • University of Pennsylvania
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
    • University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
    • Univ. of Pennsylvania

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• Nanomechanical Shuttling of Electrons

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 11:15 AM – March 12, 2008, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • E. M. Weig

  • D. R. Koenig

  • J. P. Kotthaus

    • Center for NanoScience \& Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany

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• Measuring the momentum of a nanomechanical oscillator using tunnel junctions

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 11:27 AM – March 12, 2008, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Charles Doiron

    • Universitaet Basel

  • Bjoern Trauzettel

    • Universitaet Wuerzburg
    • U. Wuerzburg

  • Christoph Bruder

    • Universitaet Basel

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• Vibronic enhancement of phonon heat conductance

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 11:39 AM – March 12, 2008, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Yoshihiro Asai

    • National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

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• Anisotropic Phonon Propagation in Nanoporous Alumina

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 11:51 AM – March 12, 2008, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Akihiro Sato

    • Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research

  • George Fytas

    • FORTH, University of Crete, Greece
    • F.O.R.T.H Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser Technology

  • Bahram Djafari-Rouhani

    • Institut d'Electronique, de Micro-\'electronique et de Nanotechnologie

  • Yan Pennec

    • Institut d'Electronique, de Micro-\'electronique et de Nanotechnologie

  • Martin Steinhart

    • Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics

  • Wolfgang Knoll

    • MPIP Mainz, Germany
    • Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research

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• Phononic Properties of Periodic 1D Multilayer Polymer Films

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 12:03 PM – March 12, 2008, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Nikolaos Gomopoulos

    • Max Planck Institute for Polymer Reaserch

  • Wei Cheng

    • Max Planck Institute for Polymer Reaserch

  • George Fytas

    • FORTH, University of Crete, Greece
    • F.O.R.T.H Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser Technology

  • Taras Gorishnyy

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Edwin Thomas

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Anne Hiltner

    • Case Western Reserve University

  • Eric Baer

    • Case Western Reserve University

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• Dephasing of the weak localization correction in networks of quantum dots

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 12:15 PM – March 12, 2008, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Joern N. Kupferschmidt

    • LASSP, Cornell University

  • Piet W. Brouwer

    • LASSP, Cornell University

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• Fractal conductance fluctuations of classical origin

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 12:27 PM – March 12, 2008, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Holger Hennig

    • MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Gottingen-Germany
    • MPIDS, Goettingen and University of Goettingen, Germany

  • Ragnar Fleischmann

    • MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Gottingen-Germany
    • MPIDS, Goettingen and University of Goettingen, Germany

  • Lars Hufnagel

    • Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, USA

  • Theo Geisel

    • MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Gottingen-Germany
    • MPIDS, Goettingen and University of Goettingen, Germany

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• Electron Transport through Models for Small-World Nanomaterials

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 12:39 PM – March 12, 2008, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Lazarus Solomon

    • Mississippi State University

  • M.A. Novotny

    • Physics and HPC2 Center for Computational Sciences, Mississippi State University
    • Mississippi State University
    • Mississippi State U.

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• Atomic scale contact formation: A combined Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) study

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 12:51 PM – March 12, 2008, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Till Hagedorn

    • Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

  • Mehdi El Ouali

    • Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

  • Yoichi Miyahara

    • Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

  • Peter Gr\"utter

    • Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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• Dissipation in metallic nano-mechanical resonators at millikelvin temperatures.

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 1:03 PM – March 12, 2008, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • A. Venkatesan

  • K. Lulla

  • M.J. Patton

  • A.D. Armour

  • C.J. Mellor

  • J.R. Owers-Bradley

    • University of Nottingham

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