Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures III: Theory and Computation I

Presentations

• Transport Through Single-Molecule Junctions: Interference, Thermopower, and the Role of Self-Interaction Effects

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 16, 2010, 8:00 AM – March 16, 2010, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Harold U. Baranger

    • Duke University

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• First principles calculations of thermal phonon transport in nanostructures

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 8:36 AM – March 16, 2010, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Thushari Jayasekera

    • North Carolina State University

  • Arrigo Calzolari

    • CNR/INFM Democritos
    • CNR-INFM DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center c/o Sincrotrone Trieste - SS14, Km 163,5 Basovizza, I-34012 TRIESTE
    • CNR-INFM DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center, Trieste, Italy

  • Y.F. Chen

    • North Carolina State University

  • K.W. Kim

    • NCSU
    • North Carolina State University

  • M. Buongiorno Nardelli

    • North Carolina State University
    • NC State University
    • NC State University, Raleigh, NC, and CSMD, ORNL, TN

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• Coupled Ionic and Electronic Heat Transport at the Nanoscale

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 8:48 AM – March 16, 2010, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • N.A. Modine

  • R.E. Jones

  • J.A. Templeton

  • G.J. Wagner

  • D.L. Olmsted

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • R.M. Hatcher

    • Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboaratory

  • M.J. Beck

    • University of Kentucky

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• Atomic-Scale Thermoelectric Refrigerator

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 9:00 AM – March 16, 2010, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Yu-Chang Chen

    • Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

  • Yu-Shen Liu

    • Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
    • Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University

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• Molecular Study of Charge Transport at the Interface between Nanostructures and Matrix in Nanocomposites

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 9:12 AM – March 16, 2010, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Pedro Derosa

    • Louisiana Tech/Grambling State

  • David Cossey

    • Louisiana Tech University

  • Jacquelyn Hoyle

    • Louisiana Tech University

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• Quantized Conductance and Electromigration

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 9:24 AM – March 16, 2010, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Kirk Bevan

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Materials Science \& Technology Division

  • Hong Guo

    • McGill University, Department of Physics

  • Zhenyu Zhang

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Materials Science \& Technology Division and University of Tennessee, Department of Physics

  • Ellen D. Williams

    • University of Maryland, Department of Physics

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• Detection of Inelastic Electron Transport Properties in Molecular Junctions by Internal Substitutions

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 9:36 AM – March 16, 2010, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Hisao Nakamura

    • Department of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
    • Department of Chemical System Engineering, the University of Tokyo
    • The University of Tokyo

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• Electronic transport properties of nano-scale Si films: an ab initio study

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 9:48 AM – March 16, 2010, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Jesse Maassen

    • McGill University

  • Youqi Ke

    • McGill University

  • Ferdows Zahid

    • McGill University

  • Hong Guo

    • McGill University

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• Ion-induced quantum transport in ultrathin amorphous silicon dioxide films

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 10:00 AM – March 16, 2010, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Nikolai Sergueev

    • Vanderbilt University

  • Yevgeniy Puzyrev

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

  • Matthew Beck

    • Vanderbilt University, University of Kentucky

  • Kalman Varga

    • Vanderbilt University
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235
    • Vanderbilt University Department of Physics and Astronomy

  • Ronald Schrimpf

    • Vanderbilt University
    • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University

  • Daniel Fleetwood

    • Vanderbilt University
    • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University

  • Sokrates Pantelides

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235
    • Vanderbilt University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    • Vanderbilt Univ.
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University
    • Vanderbilt University

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• Calculations of Electron Transport on the Si(111) 7$\times $7 Surface

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 10:12 AM – March 16, 2010, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Manuel Smeu

    • McGill University

  • Wei Ji

    • McGill University

  • Robert Wolkow

    • National Institute for Nanotechnology

  • Hong Guo

    • McGill University

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• Plane-wave based Electron Tunneling through Au nanojunctions

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 10:24 AM – March 16, 2010, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Aran Garcia-Lekue

    • DIPC (Donostia International Physics Center)

  • Lin-Wang Wang

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboartory, Berkeley, CA, USA
    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

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• First-principles study of electronic transport properties of Ta$_2$O$_5$ atomic switch

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 10:36 AM – March 16, 2010, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Satoshi Watanabe

    • Department of Materials Engineering, The University of Tokyo

  • Tingkun Gu

    • Department of Materials Engineering, The University of Tokyo

  • Tomofumi Tada

    • Department of Materials Engineering, The University of Tokyo

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• Scanning Gate Microscopy of a 1D InAs/InP Nanowire Quantum Dot

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 10:48 AM – March 16, 2010, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Erin E. Boyd

    • Dept of Physics, Harvard Univ

  • Halvar J. Trodahl

    • Harvard University
    • Dept of Physics, Harvard Univ

  • Robert Westervelt

    • Harvard Univ
    • Dept of Physics and Sch of Eng and App Sci, Harvard Univ
    • Harvard University

  • Kristian Nilsson

    • Dept of Solid State Physics, Lund Univ

  • Lars Samuelson

    • Solid State Physics/The Nanometer Structure Consortium, Lund University, Box 118, S-221 00, Lund, Sweden
    • Lund University, Solid State Physics, Box 118, 22100, Lund, Sweden
    • Dept of Solid State Physics, Lund Univ

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