The Third International Workshop on Nanoscale Spectroscopy and Nanotechnology

December 10-14, 2004

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742

 

http://www.mse.umd.edu/NSS3/Welcome/

                                                                                                           

 

Program

(click on session names for abstracts and photos)

 

Friday, December 10, 2004

 

19:00-21:00

Reception       Inn & Conference Center

 

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Saturday, December 11, 2004

Laboratory for Physical Sciences

 

8:30 Welcome

            Nariman Farvardin, Dean, A James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland

           

8:40 Opening Remarks

            Ray Phaneuf, University of Maryland, Chair, NSS3 Local Committee

 

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Session A: SPM Based Techniques

Session Chair: Barry Barker, Laboratory for Physical Sciences

 

8:50 A1  Yoichi Uehara, Tohoku University, Japan,Vibrational spectroscopy by STM light emission

 

            9:15 A2 Saw-Wai Hla, Ohio University,Single Atom Manipulation

           

9:40 A3 Joseph A. Stroscio,  and Robert Celotta, NIST, “Listening to Atom Dynamics During Atomic Manipulation

 

10:05 A4 Markus Morgenstern, RWTH Aachen, “Wave function mapping in semiconductors of different dimension”

 

10:30 A5 A.Wetzel, A. Socoliuc, R. Bennewitz, E. Meyer, D.-W. Lee, M. Despont, P. Vettiger, U, Drechsler and Ch. Gerber, University of Basel, Switzerland, IBM Research, Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland,Time-of-flight scanning probe microscope (TOF-SPM)

 

 

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10:55 Break

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Session B: Quantum Dots & Spin

                        Session Chair: Dan Gammon, Naval Research Laboratories

 

11:15 B1 Jun Cheng [1], M. V. Gurudev Dutt [1], Yanwen Wu [1], Xiaodong Xu [1], Bo Li [1], D. G. Steel [1], A. S. Bracker [2], D. Gammon  [2], Sophia E. Economou  [3], Renbao Liu  [3], and L. J. Sham  [3], [1]Univ. of Michigan, [2] Naval Research Laboratory,[3] University of California-San Diego, Coherent Optical Spectroscopy of Electron Spin in Charged GaAs Quantum Dots

 

11:40 B2 Allan S. Bracker, E. A. Stinaff, M. E. Ware, D. Gammon, A. Shabaev, A1. L. Efros, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, D. Gershoni, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, V. L. Korenev, I. A. Merkulov, Ioffe Physico-TechnicalInstitute, Russia, "Optical pumping of spin in single charged quantum dots"

 

12:05 B3 Sankar DasSarma, University of Maryland, “Spin quantum computation in semiconductor nanostructures

 

12:30 B4 C. Ken Shih, UT-Austin, “Rabi flopping on a single quantum dot”

 

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12:55   Lunch (on-site)

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Session C: X-Ray Imaging Techniques

            Session Chair: Stefan Heun, TASC-INFM

 

14:20 C1 Stefan Eisebitt, BESSY-II, Germany, Imaging Nanostructures by X-ray Spectro-Holography

 

14:45 C2 Emil Zolotoyabko, Technion, Israel “Stroboscopic X-Ray Diffraction and Imaging on Synchrotron Beam Lines”

 

15:10 C3 Harald Ade, North Carolina State University, “Soft x-ray characterization of polymers in real and reciprocal space

 

15:35 C4 K. Ono, T. Taniuchi*, T. Wakita**, M. Kotsugi***, M. Takagaki**, N. Kawamura**, M. Suzuki**, M. Oshima*, H. Akinaga****, K. Kobayashi**, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), * Univ. of Tokyo, ** JASRI/SPring-8, *** Hiroshima Univ., **** AIST, “Hard x-ray imaging and nano-XAFS using PEEM at SPring-8”

 

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16:00 Break

 

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Session D: TEM- and STEM-based Techniques

                        Session Chair: Ray Phaneuf, University of Maryland

                       

16:20 D1 Bernd Kabius, Nestor Zaluzec, Crispin J.D. Hetherington, Angus Kirkland, Jon  Hiller, Wei Fan,  Sanjib Saha, Orlando Auciello, John A. Carlisle , Argonne National Laboratory and Oxford University, “Energy filtering TEM on TiAlOx Alloy Oxide for New Generation of CMOS Gate Dielectric with Sub-Nanometer Resolution

 

16:45 D2  A.R. Lupini, M.F. Chisholm, M. Varela Del Arco, K. van Benthem, A.Y. Borisevich, Y. Peng, A.G. Franceschetti, W.H. Sides, J.T. Luck, S.T. Pantelides, S.J. Pennycook, Oak Ridge National Lab, “Applications of STEM and EELS to Nanoscience

 

17:10 D3 Vladimir P. Oleshko, University of Virginia, PEEL Spectroscopic Determination and EFTEM Imaging in Analytical Electron Microscopy: From Size Confinement Effects to Nanoscale Measurement of Material Properties In Situ

           

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Session E: Luminescence-based Techniques

            Session Chair: Yoshio Watanabe, NTT-Japan

 

17:35 E1 Vincenzo Grillo and Giancarlo Salviati, TASC-INFM and IMEM-CNR, “CL spectroscopy of single SnO2 nanowires for gas sensor applications

 

18:00 E2 Takashi Sekiguchi, NIMS, Japan, “Studies of luminescence properties of semiconducting materials in nanoscale and development of optoelectronic nanomaterials

 

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Sunday, December 12, 2004

Laboratory for Physical Sciences

 

 

Session F: NanoOptics and Near Field Scanning Optical Microscopy I

                        Session Chair: Paul Kolb, Laboratory for Physical Sciences

 

8:30 F1 Lukas Novotny, University of Rochester, “Nanoscale Optical Spectroscopy and Detection

 

8:55 F2 Francesca Intonti and Marcello Colocci, Universitadi  Firenze, “Manipulation of photonic crystals controlled by confocal microscopy and investigated by near-field microscopy

 

9:20 F3 Ricardo Decca and Farbod Shafiei, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis, Measurement of the separation dependence of the resonant energy transfer between CdSe nanocrystals

 

9:45 F4 Igor Smolyninov and Chris Davis, University of Maryland, “Far-field optical microscope with nanometer-scale resolution

 

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10:10 Break

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Session G: Photoemission Microscopy & Spectromicroscopy

Session Chair: Vince Ballarotto,

Laboratory for Physical Sciences

 

10:30 G1 Hendrik Ohldag, SSLS, “XPEEM Imaging of Exchange Coupled Antiferromagnets

 

10:55 G2 Yoshio Watanabe, NTT, Japan, “SPELEEM observation of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes

 

11:20 G3 S. Heun,1 G. Mori,1,2 D. Ercolani,1,3 M. Lazzarino,1 A. Locatelli,4 and L. Sorba1,3, 1 Laboratorio Nazionale TASC-INFM, I-34012 Trieste, Italy, 2 Università degli Studi di Trieste, I-34012 Trieste, Italy, 3 Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia,”Spectroscopic investigation of oxide nanostructures fabricated by local anodic oxidation”

 

11:45 G4 T.Yasue, H.Shimizu, F.-Z.Guo, A.Nakaguchi, H.Takahashi, H.-L.Sun, T.Okuda, T.Kinoshita, K.Kobayashi, E.Bauer and T.Koshikawa, Osaka Electro-Communication Univ., JASRI, Univ. of Tokyo, Arizona State Univ., “Metal Thin Film Growth Observed with Spectroscopic PEEM and LEEM

 

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12:10 Lunch  (on site)

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Session H: Transport through nanostructures and related spectroscopies

            Session Chair: Janice Reutt-Robey, University of Maryland

 

13:30 H1 James Kushmerick, Naval Research Laboratory, “Understanding Charge Transport in Molecular Electronics”

 

13:55 H2 Michael Fuhrer, Stephanie A. Getty, Chaiwat Engtrakul, Lixin Wang, Rui Liu3, San-Huang Ke, Harold U. Baranger, Weitao Yang, Lawrence R. Sita

 University of Maryland and Duke University, Near Perfect Conduction through a Single Molecular State

 

14:20 H3 Massimilliano DiVentra, Univ. of California San Diego, “Current-induced effects in molecular junctions

 

14:45 H4 Avik W. Ghosh, G-C. Liang, T. Rakshit, F. Zahid and S. Datta Purdue University, “Silicon contacts: A new playground for molecular electronics?

 

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15:10 Break

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15:30-16:30     Session I Posters

 

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Monday, December 13, 2004

Laboratory for Physical Sciences

 

Session J: Single Molecule Spectroscopies

                        Session Chair: Stephan Stranick, NIST

 

8:30 J1 Lori Goldner, Peter B. Yim, Xiaoyi Zhang, Eric S. DeJong,  J. Meghan Carroll, and John P. Marino, NIST and Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology,  Single Molecule Approaches to the Study of RNA Antisense Interactions

 

8:55 J2 Doug English, University of Maryland, Single Molecule Investigations of Conformational Distributions in DNA-Protein Nanoloops: Bending vs. Twisting

 

9:20 J3 David Fromm, P. James Schuck, Arvind Sundaramurthy, Gordon Kino and W.E. Moerner, Stanford University, “Gold Bowtie Nanoantennas: Improving the Mismatch Between Light and Nanoscale Objects”

 

9:45 J4 Paul Barbara, UT-Austin, “F-V/SMS: A New Technique for Studying the Structure and Dynamics of Single Molecules and Nanoparticles

 

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10:10 Break

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Session K: NanoOptics and Near Field Scanning Optical Microscopy II

                        Session Chair: Dennis Drew, University of Maryland

 

10:30 K1 Chris Davis, University of Maryland, “Studies of the Interesting Optical Properties of Nanoholes and Nanohole Arrays”

 

10:55 K2 Bennett Goldberg, Yan Yin, Andrew Walsh, Anna Swan, Alexander Stolyarov, Stephen Cronin, Wolfgang Bacsa, Michael Tinkham, and SelimÜnlü Boston University, “Resonant micro-Raman and light emission spectroscopy of individual and suspended carbon nanotubes

 

11:20 K3 Bob Grober, Yale University, Single-molecule signal enhancement using a high-impedance ground plane substrates

 

11:55 K4 Paul Kolb and Dennis Drew, Lab for Physical Sciences, Investigation of Coupling in Naturally Occurring GaAs Quantum Dots by Photo-luminescence Imaging

 

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12:30 Lunch (on-site)

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13:30-17:00 Visit to NIST

 

 

18:00 Banquet (94th Aerosquadron, College Park Airport)

 

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Tuesday, December 14

Laboratory for Physical Sciences

 

9:00-10:15

Session L: Cutting Edge Techniques

                        Session Chair: Ray Phaneuf, University of Maryland

 

 

L1 Ross Rinaldi, Valentina Arima, Eduardo Fabiano, Robert I. R. Blyth, Fabio Della Sala, Francesca Matino, Julie Thompson, Giovanna Barbarella and  Roberto Cingolani,  NNL-Lecce and CNR, “Scanning tunneling methods for the determination of the electronic structure of organic films on metal surfaces.

 

L2 Joerg R. Jinschek, R. Erni, C. Kisielowski,  NCEM, “Local indium segregation and band structure in high efficiency green light emitting InGaN/GaN diodes.”

 

L3 Barry Barker, Laboratory for Physical Sciences, “Imaging Atomic Wavefunctions

 

L4 Keith Schwab, Laboratory for Physical Sciences, “Measurements at the Quantum Limit”

 

10:45   End of workshop.