AVS 50th International Symposium
    Nanometer Structures Tuesday Sessions

Session NS-TuM
Nanowires

Tuesday, November 4, 2003, 8:20 am, Room 308
Moderator: D.G. Cahill, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


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8:20am NS-TuM1
Growth and Characterization of Single-Crystal ZnO Nanowires
Z. Zhu, T. Chen, Y. Gu, G. Neumark, R.M. Osgood Jr., Columbia University
8:40am NS-TuM2
Growth and Characterization of ZnO Nanowires
J.B. Baxter, E.S. Aydil, University of California, Santa Barbara
9:00am NS-TuM3
Structure, Defect and Cathodoluminescence Studies of GaN Nanorods and Nanowires
L.C. Chen, C.S. Shen, S.C. Shi, National Taiwan University, S. Dhara, C.T. Wu, K.H. Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, C.W. Hsu, C.C. Chen, National Taiwan Normal University
9:20am NS-TuM4
Onset of Nanowire Growth by Vapor-Liquid-Solid (VLS) Epitaxy
J.W. Dailey, J.L. Taraci, T. Michael, J.C. Thorp, S.T. Picraux, Arizona State University
9:40am NS-TuM5 Invited Paper
Functional Semiconductor Nanowires and Their Optical Properties
P. Yang, University of California, Berkeley
10:20am NS-TuM7
Mo@sub 3@Se@sub 3@ Nanowires - Mechanical and Electrical Properties at the Nanoscale
A. Heidelberg, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, J.W. Schultze, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany, G. Staikov, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, J.J. Boland, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
10:40am NS-TuM8
Defect Mediated Electronic Transport in Nano and Molecular Wires
D.A. Bonnell, S. Kalinin, M. Freitag, A.T. Johnson, University of Pennsylvania
11:00am NS-TuM9
Electronic Structure and Excited States of One-dimensional Polydiacetylene Nanowire
M. Akai-Kasaya, K. Shimizu, A. Saito, M. Aono, Y. Kuwahara, Osaka University and SORST JST, Japan
11:20am NS-TuM10
STM and DFT Study of Gadolinium Silicide on Si(100)
B.C. Harrison, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, J.J. Boland, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
11:40am NS-TuM11
Theoretical Calculation of the Thermal Conductivity of Semiconducting Nanowires
N. Mingo, L. Yang, NASA-Ames Research Center