The BNC leverages advances in nanoscale science and engineering to create innovative nanotechnologies addressing societal challenges and opportunities in computing, communications, the environment, security, energy independence, and health. Below are some publications from the BCN.
Publications from 2014
Frequency comb formation and transition to chaos in microresonators with near-zero dispersion, Andrei S. Rogov and Evgenii E. Narimanov
A single-input, single-output electromagnetically-transduced microresonator array, Andrew B. Sabater, A. G. Hunkler, and Jeff F. Rhoads
Bulk-Like Laminated Nitride Metal/Semiconductor Superlattices for Thermoelectric Devices, Jeremy L. Schroeder, David A. Ewoldt, Reja Amatya, Rajeev J. Ram, Ali Shakouri, and Timothy D. Sands
Microwave Gas Breakdown in Tunable Evanescent-Mode Cavity Resonators, Abbas Semnani, Kenle Chen, and Dimitrios Peroulis
Optically Active Metasurface with Non-Chiral Plasmonic Nanoantennas, Amr Shaltout, Jingjing Liu, V. M. Shalaev, and Alexander V. Kildishev
Variable-cell method for stress-controlled jamming of athermal, frictionless grains, Kyle C. Smith, Ishan Srivastava, Timothy Fisher, and Meheboob Alam
Self-assembled tunable photonic hyper-crystals, Vera N. Smolyaninova, Bradley Yost, David Lhneman, Evgenii Narimanov, and Igor I. Smolyaninov
Enhancing photo-induced ultrafast charge transfer across heterojunctions of CdS and laser-sintered TiO2 nanocrystals, Bryan Spann, Venkataprasad S. Bhat, Qiong Nian, Kelly Rickey, Gary Cheng, Xiulin Ruan, and Xianfan Xu
Ultrafast Spectroscopy of CdSe Nanocrystals: Morphological and Environmental Effects on Nonradiative and Nonadiabatic Relaxation, Bryan T. Spann and Xianfan Xu
Quantum and Classical Magnetoresistance in Ambipolar Topological Insulator Transistors with Gate-tunable Bulk and Surface Conduction, Jifa Tian, Cuizu Chang, Helin Cao, Ke He, Xucun Ma, Qikun Xue, and Yong P. Chen
Topological insulator based spin valve devices: Evidence for spin polarized transport of spin-momentum-locked topological surface states, Jifa Tian, Isaac Childres, Helin Cao, Tian Shen, Ireneusz Miotkowski, and Yong P. Chen
Multiple Timescales and Modeling of Dynamic Bounce Phenomena in RF MEMS Switches, Ryan C. Tung, Adam Fruehling, Dimitrios Peroulis, and Arvind Raman
Thermal interfacial transport in the presence of ballistic heat modes, Bjorn Vermeersch, Amr M.S. Mohammed, Gilles Pernot, Yee Rui Koh, and Ali Shakouri
Disease-on-a-chip: mimicry of tumor growth in mammary ducts, Pierre-Alexandre Vidi, Teimour Maleki, Manuel Ochoa, Lei Wang, Sara M. Clark, James F. Leary, and Sophie A. Lelievre
Right sizes of nano- and microstructures for high-performance and rigid bulk thermoelectrics, Hongchao Wang, Je-Hyeong Bahk, Chanyoung Kang, Junphil Hwang, Kangmin Kim, Jungwon Kim, Peter Burke, John E. Bowers, Arthur C. Gossard, Ali Shakouri, and Woochul Kim
Design of a SiO2 top-cladding and compact polarization splitter-rotator based on a rib directional coupler, Jing Wang, Ben Niu, Zhen Sheng, Aimin Wu, Xi Wang, Minghao Qi, Fuwan Gan, and Shichang Zou
Low-loss and low-crosstalk 8 x 8 silicon nanowire AWG routers fabricated with CMOS technology, Jing Wang, Zhen Sheng, Le Li, Albert Pang, Aimin Wu, Wei Li, Xi Wang, Shichang Zou, Minghao Qi, and Fuwan Gan
Performance-limiting factors for GaAs-based single nanowire photovoltaics, Xufeng Wang, Mohammad Ryyan Khan, Mark S. Lundstrom, and Peter Bermel
Phonon Lateral Confinement Enables Thermal Rectification in Asymmetric Single-Material Nanostructures, Yan Wang, Ajit Vallabhaneni, Jiuning Hu, Bo Qiu, Yong P. Chen, and Xiulin Ruan
Two-Dimensional Thermal Transport in Graphene: A Review of Numerical Modeling Studies, Yan Wang, Ajit K. Vallabhaneni, Bo Qiu, and Xiulin Ruan
Spin blockade and exchange in Coulomb-confined silicon double quantum dots, Bent Weber, Y.H. Matthias Tan, Suddhasatta Mahapatra, Thomas F. Watson, Hoon Ryu, Rajib Rahman, Lloyd C.L. Hollenberg, Gerhard Klimeck, and Michelle Y. Simmons
Mediating the potent ROS toxicity of acrolein in neurons with silica nanoparticles and a natural product approach, Desiree White-Schenk, Riyi Shi, and James F. Leary
Coupled Thermal and Electromagnetic Induced Decomposition in the Molecular Explosive alpha HMX; A Reactive Molecular Dynamics Study, Mitchell A. Wood, Adri C.T. van Duin, and Alejandro Strachan
A Review of Graphene-Based Electrochemical Microsupercapacitors, Guoping Xiong, Chuizhou Meng, Ronald G. Reifenberger, Pedro Irazoqui, and Timothy Fisher
Graphitic Petal Electrodes for All-Solid-State Flexible Supercapacitors, Guoping Xiong, Chuizhou Meng, Ronald G. Reifenberger, Pedro p. Irazoqui, and Timothy S. Fisher
Electron spin magnetism of zigzag graphene nanoribbon edge states, Kun Xu and Peide D. Ye
Theoretical Study on the Oxidation Mechanism and Dynamics of the Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbon Edge by Oxygen and Ozone, Kun Xu and Peide D. Ye
Thermal Challenges in LED-Driven Display Technologies: The Early Days, Kazuaki Yazawa
Thermoelectric topping cycles for power plants to eliminate cooling water consumption, Kazuaki Yazawa, Menglong Hao, Bin Wu, Armin K. Silaen, Chenn Qian Zhou, Timothy Fisher, and Ali Shakouri
A Reusable Unsupported Rhenium Nanocrystalline Catalyst for Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of Alcohols through gamma-C-H Activation, Jing Yi, Jeffrey T. Miller, Dmitry Zemlyanov, Ruihong Zhang, Paul J. Dietrich, Fabio H. Ribeiro, Sergey Suslov, and Mahdi M. Abu-Omar
Superradiant Decay of Cyclotron Resonance of Two-Dimensional Electron Gases, Qi Zhang, Takashi Arikawa, Eiji Kato, John L. Reno, Wei Pan, John D. Watson, Michael J. Manfra, Michael A. Zudov, Mikhail Tokman, Maria Erukhimova, Alexey Belyanin, and Junichiro Kono
Use of graphene as protection film in biological environments, Weixia Zhang, Sudarat Lee, Kelly L. McNear, Ting Fung Chung, Seunghyun Lee, Kyunghoon Lee, Scott A. Crist, Timothy L. Ratliff, Zhaohui Zhong, Yong P. Chen, and Chen Yang
Hot Carrier Filtering in Solution Processed Heterostructures: A Paradigm for Improving Thermoelectric Efficiency, Yichi Zhang, Je-Hyeong Bahk, Joun Lee, Christina S. Birkel, Matthew L. Snedaker, Deyu Liu, Hongmei Zeng, Martin Moskovits, Ali Shakouri, and Galen D. Stucky
Resolving near-field from high order signals of scattering near-field scanning optical microscopy, Nan Zhou, Yan Li, and Xianfan Xu
Enhanced Electron Photoemission by Collective Lattice Resonances in Plasmonic Nanoparticle-Array Photodetectors and Solar Cells, Sergei V. Zhukovsky, Viktoriia E. Babicheva, Alexander V. Uskov, Igor E. Protsenko, and Andrei V. Lavrinenko
Photonic-band-gap engineering for volume plasmon polaritons in multiscale multilayer hyperbolic metamaterials, Sergei V. Zhukovsky, Alexey A. Orlov, Viktoriia E. Babicheva, Andrei V. Lavrinenko, and J. E. Sipe
Minimizing thermally induced interfacial shearing stress in a thermoelectric module with low fractional area coverage, Amirkoushyar Ziabari, Ephraim Suhir, and Ali Shakouri
Publications from 2013
Fundamentals of PV efficiency interpreted by a two-level model, Muhammad A. Alam and Mohammad Ryyan Khan
Quantum criticality analysis by finite-size scaling and exponential basis sets, Fahhad H. Alberbi and Sabre Kais
Electron energy filtering by a nonplanar potential to enhance the thermoelectric power factor in bulk materials, Je-Hyeong Bahk, Zhixi Bian, and Ali Shakouri
Photonic Crystals: Turning data on a dime, Peter Bermel
Negative permittivity of ZnO thin films prepared from aluminum and gallium doped ceramics via pulsed-laser deposition, M. A. Bodea, G. Sbarcea, Gururaj V. Naik, Alexandra Boltasseva, T. A. Klar, and J. D. Pedarnig
Evaporation analysis in sintered wick microstructures, Karthik K. Bodla, Jayathi Y. Murthy, and Suresh V. Garimella
Optimization Under Uncertainty Applied to Heat Sink Design, Karthik K. Bodla, Jayathi Y. Murthy, and Suresh V. Garimella
Advances in Fluid and Thermal Transport Property Analysis and Design of Sintered Porous Wick Microstructures, Karthik K. Bodla, Justin A. Weibel, and Suresh V. Garimella
Fabrication of Highly Transparent Nanowire Transistors with One-Step-Processed Graphene Gate-Source-Drain Electrodes, Jihye Bong, Junebeom Han, Jonghun Lee, Seongmin Kim, and Sanghyun Ju
Thermoelectric properties of epitaxial ScN films deposited by reactive magnetron sputtering onto MgO(001) substrates, Polina V. Burmistrova, Jesse Maassen, Tela Favaloro, Bivas Saha, Shuaib Salamat, Yee Rui Koh, Mark S. Lundstrom, Ali Shakouri, and Timothy D. Sands
Sub-surface imaging of carbon nanotube-polymer composites using dynamic AFM methods, Maria J. Cadena, Rocio Misiego, Kyle C. Smith, Alba Avila, R. Byron Pipes, Ronald Reifenberger, and Arvind Raman
Structural and electronic properties of highly doped topological insulator Bi2Se3 crystals, Helin Cao, Suyang Xu, Ireneusz Miotkowski, Jifa Tian, Deepak Pandey, M. Zahid Hasan, and Yong P. Chen
Quantum algorithm and circuit design solving the Poisson equation, Yudong Cao, Anargyros Papageorgiou, Iasonas Petras, Joseph Traub, and Sabre Kais
Mapping in vitro local material properties of intact and disrupted virions at high resolution using multi-harmonic atomic force microscopy, Alexander Cartagena, Mercedes Hernando-Perez, Jose Carrascosa, Pedro J. de Pablo, and Arvind Raman
Hysteretic response of chemical vapor deposition graphene field effect transistors on SiC substrates, Edward Cazalas, Isaac Childres, Amanda Majcher, Ting Fung Chung, Yong P. Chen, and Igor Jovanovic
Selective Weighing of Individual Microparticles Using a Hybrid Micromanipulator-Nanomechanical Resonator System, Bin-Da Chan, Kutay Icoz, Richard L. Gieseck, and Cagri A. Savran
Emerging technologies for non-invasive quantification of physiological oxygen transport in plants, P. Chaturvedi, M. Taguchi, S. L. Burrs, B. A. Hauser, W.W.A.W. Salim, J. C. Claussen, and E. S. McLamore
Co-Design of Multi-Band High-Efficiency Power Amplifier and Three-Pole High-Q Tunable Filter, Kenle Chen, Tsung-Chieh Lee, and Dimitrios Peroulis
A 3.1-GHz Class-F Power Amplifier With 82% Power-Added-Efficiency, Kenle Chen and Dimitrios Peroulis
Effects of nanocrystal shape and size on the temperature sensitivity in Raman thermometry, Liangliang Chen, Kelly Rickey, Qing Zhao, Christopher Robinson, and Xiulin Ruan
AFM and Raman studies of topological insulator materials subject to argon plasma etching, Isaac Childres, Jifa Tian, Ireneusz Miotkowski, and Yong P. Chen
A ferrofluid-based wireless pressure sensor, Girish Chitnis and Babak Ziaie
In-situ immuno-gold nanoparticle network ELISA biosensors for pathogen detection, Il-Hoon Cho and Joseph Irudayaraj
Synthetic graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition on copper foils, Ting Fung Chung, Tian Shen, Helin Cao, Luis A. Jauregui, Wei Wu, Qingkai Yu, David Newell, and Yong P. Chen
Performance and Variability Studies of InGaAs Gate-all-Around Nanowire MOSFETs, Nathan Conrad, SangHong Shin, Jiangjiang Gu, Mengwei Si, Heng Wu, Muhammad Masuduzzaman, Muhammad A. Alam, and Peide D. Ye
Droplet Evaporation Dynamics on a Superhydrophobic Surface with Negligible Hysteresis, Susmita Dash and Suresh V. Garimella
Screening and interlayer coupling in multilayer MoS2, Saptarshi Das and Joerg Appenzeller
Where Does the Current Flow in Two-Dimensional Layered Systems?, Saptarshi Das and Joerg Appenzeller
Low-Frequency Noise Contributions from Channel and Contacts in InAs Nanowire Transistors, Collin J. Delker, Yunlong Zi, Chen Yang, and David B. Janes
Probing scattering mechanisms with symmetric quantum cascade lasers, Christoph Deutsch, Hermann Detz, Tobias Zederbauer, Aaron M. Andrews, Pavel Klang, Tillmann Kubis, Gerhard Klimeck, Manfred E. Schuster, Werner Schrenk, Gottfried Strasser, and Karl Unterrainer
Photonic synthesis of high fidelity microwave arbitrary waveforms using near field frequency to time mapping, Amir Dezfooliyan and Andrew M. Weiner
Thermal Expansion of Self-Organized and Shear-Oriented Cellulose Nanocrystal Films, Jairo A. Diaz, Xiawa Wu, Ashlie Martini, Jeffrey P. Youngblood, and Robert J. Moon
Sonication mediated covalent cross-linking of DNA to single-walled carbon nanotubes, Bridget D. Dolash, Roya R. Lahiji, Dmitry Y. Zemlyanov, Vladimir P. Drachev, Ronald Reifenberger, and Donald E. Bergstrom
Geometrical design of thin film photovoltaic modules for improved shade tolerance and performance, Sourabh Dongaonkar and Muhammad A. Alam
In-Line Post-Process Scribing for Reducing Cell to Module Efficiency Gap in Monolithic Thin-Film Photovoltaics, Sourabh Dongaonkar and Muhammad A. Alam
Performance and Reliability Implications of Two-Dimensional Shading in Monolithic Thin-Film Photovoltaic Modules, Sourabh Dongaonkar and Muhammad A. Alam
Universal statistics of parasitic shunt formation in solar cells, and its implications for cell to module efficiency gap, Sourabh Dongaonkar and Muhammad A. Alam
Probing site-exclusive binding of aqueous QDs and their organelle-dependent dynamics in live cells by single molecule spectroscopy, Chaoqing Dong, Basudev Chowdhury, and Joseph Irudayaraj
GaAs Enhancement-Mode NMOSFETs Enabled by Atomic Layer Epitaxial La1.8Y0.2O3 as Dielectric, L. Dong, X. W. Wang, J. Y. Zhang, X. F. Li, R. G. Gordon, and Peide D. Ye
Hyperbolic metamaterials: new physics behind a classical problem, Vladimir P. Drachev, Viktor A. Podolskiy, and Alexander V. Kildishev
Anisotropy of the elastic properties of crystalline cellulose I-beta from first principles density functional theory with Van der Waals interactions, Fernando L. Dri, Louis G. Hector Jr, Robert J. Moon, and Pablo D. Zavattieri
Optoelectronic measurement of x-ray synchrotron pulses: A proof of concept demonstration, Stephen M. Durbin, Aamer Mahmood, Marc W. Caffee, Sergei Savikhin, Eric M. Dufresne, Haidan Wen, and Yuelin Li
Molecular Doping of Multilayer MoS2 Field-Effect Transistors: Reduction in Sheet and Contact Resistances, Yuchen Du, Han Liu, Adam T. Neal, Mengwei Si, and Peide D. Ye
Nanotextured superhydrophobic electrodes enable detection of attomolar-scale DNA concentration within a droplet by non-faradaic impedance spectroscopy, Aida Ebrahimi, Piyush Dak, Eric Salm, Susmita Dash, Suresh V. Garimella, Rashid Bashir, and Muhammad Ashraful Alam
Comparative study of intersubband absorption in AlGaN/GaN and AlInN/GaN superlattices: Impact of material inhomogeneities, Collin C. Edmunds, Liang Tang, Mayra D. Cervantes, Mohammadali Shirazi, A. Grier, A. Valavanis, J. D. Cooper, Geoff C. Gardner, D. N. Zakharov, Z. Ikonic, D. Indjin, P. Harrison, Michael J. Manfra, and Onana Malis
Surface damage in ultrafine and multimodal grained tungsten materials induced by low energy helium irradiation, Osman El-Atwani, Mert Efe, Bryan Heim, and Jean Paul Allain
Near sputter-threshold GaSb nanopatterning, Osman El-Atwani, Sean Gonderman, and Jean Paul Allain
Nanopatterning of metal-coated silicon surfaces via ion beam irradiation: Real time x-ray studies reveal the effect of silicide bonding, Osman El-Atwani, Sean Gonderman, Alexander DeMasi, Anastassiya Suslova, Justin Fowler, Mohamad El-Atwani, Karl Ludwig, and Jean Paul Allain
Silicon optical diode with 40 dB nonreciprocal transmission, Li Fan, Leo T. Varghese, Jian Wang, Yi Xuan, Andrew M. Weiner, and Minghao Qi
nanoHUB-U: A Science Gateway Ventures into Structured Online Education, Victoria A. Farnsworth, Mark S. Lundstrom, Supriyo Datta, Ron Reifenberger, Arvind Raman, Timothy S. Fisher, Alejandro Strachan, Michael McLennan, Swaroop Shivarajapura, Lynn K. Zentner, Krishna Madhavan, and Gerhard Klimeck
Efficient and realistic device modeling from atomic detail to the nanoscale, James E. Fonseca, Tillmann C. Kubis, Michael Povolotskyi, Bozidar Novakovic, Arvind Ajoy, Ganesh K. Hegde, Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh, Zhengping Jiang, Parijat Sengupta, Yui-Hong Tan, and Gerhard Klimeck
Growth and electrical characterization of Al0.24Ga0.76As/AlxGa1-xAs/Al0.24Ga0.76As modulation-doped quantum wells with extremely low x, Geoff C. Gardner, John D. Watson, Sumit Mondal, Nianpei Deng, Gabor A. Csathy, and Michael J. Manfra
A humidity-sensitive hydrogel-Bacillus spore composite for micropatterning of biomolecular gradients, Richard L. Gieseck, Bin-Da Chan, and Cagri A. Savran
Shape-Dependent Plasmonic Response and Directed Self-Assembly in a New Semiconductor Building Block, Indium-Doped Cadmium Oxide (ICO), Thomas R. Gordon, Taejong Paik, Dahlia R. Klein, Gururaj V. Naik, Humeyra Caglayan, Alexandra Boltasseva, and Christopher B. Murray
Quest for organic plasmonics, Lei Gu, J. Livenere, G. Zhu, Evgenii E. Narimanov, and M. A. Noginov
Local Heating with Lithographically Fabricated Plasmonic Titanium Nitride Nanoparticles, Urcan Guler, Justus C. Ndukaife, Gururaj V. Naik, Agbai Agwu Nnanna, Alexander V. Kildishev, V. M. Shalaev, and Alexandra Boltasseva
Coupled vibrational modes in multiple-filled skutterudites and the effects on lattice thermal conductivity reduction, Liang Guo, Xianfan Xu, J. R. Salvador, and G. P. Meisner
Resonant Oscillations in Multiple-Filled Skutterudites, L. Guo, Xianfan Xu, J. R. Salvador, and G. P. Meisner
Wireless Temperature Sensor for Condition Monitoring of Bearings Operating Through Thick Metal Plates, Lokesh A. Gupta and Dimitrios Peroulis
Wireless temperature sensor for mechanical face seals using permanent magnets, Lokesh A. Gupta, Lionel Young, Berhanu Wondimu, and Dimitrios Peroulis
Evidence for effective mass reduction in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells, A. T. Hatke, M. A. Zudov, J. D. Watson, Michael J. Manfra, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Observation of Low Energy Raman Modes in Twisted Bilayer Graphene, Rui He, Ting Fung Chung, Conor Delaney, Courtney Keiser, Luis A. Jauregui, Paul M. Shand, C. C. Chancey, Yanan Wang, Jiming Bao, and Yong P. Chen
Strategies To Control Morphology in Hybrid Group III-V/Group IV Heterostructure Nanowires, Karla Hillerich, Kimberly A. Dick, Cheng-Yen Wen, Mark C. Reuter, Suneel Kodambaka, and Frances M. Ross