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 2013
Subsurface imaging of carbon nanotube networks in polymers with DC-biased multifrequency dynamic atomic force microscopy, Hank T. Thompson, Fabienne Barroso-Bujans, Julio Gomez Herrero, Ronald Reifenberger, and Arvind Raman
Quantum Hall effect in monolayer-bilayer graphene planar junctions, Jifa Tian, Yongjin Jiang, Isaac Childres, Helin Cao, Jiangping Hu, and Yong P. Chen
Structural, microstructural and magneto-electric properties of single-phase BiFeO3 nanoceramics prepared by auto-combustion method, Satya Narayan Tripathy, B. G. Mishra, Mandar M. Shirolkar, S. Sen, Suprem R. Das, David B. Janes, and Dillip K. Pradhan
Estimating residual stress, curvature and boundary compliance of doubly clamped MEMS from their vibration response, Ryan C. Tung, Anurag Garg, Andrew Kovacs, Dimitrios Peroulis, and Arvind Raman
Intestinal acyl-CoA:diacylglycerol acyltransferase 2 overexpression enhances postprandial triglyceridemic response and exacerbates high fat diet-induced hepatic triacylglycerol storage, Aki Uchida, Mikhail Slipchenko, Trisha Eustaquio, James F. Leary, Ji-Xin Cheng, and Kimberly K. Buhman
Interfacial thermal conductance limit and thermal rectification across vertical carbon nanotube/graphene nanoribbon-silicon interfaces, Ajit K. Vallabhaneni, Bo Qiu, Jiuning Hu, Yong P. Chen, Ajit K. Roy, and Xiulin Ruan
Rapid and Low-Cost Prototyping of 3D Nanostructures with Multi-Layer Hydrogen Silsesquioxane Scaffolds, Leo T. Varghese, Li Fan, Jian Wang, Yi Xuan, and Minghao Qi
Role of atomic variability in dielectric charging: A first-principles-based multiscale modeling study, Ravi Pramod Kumar Vedula, Sambit Palit, Muhammad A. Alam, and Alejandro Strachan
Thermoreflectance imaging of sub 100 ns pulsed cooling in high-speed thermoelectric microcoolers, Bjorn Vermeersch, Je-Hyeong Bahk, James Christofferson, and Ali Shakouri
Picosecond Joule heating in photoconductive switch electrodes, Bjorn Vermeersch, Gilles Pernot, Hong Lu, Je-Hyeong Bahk, Art Gossard, and Ali Shakouri
Shape memory metamaterials with tunable thermo-mechanical response via hetero-epitaxial integration: A molecular dynamics study, Karthik Guda Vishnu and Alejandro Strachan
Spatial spectrograms of vibrating atomic force microscopy cantilevers coupled to sample surfaces, Ryan Wagner, Arvind Raman, and Roger Proksch
Structural Modification of Graphene Sheets to Create a Dense Network of Defect Sites, Mei-xian Wang, Qi Liu, Zhe-Fei Li, Hong-fang Sun, Eric A. Stach, and Jian Xie
Drop-port study of microresonator frequency combs: power transfer, spectra and time-domain characterization, Pei-Hsun Wang, Yi Xuan, Li Fan, Leo T. Varghese, Jian Wang, Yang Liu, Xiaoxiao Xue, Daniel E. Leaird, Minghao Qi, and Andrew M. Weiner
Far-field imaging of non-fluorescent species with subdiffraction resolution, Pu Wang, Mikhail Slipchenko, James Mitchell, Chen Yang, Eric O. Potma, Xianfan Xu, and Ji-Xin Cheng
Heteroepitaxy of La2O3 and La2-xYxO3 on GaAs (111)A by Atomic Layer Deposition: Achieving Low Interface Trap Density, Xinwei Wang, Lin Dong, Jingyun Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Peide D. Ye, and Roy G. Gordon
Origin of coherent phonons in Bi2Te3 excited by ultrafast laser pulses, Yaguo Wang, Liang Guo, Xianfan Xu, Jonathan Pierce, and Rama Venkatasubramanian
Molecular dynamics studies of ultrafast laser-induced nonthermal melting, Y. Wang and Xianfan Xu
Experimental Characterization of Capillary-Fed Carbon Nanotube Vapor Chamber Wicks, Justin A. Weibel, Sungwon S. Kim, Timothy S. Fisher, and Suresh V. Garimella
Recent Advances in Vapor Chamber Transport Characterization for High Heat Flux Applications, Justin Weibel and Suresh V. Garimella
Laser direct synthesis of graphene on quartz, Dapeng Wei, James I. Mitchell, Chookiat Tansarawiput, Woongsik Nam, Minghao Qi, Peide D. Ye, and Xianfan Xu
High precision dynamic alignment and gap control for optical near-field nanolithography, Xiaolei Wen, Luis M. Traverso, Pornsak Srisungsitthisunti, Xianfan Xu, and Euclid E. Moon
A Computational Approach to Optimize Microring Resonators for Biosensing Applications, Justin C. Wirth, B. R. Wenner, M. S. Allen, J. W. Allen, and M. Qi
Crystalline cellulose elastic modulus predicted by atomistic models of uniform deformation and nanoscale indentation, Xiawa Wu, Robert J. Moon, and Ashlie Martini
0.2-mu m AlGaN/GaN High Electron-Mobility Transistors With Atomic Layer Deposition Al2O3 Passivation, Dong Xu, Kanin Chu, Jose Diaz, Wenhua Zhu, Richard Roy, Louis Mt. Pleasant, Kirby Nichols, Pane-Chane Chao, Xianfan Xu, and Peide D. Ye
Enhanced Pt/C catalyst stability using p-benzensulfonic acid functionalized carbon blacks as catalyst supports, Fan Xu, Mei-xian Wang, Lili Sun, Qi Liu, Hong-fang Sun, Eric A. Stach, and Jian Xie
Spin-valley lifetimes in a silicon quantum dot with tunable valley splitting, C. H. Yang, A. Rossi, R. Ruskov, N. S. Lai, F. A. Mohiyaddin, S. Lee, C. Tahan, Gerhard Klimeck, A. Morello, and A. S. Dzurak
Atomistic simulation of ion beam patterning with crater functions, Zhangcan Yang, Michael M. Lively, and Jean Paul Allain
Optimization of thermoelectric topping combined steam turbine cycles for energy economy, Kazuaki Yazawa, Yee Rui Koh, and Ali Shakouri
Cost-Performance Analysis and Optimization of Fuel-Burning Thermoelectric Power Generators, Kazuaki Yazawa and Ali Shakouri
Kinetics of Palladium Oxidation in the mbar Pressure Range: Ambient Pressure XPS Study, Dmitry Zemlyanov, Bernhard Klötzer, Harald Gabasch, Andrew Smeltz, Fabio H. Ribeiro, Spiros Zafeiratos, Detre Teschner, Peter Schnoerch, Elaine Vass, Michael Haevecker, Axel Knop-Gericke, and Robert Schloegl
Low Rank Approximation Method for Efficient Green's Function Calculation of Dissipative Quantum Transport, Lang Zeng, Yu He, Michael Povolotskyi, Xiao Yan Liu, Gerhard Klimeck, and Tillmann Kubis
Direct pulsed laser crystallization of nanocrystals for absorbent layers in photovoltaics: Multiphysics simulation and experiment, Martin Y. Zhang, Qiong Nian, Yung Shin, and Gary J. Cheng
Implementation of quantum logic gates using polar molecules in pendular states, Jing Zhu, Sabre Kais, Qi Wei, Dudley Herschbach, and Bretislav Friedrich
Understanding Self-Aligned Planar Growth of InAs Nanowires, Yunlong Zi, Kyooho Jung, Dmitri Zakharov, and Chen Yang
Optical properties of ordered carbon nanotube arrays grown in porous anodic alumina templates, John Zuidema, Xiulin Ruan, and Timothy S. Fisher
Silicon quantum electronics, Floris A. Zwanenburg, Andrew S. Dzurak, Andrea Morello, Michelle Y. Simmons, Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg, Gerhard Klimeck, Sven Rogge, Susan N. Coppersmith, and Mark A. Eriksson
Publications from 2012
Self-assembly of single dielectric nanoparticle layers and integration in polymer-based solar cells, Jonathan E. Allen, Biswajit Ray, Mohammad R. khan, Kevin G. Yager, Muhammad Ashraful Alam, and Charles T. Black
Wideband Diode-based Reconfigurable Matching Network Operating at 36 dBm Input Power, Wesley N. Allen and Dimitrios Peroulis
Improved Dehydrogenation Properties of Ti-Doped LiAlH4: Role of Ti Precursors, Placidus B. Amama, John T. Grant, Patrick J. Shamberger, Andrey A. Voevodin, and Timothy S. Fisher
Droplet retention on an incline, S. Ravi Annapragada, Jayathi Y. Murthy, and Suresh V. Garimella
Prediction of droplet dynamics on an incline, S. Ravi Annapragada, Jayathi Y. Murthy, and Suresh V. Garimella
Determination of Electrical Contact Resistivity in Thermoelectric Modules (TEMs) from Module-Level Measurements, S. Ravi Annapragada, Todd Salamon, Paul Kolodner, Marc Hodes, and Suresh V. Garimella
Nanoscale Electrothermal Energy Conversion Devices, Je-Hyeong Bahk, Younes Ezzahri, Kazuaki Yazawa, Bjorn Vermeersch, Gilles Pernot, and Ali Shakouri
A first-principles molecular dynamics approach for predicting optical phonon lifetimes and far-infrared reflectance of polar materials, Hua Bao, Bo Qiu, Yu Zhang, and Xiulin Ruan
An investigation of the optical properties of disordered silicon nanowire mats, Hua Bao, Weixia Zhang, Liangliang Chen, Haoxiang Huang, Chen Yang, and Xiulin Ruan
Wide-bandwidth, meandering vibration energy harvester with distributed circuit board inertial mass, David F. Berdy, Byunghoo Jung, Jeff F. Rhoads, and Dimitrios Peroulis
Low-Frequency Meandering Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvester, David F. Berdy, Pornsak Srisungsitthisunti, Byunghoo Jung, Xianfan Xu, Jeff F. Rhoads, and Dimitrios Peroulis
Thermal battery with CO2 compression heat pump: Techno-economic optimization of a high-efficiency Smart Grid option for buildings, Morten B. Blarke, Kazuaki Yazawa, Ali Shakouri, and Carolina Carmo
Optimization Under Uncertainty for Electronics Cooling Design Applications, Karthik K. Bodla, Jayathi Y. Murthy, and Suresh V. Garimella
Direct Simulation of Thermal Transport Through Sintered Wick Microstructures, Karthik Bodla, Jayathi Y. Murthy, and Suresh V. Garimella
Multiband Tight-Binding Model for Strained and Bilayer Graphene from DFT Calculations, T. B. Boykin, M. Luisier, N. Kharche, X. Jaing, S. K. Nayak, A. Martini, and G. Klimeck
Direct measurement of group delay dispersion in metamagnetics for ultrafast pulse shaping, Dean P. Brown, Mark A. Walker, Augustine M. Urbas, Alexander V. Kildishev, Shumin Xiao, and Vladimir P. Drachev
Estimating the In-Plane Young's Modulus of Polycrystalline Films in MEMS, Patrick R. Cantwell, Hojin Kim, Matthew M. Schneider, Hao-Han Hsu, Dimitrios Peroulis, Eric A. Stach, and Alejandro Strachan
Quantized Hall Effect and Shubnikov-de Haas Oscillations in Highly Doped Bi2Se3: Evidence for Layered Transport of Bulk Carriers, Helin Cao, Jifa Tian, Ireneusz Miotkowski, Tian Shen, Jiuning Hu, Shan Qiao, and Yong P. Chen
Topological insulator Bi2Te3 films synthesized by metal organic chemical vapor deposition, Helin Cao, Rama Venkatasubramanian, Chang Liu, Jonathan Pierce, Haoran Yang, M. Zahid Hasan, Yue Wu, and Yong P. Chen
Non-linear modelling of multilayer piezoelectric actuators in non-trivial configurations based on actuator design parameters and piezoelectric material properties, Yudong Cao and Bintang Yang
A Two-Dimensional Domain Decomposition Technique for the Simulation of Quantum-Scale Devices, Stephen Cauley, Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, Gerhard Klimeck, and Cheng-Kok Koh
A Compact Manually Actuated Micromanipulator, Bin-Da Chan, Farrukh Mateen, Chun-Li Chang, Kutay Icoz, and Cagri A. Savran
Reflective Diffraction Gratings From Hydrogels as Biochemical Sensors, Chun-Li Chang, Zhenwen Ding, Venkata N. L. R. Patchigolla, Babak Ziaie, and Cagri A. Savran
Scalable patterning on shape memory alloy by laser shock assisted direct imprinting, Ye Chang and Gary J. Cheng
Understanding Oligonucleotide-Templated Nanocrystals: Growth Mechanisms and Surface Properties, Tae-Gon Cha, Benjamin A. Baker, Janette Salgado, Christopher J. Bates, Kok Hao Chen, Alice C. Chang, M. Cem Akatay, Jae-Hee Han, Michael S. Strano, and Jong Hyun Choi
Syntheses of Boron Nitride Nanotubes from Borazine and Decaborane Molecular Precursors by Catalytic Chemical Vapor Deposition with a Floating Nickel Catalyst, Shahana Chatterjee, Myung Jong Kim, Dmitri Zakharov, Seung Min Kim, Eric A. Stach, Benji Maruyama, and Larry G. Sneddon
Graphene-Based Frequency Tripler, Hong-Yan Chen and Joerg Appenzeller
Single-molecule tools elucidate H2A.Z nucleosome composition, Jiji Chen, Andrew Miller, Ann L. Kirchmaier, and Joseph M.K. Irudayaraj
Widely Tunable High-Efficiency Power Amplifier With Ultra-Narrow Instantaneous Bandwidth, Kenle Chen, Xiaoguang Liu, and Dimitrios Peroulis
Design of Adaptive Highly Efficient GaN Power Amplifier for Octave-Bandwidth Application and Dynamic Load Modulation, Kenle Chen and Dimitrios Peroulis
Design of Broadband Highly Efficient Harmonic-Tuned Power Amplifier Using In-Band Continuous Class(-1)/F Mode Transferring, Kenle Chen and Dimitrios Peroulis
Facile synthesis of ultra-small Bi2Te3 nanoparticles, nanorods and nanoplates and their morphology-dependent Raman spectroscopy, Liangliang Chen, Qing Zhao, and Xiulin Ruan
A Study of Critical Heat Flux During Flow Boiling in Microchannel Heat Sinks, Tailian Chen and Suresh V. Garimella
Role of nanostructure on reaction and transport in Ni/Al intermolecular reactive composites, Mathew J. Cherukara, Karthik Guda Vishnu, and Alejandro Strachan
An Ocular Tack for Minimally Invasive Continuous Wireless Monitoring of Intraocular Pressure, Girish D. Chitnis, Teimour Maleki, B. Samuels, L. B. Cantor, and Babak Ziaie
A thermophone on porous polymeric substrate, Girish Chitnis, Albert Kim, Seung Hyun Song, A. M. Jessop, J. S. Bolton, and Babak Ziaie
Waterproof Active Paper via Laser Surface Micropatterning of Magnetic Nanoparticles, Girish Chitnis and Babak Ziaie
Electron band alignment at the interface of (100)InSb with atomic-layer deposited Al2O3, H.Y. Chou, V. V. Afanas'ev, M. Houssa, A. Stesmans, Lin Dong, and Peide Ye
Interface barriers at the interfaces of polar GaAs(111) faces with Al2O3, H.Y. Chou, E. O'Connor, P.K. Hurley, V.V. Afanas'ev, M. Houssa, A. Stesmans, Peide Ye, and S.B. Newcomb
Controlling the Growth of Si/Ge Nanowires and Heterojunctions Using Silver-Gold Alloy Catalysts, Yi-Chia Chou, Cheng-Yen Wen, Mark C. Reuter, Dong Su, Eric A. Stach, and Frances M. Ross
Full Band Atomistic Modeling of Homo-junction InGaAs Band-to-Band Tunneling Diodes Including Band Gap Narrowing, Woo-Suhl Cho, Mathieu Luisier, Dheeraj Mohata, Suman Datta, David Pawlik, Sean L. Rommel, and Gerhard Klimeck
Characterizations of gas purge valves for liquid alignment and gas removal in a microfluidic chip, Han-Shengh Chuang, Raviraj Thakur, and Steven T. Wereley
Nanostructuring Platinum Nanoparticles on Multilayered Graphene Petal Nanosheets for Electrochemical Biosensing, Jonathan C. Claussen, Anurag Kumar, David B. Jaroch, M. Haseeb Khawaja, Allison Hibbard, D. Marshall Porterfield, and Timothy S. Fisher
Development and testing of hyperbaric atomic force microscopy (AFM) and fluorescence microscopy for biological applications, D. P. D'Agostino, Helen McNally, and J.B. Dean
Frequency-dependent transient response of an oscillating electrically actuated droplet, S. Dash, N. Kumari, and Suresh V. Garimella
Hybrid Surface Design for Robust Superhydrophobicity, Susmita Dash, Marie T. Alt, and Suresh V. Garimella
Universal programmable quantum circuit schemes to emulate an operator, Anmer Daskin, Ananth Grama, Giorgos Kollias, and Sabre Kais
On the scaling behavior of organic ferroelectric copolymer PVDF-TrFE for memory application, Saptarshi Das and Joerg Appenzeller
High Performance Multilayer MoS2 Transistors with Scandium Contacts, Saptarshi Das, Hong-Yan Chen, Ashish Verma Penumatcha, and Joerg Appenzeller
1/f Noise Sources in Dual-Gated Indium Arsenide Nanowire Transistors, Collin J. Delker, Seongmin Kim, Mattias Borg, Lars-Erik Wernersson, and David B. Janes
Contrasting energy scales of reentrant integer quantum Hall states, Nianpei Deng, J. D. Watson, L. P. Rokhinson, M. J. Manfra, and G. A. Csathy
Collective Nature of the Reentrant Integer Quantum Hall States in the Second Landau Level, N. Deng, A. Kumar, Michael J. Manfra, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, and Gabor A. Csathy
Broadband Extinction of Core-Shell Microspheres, Vashista C. de Silva, James L. Stewart, Vladimir M. Shalaev, and Vladimir P. Drachev
Numerical investigation of an evaporating meniscus in a channel, Hemanth Dhavaleswarapu, Jayathi Y. Murthy, and Suresh V. Garimella
End-to-End Modeling for Variability and Reliability Analysis of Thin Film PV, Sourabh Dongaonkar and Muhammad A. Alam
A Shade Tolerant Panel Design for Thin Film Photovoltaics, Sourabh Dongaonkar and Muhammad A. Alam
Reverse Stress Metastability of Shunt Current in CIGS Solar Cells, Sourabh Dongaonkar, Erik Sheets, Rakesh Agrawal, and Muhammad A. Alam
Hydrodynamic Size-Dependent Cellular Uptake of Aqueous QDs Probed by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy, Chaoqing Dong and Joseph Irudayaraj
Near-Infrared Absorption in Lattice-Matched AlInN/GaN and Strained AlGaN/GaN Heterostructures Grown by MBE on Low-Defect GaN Substrates, C. Edmunds, L. Tang, D. Li, M. Cervantes, G. Gardner, T. Paskova, Michael J. Manfra, and O. Malis
Improvement of near-infrared absorption linewidth in AlGaN/GaN superlattices by optimization of delta-doping location, C. Edmunds, L. Tang, J. Shao, D. Li, M. Cervantes, G. Gardner, Dmitri Zakharov, Michael J. Manfra, and O. Malis
In-situ probing of near and below sputter-threshold ion-induced nanopatterning on GaSb(1 0 0), Osman El-Atwani, Jean Paul Allain, and S. Ortoleva
The effect of native oxide on ion-sputtering-induced nanostructure formation on GaSb surfaces, Osman El-Atwani, Jean Paul Allain, and Anastassiya Suslova
Real time x-ray studies during nanostructure formation on silicon via low energy ion beam irradiation using ultrathin iron films, Osman El-Atwani, Anastassiya Suslova, Alexander DeMasi, Sean Gonderman, Justin Fowler, Mohamad El-Atwani, Karl Ludwig, and Jean Paul Allain