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 2012
Polymeric microdevices for transdermal and subcutaneous drug delivery, Manuel Ochoa, Charilaos Mousoulis, and Babak Ziaie
A fermentation-powered thermopneumatic pump for biomedical applications, Manuel Ochoa and Babak Ziaie
Conductivity of an atomically defined metallic interface, David J. Oliver, Jesse Maassen, Mehdi El Ouali, William Paul, Till Hagedorn, Yoichi Miyahara, Yue Qi, Hong Guo, and Peter Gruetter
Biotemplated Silica and Titania Nanowires: Synthesis, Characterization and Potential Applications, S. Padalkar, K. Schroeder, Y. H. Won, H. S. Jang, and L. Stanciu
Theory of charging and charge transport in “intermediate” thickness dielectrics and its implications for characterization and reliability, Sambit Palit and Muhammad A. Alam
A non-obtrusive technique to characterize dielectric charging in RF-MEMS capacitive switches, Sambit Palit, Ankit Jain, and Muhammad A. Alam
Enhanced optical nonlinearity in beta-AgVO3 nanobelts on decoration with Ag nanoparticles, Manas R. Parida, C. Vijayan, Chandra Sekhar Rout, C.S. Suchand Sandeep, and Reji Philip
Performance Comparisons of III-V and strained-Si in Planar FETs and Non-planar FinFETs at Ultra-short Gate Length (12nm), Seung Hyun Park, Yang Liu, Neerav Kharche, Mehdi Salmani Jelodar, Gerhard Klimeck, Mark S. Lundstrom, and Mathieu Luisier
Development of a Particle Tracking-Based Measurement Technique to Map Three-Dimensional Interfaces Between Transparent, Immiscible Fluids, Ravi S. Patel and Suresh V. Garimella
Microwave-Assisted Surface Synthesis of a Boron-Carbon-Nitrogen Foam and its Desorption Enthalpy, Rajib Paul, Andrey A. Voevodin, Dimitry Zemlyanov, Ajit K. Roy, and Timothy S. Fisher
High-speed atomic force microscopy in slow motion-understanding cantilever behaviour at high scan velocities, O.D. Payton, L. Picco, D. Robert, Arvind Raman, M.E. Homer, A.R. Champneys, and M.J. Miles
Local elasticity and adhesion of nanostructures on Drosophila melanogaster wing membrane studied using atomic force microscopy, Barry R. Pittendrigh, Arvind Raman, and Ryan Wagner
Parametric noise squeezing and parametric resonance of microcantilevers in air and liquid environments, Gyan Prakash, Arvind Raman, Jeff F. Rhoads, and Ronald G. Reifenberger
Pulse shaping using optical metamaterials with naturally anisotropic structural elements, L. J. Prokopeva, D. P. Brown, Xingjie Ni, Vladimir P. Drachev, A. M. Urbas, and Alexander V. Kildishev
Molecular dynamics simulations of lattice thermal conductivity and spectral phonon mean free path of PbTe: Bulk and nanostructures, Bo Qiu, Hua Bao, Gengqiang Zhang, Yue Wu, and Xiulin Ruan
Reduction of spectral phonon relaxation times from suspended to supported graphene, Bo Qiu and Xiulin Ruan
The effects of diameter and chirality on the thermal transport in free-standing and supported carbon-nanotubes, Bo Qiu, Yan Wang, Xiulin Ruan, and Qing Zhao
Real-Time in Situ Electronic Monitoring of Dynamic Contact Behavior of MEMS High-G Switches, Nithin Raghunathan, Brett Sanborn, A. Venkattraman, Alina A. Alexeenko, Weinong Chen, and Dimitrios Peroulis
CO2-selective methanol steam reforming on In-doped Pd studied by in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Christoph Rameshan, Harald Lorenz, Lukas Mayr, Simon Penner, Dmitry Zemlyanov, Rosa Arrigo, Michael Haevecker, Raoul Blume, Axel Knop-Gericke, Robert Schloegl, and Bernhard Kloetzer
In situ XPS study of methanol reforming on PdGa near-surface intermetallic phases, Christoph Rameshan, Werner Stadlmayr, Simon Penner, Harald Lorenz, Lukas Mayr, Michael Haevecker, Raoul Blume, Tulio Rocha, Detre Teschner, Axel Knop-Gericke, Robert Schlogl, Dmitry Zemlyanov, Norbert Memmel, and Bernhard Kloetzer
Hydrogen Production by Methanol Steam Reforming on Copper Boosted by Zinc-Assisted Water Activation, Christoph Rameshan, Werner Stadlmayr, Simon Penner, Harald Lorenz, Norbert Memmel, Michael Haevecker, Raoul Blume, Detre Teschner, Tulio Rocha, Dmitry Zemlyanov, Axel Knop-Gericke, Robert Schloegl, and Bernhard Kloetzer
Bubble Dynamics during Capillary-Fed Nucleate Boiling in Porous Media, Ram Ranjan, Jayathi Y. Murthy, and Suresh V. Garimella
Modeling and Design Optimization of Ultrathin Vapor Chambers for High Heat Flux Applications, Ram Ranjan, Jayathi Y. Murthy, Suresh V. Garimella, David H. Altman, and Mark T. North
Wicking and thermal characteristics of micropillared structures for use in passive heat spreaders, Ram Ranjan, Abhijeet Patel, Suresh V. Garimella, and Jayathi Y. Murthy
Random Vs Regularized OPV: Limits of Performance Gain of Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells by Morphology Engineering, Biswajit Ray and Muhammad A. Alam
Achieving Fill Factor Above 80% in Organic Solar Cells by Charged Interface, Biswajit Ray and Muhammad A. Alam
Nanostructured Electrodes for Organic Solar Cells: Analysis and Design Fundamentals, Biswajit Ray, Mohammad R. Khan, Charles Black, and Muhammad A. Alam
Can morphology tailoring improve the open circuit voltage of organic solar cells?, Biswajit Ray, M. S. Lundstrom, and Muhammad A. Alam
Annealing dependent performance of organic bulk-heterojunction solar cells: A theoretical perspective, Biswajit Ray, Pradeep Nair, and Muhammad A. Alam
Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy Analysis of the Covalent Functionalization and DNA Modification of Gallium Phosphide Nanorods, David N. Richards, Dmitry Y. Zemlyanov, and Albena Ivanisevic
The fractional a.c. Josephson effect in a semiconductor-superconductor nanowire as a signature of Majorana particles, Leonid P. Rokhinson, Xinyu Liu, and Jacek K. Furdyna
Electrical control of ferromagnetic state, Leonid P. Rokhinson, Mason Overby, Alexandr Chernyshov, Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Xinyu Liu, and Jacek K. Furdyna
Synthesis of chemically bonded CNT-graphene heterostructure arrays, Chandra Sekhar Rout, Anurag Kumar, Timothy S. Fisher, Ujjal K. Gautam, Yoshio Bando, and Dmitri Golberg
Feasibility, Accuracy, and Performance of Contact Block Reduction Method for Multi-band Simulations of Ballistic Quantum Transport, Hoon Ryu, Hong-Hyun Park, Mincheol Shin, Dragica Vasileska, and Gerhard Klimeck
On the Dynamics of Two Mutually-Coupled, Electromagnetically-Actuated Microbeam Oscillators, Andrew Sabater and Jeff F. Rhoads
Tuning entanglement and ergodicity in two-dimensional spin systems using impurities and anisotropy, Gehad Sadiek, Qing Xu, and Sabre Kais
Thermoelectric properties of HfN/ScN metal/semiconductor superlattices: a first-principles study, Bivas Saha, Timothy D. Sands, and Umesh V. Waghmare
Observation of 1D Behavior in Si Nanowires: Toward High-Performance TFETs, Ramon B. Salazar, Saumitra R. Mehrotra, Gerhard Klimeck, Navab Singh, and Joerg Appenzeller
Calculation of phonon spectrum and thermal properties in suspended aOE (c) 100 > In (X) Ga1-X As nanowires, Mehdi Salmani-Jelodar, Abhijeet Paul, Timothy Boykin, and Gerhard Klimeck
Ground plane fin-shaped field effect transistor (GP-FinFET): A FinFET for low leakage power circuits, Mehdi Saremi, Ali Afzali-Kusha, and Saeed Mohammadi
Thermal and Electrical Conductivities of Nanocrystalline Nickel Microbridges, Robert A. Sayer, Juan Zeng, Hao-Han Hsu, Dimitrios Peroulis, and Timothy S. Fisher
A 600 Degrees C Wireless Multimorph-Based Capacitive MEMS Temperature Sensor for Component Health Monitoring, S. Scott, M. Scuderi, and Dimitrios Peroulis
Archimedes, the Free Mone Carlo Simulator: A GNU Package for Submicron Semiconductor Devices on nanoHUB, Jean Michel Sellier, James E. Fonseca, and Gerhard Klimeck
Effect of nitrogen plasma on the surface of indium oxide nanowires, Keumyoung Seo, Seongmin Kim, David B. Janes, Min Wook Jung, Ki-Seok An, and Sanghyun Ju
Ultrafast Submicron Thermal Characterization of Integrated Circuits, Ali Shakouri, Kerry Maize, Philip Jackson, Xi Wang, Bjorn Vermeersch, and Kazuaki Yazawa
Increased normal incidence photocurrent in quantum dot infrared photodetectors, Jiayi Shao, Thomas E. Vandervelde, Ajit Barve, Andreas Stintz, and Sanjay Krishna
Counting Au catalytic sites for the water-gas shift reaction, Mayank Shekhar, Jun Wang, Wen-Sheng Lee, M. Cem Akatay, Eric A. Stach, W. Nicholas Delgass, and Fabio H. Ribeiro
Size and Support Effects for the Water-Gas Shift Catalysis over Gold Nanoparticles Supported on Model Al2O3 and TiO2, Mayank Shekhar, Jun Wang, Wen-Sheng Lee, W. Damion Williams, Seung Min Kim, Eric A. Stach, Jeffrey T. Miller, W. Nicholas Delgass, and Fabio H. Ribeiro
Quantum-Hall plateau-plateau transition in top-gated epitaxial graphene grown on SiC (0001), T. Shen, A. T. Neal, M. L. Bolen, Jiangjiang Gu, L. W. Engel, Michael A. Capano, and Peide D. Ye
DC-dynamic biasing for > 50x switching time improvement in severely underdamped fringing-field electrostatic MEMS actuators, J. Small, A. Fruehling, A. Garg, X. Liu, and D. Peroulis
Electrostatic fringing-field actuation for pull-in free RF-MEMS analogue tunable resonators, J. Small, W. Irshad, Adam Fruehling, A. Garg, X. Liu, and Dimitrios Peroulis
Models for metal hydride particle shape, packing, and heat transfer, Kyle C. Smith and Timothy S. Fisher
Columnar order in jammed LiFePO4 cathodes: ion transport catastrophe and its mitigation, Kyle C. Smith, Partha P. Mukherjee, and Timothy S. Fisher
Trapped rainbow techniques for spectroscopy on a chip and fluorescence enhancement, V. N. Smolyaninova, I. I. Smolyaninov, Alexander V. Kildishev, and V. M. Shalaev
Hyperbolic metamaterial interfaces: Hawking radiation from Rindler horizons and spacetime signature transitions, Igor I. Smolyaninov, Ehren R. Hwang, and Evgenii Narimanov
Three-dimensional locating of paraxial point source with axicon, Craig Snoeyink and Steven Wereley
Assembly Bonded at the Ends: Could Thinner and Longer Legs Result in a Lower Thermal Stress in a Thermoelectric Module Design?, E. Suhir and Ali Shakouri
Material Selection for Minimizing Direct Tunneling in Nanowire Transistors, Somaia Sarwart Sylvia, Hong-Hyun Park, M. Abul Khayer, Khairul Alam, Gerhard Klimeck, and Roger Lake
Free standing GaN nano membrane by laser liftoff method, Liang Tang, Yuefeng Wang, Gary Cheng, Michael Manfra, and Timothy Sands
Islet beta-Cell Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Precedes the Onset of Type 1 Diabetes in the Nonobese Diabetic Mouse Model, Sarah A. Tersey, Yurika Nishiki, Andrew T. Templin, Susanne M. Cabrera, Natalie D. Stull, Stephanie C. Colvin, Carmella Evans-Molina, Jenna L. Rickus, Bernhard Maier, and Raghavendra G. Mirmira
Graphene Induced Surface Reconstruction of Cu, Jifa Tian, Helin Cao, Wei Wu, Qingkai Yu, Nathan P. Guisinger, and Yong P. Chen
Label-free imaging of semiconducting and metallic carbon nanotubes in cells and mice using transient absorption microscopy, Ling Tong, Yuxiang Liu, Bridget Dolash, Yookyung Jung, Mikhail Slipchenko, Donald E. Bergstrom, and Ji-Xin Cheng
Control of absorption with hyperbolic metamaterials, T.U. Tumkur, Lei Gu, J.K. Kitur, Evgenii E. Narimanov, and M.A. Noginov
Control of reflectance and transmittance in scattering and curvilinear hyperbolic metamaterials, T. U. Tumkur, J. K. Kitur, B. Chu, Lei Gu, V. A. Podolskiy, Evgenii E. Narimanov, and M. A. Noginov
Polarization Response in InAs Quantum Dots: Theoretical Correlation Between Composition and Electronic Properties, Muhammad Usman, Vittorianna Tasco, Maria Teresa Todaro, Milena De Giorgi, Eoin P. O'Reilly, Gerhard Klimeck, and Adriana Passaseo
Unusual scaling observations in the quality factors of cantilevered carbon nanotube resonators, Ajit K. Vallabhaneni, Jeff F. Rhoads, Xiulin Ruan, and Jayathi Y. Murthy
A band-pass filter approach within molecular dynamics for the prediction of intrinsic quality factors of nanoresonators, Ajit K. Vallabhaneni, Xiulin Ruan, Jeff F. Rhoads, and Jayathi Murthy
Direct measurements and numerical simulations of gas charging in microelectromechanical system capacitive switches, A. Venkattraman, A. Garg, Dimitrios Peroulis, and Alina A. Alexeenko
Amorphous Ni/Al nanoscale laminates as high-energy intermolecular reactive composites, Karthik Guda Vishnu, Mathew Cherukara, Hojin Kim, and Alejandro Strachan
Size effects in NiTi from density functional theory calculations, Karthik Guda Vishnu and Alejandro Strachan
Design of a compact mode and polarization converter in three-dimensional photonic crystals, Jian Wang and Minghao Qi
Quantitative measurement of quantum dot uptake at the cell population level using microfluidic evanescent-wave-based flow cytometry, Jun Wang, Yihong Zhan, Ning Bao, and Chang Lu
Observation of correlation between route to formation, coherence, noise, and communication performance of Kerr combs, Pei-Hsun Wang, Fahmida Ferdous, Houxun Miao, Jian Wang, Daniel E. Leaird, Kartik Srinivasan, Lei Chen, Vladimir Aksyuk, and Andrew M. Weiner
Tunable thermal rectification in graphene nanoribbons through defect engineering: A molecular dynamics study, Yan Wang, Siyu Chen, and Xiulin Ruan
Edge effect on thermal transport in graphene nanoribbons: A phonon localization mechanism beyond edge roughness scattering, Yan Wang, Bo Qiu, and Xiulin Ruan
Two-temperature nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation of thermal transport across metal-nonmetal interfaces, Yan Wang, Xiulin Ruan, and Ajit K. Roy
Folic Acid Protected Silver Nanocarriers for Targeted Drug Delivery, Y L. Wang, Brittany Book Newell, and Joseph Irudayaraj
Characterization of Metallically Bonded Carbon Nanotube-Based Thermal Interface Materials Using a High Accuracy 1D Steady-State Technique, Joseph R. Wasniewski, David H. Altman, Stephen L. Hodson, Timothy S. Fisher, Anuradha Bulusu, Samuel Graham, and Baratunde A. Cola
Exploration of the limits to mobility in two-dimensional hole systems in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells, J.D. Watson, S. Mondal, G. Gardner, Gabor A. Csathy, and Michael J. Manfra
Ohm's Law Survives to the Atomic Scale, Bent Weber, Suddhasatta Mahapatra, Hoon Ryu, Sunhee Lee, A. Fuhrer, T. Reusch, D. Thompson, W.C.T. Lee, Gerhard Klimeck, Lloyd C.L. Hollenberg, and Michelle Y. Simmons
Carbon nanotube coatings for enhanced capillary-fed boiling from porous microstructures, J. A. Weibel, S. S. Kim, Timothy S. Fisher, and Suresh V. Garimella
Visualization of vapor formation regimes during capillary-fed boiling in sintered-powder heat pipe wicks, Justin A. Weibel and Suresh V. Garimella
Characterization and Nanostructured Enhancement of Boiling Incipience in Capillary-Fed, Ultra-Thin Sintered Powder Wicks, Justin Weibel, Arun S. Kousalya, Timothy S. Fisher, and Suresh V. Garimella
Laser direct growth of graphene on silicon substrate, Dapeng Wei and Xianfan Xu
Effects of Titanium-Containing Additives on the Dehydrogenation Properties of LiAlH4: A Computational and Experimental Study, Jennifer Wohwend, Placidus Amama, Patrick Shamberger, Vikas Varshney, Ajit K. Roy, and Timothy Fisher
Cu2O and Au/Cu2O Particles: Surface Properties and Applications in Glucose Sensing, Yu-Ho Won and Lia A. Stanciu
Controlled thin graphitic petal growth on oxidized silicon, Guoping Xiong, K.P.S.S. Hembram, Dmitri N. Zakharov, Ronald G. Reifenberger, and Timothy S. Fisher
Dynamics of surface-coupled microcantilevers in force modulation atomic force microscopy - magnetic vs. dither piezo excitation, Xin Xu, Marisol Koslowski, and Arvind Raman
Molecular dynamics studies of ultrafast laser-induced phase and structural change in crystalline silicon, Chengjuan Yang, Yaguo Wang, and Xianfan Xu
Nontoxic and Abundant Copper Zinc Tin Sulfide Nanocrystals for Potential High-Temperature Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting, Haoran Yang, Luis A. Jauregui, Genqiang Zhang, Yong P. Chen, and Yue Wu
Direct writing of Au nanoneedles array on glass by confined laser spinning, Yingling Yang, Dong Lin, and Gary J. Cheng
Non-equilibrium Green's function calculation for GaN-based terahertz-quantum cascade laser structures, H. Yasuda, T. Kubis, I. Hosako, and K. Hirakawa
Cost-effective waste heat recovery using thermoelectric systems, Kazuaki Yazawa and Ali Shakouri
Optimization of power and efficiency of thermoelectric devices with asymmetric thermal contacts, Kazuaki Yazawa and Ali Shakouri
Scalable Cost/Performance Analysis for Thermoelectric Waste Heat Recovery Systems, Kazuaki Yazawa and Ali Shakouri
Population and coherence dynamics in light harvesting complex II (LH2), Shu-Hao Yeh, Jing Zhu, and Sabre Kais
Tunable, Dual-Gate, Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) Nanoelectromechanical Resonators, Lin Yu, Hossein Pajouhi, Molly R. Nelis, Jeffrey F. Rhoads, and Saeed Mohammadi
Design Principle of Telluride-Based Nanowire Heterostructures for Potential Thermoelectric Applications, Genqiang Zhang, Haiyu Fang, Haoran Yang, Luis A. Jauregui, Yong P. Chen, and Yue Wu
DNA Oligonucleotide Templated Nanohybrids Using Electronic Type Sorted Carbon Nanotubes for Light Harvesting, Hanyu Zhang, Benjamin A. Baker, Tae-Gon Cha, M. Dane Sauffer, Yujun Wu, Nhigel Hinkson, Matthew Bork, Colleen McShane, Kyoung-Shin Choi, David R. McMillin, and Jong Hyun Choi
Room temperature deposition of alumina-doped zinc oxide on flexible substrates by direct pulsed laser recrystallization, Martin Y. Zhang, Qiong Nian, and Gary J. Cheng