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
Low-frequency ac electroporation shows strong frequency dependence and yields comparable transfection results to dc electroporation, Yihong Zhan, Zhenning Cao, Ning Bao, Jianbo Li, Jun Wang, Tao Geng, Hao Lin, and Chang Lu
Characterizing osmotic lysis kinetics under microfluidic hydrodynamic focusing for erythrocyte fragility studies, Yihong Zhan, Despina N. Loufakis, Ning Bao, and Chang Lu
Release of Intracellular Proteins by Electroporation with Preserved Cell Viability, Yihong Zhan, Chen Sun, Zhenning Cao, Ning Bao, Jianhua Xing, and Chang Lu
Understanding the Impact of Schottky Barriers on the Performance of Narrow Bandgap Nanowire Field Effect Transistors, Yanjie Zhao, Drew Candebat, Collin J. Delker, Yunlong Zi, David B. Janes, Joerg Appenzeller, and Chen Yang
Multipartite quantum entanglement evolution in photosynthetic complexes, Jing Zhu, Sabre Kais, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Sam Rodriques, Ben Brock, and Peter J. Love
Minimizing Thermally Induced Interfacial Shearing Stress in a Thermoelectric Module, Amirkoushyar Ziabari, Ephraim Suhir, and Ali Shakouri
Publications from 2011
The Essence and Efficiency Limits of Bulk-Heterostructure Organic Solar Cells, Muhammad Ashraful Alam, Biswajit Ray, Mohammad R. khan, and Sourabh Dongaonkar
Uncertainty in microscale gas damping: Implications on dynamics of capacitive MEMS switches, Alina A. Alexeenko, Sruti Chigullapalli, Juan Zeng, Xiaohui Guo, Andrew Kovacs, and Dimitrios Peroulis
Entanglement dynamics of one-dimensional driven spin systems in time-varying magnetic fields, Bedoor Alkurtass, Gehad Sadiek, and Sabre Kais
Polarity effects in the x-ray photoemission of ZnO and other wurtzite semiconductors, M. W. Allen, Dmitry Zemlyanov, G.I.N. Waterhouse, J. B. Metson, T. D. Veal, C. F. McConville, and S. M. Durbin
Crystallization and electrochemical performance of La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3-delta-Ce0.8Gd0.2O1.9 thin film cathodes processed by single solution spray pyrolysis, Bainye Angoua, Patrick Cantwell, Eric A. Stach, and Elliott B. Slamovich
Dynamics of Droplet Motion under Electrowetting Actuation, S. Ravi Annapragada, Susmita Dash, Suresh V. Garimella, and Jayathi Y. Murthy
Droplet Shapes on Superhydrophobic Surfaces under Electrowetting Actuation, S. Ravi Annapragada, Jayathi Y. Murthy, and Suresh V. Garimella
Graphene-based hybrid materials and devices for biosensing, Mayra S. Artiles, Candra Sekhar Rout, and Timothy Fisher
Substrate Gating of Contact Resistance in Graphene Transistors, Dionisis Berdebes, Tony Low, Yang Sui, Joerg Appenzeller, and Mark Lundstrom
Active and tunable metamaterials, Allan D. Boardman, Volodymyr V. Grimalsky, Yuri S. Kivshar, Mikhail Lapine, Natalia Litchinitser, Svetlana Koshevaya, Mikhail Noginov, Vadim N. Malnev, Yuriy Rapoport, and Vladimir M. Shalaev
Dynamic and Reversible Self-Assembly of Photoelectrochemical Complexes Based on Lipid Bilayer Disks, Photosynthetic Reaction Centers, and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, Ardemis A. Boghossian, Jong Hyun Choi, Moon-Ho Ham, and Michael S. Strano
Biomimetic strategies for solar energy conversion: a technical perspective, Ardemis A. Boghossian, Moon-Ho Ham, Jong Hyun Choi, and Michael S. Strano
Graphene formation on step-free 4H-SiC(0001), M. L. Bolen, R. Colby, E A. Stach, and Michael A. Capano
Low-Loss Plasmonic Metamaterials, Alexandra Boltasseva and Harry A. Atwater
Quantification of Receptor Targeting Aptamer Binding Characteristics Using Single-Molecule Spectroscopy, Brittany Book, Jiji Chen, and Joseph Irudayaraj
Accurate Six-Band Nearest-Neighbor Tight-Binding Model for the π-Bands of Bulk Graphene and Graphene Nanoribbons, Timothy B. Boykin, Mathieu Luisier, Gerhard Klimeck, Xueping Jiang, Neerav Kharche, Yu Zhou, and Saroj K. Nayak
High temperature dynamic viscosity sensor for engine oil applications, Matthew D. Brouwer, Lokesh A. Gupta, Farshid Sadeghi, Dimitrios Peroulis, and Douglas Adams
Built-In Mechanical Stress in Viral Shells, C. Carrasco, A. Luque, M. Hernando-Perez, R. Miranda, J. L. Carrascosa, P. A. Serena, M. de Ridder, Arvind Raman, J. Gomez-Herrero, I.A.T. Schaap, D. Reguera, and P. J. de Pablo
Distributed NEGF Algorithms for the Simulation of Nanoelectronic Devices with Scattering, Stephen Cauley, Mathieu Luisier, Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, Gerhard Klimeck, and Cheng-Kok Koh
Effects of Carbon Nanotube-Tethered Nanosphere Density on Amperometric Biosensing: Simulation and Experiment, Jonathan Caussen, James Hengenius, Monique Wickner, Timothy Fisher, David Umulis, and Marshall Porterfield
Optical Nanosensor Architecture for Cell-Signaling Molecules Using DNA Aptamer-Coated Carbon Nanotubes, Tae-Gon Cha, Benjamin A. Baker, M. Dane Sauffer, Janette Salgado, David Jaroch, Jenna Rickus, D. Marshall Porterfield, and Jong Hyun Choi
Fatigue performance improvement in AISI 4140 steel by dynamic strain aging and dynamic precipitation during warm laser shock peening, Gary Cheng, Chang Ye, Sergey Suslov, Bong Joong Kim, and Eric A. Stach
Single Molecule In Vivo Analysis of Toll-Like Receptor 9 and CpG DNA Interaction, Jiji Chen, Suman Nag, Pierre-Alexandre Vidi, and Joseph Irudayaraj
Design of Highly Efficient Broadband Class-E Power Amplifier Using Synthesized Low-Pass Matching Networks, Kenle Chen and Dimitrios Peroulis
Shape and Temperature Dependence of Hot Carrier Relaxation Dynamics in Spherical and Elongated CdSe Quantum Dots, Liangliang Chen, Hua Bao, Taizhi Tan, Oleg Prezhdo, and Xiulin Ruan
Local heat transfer distribution and effect of instabilities during flow boiling in a silicon microchannel heat sink, Tailian Chen and Suresh V. Garimella
Effect of oxygen plasma etching on graphene studied using Raman spectroscopy and electronic transport measurements, Isaac Childres, Luis A. Jauregui, Jifa Tian, and Yong P. Chen
Laser-treated hydrophobic paper: an inexpensive microfluidic platform, Girish Chitnis, Zhenwen Ding, Chun-Li Chang, Cagri A. Savran, and Babak Ziaie
Atomic-Scale Investigation of Graphene Grown on Cu Foil and the Effects of Thermal Annealing, Jongweon Cho, Li Gao, Jifa Tian, Helin Cao, Wei Wu, Qingkai Yu, Esmeralda Yitamben, Brandon Fisher, Jeffrey R. Guest, Yong P. Chen, and Nathan P. Guisinger
Full Band 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, and Sean L. Rommel
Electrochemical glutamate biosensing with nanocube and nanosphere augmented single-walled carbon nanotube networks: a comparative study, Jonathan C. Claussen, Mayra S. Artiles, Eric S. McLamore, Subhashree Mohanty, Jin Shi, Jenna Rickus, Timothy S. Fisher, and D. Marshall Porterfield
Transforming the Fabrication and Biofunctionalization of Gold Nanoelectrode Arrays into Versatile Electrochemical Glucose Biosensors, Jonathan C. Claussen, Monique Wickner, Timothy S. Fisher, and D. Marshall Porterfield
Amorphous interface layer in thin graphite films grown on the carbon face of SiC, R. Colby, M. L. Bolen, Michael A. Capano, and E. A. Stach
Label-free electrical detection of pyrophosphate generated from DNA polymerase reactions on field-effect devices, Grace M. Credo, Xing Su, Kai Wu, Oguz Elibol, David J. Liu, Bobby Reddy Jr., Ta-Wei Tsai, Brian R. Dorvel, Jonathan S. Daniels, Rashid Bashir, and Madoo Varma
Quantitative force and dissipation measurements in liquids using piezo-excited atomic force microscopy: a unifying theory, Kiracofe Daniel and Arvind Raman
Characterization of ultrahydrophobic hierarchical surfaces fabricated using a single-step fabrication methodology, S. Dash, N. Kumari, and S. V. Garimella
Single-Step Fabrication and Characterization of Ultrahydrophobic Surfaces with Hierarchical Roughness, Susmita Dash, Niru Kumari, Mercy Dicuangco, and Suresh V. Garimella
Decomposition of unitary matrices for finding quantum circuits: Application to molecular Hamiltonians, Anmer Daskin and Sabre Kais
Group leaders optimization algorithm, Anmer Daskin and Sabre Kais
An All Graphene Low Noise Amplifier, Saptarshi Das and Joerg Appenzeller
FETRAM- an Organic Ferroelectric Material Based Novel Random Access Memory Cell, Saptarshi Das and Joerg Appenzeller
On the Importance of Band Gap Formation in Graphene for Analog Device Application, Saptarshi Das and Joerg Appenzeller
Room temperature device performance of electrodeposited InSb nanowire field effect transistors, Suprem Das, Collin J. Delker, Dmitri Zakharov, Yong P. Chen, Timothy D. Sands, and David B. Janes
Ferrofluid-Impregnated Paper Actuators, Zhenwen Ding, Pinghung Wei, Girish Chitnis, and Babak Ziaie
A Physical Model for Non-ohmic Shunt Conduction and Metastability in Amorphous Silicon p-i-n Solar Cells, Sourabh Dongaonkar, Karthik Y, Souvik Mahapatra, and Muhammad A. Alam
Identification, Characterization, and Implications of Shadow Degradation in Thin Film Solar Cells, Sourabh Dongaonkar, Karthik Y, Dapeng Wang, Michel Frei, Souvik Mahapatra, and Muhammad A. Alam
Physics and Statistics of Non-Ohmic Shunt Conduction and Metastability in Amorphous Silicon p-i-n Solar Cells, Sourabh Dongaonkar, karthik Yogendra, Souvik Mahapatra, and Muhammad A. Alam
Formation of silicon nanodots via ion beam sputtering of ultrathin gold thin film coatings on Si, Osman El-Atwani, Sami Ortoleva, Alex Cimaroli, and Jean Paul Allain
The significance of in situ conditions in the characterization of GaSb nanopatterned surfaces via ion beam sputtering, Osman El-Atwani, Jean Paul, Alex Cimaroli, Anastassiya Suslova, and Sami Ortoleva
Multimodal grain size distribution and high hardness in fine grained tungsten fabricated by spark plasma sintering, Osman El-Atwani, D.V. Quach, Mert Efe, Patrick Cantwell, Bryan Heim, Bradley Schultz, Eric Stach, Joanna Groza, and Jean P. Allain
Spectral line-by-line pulse shaping of on-chip microresonator frequency combs, Fahmida Ferdous, Houxun Miao, Daniel E. Leaird, Kartik Srinivasan, Jian Wang, Lei Chen, Leo Tom Varghese, and Andrew M. Weiner
Direct Measurement of Field Emission Current in E-static MEMS Structures, Anurag Garg, Venkattraman Ayyaswamy, Andrew Kovacs, Alina A. Alexeenko, and Dimitrios Peroulis
Histone modification analysis by chromatin immunoprecipitation from a low number of cells on a microfluidic platform, Tao Geng, Ning Bao, Michael D. Litt, Trevor G. Glaros, Liwu Li, and Chang Lu
Transfection of cells using flow-through electroporation based on constant voltage, Tao Geng, Yihong Zhan, Jun Wang, and Chang Lu
Breast on-a-chip: mimicry of the channeling system of the breast for development of theranostics, Meggie M.G. Grafton, Lei Wang, Pierre-Alexandre Vidi, James F. Leary, and Sophie A. Lelievre
Study of Water Adsorption on Organics Crystal Surfaces Using a Modified X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Instrument, Peter Guerrieri, Dmitry Zemlyanov, and Lynne S. Taylor
III-V-on-nothing metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors enabled by top-down nanowire release process: Experiment and simulation, J. J. Gu, O. Koybasi, Y. Q. Wu, and Peide D. Ye
Effects of (NH(4))(2)S passivation on the off-state performance of 3-dimensional InGaAs metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors, J J Gu, A T. Neal, and P D. Ye
Effects of gate-last and gate-first process on deep submicron inversion-mode InGaAs n-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors, J. J. Gu, Y. Q. Wu, and Peide D. Ye
Protein-directed reduction of graphene oxide and intracellular imaging, Cunlan Guo, Brittany Book-Newell, and Joseph Irudayaraj
Fluorescent Ag Clusters via a Protein-Directed Approach as a Hg(II) Ion Sensor, Cunlan Guo and Joseph Irudayaraj
Remotely Powered Wireless Strain Telemeter, Lokesh A. Gupta, David Christopher Ruddock, Michael T. Hall, Farshid Sadeghi, and Dimitrios Peroulis
Design of a GaInP/GaAs tandem solar cell for maximum daily, monthly, and yearly energy output, Alexander W. Haas, John R. Wilcox, Jeffery L. Gray, and Richard J. Schwartz
Boiling Heat Transfer and Flow Regimes in Microchannels-A Comprehensive Understanding, Tannaz Harirchian and Suresh V. Garimella
Role of Surface Orientation on Atomic Layer Deposited Al2O3/GaAs Interface Structure and Fermi Level Pinning: A Density Functional Theory Study, Ganesh Hegde, Gerhard Klimeck, and Alejandro Strachan
Deuterium ion-surface interactions of liquid-lithium thin films on micro-porous molybdenum substrates, Bryan Heim, C. N. Taylor, D. M. Zigon, S. O'Dell, and Jean Paul Allain
Interfacial chemistry of oxides on InxGa(1-x)As and implications for MOSFET applications, C. L. Hinkle, E. M. Vogel, Peide D. Ye, and R. M. Wallace
Palladium Thiolate Bonding of Carbon Nanotube Thermal Interfaces, Stephen L. Hodson, Thiruvelu Bhuvana, Baratunde A. Cola, Xianfan Xu, G. U. Kulkarni, and Timothy S. Fisher
An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Creep in Ultrafine Crystalline Nickel RF-MEMS Devices, Hao-Han Hsu, Marisol Koslowski, and Dimitrios Peroulis
A CAD Model for Creep Behavior of RF-MEMS Varactors and Circuits, Hao-Han Hsu and Dimitrios Peroulis
An atomistic study of thermal conductance across a metal-graphene nanoribbon interface, Zhen Huang, Timothy S. Fisher, and Jayathi Y. Murthy
Modeling of Polarization-Specific Phonon Transmission Through Interfaces, Zhen Huang, Jayathi Murthy, and Timothy Fisher
Nonlinear thermal transport and negative differential thermal conductance in graphene nanoribbons, Jiuning Hu, Yan Wang, Ajit Vallabhaneni, Xiulin Ruan, and Yong P. Chen
Gold Nanoslit Lenses, Satoshi Ishii, Alexander V. Kildishev, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Kuo-Ping Chen, and Vladimir P. Drachev
Metal nanoslit lenses with polarization-selective design (vol 36, pg 451, 2011), Satoshi Ishii, Alexander V. Kildishev, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Kuo-Ping Chen, and Vladimir P. Drachev
Controlling the wave focal structure of metallic nanoslit lenses with liquid crystals, S Ishii, A V. Kildishev, V M. Shalaev, and V P. Drachev
Plasmonics Goes Quantum, Zubin Jacob and Vladimir Shalaev
Scanning gate microscopy on graphene: charge inhomogeneity and extrinsic doping, Romaneh Jalilian, Luis A. Jauregui, Gabriel Lopez, Jifa Tian, Caleb Roecker, Mehdi Yazdanpanah, Robert Cohn, I. Jovanovic, and Yong P. Chen
Cell-Mediated Deposition of Porous Silica on Bacterial Biofilms, David Jaroch, Eric McLarmore, Wen Zhang, Jin Shi, Jay Garland, M. Katherine Banks, D. Marshall Porterfield, and Jenna Rickus
Electronic properties of grains and grain boundaries in graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition, Luis A. Jauregui, Helin Cao, Wei Wu, Qingkai Yu, and Yong P. Chen
Full dispersion versus Debye model evaluation of lattice thermal conductivity with a Landauer approach, Changwook Jeong, Supriyo Datta, and Mark S. Lundstrom
Computational Study of the Electronic Performance of Cross-Plane Superlattice Peltier Devices, Changwook Jeong, Gerhard Klimeck, and Mark S. Lundstrom
On Electronic Structure Engineering and Thermoelectric Performance, Changwook Jeong and Mark S. Lundstrom
Prospects for Nanowire-Doped Polycrystalline Graphene Films for Ultratransparent, Highly Conductive Electrodes, Changwook Jeong, Pradeep Nair, Mohammad Khan, Mark Lundstrom, and Muhammad Alam
Adsorption of Mixed Peptide/Thiol Adlayers on InAs: Assessment of Different Functionalization Strategies Using X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Scott Jewett, D. Zemlyanov, and Albena Ivanisevic
Characterization of Peptide Adsorption on InAs Using X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Scott Jewett, Dmitry Zemlyanov, and Albena Ivanisevic
Effects of Interface Disorder on Valley Splitting in SiGe/Si/SiGe Quantum Wells, Zhengping Jiang, Neerav Kharche, Timothy Boykin, and Gerhard Klimeck
Scalable nano-patterning of graphenes using laser shock, Li J., R. J. Zhang, H. Q. Jiang, and G. J. Cheng
Multiscale Metrology and Optimization of Ultra-Scaled InAs Quantum Well FETs, Neerav Kharche, Gerhard Klimeck, Dae-Hyun Kim, Jesús A. del Alamo, and Mathieu Luisier
Numerical Modeling of Plasmonic Nanoantennas with Realistic 3D Roughness and Distortion, Alexander V. Kildishev, Joshua D. Borneman, Kuo-Ping Chen, and Vladimir P. Drachev
Bianisotropic Effective Parameters of Optical Metamagnetics and Negative-Index Materials, Alexander V. Kildishev, Joshua D. Borneman, Xingjie Ni, Vladimir M. Shalaev, and Vladimir P. Drachev
Non-Linear Modeling of Active or Passive Optical Lamellar Nanostructures, Alexander V. Kildishev and Xingjie Ni
Transformation optics and metamaterials, A. V. Kildishev and V. M. Shalaev
A Two-Dimensional Electronically-Steerable Array Antenna for Target Detection on Ground, Dowon Kim, Xiang Cui, Ankith Cherala, Kenle Chen, and D. Peroulis