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 2009
On the validity of the top of the barrier quantum transport model for ballistic nanowire MOSFETs, Abhijeet Paul, Saumitra Mehrotra, Gerhard Klimeck, and Mathieu Luisier
On the Validity of the Top of the Barrier Quantum Transport Model for Ballistic Nanowire MOSFETs, Abhijeet Paul, Saumitra Mehrotra, Gerhard Klimeck, and Mathieu Luisier
Study of Ultra-Scaled SiGe/Si Core/Shell Nanowire FETs for CMOS Applications, Abhijeet Paul, Saumitra Mehrotra, Mathieu Luisier, and Gerhard Klimeck
Rapid and Scalable Reduction of Dense Surface-Supported Metal-Oxide Catalyst with Hydrazine Vapor, Cary Pint, Sang M. Kim, E A. Stach, and Robert H. Hauge
Resonant nonlinear optics of backward waves in negative-index metamaterials, A K. Popov, S A. Myslivets, and V. M. Shalaev
Microscopic mirrorless negative-index optical parametric oscillator, Alexander K. Popov, Sergey A. Myslivets, and V. M. Shalaev
Spin-orbit Splittings in Si/SiGe Quantum Wells: From Ideal Si Membranes to Realistic Hterostructures, M. Prada, G. Klimeck, and R. Joynt
Theoretical basis of parametric-resonance-based atomic force microscopy, G Prakash, S Hu, Arvind Raman, and R. Reifenberger
Molecular dynamics simulations of lattice thermal conductivity of bismuth telluride using two-body interatomic potentials, Bo Qiu and X Ruan
Molecular dynamics simulations of lattice thermal conductivity of bismuth telluride using two-body interatomic potentials, Bo Qiu and X Ruan
Mask Programmable CMOS Transistor Arrays for Wideband RF Integrated Circuits, Laleh Rabieirad, Edgar J. Martinez, and Saeed Mohammadi
Mask Programmable CMOS Transistor Arrays for Wideband RF Integrated Circuits, Laleh Rabieirad, Edgar J. Martinez, and Saeed Mohammadi
Reconfigurable CMOS Tuners for Software-Defined Radio, Laleh Rabieirad and Saeed Mohammadi
Reconfigurable CMOS Tuners for Software-Defined Radio, Laleh Rabieirad and Saeed Mohammadi
Efficient unidirectional ridge excitation of surface plasmons, I P. Radko, S I. Bozhevolnyi, G Brucoli, L Mart´ın-Moreno, F J. Garc´ıa-Vidal, and A Boltasseva
Orbital Stark effect and quantum confinement transition of donors in silicon, Rajib Rahman, G P. Lansbergen, Seung H. Park, J Verduijn, Gerhard Klimeck, S Rogge, and Lloyd CL Hollenberg
Orbital Stark effect and quantum confinement transition of donors in silicon, Rajib Rahman, G P. Lansbergen, Seung H. Park, J Verduijn, Gerhard Klimeck, S Rogge, and Lloyd CL Hollenberg
Orbital Start effect and quantum confinement transition of donors in silicon, Rajib Rahman, G. P. Lansbergen, Seung H. Park, J. Verdujin, Gerhard Klimeck, S. Rogge, and Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg
Gate Induced g-factor Control and Dimensional Transition for Donors in Multi-Valley Semiconductors, Rajib Rahman, Seung H. Park, Timothy B. Boykin, Gerhard Klimeck, Sven Rogge, and Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg
Gate-induced g-factor control and dimensional transition for donors in multivalley semiconductors, Rajib Rahman, Seung H. Park, Timothy B. Boykin, Gerhard Klimeck, Sven Rogge, and Lloyd CL Hollenberg
Gate-induced g-factor control and dimensional transition for donors in multivalley semiconductors, Rajib Rahman, Seung H. Park, Timothy B. Boykin, Gerhard Klimeck, Sven Rogge, and Lloyd CL Hollenberg
Atomistic Simulations of Adiabatic Coherent Electron Transport in Triple Donor Systems, Rajib Rahman, Seung H. Park, Jared H. Cole, Andrew D. Greentree, Richard P. Muller, Gerhard Klimeck, and Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg
Stark Tuning of the Charge States of a Two-Donor Molecule in Silicon, Rajib Rahman, Seung H. Park, Gerhard Klimeck, and Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg
Stark Tuning of the Charge States of a Two-Donor Molecule in Silicon, Rajib Rahman, Seung H. Park, Gerhard Klimeck, and Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg
Analysis of the Wicking and Thin-Film Evaporation Characteristics of Microstructures, Ram Ranjan, Jayathi Y. Murthy, and Suresh Garimella
Numerical Study of Evaporation Heat Transfer from the Liquid-Vapor Interface in Wick Microstructures, Ram Ranjan, Jayathi Y. Murthy, and Suresh V. Garimella
Thermal conductivity of (Zr,W)N/ScN metal/semiconductor multilayers and superlattices, Vijay Rawat, Yee Kan Koh, David G. Cahill, and Timothy D. Sands
Pseudomorphic stabilization of rocksalt GaN in TiN/GaN multilayers and superlattices, Vijay Rawat, Dmitri Zakharov, E A. Stach, and Timothy D. Sands
Modeling and Optimization of Polymer based Bulk Heterojunction (BH) Solar cell, Biswajit Ray, Pradeep R. Nair, R. Edwin García, and Muhammad A. Alam
A Study of Temperature-Dependent Properties of N-type Delta-Doped Si Band-Structures in Equilibrium, Hoon Ryu, Sunhee Lee, and Gerhard Klimeck
Stabilizing nanostructured materials by coherent nanotwins and their grain boundary triple junction drag, C Saldana, T G. Murthy, M R. Shankar, E A. Stach, and S Chandrasekar
Characterization of electrochemically grafted molecular layers on silicon for electronic device applications, Adina Scott and David B. Janes
Characterization of Parylene-N as Flexible Substrate and Passivation Layer for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits, Hasan Sharifi, Rosa R. Lahiji, Han-Chung Lin, P. D. Ye, Linda P.B. Katehi, and Saeed Mohammadi
Observation of quantum-Hall effect in gated epitaxial graphene grown on SiC (0001), T Shen, J J. Gu, Y Q. Wu, M L. Bolen, Michael A. Capano, L W. Engel, and P. D. Ye
Observation of quantum-Hall effect in gated epitaxial graphene grown on SiC (0001), T Shen, J J. Gu, M Xu, Michael Bolen, Michael A. Capano, L Engel, and P. D. Ye
Modeling of subcontinuum thermal transport across semiconductor-gas interfaces, Druv Singh, Xiaohui Guo, Alina Alexeenko, Jayathi Y. Murthy, and Timothy Fisher
Frequency-domain simulations of a negative-index material with embedded gain, Yonatan Sivan, Shumin Xiao, Uday K. Chettiar, Alexander V. Kildishev, and V. M. Shalaev
Characterization of amino acid adlayers on InAs surfaces using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, John W. Slavin, Upasana Jarori, Dmitry Zemlyanov, and Albena Ivanisevic
Adsorption of amino acids on indium arsenide (100) surfaces: Assessment of passivation capabilities, John W. Slavin, Dmitry Zemlyanov, and Albena Ivanisevic
Electrostatically Tunable Analog Single Crystal Silicon Fringing-Field MEMS Varactors, Joshua A. Small, Xiaoguang Liu, Anurag Garg, and Dimitrios Peroulis
Anisotropic Metamaterials Emulated by Tapered Waveguides: Application to Optical Cloaking, Igor I. Smolyaninov, Vera N. Smolyaninova, Alexander V. Kildishev, and V. M. Shalaev
Beam propagation modeling of modified volume Fresnel zone plates fabricated by femtosecond laser direct writing, Pornsak Srisungsitthisunti, Okan K. Ersoy, and Xianfan Xu
Optimization of modified volume Fresnel zone plates, Pornsak Srisungsitthisunti, Okan Ersoy, and Xianfan Xu
Optimization of modified volume Fresnel zone plates, Pornsak Srisungsitthisunti, Okan Ersoy, and Xianfan Xu
Interfacial energy between carbon nanotubes and polymers measured from nanoscale peel tests in the atomic force microscope, Mark C. Strus, Camilo I. Cano, R. Byron Pipes, Cattien V. Nguyen, and Arvind Raman
Interfacial energy between carbon nanotubes and polymers measured from nanoscale peel tests in the atomic force microscope, Mark C. Strus, Camilo I. Cano, R. Byron Pipes, Cattien V. Nguyen, and Arvind Raman
Strain energy and lateral friction force distributions of carbon nanotubes manipulated into shapes by atomic force microscopy, Mark Strus, Roya R. Lahiji, Pablo Ares, Vicente Lopez, Arvind Raman, and R. Reifenberger
Identification of multiple oscillation states of carbon nanotube tipped cantilevers interacting with surfaces in dynamic atomic force microscopy, Mark Strus and Arvind Raman
PCR-Free Quantification of Multiple Splice Variants in a Cancer Gene by Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Lan Sun and Joseph Irudayaraj
Quantitative Surface-Enhanced Raman for Gene Expression Estimation, Lan Sun and Joseph Irudayaraj
Spatially resolved in situ FTIR analysis of CO adsorption and reaction on Pt/SiO2 in a silicon microreactor, Christopher CK Tan, Nicholas W. Delgass, and Chelsey D. Baertsch
Spatially resolved in situ FTIR analysis of CO adsorption and reaction on Pt/SiO2 in a silicon microreactor, Chung K. Tan, Nicholas W. Delgass, and Chelsey Baertsch
Thermionic emission energy distribution from nanocrystalline diamond films for direct thermal-electrical energy conversion applications, Kishore Uppireddi, Tyler Westover, Timothy Fisher, Brad H. Weiner, and Gerardo Morell
Thermionic emission energy distribution from nanocrystalline diamond films for direct thermal-electrical energy conversion applications, Kishore Uppireddi, Tyler Westover, Timothy Fisher, Brad Weiner, and Gerardo Morell
Strain-engineered self-organized InAs/GaAs quantum dots for long wavelength (1.3 mu m-1.5 mu m) optical applications, Muhammad Usman, Vasileska Dragica, and Gerhard Klimeck
Quantum Confined Stark Shift and Ground State Optical Transition Rat in [100] Laterally Biased InAs/GaAs Quantum Dots, Muhammad Usman, Hoon Ryu, Sunhee Lee, Yui H. Tan, and Gerhard Klimeck
Moving Toward Nano-TCAD Through Multimillion-Atom Quantum-Dot Simulations Matching Experimental Data, Muhammad Usman, Hoon Ryu, Insoo Woo, David Ebert, and Gerhard Klimeck
Moving Toward Nano-TCAD Through Multimillion-Atom Quantum-Dot Simulations Matching Experimental Data, Muhammad Usman, Hoon Ryu, Insoo Woo, David S. Ebert, and Gerhard Klimeck
A Microresonator Design Based on Nonlinear 1:2 Internal Resonance in Flexural Structural Modes, Ashwin Vyas, Dimitrios Peroulis, and Anil Bajaj
Gold Nanorod/Fe3O4 Nanoparticle "Nano-Pearl-Necklaces" for Simultaneous Targeting, Dual-Mode Imaging, and Photothermal Ablation of Cancer Cells, Chungang Wang, Jiji Chen, Tom Talavage, and Joseph Irudayaraj
Resonant Oscillation of Misch-Metal Atoms in Filled Skutterudites, Yaguo Wang, Xianfan Xu, and Jihui Yang
Formation of Compositionally Abrupt Axial Heterojunctions in Silicon-Germanium Nanowires, C Y. Wen, M C. Reuter, J Bruley, J Tersoff, S Kodambaka, E A. Stach, and F M. Ross
Formation of Compositionally Abrupt Axial Heterojunctions in Silicon-Germanium Nanowires, C Y. Wen, M C. Reuter, J Bruley, J Tersoff, S Kodambaka, E A. Stach, and F M. Ross
Optically induced electrokinetic patterning and manipulation of particles, Stuart J. Williams, Aloke Kumar, and Steven Wereley
0.8-V Supply Voltage Deep-Submicrometer Inversion-Mode In0.75Ga0.25As MOSFET, Y Q. Wu, W K. Wang, Ozhan Koybasi, Dmitri Zakharov, E A. Stach, S Nakahara, J C. Hwang, and P. D. Ye
Tunable magnetic response of metamaterials, Shumin Xiao, Uday K. Chettiar, Alexander V. Kildishev, V. Drachev, I C. Khoo, and V. M. Shalaev
Yellow-light negative-index metamaterials, Shumin Xiao, Uday K. Chettiar, Alexander V. Kildishev, V. P. Drachev, and V. M. Shalaev
Topography and Nanomechanics of Live Neuronal Growth Cones Analyzed by Atomic Force Microscopy, Ying Xiong, Aih Cheun Lee, Daniel Suter, and Gil U. Lee
Compositional Contrast of Biological Materials in Liquids Using the Momentary Excitation of Higher Eigenmodes in Dynamic Atomic Force Microscopy, Xin Xu, John Melcher, Sudipta Basak, R. Reifenberger, and Arvind Raman
Rarefied gas flow in microtubes at different inlet-outlet pressure ratios, Z Yang and Suresh Garimella
Topography and Nanomechanics of Live Neuronal Growth Cones Analyzed by Atomic Force Microscopy, Xiong Ying, Aih Cheun Lee, Daniel Suter, and Gil Lee
Thermoelectric Transport in a ZrN/ScN Superlattice, Mona Zebarjadi, Zhixi Bian, Rajeev Singh, Ali Shakouri, Robert Wortman, Vijay Rawat, and Timothy D. Sands
LINEAR COEFFICIENT OF THERMAL EXPANSION OF POROUS ANODIC ALUMINA THIN FILMS FROM ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY, Richard X. Zhang, Timothy Fisher, Arvind Raman, and Timothy D. Sands
Linear Coefficient of Thermal Expansion of Porous Anodic Alumina Thin Films from Atomic Force Microscopy, Richard X. Zhang, Timothy Fisher, Arvind Raman, and Timothy D. Sands
Characterization and Modeling of Subfemotofarad Nanowire Capacitance Using the CBCM Technique, Hui Zhao, Raseong Kim, Abhijeet Paul, Mathieu Luisier, Gerhard Klimeck, Fa-Jun Ma, Subhash C. Rustagi, Ganesh S. Samudra, Navab Singh, Guo-Qiang Lo, and Dim-Lee Kwong
Characterization and Modeling of Subfemtofarad Nanowire Capacitance Using the CBCM Technique, Hui Zhao, Raseong Kim, Abhijeet Paul, Mathieu Luisier, Gerhard Klimeck, Fa-Jun Ma, Subhash Rustagi, Ganesh S. Samudra, Navab Singh, Guo-Qiang Lo, and Dim-Lee Kwong
Generating integrated-circuit patterns via cutting and stitching of gratings, Lin Zhao, Yi Xuan, and Minghao Qi
Simulated quantum computation of global minima, Jing Zhu, Zhen Huang, and Sabre Kais
Detection of Pathogenic E. coli O157:H7 by a Hybrid Microfluidic SPR and Molecular Imaging Cytometry Device, Michael Zordan, Meggie Grafton, Ghanashyam Acharya, Lisa M. Reece, Christy L. Cooper, Arthur Aronson, Kinam Park, and James F. Leary
Publications from 2008
S passivation of GaAs and band bending reduction upon atomic layer deposition of HfO2/Al2O3 nanolaminates, F S. Aguirre-Tostado, M Milojevic, K J. Choi, H C. Kim, C L. Hinkle, E M. Vogel, J Kim, T Yang, Xianfan Xu, P. D. Ye, and R M. Wallace
Effect of post-release sidewall morphology on the fracture and fatigue properties of polycrystalline silicon structural films, D H. Alsem, B L. Boyce, E A. Stach, and R O. Ritchie
Micron-Scale Friction and Sliding Wear of Polycrystalline Silicon Thin Structural Films in Ambient Air, Daan H. Alsern, Michael T. Dugger, Eric A. Stach, and Robert O. Ritchie
XPS and Raman characterization of single-walled carbon nanotubes grown from pretreated Fe2O3 nanoparticles, Placidus B. Amama, Dmitry Zemlyanov, B Sundarakannan, Ram S. Katiyar, and Timothy Fisher
Electrothermal Bonding of Carbon Nanotubes to Glass, Sriharsha V. Aradhya, Suresh Garimella, and Timothy Fisher
Electrowetting-based control of droplet transition and morphology on artificially microstructured surfaces, Vaibhav Bahadur and Suresh Garimella
Energy minimization-based analysis of electrowetting for microelectronics cooling applications, Vaibhav Bahadur and S V. Garimella
Nanoantenna array-induced fluorescence enhancement and reduced lifetimes, Reuben M. Bakker, V. P. Drachev, Zhengtong Liu, Hsiao-Kuan Yuan, Rasmus H. Pedersen, Alexandra Boltasseva, Jiji Chen, Joseph Irudayaraj, Alexander V. Kildishev, and V. M. Shalaev
Enhanced localized fluorescence in plasmonic nanoantennae, Reuben Bakker, Hsiao-Kuan Yuan, Zhengtong Liu, V. P. Drachev, Alexander V. Kildishev, V. M. Shalaev, Rasmus H. Pedersen, Samuel Gresillon, and Alexandra Boltasseva
Theory of the broadening of vibrational spectra induced by lowered symmetry in yttria nanostructures, H Bao, X Ruan, and M Kaviany
Quantification of bacterial cells based on autofluorescence on a microfluidic platform, Ning Bao, Balarnurugan Jagadeesan, Arun K. Bhunia, Yuan Yao, and Chang Lu
A microfluidic device for physical trapping and electrical lysis of bacterial cells, Ning Bao and Chang Lu
Microfluidic electroporation for selective release of intracellular molecules at the single-cell level, Ning Bao, Jun Wang, and Chang Lu
First-principles nonequilibrium analysis of STM-induced molecular negative-differential resistance on Si(100), Kirk Huw Bevan, D Kienle, H Guo, and Supriyo Datta
PCR-based detection in a micro-fabricated platform, Shantanu Bhattacharya, Shuaib Salamat, Dallas Morisette, Padmapriya Banada, Demir Akin, Yi-Shao Liu, Arun K. Bhunia, Michael R. Ladisch, and Rashid Bashir
Non-Primitive Rectangular Cells for Tight-Binding Electronic Structure Calculations, Timothy B. Boykin
Valley splitting in finite barrier quantum wells, Timothy B. Boykin, Neerav Kharche, and Gerhard Klimeck
Capacitance-Voltage Characterization of GaAs-Oxide Interfaces, G Brammertz, H C. Lin, K Martens, D Mercier, C Merckling, J Penaud, C Adelmann, S Sioncke, W E. Wang, M Caymax, M Meuris, and M Heyns
Designs for optical cloaking with high-order transformations, Wenshan Cai, Uday K. Chettiar, Alexander V. Kildishev, and V. M. Shalaev
Medium-scale carbon nanotube thin-film integrated circuits on flexible plastic substrates, Qing Cao, Hoon-sik Kim, Ninad Pimparkar, Jaydeep Kulkarni, Congjun Wang, Moonsub Shim, Kaushik Roy, Muhammad A. Alam, and John A. Rogers
Bright-field analysis of phi29 DNA packaging motor using a magnetomechanical system, Chun-Li Chang, Hui Zhang, Dan Shu, Peixuan Guo, and Cagri A. Savran