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 2008
Nuclear-induced time evolution of entanglement of two-electron spins in anisotropically coupled quantum dot, Gehad Sadiek, Zhen Huang, Omar Aldossary, and Sabre Kais
Carboxyl-coated magnetic nanoparticles for mRNA isolation and extraction of supercoiled plasmid DNA, Tapasree R. Sarkar and Joseph Irudayaraj
Transforming light, V. M. Shalaev
The effect of twin plane spacing on the deformation of copper containing a high density of growth twins, Z W. Shan, L Lu, A M. Minor, E A. Stach, and S X. Mao
Self-aligned wafer-level integration technology with an embedded faraday cage for substrate crosstalk suppression, Hasan Sharifi and Saeed Mohammadi
Magnetoconductance oscillations in graphene antidot arrays, T Shen, Y Q. Wu, Leonid P. Rokhinson, L W. Engel, and P. D. Ye
Mechanism of the reaction NO+H-2 on the Pt(100)-hex surface under conditions of the spatially nonuniform distribution of reacting species, M Y. Smirnov, Dmitry Zemlyanov, and E I. Vovk
Highly ordered diamond and hybrid triangle-diamond patterns in porous anodic alumina thin films, Joshua T. Smith, Qingling Hang, Aaron D. Franklin, David B. Janes, and Timothy D. Sands
Highly sensitive mass detection and identification using vibration localization in coupled microcantilever arrays, Matthew A. Spletzer, Arvind Raman, Hartono Sumali, and John P. Sullivan
Valley splitting in Si quantum dots embedded in SiGe, S Srinivasan, Gerhard Klimeck, and Leonid P. Rokhinson
NANOMATERIALS Nanotubes reveal their true strength, Eric A. Stach
ADSORPTION OF PROTAMINE AND PAPAIN PROTEINS ON SAPONITE, Tamas Szabo, Raluca Mitea, Hugo Leeman, Gnanasiri S. Premachandra, Cliff T. Johnston, Marta Szekeres, Imre Dekany, and Robert A. Schoonheydt
Numerical study of the turnoff behavior of high-voltage 4H-SiC IGBTs, TOMOHIRO TAMAKI, Ginger G. Walden, Yang Sui, and James A. Cooper
Optimization of ON-state and switching performances for 15-20-kV 4H-SiC IGBTs, TOMOHIRO TAMAKI, Ginger G. Walden, Yang Sui, and James A. Cooper
Directed self-assembly of quantum structures by nanomechanical stamping using probe tips, Curtis Taylor, Euclydes Marega, E A. Stach, Gregory Salamo, Lindsay Hussey, Martin Muñoz, and Ajay Malshe
Hydrodynamic loading of microcantilevers oscillating near rigid walls, Ryan C. Tung, Jana Anirban, and Arvind Raman
Single molecule DNA synthesis can be detected electronically, Murali B. Venkatesan, O H. Elibol, B Dorvel, K Park, and Rashid Bashir
Extraordinary Sensitivity of the Electronic Structure and Properties of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes to Molecular Charge-Transfer, Rakesh Voggu, Chandra S. Rout, Aaron D. Franklin, Timothy Fisher, and C. N. R. Rao
Dynamics of a nonlinear microresonator based on resonantly interacting flexural-torsional modes, Ashwin Vyas, Dimitrios Peroulis, and Anil Bajaj
Mixed adlayer of alkanethiol and peptide on GaAs(100): Quantitative characterization by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Heeyeon P. Wampler, Dmitry Zemlyanov, Kangho Lee, David B. Janes, and Albena Ivanisevic
Gold Nanorod Probes for the Detection of Multiple Pathogens, Chungang Wang and Joseph Irudayaraj
Quantum algorithm for obtaining the energy spectrum of molecular systems, Hefeng Wang, Sabre Kais, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, and Mark R. Hoffmann
A microfluidic cell array with individually addressable culture chambers, Hsiang-Yu Wang, Ning Bao, and Chang Lu
Microfluidic electroporation for delivery of small molecules and genes into cells using a common DC power supply, Hsiang-Yu Wang and Chang Lu
Reduction in coherent phonon lifetime in Bi2Te3/Sb2Te3 superlattices, Yaguo Wang, Xianfan Xu, and Rama Venkatasubramanian
Atomic force microscope local oxidation nanolithography of graphene, Lishan Weng, Liyuan Zhang, Yong P. Chen, and Leonid P. Rokhinson
Experimental Study of Energy Exchange Attending Electron Emission from Carbon Nanotubes, Tyler Westover and Timothy Fisher
Simulation of refrigeration by electron emission across nanometer-scale gaps, Tyler Westover and Timothy Fisher
TeraGrid Science Gateways and Their Impact on Science, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Dennis Gannon, Gerhard Klimeck, Scott Oster, and Sudhakar Pamidighantam
Electrokinetic patterning of colloidal particles with optical landscapes, Stuart J. Williams, Aloke Kumar, and Steven Wereley
Electrokinetic patterning of colloidal particles with optical landscapes, Stuart J. Williams, Aloke Kumar, and Steven T. Wereley
Atomic-layer-deposited Al2O3/GaAs metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor on Si substrate using aspect ratio trapping technique, Y Q. Wu, M Xu, P. D. Ye, Z Cheng, J Li, J Park, J Hydrick, J Bai, M Carroll, J G. Fiorenza, and A Lochtefeld
Top-gated graphene field-effect-transistors formed by decomposition of SiC, Y Q. Wu, P. D. Ye, Michael A. Capano, Yi Xuan, Y Sui, Minghao Qi, James A. Cooper, T Shen, D Pandey, G Prakash, and R. Reifenberger
Silicon-on-insulator microring add-drop filters with free spectral ranges over 30 nm, Shijun Xiao, Maroof H. Khan, Hao Shen, and Minghao Qi
Atomic-layer-deposited nanostructures for graphene-based nanoelectronics, Yi Xuan, Y Q. Wu, T Shen, Minghao Qi, Michael A. Capano, James A. Cooper, and P. D. Ye
High-performance inversion-type enhancement-mode InGaAs MOSFET with maximum drain current exceeding 1 A/mm, Yi Xuan, Y Q. Wu, and P. D. Ye
Unmasking imaging forces on soft biological samples in liquids when using dynamic atomic force microscopy: A case study on viral capsids, Xin Xu, Carolina Carrasco, Pedro Jose de Pablo, Julio Gomez-Herrero, and Arvind Raman
Inversion capacitance-voltage studies on GaAs metal-oxide-semiconductor structure using transparent conducting oxide as metal gate, T Yang, Y Liu, P. D. Ye, Yi Xuan, H Pal, and Mark S. Lundstrom
Main determinants for III-V metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (invited), P. D. Ye
Graphene segregated on Ni surfaces and transferred to insulators, Qingkai Yu, Jie Lian, Sujitra Siriponglert, Hao Li, Yong P. Chen, and Shin-Shem Pei
Titanium-based dielectrophoresis devices for microfluidic applications, Y T. Zhang, F Bottausci, Masaru P. Rao, E R. Parker, and N C. MacDonald
Assembly of dithiocarbamate-anchored monolayers on gold surfaces in aqueous solutions, Heng Zhu, Donna M. Coleman, Christopher J. Dehen, Iris M. Geisler, Dmitry Zemlyanov, Jean Chmielewski, Garth J. Simpson, and Alexander Wei
Publications from 2007
Immunomagnetic Diffractometry for Detection of Diagnostic Serum Markers, Ghanashyam Acharya, Chun-Li Chang, Derek David Doorneweerd, Erina Vlashi, Walt Henne, Lynn C. Hartmann, Philip S. Low, and Cagri Savran
Rapid detection of S-adenosyl homocysteine using self-assembled optical diffraction gratings, Ghanashyam Acharya, Chun-Li Chang, David Preston Holland, David H. Thompson, and Cagri Savran
Label-free optical detection of anthrax-causing spores, Ghanashyam Acharya, Derek David Doorneweerd, Chun-Li Chang, Walt Henne, Philip S. Low, and Cagri Savran
Effects of H+ ion implantation and annealing on the properties of CuIn0.75Ga0.25Se2 thin films, M Ahmed, R D. Pilkington, A E. Hill, M Amar, W Ahmed, H Taylor, and M J. Jackson
Quantum Simulations of Dual Gate MOSFET Devices: Building and Deploying Community Nanotechnology Software Tools on nanoHUB.org, Shaikh Ahmed, Gerhard Klimeck, Derrick Kearney, Michael McLennan, and M. P. Anantram
Mechanisms for Fatigue of Micron-Scale Silicon Structural Films, Daan Hein Alsem, Olivier N. Pierron, Eric A. Stach, Christopher L. Muhlstein, and Robert O. Ritchie
Very high-cycle fatigue failure in micron-scale polycrystalline silicon films: Effects of envrionment and surface oxide thickness, D. H. Alsem, R. Timmerman, B. L. Boyce, E A. Stach, J. Th. M. De Hosson, and R. O. Ritchie
Dendrimer-assisted controlled growth of carbon nanotubes for enhanced thermal interface conductance, Placidus B. Amama, Baratunde A. Cola, Timothy D. Sands, Xianfan Xu, and Timothy Fisher
Near-field, broadband optical spectroscopy of metamaterials, Reuben Bakker, V. P. Drachev, Hsiao-Kuan Yuan, and V. M. Shalaev
Hydrodynamics of torsional probes for atomic force microscopy in liquids, Sudipta Basak, Arthur Beyder, Chiara Spagnoli, Arvind Raman, and Fredrick Sachs
Dynamics of tapping mode atomic force microscopy in liquids: Theory and experiments, Sudipta Basak and Arvind Raman
Hydrodynamic coupling between micomechanical beams osciallating in viscous fluids, Sudipta Basak and Arvind Raman
Optimization of design and fabrication processes for realization of a PDMS-SOG-silicon DNA amplification chip, S Bhattacharya, Y Gao, V Korampally, M T. Othman, S A. Grant, S B. Kleiboeker, K Gangopadhyay, and S Gangopadhyay
Biomems and nanotechnology-based approaches for rapid detection of biological entities, Shantanu Bhattacharya, Jaesung Jang, Liju Yang, Demir Akin, and Rashid Bashir
Brillouin-Zone Unfolding of Perfect Supercells Having Nonequivalent Primitive Cells Illustrated with a Si/Ge ight-Binding parameterization, Timothy B. Boykin and Neerav Kharche
Brillouin-zone Unfolding of Perfect Supercells Having Nonequivalent Primitive Cells Illustrated with a Si/Ge Tight-Binding parameterization, Timothy B. Boykin, Neerav Kharche, and Gerhard Klimeck
Evolution time and energy uncertainty, Timothy Boykin, Neerav Kharche, and Gerhard Klimeck
Approximate bandstructures of semiconductor alloys from tight-binding supercell calculations, Timothy Boykin, Neerav Kharche, Gerhard Klimeck, and Marek Korkusinski
Optical cloaking with metamaterials, Wenshan Cai, Uday K. Chettiar, Alexander V. Kildishev, and V. M. Shalaev
Nonmagnetic cloak with minimized scattering, Wenshan Cai, Uday K. Chettiar, Alexander V. Kildishev, V. M. Shalaev, and Graeme W. Milton
Metamagnetics with rainbow colors, Wenshan Cai, Uday K. Chettiar, Hsiao-Kuan Yuan, Vashista C. de Silva, Alexander V. Kildishev, V. P. Drachev, and V. M. Shalaev
Microscale Laser-Induced Fluorescence Method for Non-Intrusive Temperature Measurement, Pramod Chamarthy, Steve T. Wereley, and Suresh V. Garimella
In situ assembled diffraction grating for biomolecular detection, Chun-Li Chang, Ghanashyam Acharya, and Cagri Savran
Liquid RF MEMS wideband reflective and absorptive switches, Chung-Hao Chen and Dimitrios Peroulis
Cell detection and counting through cell lysate impedance spectroscopy in microfluidic devices, Xuanhong Cheng, Yi-shao Liu, Daniel Irimia, Utkan Demirci, Liju Yang, Lee Zamir, William R. Rodríguez, Mehmet Toner, and Rashid Bashir
Dual-band negative index metamaterial: double negative at 813nm and single negative at 772nm, Uday K. Chettiar, Alexander V. Kildishev, Hsiao-Kuan Yuan, Wenshan Cai, Shumin Xiao, V. P. Drachev, and V. M. Shalaev
3-D integration of 10-GHz filter and CMOS receiver front-end, Tae-young Choi, Hasan Sharifi, Hjalti Sigmarsson, William J. Chappell, Saeed Mohammadi, and Linda Katehi
Photoacoustic characterization of carbon nanotube array thermal interfaces, Baratunde A. Cola, Jun Xu, Changrui Cheng, Xianfan Xu, and Timothy Fisher
Increased real contact in thermal interfaces: A carbon nanotube/foil material, Baratunde A. Cola, Xianfan Xu, and Timothy Fisher
Microresonator mass sensors for detection of Bacillus anthracis Sterne spores in air and water, Angelica P. Davila, Jaesung Jang, Amit K. Gupta, Tom Walter, Arthur Aronson, and Rashid Bashir
Field emission from GaN and (Al,Ga)N/GaN nanorod heterostructures, P Deb, Tyler Westover, Ho Young Kim, Timothy Fisher, and Timothy D. Sands
Microscale Temperature Measurements at the Triple Line of an Evaporating Thin Film, Hemanth K. Dhavaleswarapu, Suresh V. Garimella, and Jayathi Y. Murthy
Chladni Figures Revisited Based on Nanomechanics, M. Dorrestijn, A. Bietsch, T. Acikalin, Arvind Raman, M. Hegner, E. Meyer, and Ch. Gerber
In-place fabrication of nanowire electrode arrays for vertical nanoelectronics on Si substrates, Aaron D. Franklin, Matthew R. Maschmann, Manuel DaSilva, David B. Janes, Timothy Fisher, and Timothy D. Sands
Controlled Decoration of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Pd Nanocubes, Aaron Franklin, Joshua Thomas Smith, Timothy D. Sands, Timothy Fisher, Kyoung-Shin Choi, and David B. Janes
External Forced Convection Enhancement using a Corona Discharge, David B. Go, Raul A. Maturana, Timothy S. Fisher, and Suresh V. Garimella
Ionic winds for locally enhanced cooling, David Go, Suresh Garimella, Timothy Fisher, and Rajiv K. Mongia
Assemblies of Carbon Nanotubes and Unencapsulated Sub-10-nm Gold Nanoparticles, Qingling Hang, Matthew R. Maschmann, Timothy Fisher, and David B. Janes
Ambipolar conduction in transistors using solution grown InAs nanowires with Cd doping , Qingling Hang, Fudong Wang, William E. Buhro, and David B. Janes
Microchannel Size Effects on Two-Phase Local Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop in Silicon Microchannel Heat Sinks with a Dielectric Fluid, Tannaz Harirchian and Suresh V. Garimella
Computational Aspects of the Three-Dimensional Feature-Scale Simulation of Silicon-Nanowire Field-Effect Sesnsors for DNA Detection, Clemens Heitzinger and Gerhard Klimeck
Realization of highly reproducible ZnO nanowire field effect transistors with n-channel depletion and enhancement modes, Woong-Ki Hong, Dae-Kue Hwang, Il-Kyu Park, Gunho Jo, Sunghoon Song, Seong-Ju Park, Takhee Lee, Bong Joong Kim, and E A. Stach
Analytical formulas and scaling laws for peak interaction forces in dynamic atomic force microscopy, Shuiqing Hu and Arvind Raman
Simulation and optimization of GaN-based metal-oxide-semiconductor high-electron-mobility-transistor using field-dependent drift velocity model, W D. Hu, X S. Chen, Z J. Quan, X M. Zhang, Y Huang, C S. Xia, W Lu, and P. D. Ye
Solid-state nanopore channels with DNA selectivity, Samir Muzaffar Iqbal, Demir Akin, and Rashid Bashir
Microcantilever mechanics in flowing viscous fluids, Anirban Jana, Arvind Raman, Babita Dhayal, Steven L. Tripp, and R. Reifenberger
Peptide ormosils as cellular substrates, Sabrina Jedlicka, Kenneth M. Little, David E. Nivens, Dmitry Zemlyanov, and Jenna L. Rickus
Valley splitting in strained silicon quantum wells modeled with 2 degrees miscuts, step disorder, and alloy disorder, Neerav Kharche, Marta Prada, Timothy Boykin, and Gerhard Klimeck
Stochastic optimization of low-loss optical negative-index metamaterial, Alexander V. Kildishev, Uday K. Chettiar, Zhengtong Liu, V. M. Shalaev, Do-Hoon Kwon, Zikri Bayraktar, and Douglas H. Werner
Comment on "Negative refractive index in artificial metamaterials", Alexander V. Kildishev, V. P. Drachev, Uday K. Chettiar, V. M. Shalaev, D H. Werner, and Do-Hoon Kwon
Impedance-matched hyperlens, Alexander V. Kildishev and Evgenii Narimanov
Nanopatterned contacts to GaN, Ho Young Kim, P Deb, and Timothy D. Sands
Atomic layer deposited Al2O3 for gate dielectric and passivation layer of single-walled carbon nanotube transistors, Sunkook Kim, Yi Xuan, P. D. Ye, Saeed Mohammadi, J H. Back, and Moonsub Shim
A study of alloyed nanowires from two perspectives: Approximate dispersion and transmission, Gerhard Klimeck, Timothy Boykin, Mathieu Luisieir, Neerav Kharche, and Andreas Schenk
Near-infrared metamaterials with dual-band negative-index characteristics, Do-Hoon Kwon, Douglas H. Werner, Alexander V. Kildishev, and V. M. Shalaev
Oligodeoxyribonucleotide Association with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Studied by SPM, Roya R. Lahiji, Bridget D. Hines, R. Reifenberger, and Donald E. Bergstrom
Correlating electrical resistance to growth conditions for multiwalled carbon nanotubes, Chun Lan, Placidus B. Amama, Timothy Fisher, and R. Reifenberger
Dielectrophoretic tweezers for examining particle-surface interactions within microfluidic devices, S W. Lee, Haibo Li, and Rashid Bashir