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
Strong heavy-to-light hole intersubband absorption in the valence band of carbon-doped GaAs/AlAs superlattices, M. I. Hossain, Z. Ikonic, J. Watson, J. Shao, P. Harrison, Michael J. Manfra, and O. Malis
Shear-induced detachment of biofilms from hollow fiber silicone membranes, Z. Huang, E. S. McLamore, H. S. Chuang, W. Zhang, Steven Wereley, J. L. C. Leon, and M. K. Banks
Zeroth-order transmission resonance in hyperbolic metamaterials, Zun Huang and Evgenii E. Narimanov
Existence of negative differential thermal conductance in one-dimensional diffusive thermal transport, Jiuning Hu and Yong P. Chen
Extraction of Channel Electron Effective Mobility in InGaAs/Al2O3 n-FinFETs, Yaodong Hu, Shengwei Li, Guangfan Jiao, Y. Q. Wu, Daming Huang, Peide D. Ye, and Ming-Fu Li
Holey-Metal Lenses: Sieving Single Modes with Proper Phases, Satoshi Ishii, Vladimir M. Shalaev, and Alexander V. Kildishev
Cross-plane thermoelectric transport in p-type La0.67Sr0.33MnO3/LaMnO3 oxide metal/semiconductor superlattices, Pankaj Jha, Timothy D. Sands, Philip Jackson, Cory Bomberger, Tela Favaloro, Stephen Hodson, Joshua Zide, Xianfan Xu, and Ali Shakouri
Giant Quasiparticle Bandgap Modulation in Graphene Nanoribbons Supported on Weakly Interacting Surfaces, Xueping Jiang, Neerav Kharche, Paul Kohl, Timothy B. Boykin, Gerhard Klimeck, Mathieu Luisier, Pulickel M. Ajayan, and Saroj K. Nayak
Planar Photonics with Metasurfaces, Alexander V. Kildishev, Alexandra Boltasseva, and Vladimir M. Shalaev
Multiscale contact mechanics model for RF-MEMS switches with quantified uncertainties, Hojin Kim, Nurul Huda Shaik, Xin Xu, Arvind Raman, and Alejandro Strachan
Optical Properties of Gallium-Doped Zinc Oxide-A Low-Loss Plasmonic Material: First-Principles Theory and Experiment, Jongbum Kim, Gururaj V. Naik, Alexander V. Gavrilenko, Krishnaveni Dondapati, Vladimir I. Gavrilenko, S. M. Prokes, O. J. Glembocki, V. M. Shalaev, and Alexandra Boltasseva
Nanoimprinted plasmonic nanocavity arrays, Sangsik Kim, Yi Xuan, Vladimir P. Drachev, Leo T. Varghese, Li Fan, Minghao Qi, and Kevin J. Webb
Interface studies of N-2 plasma-treated ZnSnO nanowire transistors using low-frequency noise measurements, Seongmin Kim, Hwansoo Kim, David B. Janes, and Sanghyun Ju
Molecular dynamics simulations of PMMA slabs: role of annealing conditions, Yae-ji Kim, Keng-Hua Lin, and Alejandro Strachan
Graphene: An effective oxidation barrier coating for liquid and two-phase cooling systems, Arun S. Kousalya, Anurag Kumar, Rajib Paul, Dmitry Zemlyanov, and Timothy S. Fisher
Metal functionalization of carbon nanotubes for enhanced sintered powder wicks, Arun S. Kousalya, Justin A. Weibel, Suresh V. Garimella, and Timothy S. Fisher
Deuterium Uptake in Magnetic-Fusion Devices with Lithium-Conditioned Carbon Walls, P. S. Krstic, Jean Paul Allain, C. N. Taylor, J. Dadras, S. Maeda, K. Morokuma, J. Jakowski, A. Allouche, and C. H. Skinner
Nitrogen-doped graphene by microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition, A. Kumar, A. A. Voevodin, R. Paul, I. Altfeder, Dmitry Zemlyanov, Dmitri N. Zakharov, and Timothy S. Fisher
Laser flash synthesis of graphene and its inorganic analogues: An innovative breakthrough with immense promise, Prashant Kumar
Plasmonic tuning of silver nanowires by laser shock induced lateral compression, Prashant Kumar, Ji Li, Qiong Nian, Yaowu Hu, and Gary J. Cheng
Dopant Metrology in Advanced FinFETs, G. Lansbergen, R. Rahman, G. C. Tettamanzi, J. Verduijn, L. C. L. Hollenberg, Gerhard Klimeck, and S. Rogge
Correct Spectral Conversion between Surface-Enhanced Raman and Plasmon Resonance Scattering from Nanoparticle Dimers for Single-Molecule Detection, Kyuwan Lee and Joseph Irudayaraj
Red-green-blue light sensitivity of oxide nanowire transistors for transparent display applications, Sumi Lee, Seongmin Kim, David B. Janes, M. Meyyappan, and Sanghyun Ju
Enhanced reaction rate for gas-phase epoxidation of propylene using H-2 and O-2 by Cs promotion of Au/TS-1, Wen-Sheng Lee, M. Cem Akatay, Eric A. Stach, Fabio H. Ribeiro, and W.N. Delgass
Molecular dynamics simulations on cyclic deformation of an epoxy thermoset, Chunyu Li, Eugenio Jaramillo, and Alejandro Strachan
Temperature-dependence of negative differential resistance in GaN/AlGaN resonant tunneling structures, D. Li, J. Shao, L. Tang, Geoff C. Gardner, Michael J. Manfra, O. Malis, and C. Edmunds
Reliability of High-Mobility InGaAs Channel n-MOSFETs Under BTI Stress, Ming-Fu Li, Guangfan Jiao, Yaodong Hu, Yi Xuan, Daming Huang, and Peide D. Ye
Mechanism of fatigue performance enhancement in a laser sintered superhard nanoparticles reinforced nanocomposite followed by laser shock peening, Dong Lin, Chang Ye, Yiliang Liao, Sergey Suslov, Richard Liu, and Gary J. Cheng
Thermal transport in SiGe superlattice thin films and nanowires: Effects of specimen and periodic lengths, Keng-Hua Lin and Alejandro Strachan
Deactivation mechanistic studies of copper chromite catalyst for selective hydrogenation of 2-furfuraldehyde, Dongxia Liu, Dmitry Zemlyanov, Tianpin Win, Rodrigo J. Lobo-Lapidus, James A. Dumesic, Jeffrey T. Miller, and Christopher L. Marshall
Statistical Study of Deep Submicron Dual-Gated Field-Effect Transistors on Monolayer Chemical Vapor Deposition Molybdenum Disulfide Films, Han Liu, Mengwei Si, Sina Najmaei, Adam T. Neal, Yuchen Du, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Jun Lou, and Peide Ye
Investigation of ripple-limited low-field mobility in large-scale graphene nanoribbons, M. Luisier, T. B. Boykin, Z. Ye, A. Martini, Gerhard Klimeck, N. Kharche, X. Jiang, and S. Nayak
Full band calculations of the intrinsic lower limit of contact resistivity, Jesse Maassen, C. Jeong, A. Baraskar, M. Rodwell, and Mark S. Lundstrom
A computational study of the thermoelectric performance of ultrathin Bi2Te3 films, Jesse Maassen and Mark S. Lundstrom
Mapping the 3D surface potential in Bi2Se3, Chris Mann, Damien West, Ireneusz Miotkowski, Yong P. Chen, Shengbai Zhang, and Chih-Kang Shih
Photonically excited electron emission from modified graphitic nanopetal arrays, Patrick T. McCarthy, Scott J. Vander Laan, David B. Janes, and Timothy S. Fisher
Nucleate boiling from smooth and rough surfaces - Part 1: Fabrication and characterization of an optically transparent heater-sensor substrate with controlled surface roughness, John P. McHale and Suresh V. Garimella
Nucleate boiling from smooth and rough surfaces - Part 2: Analysis of surface roughness effects on nucleate boiling, John P. McHale and Suresh V. Garimella
Engineering Nanowire n-MOSFETs at L-g < 8 nm, Saumitra Mehrotra, SungGeun Kim, Tillmann Kubis, Michael Povolotskyi, Mark S. Lundstrom, and Gerhard Klimeck
Design of high-current L-valley GaAs/AlAs0.56Sb0.44/InP (111) ultra-thin-body nMOSFETs, Saumitra Mehrotra, Michael Povolotskyi, Jeremy Law, Tillmann Kubis, Gerhard Klimeck, and Mark Rodwell
Simulation Study of Thin-Body Ballistic n-MOSFETs Involving Transport in Mixed Gamma-L Valleys, Saumitra R. Mehrotra, Michael Povolotskyi, Doron Cohen Elias, Tillmann Kubis, Jeremy J. M. Law, Mark J. W. Rodwell, and Gerhard Klimeck
High-resolution dynamic atomic force microscopy in liquids with different feedback architectures, John Melcher, David Martinez-Martin, Miriam Jaafar, Julio Gomez-Herrero, and Arvind Raman
Unidirectional Spaser in Symmetry-Broken Plasmonic Core-Shell Nanocavity, Xiangeng Meng, Urcan Guler, Alexander V. Kildishev, Koji Fujita, Katsuhisa Tanaka, and Vladimir M. Shalaev
Evaporative heat transfer from an electrowetted liquid ribbon on a heated substrate, Christopher P. Migliaccio and Suresh V. Garimella
Noninvasive Spatial Metrology of Single-Atom Devices, Fahd A. Mohiyaddin, Rajib Rahman, Rachpon Kalra, Gerhard Klimeck, Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg, Jarryd J. Pla, Andrew S. Dzurak, and Andrea Morello
Atomic force microscopy-coupled microcoils for cellular-scale nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Charilaos Mousoulis, Teimour Maleki, Babak Ziaie, and Corey Neu
Cross-plane thermal properties of transition metal dichalcogenides, C. Muratore, V. Varshney, J. J. Gengler, J. J. Hu, J. E. Bultman, T. M. Smith, P. J. Shamberger, Bo Qiu, Xiulin Ruan, A. K. Roy, and A. A. Voevodin
Alternative Plasmonic Materials: Beyond Gold and Silver, Gururaj V. Naik, Vladimir M. Shalaev, and Alexandra Boltasseva
Micro-RVE modeling of mechanistic response in porous intermetallics subject to weak and moderate impact loading, A R. Nair, B A. Mason, L J. Groven, S F. Son, A Strachan, and A M. Cuitino
Micro-RVE modeling of mechanistic response in porous intermetallics subject to weak and moderate impact loading, A R. Nair, B A. Mason, L J. Groven, S F. Son, A Strachan, and A M. Cuitino
Laser direct writing of silicon field effect transistor sensors, Woongsik Nam, James I. Mitchell, Chookiat Tansarawiput, Minghao Qi, and Xianfan Xu
Reduced reflection from roughened hyperbolic metamaterial, Evgenii E. Narimanov, H. Li, Yu A. Barnakov, T. U. Tumkur, and M. A. Noginov
Magneto-transport in MoS2: Phase Coherence, Spin-Orbit Scattering, and the Hall Factor, Adam T. Neal, Han Liu, Jiangjiang Gu, and Peide D. Ye
Laser-Micromachined Cellulose Acetate Adhesive Tape as a Low-Cost Smart Material, Manuel Ochoa, Girish Chitnis, and Babak Ziaie
A hybrid PDMS-Parylene subdural multi-electrode array, Manuel Ochoa, Pinghung Wei, Andrew Wolley, Kevin J. Otto, and Babak Ziaie
Universal scaling and intrinsic classification of electro-mechanical actuators, Sambit Palit, Ankit Jain, and Muhammad A. Alam
Assessment of Water Droplet Evaporation Mechanisms on Hydrophobic and Superhydrophobic Substrates, Zhenhai Pan, Susmita Dash, Justin A. Weibel, and Suresh V. Garimella
Rapid generation and manipulation of microfluidic vortex flows induced by AC electrokinetics with optical illumination, Choongbae Park and Steven T. Wereley
Near-Contact Gas Damping and Dynamic Response of High-g MEMS Accelerometer Beams, Devon Parkos, Nithin Raghunathan, Ayyaswamy Venkattraman, Brett Sanborn, Weinong Chen, Dimitrios Peroulis, and Alina A. Alexeenko
Boron-carbon-nitrogen foam surfaces for thermal physisorption applications, Rajib Paul, A. A. Voevodin, J. J. Hu, P. B. Amama, S. Ganguli, A. K. Roy, Dmitry Zemlyanov, and Timothy S. Fisher
Quantum coherence and entanglement in the avian compass, James A. Pauls, Yiteng Zhang, Gennady P. Berman, and Sabre Kais
Limitations of the High-Low C-V Technique for MOS Interfaces With Large Time Constant Dispersion, Ashish Verma Penumatcha, Steven Swandono, and James A. Cooper
Millimeter-wave phase shifter based on waveguide-mounted RF-MEMS, Dimitra Psychogiou, Yunjia Li, Jan Hesselbarth, Stephane Kuehne, Dimitrios Peroulis, Christofer Hierold, and Christian Hafner
Continuously variable W-band phase shifters based on MEMS-actuated conductive fingers, Dimitra Psychogiou, Yunjia Li, Jan Hesselbarth, Dimitrios Peroulis, Christofer Hierold, and Christian Hafner
V-band bandpass filter with continuously variable centre frequency, Dimitra Psychogiou, Dimitrios Peroulis, Yunjia Li, and Christian Hafner
Solution-processed soldering of carbon nanotubes for flexible electronics, K. D. M. Rao, B. Radha, Kyle C. Smith, Timothy S. Fisher, and G. U. Kulkarni
Transconductance Linearity Analysis of 1-D, Nanowire FETs in the Quantum Capacitance Limit, Ali Razavieh, David B. Janes, and Joerg Appenzeller
Utilizing the Unique Properties of Nanowire MOSFETs for RF Applications, Ali Razavieh, Saumitra Mehrotra, Navab Singh, Gerhard Klimeck, David B. Janes, and Joerg Appenzeller
Co-optimized design of microchannel heat exchangers and thermoelectric generators, A. Rezania, Kazuaki Yazawa, L. A. Rosendahl, and Ali Shakouri
The non-linear dynamics of electromagnetically actuated microbeam resonators with purely parametric excitations, Jeffrey F. Rhoads, Vijay Kumar, Steven W. Shaw, and Kimberly L. Turner
Atomistic modeling of metallic nanowires in silicon, Hoon Ryu, Sunhee Lee, Bent Weber, Suddhasatta Mahapatra, Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg, Michelle Y. Simmons, and Gerhard Klimeck
Optical TCAD on the Net: A tight-binding study of inter-band light transitions in self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dot photodetectors, Hoon Ryu, Dukyun Nam, Bu-Young Ahn, JongSuk Ruth Lee, Kumwon Cho, Sunhee Lee, Gerhard Klimeck, and Mincheol Shin
On the Nonlinear Dynamics of Electromagnetically Transduced Microresonators, Andrew B. Sabater, Vijay Kumar, Aamer Mahmood, and Jeffrey F. Rhoads
Persistence of entanglement in thermal states of spin systems, Gehad Sadiek and Sabre Kais
Electronic and optical properties of ScN and (Sc,Mn)N thin films deposited by reactive DC-magnetron sputtering, Bivas Saha, Gururaj V. Naik, Vladimir P. Drachev, Alexandra Boltasseva, Ernesto Marinero, and Timothy D. Sands
Ultralocalized thermal reactions in subnanoliter droplets-in-air, Eric Salm, Carlos Duarte Guevara, Piyush Dak, Brian Ross Dorvel, Bobby Reddy Jr., Muhammad Ashraf Adam, and Rashid Bashir
Manifold Microchannel Heat Sink Design Using Optimization Under Uncertainty, Suchismita Sarangi, Karthik K. Bodla, Suresh V. Garimella, and Jayathi Y. Murthy
Carbon Nanotube Arrays for Enhanced Thermal Interfaces to Thermoelectric Modules, Kimberly Saviers, Stephen L. Hodson, Timothy S. Fisher, James R. Salvador, and Linda S. Kasten
Analytical modeling of surface accumulation behavior of fully depleted SOI four gate transistors (G(4)-FETs), Shehrin Sayed and M. Ziaur Rahman Khan
Length and temperature dependent 1/f noise in vertical single-walled carbon nanotube arrays, Robert A. Sayer, Jeffrey D. Engerer, N. S. Vidhyadhiraja, and Timothy S. Fisher
Frequency response of atmospheric pressure gas breakdown in micro/nanogaps, Abbas Semnani, Ayyaswamy Venkattraman, Alina A. Alexeenko, and Dimitrios Peroulis
Pre-breakdown evaluation of gas discharge mechanisms in microgaps, Abbas Semnani, Ayyaswamy Venkattraman, Alina A. Alexeenko, and Dimitrios Peroulis
Diffusive and ballistic thermo-electric transport, Ali Shakouri
Broadband enhancement of spontaneous emission from nitrogen-vacancy centers in nanodiamonds by hyperbolic metamaterials, Mikhail Y. Shalaginov, Satoshi Ishii, J. Liu, Joseph Irudayaraj, A. Lagutchev, Alexander V. Kildishev, and Vladimir M. Shalaev
Homogenization of bi-anisotropic metasurfaces, Amr Shaltout, Vladimir M. Shalaev, and Alexander V. Kildishev
Surface morphology evolution of m-plane (1(1)over-bar00) GaN during molecular beam epitaxy growth: Impact of Ga/N ratio, miscut direction, and growth temperature, Jiayi Shao, Liang Tang, Colin Edmunds, Geoff C. Gardner, Oana Malis, and Michael J. Manfra
Homogeneous AlGaN/GaN superlattices grown on free-standing (1(1)over-bar00) GaN substrates by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy, Jiayi Shao, Dmitri N. Zakharov, Collin Edmunds, Oana Malis, and Michael J. Manfra
Effects of forming gas anneal on ultrathin InGaAs nanowire metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors, Mengwei Si, Jiangjiang Gu, Xinwei Wang, Jiayi Shao, Xuefei Li, Michael J. Manfra, Roy G. Gordon, and Peide D. Ye
A Tunable Miniaturized RF MEMS Resonator With Simultaneous High Q (500-735) and Fast Response Speed (< 10-60 mu s), Joshua A. Small, Muhammad Shoaib Arif, Adam Fruehling, and Dimitrios Peroulis
Light propagation through random hyperbolic media, Igor Smolyaninov and Alexander V. Kildishev
A novel 3D3C particle tracking method suitable for microfluidic flow measurements, Craig Snoeyink and Steven Wereley
Single-image far-field subdiffraction limit imaging with axicon, Craig Snoeyink and Steven Wereley
Reusable photocatalytic titanium dioxide-cellulose nanofiber films, Alexandra Snyder, Zhenyu Bo, Robert Moon, Jean-Christophe Rochet, and Lia Stanciu
Energy relaxation in CdSe nanocrystals: the effects of morphology and film preparation, Bryan T. Spann, Liangliang Chen, Xiulin Ruan, and Xianfan Xu
Functional derivatives for uncertainty quantification and error estimation and reduction via optimal high-fidelity simulations, Alejandro Strachan, Sankaran Mahadevan, Vadiraj Hombal, and Lin Sun
Limit for thermal transport reduction in Si nanowires with nanoengineered corrugations, Sean E. Sullivan, Keng-Hua Lin, Stanislav Avdoshenko, and Alejandro Strachan
Empirical tight binding parameters for GaAs and MgO with explicit basis through DFT mapping, Yaohua Tan, Michael Povolotskyi, Tillmann Kubis, Yu He, Zhengping Jiang, Gerhard Klimeck, and Timothy B. Boykin
The role of oxygen in the uptake of deuterium in lithiated graphite, C. N. Taylor, J. Dadras, Kara E. Luitjohan, Jean P. Allain, P. S. Kristic, and C. H. Skinner
Surface chemistry analysis of lithium conditioned NSTX graphite tiles correlated to plasma performance, C N. Taylor, Kara E. Luitjohan, B Heim, L Kollar, Jean P. Allain, C H. Skinner, H W. Kugel, R Kaita, A K. Roquemore, and R Maingi
New Tools for the Direct Characterisation of FinFETS, G. C. Tettamanzi, A. Paul, S. Lee, Gerhard Klimeck, and S. Rogge