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 2011
A numerical model for transport in flat heat pipes considering wick microstructure effects, Ram Ranjan, Jayathi Y. Murthy, Suresh V. Garimella, and Unnikrishnan Vadakkan
Raman Chemical Imaging of Chromate Reduction Sites in a Single Bacterium Using Intracellularly Grown Gold Nanoislands, Sandeep Ravindranath, Kristene L. Henne, Dorothea Thompson, and Joseph Irudayaraj
Surface-Enhanced Raman Imaging of Intracellular Bioreduction of Chromate in Shewanella oneidensis, Sandeep P. Ravindranath, Kristene Henne, Dorothea Thompson, and Joseph Irudayaraj
A Compact Physical Model for Morphology Induced Intrinsic Degradation of Polymer based Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cell, Biswajit Ray and Muhammad A. Alam
Optimum Morphology and Performance Gains of Organic Solar Cells, Biswajit Ray and Muhammad A. Alam
A New Method to Achieve RF Linearity in SOI Nanowire MOSFETs, Ali Razaavieh, Navab Singh, Abhijeet Paul, Gerhard Klimeck, David Janes, and Joerg Appenzeller
High-k dielectric Al2O3 nanowire and nanoplate field effect sensors for improved pH sensing, Bobby Reddy Jr., Brian R. Dorvel, Jonghyun Go, Pradeep R. Nair, Oguz Elibol, Grace M. Credo, Jonathan S. Daniels, Edmond K.C. Chow, Xing Su, Madoo Varma, Muhammad A. Alam, and Rashid Bashir
Silicon Field Effect Transistors as Dual-Use Sensor-Heater Hybrids, Bobby Reddy Jr., Oguz H. Elibol, Pradeep R. Nair, Brian R. Dorvel, Felice Butler, Zahab S. Ahsan, Donald E. Bergstrom, Muhammad A. Alam, and Rashid Bashir
Quantitative Analysis of the Functionalization of Gallium Phosphide With Organic Azides, David Richards, Philip Luce, Dmitry Zemlyanov, and Albena Ivanisevic
Room-temperature ferromagnetism in graphitic petal arrays, Chandra Sekhar Rout, Anurag Kumar, Nitesh Kumar, A. Sundaresan, and Timothy S. Fisher
Carbon nanowalls amplify the surface-enhanced Raman scattering from Ag nanoparticles, Chandra S. Rout, Anurag Kumar, and Timothy Fisher
Electronic structure, vibrational spectrum, and thermal properties of yttrium nitride: A first-principles study, Bivas Saha, Timothy D. Sands, and Umesh V. Waghmare
First-principles analysis of ZrN/ScN metal/semiconductor superlattices for thermoelectric energy conversion, Bivas Saha, Timothy D. Sands, and Umesh V. Waghmare
Model Development for Lattice Properties of Gallium Arsenide Using Parallel Genetic Algorithm, Mehdi Salmani-Jelodar, Sebastian Steiger, Abhijeet Paul, and Gerhard Klimeck
Single Layer MoS2 Band Structure and Transport, Mehdi Salmani-Jelodar, Yaohua Tan, and Gerhard Klimeck
Integrated electronic transport and thermometry at milliKelvin temperatures and in strong magnetic fields, N. Samkharadze, A. Kumar, Michael J. Manfra, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, and Gabor Csathy
Quantitative analysis of the disorder broadening and the intrinsic gap for the v=5/2 fractional quantum Hall state, N. Samkharadze, J. D. Watson, G. Gardner, Michael J. Manfra, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, and G. A. Csathy
Geometrical Frustration in Nanowire Growth, K. W. Schwarz, J. Tersoff, S. Kodambaka, Y.C. Chou, and F. M. Ross
Wireless temperature microsensors integrated on bearings for health monitoring applications, S. Scott, Andrew Kovacs, Lokesh A. Gupta, J. Katz, Farshid Sadeghi, and Dimitrios Peroulis
Multiscale Modeling of a Quantum Dot Heterostructure, Parijat Sengupta, Sunhee Lee, Sebastian Steiger, Hoon Ryu, and Gerhard Klimeck
Multiscale Modeling of a Quantum Dot Heterostructure, Parijat Sengupta, Sunhee Lee, Sebastian Steiger, Hoon Ryu, and Gerhard Klimeck
Transformation optics, Vladimir M. Shalaev and John Pendry
Characterization of nanodiamonds for metamaterial applications, Mikhail Shalaginov, Gururaj Naik, Satoshi Ishii, Mikhail Slipchenko, Alexandra Boltasseva, Ji-Xin Cheng, A N. Smolyaninov, E Kochman, and Vladimir Shalaev
Quantum Hall effect on centimeter scale chemical vapor deposited graphene films, Tian Shen, Wei Wu, Qingkai Yu, Curt A. Richter, Randolph Elmquist, David Newell, and Yong P. Chen
Microbiosensors based on DNA modified single-walled carbon nanotube and Pt black nanocomposites, Jin Shi, Tae-Gon Cha, Jonathan Claussen, Alfred R. Diggs, Jong Hyun Choi, and D. Marshall Porterfield
A comparative study of enzyme immobilization strategies for multi-walled carbon nanotube glucose biosensors, Jin Shi, Jonathan C. Claussen, Eric S. McLamore, Aeraj ul Haque, David Jaroch, Alfred Diggs, Percy Calvo-Marzal, Jenna Rickus, and D. Marshall Porterfield
Oscillatory glucose flux in INS 1 pancreatic beta cells: A self-referencing microbiosensor study, Jin Shi, Eric McLamore, David Jaroch, Jonathan C. Claussen, Raghavendra Mirmira, Jenna Rickus, and D. Marshall Porterfield
Chaos-assisted emission from asymmetric resonant cavity microlasers, Susumu Shinohara, Takahisa Harayama, Takehiro Fukushima, Martina Hentschel, Satoshi Sunada, and Evgenii Narimanov
Effect of Phonon Dispersion on Thermal Conduction Across Si/Ge Interfaces, Dhruv Singh, Jayathi Murthy, and Tim Fisher
Spectral phonon conduction and dominant scattering pathways in graphene, Dhruv Singh, Jayathi Murthy, and Timothy Fisher
On the accuracy of classical and long wavelength approximations for phonon transport in graphene, Dhruv Singh, Jayathi Murthy, and Timothy S. Fisher
Mechanism of thermal conductivity reduction in few-layer graphene, Druv Singh, Jayathi Y. Murthy, and Timothy S. Fisher
Phonon Transport Across Mesoscopic Constrictions, Druv Singh, Jayathi Y. Murthy, and Timothy S. Fisher
Bipolar Integrated Circuits in 4H-SiC, Shakti Singh and James A. Cooper
Broken-Gap Tunnel MOSFET: A Constant-Slope Sub-60-mV/decade Transistor, Joshua Thomas Smith, Saptarshi Das, and Joerg Appenzeller
Silicon Nanowire Tunneling Field-Effect Transistor Arrays: Improving Subthreshold Performance Using Excimer Laser Annealing, Joshua Thomas Smith, Christian Sandow, Saptarshi Das, Renato A. Minamisawa, Siegfried Mantl, and Joerg Appenzeller
Isostaticity of constraints in amorphous jammed systems of soft frictionless Platonic solids, Kyle C. Smith, Timothy Fisher, and Meheboob Alam
All-Spin Logic Device With Inbuilt Nonreciprocity, Srikant Srinivasan, Angik Sarkar, Behtash Behin-Aein, and Supriyo Datta
Improving near-field confinement of a bowtie aperture using surface plasmon polaritons, Pornsak Srisungsitthisunti, Okan Ersoy, and Xianfan Xu
The Nanoelectronic Modeling Tool NEMO 5: Capabilities, Validation, and Application to Sb-Heterostructures, Sebastian Steiger, Michael Povolotskyi, Hong Hyun Park, Tillmann Kubis, Ganesh Hegde, Benjamin Haley, Mark Rodwell, and Gerhard Klimeck
NEMO5: A Parallel Multiscale Nanoelectronics Modeling Tool, Sebastian Steiger, Michael Povolotskyi, Hong-Hyun Park, Tillmann Kubis, and Gerhard Klimeck
Enhanced Valence Force Field Model for the Lattice Properties of Gallium Arsenide, Sebastian Steiger, Mehdi Salmani-Jelodar, Denis Areshkin, Abhijeet Paul, Tillmann Kubis, Michael Povolotskyi, Hong-Hyun Park, and Gerhard Klimeck
Signatures of Disorder in the Minimum Conductivity of Graphene, Yang Sui, Tony Low, Mark S. Lundstrom, and Joerg Appenzeller
Surface chemistry and physics of deuterium retention in lithiated graphite, C. N. Taylor, Jean Paul Allain, B. Heim, P. S. Krstic, C. H. Skinner, and H. W. Kugel
Chemical response of lithiated graphite with deuterium irradiation, C. N. Taylor, B. Heim, and Jean Paul Allain
Fabrication and realistic modeling of three-dimensional metal-dielectric composites, Mark D. Thoreson, Jieran R. Fang, Alexander V. Kildishev, Ludmila J. Prokopeva, Piotr Nyga, Uday K. Chettiar, Vladimir M. Shalaev, and Vladimir P. Drachev
Studies of plasmonic hot-spot translation by a metal-dielectric layered superlens, Mark D. Thoreson, Rasmus Nielsen, Paul R. West, Arian Kriesch, Zhengtong Liu, Jieran R. Fang, Ulf Pescheld, Alexander V. Kildishev, Vladimir M. Shalaev, and Alexandra Boltasseva
Direct Imaging of Graphene Edges: Atomic Structure and Electronic Scattering, Jifa Tian, Helin Cao, Wei Wu, Qingkai Yu, and Yong P. Chen
Experimental retrieval of the kinetic parameters of a dye in a solid film, Jan Trieschmann, Shumin Xiao, Ludmila Prokopeva, Vladimir Drachev, and Alexander V. Kildishev
Time Domain Model of a Gain Medium Fitted to Pump-Probe Experiments, Jan Trieschmann, Shumin Xiao, Ludmila Prokopeva, Vladimir P. Drachev, and Alexander V. Kildishev
Non-monotonic pressure dependence of resonant frequencies of microelectromechanical systems supported on squeeze films, Ryan C. Tung, Jin Woo Lee, Hartono Sumali, and Arvind Raman
Experimental and Theoretical Study of Polarization-Dependent Optical Transitions in InAs Quantum Dots at Telecommunication-Wavelengths (1300-1500 nm), Muhammad Usman, Susannah Heck, Edmund Clarke, Peter Spencer, Hoon Ryu, Ray Murray, and Gerhard Klimeck
Experimental and Atomistic Theoretical Study of Degree of Polarization from Multilayer InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Stacks, Muhammad Usman, Tomoya Inoue, Yukihiro Harda, Gerhard Klimeck, and Takashi Kita
Quantitative Excited State Spectroscopy of a Single InGaAs Quantum Dot Molecule through Multi-million Atom Electronic Structure Calculations, Muhammad Usman, Yui Hong Matthias Tan, Hoon Ryu, Shaikh S. Ahmed, Timothy B. Boykin, and Gerhard Klimeck
Quantitative excited state spectroscopy of a single InGaAs quantum dot molecule through multi-million-atom electronic structure calculations, Muhammad Usman, Yui-Hong Matthias Tan, Hoon Ryu, Shaikh S. Ahmed, Hubert J. Krenner, Timothy B. Boykin, and Gerhard Klimeck
Observation of nonclassical scaling laws in the quality factors of cantilevered carbon nanotube resonators, Ajit Vallabhaneni, Jeff Rhoads, Jayathi Y. Murthy, and Xiulin Ruan
Direct simulation Monte Carlo study of effects of thermal nonuniformities in electron-beam physical vapor deposition, A. Venkattraman and Alina A. Alexeenko
Uncertainty quantification in nanomechanical measurements using the atomic force microscope, Ryan Wagner, Robert Moon, Jon Pratt, Gordon Shaw, and Arvind Raman
"Zero" Drain-Current Drift of Inversion-Mode NMOSFET on InP(111)A Surface, Chen Wang, Min Xu, Robert Colby, David Wei Zhang, and Peide D. Ye
GaSb Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Capacitors with Atomic-Layer-Deposited HfAlO as Gate Dielectric, Chen Wang, Min Xu, Jiangjiang Gu, David Wei Zhang, and Peide D. Ye
Enhancing the catalytic performance of Pt/C catalysts using steam-etched carbon blacks as a catalyst support, Mei-xian Wang,; Fan Xu; Qi Liu; Hong-fang Sun; Rui-hua Cheng; Hao He; Eric A. Stach; and Jian Xie
Nanoscale graphite-supported Pt catalysts for oxygen reduction reactions in fuel cells, Mei-xian Wang, Fan Xu, Hong-fang Sun, Kateryna Artyushkova, Qi Liu, Eric A. Stach, and Jian Xie
Schottky-barrier height modulation of metal/In0.53Ga0.47As interfaces by insertion of atomic-layer deposited ultrathin Al2O3, Runsheng Wang, Min Xu, Peide D. Ye, and Ru Huang
Analysis of Electron Mobility in Inversion-Mode Al2O3/InxGa1-xAs MOSFETs, Weike Wang, James C. M. Hwang, Yi Xuan, and Peide D. Ye
Signal-to-Noise Ratio Performance of a Time-Varying Matching Network for Pulse-Based Systems, Xin Wang, Linda P. B. Katehi, and Dimitrios Peroulis
Nuclear Targeting Dynamics of Gold Nanoclusters for Enhanced Therapy of HER2(+) Breast Cancer, Yuling Wang, Jiji Chen, and Joseph Irudayaraj
A SERS DNAzyme biosensor for lead ion detection, Yuling Wang and Joseph Irudayaraj
Separation and detection of multiple pathogens in a food matrix by magnetic SERS nanoprobes, Yuling Wang, Sandeep Ravindranath, and Joseph Irudayaraj
Scattering mechanisms in a high-mobility low-density carbon-doped (100) GaAs two-dimensional hole system, J. D. Watson, S. Mondal, G. A. Csathy, M. J. Manfra, E. H. Hwang, S. Das Sarma, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Self-assembly and flux closure studies of magnetic nanoparticle rings, Alexander Wei, Takeshi Kasama, and Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski
Design of Integrated Nanostructured Wicks for High-Performance Vapor Chambers, Justin Weibel, Suresh V. Garimella, Jayathi Y. Murthy, and David H. Altman
Stretchable microelectrode array using room-temperature liquid alloy interconnects, P. Wei, R. Taylor, Z. Ding, C. Chung, O. J. Abilez, G. Higgs, B. L. Pruitt, and Babak Ziaie
Periodically Changing Morphology of the Growth Interface in Si, Ge, and GaP Nanowires, C-Y Wen, J. Tersoff, K. Hillerich, M.C. Reuter, J. H. Park, S. Kodambaka, Eric Stach, and F.M. Ross
Controlled Growth of Ordered Nanopore Arrays in GaN, Isaac Wildeson, David Ewoldt, Robert Colby, Eric A. Stach, and Timothy D. Sands
Au nanospheres and nanorods for enzyme-free electrochemical biosensor applications, Yu-Ho Won, Keon Huh, and Lia A. Stanciu
Effects of Positive and Negative Stresses on III-V MOSFETs With Al2O3 Gate Dielectric, N. Wrachien, A. Cester, Y. Q. Wu, Peide D. Ye, E. Zanoni, and G. Meneghesso
Growth of Single Crystal Graphene Arrays by Locally Controlling Nucleation on Polycrystalline Cu Using Chemical Vapor Deposition, Wei Wu, Luis A. Jauregui, Zhihua Su, Zhihong Liu, Jiming Bao, Yong P. Chen, and Qingkai Yu
Calculation of single chain cellulose elasticity using fully atomistic modeling, Xiawa Wu, Robert Moon, and Ashlie Martini
GaSb Inversion-Mode PMOSFETs With Atomic-Layer-Deposited Al2O3 as Gate Dielectric, Min Xu, Runsheng Wang, and Peide D. Ye
Dynamics of entanglement in a two-dimensional spin system, Qing Xu, Gehad Sadiek, and Sabre Kais
Control and characterization of individual grains and grain boundaries in graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition, Qingkai Yu, Luis A. Jauregui, Wei Wu, Robert Colby, Jifa Tian, Zhihua Su, Helin Cao, Zhihong Liu, Deepak Pandey, Dongguang Wei, Ting Fung Chung, Peng Peng, Nathan P. Guisinger, Eric A. Stach, Jiming Bao, Shin-Shem Pei, and Yong P. Chen
ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY A new window opens, Dmitry Zemlyanov
Automated Grid Probe System to Improve End-To-End Grid Reliability for a Science Gateway, Lynn K. Zentner, Steven M. Clark, Krishna P. C. Madhavan, Swaroop Shivarajapura, Victoria Farnsworth, and Gerhard Klimeck
Automated Grid-Probe System to Improve End-To-End Grid Reliability for a Science Gateway, Lynn K. Zentner, Steven M. Clark, Krishna P.C. Madhavan, Swaroop Shivarajapura, Victoria Farnsworth, and Gerhard Klimeck
Practical Considerations in Cloud Utilization for the Science Gateway nanoHUB.org, Lynn K. Zentner, Steven M. Clark, Preston M. Smith, Swaroop Shivarajapura, Victoria Farnsworth, Krishna P.C. Madhavan, and Gerhard Klimeck
Rational Synthesis of Ultrathin n-Type Bi2Te3 Nanowires with Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties, Genqiang Zhang, Benjamin Kirk, Luis A. Jauregui, Haoran Yang, Xianfan Xu, Yong P. Chen, and Yue Wu
Magnetic Manipulation and Optical Imaging of an Active Plasmonic Single-Particle Fe-Au Nanorod, Yong Zhang, Manuel DaSilva, Brian Ashall, Gillian Doyle, Dominic Zerulla, Timothy D. Sands, and Gil U. Lee
Transport Modulation in Ge/Si Core/Shell Nanowires through Controlled Synthesis of Doped Si Shells, Yanjie Zhao, Joshua T. Smith, Joerg Appenzeller, and Chen Yang
Complementary bowtie aperture for localizing and enhancing optical magnetic field, Nan Zhou, Edward C. Kinzel, and Xianfan Xu
Nanoscale ridge aperture as near-field transducer for heat-assisted magnetic recording, Nan Zhou, Edward Kinzel, and Xianfan Xu
Modified Scaled Hierarchical Equation of Motion Approach for the Study of Quantum Coherence in Photosynthetic Complexes, Jing Zhu, Sabre Kais, Patrick Rebentrost, and Alan Aspuru-Guzik
A High Throughput, Interactive Imaging, Bright-Field Wound Healing Assay, Michael Zordan, Christopher P. Mill, David J. Riese II, and James F. Leary
Publications from 2010
Leakage-Reduction Design Concepts for Low-Power Vertical Tunneling Field-Effect Transistors, Samarth Agarwal, Gerhard Klimeck, and Mathieu Luisier
Leakage-Reduction Design Concepts for Low-Power Vertical Tunneling Field-Effect Transistors, Samarth Agarwal, Gerhard Klimeck, and Mathieu Luisier
Adaptive Quadrature for Sharply Spiked Integrands, Samarth Agarwal, Michael Povolotskyi, Tillmann Kubis, and Gerhard Klimeck
Simulation assisted design of a gallium phosphide n-p photovoltaic junction, Charles R. Allen, Jong-Hyeok Jeon, and Jerry M. Woodall
Influence of Alumina Type on the Evolution and Activity of Alumina-Supported Fe Catalysts in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Carpet Growth, Placidus B. Amama, Cary L. Pint, Seung Min Kim, Laura McJilton, Kurt G. Eyink, E A. Stach, Robert H. Hauge, and Benji Maruyama
Electrical actuation-induced droplet transport on smooth and superhydrophobic surfaces, Vaibhav Bahadur and Suresh Garimella
Ab initio calculations of thermal radiative properties: The semiconductor GaAs, Hua Bao and X Ruan
Optical properties of ordered vertical arrays of multi-walled carbon nanotubes from FDTD simulations, Hua Bao, X Ruan, and Timothy Fisher