Below are the abstracts for the MINT Fall review 2011. The full versions of these files are available to MINT sponsors. If you are interested in becoming a MINT Sponsor please see our information here.
Talks
- 1-D and 0-D graphene encapsulated nanostructures: Growth, characterization, and sensing applications – Nitin Chopra
- Improving Performance of Organic Thin-Film Transistors and Solar Cells – Dawen Li
- Multiscale Modeling for Spintronics – Claudia Mewes
- Nanogenerator and Nanomemory based on ZnO Nanowire – Jinhui Song
- Holey silicon as an efficient thermoelectric material – Hung-Ta Wang
- Mechanism of High Magnetic Anisotropy in Fe3Pt thin film alloys – Oleg Mryasov
- Tunneling spectroscopy: a tutorial– Patrick LeClair
- Challenge of Spintronics – Tim Mewes
- Materials Study of Free and Pinned Structures for Fully Perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junctions – Su Gupta
- Statistics of Spin-Torque Switching – Bill Butler
- Initial progress toward polymer based thermoelectric materials – Greg Szulczewski, Dipanjan Mazumdar
- Spectroelectrochemistry of single molecule and single nanoparticles – Shanlin Pan, Caleb Hill
Research Results – Posters
- Synthesis of Shape-Controlled Wurtzite CuInxGa1-xS2 Nanocrystals with Tunable Band Gap
- Fabrication and Magnetic Properties of DLI-CVD LiFe5O8 Thick Films for Microwave Device Applications
- Colloidal Synthesis of Ferromagnetic CuCr2S4 Nanocrystals and Nanoclusters
- Preparation of media using AlN-CoPt multilayers and AAO
- Electronic structure and spin polarization of advanced CPP-GMR Heusler alloys Co2Fe(Si-Al ) and Co2Fe(Ga-Ge)
- Avalanche Breakdown in Microscale VO2 Structures
- Facile Thermolysis Synthesis of CuInS2 Nanocrystals with Tunable Anisotropic Shape and Structure
- Effect of substrate on the atomic structure and physical properties of thermoelectric Ca3Co4O9 thin films
- Protein-Templated Synthesis and Assembly of Visible-Light-Driven Semiconductor Nano-Architectures for Efficient Hydrogen Production
- Electronic structure of ferrimagnetic NiFe2O4 using the screened hybrid functional method
- Large Area Patterning of Single Magnetic Domains for Bit- Patterned Media via Ion Irradiation
- Utilization of Block Copolymer Template Nanolithography for Generating Metal Surface Patterns
- Enhancement of Photocatalytic Water Splitting of α-Fe2O3 under Visible Illumination by Plasmonic Gold Nanorods
- Structural Health Monitoring of composite materials using PZT actuators and sensors
- Unimolecular Electronics
- VO2/CrO2-based GMR/TMR Devices Fabrication
- Low defect density epitaxial Cu thin films grown by pulsed electrochemical deposition on n-GaAs(011)
- Synthesis of MnAl Nanoparticles
- Magnetic Micelles for a Targeted, Magnetically Triggered Drug Delivery System
- Synthesis, Characterization, and Growth Mechanism of Iron Oxide Nanoworms
- Synthesis and Growth Mechanism of Ultrathin Iron Oxide Nanowhiskers
- Study of V-O and Cr-O films by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
- Characterization of MnAl and MnBi using XPS
- Characterization of Dy/Y superlattices with neutron scattering techniques
- Polarized Neutron Reflectivity of Exchange Inversion Layers
- Characterization of antiferromagnetically coupled multilayers with polarized neutron reflectivity
- Energy landscape analysis of switching in perpendicular thin-film elements
- UV Driven Formation of Co3O4: The Role of pH
- Measuring Electrochemically Active Surface Area of PEM Fuel Cell Cathode
- Effects of Anisotropy, Strain Rate, and Size in Bimodal Aluminum 5083
- Micro magnetic exchange tensor and interpretation of magnetometry for hcp Co based high anisotropy thin film alloys
- Air-Flow Guided Crystal Growth for TIPS Pentacene-Based Organic Thin-Film Transistors
- Kinetics of interfacial reactions in Sn-3.5Ag/Cu system during solid liquid inter-diffusion (SLID) soldering process
- Magnetic and Resistance Behavior at first order Magnetic Phase Transition in Fe47Rh47Pd6 Thin Films
- Structure and interlayer coupling of NiFe/Ir superlattices
- Frequency-selective control of FMR linewidth in magnetic multilayers
- Broadband ferromagnetic resonance for relaxation measurements
- Initial magnetic degradation in TMR heads due to temperature increase caused by electrostatic discharge
- Influence of saturation magnetization on the Spin Torque Transfer switching of ferromagnetic elements
- Investigation of spin torque driven magnetization reversal in elliptical elements
- Perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junctions based on Thin CoFeB Free Layer and Co-based Multilayer SAF Pinned Layers
- New Nanostructured Double Heterojuntion Hybrid Electrode for Electrochemical Charge Storage Applications
- Single Molecule/Particle Spectroscopic Studies of Donor-Acceptor Systems for Organic Photovoltaics
- Solvent Dependence of Single Molecule Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of poly(3-hexyl-thiophene-2,5-diyl) on a Textured Silver Substrate
- Redox Catalysis of Azo Isometization. A New Mechanism for Nanoscale Mechanical Switching
- Mechanical Characterization of a Aluminum Alloy through Nanoindentation Nanocrystalline
- Heterostructured 1-D Nanostructures for Catalysis
- Graphene encapsulated nanoparticles: Growth, Characterization, and Raman Studies
- The Magnetic Switching Behavior of Graded Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy FexNi0.48-xPt0.52 Thin Films
- Correlation of Texture and Growth Stress to Magnetic Properties in FexNi0.48-xPt0.52 Thin Films
- Chemical Synthesis of MnAl Magnetic Particles-Sonolysis of Dimanganese Decacarbonyl and Thermal Decomposition of Alane-