Nano and Giga Challenges in Electronics, Photonics and Renewable Energy (NGC2014)

Nano and Giga Challenges in Electronics, Photonics and Renewable Energy
From Materials to Devices to System Architecture
Symposium and Spring School (Tutorial Lectures)
Phoenix, Arizona, March 10-14, 2014

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ORAL SESSIONS

School Sessions (March 10 & 11): Coor Hall, room 170

Symposium sessions (March 12 - 14): Memorial Union, Second Floor

March 10: School Session I (8:30am - 12:30pm) Coor Hall, room 170 Co-Chairmen: Stephen Goodnick and Alex Demkov
8:30am - 9:30am	Massimiliano Di Ventra, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA Fundamental Properties of Memristive, Memcapacitive and Meminductive Systems
9:30am - 10:30am	Francis Balestra, Grenoble Institute of Technology, Grenoble, France Ultra Low Power Device Operation
10:30am - 11:30am	Oleg Berman, New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, New york, USA Graphen Based Nanophotonics
11:30pm - 12:30pm	Matthias Wuttig, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany Phase Change Materials: From Optical Data Storage to Novel Electronic Memories
12:30pm - 1:30pm	LUNCH
March 10: School Session II (1:30pm - 6:30pm) Coor Hall, room 170 Co-Chairmen: Gyula Eres and Matthias Wuttig
1:30pm - 2:30pm	Alex Demkov, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA Applications of Functional Oxide Heterostructures
2:30pm - 3:30pm	Marek Korkusinski, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Atomistic Simulations of Electronic and Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures
3:30pm - 4:30pm	Roza Kotlyar, Intel, Portland, Oregon, USA Device Modeling Challenges in the Realm of Overlapping Physical Scales: from Atomistic to Continuum, from Coherent to Diffusive Transport
4:30pm - 5:30pm	Juan Ramón Morante, IREC (Catalonia Institute for Energy Research) and University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Nanostructured Electrodes in Photoelectrochemical Cells for Solar Fuel Production
5:30pm - 6:30pm	Igor Zutic, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA Putting Spin in Lasers

March 11: School Session III (8:30am - 12:30pm) Coor Hall, room 170 Co-chairmen: Francis Balestra and Pawel Hawrylak
8:30am - 9:30am	Philip G. Collins, University of California - Irvine, Irvine, California, USA Single Molecule Bioelectronics
9:30am - 10:30am	Alek Dediu, Institute for Nanostructured Materials, Bologna, Italy Organic Spintronics: the State of the Art
10:30am - 11:30am	Michael Galperin, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA Molecular Optoelectronics: On the interaction of Molecular Junctions with Light
11:30am - 12:30pm	Mona Jarrahi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Advanced Terahertz Optoelectronics based on Plasmonic Nanostructures
12:30pm - 1:30pm	LUNCH
March 11: School Session IV (1:30pm - 6:30pm) Coor Hall, room 170 Co-chairmen: Philip Collins and Vladimir Mitin
1:30pm - 2:30pm	Lynden Archer, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA Nanoporous Hybrid Materials - Transport Phenomena and Applications in Secondary Batteries
2:30pm - 3:30pm	Stephen Goodnick, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA Role of Nanotechnology in Advanced Concept Photovoltaics
3:30pm - 4:30pm	Austen Angell, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA Chemistry of Electrical Energy Storage and its Back Conversion to Electricity
4:30pm - 5:30pm	Peter Bäuerle, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany Organic photovoltaics : With tailored Materials on the Move to Future Technology
5:30pm - 6:30pm	Jurriaan Schmitz, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands CMOS post-processing for monolithic microsystems

March 12 (Symposium): Memorial Union, Second Floor

March 12: Plenary Morning Session I (9:00am - 12:00pm) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, Ventana Ballroom, #241B Co-chairmen: David Lockwood and Lionel Vayssieres
9:00am - 9:30am	Farkhad Aliev, Universidas Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Noise in Spintronics: from Understanding to Manipulation
9:30am - 10:00am	Sanjay Banerjee, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA Novel Low Power Transistors in 2D Dirac Materials: Graphene and Topological Insulators
10:00am - 10:30am	Jim Greer, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland Atomic Scale Limits for Metal Interconnects
10:30am - 11:00am	COFFEE BREAK
11:00am - 11:30am	Pawel Hawrylak, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Graphene Nanostructures

March 12: Technology Innovations Session I (9:00am -12:00pm) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, La Paz Room, #242 Co-Chairmen: Gary Witting and Dawn Nagle
9:00am - 9:30am	Serge Leef, Mentor Graphics, Wilsonville, Oregon, USA Convergence of silicon, Sensors, Mobility, and Cloud as Driving Forces in System Design Innovation
9:30am - 10:00am	Timour Paltashev, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Sunnyvale, California, USA Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA): Software Ecosystem for APU-CPU-GPU
10:30am - 11:00am	Yuri Panchul, Imagination Technologies, Sunnyvale, California, USA Imagination, MIPS and Microchip - Hardware Platforms for the Innovation in Mobile, Networking and Microcontroller-based Systems
10:30am - 11:00am	COFFEE BREAK
11:00am - 11:30am	Alexander Shalumov, ASONIKA, Vladimir, Russia ASONIKA: Automated System for Accelerated Stress Testing & Reliability
11:30am - 12:00pm	Sergey Yushko, Innovative Technopark IDEA, Kazan, Tatarstan Republic, Russia Technology Innovations Infrastructure and Opportunities in Republic Tatarstan

March 12: Afternoon Session I (2:00pm - 6:00pm) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, Ventana Ballroom #241B NanoCMOS and Beyond: Devices & Architecture Co-chairmen: David Gilmer and Dimitris Pavlidis

2:00pm - 2:30pm	Cheol Seong Hwang, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Dielectric Film with Sub-4A EOT for DRAMs
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Fabien Alibart, Lille 1 University, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France Neuromorphic Computing with Memristive Devices
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Diing Shenp Ang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Bias-Temperature Instability in the High-k/Metal Gate Stacks
3:30pm - 4:00pm	COFFEE BREAK
4:00pm - 4:30pm	Vincent Derycke, CEA Saclay, Orsay, France Function Learning with Carbon Nanotube - based Synapses
4:30pm - 5:00pm	Beri Mbenkum, Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Nanoarchitecture: Invoking Shape- and Size-Independent Functionality in Nanomaterials for Next Generation Energy Systems
5:00pm - 5:30pm	Luis Hueso, Nanogune, San Sebastian, Spain Molecular - Based Hot Electron Devices
5:30pm - 6:00pm	Alexander Zaslavsky, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA High-Current Sharp-Switching CMOS-Compatible Transistors

March 12: Afternoon Session II (2:00pm - 6:00pm) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, La Paz Room, #242 Functional Magnetic Nanostructured Materials and Devices Co-chairmen: Farhad Aliev and Alek Dediu
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Rolf Allenspach, IBM Research - Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Static and Dynamic Properties of Magnetic Domain Walls in Confined Geometries
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Julio Camarero, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Multifunctional Magnetic Nanoparticles to Kill Selectively Cancer Cells
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Mairbek Chshiev, SPINTEC, Grenoble, France Anatomy of Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions from First Principles
3:30pm - 4:00pm	COFFEE BREAK
4:00pm - 4:30pm	Mirko Cinchetti, Technical University Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany Optically Induced Magnetization Reversal
4:30pm - 5:00pm	Patrick Lenahan, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA Near Zero Field and Zero Field Spin Dependent Recombination in Semiconductor Devices
5:00pm - 5:30pm	Julie Grollier, University Paris-Sud, Orsay Cedex, France Multi-functional Spintronic and Ferroelectric Nanodevices for Neuromorphic Computing
5:30pm - 6:00pm	Siegfried Selberherr, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria Modeling Spin-Based Electronic Devices

March 12: Afternoon Session III (2:00pm - 6:00pm) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, Mohave Room, #236 Organic Materials and Devices Co-chairmen: Peter Mueller and Erin Ratcliff
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Seif Haque, Imperial College London, London, UK Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Semiconductor Materials for Photovoltaic Energy Conversion
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Antoine Kahn, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA Chemical Doping of Organic Semiconductors: Opportunities and Challenges
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Norbert Koch, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, USA Controlling Interface Electronic Properties with Organic Molecules
3:30pm - 4:00pm	COFFEE BREAK
4:00pm - 4:30pm	Chang Ming Li, Southwest University, Beibei, P.R. China Architect Arts to Build Sensitive Biosensors
4:30pm - 5:00pm	Björn Lüssem, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany Novel Concepts for Organic Transistors: Organic Doping and Vertical Organic Transistors
5:00pm - 5:30pm	Alberto Salleo, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA The Importance on Charge-Transfer Excitons in Organic Solar Cells
5:30pm - 6:00pm	Koichi Yamashita, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Theoretical Study on Photoinduced Charge Separated States of Molecular Interfaces

March 12: Afternoon Session IV (2:00pm - 6:00pm) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, Gold Room, #207 Nanophotonics, Optoelectronics, and Plasmonics Co-chairmen: Cun-Zheng Ning and Ken Shih

2:00pm - 2:30pm	Hooman Mohseni, Northwesten University, Evanston, Illinois, USA Hybrid Plasmonics: Enhancing the Performance of Optoelectronic Devices
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Eric Charron, Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France Coherent Control of the Absorption and Reflection of EM Fields by Dense Atomic and Molecular Nano-layers
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Hui Deng, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Matter-Light Coupling by Design with Hybrid Photonic Crystal Cavities
3:30pm - 4:00pm	COFFEE BREAK
4:00pm - 4:30pm	Yongmin Liu, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Metasurfaces and Fluids to Control Surface Plasmons
4:30pm - 5:00pm	David Lockwood, National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Photoluminiscence from a Direct-Gap Supercell Si-Ge Grown on Si_0.4Ge_0.6
5:00pm - 5:30pm	Xiuling Li, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA Semiconductor Nanoelectronic and Nanophotonic Devices: performance and scalability
5:30pm - 6:00pm	Rupert Oulton, Imperial College London, London, UK Surface Plasmon Laser Action near the Surface Plasmon Frequency

March 12: Afternoon Session V (2:00pm - 6:00pm) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, Cochise room, #228 Modeling & Simulation of Nanostructured Materials & Devices Co-chairmen: Jim Greer and Marek Korkusinski

2:00pm - 2:30pm	Jerry Bernholc, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA Electronic Structure and Electron Transport in Carbon-Based Nanosystems
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Thorsten Hansen, Lunds University, Lund, Sweden 2D Electronic Spectroscopy of Energy and Charge Transfer
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Luca Larcher, University of Modena, Modena, Italy Microscopic Modeling of HfO2-based RRAM Device Operation and Reliability
3:30pm - 4:00pm	COFFEE BREAK
4:00pm - 4:30pm	Blanka Magyare-Köpe, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA Quantum Mechanical Insight into the Resitance Switching Properties of Binary Transition Metal Oxides
4:30pm - 5:00pm	Vladimiro Mujica, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
5:00pm - 5:30pm	Liudmila Pozhar, PermaNature, Birmigham, Alabama, USA Nickel Oxide Nanostructures from Quantum Dots to Nanopolymers
5:30pm - 6:00pm	Giacomo Giorgi, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Radiative Transitions and Optical Signatures in TiO₂ Minority Surfaces and their derived Nanosheets

March 13 (Symposium): Memorial Union, Second Floor

March 13 (Symposium): Plenary Session II (9:00am - 12:00pm) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, Ventana Ballroom, #241B Co-chairmen: Siegfried Selberherr and Alexander Zaslavsky
9:00am - 9:30am	Cun-Zhen Ning, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA How Small Can a Nanolaser be - Revisiting the Question Seven Years Later
9:30am - 10:00am	Dimitris Pavlidis, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA III-Nitride Devices: from Microwaves to Millimeter-Waves and THz Frequencies
10:00am - 10:30am	Federico Rosei, INRS, Varennes, Quebec, Canada Multifunctional materials for electronics and photonics
10:30am - 11:00am	COFFEE BREAK
11:00am - 11:30am	George Schatz, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA Modeling Active Plasmonic Response
11:30am - 12:00pm	Taiichi Otsuji, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan Terahertz-wave Generation Using Graphene and Compound Semiconductor Nano-heterostructures

March 13: Technology Innovations Session II (9:00am -12:00pm) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, La Paz Room, #242 Co-Chairmen: Gordon McConnell and Dawn Nagle
9:00am - 9:30am	Michael Kozicki, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA Commercialization of Nanoionics Technology
9:30am - 10:00am	Neal Woodbury, Arizona Steate University, Tempe, Arizona, USA Scalable High - Density Peptide Arrays for Comprehensive Health Monitoring
10:00am - 10:30am	Matthew Marinella, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Emerging Nanoscale Memory Technologies: The Solution to Extreme Scale Problems
10:30am - 11:00am	COFFEE BREAK
11:00am - 11:30am	Gordon MacConnell, Arizona Technology Enterprises, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA Technology Entrepreneurship - Pushing Commercialization to Academic and Postdoctoral Students
11:30am - 12:00pm	Gary Witting, The Law Firm of Gary Witting, Phoenix, Arizona, USA Perspectives on Intellectual Property concerning a High Tech Start-Up

March 13: Afternoon Session VI (2:00pm - 6:00pm) Terahertz Electronics and Photonics Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, La Paz Room, #242 Co-chairmen: Mona Jarrahi and Michael Shur
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Mau-Chung Frank Chang, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA Is Terahertz a Communication Wasteland or Vibrant Frontier?
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Michael Wanke, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Monolithically Integrated THz Receivers
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Kodo Kawase, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan Nonlinear Optical Terahertz Sources and Applications
3:30pm - 4:00pm	COFFEE BREAK
4:00pm - 4:30pm	Luis Enrique Garcia Munoz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain THz Beam Steering and Power Enhancement based on Photomixer Technology
4:30pm - 5:00pm	Michael Shur, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA Silicon CMOS for Terahertz Electronics Applications
5:00pm - 5:30pm	Jason Deibel, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA Terahertz Waves for Non-destructive Evaluation
5:30pm - 6:00pm	Sharath Sriram, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Elastomer-based Planar and Flexible Terahertz Devices and Metamaterials

March 13: Afternoon Session VII (2:00pm - 5:30pm) Electrochemistry of Energy Transformation and Storage Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, Mohave Room, #236 Co-chairmen: Candace Chan and Harun Tüysüz
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Candace Chan, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA Perspectives and New Approaches to Silicon Anodes for Next Generation Lithium - ion Batteries
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Hanqing Jiang, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA Origami Lithium - Ion Batteries
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Debra Rolison, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA The Road Beyond Lithium - Ion Batteries is Paved with Zinc
3:30pm - 4:00pm	COFFEE BREAK
4:00pm - 4:30pm	Harun Tüysüz, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany Ordered Mesoporous Materials as Catalyst for Water Oxidation
4:30pm - 5:00pm	Özaslan Mehtap, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland Oxygen Electroreduction on Pt Poor Alloy Nanocatalysts for PEMFC
5:00pm - 5:30pm	Jie Ding, Land Division, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Fishermans Bend, Australia Adopting shear-thickening properties into ionic liquid electrolytes

March 13: Afternoon Session VIII (2:00pm - 6:00pm) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, Ventana Ballroom, #241B Novel Carbon Materials in Optics, Electronics and Photovoltaics Co-chairmen: Robert Nemanich and Vitaly Konov
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Cinzia Casiraghi, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Light-Matter Interactions in Graphene and in Heterostructures of Atomically Thin Films
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Cristian Ciobanu, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA Reduction of Graphene Oxide by Carbon Monoxide
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Vitali Konov, Prokhorov Institute of General Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Laser and SPM Nanostructuring of Advanced Carbon Materials
3:30pm - 4:00pm	COFFEE BREAK
4:00pm - 4:30pm	Vladimir Popov, Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation High Quality Single Crystal Diamond-Graphite-Diamond Devices and Membranes
4:30pm - 5:00pm	Satoshi Yamasaki, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan Diamond Electronic Devices Using Unique Properties
5:00pm - 5:30pm	Maxim Ziatdinov, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan Electronic Structure and Chemical Reactivity of Vacancy Defects in Graphene Layers

March 13: Afternoon Session IX (2:00pm - 6:00pm) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, Cochise room, #228 Fabrication of Nanostructured Materials and Devices Co-chairmen: Federico Rosei and Alberto Vomiero
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Enrique Calleja, Institute of Optoelectronics Systems and Microtechnology, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain Selective Area Growth of III-Nitride Nanostructures: from NanoLEDs to Pseudo Substrates
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Gyula Eres, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA Bandgap Narrowing of Titanium Oxide Semiconductors by Non-Compensated Anion-Cation Codoping for Enhanced Visible Light Photoactivity
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Rachel Goldman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Solute Incorporation and Properties of Highly Mismatched Alloys
3:30pm - 4:00pm	COFFEE BREAK
4:00pm - 4:30pm	Alexey Kovalgin, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands Growth and Properties of Subnanometer Thin Titanium Nitride Films
4:30pm - 5:00pm	Zhiyong Li, HP Labs, Palo Alto, California, USA Nanofinger : Top-down Meets Self-assembly for Ultra Sensitive Molecular Sensing
5:00pm - 5:30pm	Bozhi Tian, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA Nanostructured Semiconductor Devices : From Chemical Synthesis to Biomedical Applications
5:30pm - 6:00pm	Matthias Wuttig, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany The Impact of Disorder on Transport in Crystalline Phase Change Materials

March 13: Afternoon Session X (2:00pm - 6:00pm) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, Gold room, #207 Nanostructured Materials for Solar Energy Conversion Co-chairmen: Bill Dauksher and Zachary Holman
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Dominic Gervasio, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA Materials Challenges for Concentrated Solar Power
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Nazir Kherani, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Conducting Photonic Crystals for Enhanced Photovoltaics
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Vladimir Mitin, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, New York, USA Nanomaterials with charged quantum dots for broad band solar energy conversion and advanced sensing
3:30pm - 4:00pm	COFFEE BREAK
4:00pm - 4:30pm	Robert Nemanich, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA Thermionic and Photon-enhanced Emission from CVD Diamond and New Approaches for Energy Conversion
4:30pm - 5:00pm	Masakazu Sugiyama, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Nanoepitaxial Structures for the Efficiency Enhancement of Multijunction Solar Cells
5:00pm - 5:30pm	Lionel Vayssieres, Xian Jiaotong University, Xian, China Low Cost Quantum-Confined Oxide HeteroNanostructures
5:30pm - 6:00pm	Nikolai Zhitenev, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA Nanoscale Characterization of Photovoltaic Devices

March 13: POSTER PRESENTATIONS (6:00pm - 9:00pm) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, Ventana Ballroom, Co-chairmen: Dominic Gervasio and Nikolay Zhitenev Sponsored by Bio Logic

March 14 (Symposium): Memorial Union, Second Floor

March 14: Plenary Morning Session III (9:00am - 12:00pm) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, Ventana Ballroom, #241B Co-chairmen: Larry Nagahara and Maxim Sukharev
9:00am - 9:30am	Rainer Waser, Juelich Research Center, Juelich, Germany Nanoionic Redox-based Resistive Switches - Challenges and Prospects
9:30am - 10:00am	NJ Tao, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA Plasmonic Imaging of Nanometer-scaled Materials
10:00am - 10:30pm	Yuriy Pershin, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA Memcomputing: a Computing Paradigm to Store and Process Information on the Same Physical Platform
10:30am - 11:00am	COFFEE BREAK
11:00am - 11:30am	Xiang Zhang, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA Photonics Beyond Diffraction Limit: Plasmon Waveguides, Cavities and Integrated Laser Circuits
11:30am - 12:00pm	Philippe Poncharal, University of Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France Osmotic Energy Conversion with Boron Nitride Nanotube

March 14: Nanotechnology instrumentation workshop (9:00am - 12:00pm) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, La Paz Room, #242 Co-chairmen: Gennadi Bersuker and Monserat Nafria
9:00am - 9:20am	Agustina Asenjo, Madrid Institute of Materials Science, Madrid, Spain Magnetic Imaging of nanostructures
9:20am - 9:40am	Alexandre Brolo, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Biomedical Devices Based on Plasmonic Nanostructures
9:40am - 10:00am	Dean DeLongchamp, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA Structure Measurements for Organic Photovoltaics Manufacturing
10:00am - 10:20am	Thilo Glatzel, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland Manipulation and Imaging of Single Molecules by Atomic Force Microscopy
10:20am - 10:40am	Martin Koch, Phillips-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany THz Time-domain Spectroscopy Systems for Security, Industry and Plant Science
10:40am - 11:00am	COFFEE BREAK
11:00am - 11:20am	Sergey Magonov, NT-MDT, Tempe, Arizona, USA Achievements and Challenges in Local Characterization of Materials with Atomic Force Microscopy
11:20am - 11:40am	Patrick McNally, Sonex Metrology, Dublin, Ireland Breakthrough Photoacoustics Metrology Wafer Level and Package Processing
11:40am - 12:00pm	Hidemi Shigekawa, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan Laser-combined STM on Nano Structured Materials and Devices

March 14: Afternoon session XI (2:00pm - 5:30pm) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, Ventana Ballroom, #241B NanoCMOS and Beyond: Devices & Architecture Co-chairmen: Michael Kozicki and Rainer Waser
2:00pm - 2:30pm	David Gilmer, SEMATECH, Austin, Texas, USA Engineering Metal-Oxide RRAM based on Material-Related Resistance Change Mechanisms: A Case Study for HfOx-based RRAM
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Gennadi Bersuker, SEMATECH, Austin, Texas, USA Identifying Electrically-active Defects in Oxides
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Montserrat Nafria, Universitat Autonoma de Barselona, Barselona, Spain Nanoscale Electrical Characterization of Variability and Aging of CMOS Devices with Conductive AFM
3:30pm - 4:00pm	COFFEE BREAK
4:00pm - 4:30pm	Matteo Rinaldi, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Piezoelectric NEMS Resonant Nano Plates for Multifunctional and Reconfigurable Wireless Sensing Platforms
4:30pm - 5:00pm	Jianhua Yang, HP Labs, Palo Alto, California, USA Challenges and Materials Solutions for Memristive Devices (ReRAM)
5:00pm - 5:30pm	Giuseppe Tettamanzi, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia A Single Atom Transistor based Charge Pump

March 14: Afternoon session XII (2:00pm - 6:00pm) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, La Paz Room, #242 Functional Magnetic Nanostructured Materials and Devices Co-chairmen: Rolf Allenspach and Mirko Cinchetti
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Jean-Yves Chauleau, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany Current-Induced Spinwave Dynamics : An Optical Approach
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Alberto Riminucci, Institute for Nanostructured Materials, Bologna, Italy Multifunctional Organic Spintronic Device Acting as a Magnetically Enhanced Memristor
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Hariharan (Hari) Srikanth, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA Advanced Nanocomposites for Magnetic Refrigeration
3:30pm - 4:00pm	COFFEE BREAK
4:00pm - 4:30pm	Nian Sun, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Strong Magnetoelectric Coupling in Multiferroic Heterostructures and Low-Power Devices
4:30pm - 5:00pm	Wilfred Van Der Wiel, University of Twente, Twente, Netherland Ultrahigh Magnetoresistance at Room Temperature in Molecular Wires
5:00pm - 5:30pm	Takeshi Kamiya, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan Nonlocal Magnetoresistance in Organic Spin Valves Based on an Organic Conductor alpha-(BEDT-TTF)_2_I_3

March 14: Afternoon Session XIII (2:00pm - 6:00pm) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, Mohave Room, #236 Organic Materials and Devices Co-chairmen: Peter Mueller and Erin Ratcliff
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Christine Luscombe, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA Probing the Microstructure of Semiconducting Polymers
2:30pm - 3:00pm	David Ginger, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA Recombination Losses in Nanostructured Organic Solar Cells
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Paul Meredith, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Organic Solar Cells: Low Finesse Electro-Optical Cavities
3:30pm - 4:00pm	COFFEE BREAK
4:00pm - 4:30pm	Dana Olson, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, USA An Integrated Approach Toward High Performance Materials and Contacts for Organic Solar Cells
4:30pm - 5:00pm	Erin Ratcliff, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA Contact-induced Mechanisms Controlling Charge Extraction and Open-circuit Voltages in Organic Photovoltaics
5:00pm - 5:30pm	Natalie Stingelin-Stutzmann, Imperial College London, London, UK Organic Photovoltaics: a Material Scientists Point of View
5:30pm - 6:00pm	Bob Street, Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, California, USA Electronic States, Transport and Recombination in Organic Devices

March 14: Afternoon Session XIV (2:00pm - 5:30pm) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, Gold Room, #207 Nanophotonics, Optoelectronics, and Plasmonics Co-chairmen: Eric Charron and Cun-Zheng Ning
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Ajay Nahata, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Reconfigurable Plasmonic Devices Using Liquid Metals
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Ken Shih, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA Active Nanophotonics: from Coherent Control of Quantum Emitters to Plasmonic Nanolasers
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Maxim Sukharev, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA Optical Properties of Nanoscale Hybrid Materials
3:30pm - 4:00pm	COFFEE BREAK
4:00pm - 4:30pm	Limin Tong, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China In-fiber Graphene All-optical Ultrafast Modulation
4:30pm - 5:00pm	Xin Guo, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China Single-Nanowire Optical Sensors
5:00pm - 5:30pm	Shanhui Fan, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA Control Heat with Nanophotonics: Enhancements of Open Circuit voltage in Solar Cells and Radiative Power from Blackbodies

March 14: Afternoon Session XV (2:00pm - 5:20pm) Discovery session (contributed papers) Memorial Union, 2nd Floor, Cochise Room, #228 Co-chairmen: Nazir Kherani and Vladimiro Mujica
2:00pm - 2:20pm	Elliot Fuller, University of California, USA Irvine, Irvine, California Electronic Effects of Defects in One Dimensional Channel
2:20pm - 2:40pm	Marine Fayolle, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan Study of the organic magnetoresistance (OMAR) effect by impedance spectroscopy
2:40pm - 3:00pm	Henrique Toma, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil SPR and SERS Studies of Isolated and Aggregated Gold Nanoparticles Functionalized with Ru-Carboxybipy-trimercaptotriazine DSC Dye
3:00pm - 3:20pm	Anna Zaniweski, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA Growth of metal nanoparticles on graphene
3:20pm - 3:40pm	Dmitry Gorn, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation Admittance of Hg_1-xCd_xTe Mis-Structures with Quantum Wells in the wide Range of Temperatures
3:40pm - 4:00pm	COFFEE BREAK
4:00pm - 4:20pm	Huanping Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA Novel solution process approach in planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells
4:20pm - 4:40pm	Kenneth Graham, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA The Importance of Molecular Conformation at the Donor-Acceptor Interface in Organic Photovoltaics
4:40pm - 5:00pm	Nikola Pekas, National Institute for Nanotechnology, Edmonton, Canada Concurrent optical and electronic characterization of three-terminal nonvolatile memory devices based on redox conductance switching of polythiophene
5:00pm - 5:20pm	Richard Watt, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Natural product self-healing solar cell for efficient electron or hydrogen conversion

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