Technical Program
NMDC 2015 Program
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| Time | Aleutian Room |
Dillingham Room |
Katmai Room |
| Monday, September 14 | |||
| 08:30 AM-09:00 AM | Welcome | ||
| 09:00 AM-10:00 AM | Opening Plenary | ||
| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM | BREAK | ||
| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | Session M1 | Session M2 | |
| 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | LUNCH | ||
| 01:00 PM-03:00 PM | Session M3 | Session M4 | |
| 03:00 PM – 3:20 PM | BREAK | ||
| 03:20 PM-05:30 PM | Session M5 | Session M6 | |
| Tuesday, September 15 | |||
| 08:30 AM-10:00 AM | Tuesday Plenary | ||
| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM | BREAK | ||
| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | Session T1 | Session T2 | |
| 12:00PM-1:00 PM | LUNCH | ||
| 01:00 PM-03:00 PM | Session T3 | Session T4 | |
| 03:00 PM – 3:20 PM | BREAK | ||
| 03:20 PM-05:30 PM | Session T5 | Session T6 | |
| 06:30-08:30 PM | DINNER | ||
| Wednesday, September 16 | |||
| 08:00 AM-09:00 AM | Wednesday Plenary | ||
| 09:00 AM-09:30 AM | Closing & Awards | ||
| 09:30 AM-10:00 AM | BREAK | ||
| 10:00 AM-12:40 PM | Session W1 | Session W2 | |
Monday, September 14
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Welcome
Room: Aleutian
Chair: Saif alZahir, NMDC 2015 Chair, UNBC, Canada
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Opening Plenary Keynote
Room: Aleutian
Chair: Parviz Famouri, IEEE NTC VP Conferences, UWV, USA
“Planes, Trains, Automobiles…and Cells?”
Speaker: Philip R. LeDuc, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Session M1 — Invited Presentations
Room: Dillingham
Chair: Kenrick J Mock, NMDC Co-chair, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
10:30 Biomimetic Nanotechnology for Enhanced Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells
Seungpyo Hong, Ja Hye Myung and Sin-jung Park (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA); Andrew Wang (University of North Carolina, USA)
11:00 Advanced Nanomaterials for Solar Energy Applications
Haiguang Zhao and Federico Rosei (INRS, Quebec University, Canada)
11:30 Recent developments on InAs/InP quantum dash nanostructures and devices
Boon S. Ooi, Mohammed Zahed Mustafa Khan and Tien Khee Ng (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Session M2 — Invited Presentations
Room: Katmai
Chair: Frank Moore, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
10:30 Towards Functionality-Enhanced Devices: Controlling the Modes of Operations in Three-Independent-Gate Transistors
Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon, Jian Zhang, Michele De Marchi and Giovanni De Micheli (EPFL, Switzerland)
11:00 3D Atomic-Scale Insight Into Semiconductor Nanowires
Rongkun Zheng (The University of Sydney, Australia)
11:30 Ge Nanowire Transistors
Chee-Wee Liu, I-Hsieh Wong, Shih-Hsien Huang and Chih-Hsiung Huang (NTU, Taiwan)
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Chair: Andrew Wang, University of North Carolina, USA
1:00 Nanoparticle or Microparicle Sintering for 3D/Power Assembly? (Invited)
Katsuaki Suganuma (Osaka University, Japan)
1:30 Raman spectroscopy studies of phonons in a nanowire subjected to a magnetic field
Md. Iftekhar Hossain, Jayasimha Atulasimha and Supriyo Bandyopadhyay (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
1:50 Biodegradable Nanoporous Microspheres by RAFT and Photodegradation
Ildoo Chung and Taeyoon Kim (Pusan National University, Korea)
2:10 Nanoscaled Self-Assemblies for Facilitated Energy Conversion
Hsing-Lin Wang (MSJ567, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory & Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA); Hsinhan Tsai (MSJ567, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
2:30 Dielectric engineering of nanostructured layers preventing electrostatic charging in thin dielectrics
Kremena Makasheva and Christina Villeneuve-Faure (LAPLACE, University of Toulouse, France); Caroline Bonafos (CEMES-CNRS, France); Christian Laurent (University of Toulouse and CNRS & LAPLACE, France); Alessandro Pugliara (LAPLACE, CEMES-CNRS, University of Toulouse, France); Bernard Despax and Laurent Boudou (LAPLACE, University of Toulouse, France); Gilbert Teyssedre (University of Toulouse & CNRS, LAPLACE & CNRS, Paul Sabatier University, France)
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Session M4
Room: Katmai
Chair: Frank D Witmer, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
1:00 Advanced Carbon Nanotube Based Devices (Invited)
Qing Zhang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
1:30 Photon Induced Negative Capacitance in Metal Oxide Semiconductor Structures
Anant M. P. Anantram (University of Washington, USA); Anita Fadavi Roudsari, Iman Khodadad and Simarjeet Saini (University of Waterloo, Canada)
1:50 Exploration of Digital Latch Design using Ballistic Deflection Transistors – Modeling and Simulation
Poorna Marthi and Jean Francois Millithaler (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA); Ignacio Iñiguez-de-la-Torre, Javier Mateos and Tomás González (University of Salamanca, Spain); Martin Margala (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)
2:10 Resistive Switching Effect At Boundary Between Film Like Grown ZnO Nanorods
Eunji Yoo (Sejong University, Korea)
2:30 Correlation Between Gate Length, Geometry and Electrostatic Driven Performance in Ultra-Scaled Silicon Nanowire Transistors
Talib Al-Ameri (University of Glasgow & Device Modelling Group, United Kingdom); Y. Wang (Peking University, P.R. China); Vihar Georgiev, F. Adamu-Lema, Xingsheng Wang and A. Asenov (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
3:20 PM – 5:30 PM
Session M5
Room: Dillingham
Chair: Andrew Wang, University of North Carolina, USA
3:20 Length Control of Packed Single Crystalline TiO2 Nanorods for Dye-sensitized Solar Cell (Invited)
YoungSoo Kang (Sogang University & Korea Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Korea)
3:50 A Low-cost Superlyophobic Dry Adhesive Film Based on EVA Copolymer
Lifang Yuan, Lei Wang, Zhiwei Wang, Tianzhun Wu and Yu Zhao (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
4:10 Mesaporous polyurea aerogel for large loading, uniform and slow release of insect repellent oil
Hao Tang and Chunrong Zhu (Onechip Co. Ltd, P.R. China); Wanli Niu (WindTalk Co. Ltd, P.R. China); Honglei Wang (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Walter Hu (800 W. Campbell Rd & University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
4:30 A Wireless Motion Detection System with Silver Nano Ink Printed Accelerometer
Jae Sung Park and Woo Soo Kim (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
4:50 Optical and Morphological Properties of Porous Silicon Grown At Low Hydrofluoric Acid Concentration by Electrochemical Anodization
Mateus Moura (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil); Ademir Costa (Federal Institute of Bahia, Brazil); Leizer Schnitman (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil); Marcio Fontana (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil)
5:10 3D Printed Inductor Designs Decorated with Silver Nano Ink
Benny Chou, Jae Sung Park and Woo Soo Kim (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
3:20 PM – 5:30 PM
Session M6
Room: Katmai
Chair: Frank D Witmer, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
3:20 Synthesis and Characterization of MoS2 Nanostructures Using Pulsed-laser Deposition System (Invited)
Anderson Sunda-Meya (Xavier University of Louisiana, USA)
3:50 Heterodimensional Transistor Technology for Attojoule Electronics
Michael Shur (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
4:10 Electronic Properties of Metal-Molecular Nanojunctions and Networks
Po Zhang and Chris Papadopoulos (University of Victoria, Canada)
4:30 Study on the ESD-Induced Gate-Oxide Breakdown and the Protection Solution in 28nm High-K Metal-Gate CMOS Technology
Chun-Yu Lin (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan); Ming-Dou Ker (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan); Pin-Hsin Chang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Wen-Tai Wang (Global Unichip Corporation, Taiwan)
4:50 Self-assembled Coffee-ring Colloidal Crystal Arrays with Periodical Structural Colours Utilizing Porous Polydimethylsiloxane Film as a Template
Xuemin Du (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), P.R. China); Tengyue Li and Tianzhun Wu (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
5:10 Nanoimprinted Solar Cells with Large Molecular Weight P3HT Nanogratings with Enhanced Molecular Alignment
Yi Yang, Kamil Mielczarek and Anvar Zakhidov (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Walter Hu (800 W. Campbell Rd & University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Tuesday, September 15
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Tuesday Plenary Keynote
Room: Aleutian
Chair: Yonhua (Tommy) Tzeng, IEEE NTC VP Publications, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan
“Semiconductor Nanomaterials for Transient Electronics”
Speaker: John A. Rogers, UIUC, USA
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Session T1 — Invited Presentations
Room: Dillingham
Chair: Saif alZahir, NMDC 2015 Chair, UNBC, Canada
10:30 Metallic Nanoparticles for Cancer Cell Selective Therapeutics
Dar-Bin Shieh (National Cheng Kung University & NCKU Hospital, Taiwan)
11:00 Mechanisms of endosomal escape for nanoparticle-mediated cytosolic drug delivery (Invited)
Gaurav Sahay (Oregon State University, USA)
11:30 Straintronics: Strain-switched multiferroic nanomagnets for extremely low energy logic/memory
Hasnain Ahmad (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA); Ayan Kumar Biswas (BUET, Bangladesh); Jayasimha Atulasimha and Supriyo Bandyopadhyay (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Session T2 — Invited Presentations
Room: Katmai
Chair: Yonhua (Tommy) Tzeng, IEEE NTC VP Publications, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan
10:30 Van Der Waals Epitaxy for New 2D Materials-Based Low-power Logic and Memory
Christopher Hinkle (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
11:00 Sub-5 nm Patterning and Applications by Nanoimprint Lithography and Helium Ion Beam Lithography
Yuanrui Li, Ahmed Abbas, Yuhan Yao and Yifei Wang (University of Southern California, USA); Wen-Di Li (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Chongwu Zhou and Wei Wu (University of Southern California, USA)
11:30 A Modeling Study of Mechanisms for NDR in graphene-BN-graphene Heterostructures
Yunqi Zhao, Zhenni Wan, Xu Xu, Sunil Patil, Ulrich Hetmaniuk and Anant M. P. Anantram (University of Washington, USA)
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Chair: Osama Abaza, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
1:00 Delay and Yield of CNFET-based Circuits in the Presence of Variations (Invited)
Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske (Portland State University, USA)
1:30 Enabling Antenna Design with Nano-magnetic Materials Using Machine Learning
Carmine Gianfagna (Georgia Tech, Italy); Madhavan Swaminathan and Raj Pulugurtha (Georgia Tech, USA); Giulio Antonini (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, Italy)
1:50 Enhancing the Electronic Conductivity of Lignin-sourced, Sub-micron Carbon Particles
Naveen kumar Palapati (300 W Franklin St, USA); Muslum Demir (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA); Charles Harris (Sandia National Laboratories, USA); Arunkumar Subramanian and Ram Gupta (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
2:10 Thin Graphite Membranes for Laser Photoacoustic Spectroscopy
Jan Suchánek (J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the ASCR, v. v. i. & Faculty of Safety Engineering, VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic); Michal Dostál (J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the ASCR, v. v. i., Czech Republic); Tereza Vlasáková (Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic); Pavel Janda, Monika Klusáčková and Pavel Kubát (J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the ASCR, v. v. i., Czech Republic); Václav Nevrlý and Petr Bitala (Faculty of Safety Engineering, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic); Svatopluk Civiš and Zdeněk Zelinger (J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the ASCR, v. v. i., Czech Republic)
2:30 Graphene Based Photoconductivity and Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering
Yonhua Tzeng, Pinyi Li, Minjui Lo and Chuncheng Chang (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Session T4
Room: Katmai
Chair: James Randy Moulic, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
1:00 Nanoscale Electronic Materials for Neurophysiological Interfaces (Invited)
Shadi Dayeh (UCSD, USA)
1:30 HSPICE Macromodel of a PMA Racetrack Memory
Pilin Junsangsri (Northeastern University, USA); Jie Han (University of Alberta, Canada); Fabrizio Lombardi (Northeastern University, USA)
1:50 Food Nanotechnology and Nano Food Safety
Hongwu Bai (Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Canada)
2:10 Cell Impedance Sensing System Based on Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers
Syed Islam, Nicole McFarlane and Yongchao Yu (University of Tennessee, USA); Khandaker Abdullah Al Mamun (The University of Tennessee, USA)
2:30 Nanopatterning in GeTe Phase Change Materials Using Heated Atomic Force Microscope Tips
Adrian Podpirka, Woo Lee, Todd Brintlinger, Nabil Bassim, Paul Sheehan and Laura Ruppalt (United States Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
3:20 PM – 5:00 PM
Chair: Osama Abaza, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
3:20 Theoretical Investigation of the Oxygen Bond Dissociation Energies in Graphene Oxide
Walid M. I. Hassan (Qatar University, Qatar); Amit Verma and Reza Nekovei (Texas A&M University – Kingsville, USA); R. Jeyakumar (CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, Pusa Campus, India); Mahmoud M Khader (Qatar University, Qatar)
3:40 Polaron Effect on Ballistic Transport in Armchair Graphene Nanoribbon
Nazir Hossain, Poorna Marthi, Jean Francois Millithaler and Martin Margala (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)
4:00 Origin of Competing Blue and Green Emission in InGaN/GaN Quantum-Disks in Nanowires Heterostructure
Aditya Prabaswara, Tien Khee Ng, Dalaver Anjum, Nini Wei and Chao Zhao (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Abdulrahman M. Albadri, Ahmed Y. Alyamani and Munir El-Desouki (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Boon S. Ooi (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
4:20 A Novel Approach for Preparation of CuO Nanostructures on Conductive Substrate
Fanan Wei (Shenyang Institute of Automation, P.R. China)
4:40 Antimicrobial Properties of Silver Nanorods: Chemical or Physical Kill?
Md. Iftekhar Hossain (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA); Jarrod Edwards (US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, USA); James Tyler (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA); John Anderson (US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, USA); Supriyo Bandyopadhyay (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
3:20 PM – 5:30 PM
Session T6
Room: Katmai
Chair: James Randy Moulic, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
3:20 Towards Nanomagnetic Logic systems: A Programmable Arithmetic Logic Unit for Systolic Array-based Computing (Invited)
Stephan Breitkreutz-v. Gamm, Irina Eichwald and Grazvydas Ziemys (Technische Universität München, Germany); György Csaba, Gary Bernstein and Michael Niemier (University of Notre Dame, USA); Wolfgang Porod (University of Notre Dame, Germany); Mariagrazia Graziano (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Doris Schmitt-Landsiedel and Markus Becherer (Technische Universität München, Germany)
3:50 Controllable Reversibility of Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Buckled Dirac Materials
Hamed Koochaki Kelardeh, Vadym Apalkov and Mark Stockman (Georgia State University, USA)
4:10 Strain induced and Spin Torque induced Switching of Nanomagnets: Coherent or Incoherent?
Md Mamun Al-Rashid, Dhritiman Bhattacharya, Supriyo Bandyopadhyay and Jayasimha Atulasimha (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
4:30 Nanorods Self-Assembled From Polyaromatic Compounds: A Molecular Dynamics Study
Cuiying Jian and Tian Tang (University of Alberta, Canada)
4:50 Tuning macroscopic body interactions by manipulation of quantum vacuum photon-modes at the nanoscale
Louis Dellieu and Olivier Deparis (University of Namur, Belgium); Branko Kolaric (UNAMUR, Belgium); Michael Sarrazin (University of Namur, Belgium)
5:10 Multilevel Resistance in Ti/Pt/AlOx/HfOy/Ti/Pt/Ag Resistive Switching Devices
Farhana Anwar (University of New Mexico, USA); John Nogan (Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, USA); Payman Zarkesh-Ha and Marek Osiński (University of New Mexico, USA)
Wednesday, September 16
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Wednesday Plenary Keynote
Room: Aleutian
Chair: Saif alZahir, NMDC 2015 Chair, UNBC, Canada
“Bio Cell Analysis and Assembly by Micro and Nano Robotic Technology”
Speaker: Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University/Meijo University, Beijing Institute of Technology
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Closing & Awards
Room: Aleutian
Chairs:
Kenrick J Mock, NMDC Co-chair, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
Parviz Famouri, IEEE NTC VP Conferences, UWV, USA
10:00 AM – 12:20 PM
Chair: Martin Cenek, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
10:00 Device and Energy Properties of Two-Dimensional (2D) Atomically Thin Materials (Invited)
Eric Pop, Stanford University, USA
10:30 Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons and transition metal chalcogenide nanostructures for electronics applications (Invited)
Alexander Sinitskii, University of Nebraska, USA
11:00 Nanotechnology Laboratory and Nanoelectronics Simulation Courses
James Morris (Portland State University, USA)
11:20 Yield Estimation for CNFET- Based Circuits with Imperfections
Rehman Ashraf (Tyfone & Tyfone, USA); Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske (Portland State University, USA)
11:40 Channel limitation of 1-D wire random network for transparent conducting electrodes application
Jinyoung Hwang (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea); Sang Hyun Lee (Sejong University, Korea); Hyosung Lee (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea)
12:00 Characteristics Analysis of InN-In0.25Ga0.75N Quantum Well Laser with In0.4Al0.6N Layers for Short Distance Communication Wavelength
Md. Mobarak Hossain Polash (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology & University of Asia Pacific, Bangladesh); Kamruzzaman Khan (University of Toledo, USA)
10:00 AM – 12:20 PM
Session W2
Room: Katmai
Chair: Frank Moore, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
10:00 Optical Modulation and Manipulation of Neurons and Cells with High Efficiency through Quantum Dots and Photonic Crystals (Invited)
Lih Lin, Peifeng Jing, Ethan Keeler and Jingda Wu (University of Washington, USA)
10:30 2D Nanoscale Semiconductors for Genomics (Invited)
Jean-Pierre Leburton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
11:00 Detection of base pair charges during DNA extension with Si nanowire FETs towards DNA sequencing
Yuchen Liang and Silu Zhang (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Walter Hu (800 W. Campbell Rd & University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
11:20 A Nanomedicine Approach to Improving Chemoradiation Treatment for Cancer
Andrew Wang (University of North Carolina, USA)
11:40 Physico-chemical characterization of the interaction of red fluorescent protein – DsRed with silica layers
Marvine Soumbo (LAPLACE, University of Toulouse, France); Alessandro Pugliara (LAPLACE, CEMES-CNRS, University of Toulouse, France); Marie-Carmen Monje and Christine Roques (LGC, University of Toulouse, France); Bernard Despax (LAPLACE, University of Toulouse, France); Caroline Bonafos (CEMES-CNRS, France); Robert Carles and Adnen Mlayah (CEMES-CNRS, University of Toulouse, France); Kremena Makasheva (LAPLACE, University of Toulouse, France)
12:00 In-situ Study of O2 Adsorption on Few-layer MoS2 Field Effect Transistor in Ultrahigh Vacuum
Long Qi, Ying Wang, Braj Bhusan Singh and Yihong Wu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)