Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology -- November 23, 2009

19, 8279-8289 (2009)

Review of multi-scale particulate simulation of the rheology of wormlike micellar fluids

ADVANCES IN FABRICATION AND PROCESSING

Self-assembled nanodielectrics and silicon nanomembranes for low voltage, flexible transistors, and logic gates on plastic substrates

95, 183504 (2009) (3 pages)

Surface nanoprocessing with nondiffracting femtosecond Bessel beams

80, 052601 (2009) (4 pages)

STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES

Nanostructure instability induced by anisotropic epitaxial stresses

Shaping site-controlled uniform arrays of SiGe/Si(001) islands by in situ annealing

95, 183102 (2009) (3 pages)

Self-assembly of monodisperse clusters: Dependence on target geometry

Alex W. Wilber

Jonathan P. K. Doye

Ard A. Louis

131, 175101 (2009) (13 pages)

Spectroscopic characterisation and discussion of nanocarbon ensembles in electrical applications

Micro & Nano Letters

Exploring single-molecule dynamics with fluorescence nanoscopy

Christian Ringemann

Ben Harke

Claas von Middendorff

11, 103054 (2009)

Synthesis of type II/type I CdTe/CdS/ZnS quantum dots and their use in cellular imaging

19, 8341-8346 (2009)

Measurement of heat capacity and enthalpy of formation of nickel silicide using nanocalorimetry

95, 181911 (2009) (3 pages)

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND TRANSPORT

Design of graphene electronic devices using nanoribbons of different widths

95, 182104 (2009) (3 pages)

Determining surface Fermi level pinning position of InN nanowires using electrolyte gating

95, 173114 (2009) (3 pages)

Transport in a Luttinger liquid with dissipation: Two impurities

80, 195102 (2009) (11 pages)

Electromechanical instability in vibrating quantum dots with effectively negative charging energy

Teemu Ojanen

Friedrich C. Gethmann

Felix von Oppen

80, 195103 (2009) (8 pages)

80, 195401 (2009) (11 pages)

Electric-field control of the band gap and Fermi energy in graphene multilayers by top and back gates

80, 201302 (2009) (4 pages)

Localization in an inhomogeneous quantum wire

80, 205402 (2009) (9 pages)

Capacitance of graphene nanoribbons

Temperature Dependence of the Conductivity of Ballistic Graphene

Markus Müller

Matthias Bräuninger

Björn Trauzettel

103, 196801 (2009) (4 pages)

NANOMAGNETISM AND SPINTRONICS

Spin-torque driven ferromagnetic resonance in a nonlinear regime

95, 172513 (2009) (3 pages)

Room-temperature ferromagnetism in graphite driven by two-dimensional networks of point defects

Zero-field precession and hysteretic threshold currents in a spin torque nano device with tilted polarizer

11, 103028 (2009)

Gilbert damping and current-induced torques on a domain wall: A simple theory based on itinerant 3d electrons only

L. Berger

80, 144427 (2009) (5 pages)

80, 180403 (2009) (4 pages)

Role of the nonmagnetic layer in determining the Landé g-factor in a spin-transfer system

Strong-coupling limit of a Kondo spin coupled to a mesoscopic quantum dot: Effective Hamiltonian in the presence of exchange correlations

Stefan Rotter

Y. Alhassid

80, 184404 (2009) (12 pages)

80, 184405 (2009) (4 pages)

Geometry-dependent scaling of critical current densities for current-induced domain wall motion and transformations

Spin-transfer torque in disordered weak ferromagnets

Yoshisuke Ban

Gen Tatara

80, 184406 (2009) (5 pages)

80, 193301 (2009) (4 pages)

Spin dynamics of electrons in the first excited subband of a high-mobility low-density two-dimensional electron system

80, 193303 (2009) (4 pages)

Electric-field induced modulation of the magneto-optical Kerr effect in a (Zn,Be,Mn)Se/GaAs spintronic device

Swapping Spin Currents: Interchanging Spin and Flow Directions

Maria B. Lifshits

Michel I. Dyakonov

103, 186601 (2009) (4 pages)

Spin Hall Drag in Electronic Bilayers

S. M. Badalyan

G. Vignale

103, 196601 (2009) (4 pages)

Fractional Topological Insulators

Michael Levin

Ady Stern

103, 196803 (2009) (4 pages)

Surface States of Topological Insulators: The Dirac Fermion in Curved Two-Dimensional Spaces

Dung-Hai Lee

103, 196804 (2009) (4 pages)

Observation of the Underscreened Kondo Effect in a Molecular Transistor

103, 197202 (2009) (4 pages)

IMAGING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Large single-molecule fluorescence enhancements produced by a bowtie nanoantenna

Control of the temporal profile of the local electromagnetic field near metallic nanostructures

Ilya Grigorenko

Anatoly Efimov

11, 105042 (2009)

OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND QUANTUM OPTICS

Superfluidity of polaritons in semiconductor microcavities

Photon anti-bunching in acoustically pumped quantum dots

Optical antenna thermal emitters

Exciton-lattice polaritons in multiple-quantum-well-based photonic crystals

David Goldberg

Lev I. Deych

Alexander A. Lisyansky

Thermochromic polymer opals

95, 173116 (2009) (3 pages)

Plasmonic waveguide as an efficient transducer for high-density data storage

95, 171112 (2009) (3 pages)

Hyperfine mediated triplet-singlet transition probability in a double-quantum-dot system: Analogy with the double-slit experiment

Fernando Domínguez

Gloria Platero

80, 201301 (2009) (4 pages)

80, 205303 (2009) (15 pages)

Measurement of the Knight field and local nuclear dipole-dipole field in an InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot ensemble

State-resolved manipulations of optical gain in semiconductor quantum dots: Size universality, gain tailoring, and surface effects

Ryan R. Cooney

Samuel L. Sewall

D. M. Sagar

Patanjali Kambhampati

131, 164706 (2009) (13 pages)

MICRO AND NANO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (MEMS / NEMS)

Optomechanical crystals

80, 174103 (2009) (14 pages)

Damping and decoherence of a nanomechanical resonator due to a few two-level systems

Entangling nanomechanical oscillators in a ring cavity by feeding squeezed light

Sumei Huang

G Agarwal

11, 103044 (2009)

An ultrasmall wavelength-selective channel drop switch using a nanomechanical photonic crystal nanocavity

Yoshiaki Kanamori

Kazunori Takahashi

Kazuhiro Hane

95, 171911 (2009) (3 pages)

Bifurcation topology tuning of a mixed behavior in nonlinear micromechanical resonators

N. Kacem

S. Hentz

95, 183104 (2009) (3 pages)

CARBON NANOTUBES, C60, AND RELATED STUDIES

Magnetoelectric Effect in Graphene Nanoribbons on Substrates via Electric Bias Control of Exchange Splitting

Zhuhua Zhang

Changfeng Chen

Wanlin Guo

103, 187204 (2009) (4 pages)

80, 195402 (2009) (5 pages)

Electric carrier concentration in graphite: Dependence of electrical resistivity and magnetoresistance on defect concentration

Initial growth process of carbon nanowalls synthesized by radical injection plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition

106, 094302 (2009) (6 pages)

The van der Waals coefficients between carbon nanostructures and small molecules: A time-dependent density functional theory study

131, 164708 (2009) (11 pages)

Speedy fabrication of free-standing layer-by-layer multilayer films by using polyelectrolyte complex particles as building blocks

19, 8448-8455 (2009)

Carbon nanotube-doped polymer optical fiber

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Piezoelectric properties of poly(vinylidene fluoride) and carbon nanotube blends: -phase development

Gwang Ho Kim

Soon Man Hong

Yongsok Seo

11, 10506-10512 (2009)

s= antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on fullerene-type symmetry clusters

N. P. Konstantinidis

80, 134427 (2009) (9 pages)

80, 195406 (2009) (6 pages)

Cooling dynamics and thermal interface resistance of glass-embedded metal nanoparticles

80, 205403 (2009) (5 pages)

Charge transfer satellite in Pr@C₈₂ metallofullerene observed using resonant x-ray emission spectroscopy

80, 105003 (2009) (13 pages)

Fermionic Casimir effect for parallel plates in the presence of compact dimensions with applications to nanotubes

S. Bellucci

A. A. Saharian

Physical Review D

Bilayer Graphene Interferometry: Phase Jump and Wave Collimation

Sunghun Park

H.-S. Sim

103, 196802 (2009) (4 pages)

Effects of carbon nanoparticles on lipid membranes: a molecular simulation perspective

Self assembled fullerene walls in di-mesogenic-C60 materials

Transition state analysis of solid-solid transformations in nanocrystals

Michael Grünwald

Christoph Dellago

131, 164116 (2009) (10 pages)

Size tuning of Au nanoparticles formed by electron beam irradiation of Au₂₅ quantum clusters anchored within and outside of dipeptide nanotubes

Perumal Ramasamy

Samit Guha

Edakkattuparambil Sidharth Shibu

Theruvakkattil S. Sreeprasad

Soumabha Bag

Arindam Banerjee

Thalappil Pradeep

19, 8456-8462 (2009)

Growth of high-density vertically aligned arrays of carbon nanotubes by plasma-assisted catalyst pretreatment

95, 173115 (2009) (3 pages)

Photocurrent enhancement in polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells doped with a phosphorescent molecule

95, 173304 (2009) (3 pages)

First-principles study on the enhancement of lithium storage capacity in boron doped graphene

95, 183103 (2009) (3 pages)

Determination and enhancement of the capacitance contributions in carbon nanotube based electrode systems

M. Hoefer

P. R. Bandaru

95, 183108 (2009) (3 pages)

Highly efficient cross-linked PbS nanocrystal/C₆₀ hybrid heterojunction photovoltaic cells

95, 183505 (2009) (3 pages)

Highly ordered TiN nanotube arrays as counter electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells

Q. W. Jiang

G. R. Li

X. P. Gao

2009, 6720-6722 (2009)

Well-aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes emitting natural white-light under microwave irradiation

Jun-Wei Su

Shangjr Gwo

Kuan-Jiuh Lin

2009, 6777-6779 (2009)

Direct synthesis of mesoporous carbon nanowires in nanotubes using MnO₂ nanotubes as a template and their application in supercapacitors

2009, 6813-6815 (2009)

A photo-responsive molecular wire composed of a porphyrin polymer and a fullerene derivative

19, 8307-8313 (2009)

Journal of The Electrochemical Society

Fullerene and Pentacene as a Pure Organic Connecting Layer in Tandem Organic Light Emitting Devices

QUANTUM COHERENCE, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION STORAGE

Evolution of squeezed states under the Fock-Darwin Hamiltonian

Jaime E. Santos

Nuno M. R. Peres

João M. B. Lopes dos Santos

Physical Review A

80, 053401 (2009) (8 pages)

Single-shot qubit readout in circuit quantum electrodynamics

François Mallet

Florian R. Ong

Agustin Palacios-Laloy

Engineering single photon emitters by ion implantation in diamond

95, 181109 (2009) (3 pages)

Concavity of the set of quantum probabilities for any given dimension

Károly F. Pál

Tamás Vértesi

Physical Review A

80, 042114 (2009) (5 pages)

80, 042333 (2009) (12 pages)

Contraction of fermionic operator circuits and the simulation of strongly correlated fermions

80, 174502 (2009) (8 pages)

Power-dependent internal loss in Josephson bifurcation amplifiers

Three-Color Entanglement

80, 205302 (2009) (6 pages)

Realizing singlet-triplet qubits in multivalley Si quantum dots

80, 205401 (2009) (5 pages)

Anomalous finite size effects on surface states in the topological insulator Bi₂Se₃

Autler-Townes Effect in a Superconducting Three-Level System

103, 193601 (2009) (4 pages)

Localization of Metal-Induced Gap States at the Metal-Insulator Interface: Origin of Flux Noise in SQUIDs and Superconducting Qubits

103, 197001 (2009) (4 pages)

80, 184401 (2009) (7 pages)

SU(N) Heisenberg model on the square lattice: A continuous-N quantum Monte Carlo study

SUPRAMOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL ASSEMBLY

Phase behavior of ditethered nanospheres

Christopher R. Iacovella

Monodisperse self-assembly in a model with protein-like interactions

131, 175102 (2009) (10 pages)

Computer simulations of linear rigid particles that form chiral superstructures and tilted smectic phases

Fangyong Yan

Christopher Adam Hixson

Temperature dependence of buried channel ion sensitive field effect transistors

Roman Novitski

Hila Einati

Yosi Shacham-Diamand

106, 094501 (2009) (10 pages)

Room-temperature discotic liquid crystals based on oligothiophenes—attached and fused triazatruxenes

19, 8327-8334 (2009)

Aqueous nanofibers with switchable chirality formed of self-assembled dumbbell-shaped rod amphiphiles

2009, 6819-6821 (2009)

ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES

Exciton switching and Peierls transitions in hybrid inorganic-organic self-assembled quantum wells

K. Pradeesh

J. J. Baumberg

G. Vijaya Prakash

95, 173305 (2009) (3 pages)

Robust polydopamine nano/microcapsules and their loading and release behavior

2009, 6789-6791 (2009)

Photoluminescent quantum dot–cucurbituril nanocomposites

Christopher I. Ratcliffe

Quan Lin

Bai Yang

Kui Yu

2009, 6807-6809 (2009)

A facile synthesis of dispersable NaCl nanocrystals

Thomas Annen

Matthias Epple

Dalton Transactions

2009, 9731-9734 (2009)

Spectrally narrowed edge emission from leaky waveguide modes in organic light-emitting diodes

106, 094502 (2009) (11 pages)

A new twist: controlled shape-shifting of silver nanoparticles from prisms to discs

19, 8294-8298 (2009)

Adsorbate-induced absorption redshift in an organic-inorganic cluster conjugate: Electronic effects of surfactants and organic adsorbates on the lowest excited states of a methanethiol-CdSe conjugate

131, 174705 (2009) (8 pages)

Organic functionalization of ultradispersed nanodiamond: synthesis and applications

19, 8432-8441 (2009)

Multiscale simulation of soft matter systems – from the atomistic to the coarse-grained level and back

Phase behaviour of quasi-block copolymers: A DFT-based Monte-Carlo study

Flow injection of polymers into nanopores

Block correlated coupled cluster method with the complete active-space self-consistent-field reference function: Applications for low-lying electronic excited states

Jun Shen

Shuhua Li

131, 174101 (2009) (10 pages)

Synthesis and characterization of highly organized mesoporous palladium-doped tin dioxide thin films for gas sensing

19, 8411-8417 (2009)

SURFACE AND INTERFACE PROPERTIES

Atomic-resolution imaging of size-selected platinum clusters on TiO₂(110) surfaces

Noritake Isomura

Xingyang Wu

Yoshihide Watanabe

131, 164707 (2009) (4 pages)

Enhancement of magnetoelectric effect in multiferroic fibrous nanocomposites via size-dependent material properties

E. Pan

X. Wang

R. Wang

95, 181904 (2009) (3 pages)

Modeling of the deposition of Na Clusters on MgO(001)

80, 195404 (2009) (12 pages)

Transient ion ejection during nanocomposite thermite reactions

106, 083306 (2009) (8 pages)

Trigonal paramagnetic interface defect in epitaxial Ge₃N₄/(111)Ge

95, 183501 (2009) (3 pages)

MISCELLANEOUS

Nanocomposite Polymer Electrolyte Doped with Nanosized Li_0.1Ca_0.9TiO₃ for Lithium Polymer Batteries

Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters

Electronic Structure Controls Reactivity of Size-Selected Pd Clusters Adsorbed on TiO2 Surfaces

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

The interaction between gold nanoparticles and cationic and anionic dyes: enhanced UV-visible absorption

11, 10513-10518 (2009)

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Diffusion coefficients for nanoparticles under flow and stop-flow conditions

11, 10494-10499 (2009)

16, 103108 (2009) (6 pages)

Efficient generation of quasimonoenergetic ions by Coulomb explosions of optimized nanostructured clusters

M. Murakami

K. Mima

Physics of Plasmas

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Nanoparticle-based bio-barcode assay redefines "undetectable" PSA and biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy

106, 18437-18442 (2009)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Computational design of ligand binding is not a solved problem

106, 18491-18496 (2009)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Hotspots of GPI-anchored proteins and integrin nanoclusters function as nucleation sites for cell adhesion

Maria F. Garcia-Parajo

106, 18557-18562 (2009)

Review of Scientific Instruments

Single fiber Bragg grating sensor with two sections of different diameters for longitudinal strain and temperature discrimination with enhanced strain sensitivity

80, 103106 (2009) (4 pages)

Combined structural model of spider dragline silk

Roxana Ene

Periklis Papadopoulos

Mg-based metallic glass/titanium interpenetrating phase composite with high mechanical performance

95, 171910 (2009) (3 pages)

SERS detection and boron delivery to cancer cells using carborane labelled nanoparticles

2009, 6750-6752 (2009)

Gold nanoparticles prepared with a room-temperature ionic liquid–radiation irradiation method

Tetsuya Tsuda

Satoshi Seino

Susumu Kuwabata

2009, 6792-6794 (2009)

Amplified detection of protein cancer biomarkers using DNAzyme functionalized nanoprobes

2009, 6845-6847 (2009)