Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology -- August 2, 2010

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ADVANCES IN FABRICATION AND PROCESSING

Near field photothermal printing of gold microstructures and nanostructures

97, 031112 (2010) (3 pages)

All-inorganic thermal nanoimprint process

Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B

Binary nanocrystal superlattice membranes self-assembled at the liquidair interface

Nature

466, 474-477 (2010)

STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES

Pore-size dependence of the thermal conductivity of porous silicon: A phonon hydrodynamic approach

97, 033103 (2010) (3 pages)

Giant Electrorheological Effect: A Microscopic Mechanism

105, 046001 (2010) (4 pages)

Comment on “Evidence for Quantization of Mechanical Rotation of Magnetic Nanoparticles”

105, 049701 (2010) (1 page)

Tejada et al. Reply:

105, 049702 (2010) (1 page)

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND TRANSPORT

Metal to Insulator Transition on the N=0 Landau Level in Graphene

105, 046804 (2010) (4 pages)

Potential Energy Landscape for Hot Electrons in Periodically Nanostructured Graphene

105, 036804 (2010) (4 pages)

Nematic valley ordering in quantum Hall systems

82, 035428 (2010) (6 pages)

Effects of piezopotential spatial distribution on local contact dictated transport property of ZnO micro/nanowires

97, 033509 (2010) (3 pages)

Resonant escape over an oscillating barrier in a single-electron ratchet transfer

82, 033303 (2010) (4 pages)

Anomalous transport in mesoscopic inhomogeneous two-dimensional electron systems at low temperature

82, 035310 (2010) (5 pages)

Contact engineering for organic semiconductor devices via Fermi level depinning at the metal-organic interface

82, 035311 (2010) (6 pages)

Accuracy of the quantum capacitor as a single-electron source

82, 041407 (2010) (4 pages)

Exchange and correlation effects in the transmission phase through a few-electron quantum dot

82, 045310 (2010) (5 pages)

Inelastic cotunneling in quantum dots and molecules with weakly broken degeneracies

82, 045316 (2010) (11 pages)

First-principles study of structural and electronic properties of ultrathin silicon nanosheets

82, 045419 (2010) (7 pages)

Controlling Edge Morphology in Graphene Layers Using Electron Irradiation: From Sharp Atomic Edges to Coalesced Layers Forming Loops

105, 045501 (2010) (4 pages)

Zero-bias anomaly of quantum point contacts in the low-conductance limit

82, 045313 (2010) (5 pages)

Spin- and Energy-Dependent Tunneling through a Single Molecule with Intramolecular Spatial Resolution

105, 047204 (2010) (4 pages)

Zero differential resistance in two-dimensional electron systems at large filling factors

82, 041304 (2010) (4 pages)

Prospective Role of Multicenter Bonding for Efficient and Selective Hydrogen Transport

105, 045901 (2010) (4 pages)

NANOMAGNETISM AND SPINTRONICS

Controllable chirality switching of a moving domain wall by oblique magnetic field

97, 032507 (2010) (3 pages)

Asymmetric ground state spin configuration of transverse domain wall on symmetrically notched ferromagnetic nanowires

97, 022511 (2010) (3 pages)

Parallel spin filling and energy spectroscopy in few-electron Si metal-on-semiconductor-based quantum dots

97, 032103 (2010) (3 pages)

Direct experimental measurement of phase-amplitude coupling in spin torque oscillators

97, 032502 (2010) (3 pages)

Domain wall creep in (Ga,Mn)As

97, 032504 (2010) (3 pages)

Stochastic heating of a molecular nanomagnet

82, 014418 (2010) (5 pages)

Measurement of spin-dependent conductivities in a two-dimensional electron gas

82, 041305 (2010) (4 pages)

Tilted elliptical Dirac cones at a half-metal surface

82, 020403 (2010) (3 pages)

Hysteretic synchronization of nonlinear spin-torque oscillators

82, 020407 (2010) (4 pages)

Electric-field modification of magnetism in a thin CoPd film

82, 024420 (2010) (6 pages)

Influence of Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction on the domain wall magnetoresistance of diluted magnetic semiconductor thin films

82, 035210 (2010) (7 pages)

Spin echo decay at low magnetic fields in a nuclear spin bath

82, 035315 (2010) (11 pages)

Fingerprints of transverse and longitudinal coupling between induced open quantum dots in the longitudinal magnetoconductance through antidot lattices

82, 035432 (2010) (10 pages)

Enhanced electron correlations, local moments, and Curie temperature in strained MnAs nanocrystals embedded in GaAs

82, 045117 (2010) (11 pages)

Spin-orbit coupling and anisotropic exchange in two-electron double quantum dots

82, 045311 (2010) (15 pages)

Tuning of the two electron states in quantum rings through the spin-orbit interaction

82, 045312 (2010) (7 pages)

Interaction-Induced Spin Polarization in Quantum Dots

105, 046802 (2010) (4 pages)

Nonadiabatic Stochastic Resonance of a Nanomagnet Excited by Spin Torque

105, 047202 (2010) (4 pages)

Effective Temperature in an Interacting Vertex System: Theory and Experiment on Artificial Spin Ice

105, 047205 (2010) (4 pages)

Tunneling in Double Barrier Junctions with “Hot Spots”

105, 047207 (2010) (4 pages)

Kondo peak splitting on a single adatom coupled to a magnetic cluster

82, 020406 (2010) (4 pages)

Transfer lengths and spin injection from a three-dimensional ferromagnet into graphene

82, 035425 (2010) (5 pages)

Comment on “Coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity in Sn nanoparticles”

82, 016503 (2010) (1 page)

Reply to “Comment on `Coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity in Sn nanoparticles' ”

82, 016504 (2010) (3 pages)

Review of Scientific Instruments

IMAGING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Intermittent contact hydration scanning probe microscopy

81, 073707 (2010) (4 pages)

Method to calculate electric fields at very small tip-sample distances in atomic force microscopy

97, 033115 (2010) (3 pages)

OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND QUANTUM OPTICS

Electron-Hole Overlap Dictates the Hole Spin Relaxation Rate in Nanocrystal Heterostructures

105, 046601 (2010) (4 pages)

Light direction-dependent plasmonic enhancement in quantum dot infrared photodetectors

97, 021112 (2010) (3 pages)

Giant Stark effect in the emission of single semiconductor quantum dots

97, 031104 (2010) (3 pages)

Terahertz activated luminescence of trapped carriers in InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots

97, 031101 (2010) (3 pages)

Impact of nonequilibrium phonons on the electron dynamics in terahertz quantum cascade lasers

97, 033110 (2010) (3 pages)

MICRO AND NANO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (MEMS / NEMS)

Traffic Jams and Intermittent Flows in Microfluidic Networks

105, 044502 (2010) (4 pages)

Gigaohm resistance membrane seals with stealth probe electrodes

97, 033704 (2010) (3 pages)

CARBON NANOTUBES, C60, AND RELATED STUDIES

Optical properties of graphene nanoribbon in a spatially modulated magnetic field

97, 031114 (2010) (3 pages)

Adsorption of diatomic halogen molecules on graphene: A van der Waals density functional study

82, 035427 (2010) (7 pages)

Charged impurity scattering in bilayer graphene

82, 041406 (2010) (4 pages)

Triplet proximity effect and odd-frequency pairing in graphene

82, 041409 (2010) (4 pages)

Absolute Raman matrix elements of graphene and graphite

82, 045418 (2010) (7 pages)

High magnetic field theory for the local density of states in graphene with smooth arbitrary potential landscapes

82, 045421 (2010) (24 pages)

Epitaxial graphene monolayer and bilayers on Ru(0001): Ab initio calculations

82, 045425 (2010) (5 pages)

Improved field emission property of graphene paper by plasma treatment

97, 033109 (2010) (3 pages)

Analysis of electrical percolation thresholds in carbon nanotube networks using the Weibull probability distribution

108, 024305 (2010) (4 pages)

Atomically precise bottom-up fabrication of graphene nanoribbons

Nature

466, 470-473 (2010)

Ferromagnetism in water-doped vanadium oxide nanotubes

108, 023905 (2010) (4 pages)

Structural and electronic properties of carbon nanocylinder consisting of nanoribbon-walls with arrayed-oxygen hinges

Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B

28, C5C8-C5C11 (2010)

Electron spin coherence in metallofullerenes: Y, Sc, and La@C₈₂

82, 033410 (2010) (4 pages)

Tunneling conductance between a superconducting STM tip and an out-of-equilibrium Luttinger liquid

82, 035312 (2010) (5 pages)

Linear augmented cylindrical wave Green's function method for electronic structure of nanotubes with substitutional impurities

82, 035426 (2010) (15 pages)

Excitonic absorption spectra of metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes

82, 035433 (2010) (5 pages)

Conductivity and dielectric constant of nanotube/polymer composites

82, 045204 (2010) (8 pages)

Current-voltage characteristics of graphene devices: Interplay between Zener-Klein tunneling and defects

82, 045416 (2010) (10 pages)

Response of mechanically strained nanomaterials to irradiation: Insight from atomistic simulations

82, 045420 (2010) (5 pages)

Stacking and Registry Effects in Layered Materials: The Case of Hexagonal Boron Nitride

105, 046801 (2010) (4 pages)

Determination of edge purity in bilayer graphene using µ-Raman spectroscopy

97, 031908 (2010) (3 pages)

Electrochemical Sensing of H₂O₂ at Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide/Chitosan/CNT Nanocomposite Modified Electrode

Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters

Charge conversion effects of carbon nanotube network transistors by temperature for Al₂O₃ gate dielectric formation

97, 032117 (2010) (3 pages)

Barrier-free tunneling in a carbon heterojunction transistor

97, 033102 (2010) (3 pages)

Functionalized multiwall carbon nanotubes incorporated polymer/fullerene hybrid photovoltaics

97, 033105 (2010) (3 pages)

Phonon transport in large scale carbon-based disordered materials: Implementation of an efficient order-N and real-space Kubo methodology

82, 041410 (2010) (4 pages)

Very thin transparent, conductive carbon nanotube films on flexible substrates

97, 023114 (2010) (3 pages)

Rectification in three-terminal graphene junctions

97, 032110 (2010) (3 pages)

First-principles prediction of stable SiC cage structures and their synthesis pathways

82, 035431 (2010) (6 pages)

Few-layer epitaxial graphene grown on vicinal 6H–SiC studied by deep ultraviolet Raman spectroscopy

97, 033108 (2010) (3 pages)

Calculation of field emission enhancement for TiO₂ nanotube arrays

108, 024303 (2010) (4 pages)

Hysteresis reversion in graphene field-effect transistors

133, 044703 (2010) (4 pages)

On the thermally conductive behaviour of compacted graphite nanosheets

Micro & Nano Letters

QUANTUM COHERENCE, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION STORAGE

Designing Quantum Memories with Embedded Control: Photonic Circuits for Autonomous Quantum Error Correction

105, 040502 (2010) (4 pages)

Unfrustrated qudit chains and their ground states

82, 012318 (2010) (5 pages)

Relation of the entanglement entropy and uncertainty product in ground states of coupled anharmonic oscillators

82, 014101 (2010) (4 pages)

Quantum Nondemolition Measurement of a Superconducting Qubit in the Weakly Projective Regime

105, 040506 (2010) (4 pages)

Room-Temperature Implementation of the Deutsch-Jozsa Algorithm with a Single Electronic Spin in Diamond

105, 040504 (2010) (4 pages)

Quantum Computation on the Edge of a Symmetry-Protected Topological Order

105, 040501 (2010) (4 pages)

Remote Preparation of Single-Photon “Hybrid” Entangled and Vector-Polarization States

105, 030407 (2010) (4 pages)

Protection of center-spin coherence by a dynamically polarized nuclear spin core

82, 045314 (2010) (4 pages)

Resonant quantum gates in circuit quantum electrodynamics

82, 024514 (2010) (6 pages)

Topological quantum computation away from the ground state using Majorana fermions

82, 020509 (2010) (3 pages)

Fast quantum phase gate in a small-detuning circuit QED model

82, 014303 (2010) (4 pages)

Quantum theory of surface-plasmon polariton scattering

82, 012325 (2010) (19 pages)

Three-mode entanglement via tunneling-induced interference in a coupled triple-semiconductor quantum-well structure

82, 012323 (2010) (8 pages)

Quantum counting algorithm and its application in mesoscopic physics

82, 012316 (2010) (7 pages)

Efficient algorithm for approximating one-dimensional ground states

82, 012315 (2010) (14 pages)

Self-similar spectral structures and edge-locking hierarchy in open-boundary spin chains

82, 012108 (2010) (5 pages)

Quantum and classical thermal correlations in the XY spin- chain

82, 012106 (2010) (6 pages)

Journal of Mathematical Physics

Matrix pencils and entanglement classification

51, 072205 (2010) (16 pages)

Proposal for Manipulating and Detecting Spin and Orbital States of Trapped Electrons on Helium Using Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

105, 040503 (2010) (4 pages)

Quantum search algorithms on a regular lattice

82, 012326 (2010) (9 pages)

Asymmetrical two-dimensional magnetic lattices for ultracold atoms

82, 012320 (2010) (6 pages)

SUPRAMOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL ASSEMBLY

Improved photoinduced charge carriers separation in organic-inorganic hybrid photovoltaic devices

97, 033309 (2010) (3 pages)

Effect of mobile ions on ultrathin silicon-on-insulator-based sensors

97, 034103 (2010) (3 pages)

Strain-effect for controlled growth mode and well-ordered structure of quaterrylene thin films

133, 034706 (2010) (7 pages)

ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES

First-principles study of the variation of electron transport in a single molecular junction with the length of the molecular wire

82, 045424 (2010) (6 pages)

Journal of The Electrochemical Society

Carbon Paste Gold Nanoparticles Sensor for the Selective Determination of Dopamine in Buffered Solutions

157, F116-F123 (2010)

SURFACE AND INTERFACE PROPERTIES

Adsorption and diffusion of gold adatoms on graphene nanoribbons: An ab initio study

82, 045417 (2010) (7 pages)

Phonon-induced scattering of excited electrons and holes on (110) noble metal surfaces

82, 035424 (2010) (6 pages)

Piezoelectric thin-film superlattices without using piezoelectric materials

108, 024304 (2010) (9 pages)

Layer-by-layer epitaxial growth of polar MgO(111) thin films

82, 033408 (2010) (4 pages)

Visualization of droplet departure on a superhydrophobic surface and implications to heat transfer enhancement during dropwise condensation

97, 033104 (2010) (3 pages)

Wormhole effect in a strong topological insulator

82, 041104 (2010) (4 pages)

Diffusion-limited adsorption to a spherical geometry: The impact of curvature and competitive time scales

82, 011604 (2010) (8 pages)

Water filling of hydrophilic nanopores

133, 034513 (2010) (10 pages)

CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS METHODS

Langevin agglomeration of nanoparticles interacting via a central potential

82, 011404 (2010) (15 pages)

In situ laser crystallization of amorphous silicon: Controlled nanosecond studies in the dynamic transmission electron microscope

97, 032102 (2010) (3 pages)

Free Energy Functionals for Efficient Phase Field Crystal Modeling of Structural Phase Transformations

105, 045702 (2010) (4 pages)

MISCELLANEOUS

Electron-plasmon scattering in chiral one-dimensional systems with nonlinear dispersion

82, 033409 (2010) (4 pages)

Unconventional superconductivity on honeycomb lattice: Theory of Kekule order parameter

82, 035429 (2010) (7 pages)

Statistics of camera-based single-particle tracking

82, 011917 (2010) (8 pages)

Journal of The Electrochemical Society

Electrocatalytic Activity Studies of Select Metal Surfaces and Implications in Li-Air Batteries

157, A1016-A1025 (2010)

Fast relaxations in foam

82, 011405 (2010) (5 pages)

Nanostructure band engineering of gadolinium oxide nanocrystal memory by CF₄ plasma treatment

97, 023513 (2010) (3 pages)

An effective rate equation approach to reaction kinetics in small volumes: Theory and application to biochemical reactions in nonequilibrium steady-state conditions

133, 035101 (2010) (15 pages)

Rounding of Phase Transitions in Cylindrical Pores

105, 045701 (2010) (4 pages)