2012 VILLA CONFERENCE ON INTERACTION AMONG NANOSTRUCTURES
Conference Onsite Registration
Conference Hotel
2:00 – 6:00 P. M.
April 16
Tuesday
April 17
7:50 - 8:00 AM
Opening
Tuesday
April 17
VCIAN Room A: Session I
8:00 – 8:30 AM
A01: QED Kapitza Conductance of NanoCarbon Materials: From Fundamental
Physics to Applications
Slava V. Rotkin
Lehigh University, USA
8:30 – 9:00 AM
A02: Carrier interactions and dynamics in
colloidal graphene quantum dots
John McGuire
Michigan State University, USA
9:00 – 9:30 AM
A03: Physical properties of graphene
nanostructures and their interfaces in
liquid environment – exploring pathway
to novel energy storage solutions
9:30 – 10:00 AM
A04: Infrared Nanomaterials for Third
Generation Photovoltaics
10:00 – 10:20 AM
Mircea Cotlet
Chair: Mircea Cotlet
Oleg Kolosov
Lancaster University, UK
Istvan Robel
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
USA
SESSION BREAK
10:20 – 10:50 AM
A05: Self-catalyzed III-V nanowires and
heterostructures for photovoltaic
applications
10:50 – 11:20 AM
A06: Dithiolated Linkers for Gold
Nanoparticle Assembly: Modeling and
Experiment
A. Fontcuberta i Morral
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne, Switzerland
Laura Fabris
Rutgers University, USA
11:20 – 11:50 AM
A07: Fabrication and Control of
Semiconductor Nanostructures for
Efficient Photon Emission and Extraction
from Quantum Dots
11:50 AM – 12:20
PM
A08: Manipulation of Nuclear Spins in
Quantum Dots Using a Single Domain
Nanomagnet
12:20 – 14:00 PM
Tuesday
April 17
Ikuo Suemune
Hokkaido Univsersity, Japan
Stefan Ludwig
MU Munich, Germany
LUNCH BREAK
VCIAN Room A: Session II
Chair: A. Fontcuberta i Morral
14:00 – 14:30 PM
A9: Deterministic doping for
nanoelctronics and the application to
biological system
Takahiro Shinada
Waseda Institute for Advanced
Study, Japan
14:30 – 15:00 PM
A10: Best of Both Worlds: Layer-byLayer Assembly & Mesoporous Materials
Katsuhiko Ariga
National Institute for Materials
Science, Japan
15:00 – 15:30 PM
A11: Dopant atoms in silicon nanodevices
Daniel Moraru
Shizuoka University, Japan
15:30 – 15:50 PM
SESSION BREAK
15:50 – 16:20 PM
A12: NEMS-MOS and NEMS-SET
Hybrid Functional Systems for Advanced
Information Processing and Extreme
Sensing
Hiroshi Mizuta
University of Southampton, UK /
JAIST, Japan
16:20 – 16:50 PM
A13: Correlating Electronic Transport to
Atomic Structures in Self-Assembled
Quantum Wires
An-Ping Li
Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
USA
16:50 – 17:05 PM
A14: A New Approach for Synthesizing
Individual, Controlled Diameter SWNTs
for Electronics
Fatima Zahra Bouanis
Ecole Polytechnique, France.
17:05 – 17:20 PM
A15: A novel Hybrid superconductingnormal Single Electron Transistor
G. Amato
INRIM, Italy
19:00 PM
DINNER RECEPTION
Wednesday
April 18
VCIAN Room A: Session III
Chair: Matthew Y. Sfeir
8:00 – 8:30 AM
A16: Direct imaging of nanowire surfaces
to the Angstrom length and attosecond
time scales
Anders Mikkelsen
Lund University, Sweden
8:30 – 9:00 AM
A17: In-situ Electron Microscopy of
Phase Behavior, Melting and
Crystallization on the Nanoscale
Eli Sutter
Brookhaven National Laboratory,
Upton, USA
9:00 – 9:30 AM
A18: Control of charge transfer in
semiconducting quantum dot-based
hybrids
Mircea Cotlet
Brookhaven National Laboratory,
USA
9:30 – 10:00 AM
A19: Synchrotron-based x-ray scattering
– a versatile tool to study lowdimensional nanostructures
10:00 – 10:20 AM
Michael Hanke
Paul-Drude-Institute for Solid State
Electronics, Germany
SESSION BREAK
10:20 – 10:50 AM
A20: Single Particle
Spectroelectrochemistry: A Probe for the
Photo-Physics of Charged Nanomaterials
Han Htoon, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, USA
10:50 – 11:20 AM
A21: Energy funneling or light-harvesting
efficiency of individual nanostructures.
Can we measure it?
Ivan G. Scheblykin
Lund University, Sweden
11:20 – 11:50 AM
A22: Mapping of Surface-Enhanced
Fluorescence on Metal Nanoparticles
using Super-Resolution Photoactivation
Localization Microscopy (SEF-PALM)
11:50 AM – 12:05
PM
A23: Modeling and Analysis of
Piezoelectric Nanostructures with Surface
Effects
12:05 – 13:30 PM
Wednesday
April 18
Hiroshi Ujii, Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Belgium
Liying Jiang
The University of Western Ontario,
Canada
LUNCH BREAK
VCIAN Room A: Session IV
Chair: Michael Hanke
13:30 – 14:00 PM
A24: Magnetic properties of
nanographene and its derivatives
Toshiaki Enoki
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
14:00 – 14:30 PM
A25: Physical and Chemical Properties of
Graphene Systems under Mechanical
Perturbations
Young-Woo Son
Korea Institute for Advanced Study,
Korea
14:30 – 15:00 PM
A26: Crystal Growth of fullerene/GaAs
interfaces and their applications
Jiro Nishinaga
Waseda University, Japan
15:00 – 15:30 PM
A27: Unidirectional Charge Transfer in
Multidimensional Nanohybrids
Matthew Y. Sfeir
Brookhaven National Laboratory,
USA
15:30 – 15:50 PM
SESSION BREAK
15:50 – 16:20 PM
A28: Towards polymer nanoparticle
imaging and memory devices: charge
trapping and storage by composite
P3HT/PC60BM nanoparticles
16:20 – 16:50 PM
A29: Functional Magnetic Nanoparticles
for Hyperthermia and Imaging Agent
16:50 – 17:05 PM
A30: A novel Biosensor for
Determination of Glucose Based on
MWCNTs/ZrO2-Pt Nanocomposite
17:05 – 17:20 PM
A31: Transparent NFGM using selfassembled bismuth nanocrystals at room
temperature
17:20 – 17:35 PM
A32: Tunable magnetism by rapid
thermal annealing of Fe3O4/ZnO
superlattice film
Thursday
April 19
VCINA Room A: Session V
8:00 – 8:30 AM
A33: Tunable lifetime and polarization
effect in quantum dot molecules
Andre J. Gesquiere
University of Central Florida, USA
Yuko Ichiyanagi
Yokohama National University,
Japan
Omar A. Al-Hartomy
King Abdul Aziz University, Saudi
Arabia
Hyun-June Jung
Chungnam National University,
Korea
Jong-Gu Yun
Chungnam National University,
Korea
Chair: Liqiang Mai
Eric A. Stinaff
Ohio University, USA
G. Bester
Max-Planck-Institut für
Festkörperforschung, Germany
8:30 – 9:00 AM
A34: Electronic and dynamical properties
of tunnel coupled quantum dots
9:00 – 9:30 AM
A35: Quantum dots in the quantum Hall
regime
Stephan Baer
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
9:30 – 10:00 AM
A36: Ge/Si(001) Heterostructures with
Dense Arrays of Ge Quantum Dots:
Morphology, Defects, Photo-EMF
Spectra and Terahertz Conductivity
V. A. Yuryev
A.M. Prokhorov General Physics
Institute RAS, Russia
10:00 – 10:10 AM
SESSION BREAK
10:10 – 10:40 AM
A37: Quantum dot – microlasers with
external feedback – a chaotic system close
to the quantum limit
10:40 – 11:10 AM
A38: Real- time metrology and
assessment of growth kinetics of selfassembled quantum dots by RHEED
11:10 – 11:40 PM
A39: Two-Stage model of Nanocones
Formed on a Surface of Semiconductors
by Laser Radiation
Arturs Medvids
Riga Technical University, Latvia
11:40 AM – 12:10
PM
A40: Self-Formation of In-Plane
Ultrahigh-Density InAs Quantum Dots
and Their Solar Cell Applications
Koichi Yamaguchi
The University of ElectroCommunications, Japan
12:10 – 12:40 PM
A41: Quantum Dot Solar Cells:
Enhanced power conversion efficiency
due to built-in dot charge
Kimberly A. Sablon
U.S. Army Research Laboratory,
USA
12:40 – 14:00 PM
Stephen Reitzenstein
Technische Universitat Berlin,
Germany
Alex Freundlich
University of Houston, USA
LUNCH BREAK
Thursday
April 19
VCIAN Room A: Session VI
14:00 – 14:30 PM
A42: Electrochemical Nanomaterials for
Energy Storage
Liqiang Mai
Wuhan University of Technology,
China
14:30 – 15:00 PM
A43: Thermalization in Semiconductor
Nanocrystals: Towards Improving
Thermoelectrics and Light-Emitting
Diodes
Richard D. Schaller
Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Chair: Alex Freundlich
15:00 – 15:30 PM
A44: Resonance Energy Transfer in
hybrid configurations for light harvesting
and light emitting applications
15:30 – 15:50 PM
P.G. Lagoudakis
University of Southampton, UK
SESSION BREAK
15:50 – 16:20 PM
A45: Self-assembled Fe Nanowires
16:20 – 16:50 PM
A46: Electron Density in InAs Nanowires
and Nanotubes with Surface States
16:50 – 17:20 PM
A47: Pattern Formation from
Electropolishing
17:20 – 17:30 PM
A48: Dynamics of excitons in two
dimensional aggregates of cyanine dyes
I.K. Sou
The Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology, Hong Kong
SAR, China
Nataliya Demarina
Forschungszentrum Juelich,
Germany
P. Kruse
McMaster University, Canada
Semion K. Saikin
Harvard University, USA
Thursday
April 19
18:30 PM
EMN MEETING POSTER SESSION
Thursday
April 19
19:00 PM
BANQUET
Friday
April 20
VCIAN Room A: Session VII
Chair: Semion K. Saikin
8:00 – 8:30 AM
A49: Effect of sub-micrometer scale
magnetic inhomogeneity on the
magnetoelectric coupling in manganites
Amlan Biswas
University of Florida, USA
8:30 – 9:00 AM
A50: Novel properties in GaN-based
ferromagnetic semiconductor quantum
wells
Y. K. Zhou
Osaka University, Japan
9:00 – 9:30 AM
A51: Nanophotonic device utilizing a
dipole-forbidden energy state
Takashi Yatsui
University of Tokyo, Japan
9:30 – 9:45 AM
A52: Epitaxial growth and electronic
properties of silicene on Ag(111)
P. Vogt
Technische Universität Berlin,
Germany
9:45 – 10:00 AM
A53: Graphite/InP and graphite/GaN
Schottky barrier hydrogen sensors with
electrophoretically deposited Pd or Pt
nanoparticles
10:00 – 10:20 AM
K. Zdansky
Academy of Sciences of the Czech
Republic, Czech Republic
SESSION BREAK
10:20 – 10:35 AM
A54: Photon-electron-phonon interactions
and phonon dynamics in nano-scale
materials with applications to gas sensors
B. W. Mwakikunga
DST/CSIR National Centre for
Nano-Structured Materials, South
Africa
10:35 – 10:50 AM
A55: Cu(111)-Sb surface structural and
morphology changes due to temperature
studied at sub-nano down to atomic scales
by STM and LEED
G. F. Ndlovu
DST/CSIR National Centre for
Nano-Structured Materials, South
Africa
10:50 – 11:05 AM
A56: Procedure of Migration Simulation
of Nanosized Particles in Ground, both
Theoretical and Practical Approach
Dana Rosicka
Technical University of Liberec, the
Czech Republic
11:05 – 11:20 AM
A57: Microwave Assisted Solution Phase
Synthesis of NiS Nanostructures for
Application in Room Temperature Gas
Sensors
Ella C Linganiso
DST/CSIR National Centre for
Nano-Structured Materials, South
Africa
11:20 – 11:35 AM
A58: A DFT study of Raman modes of
CdS nanoparticles stabilized by hydrogen
Abdul Majid
University of Gujrat, Punjab
11:35 – 11:50 AM
A59: Room temperature Mossbauer and
Magnetic properties of Sn1-x57FexO2
nanoparticles synthesized through
modified citrate gel method
Khalid Mujasam Batoo
King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
11:50 AM – 12:05
PM
A60: Quasi-Two-Dimensional Periodical
Polaron Structure in Nanoscale Dielectric
Layes
12:05 – 12:20 PM
A61: Thermoelectric properties of
molecular nanostructures
11:20 AM – 11:35
PM
VCIAN Closing
V.K.Mukhomorov
Agrophysics Institute, Russia
Kruchinin D.S.
University of “Ukraine”, Ukraine
Mircea Cotlet
April 20 Afternoon: Social Events And Networking