POSTER SESSION CONTRIBUTION
Pegasus Ballroom A-F
Poster Session Chair: Mariana Sendova, New College of Florida
Judging Session 1: Sunday, March 8, 4:00–6:00 pm
Judging Session 2: Monday, March 9, 8:00-9:00 am
Judging Session 3: Monday, March 10, 4:30-7:00 pm
P-01
STUDY OF IRON OXIDE THIN FILMS ONTO GLASS AND FTO SUBSTRATES PREPARED BY
ULTRASONIC SPRAY PYROLYSIS
M. A. Garcia-Lobato, A. I. Martinez, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the
National Polytechnic Institute (Cinvestav-Saltillo), Carr. Saltillo-Monterrey Km. 13, Ramos
Arizpe 25900, México
P-02
CHARACTERIZING AND MODELING SILICON MIGRATION INDUCED SHAPE TRANSFORMATIONS
Tom Hartsfield; Rishi Kant, J Provine, Roger Howe; New College of Florida; Stanford
University, Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
P-03
EFFECT OF AIR EXPOSURE ON Cu DIFFUSION BARRIER PROPERTIES OF TaN THIN FILMS
GROWN BY ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION
Oh Hyun Kim, Dojun Kim, KeeChan Kim, Hiral M. Ajmera, Tim Anderson, Jürgen Koller, Lisa
McElwee-White, and David Norton, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Dept. of Chemistry, Dept.
of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
P-04
CHEMICAL
VAPOR
DEPOSITION
OF
WNxCy
USING
DIPHENYLHYDRAZIDO
Cl4(CH3CN)W(NNPh2): EFFECT OF NH3 ON FILM PROPERTIES
Dojun Kima, Oh Hyun Kima, Tim Anderson, Jürgen Kollerb, Lisa McElwee-Whiteb, Lii-Cherng
Leuc, and David P. Norton, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Dept. of Chemistry, Dept. of
Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
P-05
A SIMPLE ROOM TEMPERATURE AQUEOUS SYNTHESIS OF MONO-DISPERSED, WATER
SOLUBLE CERIA NANOPARTICLES
Chetak Patel,Soumitra Kar and Swadeshmukul Santra, NanoScience Technology Center,
Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science Center, University of Central Florida,
Orlando, FL
P-06
BIMETALLIC PT/METAL CATALYSTS FOR THE DECOMPOSITION OF METHANOL: EFFECT OF
SECONDARY METAL ON OXIDATION STATE, ACTIVITY, AND SELECTIVITY
J. R. Croy, S. Mostafa, L. Hickman, H. Heinrich,b, B. Roldan Cuenya, Department of Physics,
Center of Advanced Materials Processing and Characterization, University of Central Florida,
Orlando, FL 32816
P-07
A DEGRADATION STUDY OF SOFC CATHODE
Dongjo Oh, Dohwon Jung, Danijel Gostovic, and Eric Wachsman, UF-DOE High Temperature
Electrochemistry Center, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of
Florida, Gainesville, FL
P-08
A DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY STUDY OF THE INITIAL OXIDATION OF THE Pt(111)
SURFACE
Jeffery M. Hawkins, Jason F. Weaver, Aravind Asthagiri, Department of Chemical
Engineering; University of Florida; Gainesville, FL
P-09
STM STUDY OF HIGH-COVERAGE STRUCTURES OF ATOMIC OXYGEN ON Pt(111)
Jose A. Hinojosa Jr., Sunil P. Devarajan, Jason F. Weaver, Department of Chemical
Engineering; University of Florida; Gainesville, FL
P-10
TRANSLOCATION OF A POLYMER INDUCED BY A BAD SOLVENT
Christopher Lorscher, Aniket Bhattacharya, Tapio Ala-Nissila, University of Central Florida,
Helsinki University of Technology
P-11
SELF-ASSEMBLY OF FKE8 PEPTIDES USING CHARMM
Abdelillah Ymlahi Ouazzani; Abdelkader Kara, Aniket Bhattacharya, University of Central
Florida, FL
P-12
SIMULATION STUDIES OF ELECTROLESS METAL DEPOSITION ON POLYMERIC SURFACE
Abdelillah Y. Quazzani, Aniket Bhattacharya, Helge Heinrich, Aniruddha Dutta, Stephen M.
Kuebler, Christopher N. Grabill, and Henry E. Williams, 1Department of Physics, 2Advanced
Materials Processing and Analysis Center, 3Department of Chemistry, and 4CREOL, The
College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, FL
P-13
OPTIMIZATION OF LONG-WAVE IR SURFACE PLASMON GRATING COUPLERS
J. W. Cleary,R. E. Peale, W. Buchwald,and R. Soref, University of Central Florida, 4000
Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL 32816; Air Force Research Labs / RYHC, 80 Scott Dr,
Hanscom AFB, MA 01731
P-14
CHEMICAL SYSTEM FOR FUNDAMENTAL STUDY OF ELECTROLESS METALLIZATION
Christopher N. Grabill, Henry E. Williams, Stephen M. Kuebler, Abdelillah Y. Quazzani,
Aniket Bhattacharya, Aniruddha Dutta, Helge Heinrich, Department of Chemistry; CREOL,
The College of Optics and Photonics; Department of Physics; and Advanced Materials
Processing and Analysis Center, University of Central Florida, FL
P-15
GATE VOLTAGE TUNABLE PLASMON RESONANCES IN TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON GAS IN
InGaAs/InP HEMT
H. Saxena, R. E. Peale, and W. R. Buchwald, Department of Physics, University of Central
Florida, Orlando FL, Air Force Research Lab, Sensors Directorate, Hanscom AFB
P-16
INVESTIGATION OF CHEMICAL BATH DEPOSITION OF ZnO THIN FILMS USING SIX DIFFERENT
COMPLEXING AGENTS
Hani Khallaf, Guangyu Chai, Oleg Lupan, Lee Chow, Helge Heinrich, S. Park, Alfons Schulte,
Department of Physics, UCF, Department of Microelectronics and Semiconductor Devices,
Technical University of Moldova, Dept. of
Mechanical, materials, and Aerospace
Engineering, UCF Orlando, FL
P-17
PHOTORESPONSE STUDY IN MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE FILM WITH DIFFERENT
ELECTRODE SPACING
Biddut Sarker, M. Arif, Paul Stokes and Saiful I. Khondaker, Nanoscience Technology Center
and Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, 12424 Research Parkway, Suite
400, Orlando, FL
P-18
MICROSTRUCTURE AND OXIDATION RESISTANCE OF Ni-20Cr-xAl (x= 0, 3, 7 AND 10 Wt.%)
COATINGS SYNTHESIZED BY MAGNETRON SPUTTERING
U.M.R. Seelam and C. Suryanarayana,T. Ohkubo and K. Hono, N.S. Cheruvu, Department of
Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, UCF, Orlando, FL.Nanostructure Analysis
Group, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan,
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
P-19
STRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CdTe THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS DEPOSITED
ON FLEXIBLE FOIL SUBSTRATES
D. Hodges, V. Palekis, S. Bhandaru, E. Stefanakos, D. Morel and C. Ferekides, Department of
Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
P-20
Pt NANOPARTICLES SYNTHESIZED VIA MICELLE ENCAPSULATION: EFFECT OF
PRETREATMENT ON THE OXIDATION STATE AND ACTIVITY FOR METHANOL
DECOMPOSITION AND OXIDATION
Jason R. Croy, Simon Mostafa, H. Heinrich, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, Department of Physics,
University of Central Florida, FL
P-21
LOW VOLTAGE AND HIGH EFFICIENCY PHOSPHORESCENT ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING
DEVICES
Sang-Hyun Eom, Ying Zheng, Edward Wrzesniewski, Jaewon Lee, Neetu Chopra, Franky So,
and Jiangeng Xue, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL
P-22
ACHIEVING EFFICIENT ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES WITH ALIGNED CRYSTALLINE
ORGANIC NANORODS
Ying Zheng, Robel Bekele, Jiaomin Ouyang, and Jiangeng Xue, Department of Materials
Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
P-23
TRIETHYLGALLIUM THERMAL DECOMPOSITION KINETICS IN CVD REACTOR USING IN SITU
RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY AND DFT CALCULATION
Jooyoung Leea, Youngseok Kima, Tim Anderson, Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
P-24
IMPACT OF ATOMIC HYDROGEN ABSORBTION ON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF GRAPHENE
Jyoti Katoch, Jianhao Chen, Masa Ishigami, Department of Physics, University of Central
Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, 2Dept of Physics, Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials
and Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD
P-25
DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY STUDY AND MULTISCALE SIMULATIONS COMBINED WITH
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF OXYGEN VACANCY MIGRATION & CLUSTERING IN
BARIUM/STRONTIUM FERRATE/COBALTATE, PERSPECTIVE MATERIAL FOR OXYGEN
MEMBRANES AND INTERMEDIATE TEMPERATURE SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL CATHODES
Shruba Ganopadhyay, Talgat Inerbaev, Artëm E. Masunov, Deanna Altilio, Nina Orlovskaya,
Jaruwan Mesit, Ratan Guha, Ahmed Sleiti, Jayanta Kapat, Nanoscience Technology Center,
Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics, Department of Mechanical, Materials, and
Aerospace Engineering; 5School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UCF,
Orlando, FL
P-26
MICROSTRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION AND DEFORMATION ANALYSIS IN CERAMIC
EUTECTICS WITH THE FOCUSED ION BEAM
Ryan M. White, Elizabeth C. Dickey, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The
Pennsylvania State University
P-27
TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY STUDY OF SILVER AND GOLD NANOPARTICLES ON
POLYMERIC SURFACES
Aniruddha Dutta, Helge Heinrich, Christopher N. Grabill, Henry E. Williams, Stephen M.
Kuebler, Abdelillah Y. Quazzani, Aniket Bhattacharya, Department of Physics; Advanced
Materials Processing and Analysis Center; Department of Chemistry; and CREOL, The College
of Optics and Photonics, UCF, FL
P-28
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SIO2/GD2O3:EU3+ CORE/SHELL SCINTILLATION
NANOPARTICLES
Teng-Kuan Tseng, Ji-Hun Choi, and Paul H. Holloway, Department of Materials Science and
Engineering, UF, FL
P-29
PHOTOLUMINESCENCE FROM Gd2O3:Eu3+ NANOPARTICLES SYNTHESIZED BY HOT
SOLUTION METHOD
Jihun Choi, Teng-Kuan Tseng, Mark Davidson and Paul H. Holloway, Department of Materials
Science and Engineering, UF, FL
P-30
MICROSTRUCTURE AND OXIDATION RESISTANCE OF 304 STEEL COATING SYNTHESIZED BY
MAGNETRON SPUTTERING
U.M.R. Seelam and C. Suryanarayana, N.S. Cheruvu, Department of Mechanical, Materials
and Aerospace Engineering, University of Central; Southwest Research Institute, San
Antonio, TX
P-31
THREE-DEMENSIONAL FIBROUS BUILDING BLOCKS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN IN-SITU
NON-DESTRUCTIVE SENSING
Yan Hong, Zeyu Ma, Ming Su, NanoScience Technology Center, Department of Mechanical,
Materials and Aerospace Engineering, UCF, FL
P-32
POLYELECTROLYTE MULTILAYERS STABILIZED SILVER NANOPARTICLE ARRAYS
Chaoming Wang, Anindarupa Chunder, Lei Zhai, Ming Su
NanoScience Technology Center,
Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, UCF, FL
P-33
FORMATION AND THERMAL STABILITY OF GOLD AND PLATINUM OXIDE SHELLS ON
NANOPARTICLES: SIZE AND SUPPORT EFFECTS
Luis K. Ono, Jason R. Croy, Beatriz Roldan Cuenya, University of Central Florida, Physics
Department, Orlando, FL
P-35
3D ORDERED MICRO/NANOSTURCTURES MADE BY FIBER DRAWING NANOMANUFACTURING
Zeyu Ma, Yan Hong, Ming Su, NanoScience Technology Center, Department of Mechanical,
Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
P-36
STUDYING THE EFFECTS OF GOLD NANOPARTICLES ON MATURE OSTEOCLAST CELLS
Korie Fairbairn Fedena Fanord, Venkat R. Bhethanabotla,Vinay K. Gupta, Harry K.W. Kim,
Department of Chemical Engineering, USF, Shriner’s Hospitals for Children of Tampa, 12502
Pine Drive, Tampa, FL
P-37
PREDICTION OF EXCHANGE COUPLING CONSTANT FOR Mn12 MOLECULAR MAGNET USING
DFT+U
Shruba Gangopadhyay, Artëm E. Masunov,Eliza Poalelungi, Michael N. Leuenberger,
Nanoscience Technology Center, Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics, UCF,
Orlando, FL; Department of Physics, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania
P-38
DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY STUDY OF ACID DISSOCIATION CONSTANTS AND
VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY OF BILIRUBIN
Shruba Gangopadhayay, Artem E. Masunov, Nanoscience Technology Center, Department of
Chemistry, Department of Physics, UCF, Orlando, FL
P-39
STRAIN RELAXATION OF STRAINED-SIGE LAYERS AFTER POST PROCESSES
Jung Hun Janga and Valentin Craciuna, Major Analytical Instrumentation Center (MAIC),
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, UF
P-40
EFFECT OF COPPER COMPOSITION ON THE SULFUR DIFFUSION IN CUIN1-XGAXS2 THINFILM SOLAR CELLS
Ashwani Kaul, Parag Vasekar, Eigo Takahashi, and Neelkanth G. Dhere, Florida Solar Energy
Center, 1679 Clearlake Road, Cocoa, FL
P-41
OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND MORPHOLOGIES OF TERNARY ALLOYED Zn1-xCdxSe NANOCRYSTAL SEMICONDUCTORS
Marc Plaisant, Paul Holloway, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UF, FL
P-42
SURFACE STOICHIOMETRY OF THE LaFeO3 (010) SURFACE USING DENSITY FUNCTIONAL
THEORY AND THERMODYNAMICS
Chan-Woo Lee, Eric D. Wachsman, Simon R. Phillpot, Ram Devanathan, Susan B. Sinnott,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UF; Chemical and Materials Sciences
Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington
P-43
MULTI-CHANNEL STRESS SYSTEM FOR RELIABILITY STUDIES OF COMPOUND
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
E. A. Douglas, D. Cheney, B. Gila,S. J. Pearton, and F. Ren, Department of Materials Science
and Engineering, UF, Department of Chemical Engineering, UF
P-44
PHOTORESPONSE IN Cd1-XZnXS NANOWIRES NETWORK
D. Joung, Y. Jompol, M. Arif, S. Biswas, S. Kar, S. Santra, S. I. Khondaker, Nanoscience
technology Center & Department of Physics, UCF
P-45
FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF INNOVATIVE MULTI-LAYER THINFILM OPTICS
FOR FAR-INFRARED/SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE APPLICATIONS
RE Peale, Justin Cleary, Doug Maukonen, Walter Buchwald, Bill Stacy, and Ken Vacarro, and
Oliver Edwards, Department of Physics, UCF, Air Force Research Lab; Zyberwear, Inc
P-46
FAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF CARBONATE MINERALS
Tatiana Brusentsova, Robert E. Peale, George E. Harlow, Denton Ebel, and Carey Lisse,
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL ; American Museum of Natural History, New York,
NY; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD
P-47
COMPOSITE NANOPARTICLES FOR SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION
Ulka Patel, Daeri Tenery, Andre J. Gesquiere, NanoScience Technology Center, Department
of Chemistry, and College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL), UCF
P-48
BLUE MICRO-CAVITY PHOSPHORESCENT ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES – STRONG
MICRO-CAVITY EFFECTS ON LIGHT EXTRACTION EFFICIENCY
Jaewon Lee, Neetu Chopra, and Franky So, Department of Materials Science and
Engineering, UF
P-49
ATOMIC NUMBER CONTRAST QUANTITATIVE SCANNING TRANSNMISSION ELECTRON
MICROSCOPY IN NANOPARTICLES AND NANOMULTILAYERS
Biao Yuan Bo Yao, Beatriz Roldan and Helge Heinrich, Department of Mechanical, Materials
and Aerospace Engineering; The Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center;
Department of Physics, UCF
P-51
IN-SITU CALCINATION STUDY OF Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3 (NBT)
Elena Aksel and Jacob L. Jones, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UF
P-52
PHOTOCATALYTIC DEGRADATION USING POLYMER-TITANIA MICROCOMPOSITES
Cecil A. Coutinho and Vinay K. Gupta, Department of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering,
USF
P-53
SELF-ASSEMBLED DNA NANOTUBES
Rakesh K. Joshi, Amrita Kumar and Ashok Kumar, Department of Mechanical Engineering and
Nanomaterials & Nanomanufacturing Research Center, USF
P-54
CONTROLLING THE ASPECT RATIO OF ZNO NANOWIRES THROUGH MODULATING EROSION
RATE OF ZNO NANORODS
Farah Alvi, Rakesh K. Joshi and Ashok Kumar, Department of Mechanical Engineering and
Nanomaterials & Nanomanufacturing Research Center, USF
P-55
YSZ-Ag/Au NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS FOR GAS SENSOR APPLICATION
Denis Kitenge, Makoto Hirai, Rakesh K Joshi and Ashok Kumar, Department of Mechanical
Engineering, USF
P-56
STRUCTURAL – PROPERTY RELATIONSHIP IN CVD PROCESSED NANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND
FILMS
Humberto Gomez, Srinath Balachandran, Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Ashok Kumar, Tom
Weller, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, USF
P-57
ELECTRONS DIFFUSION STUDY OF NITROGEN DOPED NANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND FILM
Qiang Hua, Rakesh K. Joshi, Ashok Kumar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University
of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, Nanomaterials & Nanomanufacturing Research Center, USF
P-58
MOLECULAR DYNAMIC SIMULATION ABOUT A TENSILE TEST OF A NANO-CRYSTALLINE Mg
WITH A COLUMNAR STRUCTURE
Dong-hyun Kim, Simon R. Phillpot, Materials Science & Engineering, UF
P-59
HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS OF VALENCE STATE ENGINEERED ULTRA SMALL CERIA
NANOPARTICLES
Soumitra Kar, Chetak Patel, Swadeshmukul Santra, NanoScience Technology Center,
Deparment of Chemistry, Biomolecular Science Center, University of Central Florida,
Orlando, FL
P-60
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FLUORESCENT CHITOSAN NANOPARTICLES
Logan Byrne, Padmavathy Tallury and Swadeshmukul Santra, NanoScience Technology
Center, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science Center, University of Central
Florida, Orlando, FL
P-61
NOVEL DNA SENSOR BASED ON CARBON NANOTUBE LAB-ON-A-CHIP
Jessica E. Weber Shreekumar Pillai, Shree R. Singh, Ashok Kumar, Department of Mechanical
Engineering, Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing Research Center, USF, Tampa, FL,
Center for NanoBiotechnology Research, Alabama State University, Montgomery, Alabama
P-62
EFFECT OF LIGANDS ON THE GEOMETRIC AND ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF AU13
CLUSTERS
Ghazal Shafai, Sampyo Hong, and Talat S. Rahman, Department of Physics, University of
Central Florida, Orlando, FL
P-63
STRUCTURAL, VIBRATIONAL AND THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF AGNCU34-N
NANOPARTICLES
Handan Yildirim, Abdelkader Kara and Talat. S Rahman, Department of Physics, University of
Central Florida, Orlando, FL
P-64
FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDY OF THE LATTICE DYNAMICS OF C(2 × 2)-CO ON CU(001)
Marisol Alcántara Ortigoza*, §, R. Heid§, K. P. Bohnen§, Talat S. Rahman*, Department of
Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, Institut für Festkörperphysik,
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
P-65
P-TYPE CONDUCTION IN AMORPHOUS ZN-CO-O THIN FILMS
Seonhoo Kim, J. A. Cianfrone, K.-W. Kim, and D. P. Norton, University of Florida, Dept. of
Materials Science and Engineering, 100 Rhines Hall, Gainesville, FL