Previous Journal Club Presentations

Date Speaker  Title
10/5/04

Ramesh Thamankar

 Tunneling Anisotropic Magnetoresistance: A Spin-Valve-Like Tunnel Magnetoresistance Using a Single Magnetic Layer
10/12/04 Chengquan Li Effect of Cholesterol on Molecular Transport of Organic Cations across Liposome Bilayers Probed by Second Harmonic Generation
10/19/04 Gilbert Rodriguez The Kondo Effect in the Presence of Ferromagnetism
10/26/04 Feng Chen Resonant Oscillators with Carbon-Nanotube Torsion Springs
11/2/04 Stuart Wang DNA-Templated Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor
11/9/04 Karson Bader Coherent Quantum Dynamics of a Superconducting Flux Qubit
11/16/04 Koji Yokoyama Electrically Driven Single-Cell Photonic Crystal Laser
11/23/04 Wei Liu The unfolding kinetics of ubiquitin captured with single-molecule force-clamp techniques
11/30/04 Shihu Deng  Chiral Single-Wall Gold Nanotubes
12/7/04 Richard Chiang Current-induced domain-wall switching in a ferromagnetic semiconductor structure
 1/4/05 Peng Wan The Bacterial Condensin MukBEF Compacts DNA into a Repetitive , Stable Structure
 1/18/05 Cancelled  
1/25/05 Ramesh Thamankar Ferromagnetism in one-dimensional monatomic metal chains
2/1/05 Richard Chiang Giant room-temperature
magnetoresistance in single-crystal
Fe/MgO/Fe magnetic tunnel junctions
2/8/05 Roland Kawakami Observation of the Spin Hall Effect in Semiconductors
2/15/05 Jamshid Armand  
2/22/05 Chengquan Li Short-range spectroscopic ruler based on a single-molecule optical switch
3/1/05 Stuart Wang Building Programmable Jigsaw Puzzles with RNA
Date Speaker  Title
3/30/2005 Feng Chen Approaching the Quantum Limit of a Nanomechanical Resonator
4/6/2005 Koji Yokoyama Coherent Atomic Motions in a Nanostructure Studied by
Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction
4/13/2005 Wei Liu Label-free detection of small-molecule–protein
interactions by using nanowire nanosensors
4/20/2005 Keyu Pi  
4/27/2005 Shihu Deng  
5/4/2005 Yan Li Electrical Detection of Spin Precession in a Metallic Mesoscopic Spin Valve
5/11/2005 Jason McNary The Terahertz Dielectric Response of Water in Zeolites
5/18/2005 Chengquan Li  
5/25/2005 No talk - CNID Review Meeting  
6/1/2005 Ramesh Thamankar  
6/8/2005 No talk - Finals week  
6/15/2005 Peng Wan  
6/22/2005 Chengquan Li  
6/29/2005 Lei Shu  
7/6/2005 Stuart Wang  
7/13/2005 Richard Chiang  
7/20/2005

Feng Chen

  
7/27/2005 Wei Liu  
8/3/2005 Koji Yokoyama  
8/10/2005 Jose-Rodrigo Castillo-Garza  
8/17/2005 Steven Mendoza  
8/24/2005 Shihu Deng  
     
     
     
Date Speaker  Title
10/12/2005 Wei Liu  
10/19/2005 Jason McNary Single-Molecule Torsional Pendulum
10/26/2005 Yan Li Imaging spin transport in lateral ferromagnet-semiconductorstructures
11/02/2005 Jose-Rodrigo Castillo-Garza Cavity cooling of a microlever
11/09/2005 Tung, Li-Chun "Richard" Development of x-ray nanodiffraction
instrumentation for studies of individual
nano-objects
11/16/2005 Fen Miao Electric field effect in atomically thincarbon films
11/23/2005 Thanks Giving Week  
11/30/2005 No talk - CNID Review Meeting  
12/07/2005 Kenneth James Nanowire biosensor
01/04/2006 Ramesh Thamankar  
01/11/2006 Feng Chen Ultimate speed of magnetic switching in granular recording media
01/18/2006 Gang Liu  
01/25/2006 Stuart Wang Covalently Bridging Gaps in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Conducting Molecules
02/01/2006 Canceled  
02/08/2006 Keyu Pi Spin-dependent exciton formation in #-conjugated compounds
02/15/2006 Wei-Hua Switching Magnetization of a Nanoscale Ferromagnetic Particle Using Nonlocal Spin Injection
02/22/2006

Koji Yokoyama

 Magnetic Domain-Wall Logic
03/01/2006 Jojit Torcedo Optical Detection of DNA Conformational Polymorphismon SWNT
03/08/2006 Douglas Chiu A tunable carbon nanotube electromechanical oscillator
03/15/2006 March meeting--no talk  
03/22/2006 XiaoJing Tan A Spin triplet supercurrentthrough the half-metallic ferromagnet CrO2
03/29/2006 Canceled  
04/05/2006 Pu Yong Current-induced magnetization reversal in nanopillars with perpendicular anisotropy
04/12/2006 Zafar Yasin Plasmon slot waveguides: Towards chip-scale propagation with subwavelength-scale localization
04/18/2006 Peng Wan

Direct Observation of Domain-Wall Configurations Transformed by Spin Currents

Magnetic domain wall motion triggered by an electric current
04/25/2006 Richard Chiang Spin-torque diode effect in magnetic tunnel junctions
05/02/2006 Yewhee Chye Quantum-Dot Spin-State Preparation with Near-Unity Fidelity
05/09/2006 Yan Li Folding DNA to create nanoscale shapes and patterns
05/16/2006 Canceled  
05/23/2006 Canceled  
05/30/2006 Wu Di Laser Microscopy of Tunneling Magnetoresistance in Manganite Grain-Boundary Junctions
06/06/2006 Fen Miao Temperature-dependent 0.7 structure in the conductance of cleaved-edge-overgrowth 1D wires
10/10/2006 Li, Yan Kawakami Asymmetric Scattering of Polarized Electrons by Organized Organic Films of Chiral Molecules
10/17/2006 Miao, Feng Lau Quantum supercurrent transistors in carbon nanotubes
0/24/2006 Tan, Xiaojin Tom Spin Torque, Tunnel-Current Spin Polarization, and Magnetoresistance in MgO Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
10/31/2006 Pu, Yong Shi

Dissipationless Anomalous Hall Current in the Ferromagnetic Spinel CuCr2Se4–xBrx

Anomalous Hall Heat Current and Nernst Effect in the CuCr2Se4xBrx Ferromagnet
11/7/2006 Wang, Wei-Hua Kawakami Electric field control of spin transport
11/14/2006 Glancy, Paul Beyermann DNA overwinds when stretched
11/21/2006 (OPEN/Research Talk)    
11/28/2006 Chiu, Douglas Mohideen Mechanical properties of ultrahigh-strength gold nanowires
12/5/2006      
(Winter Break)
   
1/9/2007 Wei, Peng Shi Reversible Spin Hall Effect
1/16/2007 no talk    
1/23/2007 Wan, Peng Tom Optical Frequency Mixing at Coupled Gold Nanoparticles
1/30/2007 no talk    
2/6/2007 Chang, Eric Mohideen  
2/13/2007 Yokoyama, Koji Tom Oscillatory dependence of current-driven magnetic
domain wall motion on current pulse length
2/20/2007 Liu, Gang Lau Electron transport in single wall carbon nanotube weak links in the Fabry-Perot Regime
2/27/2007

Practice APS talks

    
3/6/2007 APS March Meeting    
3/13/2007 Wang, Deqi Shi  
(Spring Break)
   
4/3/2007 open    
4/10/2007 Pi, Keyu Kawakami  
4/17/2007 Ma, Jianxing Shi  
4/24/2007 Coskun, Ulas Lau  
5/1/2007 Chiang, Richard Kawakami

 
5/8/2007 Liu, Wei Mohideen  
5/15/2007 OPEN/Research Talk    
5/22/2007 Jiang, Lai Shi  
5/29/2007 James, Ken Tom  
6/5/2007 OPEN/Research Talk    

 

 

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