MTL Annual Research Report 2006

Molecular & Nanotechnology

• Studies of Field Ionization Using PECVD-grown CNT Tips
  B. Adeoti, A.I. Akinwande
  Sponsorship: DARPA
• Combinatorial Sensing Arrays of Phthalocyanine-based Field-effect Transistors
  M. Bora, D. Schut (HP), M.A. Baldo
• Nanoelectromechanical Switches and Memories
  K.M. Milaninia, M.A. Baldo
  Sponsorship: MARCO MSD, ISN
• Growth of Carbon Nanotubes for Use in Origami Supercapacitors
  H.J. In, S. Kumar, Y. Shao-Horn, G. Barbastathis
  Sponsorship: MARCO IFC, ISN, NSF SGER
• Self-Alignment of Folded, Thin-Membranes via Nanomagnet Attractive Forces
  A. Nichol, W.J. Arora, F.J. Castano, G. Barbastathis
  Sponsorship: ISN, MARCO IFC
• Control System Design for the Nanostructured Origami™ 3D Nanofabrication Process
  P. Stellman, G. Barbastathis
  Sponsorship: NSF, MARCO IFC, ISN
• Tomographic Interferometry for Detection of Nafion® Membrane Degradation in PEM Fuel Cells
  L. Waller, J. Kim, G. Barbastathis, Y. Shao-Horn
  Sponsorship: DuPont-MIT Alliance
• Modelling the Optical Properties of Superconducting Nanowire Single-photon Detectors
  V. Anant, A.J. Kerman, J.K. Yang, E.A. Dauler, K.M. Rosfjord, K.K. Berggren
  Sponsorship: United States Air Force
• Using Optical Mixtures of Materials to Control Index, Speed of Light, and Transparency
  V. Anant, A.F. Abouraddy, K.K. Berggren
  Sponsorship: United States Air Force
• Increasing Detection Efficiency of Superconducting Nanowire Single-photon Detectors
  K.M. Rosfjord, J.K.W. Yang, E.A. Dauler, A.J. Kerman, V. Anant, K.K. Berggren
  Sponsorship: United States Air Force
• Enhancing Etch Resistance of Nanostructured Spin-on-Glass Electron Resist via Post-Develop Electron Curing
  J.K.W. Yang, V. Anant, K.K. Berggren
  Sponsorship: Lincoln Laboratory
• Robust Shadow-Mask Evaporation via Lithography-Controlled Undercut
  B. Cord, C. Dames, J. Aumentado (NIST), K.K. Berggren
  Sponsorship: QuaCGR Fellowship, AFOSR
• Pattern Generation Using Multi-Step Room-Temperature Nanoimprint Lithography
  S. Harrer (Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany), J.K.W. Yang, F. Ilievski, C.A. Ross, K.K. Berggren
  Sponsorship: AFOSR, Karl Chang Innovation Fund at MIT
• Modeling of Electrical and Thermal Response of Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors (SNSPD)
  J.K. Yang, K.K. Berggren
  Sponsorship: Lincoln Laboratory
• Quantum Dot Photodetectors Deposited via Microcontact Printing
  A.C. Arango, D.C. Oertel, M.G. Bawendi, V. Bulovic
  Sponsorship: ISN
• Microcontact Printing of J-Aggregate Thin Films for Photonic Devices
  M.S. Bradley, J.R. Tischler, V. Bulovic
  Sponsorship: DARPA, NDSEG, MIT NSF MRSEC
• Measuring Thermal and Thermoelectric Properties of Single Nanowires and Carbon Nanotubes
  C. Dames, C.T. Harris, A. Muto, G. Chen (in coll. with M.S. Dresselhaus, MIT, Z.F. Ren, Boston College)
  Sponsorship: JPL, NSF
• Nanocomposites as Thermoelectric Materials
  H. Lee, Q. Hao, M. Tang, M.S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen (in coll. with Z.F. Ren, Boston College, J.-P. Fluerial, JPL, P. Gogna, JPL)
  Sponsorship: NASA, Intel, Nanolab SBIR
• Flux and Force due to Near-field Thermal Radiation
  D. Chen, L. Hu, A. Narayanaswamy, G. Chen (in coll. with J.D. Joannopoulos)
  Sponsorship: ONR, MURI (through UC Berkeley)
• CNT Assembly by Nanopelleting
  S.D. Gouda, S. Kim, S.-G. Kim
  Sponsorship: Intelligent Microsystems Center
• Integrated Carbon Nanotube Sensors
  K.-J. Lee, T.S. Cho, A.P. Chandrakasan, J. Kong
  Sponsorship: Intel, MARCO IFC
• Templated Assembly by Selective Removal
  S. Jung, F. Eid, C. Livermore
  Sponsorship: NSF, 3M Corporation
• Vibrational, Thermodynamic, and Transport Properties of Carbon Nanotubes from Density-functional Perturbation Theory
  N. Bonini, N. Marzari
  Sponsorship: MARCO IFC, ISN
• Static Dielectric Response of Single-wall and Multi-wall Carbon Nanotubes from First-principles
  B. Kozinsky, N. Marzari
  Sponsorship: MARCO IFC, NSF
• Niobium Superconducting Persistent-Current Qubits with Deep Submicron Josephson Junctions
  D.M. Berns, W.D. Oliver, S.O. Valenzuela, T.P. Orlando, V. Bolkhovsky, E. Macedo
• Mach-Zehnder Interferometry in a Persistent-Current Qubit
  W.D. Oliver, Y. Yu, J.C. Lee, K.K. Berggren, L.S. Levitov, T.P. Orlando
• Coherent Quasi-classical Dynamics of a Niobium Persistent-Current Qubit
  D.M. Berns, S.O. Valenzuela, W.D. Oliver, L.S. Levitov, T.P. Orlando
• Resonant Readout of a Persistent Current Qubit
  J.C. Lee, W.D. Oliver, T.P. Orlando
  Sponsorship: DURINT, ARDA, NSF
• Type-II Quantum Computing Using Superconducting Qubits
  D. Berns, W.M. Kaminsky, B. Cord, K.K. Berggren, W.D. Oliver, T.P. Orlando (in coll. with J. Yepez, Air Force Laboratories)
  Sponsorship: AFOSR, Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
• Scalable Superconducting Architecture for Adiabatic Quantum Computation
  W.M. Kaminsky, S. Lloyd, T.P. Orlando
  Sponsorship: Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
• Fabrication Methods for Adiabatic Quantum Computing Devices
  B. Cord, W. Kaminsky, T.P. Orlando, K.K. Berggren
  Sponsorship: Quantum Computing Graduate Research Fellowship, AFOSR
• Probing Decoherence with Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Superconductive Quantum Circuits
  K. Murali, W.D. Oliver, T.P. Orlando (in coll. with Z. Dutton, Naval Research Laboratory)
  Sponsorship: DURINT, ARDA
• Magnetoelastic Behavior of Magnetic Nanostructures
  E. Friend, C.A. Ross, R.C. O’Handley
  Sponsorship: NSF
• Templated Self-assembly of Block Copolymers for Nanolithography
  C.A. Ross, H.I. Smith, F. Ilievski, V. Chuang, Y.S. Jung
  Sponsorship: NSF, CMSE, Singapore-MIT Alliance, SRC
• Scanning Beam Interference Lithography
  M. Ahn, C.-H. Chang, R. Heilmann, J. Montoya, Y. Zhao, M.L. Schattenburg
  Sponsorship: NASA, Plymouth Grating Laboratory
• Nanofabricated Reflection and Transmission Gratings
  M. Ahn, C.-H Chang, R. Heilmann, J. Montoya, Y. Zhao, M.L. Schattenburg
  Sponsorship: NASA
• Nanometrology
  R. Heilmann, J. Montoya, Y. Zhao, D. Trumper, M.L. Schattenburg
  Sponsorship: NSF
• Building Three-dimensional Nanostructures via Membrane Folding
  W.J. Arora, A.J. Nichol, G. Barbastathis, H.I. Smith
  Sponsorship: ISN
• Fabrication of Nanostructured Optical Fiber-to-Chip Couplers
  R. Barreto, M. Defosseux, T. Barwicz, A.M. Khilo, M. Fan, M.A. Popovic, P.T. Rakich, M. Dahlem, E.P. Ippen, F.X. Kaertner, H.I. Smith
  Sponsorship: Pirelli S.p.A
• Polarization-insensitive Optical Add-drop Multiplexers in Silicon Nitride
  T. Barwicz, M.R. Watts, M.A. Popovic, P.T. Rakich, E.P. Ippen, F.X. Kaertner, H.I. Smith
  Sponsorship: Pirelli S.p.A
• Nanofabrication of Reconfigurable Optical Add-drop Multiplexers in Silicon
  T. Barwicz, M.A. Popovic, F. Gan, P.T. Rakich, M. Dahlem, E.P. Ippen, F.X. Kaertner, H.I. Smith
  Sponsorship: Pirelli S.p.A
• Nanofabrication of Optical Microring Filter Banks for Ultra-fast Analog-to-Digital Converters
  C.W. Holzwarth, T. Barwicz, M.A. Popovic, P.T. Rakich, E.P. Ippen, F.X. Kärtner, H.I. Smith
  Sponsorship: DARPA
• Imprint Lithography with Multilevel Alignment via Interferometric-Spatial-Phase Imaging
  E.E. Moon, H.I. Smith
  Sponsorship: Molecular Imprints, Inc.
  
• Interference Lithography
  T.B. O'Reilly, T. Savas, H.I. Smith
  Sponsorship: Internal funds
• Immersion-Achromatic-Interference Lithography
  T.B. O'Reilly, M. Walsh, T. Savas, H.I. Smith
  Sponsorship: Singapore-MIT Alliance
• Three-dimensional Photonic Crystals by Membrane Assembly
  A. Patel, J.D. Joannopoulos, H.I. Smith
  Sponsorship: NSF
• Absorbance-Modulation Optical Lithography
  R. Menon, S. Tsai, H.I. Smith
  Sponsorship: Internal funds
• Zone-Plate-Array Lithography (ZPAL)
  R. Menon, S. Tsai, H.I. Smith
  Sponsorship: DARPA, NSF
• Spatial-phase-locked E-beam Lithography
  H.I. Smith, F. Zhang, M. Mondol
  Sponsorship: No external sponsor
• Controlled Assembly of 20-nm-diameter Gold Nanoparticles into Nanogaps using AC Dielectrophoresis
  R. Barsotti, M. Vahey, R. Wartena, J. Voldman, Y. Chiang, F. Stellacci
  Sponsorship: Singapore-MIT Alliance, NDSEG Fellowship
• Carbon Nanotube Assembly for Interconnect and Device Applications
  T.M. Wu, B. Long, B. Wunsch, F. Stellacci
  Sponsorship: MARCO IFC
• Catalyst Engineering and Nanowire Growth Mechanisms
  S. Boles, O. Nayfeh, E.A. Fitzgerald, D.A. Antoniadis, C.V. Thompson
  Sponsorship: Singapore-MIT Alliance
• Templated Self-Assembly for Nano-particle Organization: Solid State Dewetting
  A.L. Giermann, J. Ye, R. Mönig, C.V. Thompson
  Sponsorship: NSF, Singapore-MIT Alliance
• Catalyst Engineering and Carbon Nanotube Growth Mechanisms
  G.D. Nessim, J S. Kim, D. Acquaviva, A.J. Hart, C.V. Thompson
  Sponsorship: MARCO IFC, Singapore-MIT Alliance
• Templated Self-Assembly for Nano-Particle Organization: Templated, Ordered Porous Alumina Templates
  J. Oh, C.V. Thompson
  Sponsorship: MARCO IFC, Singapore-MIT Alliance
• Templated Dewetting of Nano-Particle Solutions
  S.-W. Chang, C.V. Thompson
  Sponsorship: Singapore-MIT Alliance
• Surface Mound Formation and Stress Evolution during Growth of High-Mobility Metal Films
  R. Moenig, J. Leib, A.R. Takahashi, C.V. Thompson
  Sponsorship: NSF
• Stress and Structure Evolution Film Formation through Island Coalescence
  A.R. Takahashi, J. Leib, R. Moenig, C.V. Thompson
  Sponsorship: NSF
• Hybrid Carbon Nanotube-Composite Architectures
  E.J. García, A.J. Hart, K. Sorensen, B.L. Wardle (in coll. with A.H. Slocum)
  Sponsorship: La Caixa Foundation

for further reading...

• Fabrication of Germanium-on-Insulator by Means of Wafer Bonding and Layer Transfer
• Towards MOS Memory Devices Containing 1 nm Silicon Nanoparticles
• Surface Electromigration and Void Dynamics in Copper Interconnects
• Bonded Copper Interconnects and Integrated Microchannels for 3D Integrated Circuits
• A Double-gated CNF Tip Array for Electron-impact Ionization and Field Ionization
• A MEMS Electrometer for Gas Sensing
  
• A Single-Gated CNT Field-Ionizer Array with Open Architecture
  
• A MEMS Quadrupole that Uses a Meso-scaled DRIE-patterned Spring Assembly System
  
• Aligning and Latching Nano-structured Membranes in 3D Micro-Structures
• Microfluidic Synthesis and Surface Engineering of Colloidal Nanoparticles
• A Nanoscanning Platform for Biological Assays
• Self-powered Wireless Monitoring System Using MEMS Piezoelectric Micro Power Generator
• Atomic Force Microscopy with Inherent Disturbance Suppression for Nanostructure Imaging
• A Low Contact Resistance MEMS-Relay
• Organic Photovoltaics with External Antennas
  
• Optical Models of Organic Photovoltaic Cells
  
• Percolation Model of Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors
• Energy Transfer from an Organic Phosphorescent Thin Film to a Monolayer of Quantum Dots
• Charge Dynamics in Organic Heterojunction Lateral Photoconductors
• Packing of Quantum Dot Monolayers
  
• Energy Disorder and Device Performance in Organic Electronics
• Resonant Cavity Quantum Dot LEDs
  
• Patterning Micron-Sized Features of Quantum Dots and Metal Electrodes

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