PHYSTuesday, April 8, 2008

8:00 AM-12:00 PM Morial Convention Center -- Rm. 345, Oral
Spectroscopy, Chemistry, and Imaging through Nanophotonics
Devices, Materials, and Applications
Organizers:Stephen K. Gray
Gary P. Wiederrecht
Presiding:Shengli Zou
8:00 AMSingle nanowire lasers: Toward a continuously tunable design
Robert M. Onorato, Justin C. Johnson, Peidong Yang, Richard J. Saykally
8:40 AMMultiple exciton generation in semiconductor quantum dots and applications to third generation solar photon conversion
Arthur J. Nozik, Randy J. Ellingson, Matthew C. Beard, Joseph Luther, Justin C. Johnson, Matthew D Law, Qing Song
9:20 AMWhy has doping been difficult in semiconductor nanocrystals?
David J. Norris
10:00 AMIntermission
10:20 AMSurface modification of gold-silica nanoshells for cancer therapy
Sandra Whaley Bishnoi, Yu-Jen Lin
10:40 AMUltrafast response of semiconductor nanocrystals to high-photon energy absorption: Multiexcitons from a single photon
Richard D. Schaller, Milan Sykora, Jeffrey M. Pietryga, Victor I. Klimov
11:00 AMSize-dependent intrinsic radiative decay rates of silicon nanocrystals at large confinement energies
Milan Sykora, Lorenzo Mangolini, Richard D. Schaller, Uwe Kortshagen, David Jurbergs, Victor Klimov
11:20 AMNanoparticle enhanced blue emission
Xichen Cai, Kelechi C Anyaogu, Douglas C. Neckers
11:40 AMBuilding a qualitative and quantitative understanding of optoelectronic processes in materials for solar energy conversion: From molecules to material
Andre J. Gesquiere, Daeri Tenery, Zhongjian Hu

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