RECENT ADVANCES IN MICRO AND NANO CONTACTS
October 23 & 24, 2006
In recent years, significant progress has been made in the fundamental understanding of the science of contacts and contact-induced phenomena at the micron- and nano-scales. This two-day workshop will bring together a group of scientists working on problems related to mechanical and electrical contacts. It will focus primarily on the fundamentals of charge transport across interfaces, adhesion and deformation at small scales, material transport, and functional applications of contacts.
The two-day workshop will be held at the Princeton Institute of Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM)/Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM) housed at Bowen Hall, Princeton University. It will be held on October 23rd & 24th 2006. It will bring together researchers working on the fundamentals and applications of small contacts. The workshop will include sessions on: modeling; experimental techniques; contact physics; contact mechanics; materials transport; processing and applications.
| Stephen Forrest (University of Michigan) | Making Organic Devices And Nanostructures Via Contact Printing And Other Devices | Herbert Hui (Cornell University) | Modeling of Small Contacts | |
| David Srolovitz (Yeshiva University) | Atomic Simulations of Contacts and Material Transfer | Christof Woll (Bochum University) | Contacts in Organic Electronics Functions | |
| Mark Hybertsen (Columbia University) | Renormalization of Molecular Electronic Levels at Metal-Molecule Interfaces | Annabella Selloni (Princeton University) | Modeling of Molecular Junctions | |
| Xiaoyang Zhu (University of Minnesota) | Electron Tunneling Through Monolayers | Roberto Car (Princeton University) | Theory of Electron Transport through Molecular | |
| David Cahen (Weizmann Institute) | Understanding electronic transport across molecules: Are We Asking Relevant Questions and Doing Relevant Experiments? | John Bassani (University of Pennsylvania) | Transitions in the Mechanics of Adhesion | |
| Antoine Kahn (Princeton University) | Electronic structure of organic interfaces: From molecular monolayer to multi-layer films | Wolé Soboyejo (Princeton University) | Modeling of Small Contacts: From Thin Films to Biological Cells | |
| Kyle Vanderlick (Princeton University) | Interfacial Force Microscopy as a Tool for Probing Contacts: Two Case Studies | Giacinto Scoles (Princeton University) | Electron Tunneling in Nanocontacts: An Experimental Approach | |
| Pradeep Guduru (Brown University) | Contacts of Rough Surfaces | Cherie Kagan (IBM) | Applications of Molecular Electronics |
