Micro and Nanoscale Systems: Volume 1659 Novel Materials, Structures and Devices MRS Proceedings Series

Symposium XX, 'Microelectromechanical Systems - Materials and Devices', held from December 2 to December 4, 2013, at the MRS fall meeting, explored the fabrication, integration, characterization, and application of small-scale electro-mechanical, thermal, magnetic, fluidic, and optical sensors and actuators. Symposium SS, 'Nanowires and Nanotubes - Novel Materials, Advanced Heterostructures, Doping and Devices', was held from December 1 to December 6, 2013, at the MRS fall meeting, and explored the synthesis and properties not only of bare nanowires and nanotubes of one material, but also of more sophisticated structures such as inorganic/organic core/shell nanowires.

Part I. Microscale Systems: 1. Nucleation rate of capillary bridges between multi-asperity surfaces; 2. High resolution position monitoring of suspended MEMS towards biological and chemical sensors; 3. Low temperature fabrication and surface modification methods for fused silica micro- and nanochannels; 4. Flexible surface acoustic wave devices and its applications in microfluidics; 5. Modeling of a MEMS floating element shear sensor; 6. Submicron displacement measurements of MEMS using optical microphotographs in aqueous media: enhancement using color image processing; 7. Low temperature preparation of KNbO3 films by hydrothermal method and their characterization; 8. Self-tensioning support post design to control residual stress in MEMS fixed-fixed beams; 9. Controlling environment and contact materials to optimize ohmic microrelay lifetimes; 10. Development of a photoresponsive and electrostrictive material from P(VDF-TrFE-CFE) and TiOPc composite; 11. Flexible surface acoustic wave based temperature and humidity sensors; Part II. Nanoscale Systems: 12. 'Seeing' the resonant SPP modes confined in metal nanocavity via cathodoluminescence spectroscopy; 13. Eu-doping induced improvement on the second harmonic generation of ZnO nanowires; 14. Examining the crystal growth that influences the electronic device output from vertical arrays of ZnO nanowires; 15. Single-walled carbon nanotube growth with narrow diameter distribution from Pt catalysts by alcohol gas source method; 16. Fabrication and characterization of solution-processed carbon nanotube supercapacitors; 17. Origin of hysteresis in carbon nanotube field-effect transistors; 18. Anatase TiO2 nanowires, thin films, and surfaces: ab initio studies of electronic properties and non-adiabatic excited state dynamics; 19. Localization of excitons in thin-core multi-shell quantum well tubes; 20. Tuning band energies in a combined axial and radial GaAs/GaP heterostructure; 21. Raman spectroscopy in group IV nanowires and nanowire axial heterostructures; 22. Novel TEM sample preparation using XeF2 selective etching; 23. Magnetic field assisted electrospinning of nanofibers using solutions with PVDF and Fe3O4 nanoparticles; 24. Enhanced capacitive properties of manganese dioxide nanowires coating with polyaniline by in situ polymerization; 25. Structural stability of iron oxide nanotubes and an enhancement of photo induced current detected in the complex with fullerenols; 26. High throughput synthesis of ceramic nanofibers; 27. VLS growth of position-controlled InP nanowires and formation of radial heterostructures on mask-patterned InP substrates; 28. TiO2 nanowires as a wide bandgap Dirac material: a numerical study of impurity scattering and Anderson disorder; 29. Ultraviolet photodetector fabricated from 3D WO3 nanowires/reduced graphene oxide composite material; 30. Effects of coulomb impurity in semiconductor nanowire; 31. Observation of pseudoelastic behavior in large Cu-Ni composite multilayer nanowires; 32. Transparent conductive three-layered composite films based on carbon nanotubes with improved mechanical stability; 33. Low cost scalable self-assembly of silver nanowire thin films for surface enhanced Raman scattering application; 34. Material prospects of reconfigurable transistors (RFETs) – from silicon to germanium nanowires.