Presentations

“Structural and Energetic Properties of Nanowire-Based Energetic Nanocomposites”, Latika Menon, 

NanoEnergy 2008, Paris, France, to be presented October 2008, Invited

“Epitaxial Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of GaN Nanowire Networks”, L. Menon, Zhen Wu, 

M.G. Hahm and Yung Joon Jung, to be presented Oct. 2008, PRIME 2008, 214th ECS Meeting, Honolulu, HI

“Photoelectrochemical properties of titania nanotubes”, L. Menon, C. Richter and E. Panaitescu, 

to be presented October 2008, PRIME 2008, 214th ECS Meeting, Honolulu, HI

“Vertically Arranged Gold Nanowires: An Interface for Live Neuronal Recordings”, S. Saha, 

D. M. O'Malley, L. Menon, NSTI, Boston, June 2008

“Negative Index Metamaterials Based on Metal Nanowire Arrays Electrodeposited in Nanoporous A

lumina Templates”, Latika Menon, WenTao Lu, Adam Friedman, Steven Bennett, Donald Heiman 

and Srinivas Sridhar, NSTI, Boston, MA, June 2008

“Au Nanowire Arrays for Negative Index Metamaterial Applications” L. Menon, W. Lu, A. Friedman, 

S. Bennett, D. Heiman and S.Sridhar, PIERS conference, Hangzhou, China, March 2008.

“Negative Index Metamaterials for Superlenses Based on Metal-Dielectric Nanocomposites”, L. Menon, 

W. Lu, A. Friedman, S. Bennett, D. Heiman and S. Sridhar, APS, New Orleans, LA, March 2008

"Ultra High Aspect Ratio Titania Nanotubes in Chlorine Containing Electrolytes," by L. Menon, C. Richter 

and E. Panaitescu, ECS conference, Washington DC, Oct. 2007

"Development of Au Nanowires for Neural Recording Applications," by L. Menon, S. Saha and 

D. O'Malley, ECS conference, Washington DC, Oct. 2007

"Magnetic and Transport Properties of One-Dimensional Carbon Nanotube Based Composite Materials," 

L. Menon, A. Friedman and Y. J. Jung, ECS conference, Washington DC, Oct. 2007

"Guided Growth of GaN Nanowires Using Porous Templates," L. Menon, Z. Wu and Y. Jung, 

ECS conference, Washington DC, Oct. 2007

 

“Career: Nanoarrays – Fabrication and Device Applications”, L. Menon, NSF ECCS Workshop, University of Reno, Nevada, May 2007

 

“Nanoarrays using porous templates: Fabrication, Physics and Device Applications”, Department of Physics, SUNY Buffalo, April 2007, Invited

 

“Nanomaterials: Fabrication and Device Applications”, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Jan 2007, Invited

 

“Nanomaterials: Fabrication and Device Applications”, US Army Research Labs, Adelphi, MD, May 2006

 

“Nanoarrays: Fabrication, Physics and Device Applications”, Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, Jan. 2005, Invited

 

“Nanoarrays: Fabrication and Device Applications”, Department of Electrical Engineering, Clarkson University, NY, Jan. 2005, Invited

 

“Nanoarrays: Fabrication and Device Applications”, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, Dec. 2004, Invited

 

“Nanoarrays Using Porous Alumina: Fabrication and Device Applications”, Center for High Technology Materials, Albuquerque, NM, April 2004, Invited

 

“Self-Assembled Nanoarrays: Fabrication and Application in Devices”, Nanosummit 2003, Texas Nanotechnology Foundation, Houston, TX, July 2003, Invited

 

“Self-Assembled Nanoarrays Using Porous Alumina: Fabrication, Characterization, Physics and Devices”, Department of Physics, Trinity University, TX, Feb. 2003, Invited

 

“Self-Assembled Nanoarrays: Fabrication, Characterization, Physics and Devices”, Department of Physics and Center for Nanotechnology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, Apr. 2002, Invited

 

“Self-Assembled Nanoarrays: Fabrication, Characterization, Physics and Devices”, Department of Physics, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, Apr. 2002, Invited

 

“Self-Assembled Nanoarrays: Fabrication, Physics and Devices”, Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, Apr. 2002, Invited

 

“Self-Assembled Nanoarrays: Fabrication, Characterization, Physics and Devices”, Department of Physics, State University of New York at Binghamton, NY, Mar. 2002, Invited

 

“Self-Assembled Nanoarrays: Fabrication, Characterization, Physics and Devices”, Department of Physics, Utah State University, Logan, UT, Mar. 2002, Invited

 

“Self-Assembled Nanoarrays: Fabrication, Characterization, Physics and Devices”, Department of Physics, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA, Feb. 2002, Invited          

 

“Nanofabrication Using Porous Alumina”, Oakland University, MI, Jan. 2002, Invited

 

“Magnetic and Structural Properties of Electrochemically Self-Assembled Fe/Co Quantum Wires”, L. Menon, H. Zeng, D.J. Sellmyer and S. Bandyopadhyay, 2001 Electronic Materials Conference’, University of Notre Dame, IN, June 2001

 

“Synchronized Pinning due to Commensurability between the Vortex Lattice and an underlying Self-Assembled Periodic Magnetic Quantum Dot Array”, L. Menon, S. Bandyopadhyay, 2001 Electronic Materials Conference, University of Notre Dame, IN, June 2001           

 

“Self-assembled nanostructures”, L. Menon, S. Bandyopadhyay, The Fifth International Symposium on Quantum Confinement’, Boston, MA, Nov. 1998

 

“Gap-formation in CeRhSb”, Institut für Festkörperphysik, Darmstadt, Germany, Nov. 1996, Invited

 

“Gap-formation in CeRhSb”, Institut für Physik, Aachen, Germany, Oct. 1996, Invited

 

 

 

Student Presentation at Conferences (Undergraduate student contributions are in italics and underlined)

 

Oral

 

“The Effects of pH and Acid Type on Porous Alumina Formation”, Adam Friedman, D. Brittain and L. Menon, APS, New Orleans, LA, March 2008

 

“Photovoltaic properties of novel titanium oxide nanotubes”, E. Panaitescu, C. Richter and L. Menon, APS, New Orleans, LA, March 2008

 

“Fabrication of GaMnAs Magnetic Semiconductor Nanodot Arrays”, S. Bennett, L. Menon and D. Heiman, APS, New Orleans, LA, March 2008

 

“Nanowire Array Technologies for Investigation of Neuronal Activity”, S. Saha, J. Silverberg, D. Nagesha, D. O’Malley and L. Menon, NanoTech 2007, San Francisco, CA 2007

 

“Nanofabrication Based on Nanoporous Membranes”, Zhen Wu, C. Richter, L. Tian, D. Nagesha, S. Sridhar and L. Menon, APS, Baltimore, MD, March 2006.

 

“Nanowire-Based Energetic Nanocomposites”, C. Richter, K. Bhargava Ram, S. Patibandla, L. Menon and A. Sacco Jr., presented at ACS, Atlanta, March 2006

 

“Nanoporous Titania-Based Nanomaterials for Advanced Photochemical Devices,” C. Richter, Z. Wu, L. Menon, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov. 2006.

 

“Titania Nanotubes as Templates for the Solar Production of Hydrogen,” C. Richter, Z. Wu, R. Willey, L. Menon,  American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE) National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2006.

 

“Oriented Growth of GaN Nanowire Using Patterned Substrates,” Z. Wu, C. Richter, L. Menon, American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE) National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2006.

 

“New High Aspect-Ratio Titania Nanotubes”, E. Panaitescu, C. Richter, L. Menon, APS March Meeting, Denver, 2007

 

“Magnetic and Transport Properties of Carbon Nanotube-Based One-Dimensional Nanocomposite Materials”, Adam Friedman, Latika Menon, Jesse Silverberg, Yung Joon Jung, APS March Meeting, Denver 2007

 

“Non-Lithographic Nanofabrication Based on Plasma Etch Processing Through Nanoporous Alumina Templates” K. Bhargava Ram, S. Patibandla, L. Menon and M. Holtz, Texas APS Fall Meet, Lubbock, 2003.

 

“Novel Energetic Nanocomposites”, S. Patibandla, K. Bhargava Ram and L. Menon, Texas APS Fall Meet, Lubbock, 2003.

 

 

 

Selected Poster Presentations

 

“Synthesis and Crystallization Conditions of Titanium Oxide Nanotubes” Suketu Patel, Eugen Panaitescu and L. Menon, NU Research Expo March 2008, Selected to be presented at the 6th Annual Colonial Academic Alliance Undergraduate Research Conference at Northeastern University

 

“Nanowire Array Technologies for Investigation of Neural Activity”, Engineering Cell Biology Conference, August 2007, Sucharita Saha, Donald M. O'Malley and Latika Menon

 

“Development of Nanoparticle and Nanowire Technologies to treat Spinal Cord Injury”, Research Symposium, NU, June 2007, Sucharita Saha, Mansoor Amiji, Latika Menon and Donald M. O'Malley

 

“Nanowire Array Technologies for Investigation of Neural Activity”, Sucharita Saha, Jesse Silverberg, D. Nagesha, S. Sridhar, D. O'Malley and Latika Menon, NSTI Nanotech 2007 Conference, May 2007.

 

“Non-lithographic Nanofabrication Using Porous Alumina Membranes”, J. Silverberg, Z. Wu and L. Menon, Women in Science and Engineering Expo, Northeastern University, April 2006

J. Silverberg Received First Prize for Best Undergraduate Poster

 

“Ignition in Al-Fe₂O₃ Nanocomposites”, C. Richter, K. Bhargava Ram, S. Patibandla, L. Menon and A. Sacco, Jr., MRS Meeting, Boston, Dec. 2005

 

“Electrodeposited Nanowire Arrays in Porous Membranes”, Madhavi Minnamreddy, Z. Wu, C. Richter and L. Menon, presented at Women in Science and Engineering Expo, April 2006.

 

“Nanoporous Alumina Membranes”, D. Rosenbladt, K. Bhargava Ram, S. Patibandla, S. I. Shkuratov and L. Menon, presented at NanoSummit 2004, Texas Nanotechnology Foundation, 2004.

 

“Non-Lithographic Nanoarrays Using Porous Alumina”, K. Bhargava Ram, Lu Tian and L. Menon, presented at NanoSummit 2004, Texas Nanotechnology Foundation, 2004.

 

“Ignition Properties of Al/Fe₂O₃ Nanocomposites”, S. Patibandla, K. Bhargava Ram and L. Menon, presented at NanoSummit 2004, Texas Nanotechnology Foundation, 2004.