Jaeger Group - Recent Publications

Selected Recent Publications on Granular Materials (click here for reviews), on Nanocrystal Arrays, on Copolymer Thin Films, Amyloid Fibers, and Superconducting Vortex Dynamics

Granular Materials

John R. Royer, Eric I. Corwin, Bryan Conyers, Andrew Flior, Mark L. Rivers, Peter J. Eng, and Heinrich M. Jaeger, “Birth and growth of a granular jet”, Phys. Rev. E 78, 011305 (2008). pdf file

Xiang Cheng, Lei Xu, Aaron Patterson, Heinrich M. Jaeger and Sidney Nagel, "Towards the zero-surface-tension limit in granular fingering instability", Nature Physics 4, 234 (2008). pdf file

Xiang Cheng, German Varas, Daniel Citron, Heinrich M. Jaeger, and Sidney R. Nagel, “Collective behavior in a granular jet: Emergence of a liquid with zero surface-tension Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 188001 (2007). pdf file

John R. Royer, Eric I. Corwin, Peter J. Eng, Heinrich M. Jaeger, “Gas-Mediated Impact Dynamics in Fine-Grained Granular Materials”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 038003 (2007). pdf file

Xiang Cheng, Jeremy B. Lechman, Antonio Fernandez-Barbero, Gary S. Grest, Heinrich M. Jaeger, Greg S. Karczmar, Matthias E. Möbius, and Sidney R. Nagel, “The Three-Dimensional Shear in Granular Flow ”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 038001 (2006). pdf file

John R. Royer, Eric I. Corwin, Andrew Flior, Maria-Luisa Cordero, Mark L. Rivers, Peter J. Eng and Heinrich M. Jaeger, "Formation of granular jets observed by high-speed X-ray radiography", Nature Physics 1, 164 - 167 (1 December 2005). pdf file

Eric I. Corwin, Heinrich M. Jaeger, Sidney R. Nagel, "Structural signature of jamming in granular media", Nature 435, 1075-1078 (23 June 2005). pdf file

Matthias E. Möbius, Xiang Cheng, Peter Eshuis, Gregory Karczmar, Sidney R. Nagel, and Heinrich M. Jaeger, “The Effect of Air on Granular Size Separation in a Vibrated Granular Bed”, Phys. Rev. E 72, 011304, (2005) / cond-mat/0502622.

Matthias E. Möbius, Xiang Cheng, Gregory Karczmar, Sidney R. Nagel, and Heinrich Jaeger, “Intruders in the Dust: Air-Driven Granular Size Separation”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 93, 198001 (2004).

Nathan W. Mueggenburg, Heinrich M. Jaeger, Sidney R. Nagel, "Stress transmission through three-dimensional ordered granular arrays", Phys. Rev. E 66, 031304 (2002). pdf file

Matthias E. Möbius, Benjamin E. Lauderdale, Sidney R. Nagel, and Heinrich M. Jaeger, "Size Separation of Granular Particles," Nature 414, 270 (2001). pdf file

Daniel M. Mueth, "Measurements of Particle Dynamics in Slow, Dense Granular Couette Flow", Phys. Rev. E 67, 011304 (2003). pdf file

Daniel L. Blair, Nathan W. Mueggenburg, Adam H. Marshall, Heinrich M. Jaeger, and Sidney R. Nagel, "Force distributions in 3D granular assemblies: Effects of packing order and inter-particle friction", Phys. Rev. E 63, 041304 (2001). pdf file

D. M. Mueth, G. F. Debregeas, G. S. Karczmar, P. J. Eng, S. R. Nagel, and H. M. Jaeger, "Signatures of granular microstructure in dense shear flows," Nature 406, 385 - 389 (2000). pdf file

C. Josserand, A. Tkachenko, D. M. Mueth, and H. M. Jaeger, "Memory effects in shaken granular material," Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3632-3635 (2000). pdf file

D. M. Mueth, H. M. Jaeger, and S. R. Nagel, "Force Distribution in a Granular Medium," Physical Review E 57, 3164-3169 (1998).

B. Knight, E. R. Nowak, E. Ben-Naim, H. M. Jaeger, and S. R. Nagel, "Fluctuations in the Density of a Granular Material During Vibration," Phys. Rev. E 57, 1971 (1998). pdf file

the following are review articles:

Heinrich M. Jaeger, "Sand, Jams, and Jets", Physics World 18, 34-39 (2005). pdf file

Heinrich M. Jaeger, Troy Shinbrot, and Paul Umbanhowar, "Does the granular matter?", Frontiers of Science Symposium 1999, Proc. Nat'l Acad. Sci. 97, 12959 (2000). pdf file

Heinrich M. Jaeger, Sidney R. Nagel, and Robert P. Behringer, "Granular Solids, Liquids, and Gases", Rev. Mod. Phys. 68, 1259-1273 (1996). pdf file

Metallic Nanocrystals and Self-Assembled Nanocrystal Arrays

T. B. Tran, I. S. Beloborodov, J. Hu, X.-M. Lin, T. F. Rosenbaum, and H. M. Jaeger, “Sequential tunneling and inelastic cotunneling in nanoparticle arrays”, Phys. Rev. B 78, 075437 (2008). pdf file

Klara E. Mueggenburg, Xiao-Min Lin, Rodney H. Goldsmith, and Heinrich M. Jaeger, “Elastic membranes of close-packed nanoparticle arrays”, Nature Materials 6, 656 - 660 (2007). pdf file

Michael G. Constantinides, Heinrich M. Jaeger, Xuefa Li, Jin Wang, and Xiao-Min Lin, “The formation and characterization of three-dimensional gold nanocrystal superlattices”, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie 222, 595-600 (2007).

Terry P. Bigioni, Xiao-Min Lin, Toan T. Nguyen, Eric I. Corwin, Thomas A. Witten and Heinrich M. Jaeger, "Kinetically driven self assembly of highly ordered nanoparticle monolayers", Nature Materials 5, 265–270 (2006). pdf file / suppl. material

T. B. Tran, I. S. Beloborodov, X.-M. Lin, V. M. Vinokur, and H. M. Jaeger, “Multiple Cotunneling in Large Quantum Dot Arrays”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076806 (2005). pdf file

Klara Elteto, Xiao-Min Lin, and Heinrich M. Jaeger, “Fabrication and Transport Properties of Quasi-1D Arrays of Gold Nanocrystals”, Phys. Rev. B 71, 205412 (2005). / cond-mat/0502675

Klara Elteto, Eduard G. Antonyan, T.T. Nguyen, and Heinrich M. Jaeger , “A model for the onset of transport in systems with distributed thresholds for conduction”, Phys. Rev. B 71, 064206 (2005). pdf file

Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Xiao-Min Lin, Klara Elteto, T. F. Rosenbaum, and Heinrich M. Jaeger, “Percolating Through Networks of Random Thresholds: Finite Temperature Electron Tunneling in Metal Nanocrystal Arrays”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 076801 (2004). pdf file

Xiao-Min Lin, Raghuveer Parthasarathy and Heinrich M. Jaeger, “Self-Assembly and Physical Properties of Nanocrystal Arrays”, Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Marcel Dekker, 2004). p. 2245-2258

Sang-Kee Eah, Heinrich M. Jaeger, Norbert F. Scherer, Xiao-Min Lin, Gary P. Wiederrecht, “Femtosecond Transient Absorption Dynamics of Close-packed Gold Nanocrystal Monolayer Arrays”, Chem. Phys. Lett. 386, 390-395 (2004).

Lin, X. M., H. M. Jaeger, C. M. Sorensen. and K. J. Klabunde. "Formation of Highly Long-Range-Ordered Nanocrystal Superlattices on Silicon Nitride Substrates", J. Phys. Chem. B 105, 3353 (2001). pdf file

Lin, X. M., .R. Parthasarathy. and H. M. Jaeger, "Direct Patterning of Self-assembled Nanocrystal Monolayer by Electron Beam Lithography", Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 1915 (2001). pdf file

Parthasarathy, R., X.-M. Lin, and H. M. Jaeger, "Electronic Transport in Metal Nanocrystals Arrays: The Effect of Structural Disorder on Scaling Behavior", Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 186807 (2001). pdf file

Diblock Copolymer Ultrathin Films

Ward A. Lopes, "Nonequilibrium self-assembly of metals on diblock copolymer templates", Phys. Rev, E 65, 031606 (2002). pdf file

Ward A. Lopes and Heinrich M. Jaeger, "Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Metal Nanostructures on Diblock Copolymer Scaffolds", Nature 414, 735 (2001). pdf file

B. Lin, T. L. Morkved, M. Meron, Z. Huang, P. J. Viccaro, H. M. Jaeger, S. M. Williams, and M. L. Schlossman, "X-ray studies of polymer/gold nanocomposites," Journal of Applied Physics 85, 3180 (1999).

T. L. Morkved, W. A. Lopes, J. Hahm, S. J. Sibener, and H. M. Jaeger, "Silicon Nitride Membrane Substrates for the Investigation of Local Structure in Polymer Thin Films", Polymer 39, 3871 (1998).

R. W. Zehner, W. A. Lopes, T. L. Morkved, H. Jaeger, and L. R. Sita, "Selective Decoration of a Phase-Separated Diblock Copolymer with Thiol-Passivated Gold Nanocrystals," Langmuir 14, 241-244 (1998).

J. Hahm, W. A. Lopes, H. M. Jaeger and S. J. Sibener, "Defect Evolution in Ultrathin Films of PS-b-PMMA Diblock Copolymers Observed by Atomic Force Microscopy", J. Chem. Phys.109, 10111 (1998).

T. L. Morkved and H. M. Jaeger, "Thickness-Induced Morphology Changes in Lamellar Diblock Copolymer Ultrathin Films", Europhys. Lett. 40, 643 (1997). pdf file

T. L. Morkved, M. Lu, A. M. Urbas, E. E. Ehrichs, H. M. Jaeger, P. Mansky, and T. P. Russell, "Local Control of Microdomain Orientation in Diblock Copolymer Thin Films with Electric Fields," Science 273, 931-933 (1996).

Assembly and Modification of Protein Fibers

Thomas Scheibel, Raghuveer Parthasarathy, George Sawicki, Heinrich Jaeger, and Susan Lindquist, “Conducting nanowires built by controlled self-assembly of amyloid fibers and selective metal deposition”, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 100, 4527-4532 (2003).

Superconducting Vortex Dynamics

A. W. Smith, H. M. Jaeger, T. F. Rosenbaum, A. M. Petrean, W. K. Kwok, and G. W. Crabtree, "Vortex flow and transverse flux screening at the Bose glass transition," Physical Review Letters 84, 4974-4977 (2000). pdf file

S. Anders, A. W. Smith, R. Besseling, P. H. Kes, and H. M. Jaeger, "Static and Dynamic shear response in ultrathin layers of vortex matter," Physical Review B 62, 15195-15199 (2000). pdf file

S. Anders, A. W. Smith, H. M. Jaeger, R. Besseling, P. H. Kes, and E. v. d. Drift, "Commensurability effects and fluctuations of vortex flow in mesoscopic channels," Physica C 332, 35-39 (2000).

A. W. Smith, H. M. Jaeger, T. F. Rosenbaum, W. K. Kwok, and G. W. Crabtree, "Signature of the Matching Field in Bose-glass Melting Line of an Untwinned YBa2Cu3O7-d Single Crystal," Physical Review B 59, R11665-11667 (1999).

R. G. van Veen, A. H. Verbruggen, E. v. d. Drift, S. Radelaar, S. Anders, and H. M. Jaeger, "Micron-sized Hall probes on a Si/SiGe heterostructure as a tool to study vortex dynamics in high-temperature superconducting crystals," Review of Scientific Instruments 70, 1767-17770 (1999).