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Melosh Group Publications

                               

• Plasmonic Energy Collection through Hot Carrier Extraction.
  Fuming Wang and Nicholas A. Melosh. Nano Letters. 11, pp. 5426–5430 (2011)
  
  
• Theoretical analysis of hot electron collection in metal-insulator-metal devices.
  Fuming Wang and Nicholas A. Melosh. Proc. SPIE 8111, 81110O (2011)
  
  

• Rapid Spatial and Temporal Controlled Signal Delivery Over Large Cell Culture Areas.
  Jules J. VanDersarl, Alexander M. Xu and Nicholas A. Melosh. Lap Chip. 11, pp. 3057-3063 (2011)
  

• Molecular Structure Influences the Stability of Membrane Penetrating Biointerfaces.
  Benjamin D. Almquist and Nicholas A. Melosh. Nano Letters. 11(5), pp. 2066-2070 (2011)
  

• Nanoscale Patterning Controls Inorganic-Membrane Interface Structure.
  Benjamin D. Almquist, Piyush Verma, Wei Cai and Nicholas A. Melosh. Nanoscale. 3(2), pp. 391-400 (2011)
  

• Enzyme assays: Detection by failure.
  Nicholas A. Melosh. Nature Chemistry. 2, pp. 1006-7 (2010)
  

• Effects of Tip-Induced Material Reorganization in Dynamic Force Spectroscopy.
  Elizabeth A. Hager-Barnard and Nicholas A. Melosh. Phys. Rev. E. 82, 031911 (2010)
  

• Photon-Enhanced Thermionic Emission for Solar Concentrator Systems.
  Jared W. Schwede, Igor Bargatin, Daniel C. Riley, Brian E. Hardin, Samuel J. Rosenthal, Yun Sun, Felix Schmitt, Piero Pianetta, Roger T. Howe, Zhi-Xun Shen and Nicholas A. Melosh. Nature Materials. 9, pp. 762-767 (2010)
  
  
• Gigaohm Resistance Membrane Seals with Stealth Probe Electrodes.
  Piyush Verma and Nicholas A. Melosh. Applied Physics Letters. 97(3), 033704 (2010)
  
  
• An Electrostatic Model for DNA Surface Hybridization.
  Ian Y. Wong and Nicholas A. Melosh. Biophysical Journal. 98(12), pp. 2954-2963 (2010)
  
  
• Dynamic actuation using nano-bio interfaces.
  Ian Y. Wong, Benjamin D. Almquist and Nicholas A. Melosh. Materials Today. 13(6), pp. 14-22 (2010)



• Continuum model of mechanical interactions between biological cells and artificial nanostructures.
  Piyush Verma, Ian Y. Wong and Nicholas A. Melosh. Biointerphases. 5(2), 37 (2010)
  

• Fusion of Biomimetic Stealth Probes into Lipid Bilayer Cores.
  Benjamin D. Almquist and Nicholas A. Melosh. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 107(13), pp. 5815-5820 (2010)
  see also "Research News: Nanoscale 'Stealth' Probes." Materials Today. 13(5), 11 (2010).
  

• Single-Step Process to Reconstitute Cell Membranes on Solid Supports.
  Morgan D. Mager and Nicholas A. Melosh. Langmuir. 26(7), pp. 4635–4638 (2010)

• Directed Hybridization and Melting of DNA Linkers using Counterion-Screened Electric Fields.
  Ian Y. Wong and Nicholas A. Melosh. Nano Letters. 9(10), 3521 (2009)

• Determining orientational structure of diamondoid thiols attached to silver using near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy.
  Trevor M. Willey, Jonathan R.I. Lee, Jason D. Fabbri, Dongbo Wang, Michael H. Nielsen, Jason C. Randel, Peter R. Schreiner, Andrey A. Fokin, Boryslav A. Tkachenko, Natalie A. Fokina, Jeremy E.P. Dahl, Robert M.K. Carlson, Louis J. Terminello, Nicholas A. Melosh and Tony van Buuren. Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena. 172, 69 (2009)
  

• Identification and Passivation of Defects in Self-Assembled Monolayers.
  Michael J. Preiner and Nicholas A. Melosh. Langmuir. 25(5), 2585 (2009)
  

• Origin of the Monochromatic Photoemission Peak in Diamondoid Monolayers.
  William A. Clay, Zhi Liu, Wanli Yang, Jason D. Fabbri, Jeremy E. Dahl, Robert M. K. Carlson, Yun Sun, Piero A. Pianetta, Nicholas Melosh, and Zhi-Xun Shen. Nano Letters. 9(1), 57 (2009)

• Nanopore-Spanning Lipid Bilayers for Controlled Chemical Release.
  Morgan D. Mager and Nicholas A. Melosh. Advanced Materials. 20, 4423 (2008)
  



• Diamondoids as low-K dielectric materials.
  W. A. Clay, T. Sasagawa, M. Kelly, J. E. Dahl, R. M. K. Carlson, N. Melosh, and Z.-X. Shen. Applied Physics Letters. 93, 172901 (2008)

• Formation and Characterization of Fluid Lipid Bilayers on Alumina.
  Morgan D. Mager, Benjamin Almquist and Nicholas A. Melosh. Langmuir. 24(22), 12734 (2008)

• Interfacial effects in thin films of polymeric semiconductors.
  Jonathan Rivnay, Leslie H. Jimison, Michael F. Toney, Michael Preiner, Nicholas A. Melosh and Alberto Salleo. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures. 26(4), 1454 (2008)



• Near-Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy of Diamondoid Thiol Monolayers on Gold.
  Trevor M. Willey, Jason D. Fabbri, Jonathan R. I. Lee, Peter R. Schreiner, Andrey A. Fokin, Boryslav A. Tkachenko, Nataliya A. Fokina, Jeremy E. P. Dahl, Robert M. K. Carlson, Andrew L. Vance, Wanli Yang, Louis J. Terminello, Tony van Buuren, and Nicholas A. Melosh. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130(32), 10536 (2008)

• Electronically Activated Actin Protein Polymerization and Alignment.
  Ian Y. Wong, Matthew J. Footer and Nicholas A. Melosh. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130(25), 7908 (2008)

• Creating Large Area Molecular Electronic Junctions Using Atomic-Layer Deposition
  Michael J. Preiner and Nicholas A. Melosh. Applied Physics Letters. 92, 213301 (2008)

• A Nonvolatile Plasmonic Switch Employing Photochromic Molecules.
  Ragip A. Pala, Ken T. Shimizu, Nicholas A. Melosh, and Mark L. Brongersma. Nano Letters. 8(5), 1506 (2008)

• Efficient Optical Coupling into Metal-Insulator-Metal Plasmon Modes with Subwavelength Diffracton Gratings.
  Michael J. Preiner, Ken T. Shimizu, Justin S. White and Nicholas A. Melosh. Applied Physics Letters. 92, 113109 (2008) PDF reprint.

• Suspension of nanoparticles in SU-8: Processing and characterization of nanocomposite polymers.
  H.C. Chiamori, J.W. Brown, E.V. Adhiprakasha, E.T. Hantsoo, J.B. Straalsund, N.A. Melosh and B.L. Pruitt. Microelectronics Journal. 39(2), 228 (2008)

• Lipid Bilayer Deposition and Patterning via Air Bubble Collapse.
  Morgan D. Mager and Nicholas A. Melosh. Langmuir. 23(18), 9369 (2007)

• Monochromatic Electron Photoemission from Diamondoid Monolayers
  W. L. Yang, J. D. Fabbri, T. M. Willey, J. R. I. Lee, J. E. Dahl, R. M. K. Carlson, P. R. Schreiner, A. A. Fokin, B. A. Tkachenko, N. A. Fokina, W. Meevasana, N. Mannella, K. Tanaka, X. J. Zhou, T. van Buuren, M. A. Kelly, Z. Hussain, N. A. Melosh, and Z.-X. Shen. Science. 316, 1460 (2007)
  see also "News and Views: Diamondoids display their potential." Nature Nanotechnology. 2, 462 - 463 (2007)
  

• Dynamic control of biomolecular activity using electrical interfaces.
  Ian Y. Wong, Matthew J. Footer and Nicholas A. Melosh. (invited) Soft Matter. 3, 267 (2007)
  see also Stanford School of Engineering Website Research Profile


• Probing Molecular Junctions Using Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy.
  Ken T. Shimizu, Ragip A. Pala, Jason D. Fabbri, Mark L. Brongersma, and Nicholas A. Melosh. Nano Letters 6, 2797 (2006)


• Soft Deposition of Large-Area Metal Contacts for Molecular Electronics.
  Ken T. Shimizu, Jason D. Fabbri, Jim J. Jelincic and Nicholas A. Melosh. Advanced Materials. 18, 1499-1504 (2006).