A. Srivastava, H. Htoon, V. I. Klimov, and J. Kono, “Direct Observation of Dark Excitons in Individual Carbon Nanotubes: Inhomogeneity in the Exchange Splitting,” Physical Review Letters 101, 087402 (2008). [Abstract, Full Text]
J. Shaver, S. A. Crooker, J. A. Fagan, E. K. Hobbie, N. Ubrig, O. Portugall, V. Perebeinos, Ph. Avouris, and J. Kono, “Magneto-optical Spectroscopy of Highly-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes: Identifying the Role of Threading Magnetic Flux,” Physical Review B – Rapid Communications, 78, 081402 (2008). [Abstract, Full Text]
J.-H. Kim, K.-J. Han, N.-J. Kim, K.-J. Yee, Y.-S. Lim, G. D. Sanders, C. J. Stanton, L. G. Booshehri, E. H. Hároz, and J. Kono, “Chirality-Selective Excitations of Coherent Phonons in Carbon Nanotubes by Femtosecond Optical Pulses,” Physical Review Letters, accepted for publication. [Abstract, Full Text]
J. Wang, L. Cywinski, C. Sun, J. Kono, H. Munekata, and L. J. Sham, "Femtosecond Demagnetization and Hot-Hole Relaxation in Ferromagnetic Ga1-xMnxAs," Physical Review B 77, 235308 (2008). [Abstract, Full Text]
J. Kono, “Carbon Nanotubes in Magnetic Fields” (invited talk), Workshop on Semiconductor and Carbon Based Nanostructures in Magnetic Fields, Grenoble, France, November 24-26, 2008.
S. Gaglani, "Fabrication of Single Atom Nanowires for Applications towards Quantum Computation", (poster) 2008 Sigma Xi Annual Meeting & Student Research Conference, Washington, D.C., November 20-23, 2008.
Winner: Superior Student Research Presentation
J. Kono, “High Magnetic Field Phenomena in Carbon Nanotubes,” Quantum Dot Center Seminar, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan, November 17, 2008.
G. D. Sanders, “Resonant Coherent Phonon Spectroscopy in Carbon Nanotubes,” Quantum Theory Project Seminar, University of Florida, November 12, 2008.
J. Kono, “Dynamics of One-Dimensional Electrons and Excitons in Carbon Nanotubes” (invited talk), Sixth Quantum Transport Nano-Hana International Workshop, Chiba, Japan, October 24-25, 2008.
A. Srivastava and J. Kono, “Magneto-optical Spectroscopy of Excitons in Carbon Nanotubes” (invited talk), Laser Science XXIV (Twenty Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Laser Science), Rochester, New York, October 19-23, 2008.
J. Kono, “High Magnetic Field Phenomena in Carbon Nanotubes,” Special Seminar, Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany, October 2, 2008.
J. Kono, “High Magnetic Field Phenomena in Carbon Nanotubes” (invited talk), Eighteenth International Conference on High Magnetic Fields in Semiconductor Physics and Nanotechnology, São Pedro, Brazil, August 3-8, 2008.
A. Srivastava, J. Kono, H. Htoon, and V. I. Klimov, “Direct Measurement of Dark-Bright Exciton Splitting in Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes” (oral), Twenty Ninth International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS-29), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 27 – August 1, 2008.
J. Kono, “Ultrafast Magneto-optics in Ferromagnetic III-V Semiconductors,” Seminar, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, July 10, 2008.
J. Kono, “Nanoscience Research at Rice University,” Colloquium, Tokai University, Kanagawa, Japan, July 9, 2008.
J. Kono, “Nanoscience Research and International Programs at Rice University,” Colloquium, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, July 8, 2008.
A. Srivastava, J. Kono, H. Htoon, and V. I. Klimov, “Direct Measurement of Dark-Bright Exciton Splitting in Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes” (oral), 2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) / 2008 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), San Jose, California, May 4-9, 2008.
J.-H. Kim, K.-J. Yee, Y.-S. Lim, E. H. Hároz, and J. Kono, “Observation of Coherent G-Mode Oscillations in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes via the Spectrum-Resolved Detection” (oral), 2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) / 2008 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), San Jose, California, May 4-9, 2008.
Y.-S. Lim, J.-G. Ahn, I. Eom, S. Park, T. Joo, K.-J. Yee, E. H. Hároz, L. G. Booshehri, and J. Kono, “Coherent Phonon Oscillations Excited by the E11 Transition in Micelle-Suspended Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes” (poster), 2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) / 2008 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), San Jose, California, May 4-9, 2008.
A. Srivastava, J. Kono, H. Htoon, and V. I. Klimov, “Magnetic Brightening of Dark Excitons in Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes” (oral), 2008 March Meeting of the American Physical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 10-14, 2008.
G. D. Sanders, C. J. Stanton, Y.-S. Lim, K.-J. Yee, J.-H. Kim, E. H. Hároz, L. G. Booshehri, and J. Kono, “Theory of Coherent Phonon Spectroscopy in Carbon Nanotubes” (oral), 2008 March Meeting of the American Physical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 10-14, 2008.
T. A. Searles, D. J. Hilton, J. Shaver, W. D. Rice, Y.-D. Jho, S. A. McGill, J. A. Fagan, E. K. Hobbie, and J. Kono, “Excitons in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Different Local Environments: Effects of Strain and Disorder on Magnetic Brightening” (oral), 2008 March Meeting of the American Physical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 10-14, 2008.
J. Shaver, J. Kono, S. A. Crooker, J. A. Fagan, and E. K. Hobbie, “High-Field Magneto-Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of Highly-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes” (oral), 2008 March Meeting of the American Physical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 10-14, 2008
Y. Murakami and J. Kono, “Saturation of Photoluminescence from Carbon Nanotubes at High Laser Intensities: Exciton-Exciton Annihilation near the Mott Density” (oral), 2008 March Meeting of the American Physical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 10-14, 2008.
J. Kono, “One-Dimensional Magneto-Excitons in Carbon Nanotubes” (invited talk), Symposium on Magnetic Excitations in Semiconductors: Bridges to the Next Decade, Buffalo, New York, March 7-8, 2008.
