Nanotechnology 501 Lecture Series

By Gerhard Klimeck (editor)1; Mark Lundstrom (editor)1; Joseph M. Cychosz (editor)1

1. Purdue University

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Welcome to Nanotechnology 501 (nano501), a series of lectures designed to provide an introduction to nanotechnology. This series is similar to our popular lecture series Nanotechnology 101, but it is directed at the graduate students and professionals.

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  • Gerhard Klimeck, Mark Lundstrom, Joseph M. Cychosz (2005), "Nanotechnology 501 Lecture Series," https://nanohub.org/resources/102.

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  1. Dynamics of Quantum Fluids: Path integral and Semiclassical Methods

    21 May 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Nancy Makri

    The interplay of many-body nonlinear interactions and quantum mechanical effects such as zero-point motion or identical particle exchange symmetries lead to intriguing phenomena in low-temperature fluids, some of which remain poorly understood. Recent advances in theory and methodology have...

  2. Ionic Selectivity in Channels: complex biology created by the balance of simple physics

    05 Jun 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Bob Eisenberg

    An important class of biological molecules—proteins called ionic channels—conduct ions (like Na+ , K+ , Ca2+ , and Cl− ) through a narrow tunnel of fixed charge (‘doping’). Ionic channels control the movement of electric charge and current across biological membranes...

  3. Designer Atoms: Engineering Rydberg Atoms Using Pulsed Electric Fields

    20 Jun 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): F. Barry Dunning

    Advances in experimental technique allow application of pulsed unidirectional electric fields, termed half-cycle pulses (HCPs), to Rydberg atoms whose characteristic times are much less than the classical electron orbital period. In this limit each HCP simply delivers an impulsive momentum...

  4. An Introduction to Quantum Computing

    12 Sep 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Edward Gerjuoy

    Quantum mechanics, as formulated more than 80 years ago by Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Dirac and other greats, is a wholly sufficient foundation for its modern interrelated subfields of quantum computation (qc) and quantum information (qi), which generally are lumped together into a single subfield...

  5. Quantum and Thermal Effects in Nanoscale Devices

    18 Sep 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska

    To investigate lattice heating within a Monte Carlo device simulation framework, we simultaneously solve the Boltzmann transport equation for the electrons, the 2D Poisson equation to get the self-consistent fields and the hydrodynamic equations for acoustic and optical phonons. The phonon...

  6. C.V. Raman and the Impact of Raman Effect in Quantum Physics, Condensed Matter, and Materials Science

    18 Sep 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Anant K. Ramdas

    Raman’s momentous discovery in 1928 that the spectral analysis of the light scattered by matter, illuminated with monochromatic light of frequency ωL, reveals new signatures at (ωL ± ωi) , ωi’s being the internal frequencies of the matter [Nature121, 501 (1928); Indian Journal of Physics 2, 387...

  7. From density functional theory to defect level in silicon: Does the “band gap problem” matter?

    01 Oct 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Peter A. Schultz

    Modeling the electrical effects of radiation damage in semiconductor devices requires a detailed description of the properties of point defects generated during and subsequent to irradiation. Such modeling requires physical parameters, such as defect electronic levels, to describe carrier...

  8. Metal Oxide Nanowires as Gas Sensing Elements: from Basic Research to Real World Applications

    21 Sep 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): andrei kolmakov

    Quasi 1-D metal oxide single crystal chemiresistors are close to occupy their specific niche in the real world of solid state sensorics. Potentially, the major advantage of this kind of sensors with respect to available granular thin film sensors will be their size and stable, reproducible and...

  9. Basic Rules of Protein Folding

    31 Dec 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Seth Lichter

    How are proteins made? Inside cells, messenger RNA first instructs the ribosomes as to the order which amino acids should be joined together. Linked together and released from the ribosome, the protein is not functional. It now needs to fold into a precise three-dimensional shape. There are no...

  10. The Optical Freqency Comb: A Remarkable Tool for Metrology, Science and Medical Diagnostics

    31 Dec 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): John L. Hall

    The Optical Frequency Comb concept and technology exploded in 1999-2000 from the synthesis of advances in independent fields of Laser Stabilization, UltraFast Lasers, and NonLinear Optical Fibers. The Comb was developed first as a method for optical frequency measurement, enabling a thousand-fold...

  11. Microstructural Design of Electrically Active Materials and Devices Through Computational Modeling: The OOF Project

    20 Jan 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): R. Edwin Garcia

    We present an overview of a public domain program, the Object Oriented Finite Element analysis (OOF), which predicts macroscopic behavior, starting from an image of the microstructure and ending with results from finite element calculations. The program reads an image (or a sequence of images)...

  12. Illinois nanohour Seminar: Label-Free Biosensor Based upon Replica-Molded Vertically Emitting Distributed Feedback Laser

    02 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): m lu

    Label-Free Biosensor Based upon Replica-Molded Vertically Emitting Distributed Feedback LaserPresentation Outline State of the art of label-free optical biosensor Biosensor using active optical resonator Design, optimization, fabrtication, and characterization of DFB laser biosensor Interaction...

  13. Illinois nanohour Seminar: Rapid Label Free Detection of Rotavirus using Photonic Crystal Biosensors

    05 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Leo L Chan

    Rapid Label-free Detection of Rotavirus using Photonic Crystal Biosensors Presentation Outline Rotavirus Current Detection Method Label-based versus label-free assay Photonic Crystal (PC) Biosensor Biosensor Fabrication Biosensor Operation Assay Protocol Titration Series Comparison with ELISA...

  14. Aluminum: a safe, economical, high energy density material for energy storage, transport and splitting water to make hydrogen on demand

    30 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jerry M. Woodall

    In 1968, a team lead by the author discovered that liquid gallium saturated with aluminum at room temperature would split water into hydrogen gas, alumina and heat. More recently his current team has discovered that bulk, solid Al rich alloys will also split water in the same manner. Since 1) the...

  15. Your Career Choices after Graduate School and The Most-Neglected Item in your Career Development (2015)

    23 Oct 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

    What are your career choices after graduate school? Will you develop technology yourself? Will you work in a team? Will you guide people? Where will you work: in industry, research lab, or academia? Regardless where you work, there is generally one item that you are not being taught in graduate...

  16. Peanuts vs. Pyramids: Two Perspectives on MEMS

    29 Dec 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Stephen D. Senturia

    MEMS, the acronym for Micro-electromechanical Systems, also known simply as “Micro-systems,” come in two main types: commodity products (the peanuts) and MEMS-enabled products (the pyramids, or, more correctly, the inverted pyramids). The economics of scale greatly affect how these two classes of...

  17. Writing Modern Technical English

    24 Nov 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): James T. Keating

    Mr. Keating will discuss the correct approach and methods to use when writing technical papers in English. He will emphasize style and usage, covering several difficult issues that ESL (English as a Second Language) writers often encounter. Among them will be inconsistencies, simplicity, clarity,...

  18. X-ray Diffraction and Reflectivity Analysis of Thin Films and Nanomaterials

    29 Dec 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mauro Sardela

    A review of x-ray analysis techniques applied to the characterization of nanomaterials will be presented with focus on x-ray lab source instrumentation similar to the facilities available at the Birck Nanotechnology Center. Practical aspects of data acquisition and interpretation using x-ray...

  19. McCoy Lecture: Transforming Light with Metamaterials: A New Paradigm for the Science of Light

    15 Feb 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Vladimir M. Shalaev

    One of the most unique properties of light is that it can package information into a signal of zero mass and propagate it at the ultimate speed. It is, however, a daunting challenge to bring photonic devices to the nanometer scale because of the fundamental diffraction limit. Metamaterials can...

  20. The Pioneers of Quantum Computing

    19 Nov 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David P. Di Vincenzo

    This talk profiles the persons whose insights and visions created the subject of quantum information science. Some famous, some not, they all thought deeply about the puzzles and contradictions that were apparent to the founders of quantum theory. After many years of germination, the confluence...