RF MEMS: Passive Components and Architectures

08 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dimitrios Peroulis

This seminar is an introduction to the MEMS technology as it applies to RF and Microwave systems. Besides discussing several key RF MEMS components (switches, varactors, inductors), reconfigurable circuit architectures will also be introduced. In addition, reliability and cost considerations as …

What is "Nanofluidics"? or The Nano-izing of Fluid Mechanics

28 Jun 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Steve Wereley

Micro- and nanoscaled fluid mechanics are rapidly emerging as important supporting fields in biomedical technology, nanotechnology, etc., as well as being important fields of study in their own right. Despite the common use of these terms in the literature, the fluid behavior at these small length …

Hierarchical Physical Models for Analysis of Electrostatic Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS)

05 Jan 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Narayan Aluru

This talk will introduce hierarchical physical models and efficient computational techniques for coupled analysis of electrical, mechanical and van der Waals energy domains encountered in Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS). Numerical results will be presented for several silicon …

Dripping, Jetting, Drops and Wetting: the Magic of Microfluidics

13 Jun 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David A. Weitz

This talk will discuss some of the new opportunities That arises by precisely controlling fluid flow and mixing using microfluidic devices. I describe studies to elucidate mechanisms of drop formation and use these to create new fluid structures that are difficult to achieve with my other …

Atomic Force Microscopy

29 Nov 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Arvind Raman

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) is an indispensible tool in nano science for the fabrication, metrology, manipulation, and property characterization of nanostructures. This tutorial reviews some of the physics of the interaction forces between the nanoscale tip and sample, the dynamics of the …

Heat Transfer across Solid Contacts Enhanced with Nanomaterials

11 Feb 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy S Fisher

This presentation will describe thermal transport processes at solid-solid material interfaces. An overview of applications in the electronics industry will serve to motivate the subject, and then the basic diffusive constriction theory will be developed. The addition of carbon nanotube arrays to …