Nano Carbon: From ballistic transistors to atomic drumheads

14 May 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Paul L. McEuen

Carbon takes many forms, from precious diamonds to lowly graphite. Surprisingly, it is the latter that is the most prized by nano physicists. Graphene, a single layer of graphite, can serve as an …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4398

Carbon Nanotechnology: Scientific and Technological Issues

24 Feb 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Joe Lyding

Carbon nanotechnologies based on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and graphene (a single atomic layer of graphite) are being pursued for a wide range of technological …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4089

Selected Properties of Carbon Nanostructures: from Exotic Fullerenes to Nanotubes

30 Mar 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Manfred M. Kappes

The talk presents results from ongoing projects in the field of carbon nanostructures: (i) Mass selected ion beam soft-landing has been used to generate exotic fullerene materials comprising covalent …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4206

The Novel Nanostructures of Carbon

28 Feb 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gene Dresselhaus

A brief review will be given of the physical underpinnings of carbon nanostructures that were developed over the past 60 years, starting with the electronic structure and physical properties of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3997

What Promises do Nanotubes and Nanowires Hold for Future Nanoelectronics Applications?

18 Feb 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Joerg Appenzeller

Various low-dimensional materials are currently explored for future electronics applications. The common ground for all these structures is that the surface related impact can no longer be ignored …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4059

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 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3985

Dynamics on the Nanoscale: Time-domain ab initio studies of quantum dots, carbon nanotubes and molecule-semiconductor interfaces

31 Jan 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Oleg Prezhdo

Device miniaturization requires an understanding of the dynamical response of materials on the nanometer scale. A great deal of experimental and theoretical work has been devoted to characterizing …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3951

Excellence in Computer Simulation: Computational Materials

20 Dec 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Schwegler

This presentation was one of 13 presentations in the one-day forum, "Excellence in Computer Simulation," which brought together a broad set of experts to reflect on the future of computational …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3721

New Dimension in Performance: Harnessing 3D Integration Technology

29 Nov 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kerry Bernstein

Despite generation on generation of scaling, computer chips have remained essentially 2-dimensional. Improvements in on-chip wire delay, and in the total number of inputs and outputs has not been …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3596

Oligodeoxyribonucleotide Association with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

02 Aug 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jennifer McDonald

Commercially available single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) tend to aggregate as ropes and bundles during production making them of little use in many scientific and industrial applications. An …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3009

The Effect of Physical Geometry on the Frequency Response of Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors

03 Aug 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dave Lyzenga

In order for carbon nanotube (CNT) electrical devices to be fabricated, it is necessary to obtain modifiable operation characteristics. Developing parametric equations to achieve this controllability …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3044

From Research to Learning in Chemistry through Visualization and Computation

17 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Jakobsson

Modern chemistry research and high school chemistry education are separated by institutional and geographical boundaries. As such, much of secondary chemistry education is still based on the periodic …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2725

Electron Emission from Nanoscale Carbon Materials

15 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy S Fisher

Prior studies on electron emission show possibly beneficial effects of nanoscale phenomena on energy-conversion characteristics. For example, recent work has shown that the electric field around a …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2710

BNC Annual Research Symposium: Nanoelectronics and Semiconductor Devices

23 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David Janes

This presentation is part of a collection of presentations describing the projects, people, and capabilities enhanced by research performed in the Birck Center, and a look at plans for the upcoming …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2632

BNC Annual Research Symposium: Nanoscale Energy Conversion

23 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy S Fisher

This presentation is part of a collection of presentations describing the projects, people, and capabilities enhanced by research performed in the Birck Center, and a look at plans for the upcoming …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2636

Atomistic Modeling of the Mechanical Properties of Nanostructured Materials

16 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): SeongJun Heo, Susan Sinnott

The mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes are studied by using classical molecular dynamics simulations. Especially, the effects of filling, temperature, and functionalization on CNT's tensional …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2604

Fouling Mechanisms in Y-shaped Carbon Nanotubes

04 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jason Myers, SeongJun Heo, Susan Sinnott

In the modern pharmaceutical and chemical industries, solutions of extremely high purity are needed. Current filtration methods are reaching the limits of their abilities, so new filters must be …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2582

CMOS-Nano Hybrid Technology: a nanoFPGA-related study

04 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Wei Wang

Dr. Wei Wang received his PhD degree in 2002 from Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, in Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 2002 to 2004, he was an assistant professor in the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2567

MSE 376 Lecture 7: Carbon Nanomaterials, part 2

22 Mar 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Hersam

https://nanohub.org/resources/2506

MSE 376 Lecture 6: Carbon Nanomaterials, part 1

22 Mar 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Hersam

https://nanohub.org/resources/2503