nanoJoule

28 May 2008 | Tools | Contributor(s): Feifei Lian, Feifei Lian, Feifei Lian

This tool performs a self-consistent simulation of the current-voltage curve of a metallic single-wall carbon nanotube with Joule heating.

https://nanohub.org/resources/swntjiv

Some Important Aspects of the Chemistry of Nanomaterials

01 Jul 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): C.N.R. Rao

Keynote address for the launch of the Center for Analytical Instrumentation Development.

https://nanohub.org/resources/4838

CNT Heterojunction Modeler

20 Mar 2008 | Tools | Contributor(s): Joe Ringgenberg, Joydeep Bhattacharjee, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Jeffrey C Grossman

Study the structure and electronic properties of carbon nanotubes with linear heterojunctions.

https://nanohub.org/resources/heterojunction

BNC Research Review: Carbon Nanotubes as Nucleic Acid Carriers

04 Jun 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Don Bergstrom

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/4712

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

Boltzmann Transport Simulator for CNTs

20 Feb 2008 | Tools | Contributor(s): Zlatan Aksamija, Umberto Ravaioli

Simulate Electron transport in Single-walled carbon nanotubes using an upwinding discretization of the Boltzmann transport equation in the relaxation time approximation.

https://nanohub.org/resources/cntbte

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

Computational Nanoscience, Lecture 5: A Day of In-Class Simulation: MD of Carbon Nanostructures

13 Feb 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Jeffrey C Grossman, Elif Ertekin

In this lecture we carry out simulations in-class, with guidance from the instructors. We use the LAMMPS tool (within the nanoHUB simulation toolkit for this course). Examples include calculating …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4037

Computational Nanoscience, Lecture 4: Geometry Optimization and Seeing What You're Doing

13 Feb 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Jeffrey C Grossman, Elif Ertekin

In this lecture, we discuss various methods for finding the ground state structure of a given system by minimizing its energy. Derivative and non-derivative methods are discussed, as well as the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4035

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

Crystal Viewer Tool

22 Dec 2007 | Tools | Contributor(s): Saumitra Raj Mehrotra, Michael Povolotskyi, Sebastian Steiger, Tillmann Christoph Kubis, Abhijeet Paul, Xingshu Sun, Victoria Savikhin, Gerhard Klimeck

Visualize different crystal lattices and planes

https://nanohub.org/resources/crystal_viewer

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

Nano Heatflow

25 Sep 2007 | Tools | Contributor(s): Joe Ringgenberg, P. Alex Greaney, daniel richards, Jeffrey C Grossman, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Justin Riley

Study the transfer of energy between the vibrational modes of a carbon nanotube.

https://nanohub.org/resources/nanoheatflow

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