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Chemically Enhanced Carbon-Based Nanomaterials and Devices
Online Presentations | 09 Nov 2010 | Contributor(s):: Mark Hersam
Carbon-based nanomaterials have attracted significant attention due to their potential to enable and/or improve applications such as transistors, transparent conductors, solar cells, batteries, and biosensors. This talk will delineate chemical strategies for enhancing the electronic and optical...
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ninithi
Downloads | 13 May 2010 | Contributor(s):: Chanaka Suranjith Rupasinghe, Mufthas Rasikim
ninithi which is a free and opensource modelling software, can be used to visualize and analyze carbon allotropes used in nanotechnology. You can generate 3-D visualization of Carbon nanotubes, Fullerenes, Graphene and Carbon nanoribbons and analyze the band structures of nanotubes and graphene.
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Self-Consistent Geometry, Density and Stiffness of Carbon Nanotubes
Online Presentations | 05 May 2010 | Contributor(s):: R. Byron Pipes
A self-consistent set of relationships is developed for the physical properties of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCN) and their hexagonal arrays as a function of the chiral vector integer pair, (n,m). Properties include effective radius, density, principal Young’s modulus, and specific Young’s...
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Self-Consistent Properties of Carbon Nanotubes and Hexagonal Arrays as Composite Reinforcements
Papers | 05 May 2010 | Contributor(s):: R. Byron Pipes
A self-consistent set of relationships is developed for the physical properties of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCN) and their hexagonal arrays as a function of the chiral vector integer pair, (n,m). Properties include effective radius, density, principal Young’s modulus, and specific Young’s...
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Carbon nanotube bandstructure
Animations | 22 Apr 2010 | Contributor(s):: Saumitra Raj Mehrotra, Gerhard Klimeck
Carbon nanotubes are allotropes of carbon with a cylindrical nanostructure, and can be categorized into single-walled nanotubes (SWNT) and multi-walled nanotubes (MWNT). These cylindrical carbon molecules have novel properties that make them potentially useful in many nanotechnology applications,...
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ECET 499N Lecture 11: Carbon Nanotubes - Synthesis and Applications
Online Presentations | 12 Apr 2010
Guest Lecture: Sungwon S. Kim
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ECET 499N Lecture 10: Nanomaterials
Online Presentations | 12 Apr 2010 | Contributor(s):: Helen McNally
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Carbon Nanotube Relay
Tools | 01 Apr 2009 | Contributor(s):: Sansiri Tanachutiwat, wei wang
CNT NEMS as mechanical relay for memory applications
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Surface Characterization Studies of Carbon Materials: SS-DNA, SWCNT, Graphene, HOPG
Online Presentations | 30 Jan 2010 | Contributor(s):: Dmitry Zemlyanov
In this presentation examples of surface characterization studies of carbon specimens will be presented. (1) In particularly, the systematic XPS (X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy) characterization of graphene grown on the SiC surface will be reported. This work demonstrates a use for XPS to...
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CNT Mobility
Tools | 26 Apr 2009 | Contributor(s):: Yang Zhao, Albert Liao, Eric Pop
Simulate field effect carrier mobility in back-gated CNTFET devices at low field
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Crystal Viewer Demonstration: Bravais Lattices
Animations | 03 Jun 2009 | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck, Benjamin P Haley
This video shows the exploration of several crystal structures using the Crystal Viewer tool. Several powerful features of this tool are demonstrated.
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Crystal Viewer Demonstration: Bravais Lattices 2
Animations | 03 Jun 2009 | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck, Benjamin P Haley
This video shows the exploration of several crystal structures using the Crystal Viewer tool. Several powerful features of this tool are demonstrated
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Crystal Viewer Demonstration: Various Crystal Systems
Animations | 03 Jun 2009 | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck, Benjamin P Haley
This video shows the use of the Crystal Viewer Tool to visualize several crystal systems, including Si, GaAs, C60 Buckyball, and a carbon nanotube. Crystal systems are rotated in 3D, zoomed in and out, and the lattice style changes from sticks and balls to lines to spheres.
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Nanotribology, Nanomechanics and Materials Characterization Studies
Online Presentations | 29 Mar 2009 | Contributor(s):: Bharat Bhushan
Fundamental nanotribological studies provide insight to molecular origins of interfacial phenomena including adhesion, friction, wear and lubrication. Friction and wear of lightly loaded micro/nano components are highly dependent on the surface interactions (few atomic layers). Nanotribological...
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ECET 499N: Introduction to Nanotechnology
Courses | 30 Mar 2009 | Contributor(s):: Helen McNally
An introduction to the emerging area of nanotechnology will be studied. The primary focus will be on the technologies of nanotechnology, with specific emphasis on electronics and electrical measurements. Instruments and techniques used in nanotechnology will be described and explored which...
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Multiple Transfers of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Silicon Wafers
Papers | 18 Mar 2009 | Contributor(s):: Alan Salvador Teran
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) have many applications, including high speed transistor devices (see Figure 1). SWCNTs are grown on single-crystal quartz wafers and then transferred onto silicon wafers by a process that involves gold evaporation and thermal release tape. When they are...
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Carrier Statistics Lab: First-Time User Guide
Teaching Materials | 05 Mar 2009 | Contributor(s):: Abhijeet Paul, Gerhard Klimeck, Benjamin P Haley, Saumitra Raj Mehrotra
This first-time user guide is an introduction to the Carrier Statistics Lab . It provides basic definitions, guidance on how to run the tool, and suggested exercises to help users get accustomed to the idea of distribution functions as well as how these functions are used in determining the...
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Modern X-ray Scattering Methods for Nanoscale Materials Analysis
Online Presentations | 15 Oct 2008 | Contributor(s):: Richard J. Matyi
Since its discovery by von Laue in 1912, X-ray diffraction has become an indispensable tool for structure determinations in the physical and biological sciences. X-rays are characterized by high energies and by wavelengths that are commensurate with nanometer-sized structures – unlike optical...
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Cylindrical CNT MOSFET Simulator
Tools | 22 Jul 2008 | Contributor(s):: Gloria Wahyu Budiman, Yunfei Gao, Xufeng Wang, Siyu Koswatta, Mark Lundstrom
Simulate 2-D electrons transport in CNTFET
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nanoJoule
Tools | 28 May 2008 | 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.