Transformative Power Semiconductor Technologies to Impact 21st Century Energy Economy, and Space and Defense Electronics

22 Sep 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Krishna Shenai

This talk will focus on advanced power semiconductor materials, devices, circuits and systems that are needed in order to address this daunting challenge. Specifically we will discuss emerging …

http://nanohub.org/resources/9343

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 …

http://nanohub.org/resources/5738

MCW07 Exploring Trends in Conductance for Well-Defined Single Molecule Circuits

04 Apr 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark S Hybertsen

In our recent research, we have been able to measure and characterize the impact of intrinsic molecular properties on the conductance of single molecule circuits formed with amine-gold linkages. In …

http://nanohub.org/resources/3077

Quantitative, Kinetic Models of Cellular Circuits

04 Apr 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Michael R. Brent

Living cells contain complex, analog circuits that regulate the rate at which each gene produces its product. The kinetic properties of these circuits enable cells to respond to changes in their …

http://nanohub.org/resources/6374

Energy and Nanoscience A More Perfect Union

29 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Ratner

Huge problems of energy and sustainability confront the science/engineering community, mankind, and our planet. The energy problem comes in many dimensions, including supply, demand, conservation, …

http://nanohub.org/resources/6554

ECE 612 Lecture 22: CMOS Circuit Essentials

24 Nov 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

Outline: 1) The CMOS inverter, 2) Speed, 3) Power, 4) Circuit performance, 5) Metrics, 6) Limits. This lecture is an overview of CMOS circuits. For a more detailed presentation, the …

http://nanohub.org/resources/5927

Exploring CMOS-Nano Hybrid Technology in Three Dimensions

31 Mar 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): wei wang

CMOS-nano hybrid technology incorporate the advantages of both traditional CMOS and novel nanowire/nanotube structures, which will enhance future IC performances and create long-term breakthroughs. …

http://nanohub.org/resources/4216

Multiphase Gallium Nitride Nanowires and Nanocircuits

04 Feb 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Virginia M. Ayres

Catalyst-free vapor-solid nanowire growth, a newly described method for the production of nanowires compatible with a wide variety of semiconductor materials, has been used to produce novel …

http://nanohub.org/resources/3817

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 …

http://nanohub.org/resources/3596

On the Rise of an Electronic Species: Thoughts on the Impending Singularity

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

The human brain is vastly more complex that our best supercomputers; yet it can be argued that both systems evolve towards common underlying solutions to fundamental compute problems. …

http://nanohub.org/resources/3595

Simulating with PETE: Purdue Exploratory Technology Evaluator

25 Sep 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Arijit Raychowdhury

Using PETE one can evaluate any MOSFET like devices or any New Devices in terms of performance on Benchmark circuits. The input to the tool can be in terms of typical MOSFET parameters or in terms of …

http://nanohub.org/resources/3263

MCW07 Conductance Switching in Fluorene/TiO2 Molecular Heterojunctions

13 Sep 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Richard L.McCreery

Molecular junctions consisting of a monolayer of fluorene and 10 nm of TiO2 between conducting contacts exhibit a memory effect upon positive polarization of the of the TiO2 for a few milliseconds. …

http://nanohub.org/resources/3071

Amine Linked Single Molecule Circuits: Systematic Measurements & Understanding

02 Jul 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark S Hybertsen

Formation and function of well-defined linkages between organic molecules and metallic electrodes has been a key issue in the field of molecular electronics. We recently discovered that the …

http://nanohub.org/resources/2894

SUGAR: the SPICE for MEMS

21 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jason Clark

In this seminar, I present some design, modeling, and simulation features of a computer aided engineering tool for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) called SUGAR. For experimental verification, I …

http://nanohub.org/resources/2735

Modeling and Analysis of VLSI Interconnects

10 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Cheng-Kok Koh

With continual technology scaling, the accurate and efficient modeling and simulation of interconnect effects have become problems of central importance. In order to accurately model the …

http://nanohub.org/resources/2698

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 …

http://nanohub.org/resources/2567

RF MEMS: Passive Components and Architectures

02 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 …

http://nanohub.org/resources/2141

Nanoelectronic Architectures

24 Feb 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Greg Snider

Nanoelectronic architectures at this point are necessarily speculative: We are still evaluating many different approaches to fabrication and are exploring unconventional devices made possible at the …

http://nanohub.org/resources/181

Investigation of the Electrical Characteristics of Triple-Gate FinFETs and Silicon-Nanowire FETs

08 Aug 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Monica Taba, Gerhard Klimeck

Electrical characteristics of various Fin field-effect transistors (FinFETs) and silicon-nanowires were analyzed and compared using a modified three-dimensional self-consistent quantum-mechanical …

http://nanohub.org/resources/1715

ECE 612 Lecture 2: Introduction to Device Simulation

08 Aug 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

http://nanohub.org/resources/1699