Molecular Transport Structures: Elastic Scattering, Vibronic Effects and Beyond

13 Feb 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark A. Ratner, Abraham Nitzan, Misha Galperin

Current experimental efforts are clarifying quite beautifully the nature of charge transport in so-called molecular junctions, in which a single molecule provides the channel for current flow between …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1018

Making the Tiniest and Fastest Transistor using Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD)

13 Feb 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Peide "Peter" Ye

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is an emerging nanotechnology enables the deposit of ultrathin films, one atomic layer by one atomic layer. ALD provides a powerful, new capability to grow or regrow …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1015

Active Photonic Nanomaterials: From Random to Periodic Structures

06 Feb 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Hui Cao

Active photonic nanomaterials, which have high gain or large nonlinearity, are essential to the development of nanophotonic devices and circuits. In this talk, I will provide a review of our …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1012

A Primer on Semiconductor Device Simulation

23 Jan 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

Computer simulation is now an essential tool for the research and development of semiconductor processes and devices, but to use a simulation tool intelligently, one must know what's "under the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/980

Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET-Part II: PDE Systems

20 Jan 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Yang Liu, Robert Dutton

Part II uses examples to illustrate how to build user-defined PDE systems in PROPHET.

https://nanohub.org/resources/975

Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET-Part I: Basics

20 Jan 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Yang Liu, Robert Dutton

Part I covers the basics of PROPHET, including the set-up of simulation structures and parameters based on pre-defined PDE systems.

https://nanohub.org/resources/974

Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET

20 Jan 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Yang Liu, Robert Dutton

These two lectures are aimed to give a practical guide to the use of a general device simulator (PROPHET) available on nanoHUB. PROPHET is a partial differential equation (PDE) solver that offers …

https://nanohub.org/resources/973

Optimization of Transistor Design for Carbon Nanotubes

20 Jan 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jing Guo

We have developed a self-consistent atomistic simulator for CNTFETs. Using the simulator, we show that a recently reported high-performance CNTFET delivers a near ballistic on-current. The …

https://nanohub.org/resources/970

Quantum Corrections for Monte Carlo Simulation

05 Jan 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Umberto Ravaioli

Size quantization is an important effect in modern scaled devices. Due to the cost and limitations of available full quantum approaches, it is appealing to extend semi-classical simulators by adding …

https://nanohub.org/resources/847

Designing Nanocomposite Materials for Solid-State Energy Conversion

10 Nov 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy D. Sands

New materials will be necessary to break through today's performance envelopes for solid-state energy conversion devices ranging from LED-based solid-state white lamps to thermoelectric devices …

https://nanohub.org/resources/832

Atomic Force Microscopy

01 Dec 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 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/520

First Principles-based Atomistic and Mesoscale Modeling of Materials

01 Dec 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alejandro Strachan

This tutorial will describe some of the most powerful and widely used techniques for materials modeling including i) first principles quantum mechanics (QM), ii) large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) …

https://nanohub.org/resources/434

Designing Nanocomposite Thermoelectric Materials

08 Nov 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy D. Sands

This tutorial reviews recent strategies for designing high-ZT nanostructured materials, including superlattices, embedded quantum dots, and nanowire composites. The tutorial highlights the challenges …

https://nanohub.org/resources/383

Bandstructure in Nanoelectronics

01 Nov 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

This presentation will highlight, for nanoelectronic device examples, how the effective mass approximation breaks down and why the quantum mechanical nature of the atomically resolved material needs …

https://nanohub.org/resources/381

An Electrical Engineering Perspective on Molecular Electronics

26 Oct 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

After forty years of advances in integrated circuit technology, microelectronics is undergoing a transformation to nanoelectronics. Modern day MOSFETs now have channel lengths that are less than 50 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/513

Wireless Integrated MicroSystems (WIMS): Coming Revolution in the Gathering of Information

01 Sep 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kensall D. Wise

Wireless integrated microsystems promise to become pervasive during the coming decade in applications ranging from health care and environmental monitoring to homeland security. Merging low-power …

https://nanohub.org/resources/190

Simple Theory of the Ballistic MOSFET

11 Oct 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

Silicon nanoelectronics has become silicon nanoelectronics, but we still analyze, design, and think about MOSFETs in more or less in the same way that we did 30 years ago. In this talk, I will …

https://nanohub.org/resources/491

Laser Cooling of Solids

06 Oct 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Massoud Kaviany

Enhanced laser cooling of ion doped nanocrystalline powders (e.g., Yb3+: Y2O3) can be achieved by enhancing the anti-Stokes, off-resonance absorption, which is proportional to the three …

https://nanohub.org/resources/195

Semiconductor Interfaces at the Nanoscale

17 Oct 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David Janes

The trend in downscaling of electronic devices and the need to add functionalities such as sensing and nonvolatile memory to existing circuitry dictate that new approaches be developed for device …

https://nanohub.org/resources/196

Plasmonic Nanophotonics: Coupling Light to Nanostructure via Plasmons

03 Oct 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Vladimir M. Shalaev

The photon is the ultimate unit of information because it packages data in a signal of zero mass and has unmatched speed. The power of light is driving the photonicrevolution, and information …

https://nanohub.org/resources/194