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

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

All-Spin Logic Devices

08 Feb 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Behtash Behinaein

We propose a spintronic device that uses spin at every stage of its operation: input and output information are represented by the magnetization of nanomagnets which communicate …

https://nanohub.org/resources/8412

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

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

Atomistic Alloy Disorder in Nanostructures

26 Feb 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

Electronic structure and quantum transport simulations are typically performed in perfectly ordered semiconductor structures. Bands and modes are defined resulting in quantized conduction and …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2350

Atomistic Modeling and Simulation Tools for Nanoelectronics and their Deployment on nanoHUB.org

16 Dec 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

At the nanometer scale the concepts of device and material meet and a new device is a new material and vice versa. While atomistic device representations are novel to device physicists, the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/10199

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

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

Chemical Modification of GaAs with TAT Peptide and Alkylthiol Self-Assembled Monolayers

03 Aug 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Hamsa Jaganathan

The use of self-assembled monolayers (SAM) on semiconductors creates a basis for the design and creation of bioelectronics, such as biosensors. The interface between the surface and an organic …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1670

Chemically Enhanced Carbon-Based Nanomaterials and Devices

25 Oct 2010 | Online Presentations | 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 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/9929

Control of Spin Precession in a Datta-Das Transistor Structure

19 Dec 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Hyun Cheol Koo

Transistors Switch onto Spin Using the spin of an electron in addition to, or instead of, the charge properties is believed to have many benefits in terms of speed, power-cost, and integration …

https://nanohub.org/resources/8057

Design in the Nanometer Regime: Process Variation

28 Nov 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kaushik Roy

Scaling of technology over the last few decades has produced an exponential growth in computing power of integrated circuits and an unprecedented number of transistors integrated into a single. …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2018

Design of CMOS Circuits in the Nanometer Regime: Leakage Tolerance

28 Nov 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kaushik Roy

The scaling of technology has produced exponential growth in transistor development and computing power in the last few decades, but scaling still presents several challenges. These two lectures will …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2023

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

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

Discussion Session 2 (Lectures 3 and 4)

08 Sep 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

“Electronics from the Bottom Up” is an educational initiative designed to bring a new perspective to the field of nano device engineering. It is co-sponsored by the Intel Foundation and the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/9664

DNA Nanowires

06 Aug 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Margarita Shalaev

DNA is a relatively inexpensive and ubiquitous material that can be used as a scaffold for constructing nanowires. Our research focuses on the manufacturing of DNA-templated, magnetic nanowires. This …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1679

Dripping, Jetting, Drops and Wetting: the Magic of Microfluidics

13 Jun 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David A. Weitz

This talk will discuss some of the new opportunities That arises by precisely controlling fluid flow and mixing using microfluidic devices. I describe studies to elucidate mechanisms of drop …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2764

ECE 606 Lecture 10: Additional Information

16 Feb 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

Outline: Potential, field, and charge E-k diagram vs. band-diagram Basic concepts of donors and acceptors Conclusion R. F. Pierret, "Advanced Semiconductor Fundamentals", Modular Series on …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5801