Illinois ECE 440 Solid State Electronic Devices, Lecture 4: Energy Bands, Carrier Statistics, Drift

19 Aug 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Pop

Energy Bands and Carriers Band gaps (lattice and temperature dependence) Band curvature Carrier effective mass University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ECE 440: Solid State Electronic Devices

https://nanohub.org/resources/5244

Illinois ECE 440: Solid State Electronic Devices

18 Aug 2008 | Courses | Contributor(s): Eric Pop

The goals of this course are to give the student an understanding of the elements of semiconductor physics and principles of semiconductor devices that (a) constitute the foundation …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5221

Illinois ECE 440 Solid State Electronic Devices, Lecture 2: Crystal Lattices

14 Aug 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Pop

Crystal Lattices: Periodic arrangement of atoms Repeated unit cells (solid-state) Stuffing atoms into unit cells Diamond (Si) and zinc blende (GaAs)crystal structures Crystal planes Calculating …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5227

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

NCN Nano-Devices for Medicine and Biology: Tutorials

19 Jun 2008 | Series

From among the many tutorial lectures available on the nanoHUB, we list a few that convey new approaches to the development of new kinds of devices for applications in medicine and biology.

https://nanohub.org/resources/4755

NCN Nano-Devices for Medicine and Biology: Research Seminars

19 Jun 2008 | Series

Many research seminars are available on the nanoHUB. Listed below are a few that discuss new device possiblities.

https://nanohub.org/resources/4756

NCN Nano-Devices for Medicine and Biology: Simulation Tools for Education

19 Jun 2008 | Series

Many simulation tools are available on the nanoHUB. The tools have been well-tested and here include supporting materials so that they can be effectively used for education or intelligently used for …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4757

NCN Nano-Devices for Medicine and Biology: Simulation Tools for Research

19 Jun 2008 | Series

Many simulation tools are available on the nanoHUB. The tools have been well-tested and here include supporting materials so that they can be effectively used for research. The research tools …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4758

High-Aspect-Ratio Micromachining of Titanium: Enabling New Functionality and Opportunity in Micromechanical Systems Through Greater Materials Selection

18 Jun 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Masa Rao

Traditionally, materials selection has been limited in high-aspect-ratio micromechanical applications, due primarily to the predominance of microfabrication processes and infrastructure dedicated to …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4743

Silicon Spintronics

04 Jun 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ian Appelbaum

"Electronics" uses our ability to control electrons with electric fields via interaction with their fundamental charge. Because we can manipulate the electric fields within semiconductors, they are …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4492

Nanoscale Opto Thermo Electric Energy Conversion Devices

28 May 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ali Shakouri

We review solid-state devices that allow direct conversion of heat into electricity. We describe fundamental and practical limits of conventional thermoelectric materials. Novel metal-semiconductor …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4665

Matdcal

30 Jan 2008 | Tools | Contributor(s): Kirk H. Bevan

Non-equilibrium Green's Function Density Functional Theory Simulator

https://nanohub.org/resources/Matdcal

Functionalized Nanomaterials at the Interface of Biology and Technology

24 Apr 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dean Ho, NCLT administator

Nanomaterials, such as block copolymeric membranes and nanodiamonds, can be engineered for a broad range of applications in energy and medicine. This presentation will highlight the relevance of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3761

Nanoelectronic Modeling: Multimillion Atom Simulations, Transport, and HPC Scaling to 23,000 Processors

07 Mar 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

Future field effect transistors will be on the same length scales as “esoteric” devices such as quantum dots, nanowires, ultra-scaled quantum wells, and resonant tunneling diodes. In those …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3988

Quantum and Semi-classical Electrostatics Simulation of SOI Trigates

19 Feb 2008 | Tools | Contributor(s): Hyung-Seok Hahm, Andres Godoy

Generate quantum/semi-classical electrostatic simulation results for a simple Trigate structure

https://nanohub.org/resources/MCTrigate

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

TCAD Revisited, 2007: An Engineer’s Point of View

19 Dec 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Constantin Bulucea

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/3638

Reliability Physics of Nanoscale Transistors

27 Nov 2007 | Courses | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

This course will focus on the physics of reliability of small semiconductor devices. In traditional courses on device physics, we learn how to compute current through a device when a voltage is …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3587

MCW07 Impact of Porphyrin Functional Groups on InAs Gas Sensors

05 Nov 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Michael Garcia

Porphyrin molecules are often used for sensor engineering to improve sensitivity and selectivity to specific analytes. It is important to understand how the porphyrin HOMO-LUMO levels deplete …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3149

Silicon Photonics: Opportunity Challenges and Recent Results

02 Nov 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mario Paniccia

The silicon chip has been the mainstay of the electronics industry for the last 40 years and has revolutionized the way the world operates. Today a silicon chip the size of a fingernail contains …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3488