Electronics From the Bottom Up: top-down/bottom-up views of length

17 Aug 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

When devices get small stochastic effects become important. Random dopant effects lead to uncertainties in a MOSFET’s threshold voltage and gate oxides breakdown is a random process. Even a …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2974

Electronics from the Bottom Up: an educational initiative on 21st century electronics

17 Aug 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom, Supriyo Datta, Muhammad A. Alam

In the 1960’s, a group of leaders from industry and academia, recognized that the age of vacuum tubes was ending and that engineers would have to be educated differently if they were to …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2968

2007 Summer Undergraduate Research Intern Program Conference

13 Aug 2007 | Series

The NASA Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing and NSF Network for Computating Nanotechnology offers qualifying students the opportunity to become Summer Undergraduate Research Interns (SURIs). …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3059

Presentation Publishing on the nanoHUB

10 Jul 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Joseph M. Cychosz

This presentation gives a detailed overview of the process of creating an online presentation for the nanoHUB. It describes how to use Adobe-Macromedia's Breeze presentation tool in conjuction with …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2955

3D Molecular Models

21 Jun 2007 | Animations | Contributor(s): Nicholas Vargo

This animation was created as part of the Children's Museum Nanotechnology Exhibit to give the viewer an idea of what objects look like at the nano-level. The molecules range from something as small …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2821

From Research to Learning in Chemistry through Visualization and Computation

17 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Jakobsson

Modern chemistry research and high school chemistry education are separated by institutional and geographical boundaries. As such, much of secondary chemistry education is still based on the periodic …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2725

Technology challenges of the 21st Century

14 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eugene S. Meieran

The 20th century was a century of remarkable scientific and technical achievement, as recorded in the National Academy of Engineering book, "A Century of Innovation". Three forces ("a perfect storm") …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2669

Atomistic Modeling of the Mechanical Properties of Nanostructured Materials

16 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): SeongJun Heo, Susan Sinnott

The mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes are studied by using classical molecular dynamics simulations. Especially, the effects of filling, temperature, and functionalization on CNT's tensional …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2604

Orientational Dependence of Friction in Polyethylene

16 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): SeongJun Heo

The frictional properties of polyethylene polymer are investigated by using classical molecular dynamics simulations. Especially, the sliding orientational effect is considered in this study. The …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2601

Perspectives on NanoScience and Engineering Education (NSEE)

09 Feb 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Robert P. H. Chang

Building capacity in NSEE is the driving mission for the National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering Education (NCLT). Robert Chang, the Director of NCLT, will …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2329

Team-based learning in a based learning in a nanotechnology course: Enhancing Enhancing critical thinking through course structure

04 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Linda Vanasupa

https://nanohub.org/resources/2159

K-12 Nanotechnology Education Outreach for Workforce Development: The Georgia Institute of Technology Model

08 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Diane Palma

At a time when competition for obtaining research grant money is at a critically high level of complexity, coincidentally, the recruitment of U.S. students to science and engineering courses of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2251

Nanotechnology and Visible Light

19 Dec 2006 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Raymond Serrano

This submission is an undergraduate project by Raymond Serrano, a chemistry student at UTEP. Raymond has been a nanoHUB student for one year. In addition to being factor of scale, nanoscience is …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2118

Molecular Orbital Theory

18 Dec 2006 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Luis Emmanuel Bonilla

This is the seventh contribution from the students in the University of Texas at El Paso Molecular Electronics course given in the fall of 2006. Luis Bonilla and Abel Perez have designed a …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2116

X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)

14 Dec 2006 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): David Echevarria Torres

The XPS (X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy) it is also known as ESCA (Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis). This technique is based on the theory of the photoelectric effect that was …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2109

Computational Chemistry: An Introduction to Molecular Dynamic Simulations

08 Dec 2006 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Shalayna Lair

This module gives a brief overview of computational chemistry, a branch of chemistry concerned with theoretically determining properties of molecules. The fundamentals of how to conduct a …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2088

Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

12 Dec 2006 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Lynn Marie Santiago

This is the fourth contribution from the students in the University of Texas at El Paso Molecular Electronics course given in the fall of 2006. This presentation is presented at the undergraduate …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2104

The Transistor

11 Dec 2006 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Victor Hugo Estrada, Elizabeth Gardner

This is the third contribution from the students in the University of Texas at El Paso Molecular Electronics course given in the fall of 2006. This PowerPoint presentation describes a brief …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2095

2006 Summer Undergraduate Research Intern Program Conference

07 Dec 2006 | Workshops

The NASA Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing and NSF Network for Computating Nanotechnology offers qualifying students the opportunity to become Summer Undergraduate Research Interns (SURIs). …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1706

NCN at Northwestern: Student Leadership Council Seminars

05 Nov 2006 | Series | Contributor(s): NCN SLC@Northwestern

This series is organized by NCN students at Northwestern University. Speakers are invited by the Student Leadership Council to visit Northwestern to interact with students and faculty, and to …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1965