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

How Can Your Educational Modules Contain Interactive Online Simulation?

28 Feb 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

The Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) is a multi-university, NSF-funded initiative with a mission to lead in research, education, and outreach to students and professionals, while at …

https://nanohub.org/resources/833

Embedding science and technology education into students' lifestyles and technology choices

06 Dec 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Krishna Madhavan

Learning experiences of the future will be multi-sensory, engage technologies and significant computational power continuously and invisibly, and will be completely engaging. The emergence of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/831

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

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

On the Reliability of Micro-Electronic Devices: An Introductory Lecture on Negative Bias Temperature Instability

28 Sep 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

In 1930s Bell Labs scientists chose to focus on Siand Ge, rather than better known semiconductors like Ag2S and Cu2S, mostly because of their reliable performance. Their choice was rewarded with the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/193

Quantum Dots

21 Jul 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

Quantum Dots are man-made artificial atoms that confine electrons to a small space. As such, they have atomic-like behavior and enable the study of quantum mechanical effects on a length scale that …

https://nanohub.org/resources/189

Parallel Computing for Realistic Nanoelectronic Simulations

12 Sep 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

Typical modeling and simulation efforts directed towards the understanding of electron transport at the nanometer scale utilize single workstations as computational engines. Growing understanding of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/191

Moore's Law Forever?

13 Jul 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

This talk covers the big technological changes in the 20th and 21st century that were correctly predicted by Gordon Moore in 1965. Moore's Law states that the number of transistors on a silicon chip …

https://nanohub.org/resources/188

CMOS Nanotechnology

07 Jul 2004 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

In non-specialist language, this talk introduces CMOS technology used for modern electronics. Beginning with an explanation of "CMOS," the speaker relates basic system considerations of transistor …

https://nanohub.org/resources/166

Transistors

04 Aug 2004 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

The transistor is the basic element of electronic systems. The integrated circuits inside today's personal computers, cell phones, PDA's, etc., contain hundreds of millions of transistors on a chip …

https://nanohub.org/resources/167

Scientific Computing with Python

24 Oct 2004 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Jones, Travis Oliphant

INSTRUCTORS: Eric Jones and Travis Oliphant. Sunday, October 24, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Room 322, Stewart Center Python has emerged as an excellent choice for scientific computing because of its …

https://nanohub.org/resources/99

Electronic Transport in Semiconductors (Introductory Lecture)

25 Aug 2004 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

Welcome to the ECE 656 Introductory lecture. The objective of the course is to develop a clear, physical understanding of charge carrier transport in bulk semiconductors and in small semiconductor …

https://nanohub.org/resources/169