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

Why is Nanotechnology Multidisciplinary? A perspective of one EE

19 Oct 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

The field of nano science and nano-technology covers broad areas of expertise. Classical fields of Physics, Chemistry, Material Science, Electrical/Mechanical/Chemical Engineering all are involved …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1906

Nanoelectronics 101

28 Aug 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

Semiconductor device technology has transformed our world with supercomputers, personal computers, cell phones, ipods, and much more that we now take for granted. Moore's Law, posited by Intel …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1737

Nanotechnology in Biology

29 Aug 2006 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Elizabeth Gardner

This is the first of two exercises developed by El Paso High School teachers as part of a two week workshop on nanotechnology education, part of the National Center for Learning and Teaching of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1746

Understanding Phonon Dynamics via 1D Atomic Chains

04 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy S Fisher

Phonons are the principal carriers of thermal energy in semiconductors and insulators, and they serve a vital role in dissipating heat produced by scattered electrons in semiconductor devices. …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1186

Technique for High Spatial Resolution, Focused Electrical Stimulation for Electrically Excitable Tissue

08 Aug 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Matteo Mannino

Cochlear implant devices have made use of electrode pulses as a method of nerve fiber stimulation since their early conception. Electrode stimulation is limiting in both quality and consistency, and …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1707

A MATLAB code for Hartree Fock calculation of H-H ground state bondlength and energy using STO-4G

08 Aug 2006 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Amritanshu Palaria

Hartree Fock (HF) theory is one of the basic theories underlying the current understanding of the electronic structure of materials. It is a simple non-relativistic treatment of many electron system …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1718

Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor (Spring 2004)

23 May 2006 | Courses | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

The development of "nanotechnology" has made it possible to engineer materials and devices on a length scale as small as several nanometers (atomic distances are ~ 0.1 nm). The properties of such …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1490

Nanotubes and Nanowires: One-dimensional Materials

17 Jul 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy D. Sands

What is a nanowire? What is a nanotube? Why are they interesting and what are their potential applications? How are they made? This presentation is intended to begin to answer these questions while …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1639

How to Breezify Your Presentation and Publish it on the nanoHUB

09 Jul 2006 | 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/1628