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

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

Scientific Software Development

29 Jun 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Clemens Heitzinger

The development of efficient scientific simulation codes poses a wide range of problems. How can we reduce the time spent in developing and debugging codes while still arriving at efficient …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1041

GNU Chess

14 May 2005 | Tools

Play a game of chess against the computer

https://nanohub.org/resources/chess