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  1. Illinois ECE 440 Solid State Electronic Devices, Lecture 5: Intrinsic Material, Doping, Carrier Concentrations

    03 Aug 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Eric Pop, Omar Sobh

  2. Illinois ECE 598EP Lecture 14 - Hot Chips: Power Dissipation in Semiconductors

    20 Jul 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Eric Pop, Omar N Sobh

    Power Dissipation in SemiconductorsTopics: Simple Power Dissipation Models Revisit Simple Landauer Resistor Continuum view of Heat Generation Details of Joule Heating in Silicon Self Heating with the Monte Carlo Method Inter Valley Phonon Scattering in Si Scattering and Deformation Potentials...

  3. Illinois ECE 598EP Lecture 12 - Hot Chips: Boundary Resistance and Thermometry

    17 Jul 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Eric Pop, Omar N Sobh

    Boundary Resistance and ThermometryTopics: Summary of Boundary Resistance Acoustic vs. Diffuse Mismatch Model Band to Band Tunneling Conduction Thermionic and Field Emission(3D) Photon Radiation Limit Photon Conductance of Nanoconstrictions Nanoscale Thermometry Scanning Thermal Microscopy

  4. Illinois CEE 595 - Structural Engineering Seminar Series Lecture 1

    07 Jun 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Paramita Mondal

    This is the first lecture from the Fall 2008 Structural Engineering Seminar Series (CEE 595). The presenter is Assistant Professor Paramita Mondal. In this lecture, she discusses her work in the testing of concrete on the nano-scale. The overall goal of this work is to quantify the relationships...

  5. Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 19: The Ising Model

    01 Jun 2009 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Ceperley, Omar N Sobh

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    03 Apr 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Raheem Syed, Nahil Sobh, Umberto Ravaioli, Gabriel Popescu, Mohamed Mohamed

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  7. Illinois Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and Nano-CEMMS: A Hard Day in the Life of a Soft Cell

    07 May 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Jeffrey Fredberg

    AHard Day in the Life of a Soft CellWith every beat of the heart, inflation of the lung, or peristalsis of the gut, cell types of diverse function are subjected to substantial stretch. But what physical laws govern the abilities of the cytoskeleton to deform, contract, and remodel at the...

  8. Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 18: Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC)

    04 May 2009 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Ceperley, Omar N Sobh

  9. Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 17: Simulation of Polymers

    30 Apr 2009 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Ceperley, Omar N Sobh

  10. Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 16: Free Energies from Simulations

    27 Apr 2009 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Ceperley, Omar N Sobh

  11. Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 15: Constraints

    21 Apr 2009 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Ceperley, Omar N Sobh

  12. Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 14: Neighbor Tables, Long-Range Potentials, Ewald Sums

    21 Apr 2009 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Ceperley, Omar N Sobh

  13. Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 13: Brownian Dynamics

    07 Apr 2009 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Ceperley

    Brownian DynamicsLet’s explore the connection between Brownian motion and Metropolis Monte Carlo. Why? Connection with smart MC Introduce the idea of kinetic Monte Carlo Get rid of solvent degrees of freedom and have much longer time steps.Content: Local Markov process General Form of Evolution...

  14. Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 12: Random Walks

    27 Mar 2009 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Ceperley

    Random Walks Today we will discuss Markov chains (random walks), detailed balance and transition rules. These methods were introduced by Metropolis et al. in 1953 who applied it to a hard sphere liquid. It is one of the most powerful and used algorithmsContent: Equation of State Calculations by...

  15. Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 11: Importance Sampling

    13 Mar 2009 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Ceperley

    Importance samplingToday We will talk about the third option: Importance sampling and correlated samplingContent: Importance Sampling Finding Optimal p*(x) for Sampling Example of importance sampling What are allowed values of a? What does infinite variance look like? General Approach to...

  16. Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 10: Sampling

    19 Mar 2009 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Ceperley, Omar N Sobh

    Fundamentals of Monte CarloWhat is Monte Carlo? Named at Los Alamos in 1940’s after the casino. Any method which uses (pseudo)random numbers> as an essential part of the algorithm. Stochastic - not deterministic! A method for doing highly dimensional integrals by sampling the...

  17. Illinois nanohour Seminar: Rapid Label Free Detection of Rotavirus using Photonic Crystal Biosensors

    02 Mar 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Leo L Chan

    Rapid Label-free Detection of Rotavirus using Photonic Crystal Biosensors Presentation Outline Rotavirus Current Detection Method Label-based versus label-free assay Photonic Crystal (PC) Biosensor Biosensor Fabrication Biosensor Operation Assay Protocol Titration Series Comparison with ELISA...

  18. Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 8: Temperature and Pressure Controls

    03 Mar 2009 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Ceperley

    Temperature and Pressure ControlsContent: Constant Temperature MD Quench method Brownian dynamics/Anderson thermostat Nose-Hoover thermostat (FS 6.1.2) Nose-Hoover thermodynamics Effect of thermostat Comparison of Thermostats Constant pressure or constant volume Constant Pressure (FS 6.2)...

  19. Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 6: Scalar Properties and Static Correlations

    27 Feb 2009 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Ceperley

    Scalar Properties, Static Correlations and Order ParametersWhat do we get out of a simulation? Static properties: pressure, specific heat, etc. Density Pair correlations in real space and Fourier space Order parameters and broken symmetry: How to tell a liquid from a solid Dynamical properties...

  20. Illinois ECE 598EP Lecture 3.3 - Hot Chips: Electrons and Phonons

    27 Feb 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Eric Pop

    Electrons and PhononsTopics: Energy Stored in These Vibrations The Einstein Model Einstein Low-T and High-T Behavior The Debye Model Peter Debye (1884-1966) Website Reminder The Debye Integral Debye Low-T and High-T BehaviorThese notes were breezed and uploaded by Omar Sobh