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Illinois ECE 440 Solid State Electronic Devices, Lecture 5: Intrinsic Material, Doping, Carrier Concentrations
03 Aug 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Eric Pop, Omar Sobh
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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...
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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
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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...
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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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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...
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Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 18: Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC)
04 May 2009 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Ceperley, Omar N Sobh
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Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 17: Simulation of Polymers
30 Apr 2009 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Ceperley, Omar N Sobh
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Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 16: Free Energies from Simulations
27 Apr 2009 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Ceperley, Omar N Sobh
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Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 15: Constraints
21 Apr 2009 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Ceperley, Omar N Sobh
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Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 14: Neighbor Tables, Long-Range Potentials, Ewald Sums
21 Apr 2009 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Ceperley, Omar N Sobh
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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...
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Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 12: Random Walks
27 Mar 2009 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Ceperley
Random WalksToday 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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