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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
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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
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Exploring Electron Transfer with Density Functional Theory
11 Jun 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Troy Van Voorhis
This talk will highlight several illustrative applications of constrained density functional theory (DFT) to electron transfer dynamics in electronic materials. The kinetics of these reactions are …
https://nanohub.org/resources/1566
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Logic Devices and Circuits on Carbon Nanotubes
05 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Joerg Appenzeller
Over the last years carbon nanotubes (CNs) have attracted an increasing interest as building blocks for nano-electronics applications. Due to their unique properties enabling e.g. ballistic transport …
https://nanohub.org/resources/1487
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The Long and Short of Pick-up Stick Transistors: A Promising Technology for Nano- and Macro-Electronics
11 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam
In recent years, there has been enormous interest in the emerging field of large-area macro-electronics, and fabricating thin-film transistors on flexible substrates. This talk will cover recent …
https://nanohub.org/resources/1214
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Tutorial on Using Micelle-MD
05 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Patrick Chiu, Kunal Shah, Susan Sinnott
This is a tutorial using Micelle-MD. This includes the main capabilities, computation procedure, with format of files generated, and the simulation setup, which includes the material models …
https://nanohub.org/resources/1193
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Mechanical Properties of Surfactant Aggregates at Water-Solid Interfaces
05 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Patrick Chiu, Kunal Shah, Susan Sinnott
This is a talk on the mechanical properties of surfactant aggregates at water-solid interfaces using Micelle-MD. This includes silica indentations of micelles with comparison to experimental …
https://nanohub.org/resources/1192
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Thermal Microsystems for On-Chip Thermal Engineering
04 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Suresh V. Garimella
Electro-thermal co-design at the micro- and nano-scales is critical for achieving desired performance and reliability in microelectronic circuits. Emerging thermal microsystems technologies for …
https://nanohub.org/resources/1182
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Mark Ratner Interview on Nanotechnology
23 Mar 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark A. Ratner, Krishna Madhavan
Nanotechnology interview with Krishna Madhavan.
https://nanohub.org/resources/1135
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Molecular Transport Structures: Elastic Scattering, Vibronic Effects and Beyond
13 Feb 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark A. Ratner, Abraham Nitzan, Misha Galperin
Current experimental efforts are clarifying quite beautifully the nature of charge transport in so-called molecular junctions, in which a single molecule provides the channel for current flow between …
https://nanohub.org/resources/1018
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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
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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
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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
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Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics (Fall 2004)
01 Sep 2004 | Courses | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta, Behtash Behinaein
Welcome to the ECE 453 lectures. The development of "nanotechnology" has made it possible to engineer material and devices on a length scale as small as several nanometers (atomic distances are ~ …
https://nanohub.org/resources/626
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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
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Quantum Chemistry Part II
08 Jul 2004 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): George C. Schatz
This tutorial will provide an overview of electronic structure calculations from a chemist's perspective. This will include a review of the basic electronic structure theories.
https://nanohub.org/resources/500
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Notes on the Ballistic MOSFET
08 Oct 2005 | Publications | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom
When analyzing semiconductor devices, the traditional approach is to assume that carriers scatter frequently from ionized impurities, phonons, surface roughness, etc. so that the average distance …
https://nanohub.org/resources/489
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Field Regulation of Single Molecule Conductivity by a Charged Atom
29 Jul 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Robert Wolkow
A new concept for a single molecule transistor is demonstrated. A single chargeable atom adjacent to a molecule shifts molecular energy levels into alignment with electrode levels, thereby gating …
https://nanohub.org/resources/431
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An Electrical Engineering Perspective on Molecular Electronics
26 Oct 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom
After forty years of advances in integrated circuit technology, microelectronics is undergoing a transformation to nanoelectronics. Modern day MOSFETs now have channel lengths that are less than 50 …
https://nanohub.org/resources/513
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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